Will Bunch: At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he's indicted

[Nevilledog]

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Will Bunch
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Last night, one of the most incendiary and dangerous speeches in U.S. history was delivered by Donald Trump. He all but threatened civil war if he's indicted, threw in the race card, and dangled pardons for insurrectionists

My new column on what it means

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At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he’s indicted | Will Bunch
In one of the most incendiary, dangerous speeches in U.S. history, Donald Trump promised at a Texas rally mayhem if he's criminally charged.
11:18 AM · Jan 30, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-rally-conroe-texas-pardons-20220130.html

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For a nation that’s awakened every morning for nearly two years to a Groundhog Day of pandemic and paranoia, the scenes from Donald Trump’s latest comeback rally on Saturday at a fairground in the South Texas flatlands of Conroe could certainly numb the American mind with an overwhelming sense of déjà vu.

The mile-long line of Trump fanatics, braving the January prairie chill to see the twice-impeached ex-president and passing rows of vendors, including the occasional Confederate flag. Then the viral clips of the true believers — the woman in her Trump 2024 hat expounding that the “Joe Biden” currently in the White House is fake and that the real one was assassinated at Gitmo in March 2019, another woman peddling a book containing all of Trump’s tweets before he was banned from Twitter, and the guy peddling doses of the quack COVID-19 cure Ivermectin while lashing out at anyone wearing a mask for trying to “save Grandma.”

As darkness fell and the crowd swelled to the thousands, the sound system blared the late Laura Branigan’s “Gloria,” the same tune that had electrified Trump’s most diehard followers at the D.C. Ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. Over at the zealously pro-Trump One America News Network, or OANN, analysts awaited the 45th president as their antidote to what they called “the divisiveness” of President Biden’s first year, insisting in the words of Liz Harrington that “Trump will unite us.” But more mainstream outlets like CNN were busy obsessing on the possible retirement of football’s Tom Brady, having decided — wisely — after Jan. 6 not to cover Trump’s words live but to only revisit his rallies if he actually makes any news.

Hey, guys ... Trump made some news! Unfortunately.

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In fact, the man who’d occupied the White House little more than one year ago delivered one of the most incendiary and most dangerous speeches in America’s 246-year history. It included an appeal for all-out mayhem in the streets to thwart the U.S. justice system and prevent Trump from going to jail, as the vise tightens from overlapping criminal probes in multiple jurisdictions. And it also featured a stunning campaign promise — that Trump would look to abuse the power of the presidency to pardon those involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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[Turbineguy]

1. We're nearly there.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. So, this thug threatened the rule of law, if he was charged w/ the various seditious and

traitorous crimes that he's guilty of. Nice.

I expect that a lot of people are now thinking more and more about their rabid support of this idiot (no longer, I hope). rump should never ever run for the highest office in the land, he's not worth it. Just proved it.

[KS Toronado]

3. Qrump will start a civil war if he thought it would keep him out of jail

[0rganism]

5. Even if he doesn't think so, I bet he'd start one out of spite

IOW logic suggests he's trying to start a civil war and those of us who don't want one are stuck with hoping he fails.

[Cha]

4. Rancid Mouth BLOWHEAD

regurgitates Why he should be in PRISON. Forever lik he's banned from Twitter

[bringthePaine]

6. its his only "plan", no matter what - act accordingly...

[mnhtnbb]

7. When is this sack of orange

$hit going to be arrested and held without bail until he's tried for seditious conspiracy?

[PurgedVoter]

8. Gloria is the perfect song for the Trump movement the lyrics tell it all!

Gloria, you're always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you've got to slow down before you start to blow it
I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
You really don't remember, was it something that he said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?
You don't have to answer
Leave them hangin' on the line, oh oh oh, calling Gloria
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)--

[calimary]

9. Threatening us now, if we drag his ass to justice?

Add that to all the other charges he faces.

And DON’T GO EASY!!!!

[monkeyman1]

10. need to get this sack of shit off the streets!! public nuisance!!

[Wild blueberry]

11. Is he feeling the walls closing in on him?

Is he becoming more desperate?

[PatSeg]

24. That's how it appears, doesn't it?

The trouble with selling outrage to the masses is you have to get progressively more outrageous to keep their attention. Trump truly is looking like a desperate, unhinged man with nothing left to lose.

[Hekate]

12. He will if he can

[Aussie105]

13. Something wrong with that boy.

But we already knew TFG has bats in his belfry, and they are squeaking exceedingly loud there.

Not a question of what he is, or what he is up to, it's exceedingly obvious.

Question should be . . . what to do about it?

A good start would be to cut him off from any communication with his followers. Allow their bats in their belfries to settle down a bit.
Whatever can be done needs to be done, and soon.

[Boomerproud]

14. Thousands still revere him and that is a huge problem.

I despair.

[inthewind21]

21. Why

They are a bunch of illiterate blowhards that have about 2 brain cells among them all. Thousands of them, perhaps, but there are tens of MILLIONS in this country. All this airtime and hand wringing does nothing but fuel their fire. Why contribute to that?

[panader0]

15. I don't think that he has anywhere near the power that he thinks he has, and, sadly, that

so many DUers think he has. In any case, he should be prosecuted. The so called "civil war"
won't be a giant revolution.

[Nevilledog]

18. I think you're wrong.

Guess we're gonna find out who's right in the not so distant future.

[inthewind21]

22. Nah

If they were going to do it, why not do it after he was "cheated" out of the white house? You give these illiterates way too much credit.

[Demsrule86]

23. I don't think he does either.

[jalan48]

16. More from the article.

Trump’s chief weapons are fear and intimidation. To save American democracy, the people tasked with getting to the bottom of a former president’s high crimes and misdemeanors — on Capitol Hill and in those key courthouses — must be ready for the violence that Trump is inciting, and must summon the courage to finish their job. My fear is that Trump’s speech in Conroe will live in infamy — but the only reason it happened at all is because we have not held Trump to account for attempting to wreck American democracy on Jan. 6 ... not yet. Now, Trump has told us in no uncertain terms how he plans to break the nation this time. We can act forcefully to stop his new insurrection and punish his past crimes — or we can sit back and let the comet of autocracy strike.

[UTUSN]

17. K&R

[Historic NY]

19. Idict him now while it freezing here in NY...

I think those water cannons would be useful to wash the scum off the streets.

[inthewind21]

20. Sure

I mean look at all those pardons he handed out already. Oh wait...