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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to "go into" Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to "guard the vote" in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

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[–] DevCat 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh goody. More felony convictions and people losing their vote and guns.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

People losing popular organs isn't a good thing either. What happens when someone looks a little too dark and gets shot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Cool, can we get these criminal cases moving please? I'd really like to have this nutjob behind bars before election season really gets into full swing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

"Will no one rid me of these turbulent democrats?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Guard the vote" is him literally telling his supporters to go intimidate anyone at the polls who might not vote "correctly". It's funny how he can simultaneously believe that he is the most loved candidate, while realizing he cannot possibly win a fair election.

[–] Yada 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's like he said, "head the call to arms".

[–] shalafi 2 points 11 months ago

I'll be "guarding the polls" if I see any of his people that day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m picturing Y’all Qaeda on Girard St in Philly. Their Tonka trucks would get jacked so hard. Lol

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A bunch of homeless and desperate people being killed isn't very "lol" imo. I'm also not sure why attempts at violent felonies are "lol" either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Girard is one of the toughest streets in America. Those racist fucks would be so far out of their depth. If they did show up and started threatening citizens, my money is on the gangs that would invariably come to defend their turf. Sending MAGA home in a box and taking their trucks? Now that’s some delicious schadenfreude for this stupid age we live in. That’s why “lol.”

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Undesirables gunning each other down and stealing each others shit sounds like a real hoot.

[–] Beelzebob 3 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a typical American weekend.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to "go into" Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to "guard the vote" in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

Even as he faces criminal charges over his efforts to reverse his 2020 loss, Trump attempted to flip the script and paint the winner, President Joe Biden, as a dangerous autocrat, calling him a communist, fascist and a tyrant.

He singled out the biggest cities in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia - all Democratic strongholds at the center of the blizzard of false voter fraud claims made by Trump and his allies three years ago.

The comments by Trump, president from 2017 to 2021, come amid growing scrutiny over his recent rhetoric on the campaign trail, which has included referring to his political enemies as "vermin," a word some historians said echoed the language of Nazi Germany.

In recent weeks Biden's re-election campaign has more aggressively gone after Trump, highlighting his mounting legal troubles and likely policies it argues would hurt the economy and damage the foundations of democracy.

Also on Saturday, Trump doubled down on comments made a few days earlier indicating he wanted to make significant changes to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, calling the healthcare insurance program used by millions of Americans "a disaster."


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