Now the Trump campaign is walking back the Liz Cheney comments. Saying they were taken out of context.

[LuckyCharms]

Every fucking morning, I wake up to a tearful spouse, and it's the same thing every day. First thing: "HOW CAN HE SAY THESE THINGS"?

For pretty much an entire decade, we have been gaslighted by these assholes. We have been terrorized. We have been flabbergasted. We have been confused. And we have been damaged.

We can say that we are strong, and we sure are without a doubt, but the psyche of this country has been damaged.

We have been harmed. Anyone who thinks they are strong enough to have not been harmed is lying to themselves.

We have had a dark piece of cloth placed over our brains, affecting our mental health in ways we probably can't fully understand yet.

So to Trump, and to the Trump campaign: Fuck you and fuck everything you love.

Your hero is going to get his ass handed to him next week, and there is not a fucking thing you can do about it.

And then we can begin to heal from your hateful and juvenile antics. And you will be mocked and belittled for eternity. I have to give you assholes credit for one thing: You certainly left your mark on history.

Congratulations assholes. Get ready, because you have lost.

And then we can begin to heal. The good people can begin to heal.

[onecaliberal]

1. Fuck you merick garland. Fuck all the way off:

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i hope ms harris replaces him, pronto

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

25. I hope Biden does it on Nov. 6.

[sarchasm]

41. After all, he has double secret super duper immunity powers now.

So changing the AG and making it hurt would be in order IMO. Dark Brandon needs to leave a mark.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

62. Exactly!

[LizBeth]

30. This is one that makes me mad, just one of many. We knew way back when and having so

many call us out, say we were not "true" Democrats and stfu just makes me so mad, lol!!!

[tenderfoot]

48. It is said that Garland is good friends with many of TFG's lawyers

Says everything you need to know.

[Montauk6]

54. MG's a tad too cozy with the Federalist Society for my tastes, just sayin'...

[Frank D. Lincoln]

61. Added to that, fuck

Mitch McConnell (who could have stopped Trump dead in his tracks immediately after J6)

The six fascist U.S. Supreme Court justices (who could have disqualified Trump under the 14 Amendment insurrection clause)

(Double fuck) The six fascist U.S. Supreme Court justices (who enabled Trump to have presidential immunity if he gets back in)

Mike Johnson (with his fucking secret arrangement with the Orange Anus to help Trump steal the 2024 election)

Elon Musk (working 24/7 and using his immense wealth to get that monster Trump back in power)

Kevin Roberts (organizer of Project 2025)

Leonard Leo (the rat bastard who's the most responsible for getting us in this situation)

[ReRe]

75. And ABOLISH

The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation

and every single 501c3 that has anything to do with politics!

[FakeNoose]

3. Well of course they are ... what else can they do?

They've got a complete asshole for a candidate who has no filter.
Chump is TRYING to get them all arrested. Hopefully he will succeed before Tuesday.

[BWdem4life]

26. I think he's trying to get himself arrested too.

Not gonna happen, Donny.. you'll have to wait till after the election (and after all 150 of your lawsuits fail).

Loser.

[niyad]

4. In what fucking possible context could those statements NOT be

hateful incitements to violence?

[underpants]

7. No kidding.

[Farmer-Rick]

32. Exactly

They should check out 18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

it's as if he asked a hit man to shoot off rifles in her face.

If I threatened him like he did Cheney, I would be in jail.

[underpants]

5. They've abandoned He didn't say it....he was joking....Well you just don't understand...

Straight to everything being out of context.

[mucifer]

15. such funny jokes he tells

[magicarpet]

57. They are saying djt said Ms. Cheney should be put infront of a firing squad.

The statement was taken out of context.

What he meant was Ms. Cheney should be at a church fair kissing booth.

No harm,... no fowl,.... The Orange Menace is a harmless little angel who would never wish harm come to any of God's children.

[NJCher]

77. A church fair kissing booth

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. (skid)mark on history.

Donald Trump…Putin’s “upper-decker”.

[bigtree]

8. no they weren't

Trump threatened his political rival with '9 guns trained on her face.'

POLITICO @politico 2h
Cheney: Trump firing-squad threats are ‘how dictators destroy free nations’

[Prairie Gates]

14. Kudos to Liz Cheney for having more spine than almost the entire Republican Party

If Johnson had an ounce of decency he would be out denouncing this shit. A Presidential candidate threatening a firing squad for a political critic? Incredible stuff.

[BattleRow]

21. Johnson's Johnson could possibly on the firing line,too,if he fails to kiss Trump's "ring".

[Prairie Gates]

46. He did announce that he would dismantle the ACA before that statement was cleared by

Premier Trump. That's the sorta thing that could get a fella Photoshopped out of a picture.

[BattleRow]

51. He's learning that you can't be a little bit pregnant..

Attempting to miscarry the message...

[LiberalFighter]

67. Johnson has never had a spine.

[Emile]

9. How many times does this asshole have to lose

before the republican party wakes up?

[Clouds Passing]

22. They'll never wake up. They hate woke!

[BlueKota]

63. The only Republicans who aren't just as rabidly vicious

as he is have already stood up against him, left the party, and endorsed Harris. The rest I have zero respect for. As the saying goes, "they will reap what they have sown," if he wins. He has no loyalty so if they dissatisfy him, they will be the ones in front of a firing squad he ordered.

He belongs in prison for the rest of his vile life, but unfortunately too many people were too concerned about optics, to treat him as the clear and present danger to the country that he is.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. He also likes, "It was satire." Or "I was being

sarcastic.”

[Prairie Gates]

11. Can you imagine the borderline normie GOPers on the Trump campaign getting a phone call

from Dick Cheney at 6:00am this morning over this shit? Like, "You better hope Trump wins, because you will NEVER fucking work in Republican politics again if I can help it." And Dick Cheney can make that happen. Whatever we might think of him, Dick Cheney is nobody to be trifled with. The MAGA diehards won't care, of course, but the hangers-on don't want that smoke.

[Zambero]

16. And Dubya??

If this dangerous rhetoric doesn't cross a line, what does? And who would be more effective in getting GWB off his duff to assist in putting TSF in the rear view mirror?
Dick Cheney?? Michelle Obama ?? Daughter Barbara??
The damage his administration did cannot be undone, but there are things that he CAN do to make amends. If he cares even remotely about a "legacy".

[Sundance1220]

19. I think Dubya is remaining quiet

on behalf of some of the younger Bush's who may want to go into politics once depraved donnie is history.

[Zambero]

29. You might be correct there

As far as positioning themselves goes, younger Bushes with political ambitions might have better prospects for success if they can somehow get themselves free and clear of the Orange Menace. Having "Uncle Shrub" do so as a family surrogate could accomplish that.

[Aristus]

44. Haven't heard from that weasel George P. Bush in a while. I wonder if he has folded his political tent.

Welcome to DU.

If W's daughters are any indication, if they run for public office, they may do so as Democrats.

[Sundance1220]

50. Thanks for the welcome

I've been lurking for years and when I realized I couldn't access DU with an election next week, it was time to join up. Can't imagine getting through an election without DU - so much diversity and people who have inside information in so many places. It's a treasure.

[NJCher]

78. You will find

That we know more about what’s going on in politics than any other place on the internet.

Most articles and much tv commentary seems slow to us. While they were going down the road, we were coming back.

Most posters here are careful about posting the facts. Any disinformation gets called out immediately.

[niyad]

74. Welcome to our DU family. You are just in time for all the fun/ insanity/horror

to come!

[LisaM]

49. Dubya bears a lot of responsibility for this.

HE used a partisan SCOTUS to stop the vote count. HE chose Roberts and Alito. HE is responsible for Citizens United and the dismantling of the VRA. HE got us into Afghanistan and Iraq.

If I never hear his name again, it will be too soon.

[underpants]

17. You nailed it.

Dick is not to be trifled with especially if Trump loses and is gone. Trump has an enemies list but you don’t want to be on Dick’s internal GOP list.

[BlueKota]

64. Sic em Darth Cheney

[Zambero]

12. Trump campaign: Out of context!

Stochastic terrorist: Say no more. We know whay you want!

[a kennedy]

13. And like that's as bad as calling them garbage......

I so totally despise him and all the pukes around him, and all his damn MAGA fans as well. I JUST WANT HIM GONE.

[PittBlue]

18. I just told my husband that we have had so much joy stolen from us the last ten years...

Because of that monster. I cannot wait until he falls into a vat of French fries.

[BattleRow]

20. What if Joe Biden had said this?OR Kamala Harris?

[surfered]

28. Trump is allowed a different standard. He can be lawless

But Biden and Harris must be flawless.

[BattleRow]

34. And clawless..

[GB_RN]

23. Nothing Was Taken Out Of Context...

I mean, when you say that you fantasize about shooting someone, in the face with a bunch of shotguns, there’s nothing to TAKE out of context.

Jesus.

[kentuck]

24. He didn't really mean nine rifles as in an execution...

That was just a number picked at random.

[BWdem4life]

27. Uh huh.

I mean, maybe.

[PCIntern]

31. I'll drink to THAT!!!

[liberalla]

33. What would be the proper context?

[WarGamer]

38. see #35

[dpibel]

58. I'd love to!

But it's been self-deleted by its author.

(Replying to a post that is subject-line only reading, "See #35." )

[Farmer-Rick]

42. Exactly

"Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

When would that threat and solicitation of violence be appropriate in context? When he says it to a hit man? When he says it to a firing squad of his cult followers?

If I said that at a public event about him, I would be in jail.

[ReRe]

76. The context would be appropriate if

he was STALIN.

[debm55]

36. Excellent post. LuckyCharms.

[ChazInAz]

37. Isn't it past his grave time?

Every day, for nearly ten years now, the first thing I do every morning is look for his obituary.
One can only take so much disappointment.

[3auld6phart]

39. Well

Stated, you ,I and the world really and truly hope that freak goes down in flames. I know I shoul not hope he has an early demise and leaves this Vale f Tears damn soon. What atagic train wreck

[peggysue2]

40. Oh dear, God!

There are some things you cannot spin. Threatening to shoot someone in the face is one of them.

Do these people even know what "putting a statement in context' means? Or is this simply for the addled-brained?

There's no limit to the mendacity!

[usonian]

43. Words have consequences. Words kill.

Dead gonna getcha.

[Karadeniz]

45. Well said !!!

[Blue_Roses]

47. So true!

Perfectly said. The damage he's done comes out in many negative ways and it's gonna take some time to heal.

[Emile]

52. Time to lock the bastard up!

[Teacher of the Year]

53. Did Dick Cheney stand up for his daughter?

[Zambero]

80. Such as giving Dubya a wake-up call?

You OK with this shit, "Boss"?

[spanone]

55. Too late.

[Metaphorical]

56. Definition of Gaslighting

Making a hateful or demeaning statement, then, when enough pushback comes, saying that you didn't really mean it or it was taken out of context, or even "that's not what I said."

One of the first things that anyone in a leadership position learns is to be much more guarded about what they say. Their words have authority, and even if they may happen to believe a certain thing, actually saying it is may bring about unintended (or even intended) consequences. Case in point - King Henry II's comment - "Can someone not rid me of this meddlesome priest?" - which let to the death of Thomas Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170 AD.

Trump is a master of this, as in the latest situation with Liz Cheney and as was clearly the case with Jan 6. No command is ever explicitly given, but instead, every attack is couched in deniable terms. And if something bad should happen to the target in question, well "I never said that. Obviously the person who committed the attack was mentally ill. Too bad he isn't around now to talk."

Trump is a mob boss in everything but name.

[CaptainTruth]

59. Well said!!!

[RecoveringJournalist]

60. Be Ready

Assuming tRUMP gets his azz handed to him Tuesday, he and his followers will still be screaming after the election is over. Expect more hateful rhetoric. Expect threats. Expect some Jan. 6 type of BS. Everyone should be prepared for it.

[Mz Pip]

65. What context

Is it okay for a presidential candidate to talk like this?

[central scrutinizer]

66. "When you're explaining, you're losing"

Ronald Reagan.

[Joinfortmill]

68. Amen.

[twodogsbarking]

69. There is no "unfuck you". You said it, you wear it. Thems the rules.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

71. Thanks for your post.

I needed that.

[generalbetrayus]

72. "Taken out of context" are four words I never want to hear again in my life.

Unfortunately, I will have to go completely deaf rather than hearing impaired for that to happen. Those words are simply code for "I meant exactly what I said, but I gotta pretend I didn't."

[Montauk6]

73. This is great! KEEP those dingbats on the defensive!

[markie]

79. from your lips...

to god's ears
you're a good man Lucky