Posted on 12/06/2022 4:38:39 AM PST by Lazamataz
Recently, our beloved president, Donald Trump, posted this on TruthSocial:
In it, is a statement that could be interpreted one of two ways. One interpretation was sinister: ("I'd dismiss the Constitution and just become president, if I could")
The other interpretation was not only constructive, but very accurate: ("Fraus Omnia Vitiat... Fraud vitiates everything. The orchestrated fraud of Democrats in 2020, are such that all rules -- even the Constitution -- has been destroyed by them.")
Many people on our side immediately saw that he was trying to express the second interpretation. However, the left immediately jumped on the first interpretation and began excoriating him for it.
Even I, at the first glance at his post, was alarmed. Briefly after, though, I saw what he really meant. Then it occured to me that there were two possible interpretations. Why should it be possible to have two interpretations of his statement?
The leftist media will take his statement and feed it to the masses of leftist zombies, further cementing in their mind that a re-elected Trump would be a tyrant, and that January 6th was an actual attempt to execute a coup. People who feel that way are extremely dangerous, and will commit acts of violence to stop a 'coup' or a 'tyrant'.
Why should he have given our political enemies any ammunition at all? Couldn't he have been more clear, and thus removed any chance to be misinterpreted?
There is another poster here, AnotherUnixGeek who put it really well: The words of most politicians are far better than their actions. Trump is the opposite - his actions as president were overwhelmingly positive and good for the United States, while the stuff that comes out of his mouth and out of his typing fingers can be cringe-inducing.
I love President Trump's actions as president! He was amazing in just about every way, doing so well that I feel his performance exceeded Ronald Reagans.
What we loved about Donald Trump in 2016, was his bold and combative style. He took it right to the Enemedia. He allowed NOTHING they said to go unchallenged. It was refreshing and energizing, and in the end, it made him president.
However, after six long years of the Enemedia twisting what he said -- even when he was very clear -- I would expect the man to be much more articulate and careful. I'd expect him to re-read every post, trying to predict how he'd be misquoted or misinterpreted. There is absolutely no reason he should have stepped into this one.
On the other hand, Jim Robinson had a good take on it: Trump would not be the man we all know and love if he has to run everything he says through a committee or a focus group —like RINOs do. Trump is fine. Let Trump be Trump as he fights the media and the leftists. Results are what counts.
And let's remember, one of us became President of the United States, and the other one of us (myself) is writing an editorial on Free Republic.
Ping, you were both quoted in this essay.
See my above essay.
I think he was referring to martial law
Thank you
Then you are assuming the first interpretation. I actually embrace the second interpretation, especially since he clarified what he posted, in a later post.
Of course, which of the two interpretations is really true, is not my point. My point is, why leave room for doubt and room for purposed misinterpretation (by the press)?
You are welcome.
Good post.
A ping to you, to my essay.
I thought you might be interested, you mendatious, snivelling worm. Dry up, you disruptive freakish moron!
😘
Thank you, sir.
I am just responding directly to your comment to me in my ping thread. I don’t need to read the drivel of a perverted nutjob Laz.
Perverted nutjobs need love too!
This is good. Kinda correlates to ‘taking things out of context’, which the left does constantly.
A rational and correct interpretation.
An important upside of his statement is that it gave more NeverTrumpers a fig leaf to reveal themselves as ‘not on board’. That’s good for us: fewer snakes in the grass.
Since the day he appeared on the scene it’s never been more true: Trump rips the masks off of everyone.
I think Trump is very careful. I believe he articulates this way on purpose and that purpose is to bring what coverage he can, to his ideas.
The Rats and their pet monkeys in the media hate him, and all free Americans. They wouldn’t give him the time of day if they could help it, so he pulls their chain.
The presstitutes would like him to sound like Pence - and he would never get coverage at all.
Thanks Laz. I am especially grateful for the Latin, which I shall gleefully toss into the faces of my statist co-workers. 😎
Excellent point, and one that did not occur to me.
Trump clarified what he meant in a second post. Anyone who doesn't accept that is one of those snakes you mention.
Since the day he appeared on the scene it’s never been more true: Trump rips the masks off of everyone.
He certainly did, and he did so thoroughly enough that I now consider Conspiracy Theories to actually be Spoiler Alerts.
Thanks bro. Glad you enjoyed it.
Amen to this.
I had only one disagreement with President Trump's policies as president, and that was how he handled the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting by directing the ATF to ban bump stocks as "machine guns."
But there is no denying his performance on making us energy independent, re-shoring jobs from overseas back to the United States, renegotiating the disastrous NAFTA agreement, doing his best against a headwind to seal the border, and bringing some semblance of balance back to our court system with his judicial appointments.
But those Tweets...
OTOH, at least he didn't mention anything about bleach. </snark>
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