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Maru Kitteh

(31,357 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 01:45 PM Feb 2017

DFT at CPAC: "It's like - How many elections do we have to have?" [View all]

We also inherited a failed health care law that threatens our medical system with absolute and total catastrophe. Now, I've been watching and nobody says it, but Obamacare doesn't work, folks. I could say, I could talk. And now people are starting to develop a little

— but the people that you're watching, they're not you. They're largely, many of them are the side that lost. They lost the election. It's like, how many elections do we have to have? They lost the election.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14726584/transcript-donald-trump-cpac-speech


My stomach literally rolled at hearing this line.

Not the first time he's offhandedly expressed the idea of not having elections

“And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for? What are we having it for?” he asked.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-election-cancel-230414


or the idea that he might not want to leave the White House.

TRUMP: Who would want to leave the White House? Right? You're in there -- no, seriously. Who would want to leave the White House?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/19/ebo.01.html



Here's the thing. If he keeps up this level of fanaticism, his people will support it. Violently, I believe.

These people are not okay.









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