Donald Trump spoke Tuesday at the Atkinson Resort & Country Club in southern New Hampshire a day after his landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Rolling Stone spoke with diehard Trump supporters who waited hours in the snow to watch the former president stump in New Hampshire

Fresh off a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire and complained to his supporters that he had to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election.

Fans had lined up for hours outside in the snow for a chance to see the presumptive Republican nominee in person — excited over his Iowa win, appearing confident he will once again be president.

During his speech, Trump said it “was ridiculous that we had to leave, but we had to leave, we have to follow the laws of our land.” He quickly doubled down on his 2020 election lies: “They don’t investigate the people that cheated in the election. They investigate the people that understand they cheated and go after them. But they don’t investigate the people who cheated like hell. We have to have fair and free elections.”

Of course, Trump is being prosecuted for attempting to rig the 2020 election and overturn the results in key swing states — and as Rolling Stone has reported, he and his allies are working diligently to predetermine the results of the 2024 election and make sure they favor Trump.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    Not voting and letting insane fascists take over is clearly the better choice when trying to reduce harm.

    Voting isn’t a panacea, but saying it isn’t harm reduction makes you sound ignorant or like you’re arguing in bad faith.

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      110·
      10 months ago

      Not voting and letting insane fascists take over is clearly the better choice when trying to reduce harm.

      i didn’t propose not voting

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      112·
      10 months ago

      Not voting and letting insane fascists take over is clearly the better choice when trying to reduce harm.

      voting isn’t harm reduction.

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      113·
      10 months ago

      saying it isn’t harm reduction makes you sound ignorant or like you’re arguing in bad faith.

      i’m saying it because i know what harm reduction is, and it’s not voting.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        Asserting your same point multiple times without expanding upon it doesn’t make your point any stronger, and definitely doesn’t help people think that the quoted portion of my statement doesnt apply to you.

        Harm reduction includes many, many different actions, of which voting is but one of them. You’re welcome to explain how voting isn’t harm reduction, but I bet I’ll be able to tear down that argument fairly easily once you actually look at possible outcomes to who is in office. For example, it’s absolutely harm reduction to keep MAGAts and the GOP out of office for any LGBT+ people, given the war the right has been wagging on these communities.

        Also, calling it a false dichotomy without explanation doesn’t make it so, no matter how many times you reply to a single comment.

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      113·
      10 months ago

      you sound ignorant or like you’re arguing in bad faith.

      this false dichotomy doesn’t belong on this instance or in this community