Vengeance Is Mine Saith The Republicans.

Have you noticed that the Republicans are always talking about vengeance and getting even. Even with no evidence that are trying to impeach president Biden… why? Could it possible be because the Democrats twice impeached Trump?

It has been reported that Trump said…

The Hill:

Steve Bannon and Kash Patel claimed that former President Trump is “dead serious” about exacting revenge on his political enemies if he wins a second term as president, and they warned members of the media to take the threats seriously, saying Tuesday, “We’re going to come after you.”

In an episode of Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Bannon and Patel, two of Trump’s close allies, pledged to prosecute members of the media who “lied’ about the 2020 presidential election results — falsely suggesting Trump truly won.

The Washington Post...

Especially because of the second story. “Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term,” report The Post’s Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett.

As they detail, Trump and allies “have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.”

The Huffpost…

Top Republican lawmakers brushed aside questions about former President Donald Trump’s alarming vow to purge his political opponents, which he referred to as “vermin” in a Veterans’ Day message over the weekend.

But he is not the only one Republican seeking revenge.

New York Magazine…

Yet the fact that Republicans have been threatening a revenge impeachment against the next Democratic president literally since Trump’s first impeachment has been oddly absent from news coverage. The Associated Press, in an appropriately skeptical explainer, answers the question of why Republicans are doing this: “Since gaining the House majority in January, House Republicans have aggressively investigated Biden and his son, claiming without evidence that they engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”

Well, that’s true, but it’s not why Republicans are impeaching Biden. They are impeaching him specifically to even the score with Trump.

Vengeance is mine saith the Republicans and it is not just on the federal level but states also want to get in on the revenge.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn’t like. Here’s who they are targeting.
Paxton has been seeking revenge on fellow Republicans who voted to impeach him earlier this year. Similarly, Abbott is looking to unseat GOP House members who voted against school vouchers.
Texas Tribune
By Carla Astudillo and Patrick Svitek
December 21, 2023

The Texas primary season promises more drama than usual as Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton seek revenge against dozens of fellow Republicans in the state House.

Paxton is working to defeat the House Republicans who voted to impeach him in May on abuse-of-office charges. The Senate acquitted him after a trial in September.

Abbott, meanwhile, wants to unseat the House Republicans who thwarted his yearlong crusade for school vouchers, which would allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to help pay for private school costs.

Both of them have their work cut out for them. Sixty House Republicans voted to impeach Paxton, while Abbott is focused on a narrower group of 21 who voted last month to strip a voucher proposal out of a broad education bill.

The elephant is a good symbol for the Republican party, they say an elephant never forgets and neither do the Republicans.

Meanwhile that want tit for tat... Colorado banned Trump from the ballot so we are going to do the same thing over trumped up charges.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggests removing Pres. Biden from ballot over immigration

KDFW News
By FOX 4 Staff
December 21, 2023

On the heels of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling former President Donald Trump should be removed from the primary ballot, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested doing the same thing to President Joe Biden.

Patrick made the comments on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday night while criticizing the president's immigration policies.

"We're fed up. In fact, seeing what happened in Colorado tonight, Laura, makes me think, except we believe in democracy in Texas, maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million of people to cross the borders since he's been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history," said the lieutenant governor.

They even admit that it is in retaliation for what Colorado did.

The scary part is...

Trump's revenge-driven campaign has far too many fans
Trump is ready to use the Justice Department as a weapon against former allies. His supporters are uncomfortably okay with the idea.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor
November 7, 2023

Former President Donald Trump is not a subtle man. He telegraphs his schemes, often in the middle of a tsunami of rapid-fire misinformation. It was true of his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and it’s true of his plans to use a second term to make good on all the autocratic, dictatorial threats he has made since being voted out of office. Even more disturbing is how on board his supporters seem to be with the idea.

His cult followers are eating all of this up! They worship their orange haired leader and follow his every word.

Trump has taken particular umbrage at the multiple investigations into him and his company, framing any and every attempt to hold him accountable as a politically motivated attack. It’s a classic case of projection, given his numerous calls for his opponents to be prosecuted. But he suggests to his supporters that any revenge he’d take should he win in 2024 would simply be his playing by the rules his adversaries have set.

At an October campaign stop in New Hampshire, Trump went on a tear that said the left has “weaponized law enforcement” to “arrest their leading political opponent: me.” He said it was “third world country stuff” and then, chillingly, “that means I can do that, too.” Accordingly, his advisers are reportedly plotting how to use the Justice Department to follow through on that promise.

Around 50% of the voters back and support his vengeance plans! That is what's scary.

I fear to imagine what Trump would do to a jury that didn’t follow his plans… Would Trump do away with the juries and have a tribunal of his hand-picked judges?

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I want to add, politics is an important part of the trans community lives. Whether we like it or not we have been thrown into the political pot. The attacks by the right-wing conservatives at our community affects us every time we walk out the door. Denying us healthcare, denying us the needed document changes, criminalizing us by just being ourselves, and stirring up animosity against us.

You never know what will set off a MAGA Republican and they are the ones walking around with assault weapons. They are the ones coming to protest drag queens armed.

You may not like it but we have been thrust into politics by those who want to eradicate us.

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Since I wrote this Trump has made a number of statements... Updated December 29, 2023

Trump posts word cloud boasting voters associate 'revenge' and 'dictatorship' with a second term

The former president touted the word cloud on his Truth Social account weeks after saying that if elected to a second term, he wouldn't be a dictator, "except for day one."

NBC News

By Kyla Guilfoil

December 27, 2023

Former President Donald Trump posted a word cloud on his Truth Social account Tuesday showcasing words such as “revenge” and “dictatorship,” the result of a Daily Mail poll that asked likely voters what word they would use to describe what he wants from a second term. 

The poll, conducted by the firm J.L. Partners and released by the Daily Mail on Tuesday, asked 1,000 likely voters for one word to sum up President Joe Biden's and Trump's plans for new terms. According to the poll, the most popular word linked to what Biden planned to achieve was “nothing.” 

Trump cryptically posted the word cloud on his Truth Social account Tuesday afternoon without comment or context. The word “revenge” in crimson letters stands at the center of the word cloud, with “power” above it and “dictatorship” below it printed in orange.

Meanwhile the Independent wrote the other day,

Donald Trump has shared a graphic naming "revenge" and "dictatorship" as among his biggest goals if he wins the presidency in 2024.

In a poll published on Tuesday, The Daily Mail asked 1,000 American voters to sum up in one word what they thought Mr Trump and Joe Biden wanted from a second term in office.

The top entry in Mr Biden's word cloud was "nothing", followed by "economy" and "peace". But for Mr Trump, it was "revenge" – alongside "power", "dictatorship", "America", and "economy" again.

Mr Trump quickly shared the graphic on his Truth Social page without any further comment, raising the question of whether he endorses such terms.

But that is not all, the Washington Post reported in November,

Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

Also from last month the Guardians wrote that...

Donald Trump’s talk of punishing his critics and seeking to “weaponize” the US justice department against his political opponents has experts and former DoJ officials warning he poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US.

Trump’s talk of seeking “retribution” against foes, including some he has branded “vermin”, has coincided with plans that Maga loyalists at rightwing thinktanks are assembling to expand the president’s power and curb the DoJ, the FBI and other federal agencies. All of it has fueled critics’ fears that in a second term Trump would govern as an unprecedentedly authoritarian American leader.

Trump is currently the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination for 2024 and has long maintained hefty polling leads over his party rivals. At the same time a slew of recent polls has also shown him ahead of President Joe Biden, including in key battleground states.

But scholars and ex-justice officials see increasing evidence that if they achieved power again Trump and his Maga allies plan to tighten his control at key agencies and install trusted loyalists in top posts at the DoJ and the FBI, permitting Trump more leeway to exact revenge on foes, and shrinking agencies Trump sees as harboring “deep state” critics.

Ominously, Trump has threatened to tap a special prosecutor to “go after” Biden and his family.

His cult followers are eating this up!  His MAGA followers are sticking by him.