Really, I Am Not Repressed, Are U?

Rodney Clough
5 min readSep 17, 2024
Islamaphobe and 9/11 Denier Laura Loomer disembarking from Trump’s jet to attend a memorial service in Shanksville, PA., site of the Flight 93 National Memorial, Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Photo by Chris Scagola/Associated Press, courtesy The New York Times

A new take on Melania’s slicker: “Really I don’t care, do U?”

America won’t see Trump debate for a third time. He’s got J. D. Vance. He’s got Laura Loomer. Its campaign crunch time, and Trump is retreating to well-worn outrage, denigration and mock repression.

Candidate Trump professes to do his “own selling.” That is until the media howls over his latest lie. With the timing of a genie, Trump lets his sycophants out of the bottle, to ‘double down,’ to do the selling of stolen goods. When asked if he is supporting their views, like the attack on the Capitol, January 6, 2021, Trump backs away from answering the question, saying, ‘they are supporters, so I welcome their support. They have their opinions which I respect. I let them say what they want.’ By representing their rights to speak their minds, Trump sets the political discourse bar lower, casting his response as a defender of free speech. Like the pedophile-rapists he and his conspirator tribe identify the opposition, Trump is grooming his supporters for political violence.

What America is witnessing is a second term candidate at work subverting the election: there will be no ‘another election.’

Weren’t we listening?

Consider the following grooming for political violence. To protect the Trump brand, the fake ‘real Trump’ backs…

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Rodney Clough

Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.