Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Marks the Final Descent of His Campaign
This MSG Trump rally was deliberate—grim and filled with hostility, aimed solely at stoking resentment and unrest within his base as defeat looms.
Far from reaching out to undecided voters or casting a future vision for the country, Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally inflamed anger and division.
Speakers called Kamala Harris “the antichrist” and “the devil,” labeled Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a bitch,” railed against “f***ing illegals,” and even referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Tucker Carlson’s derisive remarks — calling Kamala Harris a “Samoan Malaysian low I.Q. former prosecutor” — are emblematic of the rally’s tone.
Donald Trump’s campaign chose each speaker and gave them a platform. He is responsible for their words. This is not the language of someone aiming to lead a nation; it’s the language of someone intent on stoking fear and anger.
“When I say ‘the enemy within’ the other side goes crazy. They have done very bad things to this country. They are indeed the enemy from within. This is who we’re fighting.” —Donald Trump
Trump says Americans who don’t support him are “enemies” and must be dealt with. It’s disgusting and embarrassing.
He elaborates. Try to make sense of his word salad of hate:
"They are the enemy (Democrats), what they've said (points to the press). Even that enemy too, and they're really the enemy. They're the enemy of the people, the press."
This rally did not merely insult individuals; it targeted entire communities, including millions of Hispanic voters. While Trump’s campaign claims to value these voters, the hateful rhetoric on display tells a different story. How can a campaign, and a candidate, claim to support a diverse America when its primary message is scorn for anyone outside its base?
The consequences of this rally will likely extend beyond the election. This rally is the starting gun for January 6th 2.0. Trump’s willingness to fan the flames of anger is a clear warning. In the face of likely defeat, he is rallying his most ardent supporters—not to uphold democratic principles, but to resist them.
For Americans watching, the choice becomes clear. To vote against Trump is to vote against this dark chapter of fearmongering and vitriol. It is to embrace a future where leaders build bridges rather than walls, where public servants work for all Americans rather than pandering to the loudest, angriest factions.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s actions offer a stark contrast. As Trump’s rally speakers disparaged Puerto Rico, Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia, pledging to rebuild the island’s infrastructure and invest in its economy. Her actions are a reminder of what leadership should look like: constructive, inclusive, and focused on real solutions for real people.
We cannot afford complacency. This is a moment to act, to vote, and to reject the rhetoric of hate that permeated Madison Square Garden. The days ahead are our opportunity to show that this brand of politics no longer has a place in America’s future. As citizens, let’s rise to the occasion—not by responding in anger, but by turning out in record numbers to affirm our commitment to a democracy that respects all its people.
Let’s turn this spectacle of division into a catalyst for unity. Vote against hatred, vote for respect, and vote for a country that belongs to every one of us.
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Make America Hate Again
This wasn’t an accident. It was the point. It’s what MAGA was built on—a message to the white, the bitter, and the fearful that their ginned up anger is a rallying cry, a political stance, and a weapon. It's a promise that America belongs to them and no one else. It’s why Trump’s rallies don’t even try to reach beyond his hardcore base; the idea that America belongs to everyone goes against the grain of his entire campaign.
An Open Letter to Your Friend or Relative Planning to Vote for Trump: Your Vote for Trump Is an Endorsement of Bigotry, Cruelty, and the Erosion of Rights—No Matter the Reason You Give.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150725410?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The Real Danger of “Trump’s TWO Little Secrets”
The peril being overlooked in the delirium over Trump’s Madison Square Garden “little secret” is that too few are actually DOING anything to counter the “electoral coup” it forebodes – when in fact it is in our control as citizens to thwart if we don’t merely “vote like zombies.” Voters need to know that the offices which will prevent a Trump “electoral coup” go beyond the common misconception that “just taking back the House” will prevent the presidential race from being thrown into the hands of Mike Johnson (and far, FAR worse – keep reading).
“I think the secret yesterday that he [Donald Trump] referenced very likely may relate to his compact with Mike Johnson to—as a back-up plan for when he loses—to overturn this election on January 6,” New York Representative Dan Goldman said … “Why did Donald Trump come to New York nine days before the election? The state is going to go to Kamala Harris … The answer is that [control of] the House really runs through New York, which will likely determine the majority” [that would select a president in a contingent election.]”
But Goldman is thinking about this as though the post-election electoral process is going to proceed “legally” and in any kind of normal way.
One of Trump’s two “aces” to get to a contingent election is “delay.” Trump in November is going to use the same “delay” tactics in the electoral arena that he has been using in the legal arena to slow down being being sentenced to prison. And if Trump is successful in slowing down the electoral process enough he doesn’t need to win ANY of the legal challenges he will raise during that electoral process – he just needs to make sure that Kamala Harris doesn’t get to 270 electoral votes by January 6 and “bingo!” the selection of the president will be thrown into the House, which could then just install Trump as president – and even more alarmingly: with almost no way to remove him from power (and if you don’t believe this last, see The War After the Election in Safeguard to understand why not).
The starting point of such delay would come at the county and other local level offices that are too overlooked by the over 30% of voters who routinely cast incomplete ballots – and which are CRITICAL to keeping the electoral process running smoothly.
Why would Trump telegraph this to the world? Perhaps he was actually reinforcing a message to Mike Johnson personally (whom he was looking at and directly addressing when he made their “little secret” so public): “I have a (second) little secret that I have been blackmailing you with, Mike. We both know what it is, and I could reveal it to the world before an audience like this one. So stay loyal and remain obedient.”
I don’t want to waste your time with speculation. What I just wrote about Trump regarding Johnson IS a “conspiracy theory.” But Trump and others in his network are indeed today on trial for “conspiring” to overthrow the 2020 election. After the electoral fraud that culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, why would any thinking person not believe this is not only well within the realm of possibility, but probability? The fact that such an electoral coup is even possible again in 2024 should send shivers down your spine.
Trump’s second “ace” is lawlessness. Why would any thinking person believe that Trump would obey the “new law” that supposedly “fixed” all of this (the Electoral Count Reform Act) when there is no law he obeys if it’s in his self-interest not to – especially now when he is fighting not just to win an election, but for his very freedom (and where “just one more crime on top of all the other crimes” would only add years on to what is already a life sentence if he loses)?
Safeguard has been warning about the dangers surrounding a contingent election since 2020. Trump’s Madison Garden remarks have merely brought the problem into a clearer focus.
#VoteBlueDownBallot warned in 2022 that voters haven’t been made aware of the need to vote a COMPLETE ballot, and if they split their tickets to vote STRATEGICALLY for several low ballot offices. It has been updated for THIS election regarding what you need to know as a voter, and what you can do beyond that as an activist to make others aware of what they can do. There are numerous resources in Safeguard that you can use as a private citizen to amplify the power of your vote with the power of your voice in order to help win some of these lower level offices as well as the House seats in play (some of which were decided by as few as 500 votes in the last election).
Safeguard is free. Use it to inform yourself regarding the full extent of the dangers we face – and what you can do about it. And share it with others.
https://crisafulli.substack.com/p/vote-blue-down-ballot-or-house-may-elect-trump