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| Happy Halloween! "... Democrats are the party of anti-Western Marxists and hostile third world migrants." Donald Trump, October 19, 2026. (Source of graphic.) |
The context: The USA's midterm elections.
In Malice in Wonderland, part one, I analyzed a sample of MAGA rhetoric regarding immigrants.
In Malice in Wonderland, part two, I considered MAGA's "gleeful cruelty."
In what I sincerely hope is the last in this series of posts, I'm simply sharing what the U.S. president and his defenders consider acceptable speech in the service of their current political campaigns.
A couple of the more flagrant insults in this recent speech were covered in the media, but they're so accustomed to performances like this that you need to read a little more to get the full scale.
My original draft of this post included a couple of paragraphs of brilliant commentary. However, I deleted them as totally unnecessary. The transcript speaks for itself.
So here is the president of the USA at Park City, Kansas, three days ago: (based on this full transcript)—judge for yourself if you think I've been unfair in picking these gems. I did edit a bit, mainly by comparing transcripts and making my own paragraph divisions. Within paragraphs, the ellipses ... were in the original transcripts and don't represent cuts made by me.)
When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember that is what the radical Democrats want to do to America. They expect to do it. They’re not going to come close. And just like in Europe, Democrats are the party of anti-Western Marxist and hostile third world migrants.
And the Dumocrat agenda, and I’ve used this name a lot because their policy is just so dumb. Men in women’s sports, transgender for everybody. The absolute mutilization of your children where your son, Timmy, comes home five days later as Sarah, and you don’t even know about it.
They have open borders so that every jail throughout the entire… From The Congo in Africa to all over South America to Asia and Europe, every jail can be dumped into our country. Murderers, drug dealers, everybody. We’re not putting up, and we never did, and we got them mostly the hell out of here. What a mess that has been. But the Democrat agenda is a plan to extinguish Western civilization.
The worst thing they did to us is allowing 25 million people into our country totally unchecked, totally unvetted, and many of them were hardcore criminals, 11,888 murderers. And I say it all the time, more than 50% of which killed more than one people.We have them in our country. We’ve gotten most of them out. We’re getting the rest of them out very soon. But they want to shut down our power plants. They want to set loose the criminals, turn your children transgender, confiscate your money, and raise up the Palestinian flag right in the middle of your wonderful state. And at the same time, they’re willing to defile our great and very beautiful American flag. We’re not going to let that happen. Roger [Senator Roger Marshall], how would the Palestinian flag play in the middle of your state? Do think it would play well? I don’t think so. Roger will not… By the way, his opponent, I think, would like it. I’ve learned a lot about him. I’ve learned a lot.
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I have the all time in history Christian vote. I have the evangelical vote, the Christian vote.
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Actual communists: "Where is the party in opposition
that has not been decried as communistic by its
opponents in power?" Source.The Democrats are the party of Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed. He got very upset because I called him Mohammed. I just felt like it. Somebody said, “how did you do that?” I said, “I’m the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want.” And then they sent me his full name. And, actually, his middle name is Mohammed. You can believe it? It’s true. One good thing, if you call somebody from that part of the world Mohammed, you’re about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed.
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You have Ilhan Omar. How about her? She comes from maybe the worst country in the entire world, Somalia. They have no government. They have no—they have nothing. All they do is shoot each other. And she comes over here and starts quoting I have constitutional rights, the Constitution. This country—and she hates our country. She is so pathetic.
Rashida Tlaib, how about that beauty? Rashida Tlaib, AOC, AOC. I like AOC better. You know she's doing her thing. James—how about who is now losing, by the way. Ken Paxton is winning in Texas. Because people got wise to James Talafreako. You remember Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren. How about her? Remember the—the ad she did with—her husband walked into the house? "Oh, hi." "Hi, darling." It was like she hadn't seen him in about 20 years. "Oh, hi. Would you like a beer?" Do you remember that crazy ad? Was that the worst? How about this low IQ person, Maxine Waters, low IQ? Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, they're all bad. How would you like to have them representing all of the fraudsters, thieves and thugs driving around in luxury cars? You go up to Minnesota, number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes Benz. Think of it. And Somalians are buying. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich.
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So Roger’s opponent [Adam Hamilton]… I did a lot of work on this because, again, I was the number one vote getter whether you call… Whether you say Christianity, whether you say evangelical… I have them all. Whether you say Catholic. How about Catholic? But the number one, by far, was… I don’t believe there was anybody even in second place. There was nothing left. But… So I understand what I’m saying.
Adam Hamilton used to say bad things about me, really radical left things. I mean, he would talk… I said, “this guy’s a radical left lunatic.” And… But he would say bad things about me. And all I did is fight to get rid of the Johnson amendment, to do all of the things I’ve done, so many different things. But he’d… I’d see him. I didn’t know. I never thought he’d be running for office. But I used to hear about this lunatic up here. I said, “what the hell is he doing in Kansas?” But he'd say bad crap about me. And I don’t like people that do that, but he’s a radical left phony who’s pretending to be a moderate because he does not have the courage to tell Kansas the truth about his belief and really who he is.
Hamilton opposed my travel ban to keep terrorists and extremists out of our country, and he was vicious about it. What kind of a president would want to keep killers, thugs, lunatics, but he didn’t say that out of our country. He supports flooding Kansas with unvetted refugees who go around killing people literally for no reason. And they come in. He says it’s okay for people to come in from the most dangerous places on earth they can pour into Kansas. Adam Hamilton used church dollars to fund anti religious transgender activities. I mean… And so he used a lot of church money to fund all of this transgender crap that you’re reading about, who openly mocks Jesus, and he openly mocks Jesus. He promotes a document listing 125 different genders.
Adam Hamilton stated that he believes America is systemically racist. He said that white people must repent. Repent all of you white people. [Laughter] Terrible, terrible—terrible, terrible white people. But for being white, they want you… He wants you to repent because you’re born white and that Kansans should also repent for eating beef because you’re causing global warming. No, but—but think of that. He wants the cattle gone not for—for some reason, because he says they create—you—you know what that means by global warming, right? You know what they're talking about? Next will be human—next will be human beings. When's he going to get into the human being stuff?
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Canada’s been ripping us off for so many years. People got used to it. I didn’t get used to it. We got it under control. No. They’re all leaving O Canada. What do we need their cars for? We… He said, “we’re going to…” Only in Kansas can you get away with it. No. But I do like their national anthem. And I promised them if they become a fifty first state, which is actually what they should do. I said, “I will let you keep ice hockey, and I will let you keep your "O Canada" national anthem.” I like it. So they can have it as a state anthem. No. We’re only kidding. We’re having a good time, but they have been screwing us, really, and they don’t… They’re not doing it anymore. They say, “let’s make a deal. How about a deal?”
See, the thing is they do 95% of their business with us. We do very little with them, and we lose 90 billion a year. I would say that’s a little too much for the privilege of having people live through very cold weather. They do live through cold. Did you ever see the line they drew? They drew years ago. They drew just a line. Some guy with a ruler. Dead straight lines. Not pretty at all. Just a drape. They said, “let those people have that cold air. It’s too cold.” Well, they shouldn’t have done that, but I understand. But Canada’s… They have really… I don’t think… Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t think they have a choice if you want another chance. But we’re not going to lose $90 billion to carry another country. Just like we’re not going to lose a $150 billion with Mexico. And Mexico and Us are very close to a great deal, which will get that number way down, maybe down to… What do you think, Roger, if I told you maybe down to zero? Because we’re losing a lot of money with these. We’re carrying all these countries, and I don’t want to carry these countries. That includes Europe, by the way. Lots of places in Europe. No. We got it. We got it under control, everybody. I love doing this crap. I love it.
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But the Trump dividend, which is the 5,000, just to show you how it does work, it’s approximately $1 trillion. But we have a record setting $22.2 trillion that’s being invested in the United States right now in just fifteen months. So it’s not really… Because we have growth the likes of which no country has ever seen before. That’s what I meant by the pundit. “Do you know what’s happening?” There’s never been growth like this ever.
So the only caveat on the $5,000 is that the Trump dividend, you must spend the money in the United States of America. Okay? We don’t want you saying to your husband, Jim… Oh, because you each get a check, by the way. You don’t want… We don’t want you saying to Jim, “Jim, let’s go to China and spend time on. Let’s go to Japan. Let’s go to South Korea. Let’s go to some beautiful place like France. Let’s go to France. We can join the revolution, Jim, and then come home to sanity.” We don’t want to go to France. I would think that France’s recreation climate is not too good right now. No. But I don’t want you to go to France. I don’t want you to go to The United Kingdom. You got to spend the money in the United States of America. That’s alright.
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So the choice in this election is very simple. You can vote for the radical left Democrat communists to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate Kansas farms, mutilate your children, and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty to vote. That’s why they let them in. They want to have them vote. Cheating is not good enough. They cheat like hell, but that’s not good enough. They want to destroy our country. Or you can defeat the Democrat communist and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, a booming Kansas economy, and no amnesty for illegal aliens. No amnesty. No amnesty.
I thought about including his fascinating description of his cognitive tests, but thought better of it. You're welcome.
Don't accept this as normal!
Helen Cox Richardson on Trump and Putin, Ramaswami vs Acton, "fear porn," and other pre-election notes.
Richard Beck has been posting an interesting series on Substack, "Transplant Shock and Spiritual Formation in Protestant Spaces." Here's part seven, "Grace Is Not Opposed to Effort."
This is why Dallas Willard had to say, over and over again, that grace is not opposed to effort. It is, rather, opposed to earning. Willard’s line has become one of the most quoted sentences in evangelical spiritual formation precisely because of what I’m calling transplant shock. Within a synergistic context, Willard’s clarification is unnecessary. Of course, effort and grace are not competitors. Prior to the Protestant Reformation no one imagined that fasting or contemplation would threaten grace.
Mike Farley on "transfigured awareness" and "The Lamb who was slain."
Mimi Marstaller on "extended worship" at Portland (Maine) Friends, and the hospitable example of Jean Zaru.
Finally, back to election season USA. Kristin Du Mez on what history tells us about contested elections. And from the Public Religion Research Institute: Political implications from their 2026 American Values Survey.
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Yesterday I walked over to St Olave's Church to hear Swedish pianist Katarina Ström play a recital program she entitles "An Equal Music," demonstrating how jazz and classical music blend together with no hard boundary.
Her program included Chopin, Ryuitchi Sakamoto short pieces paired with Bach, three Gershwin preludes, Duke Ellington, and Beethoven. She asked us to listen for Bach's and Sakamoto's shared understanding of the silence between notes.
Her related recitals next month: November 10, 1 p.m., at St Stephens Walbrook; November 18, 1 p.m., at St Martins Ludgate.
Here's a sample:
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