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If he does lose, this decision to stick with hyperbolic nonsense like this will be one of the biggest reasons why. People are flat out sick and tired of it.
If he does lose, this decision to stick with hyperbolic nonsense like this will be one of the biggest reasons why. People are flat out sick and tired of it.
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Straight up, I legitimately doubt he understands what a breach is. He probably received an email with his name in the subject line claiming to be from a Nigerian prince that bypassed an MSN spam filter, thought he was getting some free money, and then the intern in the org with any tech nous finally broke it to him. He probably then got so butthurt about it that it had to be "those ****ing Iranians" that compromised his campaigned rather than a hiccup in 10 year old tech. Please keep in mind this moron tried tried to contradict his own Weather Service with a ****ing Sharpie.
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He's angling to connect it to the Harris campaign. This is his standard MO. Do something ******, then publicly accuse the other side of doing the same ****** thing. So he's preparing to blame the Harris campaign of working with Iran or whoever to hack Trump. It's a very Trumpy thing to do.
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In Trump in Exile, her new book on the former president’s time out of power, Meridith McGraw of Politico reminds us of Trump’s limited vetting skills, as well as his antipathy toward Florida’s Ron DeSantis, and his cravings for cash. Oh – and his fetish for being tanned.
“Trump was still getting bronzed and ready for the day when a group of reporters joined him aboard his private jet,” McGraw writes.
McGraw travels back to 2021, when Trump’s future looked murky. Out of power, after defeat by Joe Biden and the January 6 attack on Congress, he seethed, yearning for vengeance and relevance. Most of all, he needed to be needed. In a storm, any port will do – Trump seized onto Kevin McCarthy, then the House speaker.
In September 2021, Trump backed Sean Parnell, a former army ranger, for senator in Pennsylvania. Trump expected Parnell to “fight for Election Integrity, Strong Borders, our Second Amendment, Energy Jobs, and so much more.” It never happened.
Right before Thanksgiving, Parnell dropped out. A state court granted his wife primary custody of their three children. Allegedly, he was abusive. Trump felt blindsided. Predictably, the buck stopped elsewhere. He “blamed his son for encouraging him to make the endorsement”, McGraw writes.
“Parnell’s ugly custody battle laid bare the concerns from top Republican officials about the vigor of Trump’s vetting process and whether he was backing people who might not be able to win in a general election.” In the end, Trump’s missteps paved the way for the election of Josh Shapiro as Pennsylvania’s governor.
Fast forward to August 2024. Trump’s chosen running mate once compared him to Hitler. Vance once said he “hated” police. He held a six-figure investment in Rumble, an online video platform that hosts Russian propaganda and Nazi images. (lol)
“You are one handsome son of a bitch”, McGraw reports Trump telling Vance in 2022.
“One criterion with outsized importance to Trump was physical looks and being telegenic, two things he would frequently tell people he liked in Vance.” (weird)
Trump’s lack of vetting skills were again on display. Even he seems to have realized it. Last week, as Vance flailed, Trump said: “This is well-documented, historically, the vice-president in terms of the election does not have any impact, virtually no impact.”
Translated: if he had to do it again, it wouldn’t be Vance.
By contrast, Trump’s takedown of DeSantis, Florida’s martinet-lite governor, was masterful. After grudgingly endorsing DeSantis for re-election in 2022, Trump prepared his evisceration. Trump minions branded the socially awkward and self-righteous DeSantis as strange, a misfit.
“Ron DeSanctimonious” would also come to be remembered as governor “pudding fingers”, after an ad depicting him snarfing chocolate pudding, sans spoon.
"Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” the ad began. It helped suck the life out of his campaign.
It was all about ridicule.
“When discussing their strategy, one Trump adviser referred to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,” an influential 1971 book. Trump’s staffers focused on “Rule number five: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counter-attack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
The pudding ad was both “disgusting and clever”, its goal “to get under DeSantis’s skin and start signaling to the public that he was, well, strange”.
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Who outside of the cult likes this? What swing voter is going to switch to vote for Trump because he says this? I wish more conservatives were asked questions about this as anything Democrats say is framed as “offensive to someone in America” while republicans get to insult large swaths of Americans without being asked a single question. Watch the entire clip. Over 40+ percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Think clips like these win them over?
View: https://x.com/acyn/status/1822130945706913946?s=46
View: https://x.com/acyn/status/1822130945706913946?s=46
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Once hope has been generated, after a period of seeming hopelessness, and hope is what Harris-Walz have generated, the hyperbolic gloom and the insults, and Trump’s whole negativity, are seen better for what they are and what they are doing to our collective psyche. Revulsion to it all, and “enough already” will only grow. He’s swinging and missing again and again, floundering.
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'Team Trump is flatlining — and they know it': former GOP official
After showing alternating clips of Donald Trump's rambling press conference and recent rally appearance and comparing them to clips of Vice President Kamala Harris exhorting energized crowds of Democratic voters, MSNBC host Michael Steele described the former president's campaign as being, in a...
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'Dementia-land': Lawmaker says Trump is 'not suited for office' after 'bonkers' claim
Donald Trump is "not suited for office" after spreading a conspiracy theory about Vice President Kamala Harris faking her crowd sizes, according to Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).Lieu appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to talk about the Harris campaign and how it is shaping up against Trump. The host asked him...
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And down the drain he goes…..
www.theguardian.com
‘Maybe I’ve gotten worse’: Trump’s attempt at discipline unravels
The Trump campaign has been praised as tighter – but when Harris became the opponent, it lost control of its candidate
www.theguardian.com
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I think that's about the crux of it. The GOPs base are reliable voters in the sense they will show up the polls regardless of who it running on their side. The Democrats' base usually needs something to motivate them, excite them. Given they trend younger on their demographics, it's not unexpected. Obama did this masterfully, for good or ill, in '08 and '12. Biden capitalized on weariness with Trumps antics, but his term hasn't been the most fruitful. So between a bloviating moron and an old dude who went bowling with Fred and Barnie back in the day, there wasn't much to motivate the base for Dems and liberal-leaning Independents. Harris/Walz gives something of an alternative to the Grumpy Old Men flinging **** at each other and I suspect many folks are going to trend to the third option.
Haley was right. The first one to ditch their Old ****er wins. Provided Harris doesn't flub hard, she'll continue to gain momentum unless Trump's campaign does something.
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I think his crowds are starting to laugh at him not with him. He's showing signs of massively imploding.
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Maybe it was the G4 geomagnetic storm that caused the technical issues….or maybe it’s just Trump, lolol….Like the press conference and the non-existent crowds at Harris events, Trump swings for the fences and strikes out again…..
At least he took advantage of the opportunity to praise to the heavens the most evil, brutal, murderous dictators in the entire world. Because that’s what his followers want. Right? That’s what they like about Donald?
The fact that Kim told Trump he does not like “stupid man” Biden is essentially the same as Kim telling Trump: “I think you’re a chump, you can be my useful idiot anytime!”.
For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.
Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, Trump’s reelection campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.
So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.
news.sky.com
“The tech billionaire could be heard laughing through large sections - no more so than when Mr Trump claimed "illegal immigration saved my life".
The Republican nominee told how he had turned his head to look at an illegal immigration chart during the rally on 13 July - meaning gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks missed”.
• He spoke of his good relationship with Kim Jong Un, claiming the North Korean leader told him he doesn't like "stupid man" Joe Biden;
• If "something happens" with the election, Mr Trump told Mr Musk they'll meet next time in Venezuela as "it will be a far safer place to meet than our country";
• He also said if he loses the election then "you're not going to have a country anymore";
• Mr Trump said one of his first acts as president would be to close the Department of Education and return responsibility to individual states - adding "out of 50 [states] I bet 35 would do great";
• "I didn't know I had that much blood," Mr Trump said of the attempt on his life, adding he is now "more of a believer in God";
• Mr Trump insulted rival Kamala Harris several times, referring to her as "incompetent" and "a radical left lunatic", before praising her looks - "she looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live" and compared her to his wife, Melania;
• Mr Trump repeated debunked claims, including the theory "the Congo" had emptied its prisons of murderers and sent them to the US.
At least he took advantage of the opportunity to praise to the heavens the most evil, brutal, murderous dictators in the entire world. Because that’s what his followers want. Right? That’s what they like about Donald?
The fact that Kim told Trump he does not like “stupid man” Biden is essentially the same as Kim telling Trump: “I think you’re a chump, you can be my useful idiot anytime!”.
Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.
Donald Trump's campaign took another hit with a disastrous, glitchy X interview with Elon Musk that left many wondering if the former president is OK.
www.usatoday.com
For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.
Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, Trump’s reelection campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.
So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.
Donald Trump makes bizarre claim in delayed chat with Elon Musk on X
Elon Musk claimed technical issues were caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack which is designed to force a website, computer, or online service offline.
“The tech billionaire could be heard laughing through large sections - no more so than when Mr Trump claimed "illegal immigration saved my life".
The Republican nominee told how he had turned his head to look at an illegal immigration chart during the rally on 13 July - meaning gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks missed”.
AT A GLANCE: WHAT TRUMP TOLD MUSK
• Mr Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - all authoritarian strongmen - as at the "top of their game";• He spoke of his good relationship with Kim Jong Un, claiming the North Korean leader told him he doesn't like "stupid man" Joe Biden;
• If "something happens" with the election, Mr Trump told Mr Musk they'll meet next time in Venezuela as "it will be a far safer place to meet than our country";
• He also said if he loses the election then "you're not going to have a country anymore";
• Mr Trump said one of his first acts as president would be to close the Department of Education and return responsibility to individual states - adding "out of 50 [states] I bet 35 would do great";
• "I didn't know I had that much blood," Mr Trump said of the attempt on his life, adding he is now "more of a believer in God";
• Mr Trump insulted rival Kamala Harris several times, referring to her as "incompetent" and "a radical left lunatic", before praising her looks - "she looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live" and compared her to his wife, Melania;
• Mr Trump repeated debunked claims, including the theory "the Congo" had emptied its prisons of murderers and sent them to the US.
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Boy, that’s a lot of fibs!
“There were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention.
A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny.
But there was so much more. A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of his news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. It’s a stunning number for anyone – and even more problematic for a person running to lead the free world”.
(lol, ya think??)
“There were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention.
A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny.
But there was so much more. A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of his news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. It’s a stunning number for anyone – and even more problematic for a person running to lead the free world”.
(lol, ya think??)
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Maybe it was the G4 geomagnetic storm that caused the technical issues….or maybe it’s just Trump, lolol….Like the press conference and the non-existent crowds at Harris events, Trump swings for the fences and strikes out again…..
At least he took advantage of the opportunity to praise to the heavens the most evil, brutal, murderous dictators in the entire world. Because that’s what his followers want. Right? That’s what they like about Donald?
The fact that Kim told Trump he does not like “stupid man” Biden is essentially the same as Kim telling Trump: “I think you’re a chump, you can be my useful idiot anytime!”.
Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.
Donald Trump's campaign took another hit with a disastrous, glitchy X interview with Elon Musk that left many wondering if the former president is OK.www.usatoday.com
For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.
Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, Trump’s reelection campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.
So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.
Donald Trump makes bizarre claim in delayed chat with Elon Musk on X
Elon Musk claimed technical issues were caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack which is designed to force a website, computer, or online service offline.
“The tech billionaire could be heard laughing through large sections - no more so than when Mr Trump claimed "illegal immigration saved my life".
The Republican nominee told how he had turned his head to look at an illegal immigration chart during the rally on 13 July - meaning gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks missed”.
AT A GLANCE: WHAT TRUMP TOLD MUSK
• Mr Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - all authoritarian strongmen - as at the "top of their game";
• He spoke of his good relationship with Kim Jong Un, claiming the North Korean leader told him he doesn't like "stupid man" Joe Biden;
• If "something happens" with the election, Mr Trump told Mr Musk they'll meet next time in Venezuela as "it will be a far safer place to meet than our country";
• He also said if he loses the election then "you're not going to have a country anymore";
• Mr Trump said one of his first acts as president would be to close the Department of Education and return responsibility to individual states - adding "out of 50 [states] I bet 35 would do great";
• "I didn't know I had that much blood," Mr Trump said of the attempt on his life, adding he is now "more of a believer in God";
• Mr Trump insulted rival Kamala Harris several times, referring to her as "incompetent" and "a radical left lunatic", before praising her looks - "she looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live" and compared her to his wife, Melania;
• Mr Trump repeated debunked claims, including the theory "the Congo" had emptied its prisons of murderers and sent them to the US.
trump says so much weird stuff.
I didn't know I had this much blood?
He has lived such a sheltered life if that was the most he has ever bled. I have taken a baseball bat to the head as well as a golf club to the head and bled way way more than trump's ear did. Had stitches in my stomach, hand twice, eyelid, eyebrow, top of my head.
Harris is an incompetent radical left lunatic beautiful actress lol.
Get rid of the department of education so that 35 of our 50 states would do well. **** the other 15 states.
He says if Harris wins we won't have a country anymore. What country is he talking about. We already don't have a country anymore according to trump who said if Biden wins we won't have a country anymore.
Pretty unhinged weird stuff from trump. Again.
Let Him Speak is going strong
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Just before posting this, I saw Hannity of Fox say: “Kamala Harris cannot win if America knows who she is”. Ha ha. Right now Donald Trump is showing the entire world who he is, a ridiculously insecure child….The contrast between the happy warriors and the ever cheerful Trump is pure gold. The man is just remarkably stupid!
www.theguardian.com
As David Frum put it: “There’s an old joke about the fool at the poker table: If you don’t know who it is, it’s you”.
www.theatlantic.com
“Huge crowds have gathered for her, sizzling with enthusiasm. How did that happen? Through the alchemy of politics, an alchemy that invites people to see themselves in a political champion, that depends heavily on selective availability. A champion who’s too invisible fades from mind, as Biden did during his presidency. Too visible, and the champion can become overdefined, in ways that may alienate reachable voters. This is Trump’s problem. For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively. Whereas Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT-professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the “Will you please shut up?” phase of his political descent.
Meandering, solipsistic, and crushingly boring—the interview was an awful premonition of the rest of Trump’s life should he lose again, in November: wandering the corridors of his clubs, going from table to table, buttonholing the dwindling number of guests, monologuing relentlessly until they squirm away”.
Donald Trump’s ego cannot handle being trounced by Kamala Harris | Robert Reich
Trump is floundering because the attention and positive energy generated by Harris and Walz have threatened his ego
www.theguardian.com
As David Frum put it: “There’s an old joke about the fool at the poker table: If you don’t know who it is, it’s you”.
The Trump Campaign’s ‘Please Shut Up’ Phase
The former president’s interview with Elon Musk was a reminder that overfamiliarity with a candidate can breed contempt.
www.theatlantic.com
“Huge crowds have gathered for her, sizzling with enthusiasm. How did that happen? Through the alchemy of politics, an alchemy that invites people to see themselves in a political champion, that depends heavily on selective availability. A champion who’s too invisible fades from mind, as Biden did during his presidency. Too visible, and the champion can become overdefined, in ways that may alienate reachable voters. This is Trump’s problem. For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively. Whereas Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT-professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the “Will you please shut up?” phase of his political descent.
Meandering, solipsistic, and crushingly boring—the interview was an awful premonition of the rest of Trump’s life should he lose again, in November: wandering the corridors of his clubs, going from table to table, buttonholing the dwindling number of guests, monologuing relentlessly until they squirm away”.
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