Elections; 2024
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Republicans held their first impeachment hearing of President Biden 7 days ago. Since then, we've learned:
• Trump Org is the Enron of real estate
• Trump disseminated nuclear secrets to a guy who built an empire out of cardboard boxes
• Rudy Giuliani owes 5x more to the IRS than Hunter Biden did and Hunter paid his off
• Bernie Kerik wants immunity to testify against Trump and Giuliani in Georgia
• John Kelly confirmed Trump hates our military
• George Santos's campaign treasurer pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the feds
• Matt Gaetz snorts Viagra and chases it with Red Bull while House Ethics is trying to have him expelled
• The leading candidates for replacing Kevin McCarthy are David Duke without the baggage and a guy who covered up child sex trafficking.
"Trump will be fine. He will be your next President." - 6ix
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I gave Biden a suggestion about how he should deliver his speeches. How to counter republican lies. I won't say what my suggestion was unless I see him do it. I do not want the republicans to do it first.
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I gave Biden a suggestion about how he should deliver his speeches. How to counter republican lies. I won't say what my suggestion was unless I see him do it. I do not want the republicans to do it first.
Oh thank god! Ted is the savior of the Democratic Party!
He found the holy grail!!!!!
You'd better be grateful Second. Ted is your king now.
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Donald Trump Is a Man Without a Past
At least in the eyes of his supporters
“They believe him, because they believe in him,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote in her 2020 book about authoritarian leaders. Trump “presented himself as a truth-teller,” he utilized “this mirage of him as the successful businessman who has what all other men want” — “all of which,” she told me this week, “are things that authoritarians have done for a hundred years.”
“Obviously George Orwell taught us about the ‘memory hole,’” said Jen Mercieca, the author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. “The memory hole is very effective — this idea that you can just discard unpleasant truths and make them go away. Human beings are very vulnerable to memory-shaping.”
Consider, for instance — well, Trump’s whole life. “Truthful hyperbole,” as he put it in 1987 in The Art of the Deal, the item for which he is maybe most known after the tower that bears his name — a book O’Brien once described as a “nonfiction work of fiction.” When his book Surviving at the Top came out in 1990, he was barely surviving, and he was nowhere at the top. He didn’t care. Time and time again, as Trump told his tale, failures weren’t failures, losses weren’t losses. Nothing but successes. Nothing but wins.
“Deny something enough, and people eventually will believe you,” said Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive. “Once they believe you, it is easy to rationalize the past.”
“You talk to voters, and unless they are just hardwired on anti-Trump stuff, they’re going to say he’s a massively successful businessman,” Republican strategist Doug Heye added, “and regardless of what a judge says, that will not be stripped away from his base voters’ minds.”
Trump’s supporters do not care what he did or what he said before. They like him still. They like him now. “It is amazing,” McIntosh told me in a text. “All attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective,” the memo said. “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters with complete context of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it.”
“What I saw there that really stood out to me was that people dismissed any negative information about Donald Trump as just another attack on Donald Trump,” Mercieca told me. “So they want to believe that Donald Trump is their guy, and he’s a good guy, that he’s fighting for them and that no one else is, that everything is corrupt, and he’s the only one who will save them. That’s the message that he has always given them,” she said. “Every attack against him feeds the narrative that he has created.”
“Trump has made grievance politics his great strength,” Mike DuHaime, Chris Christie’s campaign manager, told me. “He has made himself a victim, and makes others feel like they are also victims, and therefore they must all stick together against the unseen oppressor.”
“Once they bond to him, then he has the victim narrative,” said Ben-Ghiat. “What these propagandists do so beautifully is they establish these narrative grooves, and then everything that happens, it’s like confirmation bias — it fulfills.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/04/trump-supporters-fra
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Rapist Trump endorses sex crimes enabler Jim Jordan over white supremacist Steve Scalise for Speaker after sex trafficker Matt Gaetz ousted adulterer Kevin McCarthy who pledged his loyalty to insurrectionist Marjorie Greene.
This is the self-styled Party of Christian Values.
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Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
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Quote:If East Texas were all of America, Trump would receive 90% of the vote. The people I am surrounded by can see nothing particularly wrong with Trump's behavior or their own. I find it perfectly obvious why Trump's life is full of absurd drama, emotional crisis, and mental health issues but East Texans can't see that is unusual because their lives are similar, just not as publicized.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
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Authoritarianism Expert Says Nikki Haley's Trump Comment Means 1 Chilling Thing
The GOP candidate's failure to condemn the former president's attack on retired Gen. Mark Milley is an ominous sign for America, explained Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Sunday said Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s refusal to condemn Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric showed America is “living through real-time preparation for an authoritarian crackdown.”
Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Kristen Walker of NBC’s “Meet The Press” that Trump’s floating of the idea of executing retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs, was “irresponsible.”
But Haley claimed it wasn’t enough to disqualify Trump from running for the White House again.
“Apparently the idea of executing Milley is now the Party Line,” Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, commented on X, formerly Twitter.
“We are living through real-time preparation for an authoritarian crackdown,” she continued. “We are in a phase of ‘getting the public used to the idea of violence.’”
“Having authoritative voices like Haley endorse violence is key,” added the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
Trump’s attack on Milley prompted the top military leader to take “safety precautions” for himself and his family. The comment drew sparse criticism from conservatives, however.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-ben-ghiat-nikki-haley-milley_n_652
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If East Texas were all of America, Trump would receive 90% of the vote. The people I am surrounded by can see nothing particularly wrong with Trump's behavior or their own. I find it perfectly obvious why Trump's life is full of absurd drama, emotional crisis, and mental health issues but East Texans can't see that is unusual because their lives are similar, just not as publicized.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
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Quote:I think you are getting "average" confused with "normal", assuming those two words are interchangeable. The "average" East Texan is not "normal" which is why they have an endless series of troubles until death. Since your own life has been anything but "normal", even though it might be very much the same as "average" Trumptards', you don't understand.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I think you are getting "average" confused with "normal", assuming those two words are interchangeable. The "average" East Texan is not "normal" which is why they have an endless series of troubles until death. Since your own life has been anything but "normal", even though it might be very much the same as "average" Trumptards', you don't understand.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
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