Elections; 2024
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Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign
“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
By Tim Alberta | November 2, 2024, 8:15 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campai
gn-lewandowski-conway/680456/
At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance that would ultimately prompt President Joe Biden to end his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump startled his aides by announcing that he’d come up with a new nickname for his opponent.
“The guy’s a retard. He’s retarded. I think that’s what I’ll start calling him,” Trump declared aboard his campaign plane, en route to a rally that evening, according to three people who heard him make the remarks: “Retarded Joe Biden.”
The staffers present—and, within hours, others who’d heard about the epithet secondhand—pleaded with Trump not to say this publicly. They warned him that it would antagonize the moderate voters who’d been breaking in their direction, while engendering sympathy for a politician who, at that moment, was the subject of widespread ridicule. As Trump demurred, musing that he might debut the nickname at that night’s event, his staffers puzzled over the timing. Biden was on the ropes. Polls showed Trump jumping out to the biggest lead he’d enjoyed in any of his three campaigns for the presidency. Everything was going right for the Republican Party and its nominee. Why would he jeopardize that for the sake of slinging a juvenile insult? (A campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said the nickname “was never discussed and this is materially false.”)
Over the next several days—as Trump’s aides held their breath, convinced he would debut this latest slur at any moment—they came to realize something about Trump: He was restless, unhappy, and, yes, tired of winning. For the previous 20 months, he’d been hemmed in by a campaign built on the principles of restraint and competence. The former president’s ugliest impulses were regularly curbed by his top advisers; his most obnoxious allies and most outlandish ideas were sidelined. These guardrails had produced a professional campaign—a campaign that was headed for victory. But now, like a predator toying with its wounded catch, Trump had become bored. It reminded some allies of his havoc-making decisions in the White House. Trump never had much use for calm and quiet. He didn’t appreciate normalcy. Above all, he couldn’t stand being babysat.
“People are calling this the most disciplined campaign they’ve ever seen,” Trump remarked to friends at a fundraiser this summer, according to someone who heard the conversation. He smirked at the compliment. “What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
Trump never did deploy the nickname against Biden in public. Yet the restiveness he felt during that stretch of the race foretold a dramatic shift in the tone and tenor of his campaign. Within weeks, Trump would survive an assassination attempt, Biden would abandon his candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris would replace him atop the Democratic ticket, and polls would show an election that once appeared finished suddenly reverting to coin-flip status. All the while, Trump became more agitated with what he saw as the trust-the-plan, run-out-the-clock strategy of his campaign—and more convinced that this cautious approach was going to cost him a second term.
In conversations with nearly a dozen of the former president’s aides, advisers, and friends, it became apparent that Trump’s feeling of midsummer tedium marked a crucial moment in his political career, setting off a chain reaction that nearly destroyed his campaign and continues to threaten his chances of victory. Even as they battled Democrats in a race that refuses to move outside the margin of error, some of Trump’s closest allies spent the closing months of the campaign at war with one another: planting damaging stories, rallying to the defense of wronged colleagues, and preemptively pointing fingers in the event of an electoral defeat.
At the center of this tumult, people close to Trump agreed, is a candidate who
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Chaos is a hallmark of adult ADHD.
Someone should give Trump ritalin. 
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Everyone who uses the word "Nazi" should be required to define it in their post.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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They're getting particularly nasty as of late, aren't they?
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:Sorry to tell you this, but Trump is sorry:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They're getting particularly nasty as of late, aren't they?
Trump Pantomimes Oral Sex at Rally
Trump Needs Help
Last night he simulated oral sex in public.
November 2, 2024, 2:02 PM ET
I do not know how to put this gently or tastefully, so I will factually describe what happened last night in Milwaukee: A former president of the United States held a rally, during which he used a microphone holder on his podium to pantomime the act of giving fellatio.
I could have put it differently. I might have said that “a cognitively impaired man, who has long been showing signs of serious emotional instability and has a history of sexism and racism, engaged in crude behavior in front of a large audience.” But that wouldn’t capture an important reality:
This deeply impaired man is tied in the race to become the next president and could be holding the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in less than three months.
I don’t know if this bizarre display will move votes away from Donald Trump. Nothing seems to dent the loyalty of his base. Trump voters are resolute in their determination to minimize his ghastly antics, or even to scrub them from their minds. (As one commenter said on social media today, Trump’s new mantra might be: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and blow somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”)
Besides, it’s always difficult to single out one terrible moment at a Trump rally when there are so many from which to choose. Last night, for example, he insisted that he won Wisconsin twice. (He didn’t.) He also took a veiled racist shot at the Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is Black.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-pantomimes-
oral-sex-at-rally/680511/
Loyal Trumptards will refuse to believe Trump did what he did or else they will approve.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Sorry to tell you this, but Trump is sorry:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They're getting particularly nasty as of late, aren't they?
Trump Pantomimes Oral Sex at Rally
Trump Needs Help
Last night he simulated oral sex in public.
November 2, 2024, 2:02 PM ET
I do not know how to put this gently or tastefully, so I will factually describe what happened last night in Milwaukee: A former president of the United States held a rally, during which he used a microphone holder on his podium to pantomime the act of giving fellatio.
I could have put it differently. I might have said that “a cognitively impaired man, who has long been showing signs of serious emotional instability and has a history of sexism and racism, engaged in crude behavior in front of a large audience.” But that wouldn’t capture an important reality:
This deeply impaired man is tied in the race to become the next president and could be holding the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in less than three months.
I don’t know if this bizarre display will move votes away from Donald Trump. Nothing seems to dent the loyalty of his base. Trump voters are resolute in their determination to minimize his ghastly antics, or even to scrub them from their minds. (As one commenter said on social media today, Trump’s new mantra might be: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and blow somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”)
Besides, it’s always difficult to single out one terrible moment at a Trump rally when there are so many from which to choose. Last night, for example, he insisted that he won Wisconsin twice. (He didn’t.) He also took a veiled racist shot at the Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is Black.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-pantomimes-
oral-sex-at-rally/680511/
Loyal Trumptards will refuse to believe Trump did what he did or else they will approve.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thank you for supplying us with another great example of hilarious propaganda made for idiots, by idiots.
To answer your question, no Trump-tard. The made up story you just pulled out of your ass isn't going to move any votes away from Trump. The only people who have ever read your shit articles are brainfucked Blue No Matter Who slaves for life.
Enjoy your last weekend in power.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Oh, the cope!
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/1
1/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/
Leapfrogs! LEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAPFRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOGSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
SPOILER ALERT: Harris is so far underwater in freakin' Iowa that FiveThirtyEight doesn't even bother calculating an aggregate, probably because nobody is even bothering to poll Iowa.
What was your polling methodology? 100% Democrat voting, college "educated", single women between 35 and 45 who are 50lbs or more overweight with unnaturally colored hair?
Emerson College just gave Trump +9 in Iowa 2 days ago. Stop smoking crack.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/iowa/
And just for comparison's sake, Emerson only gave Trump +1 on Halloween of 2020, and Trump won Iowa in 2020 by +8.2.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2020/iowa/
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_battleground_states,_2020
Grow up and accept your loss and stop riling up the idiots on the Left right before their world comes crashing down all around them.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:Trump has a plan to bring back rotting teeth:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh, the cope!
Working for Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr will be in charge of causing tooth decay.
On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease. President @realDonaldTrump and First Lady @MELANIATRUMP want to Make America Healthy Again.
3:36 PM · Nov 2, 2024
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1852812012478398923
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What does that have to do with Lefty cope and media lies?
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Everyone who uses the word "Nazi" should be required to define it in their post.
Why, Trump the Nazi has been defined by Trump himself. We've witnessed it in his actions too often to count. If he wore a Nazi armband you would still ask for proof.
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