Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Pale Rider

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Trump's disastrous NABJ interview was the result of rally-induced brain damage. He replied to her first question with the exact same talking points he would typically use at one of his rallies: ranting about how unfair journalists are to him, making fun of Kamala for not having a single racial identity because racial identity is super-important to his base, etc. But it was not one of his rallies: it was an actual interview with someone who had real questions.

Joe Biden looked slow and confused, but Trump only looks energetic and aware because he's saying well-rehearsed lines over and over and over. He has a certain repertoire of talking points and phrases he just throws out all the time, and they're so well-rehearsed that he can get them out despite serious brain damage. That's what he did at the NABJ interview even though it was totally inappropriate for that venue.

Remember when Ozzy Osborne could only mumble incoherently due to the damage done by years of massive alcohol and drug abuse, but he could still sing his old hits because they were basically muscle memory? That's what Trump is. He's a performing artist who can still belt out his greatest hits, but (much like Ozzy) his brain is not OK.
 

KidTDragon

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And my suspicions are officially confirmed. I really hope that the Dems also anticipated this ratfuckery and have a plan to counter it.
 

Teufel

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Didn't think Trump saying the VP pick didn't even really matter could be topped, but now JD Vance is saying it too. 😅

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“People are going to vote primarily for Donald Trump or for Kamala Harris," Vance said in a podcast interview released Friday. "That's the way these things go." | Jae C. Hong/AP

JD Vance has been trying out different responses to the wave of scrutiny he’s faced since becoming Donald Trump’s running mate. Now, he’s downplaying his own relevance to the election entirely.

“My attitude is, it doesn’t really matter, as much as this hits my ego,” Vance said in an interview on the “FULL SEND PODCAST” released Friday. “People are going to vote primarily for Donald Trump or for Kamala Harris. That’s the way these things go. I think my job over the next few months is to just drive home the message that Kamala Harris has been a bad vice president, and she’d be a worse president.”

It's a cliche at this point, but yeah, kind of weird. And as historically weak and irrelevant as that office has been at times, he'd be next in line for an 80 year old guy who could die of old age at any moment. "Don't mind me, pretend I'm not here" doesn't really cut it.
 

Pocket

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Lucky for him, Trump's base thinks of him as an immortal god-king, so the idea of him dying from anything ever is preposterous.
 

Paladin

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imagine if the press had devoted a tenth the space they did to Biden's misnaming as they did to Donalds' ramblings...
 

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Pale Rider

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From the NABJ interview, after Scott asked him if it's OK that his supporters keep calling Kamala Harris a "DEI hire":

Trump: "How do you define DEI? Go ahead."
Scott: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Trump: "OK, yeah. Go ahead. Is that what your definition-"
Scott: "That is literally the words-"
Trump: "Give me a definition then. Would you give me a definition? Give me a definition."
Scott: "Sir, I'm asking you a question, a very direct question-"
Trump: "No no, you have to define it."

And people thought Biden was the senile-sounding one? This guy sounds f**king senile. The fact that he has a clearer speaking voice doesn't change the fact that his brain is obviously misfiring. DEI is an acronym. She told him exactly what it stands for. And he clearly didn't understand that this was the definition he asked for.
In order to understand Trump's belief that Kamala Harris needs to pick a racial identity to go with, you need to remember that white-supremacists have been talking about and preparing for a "race war" since the 1970s.

When you believe a "race war" is coming, then of course you'll believe people need to pick a side.
Who needs George Orwell's "1984" when you can just read Donald Trump's education policy? You won't find a finer example of Orwellianism than this document, straight from the source.

Seriously, read it. Everyone needs to recognize what a threat to liberty and democracy this guy is.

 

Ungnome

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Only since the 1970s? I'd say at the very least it started as far back as 1954 after the result of the Brown decision. On top of that we nearly had a race war back in 1921. The Tulsa massacre even involved attacks from aircraft, it wasn't a simple 'riot'
 

KidTDragon

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Trump: "How do you define DEI? Go ahead."
Scott: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Trump: "OK, yeah. Go ahead. Is that what your definition-"
Scott: "That is literally the words-"
Trump: "Give me a definition then. Would you give me a definition? Give me a definition."
Scott: "Sir, I'm asking you a question, a very direct question-"
Trump: "No no, you have to define it."
I don't think it's senility in this case. If you listen to the way Trump asked Scott to define DEI, you can tell that he thinks he's asking a "gotcha" question that she's not going to be able to answer. But then she answers it, and he has to scramble for a response since he thought he'd get to say "See? You can't define it!" and that would be the end of it. So he hopes that if he repeats the question enough times, that'll get him his "gotcha", and then that fails too.
 


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