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No. of Recommendations: 8
Despite pleas from his campaign staff and other Republicans to STFU!
When will he tell his MAGA Brown Shirts to 'stand by'?
At a rally Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., Trump called Harris “crazy,” “stupid” and a “lunatic,” adding that “she’s not smart, she’s not intelligent.” He repeatedly derided her laugh, including saying that it’s “career-threatening. That’s a laugh of a person with some big problems.”
Recent days have featured a familiar sight: a coterie of Trump allies taking to broadcast outlets such as Fox News, seemingly to send a message to Trump — in the apparent belief that this is how you get through to the cable-news-junkie former president. They’ve practically begged him to change it up. They’ve sought to push him away from talk of crowd sizes and personal attacks on Harris, and toward policy.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that he and Trump are talking about policy, but he added that “we’d much rather have an American president who is who he is” and “who’s willing to offend us” and “lets the American people see exactly who he is.” Sure JD. Why is it that Republicans have to constantly apologize and make excuses for the orange idiot?
Trump's “deeply rattled” aides, advisers and donors still hope that the former president would come out with a “hard-hitting” speech that pushes a winning message. Good luck with that.
If his campaign continues to stumble how deranged will the senile old man get?
No. of Recommendations: 16
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that he and Trump are talking about policy, but he added that "we’d much rather have an American president who is who he is" and "who’s willing to offend us" and "lets the American people see exactly who he is."
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This seems to be a common theme in the Republican Party nationwide as they more aggressively target ever-more simplistic (pronounced "stooo-pid") voters.
One of the Republican candidates for Governor in Missouri ran ads the day before the August primary that ended a flurry of fear-mongering, hate-inspired drivel with this rhetorical flourish:
"They'll call us racist... sexist... That's how we'll know we're right."
A week earlier, he ran an ad featuring him standing next to another man playing the role of a Spanish translator as he outlined his plan for deporting all illegal aliens and the "translator" reacted with suprise and fear.
That's the intellectual litmus test Repuplican leaders apply to their own communication and thinking. If I'm being called a racist and a sexist, I must be doing something right.
That candidate, Bill Eigel, LOST that primary for Governor, coming in second in a three-way contest that ended up 40/33/23 with five other further-fringe candidates splitting the last six percent.
Just in today's news on August 15, the Trump campaign announced it has hired Corey Landowski to help out with the campaign. Landowski was along for some of the ride during the Trump 2016 campaign until he was bumped out in a power struggle with Paul Manafort, who then left the campaign on August 19, 2016 when he became, um, preoccupied with other criminal matters related to some Russians and millions of dollars. For those with short memories, Landowski would appear to be a very on-message re-hire for Trump, if you want to focus on communicating to women that aggression in professional / fundraiser settings is totally cool.
The current paralysis in the Trump campaign and its inability to react in any way that is different than the ways creating the current downdraft is exactly the consequence one should expect from a team so insular and toxic towards reality. No one with a grasp on reality wants to spend one second in their presence so there are no new ideas reaching the limited number of brain cells within the hive. This is actually a point every Democrat in every contest needs to make with voters. The Republicans may be promising Disneyland forever but at some point, you're going to have to leave the parking lot and come home to reality. And when you do, EVERY PROBLEM you had before attempting to ride Space Mountain for four years before giving up will have gotten worse by voting for the Republicans who denied reality the entire time.
WTH
No. of Recommendations: 5
Recent days have featured a familiar sight: a coterie of Trump allies taking to broadcast outlets such as Fox News, seemingly to send a message to Trump — in the apparent belief that this is how you get through to the cable-news-junkie former president. They’ve practically begged him to change it up. They’ve sought to push him away from talk of crowd sizes and personal attacks on Harris, and toward policy.
And by doing so they almost insure that’s what the news stories will be about the next day.
Trump could give a 90 minute rally speech (he often does) and he will meander through 87 topics, some of which are relevant, but he can’t help himself talking about crowd sizes and personal attacks, and because his allies are begging him not to, reporters will say “And he talked *again* about crowd sizes and attacked Harris”. A few will add “but he didn’t mention any policy proposals”.
It’s quite a circular firing squad he’s unleashed. He has no discipline, or as he said to donors at a recent meeting “I am who I am”.
No. of Recommendations: 14
He has no discipline, or as he said to donors at a recent meeting “I am who I am”.
And being a narcissist he believes that who he is is wonderful...the best! A very stable genius.
He thinks everything that comes out of his pie hole is brilliant even though most of it is word salad nonsense. But his rally goers cheer and laugh as if he was brilliant, thereby reinforcing his delusional self-image.
When in reality he is an old man who's limited intellect is fading fast.
What does his base see in this disgusting POS?
No. of Recommendations: 3
Trump's “deeply rattled” aides, advisers and donors still hope that the former president would come out with a “hard-hitting” speech that pushes a winning message. Good luck with that.
I, for one, hope that Trump can remain faithful to his true nature and not compromise his innate sense of probity and justice, all in the name of crass and fleeting topical "politics". 😉
