“Trump notoriously lacks an actual sense of humor.”
Just my own experience, but if a person can’t laugh at themselves, only at others, they don’t have an actual sense of humor. This can translate into a lack of empathy, which makes a person unfit and dangerous for a job in which other people’s (and varying species/environments) welfare is at stake.
Trump has not only threatened political violence before. He has carried it out on our Nations Capitol on live television. He even talked about pardoning the hundreds of people who followed his orders in the same speech.
So it’s very weird and bizarre for anyone to say, oh he didn’t mean that. He wasn’t really calling for violence. You libs are just overreacting.
Ask the Capitol Police what they think Trump meant.
The terrorism part of what he said is completely disgusting, and the both sides media are normalizing it already. Also what is stupefying is that nobody in the media acknowledges that a huge number of "foreign" car manufacturers have plants in the US. TFG propagandizes like it's 1985
All his droogs (I’m using that from now on) failed history class or somehow think that the authoritarian in waiting won’t rain on their parade. Soaked and broke (when their disability / Social Security is reduced) will be a hard lesson*
*I really don’t think Agent Orange will win but I thought that in 2016 too.
His administration put children in cages, there are children still missing. His administration put bans on Muslims entering the country, for any reason. His administration stole masks and ventilators from states that had paid for them. His administration created financial disaster for American farmers.
How can we forget what he has already done when contemplating if he will do what he is promising to do in the future? I am afeared.
trump's threats should be taken seriously, and I have no doubts that President Biden does, so is preparing for another J6 when he beats trump again. trump means what he says about a bloodbath, and means it literally, because he can't stand being a loser, and he will be in deep trouble if he isn't president again (criminal trials, owes money to banks, the state of NY, and maybe to Putin and the Saudis). He's desperate, but most of his fans are not desperate, and they know that trump didn't have the backs of the J6 traitors. Sure, he promises to pardon them if elected again and "honors" them at his rallies, but he didn't pardon them when he could have before Biden was sworn in. He hasn't done a damn thing to help any of them, nothing practical anyway. There may be a few incidents, but I doubt it will be on the scale of J6, and President Biden will be able to handle them. It's one thing to vote for someone, to give them money and to go to their rallies, but it's quite another to fight for them, to possibly die for them or to go to prison for them. Yes, take it seriously, and condemn it, but don't panic.
But here we are, this asshole has a wide amount of deference because he is the figurehead of the racist, nationalist movement that has always been enfranchised in America. The Electoral College, the Senate, all of it gives outsize influence to the people he represents. They are essentially the heirs apparent of the plantation owner class that had to be appeased in order to even form the United States.
So we need to mount up this fall for sure. The defeat must be not only in the voting booth but socially too. Supporting President Klan Robe should make you a pariah in decent society. Removing these people from your life is probably the only meaningful consequence many of them will see.
The first violent insurrection was insufficient for Trump because he didn’t like the results, so he now wants to export it to all 50 states. And his supporters will blame a ‘rigged’ election and democrats for making them engage in more violence. While denying that is what he means.
It speaks to his narcissism that Trump has always claimed, starting in the run up to 2016, that if he doesn’t win, it’s because the election was rigged. I love that Biden’s spokesman called Trump a loser. Nothing will get under his skin as much as pointing out that life-long fact: multiple bankruptcies, lost lawsuits, minority popular vote results. BTW, he looked like shit at that Dayton rally. Tired and unfocused. Plenty of Dem ads possible from that one rally.
It's impossible to not be humiliated to be a citizen of a country that could put this vicious animal in charge again, especially considering we already saw what sort of president he was--twice impeached for serious criminal acts and abuses of power, and a "handling" of a major crisis that combined gross negligence, dereliction of duty and wanton cruelty that resulted in a million dead Americans and major economic dislocation. And a combination of nihilists, hateful right wing extremists, leftists who hate "moderates" like Biden so much they'd happily see the country burn to spite him (as if Biden would be the one suffering if he lost), and genuinely clueless moderate swing voters could all coalesce to bring this nightmare psychopath back to power.
And for what? 1933 Germany at least had a massive depression and the horrors and humiliation of WWI to explain why they let their nightmare happen. Our excuse is that too many people give Trump a pass (forgetting what his presidency was actually like) and lower the bar for him while picking Biden to death over the tiniest nits (egg prices went up! And then went down later, I guess).
“Trump notoriously lacks an actual sense of humor.”
Just my own experience, but if a person can’t laugh at themselves, only at others, they don’t have an actual sense of humor. This can translate into a lack of empathy, which makes a person unfit and dangerous for a job in which other people’s (and varying species/environments) welfare is at stake.
Trump has not only threatened political violence before. He has carried it out on our Nations Capitol on live television. He even talked about pardoning the hundreds of people who followed his orders in the same speech.
So it’s very weird and bizarre for anyone to say, oh he didn’t mean that. He wasn’t really calling for violence. You libs are just overreacting.
Ask the Capitol Police what they think Trump meant.
The terrorism part of what he said is completely disgusting, and the both sides media are normalizing it already. Also what is stupefying is that nobody in the media acknowledges that a huge number of "foreign" car manufacturers have plants in the US. TFG propagandizes like it's 1985
How about in November you all beat Trump like a rented mule (again).
I'll cheer you on from my side of the Atlantic.
“Droogs”! Love it 😍
All his droogs (I’m using that from now on) failed history class or somehow think that the authoritarian in waiting won’t rain on their parade. Soaked and broke (when their disability / Social Security is reduced) will be a hard lesson*
*I really don’t think Agent Orange will win but I thought that in 2016 too.
>> "But Trump is not a complex Nathaniel Hawthorne novel." <<
He's not even a John Hughes/Nathaniel Hawthorne mashup serving as an Emma Stone vehicle.
His administration put children in cages, there are children still missing. His administration put bans on Muslims entering the country, for any reason. His administration stole masks and ventilators from states that had paid for them. His administration created financial disaster for American farmers.
How can we forget what he has already done when contemplating if he will do what he is promising to do in the future? I am afeared.
trump's threats should be taken seriously, and I have no doubts that President Biden does, so is preparing for another J6 when he beats trump again. trump means what he says about a bloodbath, and means it literally, because he can't stand being a loser, and he will be in deep trouble if he isn't president again (criminal trials, owes money to banks, the state of NY, and maybe to Putin and the Saudis). He's desperate, but most of his fans are not desperate, and they know that trump didn't have the backs of the J6 traitors. Sure, he promises to pardon them if elected again and "honors" them at his rallies, but he didn't pardon them when he could have before Biden was sworn in. He hasn't done a damn thing to help any of them, nothing practical anyway. There may be a few incidents, but I doubt it will be on the scale of J6, and President Biden will be able to handle them. It's one thing to vote for someone, to give them money and to go to their rallies, but it's quite another to fight for them, to possibly die for them or to go to prison for them. Yes, take it seriously, and condemn it, but don't panic.
I vote we start calling them what they are: Klan rallies.
"He's just joking."
In other words, Schrodinger's Asshole.
But here we are, this asshole has a wide amount of deference because he is the figurehead of the racist, nationalist movement that has always been enfranchised in America. The Electoral College, the Senate, all of it gives outsize influence to the people he represents. They are essentially the heirs apparent of the plantation owner class that had to be appeased in order to even form the United States.
So we need to mount up this fall for sure. The defeat must be not only in the voting booth but socially too. Supporting President Klan Robe should make you a pariah in decent society. Removing these people from your life is probably the only meaningful consequence many of them will see.
Once again, he's launching an insurrection.
The first violent insurrection was insufficient for Trump because he didn’t like the results, so he now wants to export it to all 50 states. And his supporters will blame a ‘rigged’ election and democrats for making them engage in more violence. While denying that is what he means.
It speaks to his narcissism that Trump has always claimed, starting in the run up to 2016, that if he doesn’t win, it’s because the election was rigged. I love that Biden’s spokesman called Trump a loser. Nothing will get under his skin as much as pointing out that life-long fact: multiple bankruptcies, lost lawsuits, minority popular vote results. BTW, he looked like shit at that Dayton rally. Tired and unfocused. Plenty of Dem ads possible from that one rally.
It's impossible to not be humiliated to be a citizen of a country that could put this vicious animal in charge again, especially considering we already saw what sort of president he was--twice impeached for serious criminal acts and abuses of power, and a "handling" of a major crisis that combined gross negligence, dereliction of duty and wanton cruelty that resulted in a million dead Americans and major economic dislocation. And a combination of nihilists, hateful right wing extremists, leftists who hate "moderates" like Biden so much they'd happily see the country burn to spite him (as if Biden would be the one suffering if he lost), and genuinely clueless moderate swing voters could all coalesce to bring this nightmare psychopath back to power.
And for what? 1933 Germany at least had a massive depression and the horrors and humiliation of WWI to explain why they let their nightmare happen. Our excuse is that too many people give Trump a pass (forgetting what his presidency was actually like) and lower the bar for him while picking Biden to death over the tiniest nits (egg prices went up! And then went down later, I guess).
If we actually do this, we are the shit-hole.
Droogs! Describes Trump's little banda perfectly. Bolshy horrorshow slovo choice.
I wonder how he'd look in a bowler and false eyelashes?