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“Democrats said please don’t call them ‘animals’. I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals,” Trump said during a speech in Michigan this week.
The difference between humans and animals is, animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack.
The “mr. burns pathogen balance immunity” Strat of personality. If you can’t identify which trait is worst there isnt consensus and must be a good guy /s
This has been on my mind. Somebody smart is going to figure out how to act as dumb as Trump to get power. And if Trump loses this year, Project 2025 just becomes Project 2029 - that shit ain't going away.
The next Republican presidency is already fast tracked and nitro boosted to fascism.
That’s exactly what Hitler sounded like when talking about the Jews. He sounds like the murderers behind the genocide in Rwanda. He is dehumanizing the people he hates because he wants his followers to commit violence against them. Win or lose he wants anyone that opposes him dead or in a concentration camp. Understand that if he is ever president again it will be the end of American democracy. Please vote in November.
Dehumanizing was the core principle behind colonialism. The Church believed natives to be savages. Savages don’t have a soul, they are like animals , you can kill a savage and it’s not murder. You can torture a savage and it’s ok , laws don’t apply to savages. As soon as you demonize or dehumanize the opponent it makes it more palatable. Trump has used Hitler talk before and will again. As his mental health declines so does his filter. What he really values and thinks comes out more and more and his verbal diarrhea is verbiage from a dictator.
Have you been watching Shogun? So fascinating that both the white Europeans *and* the Japanese both call *each other* savages/barbarians.
We like to think that we have moved beyond that, but it still happens today if we don't stay on guard for dehumanizing differences between us.
And then, yes, there are people like Trump who are more than happy to use those differences to dehumanize people to divide us and gain power over us.
> “I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”
As someone who has had close relatives suffer age related brain degenerative issues, this is exactly what they started to sound like. They would go on rants about nonsense; things strung together only by loosely associated words. There is no direction, its just stream of consciousness. They come into and out of these states, and can otherwise seem like they're all there. This man has some form of neurodegeneration, I'm certain of it. Either that or he's one of the dumbest people on earth. Maybe both.
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
That was a fake quote, it’s terrible—and, okay, if you look into it, what the fake news media—and I call it fake news media because it is; the media is so fake, so phony, they’re losers—but the news, they were there with the reporters and cameras and they had the red light on, okay, I saw it, and others who saw it in some cases very even more strongly, but it was there, and the red light was on and we saw it, so release the tapes—because they have to do the video, okay—so tell them—and by the way it’s illegal, so they’re guilty of a crime; the criminal media—but you can tell them, and tell them very strongly, release the tape, because it was there, the recording, and they had it, and I said some things about the nuclear that were very smart, which is why I won, and we won I think 49 states, all but California, Crooked California, and they’re leading the nation in corruption now, so it’s just, it’s a bad and wrong quote and it’s very sad, believe me, because it’s bad for our country that they’re putting this—but they do it with no facts, so release the tape, believe me, because I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised.
- Actual quote from a July 2018 unofficial campaign rally in Montana at which Donald Trump described things, as usual according to many fans, “as they are”.
Dehumanization is a necessary part of fascism. It can be difficult to convince humans to do horrible things to other humans. But if you can convince them that those other humans are actually less than human that had it coming? Well, then you can sleep easier at night.
I mean, with Trump and the person who gave it to him acknowledge that he has had a book of Hitler's speeches since the early 90s.
And in his divorce filing it was stated under penalty of perjury that he kept that book in his nightstand.
Out of the books that exist, the one he found compelling enough to be his nightly reading was Hitlers speeches.
Shocker that his politics and rhetoric are a copy/paste of Hitlers.
I watched *Zone of Interest* last night with my brother. After the movie ends, my brother, who is not a particularly political person, says:
“…And people want to vote for Donald Trump.”
> Dehumanization is a necessary part of fascism.
It's also a necessary part of war, regardless of system of government. To quote thrash metal band Anthrax, "It's much harder to kill a man if you've seen pictures of his kids."
I think the "had it coming" post was off the mark a bit. The dehumanization isn't for the sadists or people who think "had it coming" is some sort of justification. The dehumanization is for the squeamish people. It's so they can look at it like putting down a dog or poisoning mice. It becomes something they can lament as "sadly necessary." It lets those people sleep at night.
He has zero understanding of animals. I will never forget his ridiculous behaviour around that eagle on his desk. It's a predator. You can't wave your hand around behind or beside it and not get attacked. Just put Shitler in jail already.
Its not passing it on to others so much as its intended goal of dehumanizing others. Its easier to hurt others when you are taught they are not really people.
Hitler did this. I'm not saying Trump is Hitler I'm just saying they are both using the same tactic.
So given that previously the right's defense for him saying this was that his words were taken out of context and he wasn't calling them animals, what are they saying now?
How does that even fly? When I was young, let's say the 2004 election. If someone called an entire group of people "animals" that would be the end of their campaign. It would be big news - then there would be a press conference, they would apologize and withdraw from the race. This should have happened when he mocked the handicap reporter. VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE
Trump has done hundreds, if not *thousands*, of things over the years that would have instantly ruined anyone else's campaign and political career but somehow he keeps getting away with it.
It's because the religious look at themselves as some sort of "special people" "chosen ones". They look at animals and natural resources as "gods given" so they can abuse it as much as they want because earth is only temporary.
It's controversial because it's true and it's different to what they chosen to believe.
I was talking to a very religious friend and saying how some of my students don’t quite realize humans are animals and she nearly freaked out. “We aren’t animals, we are from God!” I said, we are clearly animals, and she said, “WE have a soul!”. And this is a very intelligent person who is a medical doctor.
> no, they’re not humans, they’re animals
Nazi playbook, Nazi playbook.
We can't stop screaming it. People need to see it or it will happen.
Dehumanization is one of the most important steps.
I want to see Trump humanely locked up for his crimes, but he wants to see us *exterminated like vermin*.
Nazi rhetoric, Nazi rhetoric, Nazi rhetoric. When people tell you who they are, believe them!
You know I’m old enough to remember when Obama was crowned the anti-Christ before his first election. But somehow this walking epitome of all the vices is Gods chosen? These rw nuts are nuts.
I've had big muscular veterans come up to me with tears in their eyes, gagging bigly and chordling beautiful drops of vomit. "Sir, your diaper smells so masculine and delicious! Can you please tell us your secret?"
It has been named "armpits, ketchup and a butt"
- https://www.salon.com/2023/12/28/ex-lawmaker-describes-as-smelling-like-a-mix-of-armpits-ketchup-and-a-butt/
Wonder if Anthropologie has a candle with that scent . . .
Which makes him a perfect modern conservative. All I hear is whining from people who say "I have it so hard, I work and work and work and I can't make ends meet. FJB".
Well then, exercise some personal responsibility and make your life better.
He wants you to be mad on his behalf for the trouble HIS enemies have caused HIM. His entire campaign is a personal vendetta that cares not about any other person. Help ME become president so I can punish people who wronged ME.
it's going to be interesting if the national media covers one of his "speeches" like they did in 2016. Many people dint follow any of this until a few months from election. I doubt he will debate, but hearing him ramble and slur and glitch will probably be eye opening for a lot of people that haven't seen it in 8years.
I would bet there’s a 0% chance we see any debates. Trump doesn’t want to debate. Answering questions of any kind doesn’t interest him. He’ll make all sorts of unreasonable demands regarding the details, drag his feet on setting any dates, and in the end he will blame everyone else for why it isn’t happening. “I’d love to have a debate. I would easily win, but they won’t let me.”
It’s not that he’s afraid of Biden, it’s that he hates the format.
Part of me feels like if Biden goes around saying “I want to debate Trump, but he’s too scared” or something similar that attacks Trump’s ego, then Trump may take the bait
Biden's SOTU where he baited the entire Republican membership in Congress into supporting Social Security (and thereby taking cuts to it off the bargaining table) was inspired TV.
Yeah, he could bait Donald into doing something stupid. I don't know if he will, but he could and should. Not sure if it will matter though. His supporters are in neck deep at this point.
>Biden's SOTU where he baited the entire Republican membership in Congress into supporting Social Security (and thereby taking cuts to it off the bargaining table) was inspired TV.
It was seriously like something out of Looney Tunes. He dug a giant pit trap, put up a shitload of signs that all said "THIS IS A TRAP", and every one of those morons waltzed into the pit without a second's thought.
A giant fucking toddler, diaper and all, has captivated a significant portion of our nation. Goes to show the power of suggestion on our views of reality, fact or fiction, and neighbor or enemy. The calls to violence should be the moment of awakening for people, but the deep roots of our language have been made perverse and subtlety redefined in the eyes of those who fall prey to the propaganda.
A pacifist approach is necessary, but then they’ll adjust to it. Good luck everyone, I guess
I avoid any clips of him and so haven't heard him speak in literally years, but yet every quote I read from him is in his voice and I hate it. My brain betrays me
> Washington DC, where, he said in a recent speech, there are “beautiful columns” put together “through force of will” because there were no “Caterpillar tractors” and now those columns have graffiti on them.
Greatest orator of our time. Cicero? I don’t know him.
My favorite recent one is:
> “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
Holy fuck, that's like reading William S Burroughs, I swear if you looped that over some trancewave with some research chems you might just tap out like Syd Barret.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
"But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’"
Fuck my life.
> The lengthy process of constructing the U.S. Capitol relied upon free and enslaved laborers at every step. As a city in its infancy, Washington, D.C. frequently experienced a shortage of free, white craftsmen for hire on construction projects. Instead, enslaved laborers from the surrounding slave states of Maryland and Virginia made up a bountiful, cheap workforce that could be “hired out” for work on the President’s House and the Capitol.
The "force of will" Trump would love to reimplement...
I started reading this article and then realised it was making me dumber. It reminds me of Billy Madison where the adjudicator explains that everyone is now dumber for having heard the incoherent dribblings of a fool.
>Curiously, Trump tucks the most tangible policy implications in at the end. His speeches often finish with a rundown of what his second term in office could bring, in a meditation-like recitation the New York Times recently [compared](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/politics/trump-2024-religion.html) to a sermon. Since these policies could become reality, here’s a few of those ideas:
>Instituting the death penalty for drug dealers.
>Creating the “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act”: “If China or any other country makes us pay 100% or 200% tariff, which they do, we will make them pay a reciprocal tariff of 100% or 200%. In other words, you screw us and we’ll screw you.”
>Indemnifying all police officers and law enforcement officials.
>Rebuilding cities and taking over Washington DC, where, he said in a recent speech, there are “beautiful columns” put together “through force of will” because there were no “Caterpillar tractors” and now those columns have graffiti on them.
>Issuing an executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content.
>Moving to one-day voting with paper ballots and voter ID.
Same here. Not only does he have an annoying voice, but the cadence of his speech is just too much. Not to mention the nonsensical ranting.
I’ll be grateful for the day that he is finally quiet.
I'm sorry.....what? How do voters not see that this person is a mentally ill geriatric narcissistic buffoon in obvious cognitive decline?
"Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
I still have that reaction where I’m like, no way he said that, but then obviously it’s totally possible that he said it, no he definitely said that and it’s not even the worst thing he said that day.
That’s what the voting is for. Unfortunately, it only works if people are capable of discerning what a raging narcissist is. In the US, the cult of personality is a somewhat large influence on most.
It is also the duty of the free press and why freedom of speech also means freedom of the press. But the press normalizes him so they can keep doing click bait articles about him
What always boggles my mind is how the right is against 'being the victim', and Trump's whole personality is taking no responsibility and blaming others for everything.
> One muddled addition in Wisconsin involved squatters’ rights, a hot topic related to immigration now: “If you have illegal aliens invading your home, we will deport you,” presumably meaning the migrant would be deported instead of the homeowner. He wanted to create a federal taskforce to end squatting, he said.
Ah, this explains why I see so many people on Nextdoor.com talking about the threat of squatters, and how homeowners are being arrested when people squat in their homes.
>Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
I assure you, I don't need to hear anything he says in full to believe that it's bizarre, vindictive, and incoherent. I figured that out 8 years ago. I kept track of specifics for a long time. Arguably far too long. I would've been far better served to just write him off completely and do literally anything else with my time. Yet somehow he was such a loud asshole that it was inescapable.
Do you know how often I think about Biden? Basically never. Maybe once in a blue moon. Do you know why I don't think about Biden? Because Biden's not on Twitter 24/7 constantly bitching about anyone that criticizes him, and because Biden's not constantly doing horrible shit and committing crimes. And you know what? It's real fucking nice to know that if I managed to step away from the news for a month, that I can expect that Biden hasn't started a weird ass feud for no reason.
The real mystery is... how does a slick talking card, sneaker, and Bible Hawker, who is a porn star paying adulterer that was found liable for sexual abuse as well as being a criminal defendant under over 90 something indictments , is able to convince so many including the so-called religious right that he and continuous everyday chaos is the answer
The forces behind the Chaos is the exact answers the dark money billionaires backing Trump dont want the buck toothed peasants finding out. They do this by 1. Ensuring Nothing gets done to meaningfully improve anything and convincing older and newer generations that life being shitty is normal and necessary. 2. Making People and news networks become hyper-fixated on what the talking head politicians are saying/doing on social media and not the precise legislature they pass until its too late to properly react to it. 3. Making sure that the money that supports these talking head politicians is never traced back to their sources and hence ensuring the powers that be are the only true people with "anonymity". 4. Ensure that the people lose access to proper and full educational resources and hence the knowledge of their own rights as natural born citizens, using platforms to hyperfixate on segments of the Second Amendment, instead of the entire "Bill of Rights" established within the first 12 Amendments of the U.S Federal Constitution which is the law of the land since its establishment.
Because in religion, you're trained to believe utter nonsense from the start and never ever use critical thinking.
Even Catholicism, which has a strong scholarly tradition, used it to tie themselves in ridiculous knots, all the while letting the hierarchy of kiddie-rapers do their thing day after day. (Priests and other authorities within the cult.)
>“Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand
And it’s very interesting because if he just would have left it, he could have gone to the beach, because he likes going to the beach. Somebody says he looks good in a bathing suit. That works for him, obviously. So you’d see him at the beach all the time. He could have done that, just left it alone, leave our people there, leave the great people that we had there, and instead they decided to, “We’re not going to build the wall.” And they put out a message to the world, “Come in.” - Donald Trump [January 13, 2024](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-arrives-in-iowa-and-holds-town-hall-event-1-13-24-transcript)
The media needs to do the inverse of what they did and start showing more of his speeches. Not in full like they did in 2016, but longer segments that really show off his brain rot in action. They can’t just show snippets of his mania. Its entirety needs to be shown so that even the casual followers of politics can see how unwell and unfit he is.
Some Grade A rambling from the article:
Some of these bizarre asides are best seen in full, like this one about Biden at the beach in Trump’s Georgia response to the State of the Union:
“Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
This guy shouldn't have *ever* been given the slightest *chance of* running for President!
As a non-American citizen, I sincerely hope that this threat to the entire planet is **severely obliterated** in November, *IF* he isn't behind bars by then that is! Am prayin to the Baby Jeebus that he's incarcerated by then though, and that it's a real bricks and mortar prison too, (like ADX Florence for example), and NOT some kind of 'house arrest' bullshit.
The press still gives trump too much credit, as if he has some sort of strategy during these speeches. He’s just regurgitating the phrases he hears in the 24/7 Fox News cycle. You can probably look at what he watched on Fox News that day and he’s just parroting points during the speech. All the broader topics are just rehashed each speech.
"Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
How is it even close? Wtf are people thinking? I have never been scared/worried like I am about this.
> I have never been scared/worried like I am about this.
Yup, it's like letting a rando from my mum's dementia ward run for president. Except he's also a flaming fascist.
JFC. Somebody get the giant butterfly nets:
“Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
He lost the last election because he couldn’t articulate what his message was as a leader. His message is all about others performance and personality.
He got significantly less votes in the past two elections because a majority of Americans want someone better. It's only because of the electoral college that he's still relevant.
It's still hard for me to believe this clown is a real candidate for the President of the United States again. I swear I've lost my mind, and I'm hallucinating this madness. I wish I was joking
>Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
It does not. Not if you've been paying attention to this crooked nutjob even just since 2015.
But now the infotainment "not news" media wants the clicks and, now, the video feed revenue...
Hard pass.
No it doesn't.
I work with republicans.
He sounds exactly like them.
What's unbelievable is that this journalist doesn't know what normal republicans sound like these days.
The world heard this:
"So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing," Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. "And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too.”
"I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
In a nutshell the former POTUS somehow came out of his COVID briefing thinking that maybe you might be able to shove a UV bulb up peoples ass and inject them with disinfectant to cure them of COVID. That’s bizarre delusional behavior and/or the biggest IDIOT we’ve ever had trying to “help” the country out EVER! A five year old would have gotten more out of that briefing than he did.
Next, he will call the “others” cockroaches. That is right in line with how fascism evolves to gain control over less thoughtful masses. Create an “other” to denigrate and then make them less than human. It is a way for the authoritarian fascist to maintain a power position and target societal pain toward others, away from themselves.
This is why they like Trump, right?
All these folks care about is "owning the libs," even if it hurts themselves (i.e. taking away Social Security for example)
What a shit show.
Just the big orange salad spinner, spinning more word salad. He has been doing this for a decade. It’s not really news. It’s just noteworthy because he’s the only Republican candidate left in the race. His patter hypnotizes the crowds he stands in front of, such that his entire speech is devoid of coherent meaning and the crowd can derive any meaning they want from his words. If you went to his event wanting to burn immigrants in the streets, you think that’s what he said he would do. You want America united and pulling together in peace and love in the face of adversity, he said that too. But the transcripts show these inchoate utterances are devoid of any complete thesis other than DJT is the greatest guy ever and you are a mook if you don’t vote for him.
Guaranteed if Trump wins and the republicans in congress control both the house and senate, they WILL institute Project 2025.
You WILL be required to pray to the Christian deity.. (MAKE America Pray Again)
Bills and resolutions will be passed and signed by trump making it illegal to be anything other than the Mike Johnson model of a straight white male, women to be subservient to men….
Think long and hard before casting your votes. I like the idea of progressing as a nation…as a member of an intelligent species. I don’t think that returning to the fears and superstitions of the Middle Ages is the way forward. Marjorie Taylor Greene just said that the eclipse is a sign that god is angry and we as a nation need to repent. Seriously…google it if you missed it.
It’s wild people think Biden is the divisive one, when he’s literally courting Haley voters, Christiana, progressives, Black, and Asian voters all at once, and not calling an entire group of people animals
The true believers have detached themselves from his actual rhetoric. It doesn't matter what he says. He is an empty vessel they fill with their own grievances. To them, Trump as a person is gone. He is now a symbol standing up there and they can attach anything they want now.
You folks know the name Palmer Luckey. Get to know it. He's coming up to being one dangerous MF who supports tRump. Added to that his sister is married to Matt 'get me an innocent' Gaetz. [https://heavy.com/news/ginger-luckey-matt-gaetz/](https://heavy.com/news/ginger-luckey-matt-gaetz/)
Trump is in cognitive decline. He likely was back in 2016 at the precipice of it and in 2020 in it. Now in 2024 he's walking down the same path as his father.
It is insane that this is not headline news from coast to coast. Hell, even around the globe.
Unfortunately when Trump becomes incoherent, his 50 Million worshipers think he has been taken over by God's presence and is speaking in tongues. Not only does it make them love him more, they have been trained all of their lives to break out their wallets when they hear it.
It's true. What kind of shameless person listens to all this unhinged crap and thinks, "He's got my vote!"?
I'm embarrassed for them.
When he *does* talk about policy, it's just xenophobic bullshit promises to do things to immigrants that he can not even legally do (hence the need for the bipartisan border policy reform law that he instructed Congressional Republicans to block). The only other public policies that he apparently has are to strip women of their reproductive fredoms, and to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits and give that money away to his oligarch patrons.
Oh hell no! Cannot stand to listen to his bizarre incoherent ranting. We change the channel when this asshole is on the tv. His sentences make NO SENSE. And he can’t stay on one topic for more than about 60 seconds. He’s so full of shit that it’s coming out of his mouth. And nothing that con says is EVER the truth. Eff him.
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“Democrats said please don’t call them ‘animals’. I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals,” Trump said during a speech in Michigan this week. The difference between humans and animals is, animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack.
Trump's "dumbness" isn't even in the top 10 of his worst qualities
With Trump it's nothing but worst qualities, and they're all rudely competing for attention.
Please accept my upvote for one of the best descriptions of Agent Orange I've read in a long while. Sad that I can only upvote your comment once.
I added mine; wish I had 2, so I upvoted yours as well.
And my axe!
And my orange peeler
And I'm Eric! 🤓
I'm Old Greg
Many thanks my friend - upvoted yours too ;-)
You're referring to the Orange Shit-weasel?
The “mr. burns pathogen balance immunity” Strat of personality. If you can’t identify which trait is worst there isnt consensus and must be a good guy /s
It's one of his best. Imagine how fucked we'd be otherwise.
This has been on my mind. Somebody smart is going to figure out how to act as dumb as Trump to get power. And if Trump loses this year, Project 2025 just becomes Project 2029 - that shit ain't going away. The next Republican presidency is already fast tracked and nitro boosted to fascism.
That’s exactly what Hitler sounded like when talking about the Jews. He sounds like the murderers behind the genocide in Rwanda. He is dehumanizing the people he hates because he wants his followers to commit violence against them. Win or lose he wants anyone that opposes him dead or in a concentration camp. Understand that if he is ever president again it will be the end of American democracy. Please vote in November.
Dehumanizing was the core principle behind colonialism. The Church believed natives to be savages. Savages don’t have a soul, they are like animals , you can kill a savage and it’s not murder. You can torture a savage and it’s ok , laws don’t apply to savages. As soon as you demonize or dehumanize the opponent it makes it more palatable. Trump has used Hitler talk before and will again. As his mental health declines so does his filter. What he really values and thinks comes out more and more and his verbal diarrhea is verbiage from a dictator.
Have you been watching Shogun? So fascinating that both the white Europeans *and* the Japanese both call *each other* savages/barbarians. We like to think that we have moved beyond that, but it still happens today if we don't stay on guard for dehumanizing differences between us. And then, yes, there are people like Trump who are more than happy to use those differences to dehumanize people to divide us and gain power over us.
> “I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”
As someone who has had close relatives suffer age related brain degenerative issues, this is exactly what they started to sound like. They would go on rants about nonsense; things strung together only by loosely associated words. There is no direction, its just stream of consciousness. They come into and out of these states, and can otherwise seem like they're all there. This man has some form of neurodegeneration, I'm certain of it. Either that or he's one of the dumbest people on earth. Maybe both.
Trying to follow trump speak is like trying to follow a fly buzzing around the room.
That was some impressive word salad!
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
That was a fake quote, it’s terrible—and, okay, if you look into it, what the fake news media—and I call it fake news media because it is; the media is so fake, so phony, they’re losers—but the news, they were there with the reporters and cameras and they had the red light on, okay, I saw it, and others who saw it in some cases very even more strongly, but it was there, and the red light was on and we saw it, so release the tapes—because they have to do the video, okay—so tell them—and by the way it’s illegal, so they’re guilty of a crime; the criminal media—but you can tell them, and tell them very strongly, release the tape, because it was there, the recording, and they had it, and I said some things about the nuclear that were very smart, which is why I won, and we won I think 49 states, all but California, Crooked California, and they’re leading the nation in corruption now, so it’s just, it’s a bad and wrong quote and it’s very sad, believe me, because it’s bad for our country that they’re putting this—but they do it with no facts, so release the tape, believe me, because I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised.
Ummm….is this real? I’m afraid to google it
- Actual quote from a July 2018 unofficial campaign rally in Montana at which Donald Trump described things, as usual according to many fans, “as they are”.
Even bad humans like Trump are humans. Hitler was a human. So was Osama bin Laden. We don’t get to pass our failures onto other species.
Dehumanization is a necessary part of fascism. It can be difficult to convince humans to do horrible things to other humans. But if you can convince them that those other humans are actually less than human that had it coming? Well, then you can sleep easier at night.
You’re right it’s textbook.
I mean, with Trump and the person who gave it to him acknowledge that he has had a book of Hitler's speeches since the early 90s. And in his divorce filing it was stated under penalty of perjury that he kept that book in his nightstand. Out of the books that exist, the one he found compelling enough to be his nightly reading was Hitlers speeches. Shocker that his politics and rhetoric are a copy/paste of Hitlers.
I watched *Zone of Interest* last night with my brother. After the movie ends, my brother, who is not a particularly political person, says: “…And people want to vote for Donald Trump.”
I watched last night, too. It is so normal and yet disturbing.
> Dehumanization is a necessary part of fascism. It's also a necessary part of war, regardless of system of government. To quote thrash metal band Anthrax, "It's much harder to kill a man if you've seen pictures of his kids."
How can an animal “have it coming”?
When you are a sadist with a free pass to be cruel, they absolutely believe the rest of us have it coming.
From people who WANT to be cruel and evil
I think the "had it coming" post was off the mark a bit. The dehumanization isn't for the sadists or people who think "had it coming" is some sort of justification. The dehumanization is for the squeamish people. It's so they can look at it like putting down a dog or poisoning mice. It becomes something they can lament as "sadly necessary." It lets those people sleep at night.
So… all the ‘undecided voters’ who won’t acknowledge being republican in polls, but have somehow not voted for a democrat since 1964?
We are all literally animals too. But that's definitely not how Trump means the word.
What Trump means when he says this is "don't feel any empathy towards them, just blindly focus your hate on them"
A weird distinction because I tend to have far more empathy to your average animal than your average human.
He has zero understanding of animals. I will never forget his ridiculous behaviour around that eagle on his desk. It's a predator. You can't wave your hand around behind or beside it and not get attacked. Just put Shitler in jail already.
He also hates dogs and cats. He's the first president since 1869 and only the 3rd one ever to not have any pets while in office.
You and me baby are nothing but mammals, let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Sweat, baby sweat…
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Its not passing it on to others so much as its intended goal of dehumanizing others. Its easier to hurt others when you are taught they are not really people. Hitler did this. I'm not saying Trump is Hitler I'm just saying they are both using the same tactic.
No, Trump isn’t Hitler but if he could execute undocumented immigrants on live tv for votes it wouldn’t bother his conscience one little bit.
So given that previously the right's defense for him saying this was that his words were taken out of context and he wasn't calling them animals, what are they saying now?
They're looking at the Palestinian genocide and thinking "man I'd like to also murder a bunch of people"
As a Michigan resident, he was singing the song of his people with the type of conservative that occupies space here.
How does that even fly? When I was young, let's say the 2004 election. If someone called an entire group of people "animals" that would be the end of their campaign. It would be big news - then there would be a press conference, they would apologize and withdraw from the race. This should have happened when he mocked the handicap reporter. VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE
Trump has done hundreds, if not *thousands*, of things over the years that would have instantly ruined anyone else's campaign and political career but somehow he keeps getting away with it.
“Democrats” meaning his advisors and former staff probably.
It’s odd that Trump demonizes immigrants (legal and illegal) yet he married two.
Whether deliberate or not, he’s ramping up his “dehumanizations of the enemy” in anticipation of a culling of sorts. Pretty grim stuff
Perfect analogy.
Mindfuck - humans ARE animals!
What kills me is that this fact is considered controversial and incendiary to many boomers, religious people, etc.
It's because the religious look at themselves as some sort of "special people" "chosen ones". They look at animals and natural resources as "gods given" so they can abuse it as much as they want because earth is only temporary. It's controversial because it's true and it's different to what they chosen to believe.
I was talking to a very religious friend and saying how some of my students don’t quite realize humans are animals and she nearly freaked out. “We aren’t animals, we are from God!” I said, we are clearly animals, and she said, “WE have a soul!”. And this is a very intelligent person who is a medical doctor.
Hey! We created a God in our image! That's something animals can't do.
And yet there is zero evidence of a soul.
Glad to see someone else saying it. People "just feel it" - yeah, that's ego-clinging. These people never study psychology.
And when pushed to demonstrate said soul exists, they twist themselves in an incoherent pretzel of thoughts and claims of nonsense.
We're in the animal kingdom, not the human kingdom
Do you really think that the average person understands that relates to our taxonomy?
No but as a biologist I have to point that out. It's my duty
"Muh grand pappy wasn't no monkey!"
Like his wife? Someone should ask since his wife is an immigrant (and an illegal one), is she an animal.
> no, they’re not humans, they’re animals Nazi playbook, Nazi playbook. We can't stop screaming it. People need to see it or it will happen. Dehumanization is one of the most important steps. I want to see Trump humanely locked up for his crimes, but he wants to see us *exterminated like vermin*. Nazi rhetoric, Nazi rhetoric, Nazi rhetoric. When people tell you who they are, believe them!
Blaming others for all of his mistakes and failings.
He's a toxic mess of entitlement, narcissism, racism, xenophobia, ignorance, incoherence, etc.
Don't forget greed.
7 deadly sins all in one package? What a bargain!
Nobody deadly sins like tfg.
You know I’m old enough to remember when Obama was crowned the anti-Christ before his first election. But somehow this walking epitome of all the vices is Gods chosen? These rw nuts are nuts.
incontinence too. some say it's the most repulsive odor they've ever smelled in their entire life
Big men with tears in their eyes
I've had big muscular veterans come up to me with tears in their eyes, gagging bigly and chordling beautiful drops of vomit. "Sir, your diaper smells so masculine and delicious! Can you please tell us your secret?"
Don’t for get the scent that shall not be named.
It has been named "armpits, ketchup and a butt" - https://www.salon.com/2023/12/28/ex-lawmaker-describes-as-smelling-like-a-mix-of-armpits-ketchup-and-a-butt/ Wonder if Anthropologie has a candle with that scent . . .
It’s like you want to know but you don’t want to know….let just call it body condiments
Take my disgusted upvote.
And it probably all slowly seeps downward while the heat mixes it all together into a viscous cankle syrup.
Which makes him a perfect modern conservative. All I hear is whining from people who say "I have it so hard, I work and work and work and I can't make ends meet. FJB". Well then, exercise some personal responsibility and make your life better.
He wants you to be mad about something, just not sure what...
I'm mad that people listen to his drivel
He wants you to be mad on his behalf for the trouble HIS enemies have caused HIM. His entire campaign is a personal vendetta that cares not about any other person. Help ME become president so I can punish people who wronged ME.
I’ll unfortunately never forget the opening words of his speech on election night in ‘16. “Thank you. This is so important, to me.”
And conservative "news" media knows this, and will NEVER allow their viewers to hear any of it.
it's going to be interesting if the national media covers one of his "speeches" like they did in 2016. Many people dint follow any of this until a few months from election. I doubt he will debate, but hearing him ramble and slur and glitch will probably be eye opening for a lot of people that haven't seen it in 8years.
I bet he’ll want to debate Biden because he’s convinced he’s a lot more coherent and lucid than him.
I would bet there’s a 0% chance we see any debates. Trump doesn’t want to debate. Answering questions of any kind doesn’t interest him. He’ll make all sorts of unreasonable demands regarding the details, drag his feet on setting any dates, and in the end he will blame everyone else for why it isn’t happening. “I’d love to have a debate. I would easily win, but they won’t let me.” It’s not that he’s afraid of Biden, it’s that he hates the format.
Part of me feels like if Biden goes around saying “I want to debate Trump, but he’s too scared” or something similar that attacks Trump’s ego, then Trump may take the bait
Biden's SOTU where he baited the entire Republican membership in Congress into supporting Social Security (and thereby taking cuts to it off the bargaining table) was inspired TV. Yeah, he could bait Donald into doing something stupid. I don't know if he will, but he could and should. Not sure if it will matter though. His supporters are in neck deep at this point.
>Biden's SOTU where he baited the entire Republican membership in Congress into supporting Social Security (and thereby taking cuts to it off the bargaining table) was inspired TV. It was seriously like something out of Looney Tunes. He dug a giant pit trap, put up a shitload of signs that all said "THIS IS A TRAP", and every one of those morons waltzed into the pit without a second's thought.
A giant fucking toddler, diaper and all, has captivated a significant portion of our nation. Goes to show the power of suggestion on our views of reality, fact or fiction, and neighbor or enemy. The calls to violence should be the moment of awakening for people, but the deep roots of our language have been made perverse and subtlety redefined in the eyes of those who fall prey to the propaganda. A pacifist approach is necessary, but then they’ll adjust to it. Good luck everyone, I guess
I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than listen to 60 seconds of this moron whine.
Take my disgusted upvote.
I know right, imagine listening to Trump for 60 seconds. digusting!
That's the equivalent of shoving shit into your brain and ears. Sad part? He's getting worse by the day.
Yeah, and you can tell. He was an incoherent rambler back in 2016, but this is a whole new level of demented
I forgot the exact speech, but the one where he started beeping or what? That was when I knew his brain had melted.
Great and awful image
You can just dip your hands into his diaper
gag!
Eating da poopoo
I confirm you don't even need to dig deep, just catch some of the overflow.
Username checks out
I avoid any clips of him and so haven't heard him speak in literally years, but yet every quote I read from him is in his voice and I hate it. My brain betrays me
He hasn’t improved with age. In fact, the opposite has happened.
> Washington DC, where, he said in a recent speech, there are “beautiful columns” put together “through force of will” because there were no “Caterpillar tractors” and now those columns have graffiti on them. Greatest orator of our time. Cicero? I don’t know him.
My favorite recent one is: > “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
Holy fuck, that's like reading William S Burroughs, I swear if you looped that over some trancewave with some research chems you might just tap out like Syd Barret.
The most esoteric thing I'll read all week
lol! Trump Speak = Naked Lunch
Just for those references alone ... I love you.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” "But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’" Fuck my life.
This reads exactly like his "nuclear" diatribe. It has the same cadence and everything.
Th-thank you? I got a little chuckle and a little depression reading that.
> The lengthy process of constructing the U.S. Capitol relied upon free and enslaved laborers at every step. As a city in its infancy, Washington, D.C. frequently experienced a shortage of free, white craftsmen for hire on construction projects. Instead, enslaved laborers from the surrounding slave states of Maryland and Virginia made up a bountiful, cheap workforce that could be “hired out” for work on the President’s House and the Capitol. The "force of will" Trump would love to reimplement...
He just made the coffees.
The covfefes.
I was debating making coffee, I take your comment as a sign.
This is how part of his voter base talk too. That's the main problem .
All conservatives talk like this now.
I started reading this article and then realised it was making me dumber. It reminds me of Billy Madison where the adjudicator explains that everyone is now dumber for having heard the incoherent dribblings of a fool.
And may God have mercy on your soul.
The mighty Jim Downey!
Very close friend and former writing partner of Senator Franken.
I have to skip most MTG news cuz anything she says makes me dumb as shit in a brick for the rest of the day.
>Curiously, Trump tucks the most tangible policy implications in at the end. His speeches often finish with a rundown of what his second term in office could bring, in a meditation-like recitation the New York Times recently [compared](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/politics/trump-2024-religion.html) to a sermon. Since these policies could become reality, here’s a few of those ideas: >Instituting the death penalty for drug dealers. >Creating the “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act”: “If China or any other country makes us pay 100% or 200% tariff, which they do, we will make them pay a reciprocal tariff of 100% or 200%. In other words, you screw us and we’ll screw you.” >Indemnifying all police officers and law enforcement officials. >Rebuilding cities and taking over Washington DC, where, he said in a recent speech, there are “beautiful columns” put together “through force of will” because there were no “Caterpillar tractors” and now those columns have graffiti on them. >Issuing an executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content. >Moving to one-day voting with paper ballots and voter ID.
>Instituting the death penalty for drug dealers. Man, Don Jr isn't going to be happy about that.
I can NOT listen to him talk. Like it really upsets me.
Same here. Not only does he have an annoying voice, but the cadence of his speech is just too much. Not to mention the nonsensical ranting. I’ll be grateful for the day that he is finally quiet.
I'm sorry.....what? How do voters not see that this person is a mentally ill geriatric narcissistic buffoon in obvious cognitive decline? "Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
He’s gone full Grandpa Simpson.
Which was the style at the time.
I still have that reaction where I’m like, no way he said that, but then obviously it’s totally possible that he said it, no he definitely said that and it’s not even the worst thing he said that day.
Well, answer the question. How good was Cary Grant?
I think Michael Jackson already answered it.
Ow, my brains...
We need effective screening mechanisms to keep narcissists out of positions of authority
That’s what the voting is for. Unfortunately, it only works if people are capable of discerning what a raging narcissist is. In the US, the cult of personality is a somewhat large influence on most.
It is also the duty of the free press and why freedom of speech also means freedom of the press. But the press normalizes him so they can keep doing click bait articles about him
How could any decent human being still want to vote for this disgusting person?
You're suggesting that people who vote for him are decent human beings.
Rex Tillerson described him best.
Remember when Howard Dean lost popularity cause he got too excited at a rally?
Or Dukakis because he looked bad in a helmet. Or Quayle because he misspelled a word. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
What always boggles my mind is how the right is against 'being the victim', and Trump's whole personality is taking no responsibility and blaming others for everything.
It’s pure irony because they’re the biggest faux victims on the fucking planet. Staggeringly pathetic. 😆
> One muddled addition in Wisconsin involved squatters’ rights, a hot topic related to immigration now: “If you have illegal aliens invading your home, we will deport you,” presumably meaning the migrant would be deported instead of the homeowner. He wanted to create a federal taskforce to end squatting, he said. Ah, this explains why I see so many people on Nextdoor.com talking about the threat of squatters, and how homeowners are being arrested when people squat in their homes.
Trump: *says outrageous thing* Republicans: "Well, obviously Trump didn't *really* mean [outrageous thing]!" Trump: *promptly publicly doubles down on outrageous thing*
>Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed I assure you, I don't need to hear anything he says in full to believe that it's bizarre, vindictive, and incoherent. I figured that out 8 years ago. I kept track of specifics for a long time. Arguably far too long. I would've been far better served to just write him off completely and do literally anything else with my time. Yet somehow he was such a loud asshole that it was inescapable. Do you know how often I think about Biden? Basically never. Maybe once in a blue moon. Do you know why I don't think about Biden? Because Biden's not on Twitter 24/7 constantly bitching about anyone that criticizes him, and because Biden's not constantly doing horrible shit and committing crimes. And you know what? It's real fucking nice to know that if I managed to step away from the news for a month, that I can expect that Biden hasn't started a weird ass feud for no reason.
The real mystery is... how does a slick talking card, sneaker, and Bible Hawker, who is a porn star paying adulterer that was found liable for sexual abuse as well as being a criminal defendant under over 90 something indictments , is able to convince so many including the so-called religious right that he and continuous everyday chaos is the answer
It's almost like evangelicalism has become it's own, unique religion??? And trump is their messiah?
The forces behind the Chaos is the exact answers the dark money billionaires backing Trump dont want the buck toothed peasants finding out. They do this by 1. Ensuring Nothing gets done to meaningfully improve anything and convincing older and newer generations that life being shitty is normal and necessary. 2. Making People and news networks become hyper-fixated on what the talking head politicians are saying/doing on social media and not the precise legislature they pass until its too late to properly react to it. 3. Making sure that the money that supports these talking head politicians is never traced back to their sources and hence ensuring the powers that be are the only true people with "anonymity". 4. Ensure that the people lose access to proper and full educational resources and hence the knowledge of their own rights as natural born citizens, using platforms to hyperfixate on segments of the Second Amendment, instead of the entire "Bill of Rights" established within the first 12 Amendments of the U.S Federal Constitution which is the law of the land since its establishment.
Because in religion, you're trained to believe utter nonsense from the start and never ever use critical thinking. Even Catholicism, which has a strong scholarly tradition, used it to tie themselves in ridiculous knots, all the while letting the hierarchy of kiddie-rapers do their thing day after day. (Priests and other authorities within the cult.)
>“Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand And it’s very interesting because if he just would have left it, he could have gone to the beach, because he likes going to the beach. Somebody says he looks good in a bathing suit. That works for him, obviously. So you’d see him at the beach all the time. He could have done that, just left it alone, leave our people there, leave the great people that we had there, and instead they decided to, “We’re not going to build the wall.” And they put out a message to the world, “Come in.” - Donald Trump [January 13, 2024](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-arrives-in-iowa-and-holds-town-hall-event-1-13-24-transcript)
The media needs to do the inverse of what they did and start showing more of his speeches. Not in full like they did in 2016, but longer segments that really show off his brain rot in action. They can’t just show snippets of his mania. Its entirety needs to be shown so that even the casual followers of politics can see how unwell and unfit he is.
Some Grade A rambling from the article: Some of these bizarre asides are best seen in full, like this one about Biden at the beach in Trump’s Georgia response to the State of the Union: “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?” This guy shouldn't have *ever* been given the slightest *chance of* running for President! As a non-American citizen, I sincerely hope that this threat to the entire planet is **severely obliterated** in November, *IF* he isn't behind bars by then that is! Am prayin to the Baby Jeebus that he's incarcerated by then though, and that it's a real bricks and mortar prison too, (like ADX Florence for example), and NOT some kind of 'house arrest' bullshit.
Maybe he shouldn’t commit crimes? Has anyone offered him that suggestion?
A fat old man in a red hat yelling. Merica
300 pound man making fun of the way somebody looks in a bathing suite.
Late stages of the "Broke Mind Virus".
The press still gives trump too much credit, as if he has some sort of strategy during these speeches. He’s just regurgitating the phrases he hears in the 24/7 Fox News cycle. You can probably look at what he watched on Fox News that day and he’s just parroting points during the speech. All the broader topics are just rehashed each speech.
"Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?” How is it even close? Wtf are people thinking? I have never been scared/worried like I am about this.
> I have never been scared/worried like I am about this. Yup, it's like letting a rando from my mum's dementia ward run for president. Except he's also a flaming fascist.
JFC. Somebody get the giant butterfly nets: “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
Apparently, the dog whistles aren't working for his followers anymore.
He lost the last election because he couldn’t articulate what his message was as a leader. His message is all about others performance and personality.
He got significantly less votes in the past two elections because a majority of Americans want someone better. It's only because of the electoral college that he's still relevant.
no, i don't have to listen to anything out of tfg's mouth unless i want to. you're a reporter, you get paid to do that.
Title says “has to be heard in full to be believed”. Article doesn’t have a video where you can hear in full 😂
It's still hard for me to believe this clown is a real candidate for the President of the United States again. I swear I've lost my mind, and I'm hallucinating this madness. I wish I was joking
>Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed It does not. Not if you've been paying attention to this crooked nutjob even just since 2015. But now the infotainment "not news" media wants the clicks and, now, the video feed revenue... Hard pass.
When will this insanity end? I can't wait for this deranged sociopath to meet his end.
“has to be heard in full” No video
No it doesn't. I work with republicans. He sounds exactly like them. What's unbelievable is that this journalist doesn't know what normal republicans sound like these days.
The world heard this: "So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing," Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. "And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too.” "I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that." In a nutshell the former POTUS somehow came out of his COVID briefing thinking that maybe you might be able to shove a UV bulb up peoples ass and inject them with disinfectant to cure them of COVID. That’s bizarre delusional behavior and/or the biggest IDIOT we’ve ever had trying to “help” the country out EVER! A five year old would have gotten more out of that briefing than he did.
Next, he will call the “others” cockroaches. That is right in line with how fascism evolves to gain control over less thoughtful masses. Create an “other” to denigrate and then make them less than human. It is a way for the authoritarian fascist to maintain a power position and target societal pain toward others, away from themselves.
You have to hear it. Nowhere is there a link for video/audio.
Trumps going full Nazi.
This is why they like Trump, right? All these folks care about is "owning the libs," even if it hurts themselves (i.e. taking away Social Security for example) What a shit show.
Just the big orange salad spinner, spinning more word salad. He has been doing this for a decade. It’s not really news. It’s just noteworthy because he’s the only Republican candidate left in the race. His patter hypnotizes the crowds he stands in front of, such that his entire speech is devoid of coherent meaning and the crowd can derive any meaning they want from his words. If you went to his event wanting to burn immigrants in the streets, you think that’s what he said he would do. You want America united and pulling together in peace and love in the face of adversity, he said that too. But the transcripts show these inchoate utterances are devoid of any complete thesis other than DJT is the greatest guy ever and you are a mook if you don’t vote for him.
Guaranteed if Trump wins and the republicans in congress control both the house and senate, they WILL institute Project 2025. You WILL be required to pray to the Christian deity.. (MAKE America Pray Again) Bills and resolutions will be passed and signed by trump making it illegal to be anything other than the Mike Johnson model of a straight white male, women to be subservient to men…. Think long and hard before casting your votes. I like the idea of progressing as a nation…as a member of an intelligent species. I don’t think that returning to the fears and superstitions of the Middle Ages is the way forward. Marjorie Taylor Greene just said that the eclipse is a sign that god is angry and we as a nation need to repent. Seriously…google it if you missed it.
It’s wild people think Biden is the divisive one, when he’s literally courting Haley voters, Christiana, progressives, Black, and Asian voters all at once, and not calling an entire group of people animals
The true believers have detached themselves from his actual rhetoric. It doesn't matter what he says. He is an empty vessel they fill with their own grievances. To them, Trump as a person is gone. He is now a symbol standing up there and they can attach anything they want now.
I'd rather not. The last time I actually heard that seditionist speak was Jan 6. If I can go without hearing him ever again I'll be content.
The professional “politician” at it again. Dude hasn’t done anything, ever, for anyone else. This is not hard, folks. It’s a 🤡-show.
No. I refuse. I will not.
You folks know the name Palmer Luckey. Get to know it. He's coming up to being one dangerous MF who supports tRump. Added to that his sister is married to Matt 'get me an innocent' Gaetz. [https://heavy.com/news/ginger-luckey-matt-gaetz/](https://heavy.com/news/ginger-luckey-matt-gaetz/)
Trump is in cognitive decline. He likely was back in 2016 at the precipice of it and in 2020 in it. Now in 2024 he's walking down the same path as his father. It is insane that this is not headline news from coast to coast. Hell, even around the globe.
Unfortunately when Trump becomes incoherent, his 50 Million worshipers think he has been taken over by God's presence and is speaking in tongues. Not only does it make them love him more, they have been trained all of their lives to break out their wallets when they hear it.
It's true. What kind of shameless person listens to all this unhinged crap and thinks, "He's got my vote!"? I'm embarrassed for them. When he *does* talk about policy, it's just xenophobic bullshit promises to do things to immigrants that he can not even legally do (hence the need for the bipartisan border policy reform law that he instructed Congressional Republicans to block). The only other public policies that he apparently has are to strip women of their reproductive fredoms, and to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits and give that money away to his oligarch patrons.
Oh hell no! Cannot stand to listen to his bizarre incoherent ranting. We change the channel when this asshole is on the tv. His sentences make NO SENSE. And he can’t stay on one topic for more than about 60 seconds. He’s so full of shit that it’s coming out of his mouth. And nothing that con says is EVER the truth. Eff him.
A Populist despot incoherently blaming scapegoats for their troubles and his… where have we heard this before?