Trump 2024 Campaign - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly.

[hepcat]

Meanwhile, Vance is threatening to murder his kids if they don't shut the fuck up about Pokemon.

Most relatable thing about him, to be honest.

[Carpet_pissr]

The litter box in my kitchen inspires horror when Warren's Wall of Piss breaks the seal. So I totally get this. If President Trump will truly contain the Wall of Piss, that's more than Kamala's administration can possibly give me.

LOL!

[Carpet_pissr]

You guys need to get a grip. People that want to be and act like cats is a real thing. I know this thanks to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

[GreenGoo]

The whole furry thing is an extension of transphobia. Because it's not a leap that if you want to identify as a female, you may want to identify as a cat, right? There are "furries" - kids who are into anthropomorphized animals, but what is really just a cosplay interest has been perverted by the transphobia crowd into it being some sort of sexual identity.

If men can marry other men, what's to stop them marrying furniture? This is a tired, old, and insane argument that gets pulled out whenever things change that "they" don't like. "They" being whoever doesn't have a logical position so they require strawmen and often appeals to a book that doesn't say what they think it says.

edit: Oh shit! lol!

Now that I think about it, it's also an extension of the old "men marrying men, what's next, men marrying their DOGS????" moral outrage.

[Unagi]

I've heard that some schools are putting couches in boy's and girl's restrooms these days.

[Blackhawk]

The whole furry thing is an extension of transphobia. Because it's not a leap that if you want to identify as a female, you may want to identify as a cat, right? There are "furries" - kids who are into anthropomorphized animals, but what is really just a cosplay interest has been perverted by the transphobia crowd into it being some sort of sexual identity.

I graduated in 1992, and I knew one kid who identified as an elf, and another who identified as a dragon (although the term 'identified' wasn't used yet - see otherkin.)

It explained all of the trees and piles of gold coins in the bathroom.

[Isgrimnur]

Sebastian Stan Tells All: Becoming Donald Trump, Gaining 15 Pounds and Starring in 2024’s Most Controversial Movie

[Punisher]

If men can marry other men, what's to stop them marrying furniture?

JD Vance has entered the chat.

[Zaxxon]

Always hate to see the leopards eating the wrong faces...

https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/18 ... 3514414542

[Max Peck]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

Trump says Jewish American voters would 'really have a lot to do with' a potential election loss

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jewish American voters would be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

During comments to the Israeli American Council National Summit in Washington, D.C., the former president lamented that he was trailing Harris among American Jews.

Israel would likely cease to exist within two years should Harris win the election, and Jews would be partly to blame for that outcome because they tend to vote for Democrats, Trump argued.

"If I don't win this election — and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens because if 40 per cent, I mean, 60 per cent of the people are voting for the enemy," Trump told the crowd, citing a poll that he said showed Harris polling at 60 per cent for support among Jewish Americans.

I'm old enough to remember when saying something like "people are voting for the enemy" would be seen as shocking and probably disqualifying for a politician, but these days it hardly seems to be noteworthy.

[Carpet_pissr]

Only when one particular side does it.

[Hyena]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

Trump says Jewish American voters would 'really have a lot to do with' a potential election loss

word vomit

I'm old enough to remember when saying something like "people are voting for the enemy" would be seen as shocking and probably disqualifying for a politician, but these days it hardly seems to be noteworthy.

I watched a video on this yesterday and they couldn't put their finger on this phenomenon. It was either because he had evolved into some kind of god king to the reps and nothing can happen to him, or that it is a calculated risk on his team's part by saying so much insane stuff that this kind of language just drifts down amongst all the other nuclear fallout that comes from his mouth and the "intended targets" can filter through it to get his underlying message.

In either case, I can not fathom how it continues to happen.

[Pyperkub]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

Trump says Jewish American voters would 'really have a lot to do with' a potential election loss

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jewish American voters would be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

During comments to the Israeli American Council National Summit in Washington, D.C., the former president lamented that he was trailing Harris among American Jews.

Israel would likely cease to exist within two years should Harris win the election, and Jews would be partly to blame for that outcome because they tend to vote for Democrats, Trump argued.

"If I don't win this election — and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens because if 40 per cent, I mean, 60 per cent of the people are voting for the enemy," Trump told the crowd, citing a poll that he said showed Harris polling at 60 per cent for support among Jewish Americans.

I'm old enough to remember when saying something like "people are voting for the enemy" would be seen as shocking and probably disqualifying for a politician, but these days it hardly seems to be noteworthy.

The Cold War "enemy" of the Communists was a huge factor in tempering the worst of these impulses and abuses, and since then, this has continued to spiral to where we currently are.

[LawBeefaroni]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

How long until he starts working slurs into his "hilarious" nicknames for political enemies?

[$iljanus]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

Trump says Jewish American voters would 'really have a lot to do with' a potential election loss

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jewish American voters would be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

During comments to the Israeli American Council National Summit in Washington, D.C., the former president lamented that he was trailing Harris among American Jews.

Israel would likely cease to exist within two years should Harris win the election, and Jews would be partly to blame for that outcome because they tend to vote for Democrats, Trump argued.

"If I don't win this election — and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens because if 40 per cent, I mean, 60 per cent of the people are voting for the enemy," Trump told the crowd, citing a poll that he said showed Harris polling at 60 per cent for support among Jewish Americans.

I'm old enough to remember when saying something like "people are voting for the enemy" would be seen as shocking and probably disqualifying for a politician, but these days it hardly seems to be noteworthy.

I think this kind of approach worked for a politician in Europe circa mid-1930s.

[LordMortis]

He's famous

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/09/16/ ... in-london/

[Carpet_pissr]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

How long until he starts working slurs into his "hilarious" nicknames for political enemies?

I'm honestly surprised we aren't there yet. And if we do get there, I doubt that THAT will be the last straw for his cult. In fact, that kind of thing is what they love about him. He breaks the norms, steps on toes, and tells the libs to STFU when they whine about it. Going further in that direction is only going to reinforce his base.

[Alefroth]

Trump was speaking at an anti-Semitism event. I think he might have misunderstood the purpose of the event.

Other things Trump has said to Jews:

“You’re not gonna support me because I don’t want your money. You want to control your politicians, that’s fine,” Trump said at the Republican Jewish Coalition in December 2015. “I’m a negotiator like you folks, we are negotiators.”

[Blackhawk]

"If I lose, blame the Jews" actually seems like a pretty apt Trump campaign slogan.

How long until he starts working slurs into his "hilarious" nicknames for political enemies?

Like, say, "Pocahontas?"

[Holman]

Trump was speaking at an anti-Semitism event. I think he might have misunderstood the purpose of the event.

Other things Trump has said to Jews:

“You’re not gonna support me because I don’t want your money. You want to control your politicians, that’s fine,” Trump said at the Republican Jewish Coalition in December 2015. “I’m a negotiator like you folks, we are negotiators.”

Trump has always indulged antisemitic tropes about Jews and money. In his pre-political days he would declare that Jewish accountants were the best because they didn't let a penny go missing.

[Grifman]

So low energy:

https://twitter.com/krazgreinetz/status ... NcXCfN8s1g

[Blackhawk]

2020 presumably left out due to COVID (it was 2 in June, 0 in July.)

[Grifman]

The grift continues:

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/stat ... NcXCfN8s1g

For a pretty wealthy guy, Trump sure does to nickel and dime everyone. Now I do believe that he is rich, though not a wealthy as he likes to think he is. But from NFT’s, to Trump Bibles, to Trump coins, to paying his wife, he seems to be willing to do anything for a buck. He’s just so cheap and tawdry. Of course, writing a book like most former presidents is probably beyond him, so there’s that. And I do wonder if we will ever seen a Presidential Trump Livrary.

[Max Peck]

If any of the GOP was going to be never-Trump, you'd think it would be the LCR.

[Unagi]

Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how they still exist.

[Unagi]

The grift continues:

Just to be sure I'm following the money...

1. Donors donate to Trump's campaign....
2. Campaign pays $250,000 to Melania for her to speak at Mar-a-Lago to a captive audience of Republicans.

?

[Skinypupy]

They're just going full, straight-up Nazi at his rallies now.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1838377945431196106

Trump: "Do you think Springfield will ever be the same? I don't think so. I'll say it now -- you have to get 'em the hell out."

Trump attacks (legal) Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, prompting "send them back!" chants from his fans in Pennsylvania

Deplorable was far too kind.

[Carpet_pissr]

Agree, and just think about the blowback she got for saying that.

Calling out fellow Americans for behaving like garbage, how dare she.

[YellowKing]

I swear if this guy wins, the thought of the absolutely dark 4 years (or more) ahead of us chills me to my core.

[hepcat]

His wife was a legal immigrant at one point. Two of them were, to be precise.

[Zarathud]

If Trump deported them, maybe he won’t have to pay them for his infidelity.

[Smoove_B]

I swear if this guy wins, the thought of the absolutely dark 4 years (or more) ahead of us chills me to my core.

I know we keep repeating it, but even when he loses, it's still going to be rough ride. There are lots and lots of people that are really comfortable with being openly deplorable and they're not going to just disappear. They didn't in 2020 and it feels like they're even more comfortable being openly disgusting, especially on social issues.

I don't know how we fix that, but it's not going to go away even after TFG shuffles off the mortal coil.

[Skinypupy]

There was this doozy too, which is just...super weird.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1838385282346844352

Trump addresses women: "I am your protector. I want to be your protector ... you will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger ... you will no longer be thinking about abortion."

[Zaxxon]

There was this doozy too, which is just...super weird.

It's funny* how the current thing is to tag everything the Trump/Vance/GOP campaigns do as 'weird' since that framing has stuck and it's politics, baby! But this one really is weird in the literal sense. Like, this is just not something that makes sense for Trump to say, in any way. It's extremely weird.


* - nothing about this is actually funny, but you know, in a figure of speech sort of way.

[Max Peck]

This strikes me as sounding a lot like a tidbit of J. D. Vance & Co's postliberal doctrine as filtered through the mush between TFG's ears.

So, yeah, weird.

[Alefroth]

They're just going full, straight-up Nazi at his rallies now.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1838377945431196106

Trump: "Do you think Springfield will ever be the same? I don't think so. I'll say it now -- you have to get 'em the hell out."

Trump attacks (legal) Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, prompting "send them back!" chants from his fans in Pennsylvania

Deplorable was far too kind.

This doesn't even mention the serial numbers for migrants.

[Smoove_B]

This doesn't even mention the serial numbers for migrants.

Not an exaggeration:

Immigrants are no longer welcome in Donald Trump’s America. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee posited that under his potential second administration, he would round up and mass-deport noncitizens based on their “serial numbers.”

...

“But we’re getting the criminals out, and we’re going to do that fast, and we know who they are, and the local police know their names, and they know their serial numbers,” Trump said. “They know everything about them.”

[Unagi]

At the very least, they should have that serial number tattooed on them in case we need to identify them at a glance.


(sarcasm, to be clear)

[Blackhawk]

But how will we know to check their numbers? Maybe an arm band?

[Max Peck]

But how will we know to check their numbers? Maybe an arm band?

They already have a simpler system in place.