(September 16, 2023 at 9:44 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump: “Cognitively impaired Biden will cause WW2”

Kinda apropos that he stumbled over the word ‘cognitively’.

Boru

... only to go on to show that he doesn't know what world war is up next ...

I'm beginning to understand why so many people are frightened of clowns.

Donald Trump has insane meltdown attacking “liberal Jews”

Tonight Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to launch a completely insane attack on “liberal Jews,” accusing them of trying to “destroy America.” The fact that he’s only attacking “liberal” Jews doesn’t make his post any less antisemitic. For that matter, given that about 70% of Jewish people in America tend to vote Democrat, Trump is seemingly attacking the vast majority of Jews.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/ev...him/52083/

There must be some point where the republicans turn their respective backs on this madman. They have to know that he's an albatross tied to their necks, at this point. Not that I want their kind of shit to continue.

(September 17, 2023 at 11:27 pm)Fireball Wrote: There must be some point where the republicans turn their respective backs on this madman. They have to know that he's an albatross tied to their necks, at this point. Not that I want their kind of shit to continue.

you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad.    i think that is a misreading of the dynamics.   large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump. 

people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman.     it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.

(September 18, 2023 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(September 17, 2023 at 11:27 pm)Fireball Wrote: There must be some point where the republicans turn their respective backs on this madman. They have to know that he's an albatross tied to their necks, at this point. Not that I want their kind of shit to continue.

you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad.    i think that is a misreading of the dynamics.   large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump. 

people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman.     it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.

They found their leader in Trump.  He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.

(September 18, 2023 at 3:22 am)arewethereyet Wrote:

(September 18, 2023 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad.    i think that is a misreading of the dynamics.   large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump. 

people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman.     it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.

They found their leader in Trump.  He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.

I think they found their front man, not their leader.    others amongst them, both candidate wannabes and those who organize and finance behind the scene, are using trump as a sort of guinea pig to guage how far they can take trumpian tactics, what kind of blow back there will be, how to mitigate the consequences of blow back, and what sort of legal potful can either be powered through or avoided. 

trump remains the apparent leader because he remains useful as the both a tool and a guinea pig

(September 18, 2023 at 3:22 am)arewethereyet Wrote:

(September 18, 2023 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad.    i think that is a misreading of the dynamics.   large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump. 

people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman.     it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.

They found their leader in Trump.  He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.

I think he's more their stooge or their scapegoat they thrust all the blame on when things go to shit.

(September 18, 2023 at 2:59 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

(September 18, 2023 at 3:22 am)arewethereyet Wrote: They found their leader in Trump.  He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.

I think he's more their stooge or their scapegoat they thrust all the blame on when things go to shit.

Things have been going to shit and they still worship him.  

If they were going to use him as a scapegoat, that ship would have sailed by now.