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FIFY
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Are you sure?
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"After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck.
"Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.
"When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: ‘It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong.’ Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: ‘What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way…… You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.’
"The economy is supposed to be Trump’s strong suit.
"The former president seemed unable to stay on any topic, jumping from one idea to another randomly, or to answer anything, instead making statements that play well at his rallies—referring to people with insulting names, for example—or by rehashing old grievances and threatening to end traditional U.S. freedoms. He made it clear he intends to ‘straighten out our press,’ for example. ‘Because,’ he said, ‘we have a corrupt press.’
"As Micklethwait tried to keep him on task, Trump asserted stories that were more and more outlandish. He claimed that children could do the work of U.S. autoworkers in South Carolina, for example, and that he would be a better chair of the Federal Reserve than Jerome Powell.
"Micklethwait did not fight with Trump, but he didn’t indulge him either. When Trump explained that ‘you don’t put old in’ the federal judiciary because 'they’re there for two years, or three years,'Micklethwait replied: ‘You’re a 78-year-old man running for president.’
"And therein lies the rub.
"Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance ‘bonkers.’ Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: ‘The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign…and in Trump. He went from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He’s one cloudless night away from baying at the moon.’”
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The drugs are not working anymore. That dance on stage to his favorite music was…enlightening.
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That’s exactly why Mrs Von Holst thinks I shouldn’t waste $22 on a new nut chopper.
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A clever, deep pocketed, mean-spirited, defendant might well file a counter suit, just to lock the plaintiff in to the suit. (cf: Taylor Swift v. David Mueller) Because discovery can be quite painful to someone who wishes their transgressions to remain private, while filing a lawsuit designed to give low-information types the impression that the plaintiff has been wronged.
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Mock his use of “darling”. “Darling, is it obvious that I have never cared enough about anyone to have a pet name for them?”
“Darling, do you think anyone can tell that I know absolutely nothing about economics?”
“Darling, is my bronzer even?”
“Do you think the losers can tell that I am such a pathetic excuse for a human being that I don’t have any idea how partners talk to each other? Darling? Where are you?”
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An even better line from Allred, Texas Senatorial candidate: “Ted Cruz says he’s ‘pro-life.’ Just not YOUR life.”
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So we can expect lots of questions about blow jobs.
America is showing its ass to the world.
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Isn’t Bret Baier one of the “normies” at Fox News (relatively speaking)? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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We already elected him President once.
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Wasn’t TFG doing a “Women-Focused Town Hall” in GA last night? I have seen basically nothing about it.
I have seen a couple of mentions of him self-proclaiming as “The Father of IVF” but I don’t know if that’s from the same event?
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fascism is a refuge for the weak and insecure
That can’t be repeated enough. Trump is a fascist.
Three billionaires poured a combined $220 million into pro-Trump groups
- Money is not speech.
- The wealthy do not need tax breaks.
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Insecurity seems to be a theme all the way through the MAGA movement, and I don’t mean economic insecurity since many of them seem to be from relatively secure middle to upper middle class and above backgrounds. It’s the insecurity of not knowing the consequences of your actions. What happens when you die, do what your minister tells you to guarantee your place among the elect. Don’t know if you’d be competitive in a world that didn’t discriminate against more than half the population, vote for the racist misogynist.
Living with self doubt is terrifying, the constant ego stroking of being told you’re better than “them” must be comforting. Not being able to predict the consequences of your own actions is probably the most terrifying thing there is. In that case why not vote for the guy who claims he can solve all your problems. But that’s their blind spot being used against them. If you can’t predict the outcome of an action, taking advice from a confidence trickster is almost guaranteed to get you conned.
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No, he’s stupid enough to keep it going until he bankrupts himself.
There’s probably more out there.
And the video store owner says he’s not looking for a lawyer, but a publicist.
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I’ve said this before, but I think it was Stuart Stevens, a republican strategist who has no love for Trump, who predicted that Trump will be be in full meltdown mode by the third week in October. After the last two appearances, I think he could be right.
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Maybe you’re thinking of him… if you’re grading on a sliding scale… a curve, or whatever.
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“It’s not funny, Ted Cruz you nauseating freeze-dried flatuence.”
Ok I made up the second part. But I loved Allred telling him it isn’t funny because it’s not.
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