Originally published at: Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When Donald Trump was president, he repeatedly tried to raise the rent on at least 4 million of the poorest people in this country, many of…
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Of course TFG (and his minion) will screw the poor and disabled and elderly. They are not productive, like trust fund babies.
Cat.
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He just wants to screw everyone that isn’t a major backer. I just want to sleep until it’s over . . .
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The article should have noted that Trump proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his budget proposals, but those never stood a chance in Congress. And, the Democratic Congress led the way in economic support during the pandemic, Trump didn’t really do much aside from put his name on the checks in an effort to help his election chances.
Republicans, including Trump, want to cut back all of the support programs for everyone aside from the wealthy…that’s their policy in a sentence, remember that when you consider who to vote for.
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“Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans.”
It’s telling Trump waits until the end of October to feature this specific messaging in his campaign. He gets bad polling out of Iowa and suddenly he’s touting he’s good for farmers. I think it’s the first I’ve heard him tout his farm policies in the entire campaign.
He wakes up in the final week and realizes macho hate & racism 24/7 maybe isn’t cutting it. Idiot.
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To support his “plan”, a new ad has been released. Full of clips and quotes which, taken as is, show how TFG is the better choice.
As usual, deception and lies. It goes well with the “20% inflation and global war” ad.
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If we had a truly free press, the caption would read: “Fat Hitler stands in front of a wall of boxes that are more empty than his bullshit promises.”
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Shorter: If you’re not already a member of the ruling class, you can’t do anything for me, so you’re welcome to fuck off.
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Anna and Mr. Bates say no taxes on sunshine!
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Excellent Offline podcast this morning with a great discussion between Jon Favreau and Max Fisher about Bezos’ decision not to endorse and the subsequent loss of 250,000 subscribers. This precedes the interview with Barton Gellman about safeguarding this election, also very good.
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The cruelty is the point.
Fascist to the core.
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That is the thing: Trump and JD are proven, serial liars* yet somehow we are still supposed to take what they say seriously.
*it might be more accurate to characterize Trump as a major bullshit artist but why quibble at this point.
“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.” ― Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
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Only tangentially related, but how many years ago was it that Bill Maher decided he would stay relevant (i.e., keep getting attention) by becoming a right-wing concern troll and all-around asshole in general?
Bill Maher Defends Trump’s Comment About Liz Cheney: ‘Exactly What Hippies Always Said’
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This is the Great Etch-a-Sketch at work. Every day TSF and his cronies/minions shout out a bunch of lies, every day reporters fact-check them and discover the lies, and then the very next day a new set of lies spews out and gets the benefit of the doubt until the scrupulous checking is finished. Part of it is about access, but all of it is a disaster.
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But Trump… has said that Project 2025 doesn’t represent him.
Donald Trump lies all the time about everything to everyone.
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Trump hasn’t faced many of these questions on the campaign trail or in debates or interviews, as the candidates and reporters covering them tend to focus more on the middle class.
Nah, they just haven’t gotten around to it, because all the talking heads and news stenographers are too busy whingeing about how Kamala Harris needs to be “more specific” about her policies.
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Saying DFG is a lying sack of shit is an insult to shit, but I’ll say it anyway.
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I can understand why a millionaire might vote for Republicans. Beats me why anyone else does.
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A basket of adorables?
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