Former President Trump was met with backlash for his bizarre reading of the names of victims of the tragic Texas elementary school shooting during his speech at the NRA convention on Friday night — which concluded with a … dance.
The cruelty is the point. All the children (as I recall) had Hispanic surnames, so he may have been dancing because of that.
Trump: “How can I make the slaughter of 19 children about ME?”
Trump Advisor: “Let’s have you read the victims’ names aloud at the end of your speech, then you DANCE.”
For all intents and purposes now, the Trump movement has transcended Trump. Trump showed the conservative world that they no longer needed to dance around white nationalism with a dog whistle but, instead, could win be embracing it out in the open.
The fact is, Trump was always a clumsy buffoon in how he presented himself, but it didn’t matter. There are so many people out there who are willing to embrace his message of raw hatred for the “other” that his awkward presentation of that message was mostly ignored. Now that he’s shown Republicans that they no longer need to tip tow around flagrant racism, it’s time for the more polished professionals to run with his message.
In short, Republicans no longer need Trump. He’s already shown them the way, but he’s also worn out his welcome with them. From now on, Republican politics will be Trumpism minus Trump.
Finally.
He was always soulless, but now the Spin people have a harder time with it.
Culmination, like capitulation, is a term used in economics, war, and why not bad policy. I do not agree with Maureen Dowd that pursuing bad policy eternally is possible. The change in direction happens after culmination. I think Putin is also wrong on this point.
The brutal war of attrition had reduced Russia’s personnel and firepower so much, they added, that “regardless of which side holds the city, the Russian offensive at the operational and strategic levels will probably have culminated, giving Ukraine the chance to restart its operational-level counteroffensives to push Russian forces back.”
https://www.ft.com/content/33c2ebe6-d8a4-478d-9e8e-3d0607e05c31
Forget being appalled at Mango Mussolini.
Look directly in the face of your neighbors, your family, and your local politicians on up who gladly support the pure psychopathy that is the Confederate GQP. Realize they must be defeated and humiliated. They have already started the war. We have to finish it.
The only real question is whether or not Republican voters have a harder time justifying their votes to themselves. Trumpism without Trump on the ballot is an exercise in ‘I like my candidate, I ignore their policies’ combined with ‘the cruelty is the point’.
@brutus1910 and @deva…
There is symmetry in your posts to each other…
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During his speech, Trump issued demands that other prominent Republicans have pushed in the wake of the shooting instead of common sense gun control reform: arming teachers with firearms, schools with a single entryway and armed guards at the entryway. The former president praised the NRA, saying that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
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Except that the bad guy in Buffalo was wearing body armor and the “good guy” who shot at him was killed.
Dancing in this instance says to me that trump was happy the 21 people were killed by a bad guy. As we are aware trump is a sniveling coward who talks big but couldn’t even fire anyone …face to face when he was in office. He did it with tweets or some minion did it for him.
And the crowd cheered, so they are just as bad!
He’s a sociopath and a narcissist. He has no sense of empathy. He’s a loser who has never won at anything without cheating. He’s ignorant and a serial liar. He has not a single redeeming quality. And this country made him our president–and many want to do it again. That this man has a public platform in this country casts shame on all of us.
bingo
“I’m sure that some of the children would have grown up to be rapists” was left unsaid.
Anyone who expected Trump to behave differently is either dead or comatose.
What Republicans are saying is that it's not elected officials or the law or even the voting public's job to stop gun violence, mass murder, and domestic terrorism, but rather it's the responsibility of some random unsolicited psychologist.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2022
That's literally what they're saying.
If The Democratic Party had any political sense in terms of campaigning, they’d use these clips like this to hammer Republicans incessantly in political ads, but they always play too nice. I really wish they would go for the jugular. The Republicans do, using misleading clips, and ours have the added benefit of being truthful.