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The big question is - what do we do if this guy wins and is President again, i.e. when it is clear that the in-band political methods do not work and are not going to work, and these "fascists" believe they can do whatever they want and start in on it - Proj 2025?

Do we just sit there like losers and let him normalize his sick version of society like Hamas? When we do admit there is nothing that is going to fix this except actual action, and how many of us have the guts or creativity to find ways to rebel and turn this back?

Donald Trump has shit on this country, it's traditions, is history, and his followers think they are shitting with him when he is shitting on all of us by the very rich who knuckle under. He shows us he is a forgiving tyrant when accepts all those Republicans who after Jan-6th said he was unacceptable.

If Kamala loses who know what will happen. And what was Joe Biden thinking? Assuming he could thing.

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Why isn't the population, including media ,recognizing that this man is definitely in the throws of dementia? Anyone who has seen someone slip into this sad illness, will see it- irritatedly, sudden mood changes, increased sexual aggressive behavior, both physically and verbally.

It is so obvious. Wake up People! This man, with all his faults, can never be a leader of anything-let alone our country!!

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When you listen to people who have known Trump for a long time, a couple of them David Cay Johnston and Mark Cuban and maybe his niece Mary Trump they say he has always been the way he is. That is, he cannot read or learn, but he has learned instead how to manipulate and con people. They learn to make words their interface to the world - and intimidation and offensiveness to keep people from knowing their weakness.

I don't think this is necessarily dementia, or it may be ADHD with dementia. I'd bet he has a lot of the same characteristics of Ronald Reagan.

What it means is that he will cede power, i.e. delegate his adminstration to JD Vance and his others who will bypass him and implement this Project 2025 thing.

I am very anxious about this election, and wondering what happens, what do we do if this person actually wins the election?

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Yes, imagine if Joe Biden did not even know what state he was in. Donald Trump is in Greensboro North Carolina and is asking where the republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania is. Now that is cognitive decline on an immense scale. To be fair, since David McCormick lives in Connecticut, Trump may have thought he was in Connecticut. And tonight, in an effort to get in the good graces of women voters, Donald Trump praised Mike Tyson as a great guy, a convicted rapist who served prison time for his crime. And asked Mike Tyson to get in the ring with Liz Cheney. A candidate for president with the worst support from women ever, is asking a convicted rapist and boxing champion to punch a women in the face. Meanwhile back on the ranch (earth 1) Kamala Harris just gave a wonderful speech to an excited crowd in Philadelphia at the Rocky steps. Please, let's unite to defeat MAGA. When we fight we win.

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WHAT VALUES HAVE OUR SOLDIERS RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR?

For those who have not yet voted in this election, let us ask ourselves: What did hundreds of thousands of American soldiers throughout our history risk their lives for as they headed into battle, with many never to return?

Was it to install an egotistical despot who propelled an angry mob of his followers to violently lay siege to the Capitol, leaving bodies strewn on the ground, in execution of a fraudulent plot to prop him back onto his throne?

Was it to enable a snake-oil salesman, with a list of felony convictions, sexual molestations, and business frauds to lie and cheat his way back into office?

Was it to promote the imposition of white supremacy and a white male Christian dominated theocracy that would defeat the aspirations of our founding fathers?

Was it to reduce the status of women to second class citizens devoid of the right to control their own bodies?

Was it to insure that our President could exercise total immunity for the commission of crimes. including crimes against his political enemies and anyone else who stands in his way?

Was it to enable our egotistical leader to stuff his cabinet with cranks, crackpots, sycophants, ex-cons, misfits and scoundrels as pay-back for their election support?

Was it install as President a man who has consistently demonstrated his contempt for soldiers who went into battle to defend our values but who were either wounded or captured?

If you were in a landing craft in the early morning hours of D-Day headed for the Normandy beachheads, how would you answer these questions?

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Plus, in NC he gave a shout out to their great Senate candidate, David McCormick(!) who, like Macavity, wasn’t there!

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Thank you for some great coverage. Unfortunately, I don’t think you’re going to get a break in the foreseeable future.

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The difference between 2024 Trump and 2016 Trump is that 2016 Trump was more of an unknown quantity - he was bombastic and awful but not completely off the rails and assured voters he was pro-choice. 2024 Trump is off the rails mean, vulgar, incoherent, old and clearly pro-life (all voters see through his lies about this). I feel.....truly.....a blue wave may be coming.....

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He’s being himself.

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"He darkly obsessed about election fraud, railed against polls showing him down, and savaged the “bloodsuckers” in the news media."

IOW, the topics of prime interest to TFG were the same as all of his other rallies, and he espoused on them to the detriment of his points. (Not that more than a few of his speeches actually have a point outside of airing grievances, telling his cultists that he will be their revenge on those that done them dirt, and insulting everyone who he doesn't like or crosses him.)

I'm kinda surprised that he didn't refer to journalists who aren't Right wingnut squawking heads as vermin and untermenschen.

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"“There wasn’t a come-to-Jesus talk with Trump."

Can't happen, and never will. In order to have a come-to-Jesus moment one should, at the least, believe in the Christ and/or His teachings. Not as the RINOs in the New GOP picture Him, but as He really is as described in the New Testament. (Full disclosure: I'm not a Christian of any sort, I'm a proud Pagan who believes in the Sacred Feminine.)

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"During his first run for office, he spent much of the close sticking to script and keeping a relatively low profile. This time around has been different"

His run in 2016 was a lark. He never expected to win the Repub nomination, and then not overflowing with his usual overconfidence he wasn't expecting to win the general election. This year, as the pressure inside him increased, and especially after the "bad little girl" spanked daddy's ass during and after the debate, he has been becoming more unhinged and has apparently decided that he has nothing to lose in going full fascist.

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"Top Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio and the campaign’s chief data consultant, Tim Saler, whipped up a memo to staunch the flow of negative coverage."

Open note to Fabrizio and Saler:

"To their credit, the Emerson College poll has an R+4 party split (below 2020 exit polls at R+10), and a Trump +8 recalled 2020 vote margin that aligns with reported returns" https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9rb78d2noh8j3mhn67jo8/11.2-djt-iowa-poll.pdf [From the link. There is a whole list of other comparisons]

* Emerson doesn't deserve credit because they show your horse in the lead;

* More importantly, the past is not prologue to the future. Exit polls from 2020 are irrelevant, your man is running against a different candidate. This is especially true this year, VP Harris has been saying and doing everything to broaden her coalition while big named Rs are openly endorsing her or not endorsing TFG. Meanwhile, TFG has been saying and doing things guaranteed to piss off some of the women and POCs who supported in 2020, driving them away. These are two demographics you and the campaign team have been trying to gaslight into thinking the boss cares about them one whit.

Compare away, boys, but like all of the other whining little insects that are circling the dim (and getting dimmer) light that is TFG, you are stroking your leader by showing him numbers that don't tell the story -- even if they fall somewhere between yours and Ms Harris' advisors are showing her. IMO, you're doing more harm to him (thank G-dess) than helping him. But then again, telling TFG anything that even vaguely resembles the truth if it doesn't jive with the narrative in his head takes 'nads: something than none of you insects seem to possess.

fnord

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Everyday is Festivus, the airing of grievances with Chump.

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Why is the scene from Young Frankenstein where the monster and Gene Wilder do the dance that goes off the rails stuck in my mind? The handlers have lost control, to whatever extent they ever had it.

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Trump is fdfffff up prick. I hope he ends up like Giuliani

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It gives me pleasure to see him melting into an orange puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West.

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Trump sounds like a toddler who is always threatening to throw a tantrum. Given overindulgent parents who respond to his every demand so he won't throw himself kicking and screaming on the floor, that kind of kid simply becomes a larger toddler who abuses even the sycophants trying to meet his every need. He's pathetic.

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And they're pathetic for enabling him.

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I constantly celebrate Sarah and JVL as the gold-standard of the Bulwark, but really I have to elevate them to the gold gold standard. That is because there are a number of others who are gold standard, not the least of which is Mark Caputo. His niche position in the Bulwark gives us this fascinating insight into the Trump camp, an invaluable service to those of us on the outside here trying to understand all that is going on in this wacky and dangerous world. To successfully do what Mark does requires a unique skill-set. He not only has to cultivate informers from the Trump camp, but he also has to sort the true informers out from the "triple-agents" the Trump camp may throw up to him to provide us and him with disinformation. Or maybe I am reading too much into this, and the Trump insiders have too much to worry about to bother about leakers at all, much less how to cleverly thwart their opponents in this part of the war. What do I know? Perhaps Mark can enlighten us on this. On the other hand, he may plead the fifth. Trade secrets, and all that. Anyway, Mark, you are truly providing us with information we can get from no other source within the brilliant Bulwark, and doing it brilliantly. Thanks.

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“I alone can fix it” says the guy who never fixed anything nor worked an honest hour in his life.

This guy is just fecal matter poured into a (vaguely) human-shaped suit.

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Anyone who thinks/says any one person can fix anything is a fucking idiot.

That is the literal etymology of the word "IDiot" - "I, alone"

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Up is Down.

Black is White.

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He should not be given free airtime.

He didn't want it.

We should not have to listen to him.

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Boycott the products!

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we never have to listen to Trump. Does your remote have a mute button?

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I never watch him talking. All of the Substacks that play his videos also summarize them or provide a transcript, and I will read it rather than listen to him. I am waiting for the day when I don't have to hear him any more. I hope it is in my lifetime. Prison!

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During the Rams v Seahawks game on Fox I only saw one Harris ad and many untrue tRump ads. Disappointing!

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Well, it was on Fox... what did you expect?

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