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(49,193 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 04:10 PM Jul 2024

We know that he is crazy but how can miliions follow something like that?

(and before you alert, these are utterances by someone who may be the next president.. )

WaPo Millbank presented a collection:

“Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” the 78-year-old Republican nominee posted about his 59-year-old opponent a few minutes before midnight on Monday, “has absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!” Were those North Pole numbers or South Pole numbers? The brilliant young man didn’t say.

He pined for his former opponent. “It’s not over! Tomorrow Crooked Joe Biden’s going to wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race,” he posted, and then, the next day, “It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race.”

He fumed about the turncoats at Fox News making him “fight battles that I shouldn’t have to fight” by allowing on its airwaves Democrats Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, and “total sleazebag” Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.).

From the Very Stable Genius’s jumbled mind tumbled conspiratorial thoughts (“Biden never had Covid”), vengeful thoughts (he will sue the Justice Department!), bizarre thoughts (it was his “GREAT HONOR” to “take a bullet for Democracy”) and aggrieved thoughts (Democrats caused the GOP “to waste a great deal of time and money” campaigning against Biden). Maybe he should sue them, too.

A week earlier, after the failed assassination attempt, Trump was supposedly a “changed” man, uniting the country. But now, he poured on the insults: Rep. Jim Clyburn (S.C.), a long-tenured Black Democrat, is “not the brightest bulb”; ABC News, host of the next debate, is “such a joke” and “the home of George Slopadopolus”; Biden is crooked and sleepy; Harris is “Dumb as a Rock.”

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We know that he is crazy but how can miliions follow something like that? (Original Post) question everything Jul 2024 OP
The ends justify the means. TwilightZone Jul 2024 #1
fux gnewz created a monnster. should have sent rupert back to australia. pansypoo53219 Jul 2024 #2
Dude's sorta lacking policy ideas struggle4progress Jul 2024 #3

TwilightZone

(28,834 posts)
1. The ends justify the means.
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 04:33 PM
Jul 2024

Lots of voters are generational partisan voters. They're going to vote for the R, regardless.

Lots of voters agree with his racist, sexist, bigoted attacks on "others". He harms the people they want him to harm.

Lots of voters agree with the agenda they know Trump will pursue.

Lots of votes agree with his SCOTUS and other judicial appointments.

Lots of voters agree with Trump's anti-government nonsense.

We too often fixate on the individual things that Trump says and does and completely miss the big picture. To many, what he says and does is irrelevant. They'll put up with all of that to get what they really want.

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