Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

[quadraginta]

In the complaint, it involved one doctor in particular, albeit with support by the people around him, if I read it correctly. I wouldn't assume that Trump's involved directly, though Trump certainly has worked to emphasize (sadly not create) a general culture and trend in ICE that makes it entirely unsurprising, though no less disgusting.

Of note, though, this kind of thing has been documented as having been done to Native American and black women, too, in the past.

White women, too.

It was a handy way to get rid of pesky young relatives who let themselves get knocked up and accused daddy or uncle Bill of raping them. Get a cooperative doctor to certify that the kid was nutso, have the baby put out for adoption, and send the kid to the funny farm, where hysterectomies for immorality were not an unusual prescription.

 

[quadraginta]

OK. Is that a retweet? Usually you say. "Conservative Girl" and "PedoBiden" totally sounds like a real person and not a sock puppet.

He's trolling either way.

BTW: I don't think he does this for his fans. It's part of a strategy to keep the left triggered and complaining amongst themselves. Piss off, Donald.

I don't think it's any sort of a strategy at all. Trump doesn't do strategy. He doesn't need to. Strategy implies forethought, and that's one thing Trump has never been accused of by anyone. Some of the people around him may try, but only to a small extent. If they try too hard they won't be around him anymore.

I think that these twits from Trump used to come in smaller bursts because his handlers would get his phone away from him from time to time. But they have since realized that it really didn't matter what he posted,because his cult members loved all of it, and nobody else could do anything about it.

So why bother trying to stop him?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

My vote would be for an IQ test. Or SAT.

I’d pony up for pay-per-view for either of those.

Or even a Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. Live. In real time. Unedited. In front of a person, woman, man, camera, and TV.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I can now turn all of my attention to promoting even more division and conflict within my own country.

America First! Vote Biden!

 

[Stacyhs]

The deplorables don't care that a sitting president is behaving this way.

Hillary Clinton said "you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables." At this point, anyone still supporting Trump belongs in that basket. Anyone.

 

[Firestone]

In case you missed the Trump town hall, here's a 2 minutes recap by CNN's amazing fact checker Daniel Dale: https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1306068705634287622

 

[The Don]

In case you missed the Trump town hall, here's a 2 minutes recap by CNN's amazing fact checker Daniel Dale: https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1306068705634287622

Unfortunately anyone who actually cares about any of that is already vehemently anti-President Trump - maybe 40% of the electorate.

Another 40% will support President Trump regardless of what he says.

20% or so are lower information voters who won't fact-check or listen to the fact check but will get the soundbites from President Trump's speech so might believe him

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Now now... don't paint with TOO broad a brush.
Of his pageants, it's not his Miss America contest but rather his Miss Teen America pageant that it is claimed he "peeked" into the changing rooms of.
Just claims mind you, but let's keep to as he says... "the facts". Not "miss" but "miss teen".
Got it?

[emoji15]

Actually, that's wrong, although the two are conflated. It was the Miss America pageants that he boasted of going into the changing rooms of. The Miss Teen contestants called him creepy and dehumanising.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump denies downplaying severity of virus

US President Donald Trump has denied downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview to having done that.

At a televised event with voters, Mr Trump said he had "up-played" it.

The claim contradicts comments Mr Trump made to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year, when he said he minimised the virus's severity to avoid panic.

Mr Trump also repeated on Tuesday that a vaccine could be ready "within weeks" despite scepticism from health experts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54172311

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump retweeted

thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
President Trump had a historic event for world peace today, and the only thing the media reported on was who was wearing masks.

Trump isn't running against Biden.
He's running against the media.
And he's still going to win.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Actually, that's wrong, although the two are conflated. It was the Miss America pageants that he boasted of going into the changing rooms of. The Miss Teen contestants called him creepy and dehumanising.

I'll buy that. Thanks.
Gawd knows he needs every thing he can get that'll raise my opinion of him. Even that little bit. [emoji53]

 

[Firestone]

Trump retweeted

thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
President Trump had a historic event for world peace today, and the only thing the media reported on was who was wearing masks.

Trump isn't running against Biden.
He's running against the media.
And he's still going to win.

Many here on the forum (myself included) find Biden a less than perfect candidate, and hoped for someone else to be the Democratic nominee.

But the way Trumpworld tweets and campaigns, they really would like to run against anyone but Biden.

The "real" candidate is Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, the Squad, BLM, Antifa, the evil media, etc ..
The last days I also saw a new theme emerging, where Biden is just a placeholder, and if elected will soon resign (or die), and then the new "real" candidate, Harris, will take power and both defund the police (hear that, suburban "housewives") and imprison Black men as she's also a bad cop (hear that, POC).

I still feel that they expected that Burisma would bury Biden in the primaries, and that Sanders or Warren would be the candidate.

 

[The Don]

Trump denies downplaying severity of virus



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54172311

Who you gonna believe, President Trump or your own lyin' eyes ?

 

[Mojo]

'I up-played it': Donald Trump disputes own admission he downplayed Covid pandemic

At the ABC town hall, the president also said the virus would “go away”, with or without a vaccine. This would happen because of “herd mentality”, he said. It is unclear whether he meant heard immunity, because he repeated the phrase several times.

“It would go away without the vaccine, George,” he told ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos. “With time it goes away. And you’ll develop like a herd mentality. It’s going to be herd developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.”

“Herd mentality”. That what his supporters have, right?

 

[TofuFighter]

...
I consider myself well read on the histories of presidents, particularly those who served in my lifetime. Those stretch from Nixon to Trump. I simply can't imagine any of them being on the campaign trail while the entire west coast was up in flames and a major hurricane was about to strike the Gulf Coast. I have every confidence that all those other presidents, including Nixon would have been in the White House (or Camp David which has been used as an emergency command post when the Situation Room was down for some reason), making sure the full force and power of the US Government was being applied to protect American Citizens and ease their burdens.
...

Typical blue-staters. Treat me badly, very badly, worse than anyone thought possible, then expect me to help them.

 

[Mojo]

Trump threatens to retaliate with '1,000 times greater' force against any Iran attack

That Nobel Peace Prize must be in the bag now.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Herd mentality. A new term for living in Trump's post-fact world.

 

[Aridas]

'I up-played it': Donald Trump disputes own admission he downplayed Covid pandemic

Ahh, right. I think that this whopper is one of the new champions in the up is down and down is up, black is white and white is black style of GOP propaganda. After all, he's literally saying that down is up now.

 

[Ladewig]

The deplorables don't care that a sitting president is behaving this way.

Your quite wrong.
They are happy that he is behaving this way.

Some are happy because they think it is true.
Some are happy because they say to themselves and others, “maybe this is the straw that will break the camel’s back. Maybe this is the thing that will finally show rank and file liberals how evil the Democratic leadership is.”

 

[Ladewig]

Trump saying he up-played it is the perfect move.

The right wing talking heads will say, “It’s obvious the MSM doesn’t know what they are doing - first they say he downplayed it, then they say he up-played it. Message to fake media: “make up your mind.’”