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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

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At the Duluth rally Trump said "Biden will turn Minnesota into a refugee camp"
In a state with one of the largest Somali populations in the country,
Trump goaded the crowd in to booing refugees and "lock her up!" chants directed at Ilhan Omar.

Also "I'm not doing well in the suburbs. Are you people crazy"
He claimed that Biden will destroy the suburbs by "abolishing single-family zoning"

Back to his Nobel nomination
"They covered one story, it was about rain, these people are sick"

"Now I understand he's canceling the debates"
Trump is just totally making stuff up. Biden has not canceled either of the two remaining debates.

"What are they gonna do when in 8, 12, maybe 16 years I say, 'let's hang it up'? 16 more years."

On to the wall.
"Mexico is paying for it. You do know that, right? They keep saying it is going to be a border charge at the border."

"A man came up to me. A tough man. A man who, a worker, a construction worker. Real worker, and he looked at me, this is two years ago, he said, 'Sir, you have given us back our life.' And he was crying."

"But if we don't win, I'm never calling you great again" Closing words to voters in Duluth.
 
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There is an argument I find somewhat (not completely but somewhat) comforting.

The "Right" will not engage in a mass uprising if Trump loses because evolutions/uprisings happen when a people are truly desperate. The "Right" is not truly desperate. They can go on about how there way of life is ending and that all is lost if the Democrats get in power but then they go home to their houses and sleep in their warm comfortable beds and watch TV. People don't go all Red Dawn when they do that.

David Wong (yeah, yeah I'm bringing him up again) mentioned that when he was growing up his family belong to a church where every Sunday the pastor would go on and on about how any day now the "Evil Godless Liberals" would round up all the good God fearing real Americans and everyone nodded and agreed... and then when church let out they didn't go out and buy ammo and prepare for widespread guerilla warfare, they to the Old Country Buffet for lunch and then went home to watch the Bears game.
 
Trump is desperate to cancel the next debates - without a Fox guy lobbying softballs at him "he will love", he will get someone eager to prove that he won't put up with his temper tantrums.

Trump took his best shot and it didn't land.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
At the Duluth rally Trump said "Biden will turn Minnesota into a refugee camp"
In a state with one of the largest Somali populations in the country,
Trump goaded the crowd in to booing refugees and "lock her up!" chants directed at Ilhan Omar.

Also "I'm not doing well in the suburbs. Are you people crazy"
He claimed that Biden will destroy the suburbs by "abolishing single-family zoning"

Back to his Nobel nomination
"They covered one story, it was about rain, these people are sick"

"Now I understand he's canceling the debates"
Trump is just totally making stuff up. Biden has not canceled either of the two remaining debates.

"What are they gonna do when in 8, 12, maybe 16 years I say, 'let's hang it up'? 16 more years."

On to the wall.
"Mexico is paying for it. You do know that, right? They keep saying it is going to be a border charge at the border."

"A man came up to me. A tough man. A man who, a worker, a construction worker. Real worker, and he looked at me, this is two years ago, he said, 'Sir, you have given us back our life.' And he was crying."
"But if we don't win, I'm never calling you great again" Closing words to voters in Duluth.
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Loser! Real tough men, real workers, don’t cry!

As with the rest of the rally quote, and all of Trump’s statements, removing any requirement for reality makes telling compelling stories so much easier!
 
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On Fox News, John Roberts is visibly angry that the Press Secretary won't make a clear denunciation of white supremacy: "Stop deflecting. Stop blaming the media. I'm tired of it. " he said.

The question McEnany was asked was, "Without ambiguity or deflection, does the president denounce white supremacism?" She refuses to say "yes."
 
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Fox is clearly looking for a way to abandon the USS Trump.
They seem to have gotten the marching orders to draw the line at White Supremacy.
 
Just a year ago one of my ex-students cane to me and told me I was the best instructor in the history of humankind. And he begged me to use his head as a foot stool for the rest of his life. Ironically he was weeping so profusely he became dehydrated and died within a month.
 
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On Fox News, John Roberts is visibly angry that the Press Secretary won't make a clear denunciation of white supremacy: "Stop deflecting. Stop blaming the media. I'm tired of it. " he said.

The question McEnany was asked was, "Without ambiguity or deflection, does the president denounce white supremacism?" She refuses to say "yes."
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Hey it was from the last election that it was insulting to republicans to call white supremacists deplorable so why would people think it has changed since then?
 
The Trump quotes McEnany is using to defend Trump over white supremacy are misleading, such as trying to spin his debate comments as condemning white supremacy when in fact he did nothing of the sort.

It's like how Trump mocks and dismisses face masks, but occasionally says they're a good thing then his team can acts like he's been the biggest advocate for them and it's a smear campaign to pretend otherwise.

Encourage bigots in one sentence before barely distancing in the next, then attack people who report on the first statement.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The Trump quotes McEnany is using to defend Trump over white supremacy are misleading, such as trying to spin his debate comments as condemning white supremacy when in fact he did nothing of the sort.

It's like how Trump mocks and dismisses face masks, but occasionally says they're a good thing then his team can acts like he's been the biggest advocate for them and it's a smear campaign to pretend otherwise.

Encourage bigots in one sentence before barely distancing in the next, then attack people who report on the first statement.
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Yes, exactly. The standard MO is to take the contradictory statements, back-pedals, and retractions as existing in a vacuum and call anyone a liar who refers to the original statement.

This has been used to great effect with the “Very fine people” statement.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
It's like how Trump mocks and dismisses face masks, but occasionally says they're a good thing then his team can acts like he's been the biggest advocate for them and it's a smear campaign to pretend otherwise.

Encourage bigots in one sentence before barely distancing in the next, then attack people who report on the first statement.
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And that's the most confusing part of Trump's debate performance. Why the **** didn't he just come up with the obviously correct answer, "Yes, I condemn White Supremacy"? Sure, everyone would have known it was a lie, but this guy lies like a rug. How is it the one time everyone expects him to lie, he just can't seem to do it? It's mindboggling.

And it's the one lie that can't possibly hurt him. The Proud Boys and their ilk will know he's just telling the libtards what they want to hear, the people who weren't going to vote for him don't matter, and it gives just enough of a fig leaf of normalcy that a few racist-but-not-racist white suburbanites might vote for him instead of against him.

This might be the single most confusing act he's committed as president. It doesn't make any sense at all, even when you try to pro-rate it based on how little sense his acts normally make.
 
Horatius said:
This might be the single most confusing act he's committed as president.
It doesn't make any sense at all, even when you try to pro-rate it based on
how little sense his acts normally make.
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Yeah, it does boggle the mind.

Perhaps, it's a product of all his years being around racists.
He's never been exposed to any other point of view on the matter.
Which boggles the mind again.
 
slyjoe said:
Or, it could be as simple as "don't upset your base".
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But that's the thing - it probably wouldn't upset his base. His base is used to dogwhistles, and used to "saying the quiet part quiet" and all that. They know that, even today, outright support for white supremacy is a losing proposition in most places. So they'll wave it away, they know there's an asterisk on his public denials. They won't care about what he says in public as long as he keeps saying the right things in private, and still actually does the racist things they want him to be doing.
 
Horatius said:
And that's the most confusing part of Trump's debate performance. Why the **** didn't he just come up with the obviously correct answer, "Yes, I condemn White Supremacy"? Sure, everyone would have known it was a lie, but this guy lies like a rug. How is it the one time everyone expects him to lie, he just can't seem to do it? It's mindboggling.



And it's the one lie that can't possibly hurt him. The Proud Boys and their ilk will know he's just telling the libtards what they want to hear, the people who weren't going to vote for him don't matter, and it gives just enough of a fig leaf of normalcy that a few racist-but-not-racist white suburbanites might vote for him instead of against him.



This might be the single most confusing act he's committed as president. It doesn't make any sense at all, even when you try to pro-rate it based on how little sense his acts normally make.
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It would be off-brand. From the other side of the table, it's merely Trump "telling it like it is" or "just being honest" and a demonstration of strength, the same with talking over his opposition. The underlying theme of Trump's support is a vicarious power trip by proxy for the naively cynical, where virtually nothing matters beyond the expansion and exercise of power to further the appearance and ends of the "powerful" or "righteous." That crowd won't complain until it affects them, and even then they'll do their best to find something else to blame rather than risk being separated from their herd, consciously or not.

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