Walz - “All the things that make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong, the one thing I will not forgive them for is they tried to steal the joy from this country. They try and steal the joy,”
Americans are loving this approach. Run that America-hating convicted felon the fk out of town.
Walz - “All the things that make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong, the one thing I will not forgive them for is they tried to steal the joy from this country. They try and steal the joy,”
Americans are loving this approach. Run that America-hating convicted felon the fk out of town.
This is what is happening. People love the change in tone. Even the Democrats, (myself included) have been pounding the table about Trump's fascist goals in Trump 2.0. But that is campaigning on fear. It just doesn't register beyond political junkies.
But the positive message is expanding the voting base to people that are sick of politics.
And the cherry on top of that Sundae is that Trump doesn't do positivity or optimism. He is a one trick pony. And a feeble one too.
“My BIG TAKEAWAY from Trump's absurd press conference is that he is finally undergoing something called NARCISSISTIC MORTIFICATION. We dusted off this Freudian term back in April during his criminal trial, and it's extra-relevant today. Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's fears have become "dread." He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, because he knows he's partly responsible. Reality is being forced upon him, that's not of his making. He can't have that! To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. It's described there as deep injuries to ego/self, triggered by one's own compulsiveness (unforced errors -- like suggesting Putin would only release prisoners to him which set him up for embarrassment, or choosing Vance as his running mate against his better judgment, which drives him crazy daily, or repeatedly attacking the popular Georgia Governor Kemp against his own interests, because he can't control himself). THIS is where I think he is. He's become his own worst enemy, and this conflicts with his pathology of being unable to admit fault. It's a very severe and very dissonant conflict. Malignant narcissists need their grandiosity. For them to become exposed and weakened, is narcissistic injury - that happens. BUT - for them to become weakened to the extent of being able to visualize their own demise and know it's partly due to their own frailties - frailties they spend a lifetime avoiding and denying - this is irreconcilable. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, it's hell. Bringing it back to the press conference, it causes him to become even more sensitized ("that was a stupid question"), to become more easily triggered (especially about "crowd size" - the symbol of his fading grandiosity - which he rambled about excessively), to use even more projection ("America" is failing, "America" is in danger means HE is failing and HE is in danger), and it has made him physically haggard (he looked gaunt and hunched over, with stiffness in his facial muscles), and finally - got disoriented (the Willie Brown/Jerry Brown helicopter story being the most pronounced example from yesterday). Look for him to be carefully coddled by aides. They may not know the psychological terminology, but they know he's slipping away. Narcissistic mortification is a precursor to narcissistic collapse.”
Sadly this seems to be a good fit. He is a very sick man.
Yeah sure bro. Independents, libertarians, Republicans. Everyone except the Democrats are enemies right? Only your Godly democrats can save the doomed humanity, right?
Yeah sure bro. Independents, libertarians, Republicans. Everyone except the Democrats are enemies right? Only your Godly democrats can save the doomed humanity, right?
what do you do for a living if I may ask?
Kennedy is looking more and more like the sane choice tbh.
Walz - “All the things that make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong, the one thing I will not forgive them for is they tried to steal the joy from this country. They try and steal the joy,”
Americans are loving this approach. Run that America-hating convicted felon the fk out of town.
This is what is happening. People love the change in tone. Even the Democrats, (myself included) have been pounding the table about Trump's fascist goals in Trump 2.0. But that is campaigning on fear. It just doesn't register beyond political junkies.
But the positive message is expanding the voting base to people that are sick of politics.
And the cherry on top of that Sundae is that Trump doesn't do positivity or optimism. He is a one trick pony. And a feeble one too.
It's not a bad point, if the Dems are capable of doing it. Going positive is NOT something Trump is capable of, and not something the MAG@ base is even interested in hearing if he was. "They are all out to get us!" is the only thing that registers with most MAG@s. Just look at this message board. The GOP is no longer the party of Reagan. That optimist sh!t does not fly any more.
To his credit, Trump built an entire political movement of tens of millions out of cheap cynicism, paranoia and victimhood. The whole thing would be interesting to study if it wasn't so fvcking depressing.
Yeah sure bro. Independents, libertarians, Republicans. Everyone except the Democrats are enemies right? Only your Godly democrats can save the doomed humanity, right?
what do you do for a living if I may ask?
Kennedy is looking more and more like the sane choice tbh.
This is what is happening. People love the change in tone.
Going positive is NOT something Trump is capable of, and not something the MAG@ base is even interested in hearing if he was.
Meanwhile, here is what don-OLD DUMP has to offer:
“Kamala Harris. You know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, do you know what her last name is, nobody has any idea what it is. Harris. It’s like Harris.”
Gee, that's some solid policy there, and sure to lead us to a better America.
One thing is clear; his mental decline is showing more and more every time he opens his mouth. This stuff is indefensibly stupid.
But then, the feeble old man says that "everybody" wanted Roe overturned and sent back to the states. What an idiot.
Yeah sure bro. Independents, libertarians, Republicans. Everyone except the Democrats are enemies right? Only your Godly democrats can save the doomed humanity, right?
what do you do for a living if I may ask?
Kennedy is looking more and more like the sane choice tbh.
Kennedy the sane choice. The guy who picked up a dead bear road kill, put it in his car, planning to eat it but then decided to bring it back to central park and dump his old bike with it there so people would think a bike killed it. That's the sane choice?
I think Kennedy might have been sane before the worm ate his brain. But now he is out there.
More Trumpers are moving toward a different crazy guy.
The only president I would ever die in a WW3 for is Donald J. Trump
You seem like an earnest young person. So I feel I have to point out to you that Donald John Trump is the only president with an express policy of negotiating with Islamic terrorists. You don't want to die for that, do you? Before you were born, Islamic terrorists attacked America.
Another poll, another bar in Epstein Donny's future prison cell:
NYT Poll:
Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald J. Trump in three crucial battleground states, according to new surveys by The New York Times and Siena College, the latest indication of a dramatic reversal in standing for Democrats after President Biden’s departure from the presidential race remade it.
Ms. Harris is ahead of Mr. Trump by four percentage points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, 50 percent to 46 percent among likely voters in each state. The surveys were conducted from Aug. 5 to 9.
The polls, some of the first high-quality surveys in those states since Mr. Biden announced he would no longer run for re-election, come after nearly a year of surveys that showed either a tied contest or a slight lead for Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden.
Just poked around at the crosstabs of that New York Times poll, and it’s very clear they deliberately overweighted Democrats in the Rust Belt to produce this magical 5 point swing in the Rust Belt.
“My BIG TAKEAWAY from Trump's absurd press conference is that he is finally undergoing something called NARCISSISTIC MORTIFICATION. We dusted off this Freudian term back in April during his criminal trial, and it's extra-relevant today. Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's fears have become "dread." He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, because he knows he's partly responsible. Reality is being forced upon him, that's not of his making. He can't have that! To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. It's described there as deep injuries to ego/self, triggered by one's own compulsiveness (unforced errors -- like suggesting Putin would only release prisoners to him which set him up for embarrassment, or choosing Vance as his running mate against his better judgment, which drives him crazy daily, or repeatedly attacking the popular Georgia Governor Kemp against his own interests, because he can't control himself). THIS is where I think he is. He's become his own worst enemy, and this conflicts with his pathology of being unable to admit fault. It's a very severe and very dissonant conflict. Malignant narcissists need their grandiosity. For them to become exposed and weakened, is narcissistic injury - that happens. BUT - for them to become weakened to the extent of being able to visualize their own demise and know it's partly due to their own frailties - frailties they spend a lifetime avoiding and denying - this is irreconcilable. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, it's hell. Bringing it back to the press conference, it causes him to become even more sensitized ("that was a stupid question"), to become more easily triggered (especially about "crowd size" - the symbol of his fading grandiosity - which he rambled about excessively), to use even more projection ("America" is failing, "America" is in danger means HE is failing and HE is in danger), and it has made him physically haggard (he looked gaunt and hunched over, with stiffness in his facial muscles), and finally - got disoriented (the Willie Brown/Jerry Brown helicopter story being the most pronounced example from yesterday). Look for him to be carefully coddled by aides. They may not know the psychological terminology, but they know he's slipping away. Narcissistic mortification is a precursor to narcissistic collapse.”
But other than THAT, he looks like a pretty good Presidential choice, right?
