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Well yeah, but then Trump wouldn't make the connection without me saying Johnson.  His deep knowledge of landmark cases involving flag desecration is impressive, but I felt he needed a little clue with me misquoting Die Hard.  I mean his SCOTUS and "Die Hard" expertise border on pedagogy.

 

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Ladies and gentlemen, Rick Wilson.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-happy-place-is-grunting-and-fantasizing-about-real-men?ref=home

 

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After Tulsa, it was a straight shot to Yuma. 

Sure, that sounds like the opening line of a geographically incoherent high lonesome song, but it’s really the arc of Donald Trump’s shattered ego on his failed road trip to recapture the old magic of his crowds. 

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Yesterday’s trip to Yuma should have been the salve he needed, but even an afternoon visit with a crowd of Trumpjugend Turning Pointers sporting red hats, cargo shorts and Charlie Kirk tramp stamps couldn’t offset weeks of utter personal and political humiliation. With more than 125,000 Americans dead on his watch, Trump two rallies in hasn’t found even 10,000 willing to risk their health to show up and support him.

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Wednesday night was Trump-right Catskills shtick, a collection of the Bannon 2016 greatest hits, with a few updated notes like “abolishing the police.” We had the Wall. We had socialists. We had braggadocio galore. Of course, what Turning Point fap-fest featuring Donald Trump would be complete without a little casual racism, as Trump savored repeating his “Kung Flu” line to the delight of the crowd?

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Yeah she has kind of a Shannon Bream at a sorority rush thing back in the day going on right there.  

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How do they violate the Flag Code constantly?  Honest question.  

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That's how Disney World gets away with not having to take down all the flags throughout the park at night.  They aren't really American Flags, as they are one stripe short.  Which works out well, because I don't consider Florida a state anymore.

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  On 6/24/2020 at 6:42 AM, longhornmatt said:

I think it does hurt to an extent.  The fact that he was weakish in Texas, North Carolina and Georgia in 2016 and slipping there more now, but stays up huge margins in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi isn’t really due to racial demographics.  Given how large the African American population is in the Deep South and that they vote 90% for Democrats, he actually would be in trouble in places like Mississippi if not for an insanely large percentage of the white population in the state being right in his wheelhouse.  voter suppression  

In states that, for lack of a more delicate way of putting it, have money and metro areas that attract educated people,  he loses steam for precisely that reason.  More white people in those places who would otherwise be GOP voters actually are exposed to how things are supposed to work, and after a while it’s just too much for them to pretend Trump isn’t a buffoon.

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I'd like to say that as much as I don't care about burning the flag, I also don't care about Trump's flag code violations...It's a flag.

 

 

 

(that doesn't mean that I don't get the irony of it all)

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I didn't put much stock into the people claiming Trump is trying not to get reelected initially, but I'm starting to think its possible.  His staff is doing everything they can to try to cover and spin the crazy shit hes saying, and he comes out with "I don't kid" and doubles down on "kung flu".  In 2016 they had a pretty targeted message for blue collar white voters and they were strategic with the states they needed to get the EC win.  Its pretty clear hes losing ground or outright lost ground in key swing states, but he keeps just pandering to his narrowing base.  

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:17 PM, TXSG8R said:

I didn't put much stock into the people claiming Trump is trying not to get reelected initially, but I'm starting to think its possible.  His staff is doing everything they can to try to cover and spin the crazy shit hes saying, and he comes out with "I don't kid" and doubles down on "kung flu".  In 2016 they had a pretty targeted message for blue collar white voters and they were strategic with the states they needed to get the EC win.  Its pretty clear hes losing ground or outright lost ground in key swing states, but he keeps just pandering to his narrowing base.  

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It's a fun concept, but his ego and narcissism which is tied so tightly to "winning" and coming out on to, makes this concept impossible for me to accept. If he had this kind of perspective, he'd step down for health reasons. Instead he is risking the idea that he might have the worst electoral turnout in modern memory. We know ego rules everything, this guy wants to fucking win. 

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:17 PM, TXSG8R said:

I didn't put much stock into the people claiming Trump is trying not to get reelected initially, but I'm starting to think its possible.  His staff is doing everything they can to try to cover and spin the crazy shit hes saying, and he comes out with "I don't kid" and doubles down on "kung flu".  In 2016 they had a pretty targeted message for blue collar white voters and they were strategic with the states they needed to get the EC win.  Its pretty clear hes losing ground or outright lost ground in key swing states, but he keeps just pandering to his narrowing base.  

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all he wants is reelection.  he just thinks that the more entertaining person will get elected*.  all he knows is how to generate ratings.  the pandemic and great depression level unemployment made that thinking a smaller part of the equation.  you actually have to be somewhat not horrible at government too.

 

*which is usually right.

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:21 PM, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

all he wants is reelection.  he just thinks that the more entertaining person will get elected*.  all he knows is how to generate ratings.  the pandemic and great depression level unemployment made that thinking a smaller part of the equation.  you actually have to be somewhat not horrible at government too.

 

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Getting reelected is the only goal.  There is no policy.  None.  There are sound bites that they will pretend to build policy around.

- Reduce polling stations in urban/minority districts because "Covid"

- Try to eliminate, but at least completely destabilize/de-legitimize mail in voting.

- Get people so sick or scared of Covid by failing to take preventative measures so that folks don't go vote, or even better, the election is delayed indefinitely as a public health concern.  

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:20 PM, SydneyCarton said:

It's a fun concept, but his ego and narcissism which is tied so tightly to "winning" and coming out on to, makes this concept impossible for me to accept. If he had this kind of perspective, he'd step down for health reasons. Instead he is risking the idea that he might have the worst electoral turnout in modern memory. We know ego rules everything, this guy wants to fucking win. 

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Its not a stretch to think he realized hes way in over his head, and hes just fucking sick of the job.  By doubling and tripling down to his base, he gets to become a martyr and transition back to being a media/TV star where he gets to keep conning his cult and open the door for Jr or Ivanka.  I know hes a narcissist, but hes also a giant pussy and his ego has been taking an absolute beating over the last couple of weeks.    

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:06 PM, SimonBolivar said:

I'd like to say that as much as I don't care about burning the flag, I also don't care about Trump's flag code violations...It's a flag.

 

 

 

(that doesn't mean that I don't get the irony of it all)

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Most will agree. The issue is the hypocrisy of the "jail the flag burners" from his supporters who wave altered flags tailored to trump.

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:59 PM, TexasEd said:

Like Mussolini 

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I thought Mussolini was stopped at a roadside checkpoint, trying to drive to a train station in Switzerland?  I could see Trump trying to disguise he and Melania to get safe passage to Mar-a-Lago though. 

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That star looks just like Stormy Daniels' butthole.  

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  On 6/24/2020 at 4:11 PM, Degenerate Gardner said:
It's Trump's dry humping of Old Glory that's most objectionable, though he's obviously comfortable groping without consent.
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That and flying it below or equal to the stars and bars, in the rain, on the back of truck, putting it on a "fuck your feelings shirt", and just general fuckery and disrespect.
Kneeling during the anthem bad.
Dry humping the flag good!
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I'm glad Surly finally broached the issue that's nearest and dearest to me: the Flag Code.

I've been waiting a long time for all those sons of bitches who print the flag design on napkins, plates, and other disposables to be thrown in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison. Scum! 

 

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:27 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

Getting reelected is the only goal. 

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when excerpts from bolton's book started to leak, the first one was his quote saying basically, "there wasn't one decision trump made in 3 years that wasn't based on the calculus of re-election."

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truly illuminating, john.

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  On 6/24/2020 at 3:17 PM, TXSG8R said:

I didn't put much stock into the people claiming Trump was trying not to burn through his inheritance get reelected   initially, but I'm starting to think its possible he really knows how to land on his feet, avoid paying taxes and rob people blindHis staff is lawyer was doing everything they can he could to try to cover and spin the crazy shit hes saying he did, and he comes out with "I don't kid" "I'm a billionaire" and doubles down on "kung flu"  and the Central Park 5.  In 2016 2005 they he had a pretty targeted message for blue collar white voters gullible real estate wanna-bes and they were he was strategic with the states they needed to get the EC win high pressure sales tactics needed to enroll students in Trump UIts pretty clear he's losing ground or outright lost ground in key swing states his con game, but he keeps just pandering to his narrowing base.  

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FIFY. Same old same old. Only difference now is that there are more marks, his goons run the Senate, and his lawyer is his biggest enabler. The mental disorder combined with some dementia and he's "I... I... I... can't help it, somebody gives me an angle, I play it."

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