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Let me be candid and honest here my man. I cannot be sympathetic to your comments because this is how adult life has always been. From the moment I stepped out of my home and headed off to college I h

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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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Trump wouldn’t be chasing the rally dragon so soon if his campaign was competent enough to organize a two-car motorcade. Nineteen thousand warm bodies filling the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, would have changed the narrative of the 2020 campaign. Nineteen thousand screaming Trump fans, red of hat, stout of middle, and full of rage could have been the perfect catalyst for a wave of dumb, inevitable Comeback Kid stories.

Nineteen thousand people, plus a few thousand extras to fill the spillover space that Trump and Mike Pence were going to speak in, if only anyone had been there,  would have tricked dozens of reporters into filing breathless stories about the remarkable energy and persistence of the Trump base, about the continuing intensity of the love for the Donald in red America. Nineteen thousand people would have set the stage for a week of “does Biden have the enthusiasm?” stories on cable and across the internet. 

The media, as much as Trump loathes them, were so ready for it. They were excited to make this race into a contest with the old who’s-up-and-who’s-down horse race, instead of staring at the trainwreck after 6,000 desultory people trickled in, with quite a few leaving early. 

The ability to draw 19,000 voters in the reddest of red states in the reddest part of the country should’ve been an absolute no-brainer. Part of the sales pitch for the Trump campaign is their unique, esoteric secret sauce based on a rabid, cult following motivated by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media manipulation. Supposedly, Website Guy Parscale can activate and motivate their voters whenever he wants. After all, the Trump organization has burned through half a billion dollars in the last year building his Death Star, so it must be able to turn out 19,000 voters on a Saturday night, right? 

The pent-up hunger for Trump’s presence wasn’t terribly acute, obviously, and more troubling for the campaign, they’re now questioning their digital turnout tools, that top-dollar “Death Star,” after it got spoofed by the K-Pop stans.

We saw how entirely defeated Trump looked walking off Marine One after Saturday’s shibacle (a portmanteau from friend Steve Schale, combining “shitshow” and debacle”), the grim reality resting on his sweaty mug as he walked toward the White House. He’s losing, and his campaign blew a layup assignment. Even Trump realized his speech had been a flop; the long, rambing Lord of the Ramp story didn’t charm the audience, but left them bored and fidgeting, hoping for a moment where Trump recaptured the magic of 2016. 

It must have been a long, long Sunday in Washington as a pissy Donald Trump did his usual pre-firing ritual; he called his circle of golf cronies, friends, and advisers asking, “So, should I fire Brad Parscale?”

Then came Yuma, and a speech so full-on agitprop bonkers that it left one Trump ally so puzzled that they texted me, “OK, fine. We’ll do it live!” in reference to Bill O'Reilly's infamous on-air outburst. As amusing as it is to dismiss Trump’s word splooge, it turns out not only the Yuma speech but the trip itself is a preview of the Fall campaign.

This is Trump’s happy place: grunting riffs, conspiracy-addled fantasies, and a strange obsession with cops treating protesters with strong, rough, manly vigor. What this says about Donald is a topic for another journal, but just listen to the way his voice drops a register while he leans in and whispers things like, “They were so much stronger. Bigger. They handled them like a baby.” Rule 34, but for presidents.

The event was a cavalcade of Trump hangers-on, minions, and wannabes. Rep. Matt Gaetz and former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell revved up the crowd  and Trump interrupted his remarks more times than usual to give audience members shout-outs. Trump likes comfort food and, while Gaetz and Grenell may sound like the name of a 1970s folk music act, they are the kind of loudmouths he wants as attack dogs and warmup acts. 

“Listen to the way his voice drops a register while he leans in and whispers things like, ‘They were so much stronger. Bigger. They handled them like a baby.’ Rule 34, but for presidents.”

The main act was discursive, distracted and ineffective outside the warm, frothy waters of the TPUSA’s political gene pool. 

Like so much of Trumpism, Yuma was one more example of a movement that can’t scale, a campaign that can’t deploy, and a president who can’t stop repeating the stuff that worked for him before. His new shitlord themes are clearly a live-action focus group that he expects to visit time and again this fall. 

Get ready for 1968 redux with Fat Nixon at the helm. Strap in for apocalyptic rhetoric about MS-13, antifa and socialists, not to mention those poor, misunderstood Confederate generals.

The crowd of 3,000 in Yuma today may have been slightly more zesty than Tulsa’s night of the living dead, but COVID is clearly a specter haunting the Trump world. Just like in Tulsa, participants were required to sign a release: “By attending this convention, you and any guest voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Turning Point Action, their affiliates, Dream City Church, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.” 

With his speeches flopping and COVID exploding, Donald Trump may be forced into campaigning from the bunker. What could go wrong?

 

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13 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

Shit is un goddamn real. History is going to nuke dotard from orbit on everything covid related. 

I'm going to celebrate his death with even more glee than I did OBL's. If there is a God, it will be from covid. 

OBL had nothing on Trump when it came to killing Americans.

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

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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 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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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.  

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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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.  

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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Here's one way....yours today for only $17.95 plus applicable taxes and shipping costs at

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Trump in front of country. Definitely looks like America's not first here.

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2 minutes ago, 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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9 minutes ago, 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. 

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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Here's one way....yours today for only $17.95 plus applicable taxes and shipping costs at

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38 minutes ago, 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)

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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Cant make this shit up.  

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4 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

Like Mussolini 

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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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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1 hour ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Getting reelected is the only goal. 

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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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 blind.  His 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 U.  Its 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.  

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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