"Trump is no longer a strongman.

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy One is beginning to wonder if HE is cancelling these things, or if his TEAM are cancelling them because he's now too obviously demented to be allowed an appearance...

[ferricoxide@evil.social]

@[email protected]

Republican party is now a collection of cultists and those who seek to take advantage of that cult. Does any of Trump's obvious failings matter to the cultists? And, so long as the cultists constitute nearly half the voting-populace, do those failings matter to those seeking to cash in on that cult (especially in voting-regions where the cultists are more than half of the likely voting-pool)?

[dsmdexter@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Postponed until the 6th Tuesday in Octember.

[alexafontanilla2024@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Judging by the video that Kamala Harris’s campaign is circulating, her aides are pleased with one particular exchange during her interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier. In it, Harris dressed down Baier for playing video of Donald Trump that sanitized away his threat to unleash the military on “the enemy within.”

Many observers immediately surmised that this moment—which showed Harris digging in hard against Baier.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/329/465/378/100/961/original/7a74d1ef1e097378.jpg

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

I watch clips of Bret Baier interviewing Kamala Harris – attacking her, pouncing on her, talking over her, interrupting her – and I ask myself,

What kind of parents raised this man with the manners of an ill-tempered skunk?

What kind of parents raised a son and gave him the idea that it was okay to treat another human being this way?

#KamalaHarris #BretBaier
/12

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-shuts-down-bret-baier-as-he-plays-the-maga-hits-in-fox-news-interview/

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Why did his schooling in a Catholic high school, his years as an altar boy, all the years he's gone to church as the practicing Catholic he is: why have these had so little impact on how he treats fellow human beings?

Has no one ever told him that lying is morally wrong?

#KamalaHarris #BretBaier
/13

[judeet99@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy My theory is that Catholics know they can be absolved of sin so maybe that adds in?

[elpasyou_2@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy
That's the circle of life for catholics

Lying -> confession -> penance -> lying -> confession -> penance -> lying etc. etc.

[72mz@mstdn.party]

@wdlindsy
He was groomed by fox.

[erbeckman@historians.social]

@wdlindsy
I think about John Roberts along similar lines. How did a well-educated man who grew up with modest privilege decide to make dismantling the Voting Rights Act his life work?

[enmodo@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy AKA "the Emperor has no clothes!" - except it's not just no one but the little boy who spoke up, it's that 50% of the country was deaf to the screams of others.

One day they will look back and give a name to this like they did for Stockholm Syndrome. We may no unironically call it Trump Derangement Syndrome because when MAGA claimed this is what liberals had they were of course projecting - and that was just part of the syndrome.

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

"the interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief...Micklethwait...was perhaps the best example I’ve seen of an interlocutor revealing both Donald’s inability to handle pushback and his stunning ignorance. The titan of business and master of the art of the deal clashed repeatedly with Micklethwait—over January 6 and the economic impact of increased tariffs—and he came out of every exchange looking like a complete fool whose lack of knowledge was surpassed only by his contemptuousness.

[oceanpinesguy@lor.sh]

@wdlindsy Brettlooks likes Botox treatment gone wrong.

[iamcanehdian@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy Catholicism moral? You'd never know it from the behaviour. I think Hitchens said it best.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Donald Trump won’t stop backing out of interviews, and his forces have been left scrambling.

Trump dropped out of yet another interview on Friday, when a Trump adviser told producers of The Shade Room that Trump wouldn’t be following through on talks to appear on the podcast because he was 'exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change,' two people familiar with the conversation told Politico."

~ Edith Olmsted

#KamalaHarris #Trump #strongman
/14

Trump Abruptly Dumps Another Interview, Sending His Team into a Panic

Donald Trump’s team is worried that he keeps dropping out of media appearances, even friendly ones.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

Predicted this earlier this week after Harris did such a great job on Charlemagne Tha God.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

As he wittily observes that the final weeks of this election season are showing us that "the emperor has no closing," Jay Kuo says,

"As we enter the final two weeks of the Election, the 'October Surprise' could be something some of us have long warned of: Trump just isn’t okay."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes
/15

The Emperor Has No Closing

As we enter the final two weeks of the Election, the “October Surprise” could be something some of us have long warned of: Trump just isn’t okay.

(statuskuo.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It’s now widely reported that he has missed several recent interviews and events, but let’s lay them out for clarity:

60 Minutes on CBS (Harris accepted)

CNN Debate (Harris accepted)

CNBC News interview with Joe Kernan

NBC News interview with Christine Romans

NRA Rally in Georgia for the 2nd Amendment"

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes
/16

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"One thing is already clear: Trump’s closing argument is not only landing with a thud, his campaign is actively removing him from view to limit the damage. His handlers simply don’t want voters to see how far he has declined from his former self, and they are hoping now to run out the clock, before the naked truth is revealed for all to see."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes
/17

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The reason the US is a knife’s edge away from electing a fascist is significantly a media problem, both the existence of the hermetically sealed world of Trump propaganda and the collapse and/or abdication of credible media for other reasons. The people who would make this election a blowout loss for Trump are often not accessing truthful information."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes #media
/18

Could This Week's Developments Change the Race? - emptywheel

A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump's disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.

emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)