Heather Cox Richardson notes that she normally takes Saturday night off from her magisterial commentary, but this Saturday, she has chosen to comment on how bonkers Trump is becoming and was in his beyond-crazy speech in Wisconsin yesterday, with wild,...
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Heather Cox Richardson notes that she normally takes Saturday night off from her magisterial commentary, but this Saturday, she has chosen to comment on how bonkers Trump is becoming and was in his beyond-crazy speech in Wisconsin yesterday, with wild, reality-oblivious claims that Democrats are murdering newborns and children are going to school and coming home with sex-change operations performed on them.
#Trump #MentalDecline #fascism
/1September 7, 2024
By rights, tonight’s post should be a picture, but Trump’s behavior today merits a marker because it feels like a dramatic escalation of the themes we’ve seen for years.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Trump's rhetoric is not just wild, but dangerous, as he rambles about violence and bloody retribution against imagined enemies and especially immigrants. She writes,
"Whatever has caused it, Trump seems utterly off his pins, embracing wild conspiracy theories and, as his hopes of winning the election appear to be crumbling, threatening vengeance with a dogged fury that he used to be able to hide."
But the problem has been Biden's age, right, media folks?
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Roger Moorereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
This has to terrify Trump's backers looking at the debate. They've been able to hide Trump's unhinged behavior with the help of media willing to "interpret" his rants into something more sane and coherent. They can't do that when tens of millions of voters see them live. Maybe they'll get his meds right and he'll be able to act remotely sane for 90 minutes, but the danger is there. If he blows up on live TV, it will be too late to replace him as the Republican candidate. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Donald Trump, in even more expansive terms than usual, has threatened to jail his political opponents. That should be chilling for all of us. What is even more frightening is how many of our co-citizens are comfortable with this, even support it.
These individuals represent an aggregation of racists, xenophobes and conspiracy theorists."
~ Mark Mansour
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"While conspiracists have always been among us, this strain far exceeds in its danger anything we have seen before. Donald Trump is responsible for providing a flag around which they could rally, as they did on January 6th to terrifying effect.
We can call most of these people low information voters. But it really doesn’t matter what we call them. They are deeply entrenched and they aren’t going away.
We are in a dangerous place."
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RiaResistsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy sad and true.
Someday I will learn the word or the term that accurately describes how I feel about the whole thing.
Part of it is codependency in my family of origin.
Makes it incredibly difficult & painful to move in without them. I can’t & I won’t placate them by nodding along in agreement about trump the patriot.
Not a damn thing I or anyone else can do about it.
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MidgePhotoreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
And the media's job, of not passing on artifacts, and telling people not to be silly, has been neglected. -
EarthMommareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
I just keep seeing Trump in one of those sling-shot rides and every crazy thing he says stretches him back farther and farther, with the release coming on November 6th.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to EarthMomma last edited by
@LaNaehForaday Let's hope!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to MidgePhoto last edited by
@midgephoto Absolutely.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RiaResists last edited by
@RiaResists "Someday I will learn the word or the term that accurately describes how I feel about the whole thing." That's such a good description of where so many of us find ourselves now that our family members, friends, fellow citizens have unmasked themselves and we cannot unsee what we're seeing.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Roger Moore last edited by
@VATVSLPR I suspect he'll be programmed to the hilt by his handlers and instructed in no uncertain terms to veer from the script they've given him. I also think Harris will know how to draw him out and needle him, and I don't trust his impulse control one bit and expect some bizarre outbursts.
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RiaResistsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy exactly.
The curtain’s been opened.
Their inner-most selves have been revealed.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RiaResists last edited by
@RiaResists It is sad, for sure. And we will not unsee what they have chosen to reveal to us.