"Trump is no longer a strongman.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Bret Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence. She still injected some reality into Fox News’s world. ...

Immigrant hatred. Transphobia. And later, Joe Biden’s age. Baier was running through the Fox News greatest hits playlist.

This was grievance theater, not political journalism.

But Harris got in her licks."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes
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Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism | Margaret Sullivan

Bret Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence. She still injected some reality into Fox News’s worldKey takeaways from Harris’s Fox News interview

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

“I agreed to a second debate. Trump refused. I released my medical records. Trump has not. I sat for a 60 Minutes interview. Trump backed out. One has to ask: What is Donald Trump trying to hide?”

~ Kamala Harris

#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism #strongman #EmperorHasNoClothes
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Trump keeps canceling appearances. What is he hiding?

For the second time in one day, Donald Trump has canceled a planned public appearance, leading to questions about whether his campaign is trying to limit exposure of their candidate in the home ...

Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)

bytebro

@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...

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@[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)?

Sex Crazed SaltShaker of Death

@wdlindsy
Postponed until the 6th Tuesday in Octember.

Alexa Fontanilla

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

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
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Harris Shuts Down Bret Baier as He Plays the MAGA Hits

The Fox News host opened his sit-down by hammering Harris on President Biden’s border policies—and asking her about crimes committed by migrants.

The Daily Beast (www.thedailybeast.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

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
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Aloniaxx

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

🌱💜 Ellen 🇺🇦

@wdlindsy
That's the circle of life for catholics

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

72mz

@wdlindsy
He was groomed by fox.

Eric Beckman

@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?

Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸

@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

@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.

Ken

@wdlindsy Brettlooks likes Botox treatment gone wrong.

iamcanehdian 🍁

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

William Lindsey :toad:

"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
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