Ironic, of course, that this guy telling women he’s going to “protect them whether women want it or not” hears about one woman - a Republican, no less - who comes out saying he shouldn’t be president, and his first instinct is to say she should be shot in front of a firing squad.
With protection like that, who needs enemies?!
Chaos magician that he is, he portrays himself as going against his political advisors advice that women will perceive such statements as a threat. When the experts say no, Trump doubles down. He learned that from Roy Cohn. In this context Trump is bringing us into the mind of a predator.
I just find it so funny that he couldn’t just say “I’m a protector of women, I plan to protect women” or something along those lines. He had to “weave” didn’t he? The narcissist finds himself drawn to the weave like a moth to a flame. And he weaved right into saying he’s going to do things for women whether they want him to or not.
A known rapist (and close friend of Epstein) saying he’ll do things whether women want them or not is… well, I guess it’s pretty normal for him.
So I want to thank Trump’s weave for this unforced error.
It’s s red meat for his MAGA bros some of whom are billionaires.
Or bears to the honey and wonder why getting stung is so painful, bull, they say , the rest is undercover
Shutting offf the TV and going for a stroll
What? Scratching head
Trump, the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute plan to replace career federal agency employees with MAGA loyalists. Given Presidential immunity to prosecution according to the recent SCOTUS ruling , what is to stop them from creating their own “deep state?
That’s correct but what’s the depth of that state? Maybe the best definition is to seek it’s clarity to avoid to take it literally and turn to the twofold definition of it (economy) the obvious one revolving around ways which could become sensible to what everyone should understand by it, the other the way they do feel about it, albeit unknowingly , under cover.
It’s not stopping them.
They were worried about the deep state and lobbyists, so they voted for a wealthy guy, who obviously is already the sort of people lobbyists exist to benefit, to take care of the problem.
It boggles the mind.
Glad I ended up between Felix and Flanell ( Jesus h Christ) for goodness sakes can keep my under the covered state (of mind)
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Between a trolling-moderator and a wannabe guru… sweet. 
Where does Felix fall on the gurometer? https://youtu.be/3SKbMEdGT-0?si=rJVqCb9OfXx63gnl
Just viewing it feel indifference ruling consensus, too close to call but you are kind of yet a delicately balanced middle of the broader to have been, at least carefully tracking your way, kind of covered fear of the shadow pulling ahead, kind of what the hare should have felt after the break it took of the turtle.
Almost a magic circle’s return from an elliptic vision of the universe?
Quine comes in here somehow
Acid test? As a supplement to gurumetrics?
It is not happening but make it more useful
It’s easier to source (of the reading)
Agreed
Dependent, Jordan Peterson how could be he rated? I am tricky as he has him, notiriety under cover thrust upon him
What’s the hypothesis?
Sensible?
You are fuzzy but it’s ok, mat
Grifter? Musk nah
3-4? Yes he ain’t above too much.
Obama monetizing content? (After the fact monetizing content? It’s not a necessarily follow)
This is an eternallly return diversion of anecdotal diversion- an escape from saturated entropic perceived nonsense
The economic contextual escape from the trapping of Freudian economic wealth , misrepresents the real mover, the push and pull of monetizing the conflation between the familiar and the familial awareness to content
Which is NOT grifting
You go along out of projecting fear to the preference for ivory , towering, Ishthus’ idea before being expelled into Lost in Space’
Yes yes we’re ok, I’m ok on basis of the miracle of magic or reversely
Yes what of it if carrying the crossword puzzle who are you where are you from?
Genius risqué, genie from the bottle 3 wishes three
Worries? Nah Brahman Brahman.braman
Galaxy intuitive watch memo run blade, run rabbit, I like it 2 is there any other in the wirks amusing?
Group hermetic cult no
There is only one or too side
Delicate balance to delicate, Scottish polarized? Partisan I bet
French the red and the black
Shikamuni says Michelin suggests need to be brave say it
You won’t
Thinknlaing
Double speak cultish
Foregone
conclusion : party is On
Frenchy French fries wit get stein
Cultish repetition is Steph Attila, the door, no exit, between heaven and hell no fear under cover, no one can find
Who you are,
Who are you
All Souls’ Day coming soon
Who was is Rambough spelling wrong he was loved by what artist in the impressionistic period Van Gogh or Gauguin cut off ear? Narcissism of aesthetic poetic liscence
Packaging ice.
Schopenhauer was very mean he thought vanity excuses all
Nietzcce agreed until Heidegger change all that
Narcissism?
Hitler?
Simulated great dictator Chaplin may have agreed
Narcissism good and bad object of simulated grievance keep at separate is politically expedient shakamuni would definitely not agree through nichiren
Your stretching it it is both dystopian and utopian
Point counterpoint not familiar go the future is bright light is predominant over the absence of it
Cut out 4 now
From the very beginning “Trump said Mexicans are rapists!” it has been a nonstop shitshow of lies and misinformation. Pure dishonesty by the media and demonrats about the things Trump supposedly said.
But you also gotta give Trump some of the blame since his style of speaking is designed to be a bit trollish and to incite the left. He can say something like, “Mexico isnt sending their best, there are criminals and rapists, and some I assume are good people” and the left will lose its fucking mind about that and in their own little headspace they think they heard this: “Mexicans are all criminals and rapists.”
Oh well. No reason to expect intellectual honesty and conceptual discernment from the average person, on either side of the aisle really. But it is a certain fact that in the future there will be entire classes on the propaganda tactics, lies and distortions that were used against Trump by his political enemies. It’s practically a case study.
Yeah, the only reason (or main reason) I never voted for Trump in 2016 or 2020 was because of the rape claims. I know it’s easy for the left to make that stuff up, and rich people like Trump are targets for false claims in lawsuits just so you can get a payday out of it. However, I also know that Trump 1) cheated on his wife with a prostitute, 2) was close friends with Epstein and even admitted that Epstein liked “really young” girls, 3) flew on Epstein’s pedo rape plane at least once, 4) bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, 5) at a White House correspondence dinner he made a joke about Hillary taking whole villages of children, which shows he know the kind of pedo kidnapping shit she and other satanists in government are up to, yet he made a joke about it as if it were funny. And for you Trumpers who wanna say “well he was just doing that for …blah blah reasons but REALLY he is gonna get them!” remember the first thing Trump did after being elected in 2016 was to let Hillary completely off the hook, no investigations or charges or anything.
I don’t know if Trump is a rapist or a pedo, but there was enough reasonable doubt in my mind that I refuse to vote for him. Oh, and one of his personal attorneys is the same attorney that defended Epstein and got him off the first time.
Sounds bad, but there might something else left hanging in the undertow, and after seeing him at his rowdy performance, it did not ebb my feeling , how can the things alluded to here, come to this?
I go back to an example ‘back to the future’ kind of addition, not to be rude to humanize, but this just happened in Milwaukee, Nov 2nd, and just had to put it in here, alluding to what is really a travesty of some kind, or is politics that ‘downstream
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TRUMP NEEDS HELP
Last night he simulated oral sex in public.
NOVEMBER 02, 2024
I do not know how to put this gently or tastefully, so I will factually describe what happened last night in Milwaukee: A former president of the United States held a rally, during which he used a microphone holder on his podium to pantomime the act of giving fellatio.
I could have put it differently. I might have said that “a cognitively impaired man, who has long been showing signs of serious emotional instability and has a history of sexism and racism, engaged in crude behavior in front of a large audience.” But that wouldn’t capture an important reality:
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This deeply impaired man is tied in the race to become the next president and could be holding the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in less than three months.
I don’t know if this bizarre display will move votes away from Donald Trump. Nothing seems to dent the loyalty of his base. Trump voters are resolute in their determination to minimize his ghastly antics, or even to scrub them from their minds. (As one commenter said on social media today, Trump’s new mantra might be: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and blow somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”)
Besides, it’s always difficult to single out one terrible moment at a Trump rally when there are so many from which to choose. Last night, for example, he insisted that he won Wisconsin twice. (He didn’t.) He also took a veiled racist shot at the Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is Black. “Your team is very good,” Trump told the crowd. “I would say the Greek is a seriously good player. Do you agree? And tell me, who has more Greek in him, the Greek or me? I think we have about the same, right?” Antetokounmpo is of Greek and Nigerian parentage, and was born in Athens. I am a half-Greek myself (my mother was Irish American), and the Bucks star is as Greek as I am, but we all get the joke: A Black Greek! Get it? He’s Greek …and Black!
Trump is white, and we know this, by the way, because he told us so. During a stop in Michigan before he got to Wisconsin, Trump explained that he could have been living an easier life on the golf course had he chosen not to run for president:
This was not the first time Trump had made comments about his skin. But I digress, because I’d rather be talking about Trump’s clumsy racism than his hummer on a mic holder.
Look, my Greek father lived to be 94 years old. He might have found the idea of a Black Greek basketball player kind of amusing, and he might have laughed about it among his poker buddies. My dad was a working-class, shot-and-beer guy who told more than his share of sexist and racist jokes.
But if my father in his late 70s had simulated a blow job in mixed company—never mind in front of an audience that included children—I’d have brought him in for a complete neurological workup. Despite an ability to swear that rivaled the Old Man in the movie A Christmas Story, he deeply disapproved of men who swore or were crude in front of women and kids. When I would go out drinking with him, I occasionally saw him go over and caution other men whose language was getting out of hand. (He was a former cop and worked as a bouncer for a time.) Dad was not exactly Emily Post, but there were limits.
Trump, by most reports, has always been a vulgar and ignorant man. This creepy moment in Milwaukee will add to our national and international humiliation if he is returned to office. But more important, manifesting this kind of disinhibited behavior in public more and more often is a warning sign that he is simply not stable enough to sit in the Oval Office.
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I do not know if Trump’s erratic behavior, his apparent physical decline, his bizarre rambles and their mental cul-de-sacs are part of a larger illness. Trump’s critics claim that he has dementia and other afflictions. I am not a doctor, and I cannot reach that conclusion. But I know this much: If Donald Trump were your father, your husband, your brother, your uncle, or merely your friend, you would insist that he see a doctor, and you would likely shield him from large gatherings where he could become an object of ridicule. You might even suggest that family or friends look in on him more often.
Whatever small mercies and considerations you might offer to a man acting like Trump, you would certainly not place him in positions of pressure or responsibility, or inflict situations on him in which he would be called upon to make speedy and important decisions. You definitely would not make him the commander in chief of the most powerful military on the planet and place the safety of billions of innocent human beings in his hands.
The rally crowd, ever faithful and willing to do its part, laughed as Trump pretended to pleasure a piece of equipment. But for the rest of us, the laughter has to stop, and the horror of what might happen in a few days must take its place.
Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter.
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Because most trump supporters have no memory whatsoever, and don’t remember any of these things. Or they were not paying attention in the first place.
Trump-love is an obsession, an emotion. It’s not based in rationality. Trump himself knows this, he even joked that he could shoot someone in public in the middle of the street and he wouldnt lose any supporters. It’s true.
There’s nothing Trump could do to lose supporters. Think about that. He could even allow a rigged and stolen election to turn into an actual coup in America, under his watch, and do nothing to stop it. Oh wait, he already did that.