Trump 100 Thread and We're Way Down the Rabbit Hole.

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It is Easter, after all.

Old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3820737-Acquitted-but-still-impeached-Trump-thread-99?pg=10

If you have a drink in hand, all I can say is put it down by the 1.11 mark.

Trump Hits Biden Over Observing Virus Restrictions | Morning Joe | MSNBC

I got as far as "We have a sleepy guy in the basement" and had to turn it off.

I can read about Scrotus, I can read his tweets and statements. But I can no longer stand to see his mouth moving or hear his voice. I don't think I've ever felt this level of blinding rage at one person in my entire life.

As far as I am concerned, he's no better than a murderer. First the innocent children (and adults) in the detention camps. Military personnel in useless military 'actions'. Now the people in the US from ALL walks of life who are dying from CV19. How many deaths to boost his ego will be laid at his door before this is all over?

187 days until Election Day
265 days until Inauguration Day

Am I reading the runes correctly? Are his chances of re-election waning?

It's legitimate rage.

God, I hope so boatyardblues.

AcrossthePond55
My apologies, I forget about the voice because I use subtitles.

I've felt sickened by the man since I heard the tape of him crowing about how he could just touch and kiss and grab women and teens and 'They just let you do it'. The message it gave to females and males made my blood boil. Teen girls getting the message 'Shut up and put up, no on-one will listen to you' and to boys 'Go ahead, be as bad as you want, they're asking for it anyway, you still get to be president'. My ex and his whole family still voted for the guy. They still defend him.

Over the time he's been in office, a lot of them say they don't like him as a person but they like that he a: speaks his mind, and b: gets things done. I felt tempted to ask 'So you like people who speak their mind?' and then proceed with speaking mine. I didn't out of politeness and because I know what they really mean is we like it unless it's done to us.

They regurgitate Fox soundbites, they feed off each other and blame the wrong people all the time. Lately though there are cracks starting to show as now it's hitting them personally. Last week speaking to my ex, he blurted out he was 'getting sick of his antics' referencing Trump*.

It's not just Trump though. His enablers share as much blame, as do those who are whispering in his ear like some little devil sat on his shoulder. Even Pence who is subtly throwing him under the bus when he does his 'The President has made the decision to...' Pence is covering his backside but doing it in a fawning manner so Trump just hears the adulation not the screeching wheels.

put it down by the 1.11 mark
thanks, my first proper laugh of the day:o

speaking to my ex, he blurted out he was 'getting sick of his antics' referencing Trump
maybe your ex heralds the final act?
I'm thinking the average Trumper is a person who sees things in black and white terms, when they turn on him there will be no shades of grey and there is none so righteous as the newly converted!
It will be like bankruptcy, gradually, then suddenly :)

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So agree Mirador

Exactly so Mirador, or even when he mimicked the disabled reporter.

Actually, before he opened his mouth his business history should have been damning enough.

Let's hope this is the beginning of the end.

My apologies, I forget about the voice because I use subtitles

No need to apologize Mirador. It's my 'weakness'. They say "Know thy enemy" so I should be able to listen to him. Just can't do it. Unless it's soundbites from Randy Rainbow, Colbert, or that ilk.

boatyard 'They say' (whoever they are these days) he's losing points even with his 'fans' because of his handling of this crisis. Who really knows? There are none so unpredictable as people who are gullible and/or just plain stupid. Plus, you still have some of the Bernie Bros and others who just won't give up on Bernie even though he's now endorsed Biden. So there's still a 'smattering' of "I won't vote if I can't vote for Bernie" people who simply can't see that a non-vote is the same as a vote for Scrotus.

I think we'll have a clearer picture come late this summer.

Multiple armed gunmen storm Michigan’s State House, State police are protecting @GovWhitmer and blocking the gunmen from gaining access to the house floor.

This is America in the age of Trump.
twitter.com/vote4robgill/status/1255922426120146947?s=21

More on protest - Apparently guns are allowed in Michigan State building...

www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/30/protesters-gathering-outside-capitol-amid-covid-19-restrictions/3054911001/

President Trump plans to resume ‘massive rallies’ without social distancing
www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/president-trump-plans-to-resume-massive-rallies-without-social-distancing.html

President Donald Trump says he is planning to resume campaign rallies after spending more than a month in Washington, D.C., amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I think I’m going to Arizona next week, and we look forward to that,” Trump said Wednesday at the White House. “And I’m going to, I hope, Ohio very soon."

According to NBC, both are considered battleground states in the upcoming 2020 election. Trump won Ohio by 8 points in 2016 and Arizona by less than 4 points.

A White House spokesperson told USA Today that Trump will visit a Honeywell aerospace facility in Phoenix on Tuesday. The facility expanded its production to meet demand for N-95 respirator masks, needed by healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis.

Trump said the visit is “industry” related because it is “too soon for the big, for the big everybody get-together-and-stand-next-to-each-other crowds.”

However, the president is already planning to resume holding campaign rallies, without social distancing, soon.

“We’re going to start to move around and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can’t imagine a rally where you have every fourth seat full – every sixth seat’s empty for every one that you have full. That wouldn’t look too good," Trump said Wednesday.

I am WTFing so hard at both of those.

Killing off Trump supporters is not really the way I'd like him to lose the election...

I teared up a little listening to my PM speaking today about the more relaxed measures from next week. He's not Churchill, but he bloody well sounded like him by comparison.

However, the president is already planning to resume holding campaign rallies, without social distancing, soon.

Isn’t that a bit of an own goal? He might kill off crucial voters he needs to swing the vote in those marginal states...

(It goes without saying it is abhorrent he is even considering it.)

I predict that, come the rallies, trump will develop a preacher/ man of God persona and and tell the crowd that the divine light of trump (probably the one that he thinks shines out of his arse) will protect from the virus.
He feels insulted when people are socially distancing because it reminds him of a sparse audience, probably the same holds true for face masks, he can't see the rapture on the faces of his fans and he so neeeeeds to feed upon it 😬

www.vox.com/2020/4/30/21243117/trump-blames-obama-coronavirus-broken-tests-jim-acosta

Oh yes, he couldn't bear to see an empty seat at his cult rallies.

And this
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amid-a-rising-coronavirus-death-toll-trump-leaves-the-grieving-to-others/ar-BB13rwU9?ocid=st

"As he presides over the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic collapse, Mr. Trump has hosted or called many people affected by the devastation, including health company executives, sports commissioners, governors, cruise boat company heads, religious leaders, telecommunications executives and foreign heads of state. One category that has yet to make his list: Americans who have lost someone to the pandemic.

As the death toll from the coronavirus over eight weeks surpasses the total American military casualties in eight years of major combat in Vietnam, Mr. Trump has led no national mourning. In his daily news conferences, he makes only perfunctory references to those who have died as he stiffly reads opening remarks, exhibiting more emotion when grieving his lost economic record than his lost constituents.

Empathy has never been considered one of Mr. Trump’s political assets. He views public displays of sadness as weakness and has made a point of stressing resolve, even at the risk of overlooking the deep pain afflicting so much of the country. His favorite words in his televised appearances of recent weeks are “powerful” and “strong.” He talks of “incredible” days ahead without dwelling on the miserable days of now. He plans fireworks while Americans plan funerals."

Michigan.

And still this ...

thehill.com/homenews/administration/495476-trump-says-flynn-essentially-exonerated-by-new-documents

The trump modus operandi relies on ambiguity, plausible deniability, controlling the narrative.
He's unable to control the narrative when it comes to scientific topics because he doesn't have the intellect to grasp the subject matter, he makes attempts to control the narrative by claiming to be a scientific expert, this may fly with some of his fans but for the majority it made him look like a boastful 3-year old.
Everything is against him now, none of his techniques will work, his beloved rallies where he indulges himself with the belief that the crowd see him as the new messiah....no longer feasible, but his need to be adored by the masses is so all consuming that he uses the coronavirus press conferences as opportunities to extract adulation from his audience.
With last night's press conference I had the impression that the press have shifted tactics, saying things which he hears as flattery but which lead him into saying things that make him look stupid🤔

Indian newscaster on "Infodemic".

Flynn pleaded guilty. How is it possible at this point for him to be "exonerated"?

I wonder if Trump is trying to create pathways via which he can be exonerated?