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Biden's not a dog's dinner: Champ, Major (and Snowflake) know a President when they sniff one (Trump thread #126)

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 22/02/2021 09:02

Thread title inspired by minou123 Smile

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lionheart · 28/02/2021 21:01

This might help.

Biden's not a dog's dinner: Champ, Major (and Snowflake) know a President when they sniff one (Trump thread #126)
DuncinToffee · 28/02/2021 21:15

Josh Wingove @josh_wingrove

Meanwhile, on Fox News, they're predicting that Trump who'd been scheduled to speak at CPAC at 3:40 only left Palm Beach earlier this hour and now isn't expected to take the stage in Orlando until 4:55 p.m.

Fox is also saying the speech may be 2 hours long

lionheart · 28/02/2021 21:56

Okay, I dipped in and watched him kiss the flag.

That's it for me.

Roussette · 28/02/2021 22:11

I've seen 30 seconds. Doofus looks very ummmm rotund and talked about the 'dangerous predators' on the border.
I haven't missed him

DuncinToffee · 28/02/2021 22:11

Not watching, just saw some tweets from Aaron Rupar, apparently he is reading from a prompter and dogwhistling qanon. I am not playing the videos.

QuestionableDanceMoves · 28/02/2021 23:02

The few seconds I just saw he was still peddling the lies about more votes than voters in swing states

The crowd were shouting “cheaters”

lionheart · 28/02/2021 23:32

Women

<a class="break-all" href="https://19thnews.org/2021/02/women-arrested-storming-the-capitol/?utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_content=19thnews.org/2021&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">19thnews.org/2021/02/women-arrested-storming-the-capitol/?utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_content=19thnews.org/2021&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

'Court documents reviewed by The 19th began to paint a picture of women’s roles and intentions during the insurrection.'

AcrossthePond55 · 01/03/2021 00:13

I have no intention of watching Doofus. It's going to be the same verbal vomit that we've heard for the last 6 years.

I'll wait for Rachel to cover it tomorrow night.

lifesabitchandthenyoudie · 01/03/2021 09:00

@lionheart that article is chilling. It reads like a study of how terrorists are made.

lionheart · 01/03/2021 09:43

Radicalisation is a term that has been circulating in relation to some of these people and Trump's base.

I am not sure how apt it is because it suggests they are less responsible for their decisions than might otherwise be the case ...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/28/trump-republican-party-biden-democrats

Thymeout · 01/03/2021 10:19

Well, I did watch for a bit and what struck me was how different the atmosphere was from the rallies/Jan 6th speech. Seemed v flat, a bit half-hearted, going through the motions. There was claque of screamers near the mics with someone revving them up like a warm-up man before he came on stage, but nowhere near the same level of enthusiasm from general shots of the audience. Some looked distinctly embarrassed to be standing up mouthing the slogans. Like singing at a funeral.

The media line (CNN, Sky) seemed to be why was he there at all instead of quietly leaving the scene like other former presidents. But that was never going to happen and of course it was easy to find vox pops from diehard fans, happy to go along with the fantasy.

However, Sarah Baxter, Sun Times, was surprised to find how few supported the idea of Trump 24. So definitely Trump as king-maker, but little enthusiasm for a successor from the Trump family.

Yes, he'll do his worst to make sure that candidates in the mid-terms will be Trumpists, but by then I think there's a good chance, as with Georgia run-offs, that a Trump endorsement will help the Dems more than the Reps.

lionheart · 01/03/2021 10:29

'Claque' is a great word. Smile

PerkingFaintly · 01/03/2021 12:28

I completely agree that people remain responsible for their decisions.

But I think it's important to recognise that intentional radicalisation is going on, and that this is being done by people or entities with various aims (including simply destruction in order to create a vacuum which can then be exploited).

That's important for understanding and combatting it.

Roussette · 01/03/2021 12:52

ThymeOut that is interesting... with the two short clips I watched it was hard to work out exactly how it was going down with the crowd.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/03/2021 13:37

The World Service reporting more than once mentioned his "false claim" that he won the election. I'm glad they have come out and called it false; that's the right word, if they can't bring themselves to use "lying".

DuncinToffee · 01/03/2021 15:05

Trump will never stop lying about the 2020 election. His CPAC speech proved it.
www.vox.com/platform/amp/2021/2/28/22306318/trump-cpac-2021-speech-election-lies

If anybody thought the January 6 insurrection and the ensuing second impeachment trial might’ve chastened Donald Trump, his CPAC speech on Sunday should have disabused them of that notion — and of any thoughts the former president would ever accept the reality that his loss to President Joe Biden was fair and legitimate.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/03/2021 17:03

He seems accidentally to have said something true, which surprises me.

Cacacoisfarraige · 01/03/2021 19:17

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lionheart · 01/03/2021 20:20

Nine key changes apparently.

Thoughts and evangelical prayers.

Biden's not a dog's dinner: Champ, Major (and Snowflake) know a President when they sniff one (Trump thread #126)
lionheart · 01/03/2021 20:20

To be fair, it is a difficult song to sing. Smile

PerkingFaintly · 01/03/2021 20:42

Someone has totally trolled them with that golden calf Trump.

God knows who, but I can just imagine them sitting round going, "These people pride themselves on being Christian, yes? Sooooo... what's the most absurd thing we could push them to do? Fawn over a golden idol? Too much? Surely they'd never fall for that..."

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/03/2021 21:08

The golden calf thing is Old Testament; are evanjellybabies OT? Or are they just OTT?

Anniegetyourgun · 01/03/2021 21:40

OTR (Off Their Rockers).

maggiethecat · 01/03/2021 21:49

@lionheart
Is that picture for real?!

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