President Trump 2.0

[jfman]

Trump is scoring own goal after own goal. Questioning her race is just vile dog whistling. He even offended the crypto bros by telling them good luck with “whatever they’re playing with” undermining what they desperately want - credibility.

I do think he could/should have kept focus on Biden’s suitability to continue, who knew what and when (in the Oval Office, among Cabinet and in the party during primary season). I accept these are contested issues (covered before here I’ve no need to revisit) but as the leader (then) in the polls it was important to keep the Democrats in the spotlight and on the back foot.

That initiative is lost and they’re losing traction going out of their minds being called “weird”, which makes the accusation an almost self-fulfilling prophecy as nobody appears capable of taking it on rationally.

[1andrew1]

As Trump feels under pressure, the more he goes off script and gifts Harris voters. She's looking like the challenger to the previous two presidencies of white old men and Trump an incumbent.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

As Trump feels under pressure, the more he goes off script and gifts Harris voters. She's looking like the challenger to the previous two presidencies of white old men and Trump an incumbent.

He's running away from any more debates... Wonder why?

[jfman]

A debate, soon, would potentially be positive for Trump. He needs a reset button to get out of the current rut. Harris PR is doing a great job controlling the narrative.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Mr K

He's running away from any more debates... Wonder why?

He's bottled the ABC one but says he'll do one for the station that will go easy on him as it needs the viewers, Fox News.

[1andrew1]

Looks like the Democrats have found an effective angle on Trump and his sidekicks that is hitting home: describing their views as weird.

“Some of what he and his running mate are saying, it’s just plain weird,” Harris said during a fundraiser last weekend, as the audience laughed. “I mean, that’s the box you put that in, right?”

Democrats have been trying to portray Trump and his followers as part of an extreme rightwing fringe of American politics for years, including after the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, with mixed success.

But the hardline views on abortion and disparaging comments on women by Trump’s running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance, have highlighted a fresh line of attack from the Democrats. Quips such as Vance’s in a 2021 speech that America was run by “childless cat ladies” have gone viral online, turbocharging the new strategy.

“These are weird people on the other side, they want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room, that’s what it comes down to,” Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota and contender to be Harris’s running mate, told MSNBC two days after she entered the race.

An independent Harris supporters group called “Won’t Pac Down” last month launched an ad called “these guys are just weird” that has since gone viral featuring a series of creepy male “Maga Republicans” saying they want the “government way more involved in your sex life”.

It's odd how effective the 'weird' tag has been for them. Considering all the allegations you can direct at the Republican ticket this one has stuck the most. They can't seem to deal with it without it looking weirder either.

Originally Posted by Damien

It's odd how effective the 'weird' tag has been for them. Considering all the allegations you can direct at the Republican ticket this one has stuck the most. They can't seem to deal with it without it looking weirder either.

Electrocuting sharks … the late, great, Hannibal Lecter … and wife traumatised by the attempted assassination? That’s ok, it means she loves me.

It works because he *is* weird, and it works on his hangers-on because so many of them previously warned he’d be a disaster if elected again and yet have now fallen trance-like into line.

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Also, last night he held a rally in Georgia and slagged off the state’s republican governor for refusing to find him 11k votes in 2020. Video clips are circulating widely … it obviously didn’t go down well even in an arena full of supposed loyal Trumpettes. Trump is consumed by a need for vengeance to the point where he’s more interested in settling scores rather than winning hearts and minds in places he needs to win and could easily lose in November.

That’s weird.

Clip: https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status...56-Kgau3lzowJw

[1andrew1]

I think the weird tag also works because it plays on Trump's undoubted insecurity and also the insecurities of his supporters.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I think the weird tag also works because it plays on Trump's undoubted insecurity and also the insecurities of his supporters.

Call Americans anything you like, but never weird or 'stoopid', they really don't like it.

Kamala Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her VP pick. Walz is the one who first coined the phrase ‘these guys are just weird’ which has been driving the MAGAs nuts for weeks now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cleyjp5qldno

[denphone]

Only my personal opinion but l think he is a good choice.

Who would have thought calling someone weird would advance your career so much?

[jfman]

I wanted Pete but I’m didn’t have a strong opinion in favour or against the rest. Wiping the floor with Vance in any debates shouldn’t be beyond anyone of any standing in the Democratic Party.

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Seems a bit weird…