Donald Trump the road that might not lead to the White House - Redux 2024 thread.

[A380]

 

[moochedit]

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He what?

(his cult won't care of course )

 

[1927]

She's also part of the money trail, so she's relevant from that point of view. What was her understanding of what she was being paid for? and so on.

I guess the prosecution wants to go into the rest of it, for obvious reasons, and maybe the judge doesn't have grounds to stop them.

I dont expect them to discover her services were legitimate, like she was paid for secretarial duties.

 

[Raheem]

I dont expect them to discover her services were legitimate, like she was paid for secretarial duties.

Her services were legitimate. She was paid for her story. It's Trump that's accused of doing something unlawful.

 

[A380]

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[Nylock]

Yeah, this isn't prostitution though...

 

[existentialist]

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Nah, I think Freud would have nailed this one down pretty smartly. Perhaps after asking for a photograph of Trump's mother...

 

[krtek a houby]

I ate his liver with a big Mac and cheese

Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech

Ex-president calls Hopkins’s cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Interesting, and somewhat clarifies Trump's (and far right's) popularity with whites, Christians, and men:

Perceived lack of recognition drives Trump support among historically dominant groups, study suggests

A significant portion of White Americans, despite feeling a strong sense of belonging to U.S. society, feel socially excluded due to a perceived lack of recognition, which correlates with increased support for Donald Trump.

www.psypost.org

Conclusion to article:

“A lot of research suggests that historically powerful groups like white people, men, and Christians feel that they lose out amid recent societal developments,” Versteegen added. “While evidence shows they still enjoy privileges, we need to find ways to accommodate this experience. Doing so may reduce incentives to support radical politicians and may help fight actual inequalities in the long run.”

 

[Dogsauce]

Interesting, and somewhat clarifies Trump's (and far right's) popularity with whites, Christians, and men:

Perceived lack of recognition drives Trump support among historically dominant groups, study suggests

A significant portion of White Americans, despite feeling a strong sense of belonging to U.S. society, feel socially excluded due to a perceived lack of recognition, which correlates with increased support for Donald Trump.

www.psypost.org

Conclusion to article:

Once again, for the slow ones at the back…

 

[two sheds]

Indeed, that's not their perception though which is what they go by.

 

[kabbes]

It’s not a helpful message because it’s not true. To some extent, it is pie. Britain pulled in the equivalent of $45 trillion from its colonisation of India — that’s 45 years’ worth of its own GDP. You think that didn’t provide more “rights” for its citizens, in terms of infrastructure and power? The point isn’t that you can remove inequalities without hitting the privileged at all. The point is that the privileged don’t deserve and never deserved to be privileged in the first place. The further point is that many of the people that feel like their privileged rights are going to be lessened aren’t actually privileged at all and won’t be hurt by more equality. But these people need engagement that doesn’t just trample all over their perceptions, particularly when at times they might actually be technically correct that they might stand to lose something.

 

[Santino]

It’s not a helpful message because it’s not true. To some extent, it is pie. Britain pulled in the equivalent of $45 trillion from its colonisation of India — that’s 45 years’ worth of its own GDP. You think that didn’t provide more “rights” for its citizens, in terms of infrastructure and power? The point isn’t that you can remove inequalities without hitting the privileged at all. The point is that the privileged don’t deserve and never deserved to be privileged in the first place. The further point is that many of the people that feel like their privileged rights are going to be lessened aren’t actually privileged at all and won’t be hurt by more equality. But these people need engagement that doesn’t just trample all over their perceptions, particularly when at times they might actually be technically correct that they might stand to lose something.

Do you mean that they won't change their minds even if we keep calling them thick and racist?

 

[kabbes]

Do you mean that they won't change their minds even if we keep calling them thick and racist?

My statement was pithier

 

[Serge Forward]

Once again, for the slow ones at the back…

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FEWER!!!!!

 

[Raheem]

We're in the realms of metaphor, though, and you can't have fewer pie.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ve been reading about Trump’s behaviour in court and it’s very much like the behaviour of someone with ADHD.
He’s spending a lot of time with his eyes closed, so people are speculating that he’s nodding off but I think he might be trying to both listen & STFU - he’s almost incapable of doing either, especially the latter, and he knows another outburst could land him in jail, so he’s limiting his sensory input to help him both concentrate and resist his compulsions. Fuck him all the same.

 

[moochedit]

I’ve been reading about Trump’s behaviour in court and it’s very much like the behaviour of someone with ADHD.
He’s spending a lot of time with his eyes closed, so people are speculating that he’s nodding off but I think he might be trying to both listen & STFU - he’s almost incapable of doing either, especially the latter, and he knows another outburst could land him in jail, so he’s limiting his sensory input to help him both concentrate and resist his compulsions. Fuck him all the same.

I put it down to him sulking but you could be right.

 

[Orang Utan]

I put it down to him sulking but you could be right.

He’s certainly doing that too

 

[Orang Utan]

He has that sulking toddler bottom lip thing going on

 

[Kaka Tim]

by my understadning, michael cohen's - (his former brief) - testomony looks pretty bad for trump - Michael Cohen gives wistful Trump trial testimony: ‘I would only answer to him’

 

[Jeff Robinson]

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[Jeff Robinson]

#notacult

 

[Jeff Robinson]

How can Trumpist cult members be deprogramed?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

This is fucked. fucking hell

Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five key battleground states, new polls show

Surveys put ex-president up in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada as Biden campaign brushes off significance

www.theguardian.com

 

[krtek a houby]

How can Trumpist cult members be deprogramed?

Probably near impossible. At least with those I've interacted with online and irl.

It's just endless doubling down and moving further and further away from reality.

The rhinos are a more open to discussion and criticism of the direction that the GOP has moved in, but their voices tend to be drowned out.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Probably near impossible. At least with those I've interacted with online and irl.

It's just endless doubling down and moving further and further away from reality.

The rhinos are a more open to discussion and criticism of the direction that the GOP has moved in, but their voices tend to be drowned out.

Not only drowned out but also purged from the party. As I said on another thread, Trumpism is fascism and by extension, the GOP is now a fascist party.

 

[petee]

How can Trumpist cult members be deprogramed?

they can't. he's an avatar of socially reactionary forces and lots of people, men and women alike, want that.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

dickheads and scum

 

[Jeff Robinson]

this guy should have his head caved in