Trump's Happy Place Is Grunting and Fantasizing About Real Men

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Get ready for 1968 redux with Fat Nixon at the helm. Strap in for apocalyptic rhetoric about MS-13, antifa and socialists, plus those poor, misunderstood Confederate generals.

Rick Wilson
June 26, 2020

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Yesterday’s trip to Yuma should have been the salve he needed, but even an afternoon visit with a crowd of Trumpjugend Turning Pointers sporting red hats, cargo shorts, and Charlie Kirk tramp stamps couldn’t offset weeks of utter personal and political humiliation. With more than 125,000 Americans dead on his watch, Trump two rallies in hasn’t found even 10,000 willing to risk their health to show up and support him.

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We saw how entirely defeated Trump looked walking off Marine One after Saturday’s shibacle (a portmanteau from friend Steve Schale, combining “shitshow” and debacle”), the grim reality resting on his sweaty mug as he walked toward the White House. He’s losing, and his campaign blew a layup assignment. Even Trump realized his speech had been a flop; the long, rambing Lord of the Ramp story didn’t charm the audience, but left them bored and fidgeting, hoping for a moment where Trump recaptured the magic of 2016.

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Then came Yuma, and a speech so full-on agitprop bonkers that it left one Trump ally so puzzled that they texted me, “OK, fine. We’ll do it live!” in reference to Bill O'Reilly's infamous on-air outburst. As amusing as it is to dismiss Trump’s word splooge, it turns out not only the Yuma speech but the trip itself is a preview of the Fall campaign.

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Like so much of Trumpism, Yuma was one more example of a movement that can’t scale, a campaign that can’t deploy, and a president who can’t stop repeating the stuff that worked for him before. His new shitlord themes are clearly a live-action focus group that he expects to visit time and again this fall.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-happy-place-is-grunting-and-fantasizing-about-real-men

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"Shibacle." I like it.

[The Magistrate]

1. Absolutely True, Ma'am

He likes to imagine he is one, though he is about as far from manly character as it possible to get.


"How weak must you be to look at Trump and see a strong man?"

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

[onethatcares]

3. when all you've offered to your electoate is

"lock her up" when she isn't even in the picture, even the dumbest of the dumb start to think they've been had.

If you get in a convo with a trumianist, ask what he's done to improve their lives.........you'll own a crate of crickets.

Peace out my friends.

[Doreen]

4. I thought it would be fantasizing about "being" a real man.

[neeksgeek]

5. Shibacle! Excellent word.

Shared it with my wife. She’s a travel agent. She’ll be able to use it in a professional capacity.