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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter tonight's MAGAt rally, all I can say is thank Christ he still doesn't have Twitter access.
SAME old SHIT...the only difference being that he has broken "presidential protocol" to attack Biden (no surprise here)...
Can't believe the MAGAts are still eagerly standing in lines to soak up his bullshit.
Part of me thinks I need to "understand" this...and on some levels I do (Trump identified and manipulated white anger), but no matter how I can process it on an intellectual, cut and dried, black and white level, I still can't believe these people are still basking the the warm orange glow of their bloated messiah.
That's all, nothing else profound to say. I saw some clips and read some summaries and my head's exploding.
Diamond_Dog
(32,006 posts)It just defies explanation...
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Face facts, "PattonWasRight," you don't remember her name, either. All you know is that you're supposed to be mad that she got shot for trying to violently overthrown the government. I wonder why all those brave toughguys boosted her through the window first instead of being on point themselves?
ShazzieB
(16,426 posts)After all, she did get killed carrying out HIS wishes. Anyone with a shred of human decency would express gratitude for her "sacrifice" or maybe feel remorse or offer condolences to her family.
Of course, WE know he doesn't have a single atom of human decency in that entire bloated orange body, but MAGAts are a little slower on the uptake.
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)At least one of his loyal supporters doesn't remember her name, either. He doesn't care any more than the former guy should care.
Cha
(297,317 posts)RockRaven
(14,974 posts)to be to think that that was a good use of your Saturday.
NJCher
(35,686 posts)Most people are planting flowers or putting in a tomato or two.
Not these people. Their idea of a fulfilling Saturday is to listen to a bloated has-been born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-his-mouth complain for the 48,439 time that hes been cheated.
Cyrano
(15,041 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)Trump is going to keep milking his supporters for every penny they have, and they're too drunk on the Kool-Aid to see it. The grift continues.
#TrumpRally
Link to tweet
Rumor is the #TrumpRally had the best Delta Variants. All the Delta Variants loved him. The best ones. They all said it. The Delta Variants. They love him. Everyone says so.
Link to tweet
Skittles
(153,169 posts)resulting in over 600,000 Americans dead
I no longer give a FUCK what those fascist cult members have to say - presented with a choice of Trump or America, they have chosen FASCISM. *FUCK THEM ALL*
orleans
(34,060 posts)and what the capacity was (if they were inside)
and did he charge a fee for them to be in his presence?
i tried looking through a couple articles and didn't find anything about that.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)He is dwindling month by month. These are just cultists with nothing going on seeing their favorite bad cover band from when they were in high school. But nationally, he is boring and going to continue to be more and more of a tired, old loser.
Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)he WILL be the 2024 nominee.
Same thing will happen again, a couple dozen jackasses will run for the nomination, spreading out the vote for the Rs who don't necessarily want him, helping him to win the nomination. They will then rally around him because democrats are baby eating, dog beating fascist, communist, socialists, then country will find a way to make the general election a coin flip again because whatever bullshit the Rs gin up to create some innane "scandal."
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)It's like seeing a movie 50 times. They already know all the lines. They have no life.
agingdem
(7,850 posts)draws his "faithful"...it's the mutual hate, the vengeance, the "enemies within" vomit that binds them to that orange cretin...I've said it before...he gave their hate a voice...the president of the United States said it was ok to cage, threaten, maim, kill "the other" with impunity and without reprisal because their guy said he would pay the fines...they need him in the White House..mutual hate is the tie that binds them to him...
Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)That's what the attendees come to see. It's like pro wrestling, everyone knows the story lines and that it's not real, but that's half the fun.
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)I had a girlfriend back then that wanted to go to that movie over and over so she could chant the lines with other people in the audience.
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)the Republican party politicians using it to harvest the haters money and their votes.
JI7
(89,252 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)These "supporters" have nothing, nobody else. Without Trump, there is no entertainment, no promise of improvement of their dull and bleak lives.
These are the same sheeple that Sinclair Lewis wrote about. The same who followed Billy Sunday, the evangelist in the Twenties.
They aren't Trump supporters per se, but a peculiar American demographic.
nuxvomica
(12,429 posts)Every one of these people I know has made a life of bad decisions, some knowing success because of luck or privilege (is that redundant?), but failing to become the heroes of their own lives, eschewing choices that are risky, especially emotionally so. It's like someone who overslept and failed to get to the station before the train left, missing that next great opportunity, and forever cringes at the sound of the train whistle. But they have their fear and their anger, and those are the only ways to get their blood flowing, to feel for a moment that they are truly alive.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)I went to a family reunion in West Virginia yesterday. I was dreading the Trump signage on the drive in, the Trump shirts, the casual mentions of how great the orange one is. Thats what the reunion was a couple of years ago. This year, not a peep. We all had a great time.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)stumpy can get the rioters out of jail...so the democrats need
to start the rumor that congress will exonerate all the rabid rightys if,
and I'll take suggestions, stumpy admits to all accusations from
the democrats over the last 4 years, and it paid prostitutes to pee
on it while laying in a bed bill Clinton slept in...
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Most of the country is over Trump. The more he's in the news, or is able to talk, the worse he looks. To everyone. And Repubs in Congress can safely ignore him right now. If he was out there in their faces every day, they'd be talking about Trump non-stop.
And instead of listening to how Kamala hasn't gone to the border, or other stupid stuff that affects us, they'd have to defend themselves against Trump.