Trump (reportedly) dumbfounded by the president's decision on Sunday.

[speak easy]

He could not believe that Joe Biden would willingly give up the power of the presidency. All the effort was going into securing a landslide victory. Only a skeleton staff were working on Harris oppo. No ads were being prepared against her; the RNC convention went ahead unchanged. Trump's team feared Harris; Trump did not: Biden would stay the course. Then, all hell broke loose.

Trump Is Planning For A Landslide Win
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campain-election-2024-susie-wiles-chris-lacivita/678806/

This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campaign-biden-dropping-out/679183/

[bottomofthehill]

1. I am sure Trump was.

He would never do something so selfless.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Trump's not that bright and the folks he thinks are smart, are just ass-lickers.

That can't think their way out of a paper bag.

[Big Blue Marble]

50. Do not be naive, Trump's campaign managers are very smart.

Read the articles; they will chill you to the bone.

[uponit7771]

62. +1, MAGA mistakes conniving for intelligent

[RockRaven]

3. Of course he is. He literally doesn't understand people with motives other

than his own -- which are sick and twisted if you recall.

[meadowlander]

14. Literally can't process what it means to act in the public good instead of his own.

We already know he thinks soldiers are suckers and losers. What in his life has prepared him to understand what Joe did?

[dweller]

4. The Sick Fuck is dumbfounded

By water flowing down a toilet .





✌🏻

[murielm99]

55. That is why he talks about flushing the toilet so often!

He probably stands there and watches the toilet flush, over and over. It is fascinating for his tiny mind.

[spanone]

5. He's just fucking dumb.

[Carlitos Brigante]

6. To be fair, things like calculators and probably keychains leave him dumbfounded as well. nt

[RussBLib]

9. and showers, and toilets, and home faucets, and electric boats, and empathy

The lies about every little thing can wear you down if you let them. Kamala hasn't let them wear her down. Every Dem I know is PUMPED, and it's been a long time since I felt that.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[CentralMass]

29. And books with words in them.

[Cha]

7. Yes Surprise! TY.. That was fun to read

but when I go to the link it fades away. I'm too tired for a free trial..

[Ms. Toad]

20. Here are the links

https://archive.li/MIx6G

https://archive.li/rh9bZ

(Just an FYI: You can get around most paywalls by copying the URL, then going to archive.li and pasting the URL in the first box. If it's been archived before it will come up. If not, it will take several minutes. Both of these were already archived.)

[Cha]

21. Mahalo, Ms Toad !

[SunSeeker]

22. Those archive links didn't work for me.

[Cha]

23. It did for me... it was a really interesting

article.. I just went to the 2nd one.

Good Luck!

[Ms. Toad]

26. Hmmm. Not sure what to say.

They work on my android phone and on my PC laptop.

[IbogaProject]

27. Switch your DNS servers away from your isp.

Your ISP likely has archive.is on block, you have to move your name servers to someone else. It's how the web urls get pointed to an ip address.
Search this plus your operating system.

how to change dns server
Google
8.8.8.8
&
8.8.4.4
There are also
1.1.1.1
9.9.9.9
and others.

[Cha]

24. Thank YOu! That ws really interesting..

On the Republican side, it caps a frenetic four-month stretch in which Trump’s campaign went from cocky about Biden’s deficiencies to fearful of his ouster to stunned at the sudden letter from Biden doing the thing Republicans thought he’d never do.

They thought his "Irish Ego was too stubborn."

[sheshe2]

30. Worked for me!

Thank you, Ms. Toad.

Will check them out tomorrow...late and I gotta sleep.

[canetoad]

8. In a tiny, weeny nutshell

Part of being a stoic involves preparing yourself by considering every possible option. Both adverse and beneficial. In this preparation lies the path of success and happiness.

Suck on it repubs.

[lees1975]

10. Trump is incapable of unselfish acts that benefit other people.

He measures the worth of everything by monetary value. The kind of consideration that went in to Biden's selfless act is beyond is ability to understand.

And this is the guy Evangelical Christians have turned to as their new savior.

[blogslug]

11. lol

I know. I know. A lot can happen between now and election day but my goodness, these maga tears are tasty.

[speak easy]

17. Cry me a river in Alabama.

[Pinback]

12. Heh - the ol' Statue of Liberty play...

Fakes ‘em out every time.

[MotownPgh]

13. They are running anti-Kamala ads all

evening in the Pittsburgh market. I'd say about 2 an hour on both stations we've watched tonight. Border and lying about Joe Biden's condition. (With video of Present Joe falling down)

[speak easy]

15. (no ads prepared before the convention)

[liberalmuse]

16. Sacrifice and selflessness seems to not compute to him.

They guy who called our troops, “suckers and losers” will soon be both.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Narcissists like trump always assume that everyone is as selfish as they are...

That's how they justify cheating and gaming the system. They think "everybody does it" so are surprised when other don't.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. One just has to look at Trump's comments about wounded military heroes.

"I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

He is mentally incapable of understanding altruism, patriotism, and self sacrifice.

[krkaufman]

25. Looong way to go ...

… but Trump failing to plan for contingencies is so March 2020.

[CentralMass]

31. It will be interesting to see this plays out. The polls seem to have show

The Orange Anus up by 1.9% on Biden after the debate and up on Harris by 1.5%. Not an insurmountable lead but with a consensus that tha race will be won or lost in the electoral college and that Biden would probably lose the swing states and the election as as a result
Is it PA. WI and MI? I think so. The hope/bet is that VP Harris will poll/do better.in the swing states.

[mwb970]

35. People don't know Kamala yet.

As they find out about her they will realize that now they have someone to vote for, instead of against.

I haven't been this optimistic in years.

[CentralMass]

36. Well, she has my vote and I am willing to be impressed.

[Hassler]

32. If it wasn't planned, so glad the switch happened after the maga lovefest

Happened after the Chump spectacle. If it was planned, even better.

[orleans]

33. you could've just left it at: "trump (reportedly) dumb" nt

[mwb970]

34. The loser is going to lose.

Can you feel it? He's toast.

[Skittles]

37. this just gets better and better

[anamnua]

38. Sauron's fatal weakness, in Lord of the Rings,

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which was correctly identified by Gandalf and formed the cornerstone of his strategy, was that he could not conceive of anyone voluntarily giving up the ring of power.
Here’s looking to Mordor crashing down in November.

[Irish_Dem]

39. Trump's campaign team are amateurs.

They did not have contingency plans ready.

Also the Dems are running a tight ship.

[Big Blue Marble]

51. Actually, if you read the first article, you will realize they are not amateurs.

They are surprisingly and scarily smart. And if Biden had not dropped out
they were probably guiding the campaign to a landslide and loss of both
house. in other words, a nightmare.

Even now, the Harris campaign will be wise to not underestimate them.
And we should not either. (The long article is really worth your time)

[Irish_Dem]

54. I reject your premise.

It did not take GOP genius for plan A.

[Big Blue Marble]

57. it is not my premise that is the issue.

It was theirs. This was most likely this article that convinced Pelosi, the majority of Congress,
and maybe even Biden that he had step aside. It is chilling.how close they came to it working.

It was predicated on the perceived weakness of Biden and the actual lack of enthusiasm in
the base, plus making inroads into the minority votes in the swing states. And it was
clearly working. They and all of us were looking at realignment election that would have
destroyed our constitutional democracy.

[Irish_Dem]

60. I still don't see a lot of superior skills in Trump's campaign staff.

All the cheating, gaslighting, and election crimes are not a skillful campaign.
It is a sign of weakness that they have to cheat to win.

They are good crooks, I will agree to that.

[Big Blue Marble]

63. The only way to get it, is to spend about 45 minutes reading the Atlantic article.

The author explained that this was a far better and much more organized campaign than
2016 or 2020.

These campaign managers were implementing their theory of the campaign and it
was working. If you need proof, look at the CNN poll released today. Look where the country was
headed Sunday morning. They had substantially weakened Biden's 2020 coalition.
The only thing that was going to change the trajectory or the election, was for Biden to step down.

Of course it is a moot point now and they are undone. I would not be surprise if
Trump fires them.

And stop underestimating Trump, the cheating, lying and attempted steal of the government,
even the crimes and conviction do not matter to one half of American citizens.
Why? I do not know, but they just do not. Gaslighting works. That is why demagogues always use it.

[no_hypocrisy]

40. Because Trump is NEVER WRONG . . . . .

[MichMan]

41. I admit,after the statements made by the president that he was staying in, being very surprised when he changed his mind

I think most people here were as well

[Mountainguy]

42. So, he's only for celebrating and naming things after people who fought for the United States.

I guess that means he wants to rename everything named after a Confederate. I guess he also favors renaming his home state.

Somebody should ask him.

[speak easy]

43. Trump would like to rename everything after him,

and charge them a fee (in perpetuity).

[former9thward]

44. I doubt the story.

Minutes after the Biden announcement the Trump campaign had anti-Harris ads running in the battleground states. They were prepared for it.

[speak easy]

45. They did not have ads ready before the RNC convention. Or that is what the reporter was told.

[former9thward]

46. I am not sure what that convention has to do with it.

Do you think the convention would have had a different result if they knew Biden would drop out?

[speak easy]

47. They would have had something about Harris

or perhaps other contenders. Alternative History. Who knows?

[Big Blue Marble]

49. Read both articles; I assure you, you will believe it.

They had a brilliant strategy that was working all too well. His campaign managers are
serious professionals who had became overly confident that Biden would not drop out.

They will have to reshuffle much of their campaign and are not really prepared
at all for what has occurred,,thankfully as they were planning to for a landslide
and a down ballot wipe out and it was working.

[former9thward]

56. I don't know what Trump insiders thought,

but if they thought that then they were aligned with the vast majority of DU who insisted Biden would never drop out.

[Big Blue Marble]

48. I just read both of these incredibly sobering articles. OMG

That was terrifying to read how effectively they were running a campaign based on
the perceived weaknesses of Biden's age and mental health.

It is amazing how close we were to the abyss. Thank you President Biden and thank your
VP Harris. Now we are all going win. it was the right thing to do.

[DFW]

52. Poor Donald. Biden never even consulted him first.

The nerve!

[keithbvadu2]

53. A necessary change of campaign slogan.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. TFG cannot conceive of someone carrying for our country and not carrying for solely for himself

[republianmushroom]

59. Some understand true power, some will never understand.

[uponit7771]

61. MAGA isn't full of dynamic thinkers