Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Rasulis]

Because US does not have the infrastructure to support those jobs. India, China and Poland are outsourcing hubs, because IT education happens before college. The jobs that require a degree in US for those jobs, are HS graduates in those countries.

I wonder what would happen to Texas if every single person of Chinese and Indian ancestry leave the state. All the scientists, all the doctors, all their children which are generally the top students at Texas schools.

[Edge-]

https://apnews.com/bae21d9b066e5469c0a914a283a0235b

Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social media to threaten a Black activist to deter the man from running for office in Charlottesville, Virginia. McMahon also admitted that he threatened to sexually assault the young autistic daughter of a North Carolina woman who protested against white nationalists.

Trump is enabling Floridaman. At least he was caught and will serve 3 and a half years for thinking it's cool to threaten people, including their autistic children, for protesting white nationlist.

What a very fine person, indeed.

[Benggaul]

I have to say it's pretty interesting seeing the Drudge Report suddenly getting critical of Trump. I didn't predict that one.

[Edge-]

I have to say it's pretty interesting seeing the Drudge Report suddenly getting critical of Trump. I didn't predict that one.

It's not quite new. Drudge has been critical of Trump periodically since 2016. He's a piece of shit, but he does have a few principles that he'll stand up for.

[Benggaul]

It's not quite new. Drudge has been critical of Trump periodically since 2016. He's a piece of shit, but he does have a few principles that he'll stand up for.

Of course, but there's degrees. Printing photos and video of Trump dragging his foot this close to the election is pretty hardcore as far as alt-right publication goes.

[Edge-]

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/...xt/5677887002/

Carlos Gavidia, who earned national attention for his "Trumptilla" boat parades, is expected to be charged with sending a threatening text, a felony, to a resident of his former Jupiter country club community after they clashed over politics, his attorney told The Palm Beach Post on Monday.

Gavidia will surrender at the Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday morning, said attorney Stuart Kaplan.

Man, it's just one Trump supporter after another getting in trouble for threatening and harassing people. I wonder what they all have in common?

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I think peaceful protest is fantastic, I think it’s great...

Said the man who has spent years throwing temper tantrums that professional athletes peacefully protested police violence and systemic racism.

[Gorsameth]

It's been the most common/popular theory about his surprise visit.

I'm very amused by his oddly specific denial of a series of mini-strokes, something which I don't believe was made public from the book yet. Either he got an advanced copy somehow (doubtful) or... It's just a weirdly specific denial >.>

Might have something to do with this tweet.
https://twitter.com/joelockhart/stat...74701253734402

[Benggaul]

Might have something to do with this tweet.
https://twitter.com/joelockhart/stat...74701253734402

Of course, but to go from "a stroke" to "series of mini-strokes" was an odd turn, no?

[Paranoid Android]

Trump in July: And you have people coming over with bags of soup and the anarchists... start throwing it at our cops... And if it hits you, that’s worse than a brick because that’s got force... And when they get caught, they say, “No, this is just soup for my family.” https://t.co/xs9tcY9aA5

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1300...412091906?s=19

Soup hurts more than bricks.

Absolutely the dumbest mother beeper alive.

[Zaydin]

Might have something to do with this tweet.
https://twitter.com/joelockhart/stat...74701253734402

With a complete lack of self-awareness or irony, the Trump campaign is demanding that CNN fire Joe Lockhart for 'knowingly pushing a conspiracy theory' about Trumps health.

Never mind that their campaign is like at least 90% conspiracy theories.

[omerome]

Posting this tweet with minimal explanation.
https://twitter.com/ammaschi/status/1300923622253645824

[Poopymonster]

Of course, but to go from "a stroke" to "series of mini-strokes" was an odd turn, no?

As Breccia said, all strokes are major. But a full on "stroke" vs a "series of mini strokes" is a ton of difference. My uncle had a series of mini strokes last month. He has no drooping/loss of control on one side, which is one of those "THAT'S A STROKE" signals. No major permanent damage to the brain from tissue death. He has some memory loss, had some impairment of control sporadically but not complete "The arm, I try to move it, it won't move". Yes there is some permanent damage, but most of it looks to be mending already according to brain meat scans. It's not completely beastfucking his life like a "stroke" would have been. It's only a minor buggering comparatively. A series of mini strokes, mild ones, would explain the glass, the walk, the impairment of cognitive ability. How/if he recovers will be the tell. Difference in a few years of age, with the uncle being a former marine then firefighter who is still in good shape VS a skin suit of void crabs and ooze could make a difference.

[Edge-]

Posting this tweet with minimal explanation.
https://twitter.com/ammaschi/status/1300923622253645824

Man, the songs made using Trump's words are a delight. Reminds me of this gem from a few year back -

[cubby]

Posting this tweet with minimal explanation.
https://twitter.com/ammaschi/status/1300923622253645824

Holy shit I needed that today. Thank you.

[postman1782]

And the award for least aware group of people EVER, Charlie Kirk and Ryan Fournier in the Students for Trump group.

[Edge-]

And the award for least aware group of people EVER, Charlie Kirk and Ryan Fournier in the Students for Trump group.

It really is weird that they're using images from Trump's America to warn us about Biden's America.

[Elegiac]

It really is weird that they're using images from Trump's America to warn us about Biden's America.

I'd tell them to stay in school but it clearly isn't helping.

[postman1782]

It really is weird that they're using images from Trump's America to warn us about Biden's America.

That has been their entire argument. It is like they are thinking that Biden has a time machine, from when he is president, to bring it back to when he isn't, to destroy Trump and his arguments. It doesn't make any fucking sense.

[Benggaul]

As Breccia said, all strokes are major. But a full on "stroke" vs a "series of mini strokes" is a ton of difference. My uncle had a series of mini strokes last month. He has no drooping/loss of control on one side, which is one of those "THAT'S A STROKE" signals. No major permanent damage to the brain from tissue death. He has some memory loss, had some impairment of control sporadically but not complete "The arm, I try to move it, it won't move". Yes there is some permanent damage, but most of it looks to be mending already according to brain meat scans. It's not completely beastfucking his life like a "stroke" would have been. It's only a minor buggering comparatively. A series of mini strokes, mild ones, would explain the glass, the walk, the impairment of cognitive ability. How/if he recovers will be the tell. Difference in a few years of age, with the uncle being a former marine then firefighter who is still in good shape VS a skin suit of void crabs and ooze could make a difference.

Completely not the point. Trump is denying that he had a "series of mini-strokes". The thing is, nobody else seems to have floated the idea that he HAD suffered a series of mini-strokes. Only "a stroke". The fact that he didn't say "No, I didn't have a stroke" but instead said "No, I didn't have mini-strokes" apparently without anyone having suggested the latter suggests a bit of a Freudian slip.

[Elegiac]

That has been their entire argument. It is like they are thinking that Biden has a time machine, from when he is president, to bring it back to when he isn't, to destroy Trump and his arguments. It doesn't make any fucking sense.

It makes perfect sense when you put it into this simple context.

The Party of Trump has doubled down on an electoral strategy of white identity politics to the point they genuinely struggle to find an angle of attack against a milquetoast neoliberal like Biden. Hence the need to invent outright fiction, because any criticism of Biden is immediately rendered hypocritical by Trump just existing.

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Completely not the point. Trump is denying that he had a "series of mini-strokes". The thing is, nobody else seems to have floated the idea that he HAD suffered a series of mini-strokes. Only "a stroke". The fact that he didn't say "No, I didn't have a stroke" but instead said "No, I didn't have mini-strokes" apparently without anyone having suggested the latter suggests a bit of a Freudian slip.

"Series of mini-strokes" honestly does sound like jargon one would repeat from your GP, so the notion that it might confirm there have been visits to that effect holds water, I agree.