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louis-t
(23,273 posts)Jeez.
Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)lose". OMG. STFU
Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)magicarpet
(14,121 posts)And the home.....
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.....of the bone spurs !
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)marble falls
(57,013 posts)reel.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,866 posts)His voice and those weird little body movements he does with his hands make me too uncomfortable. Nixon and Reagan used to affect me like that, too. And they both had odd hair, too.
marble falls
(57,013 posts)irisblue
(32,932 posts)The people there ARE the elite.
Daniel Dale (@ddale8) Tweeted:
Trump on elites: "It's like insulting. 'The elite.' I'm much more elite than any of them. So are you. We're much more elite. We're smarter, we're richer, we're better educated, in most cases." He says some of the so-called elites as like "slob" guys.
Link to tweet
Darrel Rowland (@darreldrowland) Tweeted:
A final note about the pre-speech fund-raiser, per WH pool report:
The White House described he reception as a roundtable with supporters. The Ohio GOP called it the Chairmans VIP Cocktail Reception.
Link to tweet
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Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)A long time ago, when I was very young, I was in an abusive relationship. If something was clearly yellow, it was red to him. He would insist it was red to your face, in spite of all of the evidence. And having the power to beat you down physically and verbally, he would wear you down. This is Trump's tactic, it's called "gaslighting" and it's done to wear you down.
Trump's defenders continue to do so because they grew up in authoritarian churches and family systems. The Republican Party is authoritarian. They are the "betas", conditioned to respond to the dominant gestures of an alpha. They think they need an authority figure to tell them that what is yellow is red, and if he says it, they believe it.
What's most loathsome is that he knows this tactic works with his following. He's doing it on purpose. He did it with the birther crap. Give me a break, he knew it was crap, he did it to gain more support.
These people are so accustomed to authoritarian, paranoid and racist systems that they can't get "outside" the situation to see it for what it is.
renate
(13,776 posts)I agree with everything you've said 1000%.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)People who do this are the scum of the earth. They are sociopaths.
struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)...Get up! Stand up! Keep on struggling on! Don't give up the fight!
You can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light we going to stand up for our right ...
keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)This is how you honor the National Anthem? Wander about on the stage?
Am I missing something?
I'm tired.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)WTF
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,546 posts)Stand still and wait for the song to be over................