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live Trump brag fest "never been seen before", "...in the history of the US" "no one has done b4" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2018 OP
Fuck that guy. louis-t Aug 2018 #1
I know... i whole riff on how African American lives were a "horror", "what the hell do you have to Demovictory9 Aug 2018 #2
now talking about NFL and national athem Demovictory9 Aug 2018 #3
NOT MY PRESIDENT Angry Dragon Aug 2018 #4
The land of the free... magicarpet Aug 2018 #5
NOT MY PRESIDENT. LOCK HIM UP. NRaleighLiberal Aug 2018 #6
No way I'm going to spend an hour/20 watching this piece of upchuck. I'll wait for the low-lights .. marble falls Aug 2018 #7
I can't stand to watch him. leftyladyfrommo Aug 2018 #13
The worst for me is that pouty little mouth of his. marble falls Aug 2018 #15
Did he know he was at the STATE OF OHIO GOP DINNER irisblue Aug 2018 #8
he just babbles. I don't know what he knows. Demovictory9 Aug 2018 #14
Trumpdump Generic Other Aug 2018 #9
He meets the profile of an abuser MountCleaners Aug 2018 #10
this should be its own post renate Aug 2018 #11
+1000 smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #12
Get up! Stand up! struggle4progress Aug 2018 #16
This is how you honor the National Anthem? Wander about on the stage? keithbvadu2 Aug 2018 #17
Yeah, he walks around like there is nothing going on dalton99a Aug 2018 #18
Geeze dude! Dyedinthewoolliberal Aug 2018 #19

Demovictory9

(32,423 posts)
2. I know... i whole riff on how African American lives were a "horror", "what the hell do you have to
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:42 PM
Aug 2018

lose". OMG. STFU

leftyladyfrommo

(18,866 posts)
13. I can't stand to watch him.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:47 PM
Aug 2018

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.

irisblue

(32,932 posts)
8. Did he know he was at the STATE OF OHIO GOP DINNER
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:02 PM
Aug 2018

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.




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 “Chairman’s VIP Cocktail Reception.”
?

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
10. He meets the profile of an abuser
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:07 PM
Aug 2018

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.

struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
16. Get up! Stand up!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:59 PM
Aug 2018

...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)
17. This is how you honor the National Anthem? Wander about on the stage?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:36 PM
Aug 2018

This is how you honor the National Anthem? Wander about on the stage?

Am I missing something?

I'm tired.

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