Trump Finds Another Line to Cross

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/donald-trump-mocks-joe-bidens-stutter/677708/

No paywall link
https://archive.li/1eAR9

Former President Donald Trump, perhaps threatened by President Joe Biden’s well-received State of the Union address, mocked his opponent’s lifelong stutter at a rally in Georgia yesterday. “Wasn’t it—didn’t it bring us together?” Trump asked sarcastically. He kept the bit going, slipping into a Biden caricature. “‘I’m gonna bring the country tuh-tuh-tuh-together,’” Trump said, straining and narrowing his mouth for comedic effect.

Trump has made a new habit of this. “‘He’s a threat to d-d-democracy,’” Trump said in his vaudeville Biden character at a January rally in Iowa. That jibe was also a response to a big Biden speech—one tied to the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. (Guess who the he was in that sentence.)

More than Trump’s ugly taunt, one thing stands out to me about these moments: the sound of Trump’s supporters laughing right along with him. This is a building block of Trumpism. The man at the top gives his followers permission to be the worst version of themselves.

I was on my way to meet friends last night when someone texted me a link to Trump’s latest fake-stuttering clip. I am a lifelong stutterer, and as I rode the subway, holding my phone up to my ear, out came that old familiar mockery—like Adam Sandler in Billy Madison saying, “Tuh-tuh-tuh-today, junior!” Only this time the taunt was coming from a 77-year-old man.

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[spanone]

1. He is ONE SICK FUCK...

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[democrank]

18. Thank you, spanone.

Perfect description of that hideous POS.

[malaise]

19. And M$Greedia lets it slide

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Eff them too

[spanone]

21. He has the mental acuity of a three year old...so fucking tired of it.

[Dave Bowman]

41. Yeah, and he also drinks

like a 3 year old.

[NanaCat]

52. That old?

Most kids between 18 and 24 months will have mastered using only one hand to drink a cup without a handle.

[barbtries]

64. I am convinced

That he stopped growing emotionally by age 2. Been saying this for years.

[NJCher]

73. yes, that's a personality disorder, I believe it's called

Maybe irish dem will come along and affirm or correct.

I've read where people in the field of psychology say they'll take a manic depressive or schizophrenic any day over a personality disorder. Maybe it's referred to as borderline personality disorder--I'm still a little foggy from staying up late.

Anyway, I'm glad this thread was posted because I saw it on television a short time ago and knew I'd want to sound off on it. Here's my take. I would like to say that we're all born with inherent challenges. Overcoming them is what life is all about.

Joe Biden successfully overcame his.

Trump will never overcome his.

[calimary]

2. I half expect Orangeman to drop his drawers to claim he's "bigger" than Biden

And then taunting Biden because Joe is basically a very classy guy who wouldn’t even consider going so low.

[pandr32]

10. If it weren't for Depends he likely would.

There is also the girdle. Without it that flab roll probably would conceal the mushroom.

[kimbutgar]

16. Funny I saw the pictures of Hunter Biden's package and thought about stormy Daniel's description of Mr mushroom

[BonnieJW]

35. Maybe nickname him Shitaki

It would cover everything,

His smell, what comprises his brain, and the size of his teeny weeny.

[calimary]

38. Or Toadstool!

We could refer to him as Mr. Toadstool, OR just Mr. Toad, and its meaning would go over the heads of everybody else.

On second thought, maybe Mr. Pimple might be even better.

Shit… I went to Catholic school. I could go on like this all day!

[niyad]

58. I would call him wimpy, but that would insult an innocent cartoon

character.

Maybe The wimp.

[Aristus]

88. I don't know.

Wimpy was always asking people to buy him a hamburger, with a promise of payment later. Payment never materialized. Sounds a lot like TFG.

A mild-mannered moocher is still a moocher.

[niyad]

89. A most excellent point.

[IbogaProject]

69. Donald J Toadstool

Hmm, might just be one to slip in, especially w the stool in it too.

[mitch96]

23. Stormy Daniels made comments on "size"...HA!!..nt

[soldierant]

53. He's likely afraid we'd all be looking at the mushroom head.

And might even laugh AT him (as opposed to with him.) Of course, that's assuming he even knows there's a difference.

[mountain grammy]

3. I guess

None of his brainwashed supporters have a stutter or a child who stutters or any kind of disability in their family and, if they do, they just sit there and laugh at them all day long.
Appalling the approval he gets for mocking disabled people

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I wish that Trump's method of mockery was limited to him.

But I've seen that behavior in many HOA meetings from white males. Many who claimed to have had military training. Leads me to wonder what they're teaching our servicemen in the military.

[PatSeg]

5. What a pathetic human being

It is almost like he is trying to self-destruct.

[NJCher]

74. I say this every day

Every. Single. Day.

[bdamomma]

78. Let

him do it, self destruct. Enough of the bastard.

[PatSeg]

81. His 15 minutes ended a long time ago

and there will be no sequels. I think he knows it though, which could be why he is coming across as so desperate.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. War against the weak is straight outta the NAZI playbook.

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

by Edwin Black
Sunday, November 9, 2003

Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race.

But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.

Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in 27 states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.

California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the 20th century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles Goethe, as well as members of the California state Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.

Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.

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TSF Traitor Trump dehumanizes those with a speech impediment in order to establish his own wrinkly and pimpled ass as somehow superior due to its shade of pigmentation.

[markodochartaigh]

15. To me it seems ironic

that these Masters of the Universe wanted to turn California into a superior state by narrowly breeding a master race. But, we see now, what actually turned California into a superior state was immigration from around the world, much more varied than in most US states.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Absolutely! And very well said.

Diversity is the key for California's strength. People live and work and laugh together. Imagine music with one note, it'd be awful. The tonalities, chords, rests, spaces and all the other elements of music make sound into art.

Likewise for creativity. Gen. Patton said, "If everyone is thinking alike, no one is doing any thinking." He did not appreciate Yes Men. He wanted his staff to speak up before the battle -- when changes can be made that do not cost lives and materiel -- to discuss what doesn't make sense or has been overlooked.

Contrast with Traitor Nixon's direct descendant the Traitor Trump, who demanded each member of his cabinet publicly praise him before the beginning of a meeting.

[TSExile]

56. Absolutely!!

How boring would this world be if everyone was exactly the same?

[bdamomma]

80. Food choices

would be terrible. No diversity whatsoever. Very boring.

[NJCher]

75. I remember I once had a female boss

ref to: "If everyone is thinking alike, no one is doing any thinking." He did not appreciate Yes Men. He wanted his staff to speak up before the battle -- when changes can be made that do not cost lives and materiel -- to discuss what doesn't make sense or has been overlooked.


with whom I got along very well. One day we were laughing and talking about how we thought so much alike when she said, "yeah, we're going to have to do something about that."

This is what she meant.

[Kid Berwyn]

87. Two heads (usually) are better than one.

The more thinking power, the better. And why Democracy works so well -- we all have a piece of the action and we all get to speak our piece.

Your boss was very fortunate to have you on her side, NJCher, as are all Democrats.

[NJCher]

90. thank you, kid berwyn

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. Too much wealth in too few hands warps everything.

[appalachiablue]

91. Excellent material, I knew about some of this horror

but not the extent. Thanks much.

[tulipsandroses]

7. HRC was right. They are deplorable. Remember their faux outrage when she said it?

Disgusting

[colorado_ufo]

14. It's true, and she was right.

I think, though, that this hurt her, as it was used against her. My belief is that the better choice would have been for her to continue the narrative that she would be president for all people. By calling some of her fellow Americans "deplorables" lumped together in a proverbial basket, it demonstrated a belief that some people were beneath her and played into an accusation of "elitism."

[tulipsandroses]

22. Nope. These people were always going to pull the lever for trump. No matter what she said

About 30-40%of this country will always be deplorable. The goal is to make sure the rest of us show up more than they do.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. MAGAts cheer him on regardless of what he does

but is this dreck going to win anyone else? It may even turn fence-sitters - whoever they may be - against him due to such cretinous behavior.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Would Donald mock his own son, Barron?

[Nevilledog]

12. Yes.

[Ocelot II]

32. Yes. Barron is very tall, and I have no doubt this bothers the hell out of his mean asshole of a father

because the kid now towers over him. I'll bet he never misses a chance to tease him about being too tall.

[JoseBalow]

40. drumpf refuses to be photographed next to his taller son

because he's an insecure narcissist with a tiny shmekel

[MustLoveBeagles]

77. The less contact he has with his dad the better

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

54. He thinks Barron is a loser.

Which is why he is so rarely seen in public.

For Barron’s sake, I hope he has absolute minimal contact with that monster father of his.

[NJCher]

76. isn't that the same as that one kid

he had with Marla Maples. I think he called her "fat."

[bdamomma]

82. He's treating his

son, the same way his father treated him. That is why he is gravitating towards authoritarian rulers. Looking for acceptance wants to be as EVIL as they are.

[struggle4progress]

11. Donnie has a first-grade mind!

And it appeals to many people who read at a firsr-grade level

[littlemissmartypants]

71. Or don't read at all. ❤️

[3catwoman3]

13. Trump is coarse, crude, common, crass...

…contemptible and classless.

He has no redeeming qualities. Not.A.Single.One.

[dalton99a]

20. Nothing but evil in him.

[usonian]

24. Dump is circling the drain. There's nothing left.

When he first ran, Prairie Home Companion ran an impersonator of him. I was furious, because that only gave him attention, which is his entire motive force.

His only ammo is to throw shit, which he has in abundance, like a zoo animal with no formal education or parental (or religious) guidance in decency.

Ridi, Pagliaccio. Laugh, clown laugh.

because you're done.

“La commedia è finita!”, “The comedy is finished!”

A Buddhist philosopher once said: "How we treat others is a direct reflection on how we view ourselves"

[NJCher]

79. that's a keeper

A Buddhist philosopher once said: "How we treat others is a direct reflection on how we view ourselves"

would make a good discussion thread.

[bdamomma]

83. So in

relation to the saying you posted, he treats people like crap, cause he treats himself like crap.

[usonian]

85. I've seen it played out all my life.

It just happens to be a cornerstone of the 🪷 Lotus Sutra. 🪷

But TBH, it is a truth that many spiritual writers discuss. We really do project our self-image onto others. We too often see the negative side of this, but when one experiences the positive side, it's "enlightening".

In "If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules" Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott states (Rule 7)

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.


morningupgrade.com summarizes:

Rule 7: Others are only mirrors of you.

How you react to others says much more about you than about the others. According to Carter-Scott, you cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. We love people who have traits that we like and dislike people who have traits we dislike.

Lessons an individual can learn from rule seven include clarity, tolerance, support, and healing. As we continue learning such lessons, we take specific steps toward shifting our perspective from others to ourselves. We should learn to embrace all parts of others, know that our judgment about others says much about us, take time to nurture ourselves toward wholeness, and be supportive of others and ourselves.

---
The Lotus Sutra goes beyond, in saying that we have the ability to experience all states of being.

The more advanced among us benefit from walking in the other person's moccasins, so to speak, in order to better appreciate them and be of assistance.

[PortTack]

25. I'd rather have the compassionate guy with the stutter than the criminal with 91 felony counts

But hey you sick f..k you and your cabal, history will not be your friend. Neither will the ballot box come this November!

[kentuck]

26. He never grew beyond ten years old.

His crudeness is the proof. Anybody that thinks that is funny is a friggin' moron!

[mitch96]

27. Just a straight up school yard bully.. First to cry when called out on their bull..nt

[KentuckyWoman]

28. This is the big disappointment of my life.

All my life we've worked so hard to shove the bullies under a rock so society could function with something closer to the ideals we claim. I thought we'd made some real headway only to find they were just lurking anyway.

My disappointment is really my own fault. I knew full well there were serious problems but I honestly thought it was just a matter of keep dealing with issues one at a time. I don't hang around with the MAGA sort and never did, so the depth of that barrel wasn't something I ever saw. I expected that it still is part of the fabric of the US but not to this level. 70+ Million willing to fall in with this? I should not be appalled, but I am.

[Warpy]

29. Middle school bullies love itt and they love him for it

because it finally legitimizes them after years of being told bullying is wrong and the world generally hates bullies.

Biden is an old dude, yes, but his years and stuttering problem have given him ample opportunity to learn how to crush bullies, so let the games begin. I am confident of his ability to send TFG into incoherent spluttering, something that happens when a victim has disconnected all the buttons adult bullies like to push.

So don't confuse Biden with a slightly befuddled old grandpa. He's made out of pure steel.

[AllaN01Bear]

30. id rather vote for the one who stutters rather than the bully , rapiest insurrectionist , draft doger , etc.

twice impeaced and a rap sheet more than a mile long.

[Ocelot II]

31. The most disgusting thing isn't that Trump mocks Joe's stutter, it's that his fans applaud him for it.

He appeals to the closet bully inside a lot of his supporters, and it's disheartening to realize that a lot of people never grew out of being the mean middle-school kid who got pleasure from teasing the stuttering kid, or the fat kid, or the gay kid, or the kid with thick glasses or the foreign accent. It's just too fucking sad.

[nuxvomica]

33. This is a sign of severe desperation

The SOTU knocked dead the "sleepy Joe" meme so TFG was left with only the stuttering as a way to tear down Biden personally. His quiver of insults is emptier now than his bank accounts, and he's feeling so desperate he needed the affirmation from his audience, proof they will go along with whatever he does no matter how pathetically small-minded it is. He's toast.

[Joinfortmill]

36. Beyond horrible. Shun these people. You cannot persuade them. Trump is another Hitler.

[bdamomma]

84. or another

Orban.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

37. Republican Patriots Should Take Trump Out

Joe cares about the State Of The Union. Trumpanzee cares about returning the Soviet Union.

[Boomerproud]

45. Won't happen because that species is 99.9% extinct.

Nothing else to say. I went to my brothers' house last evening and his next door neighbor had a huge Trump flag flying. They are good friends and it made me furious.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

59. Only Because They Are Weak

[OMGWTF]

39. My genius brother had a stutter as a kid because his brain worked faster than his mouth.

I'd call Trump a c#nt but he lacks warmth and depth.

[Dave Bowman]

42. Trump is a great and mature orator,

said no one ever. Pathetic.

[YoshidaYui]

43. He is such a hateful Bastard

I hope Biden buried Trump in a landslide and the justice department convict him to life in prison

[Firestorm49]

44. What an asshole. I'm still stunned by his immaturity.

[1WorldHope]

46. President Joe dealt with bullying about stuttering

about 70 years ago. This shit just rolls off his back. Trump is still as immature now as he was when he himself was an 11 year old budding bully. 🪱🦟🪰

[iluvtennis]

47. It's not the first times this sick fker has mocked a person with a disability.

[SouthernDem4ever]

48. I never expect him to be any less of a total asshole

Greedy, traitorous, dumb and an asshole. What a winning combination.

[Playingmantis]

49. There is no bottom to which these bastards will not stoop.

I want to go to FOX and post some shit but it will not do any good...

[colsohlibgal]

50. He Is An Idiot

He is nothing but crazy....Nuts. It has to be alarming that he managed to win in 2016...aided of course by our silly Electoral college where Republicans can lose the vote but win anyway. Which totally runs counter to our supposed one person one vote.

[NanaCat]

51. Correction:

The man at the top gives his followers permission to be the worst version of themselves.

It's not the worst version of them. It's the only version of them. They have no other settings, because they've never had any others installed.

[claudette]

55. As a relative

of a super intelligent stutterer, I detest the orange criminal for his mockery of a speech impediment that takes courage and great effort to overcome. Whoever votes for this insane, nasty mad man should be considered as immoral as he is.

[live love laugh]

57. These people's ancestors took their kids to lynchings.

[mwb970]

60. What a disgusting little man trump is.

Vile and evil. The very worst American. Barf!!

[ShazzieB]

61. Of all the reprehensible things about TSF...

...the relish he takes in mocking people with disabilities is the thing I find most offensive and repulsive of all. It's why I bought the shirt shown below, as a way to take a stand against TSF's disdain for those he considers his inferiors merely because they are differently abled. I plan to wear it a lot between now and November.

[bdamomma]

86. Oh ShazzieB

that is great. Love it.

[edbermac]

62. He mocked Michael J. Fox

So it’s no surprise

[Cha]

63. VERY Threatened & JEALOUS AS a Green Orange Sick Fuck BULLY Can Be.

[ecstatic]

65. At this point, I'm more horrified by his supporters

What is wrong with them?

tRump is going to trump. We're all used to his sick fuck antics at this point.

But how fucked up of a human being do you have to be to support this shit?

[Woodwizard]

66. I have been saying the same.

Trump is not unique but he gives all the other nasty bigoted bullies validation.

I have ditched two supposed friends after the polite mask came off after the bully got in. I have no tolerance for people like him.

[Lie-Detector-General]

67. School Yard Mentality.

The leader fit for his School Yard, not Our Country.

A Disgusting 🤡

[Botany]

68. Joe doesn't need to respond to Trump's blather.

He is far more accomplished then Trump will ever be academically, in being a family man, kindness,
politically, financially, and for just getting things done that are successful too. Besides he has never
had to declare bankruptcy, been impeached, been indicted 3 times, been charged with 91 felonies,
been sued for not paying his bills and contractors, or been impeached 2 times.

Btw yes Joe has a stutter but that didn’t stop him from being a professor of law and Constitutional law
as he was a sitting U.S. Senator or becoming POTUS. Nor did it stop him from giving one of the best
State of the Union addresses ever. Both Presidents Obama and Biden along with HRC are everything that Trump is not and it eats away at him daily if not hourly.

I used to hope that Trump would end up in prison for his crimes but now I just want him to expire
from his obesity, diet, circulatory system illnesses, and his tertiary syphilis. Putin installed him in
order to weaken and divide America and in that he has been highly successful.

Besides Joe is not out on bail or having to find companies to post his bond because he really isn’t
rich at all it is just a big fake like his businesses.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

70. At today's rally, TFG again mocks President Biden for his stutter. There is a pattern

I had a stutter when I was young. Now the stutter only shows up when I am very tired. I was fortunate enough to have met President Biden twice back in 2019 at a couple of fundraisers. At one fundraiser, I got to discuss stuttering and President Biden told me that he has 20 or so young people with stutters he keeps track of.

In the 2020 debates, Chris Christie coached TFG to try to provoke President Biden's stutter. This tactic did not work but Christie did have to go to the hospital with Covid due to these debate prep sessions.

Here are today's comments

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TFG is obsessed with the fact that President Biden has been very successful despite of his stutter. Here are other comments

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TFG likes to mock people with disabilities while President Biden tries to help people with disabilities

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This race is between two very different persons. I am proud that the US chose President Biden in 2020 and will work hard to make sure that President Biden is re-elected.

[littlemissmartypants]

72. Excellent! Thanks, LMPV. ❤️