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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/12/2253625/-Trump-has-fatal-weak-spotTrump has fatal weak spot
Friday, July 12, 2024 at 1:15:26p EDT
Anne Elk
Democrats believe that elections are won by spirited debates. Making cogent arguments to convince voters that your candidate should prevail in a free and fair election. Balder and dash, I say! Elections are won by focusing on some characteristic flaw of a candidate and then just harping on it to the exclusion of almost everything else. It's a key reason why Democrats frequently lose elections that they should have won. Republicans are very good at this, and Trump is particularly good at it. He knows something about key portions of the electorate that we don't seem to grasp. We better start grasping it in a hurry. Here are a few of the rules in Trumpworld. Like it or not, we live in that world to a great extent.
1. Funny beats facts. A hilarious speech crushes a serious speech. There really is no contest. A hilarious speech that exaggerates your opponent's personal flaws or deficiencies is gold. Democrats usually suck so bad at this that it is embarrassing. And we shouldn't! We have an opponent who is comedy gold, people. Trump is a swirling mass of inane utterances. Why are we not doing to him what Late Night has been doing for years? We also have some tremendous Trump mimics likely available to us. How about a Trump mimicry contest? Hilarious and mocks a guy who just can't take a joke. Hell, invite him to be a judge!
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The second part of this aphorism is to focus on a key weakness of your opponent and make that characteristic the thing that people think when they hear his name. Fortunately, Trump has already told us what that weakness is. He is cognitively impaired. He is obsessed with it, which is why he started in on Biden so early. It is incumbent on the Biden campaign to demonstrate that Trump is an ignorant, demented nutcase. Since we have literally hundreds of clips of his raving about sharks, electric boats, windmills, etc, etc, that shouldn't be too hard, except for one thing.
4. Repetition. I better say that again: repetition. You cannot just do a few ads. You have to plant stories in the press. You have to put up billboards. You have to run short, sharp, funny ads on TV and other kinds of media (FB, Tik-Tok). You have to be relentless. Every time someone hears the name Trump, they should think kook. Turn Trump into Abe Simpson. And, please, people, we don't need a sober debate of the issues. The issue is Trump and only Trump.
Lovie777
(22,983 posts)and rating numbers. Over 22 million rating re: Nato Press Conference must be driving shithole craz craz.
Easterncedar
(6,267 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,140 posts)We shouldn't let up. It's not even about character, or Joe's record, or the economy. It's about Trump is batshit crazy.
Ilsa
(64,371 posts)telling him and Swalwell's little boy, "We're for Trump." The child then asked his father, "Who's Trump?"
It would be marvelous to toss the orange rapist-buffoon into the memory hole.
Ford_Prefect
(8,612 posts)CrispyQ
(40,969 posts)Regarding his debate performance, Biden knows the facts. He should have had a few comedy writers on his advisor team, too.
GiqueCee
(4,259 posts)... funny AND factual? Let John Oliver run with it; there's no one better!
And you mentioned billboards. The room-temperature IQs that attend his rallies do not listen to NPR and the don't watch MSNBC. But they DO see billboards, and some may even be able to read them. Bombard them with irrefutable facts everywhere they look. They'll get dizzy, and the Orange Gargoyle will have a fit. Feature the vilest parts of Project 2025, the parts that will negatively affect even their dreary, double-wide lives. Drive home the fact that Trump and the scum behind this obscene travesty are doing it TO them, not FOR them. They might even try thinking straight for once.
Justice matters.
(9,787 posts)That's enough to get millions of them to stay home on ED.
Zambero
(9,990 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:01 PM - Edit history (1)
get re-routed to a Franklin Graham podcast. Oh, that would sure piss them off!
Justice matters.
(9,787 posts)Millions and millions of maga "males" are a wide bunch of hypocrites.
They will say they'll vote for the convicted felon and respond to polls as such, but they will stay home Nov. 5.
hlthe2b
(113,971 posts)of its lack of regulation potential for his most sadistic impulses while tying it to Project 2025 AND his long stream of fascist statements and proposals. People need to rightfully fear the consequences of TSF back in WH--not be entertained by our humiliation of him. The latter only (falsely) humanizes him.
edisdead
(3,396 posts)I suppose it could be heart and steak as well?
SheilaAnn
(10,711 posts)madaboutharry
(42,033 posts)There is nothing funny about it. Dictators arent funny, they bring only misery. They are all off the rails, so Trump fits right in along with Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. And of course his new BFF, Viktor Orban.
thesquanderer
(13,006 posts)They can also see it as "disproven" by the fact that he already was president for 4 years, and they didn't see him as "evil" then.
Diraven
(1,898 posts)As much as possible. It drives him (more) insane and there's nothing he can do to stop it.
Deek1935
(1,055 posts)live love laugh
(16,383 posts)all kinds of material available to show his mental decline.
Sadly it seems people respond better to laughable issues than serious ones like rape and they are more unforgiving of mental issues.
Justice matters.
(9,787 posts)DFW
(60,186 posts)Al is a brilliant mimic, and I have seen him do a duet of Mitch McConnell and Bernie Sanders, and he had us all (about 1000 of us in this instance) literally in tears of laughter.
Cheezoholic
(3,719 posts)Honestly, I've always thought of this fuck like a Mussolini clone. There's plenty of material from those days to plagiarize on. And like Mussolini went nuts (well "nuttier"
any time he was mocked or the fools hat was put upon him, so does TSF. And like Mussolini had to go kiss the feet of a diktater for any admiration outside his country (a task Hitler despised) so does The Felon (a task Putin probably despises). Being the brunt of mockery and jokes makes him crazy, there's hard evidence of this, and he'll start screaming the victim louder. People in America, while compassionate for the most part, really don't like consistent victimhood. At some point they get sick of the whining. So let's make him whine! I don't condone violence but it wouldn't make me bow my head if this fucker and his wretched Valley of the Dolls wife ended with Mussolini's fate.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)Wednesdays
(22,603 posts)Was Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin. Most of us can still recall that line, "I can see Russia from my house!"
onlyadream
(2,248 posts)And people who know branding, social media, etc.
BumRushDaShow
(169,759 posts)People have posted the "X"s (tweets) and YouTube vids (including videos from their Instagram) here on DU. But for those who don't engage in social media consumption, have "X" blocked and trash the videos, then they assume nothing is being done.
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Some of us have jobs to do, Donald
A picture of Joe Biden offboarding AF1
A picture of Donald Trump on a golf cart
Biden-Harris HQ
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Trump attacks President Biden for being too energetic: He flies back and forth and back and forth between countries
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7:53 PM · Jun 14, 2024
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Trump: I think Biden should take a cognitive test. My doctor Ronny Johnson. Ronny Johnson, do you know him?
(His name is Ronny Jackson)
6:48 PM · Jun 15, 2024
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Trumps former Chief of Staff John Kelly confirms that Trump called American service members suckers and losers, refused to visit their graves, and that he didnt want to be seen with amputee veterans because it doesnt look good for me
11:04 AM · May 27, 2024
I have *no* social media accounts but can and do read content from what is published from them.
Arne
(3,609 posts)of voters to never drump.
Every Vet, every family member, every Marine and all the Wounded
Warriors will be against him.
Then hit hard with his treason.
BumRushDaShow
(169,759 posts)There are a pair of ads running for vets that were posted -
also - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143263171 and https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143253278 and https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143253029
flying_wahini
(8,275 posts)Maybe mentioned how he could just make them unclassified in his mind.
jmowreader
(53,194 posts)Trump is nothing but fatal flaws hes nuts, hes a rip-off artist, a swindler, a rapist, a convicted felon, facing three other trials, dumb as hell, an embarrassment, a goddamn communist the only nice thing about Trump is that if hes crazier than a shithouse rat quits working weve got more of his defects of character to fall back on.
betsuni
(29,078 posts)Trump made himself a cartoon already. He has mocking immunity.
luvallpeeps
(1,286 posts)Maybe the fact that hes Putins lap dog?
luvallpeeps
(1,286 posts)OrlandoDem2
(3,234 posts)Thats how Trump won in 2016. It is all he has done since.
Save policy speeches for after winning.
Just be an asshole to Trump for the next 4 months. I guarantee itll work.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)They are all scared of the orange one and dont want to to lose access or the rock the boat and jeopardize their careers.but theyll go after President Biden ruthlessly
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,484 posts)Sorry to cut into your retirement, President Obama, but we desperately need you out there every day stumping for Biden!