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babylonsister

(172,759 posts)
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 07:28 AM Jul 2024

Trump has fatal weak spot

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/12/2253625/-Trump-has-fatal-weak-spot

Trump 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.
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Trump has fatal weak spot (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2024 OP
shithole goes nut behind attendance numbers..................... Lovie777 Jul 2024 #1
Yes. We need to be relentless! Easterncedar Jul 2024 #2
Perceptive, prescient. Biden defined Trump over the spring trials, but now it's a slugfest. bucolic_frolic Jul 2024 #3
I like the story Swalwell told about some man Ilsa Jul 2024 #4
"There he goes again..." Ford_Prefect Jul 2024 #5
LOL, that was my first thought too. CrispyQ Jul 2024 #27
How about... GiqueCee Jul 2024 #6
Tell them the fascist project 25 (or agenda 47, the same) will ban their free porn... Justice matters. Jul 2024 #11
Their Pornhub links Zambero Jul 2024 #14
Yep. It's not rocket science. Justice matters. Jul 2024 #17
Wrong approach. Many view Trump as entertainment and not the horrific danger he poses. Go after his dementia in terms hlthe2b Jul 2024 #7
Heart and stake? edisdead Jul 2024 #8
Then you'll have to include ketchup for that well-done steak. LOL. SheilaAnn Jul 2024 #15
He must be branded as more evil than Darth Vader. madaboutharry Jul 2024 #9
Many people will think "evil" is hyperbole. thesquanderer Jul 2024 #34
Just call him a rapist Diraven Jul 2024 #10
No, call him "The ORANGE Rapist", over and over and over again as I do every time. :-) Deek1935 Jul 2024 #25
That's not enough. Rapist is one thing but there's live love laugh Jul 2024 #30
See my reply @ #11 above... n/t Justice matters. Jul 2024 #12
Biden should get Al Franken to imitate Trump with him for mock debates on the campaign trail DFW Jul 2024 #13
Mockery is the the itch that keeps on giving when it comes to boisterous self adoring buffoon's like The felon Cheezoholic Jul 2024 #16
TSF really looks a lot like Mussolini and has that same jaw upward thing. kimbutgar Jul 2024 #33
Indeed, a huge portion of Democratic success in 2008 Wednesdays Jul 2024 #18
Dems need to hire marketers onlyadream Jul 2024 #19
They have BumRushDaShow Jul 2024 #22
This issue alone, should turn millions Arne Jul 2024 #24
"Every Vet, every family member, every Marine" BumRushDaShow Jul 2024 #31
I agree, I also would like it if they mentioned those stolen classified documents once in a while. flying_wahini Jul 2024 #20
Just one? jmowreader Jul 2024 #21
No, making something a joke makes it unserious. Didn't used to be true but now is for some reason. betsuni Jul 2024 #23
Being a diaper wearing felon is fashionable now. luvallpeeps Jul 2024 #28
All true! N/T luvallpeeps Jul 2024 #26
No one wants policy. They want entertainment. Biden needs to hurl insults and cast aspersions until Election Day. OrlandoDem2 Jul 2024 #29
The worst part is no one in the media will go after the convicted felon for a sit down talk and push him hard kimbutgar Jul 2024 #32
Obama is great at this. People love Obama. Dark n Stormy Knight Jul 2024 #35

Lovie777

(22,983 posts)
1. shithole goes nut behind attendance numbers.....................
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 07:31 AM
Jul 2024

and rating numbers. Over 22 million rating re: Nato Press Conference must be driving shithole craz craz.

bucolic_frolic

(55,140 posts)
3. Perceptive, prescient. Biden defined Trump over the spring trials, but now it's a slugfest.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 07:47 AM
Jul 2024

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)
4. I like the story Swalwell told about some man
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 07:53 AM
Jul 2024

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.

CrispyQ

(40,969 posts)
27. LOL, that was my first thought too.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:26 AM
Jul 2024

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)
6. How about...
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 08:01 AM
Jul 2024

... 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)
11. Tell them the fascist project 25 (or agenda 47, the same) will ban their free porn...
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:13 AM
Jul 2024

That's enough to get millions of them to stay home on ED.

Zambero

(9,990 posts)
14. Their Pornhub links
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:30 AM
Jul 2024

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)
17. Yep. It's not rocket science.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:44 AM
Jul 2024

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)
7. Wrong approach. Many view Trump as entertainment and not the horrific danger he poses. Go after his dementia in terms
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 08:03 AM
Jul 2024

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.

madaboutharry

(42,033 posts)
9. He must be branded as more evil than Darth Vader.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 08:05 AM
Jul 2024

There is nothing funny about it. Dictators aren’t 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)
34. Many people will think "evil" is hyperbole.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:25 PM
Jul 2024

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)
10. Just call him a rapist
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 08:44 AM
Jul 2024

As much as possible. It drives him (more) insane and there's nothing he can do to stop it.

 

Deek1935

(1,055 posts)
25. No, call him "The ORANGE Rapist", over and over and over again as I do every time. :-)
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:18 AM
Jul 2024

live love laugh

(16,383 posts)
30. That's not enough. Rapist is one thing but there's
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:39 AM
Jul 2024

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.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
13. Biden should get Al Franken to imitate Trump with him for mock debates on the campaign trail
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:21 AM
Jul 2024

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)
16. Mockery is the the itch that keeps on giving when it comes to boisterous self adoring buffoon's like The felon
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:43 AM
Jul 2024

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&quot 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.

Wednesdays

(22,603 posts)
18. Indeed, a huge portion of Democratic success in 2008
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:45 AM
Jul 2024

Was Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin. Most of us can still recall that line, "I can see Russia from my house!"

BumRushDaShow

(169,759 posts)
22. They have
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 10:28 AM
Jul 2024

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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Arne

(3,609 posts)
24. This issue alone, should turn millions
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:15 AM
Jul 2024

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.

flying_wahini

(8,275 posts)
20. I agree, I also would like it if they mentioned those stolen classified documents once in a while.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 10:10 AM
Jul 2024

Maybe mentioned how he could just make them unclassified “in his mind.”

jmowreader

(53,194 posts)
21. Just one?
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 10:27 AM
Jul 2024

Trump is nothing but fatal flaws…he’s nuts, he’s 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 “he’s crazier than a shithouse rat” quits working we’ve got more of his defects of character to fall back on.

betsuni

(29,078 posts)
23. No, making something a joke makes it unserious. Didn't used to be true but now is for some reason.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 10:39 AM
Jul 2024

Trump made himself a cartoon already. He has mocking immunity.

luvallpeeps

(1,286 posts)
28. Being a diaper wearing felon is fashionable now.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:28 AM
Jul 2024

Maybe the fact that he’s Putin’s lap dog?

OrlandoDem2

(3,234 posts)
29. No one wants policy. They want entertainment. Biden needs to hurl insults and cast aspersions until Election Day.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:31 AM
Jul 2024

That’s 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 it’ll work.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
32. The worst part is no one in the media will go after the convicted felon for a sit down talk and push him hard
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:12 PM
Jul 2024

They are all scared of the orange one and don’t want to to lose access or the rock the boat and jeopardize their careers.but they’ll go after President Biden ruthlessly

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,484 posts)
35. Obama is great at this. People love Obama.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 05:34 PM
Jul 2024

Sorry to cut into your retirement, President Obama, but we desperately need you out there every day stumping for Biden!

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