Things are bad inside the Trump campaign

[Dennis Donovan]

Neera Tanden🌻
Wow. From ⁦Tim Alberta piece in the Atlantic

11:00 AM · Nov 2, 2024

Link to tweet

Archived story here: https://archive.ph/aC1tA

[Ocelot II]

1. Longer excerpt and links to the Atlantic piece here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016388774

[Aristus]

2. I think the candidate hand-jobbing and fellating his microphone speaks for itself.

[IbogaProject]

11. One funny thing in these recent Mic incidents...

The next day the Mic went on strike, or they couldn't get the mic up.

[MadameButterfly]

25. The mic, or the people he was planning to beat up?

[IbogaProject]

34. His mic failed the next day

It could have been staff, but could just ne a funny coincidence.

[FlyingPiggy]

31. Yes, that was really gross. 🤢 🤮

[NBachers]

3. Living in a Fellini-meets-Rob Zombie universe and riding all the way to the final scene didn't work out how they'd hoped

[peggysue2]

4. Terrific article

Gives us a backstage view of the chaos that has always been Trump. He remains his own worst enemy, the enemy within.

[calimary]

12. Yep. THAT'S the key. Right THERE.

HE is the”enemy within.”

donald trump is the enemy within.

[wnylib]

15. And forever projects it outward on others.

[MadameButterfly]

26. True of most dictators

If they were smart they'd win, but they aren't. None of them. If they were they'd be doing somethng else.

[Paladin]

5. Not bad enough to suit me. (nt)

[struggle4progress]

6. These aren't the sharpest light bulbs on the Titanic, are they?

[Biophilic]

7. No sympathy for any of them.

They knew who and what he was/is. They deserve to go down with him. As far as I’m concerned anyone who worked to get trump elected are worse than deplorable.

[not fooled]

19. Yeah

They just expected that he was compos mentis enough to facilitate them grifting off the USA and imposing their crackpot ideas on the rest of us.

[GopherGal]

21. Anyone who signed on after November 2015 should have known

who/what he was when they saw him mock that disabled reporter. Whatever "run the country like a business" delusions they harbored before then, they should have figured out this person was scum and should never be allowed near the levers of power.

[MadameButterfly]

27. There are many points before and after that they should have realized

but we have to be grateful every time one of them finds there is a line for them. We're grateful for Dick Chenery, Lynn Cheney, and all the Republicans who have gotten on board for Harris. It takes principles and guts to change your whole paradigm. The further down the rabbit hole you were, the harder it is. Even though the line should have happened long long ago.

But if reaching that line they are still trying to get him elected, that's a whole other thing. An anonymous tip to a reporter 3 days before an election is something, but not enough.

[Dem4life1234]

23. I hope he ruins their party

[Biophilic]

24. I think he already has.

[BattleRow]

8. How many ways can the deck chairs be rearranged?

[PatrickforB]

9. Not surprising.

Trump represents the force of chaos.

Vance/Thiel/Musk represent the forces of tyranny.

The culture wars represent things intended to distract us from the actual issues.

Thus, Trump is trying to distract us, playing a billionaire-funded shell game, while Harris and her campaign are stressing plans to address a variety of issues.

In the end, people walk away from hucksters playing the shell game.

[wnylib]

16. You are right and the situation is very serious.

But your comment about Trump representing the "force of chaos" reminded me of the forces of CONTROL vs. The forces of KAOS in Get Smart.

Staying with the comparison, Trump would be a double agent, pretending to work for the good guys at CONTROL but actually working as a KAOS agent. And that is not very far from the reality of Trump being a Putin stooge puppet.

[MadameButterfly]

28. The names KAOS and CONTROL were completely lost on me

as a kid watching that show. I just knew my Dad liked it so it was the only show with "violence" that we were allowed to watch.
I knew it was funny but obviously I was missing half the jokes. Thanks for taking me back and cluing me in.

The best parody tells the truth, as you have suggested. Trump is for sure a double agent for KAOS/Putin.

[wnylib]

32. I was in high school when the show was on TV.

One of the most popular catch phrases among the high school kids then was from Get Smart. "Sorry about that, chief." It was our go to apology line for anything that went wrong.

[electric_blue68]

35. I was just thinking this about myself...

KAOS ...heh. Went over my head back then.

[Lulu KC]

10. A good read

Thanks for sharing.

[Deminpenn]

13. Great read, thanks

They are like scorpians in a jar.

[tinrobot]

14. If they're already done with him, they're not going to work hard to get him elected.

Hopefully that translates to few votes for their side.

[MadameButterfly]

29. Yes, one has to hope they aren't going to still help him

when they know. But who know with those guys. It might at least lead to some incompetence or error like bad mics while everything Kamala does is orchestrated brilliantly..

[Blue_Roses]

33. It already looks like that is happening

with the Madison Square Garden Rally and all the other crazy stuff going on. They've just given up, but they don't want him to know it

[lindysalsagal]

17. Tscf kills everything he touches.

[Blue Owl]

18. Dump is like the Hindenburg

An self-exploding Nazi gasbag

[Cha]

20. Please Universe.. May It BE LOSE!!

[Arthur_Frain]

22. But the sacks of shit are still working to elect him

And will take any position offered.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for these whores?

[MadameButterfly]

30. I don't think anyone is suggesting we feel sorry for them

but we can celebrate their misery and draw some hope from it

[ecstatic]

36. I will never understand how they don't see how toxic trump is prior

to working for him. All of the information is already available.

It seems like the more outrageous and outlandish trump behaves, the more he is insulated by his own antics. For example, when I mentioned the garbage truck stunt to my mom the other day, she said, oh that was fake. She thought the entire thing was a photoshopped meme.

I wonder how many people just automatically assume that tRump's worst stunts are just made up Internet memes?