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Buns_of_Fire

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13. Chauncey DeVega's original article (Salon):
Thu May 2, 2024, 11:25 AM
May 2
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/02/campaign-emails-more-panicked-during-his-manhattan-trial/
...in what is almost a parody of the nice, sane, and normal politics that President Biden is modeling for his voters and other supporters, he recently announced a contest where one of his donors could win an ice cream date with him and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

Biden’s respectable communications style is both a strength and a weakness: his campaign emails are often so calm that they risk not communicating the extreme dangerousness of Dictator Trump and what will happen if he and his MAGA movement take power in 2025. President Biden sometimes raises his metaphorical voice in his campaign emails, but he needs to be screaming much louder and much more frequently. Ice cream dates will likely be no match against an opposition that is offering a political version of a steel cage death match and the terror dome.

To that point, what story is Donald Trump telling his voters, donors, and other supporters?

His fundraising and other campaign emails are a relentless onslaught designed to create fear and terror about a doomed and ruined America that is being destroyed from within by “vermin” i.e. the Democrats, liberals, non-white people, Muslims, George Soros, the Deep State, “woke”, “Black Lives Matter,” President Obama and Hillary Clinton, those who are not White Christians, the evil “news media” that are in league with nebulous forces to turn the country into a Stalinist-Maoist-Communist hellhole equipped with gulags and prisons where the MAGA people, "real Americans” (meaning White people), and their Dear Leader Trump will be imprisoned.
Trump's outright pathology is only now beginning to be obvious to some? Irish_Dem May 2 #1
You may be right, he might be crazy, but he just might be the lunatic the nation is looking for. Chainfire May 2 #2
Actually, I don't think we DO all see the same trump. Biophilic May 2 #9
You are probably right, Trump is viewed through rose colored glasses by many Americans. Chainfire May 2 #15
Yup, I agree. nt Biophilic May 2 #16
strong leader ? NJCher May 2 #25
They see him as a strong, devout, smart and very wealthy man who will defend the poor downtrodden whites of the nation. Chainfire May 2 #33
Some cult members see the crimes, the lies, the cruelty, the Russian connection, Irish_Dem May 2 #22
(I see what you did there...!) lastlib May 2 #17
I sure as hell don't deserve him as President. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2 #20
He's not crazy Warpy May 2 #21
Yes the cult wants to be entertained more. Irish_Dem May 2 #24
It's not entertainment they want Warpy May 2 #26
Cruelty and destruction are entertainment to them. Irish_Dem May 2 #27
If Trump jumped out of his chair and physically attacked the judge his poll numbers would increase. sop May 2 #29
Down you go Smelvis the SF Slobfather malaise May 2 #3
There's also a nickname that came up in court at 10:03am, Eastern. calimary May 2 #14
Meanwhile, the nightly news talks about Trump as if he's reasonable. yardwork May 2 #4
I'd think someone on the campaign writes these underpants May 2 #5
he tells them what to write. mopinko May 2 #6
Yes PatSeg May 2 #10
if he's telling his lawyers what to say in court, he's telling his tweeter what to write. mopinko May 2 #11
Exactly PatSeg May 2 #12
if they let up on the meds, he'll explode. mopinko May 2 #7
Or... 2naSalit May 2 #19
also possible. mopinko May 2 #31
Good point. 2naSalit May 2 #32
It's called consequences. flying_wahini May 2 #8
Chauncey DeVega's original article (Salon): Buns_of_Fire May 2 #13
I receive the Trump emails - and I concur. They are getting more and more desperate, Rabrrrrrr May 2 #18
I don't get using the moronic slime that is Raw Story NanaCat May 2 #23
I hope they have to carry him out of the courtroom strapped to a stretcher CrispyQ May 2 #28
I do not recall hearing of any previous "hostages" who fly around niyad May 2 #30
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