I misread that last line as performing pathetic acts.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
The ultimate in vanityExploiting white supremacy
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
what patriotic acts? skipping a visit to a cemetery because his hair would get wet?
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
A music video featuring footage of Trump performing patriotic acts
tossing rolls of Bounty to grateful Puerto Ricans
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
holding a Bible upside down in front of a church
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
ok, standing behind heaps of american berders
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
getting the best health care in the united states that is unavailable to almost everyone to treat his covid, then upon discharge from the hospital, ascending to the upstairs balcony of the white house to heroically unmask himself
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
including Apple Music and Spotify
the war on Big Tech
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
Dang Don, you’ve really outdone yourself
― ian, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
Just clips of him shovelling McDonald’s into his face.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
It occurs to me that I've seen tons of photos of him posing with food but I've never actually seen a picture or video of him eating.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-i-love-hispanics-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
i guess he was just posing in that one, too. you're looking for a food eating action shot?
there was a video of him eating pizza with a knife and fork next to Sarah Palin
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEMOhoWBGE
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
you really want to see this?
https://maysimpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Donald-Trump-890653.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a “quantum leap” in the American standard of living.
Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by “baby bonuses” to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.
"baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
Great idea, but I've got a better idea. Trump and all his family and friends can buy an island somewhere, declare it tax-free/regulation-free/woke-free, then spend the rest of their days developing flying cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600,c_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
Future Freedom Cities, filled with As Seen On TV appliances from the Trump brand? Did he get this from Ron Popeil?
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
”baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
ha that plan rules tbf when did we forget how to dream
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
he even knows a certain real estate developer who might be able to make them a reality
He should also make Mexico pay for the Freedom Cities and flying cars
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
i was actually thinking of elon musk and how he make sure that people talk about him for the next 2 years
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
im gonna need big vision plans from all candidates going forward
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
Trump and all his family and friends can buy an island somewhere
is Greenland still for sale?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
i want a food truck that is just for me, stocked with my favorite fusion dishes. and i want the proceeds of the truck to go to america
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
ILXors need to enter this design competition and make New Morbsville a reality
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
"All You Can USA"
Anyway, Trump's got my vote.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
These big dreams of his were obviously poured into his ear by conservative think tanks who are workshopping ways to reverse demographic trends while preparing for the next civil war (“we will need our *own* cities and plentiful child labor when we secede!”)
― epistantophus, Saturday, 4 March 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
We are an hour into Trump's CPAC speech and it has been all grievances about his legal problems, potshots at Biden, and alternative history about how awesome his term was. There has barely been a hint of an actual 2024 campaign agenda.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2023
what aaron ruper doesn't know is that he's about to launch his Freedom Cities idea. just wait til they hear about the vehicles that launch vertically, and how much time and money that will save
― z_tbd, Saturday, 4 March 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
Fox host visits Florida diner asking who they prefer for 2024, presumably to showcase DeSantis' support, but every single person says Trump. Host then beelines to a lady wearing a DESANTIS shirt but even she says Trump or DeSantis lolpic.twitter.com/kxbUxKhicc— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” ...
Is this not just the plot of Brave New World?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 6 March 2023 05:28 (one year ago) link
thinkin' about those SOMA beans
― StanM, Monday, 6 March 2023 05:29 (one year ago) link
reading the trump leaves
Trump's CPAC speech is worth paying attention to. It laid out his strategy for winning the GOP nomination (hitting DeSantis on social security & medicare) and the White House (hitting Biden on foreign policy). https://t.co/8LcH3CBTSh— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
oh cool Beltway press gonna treat him like a normal ghoul like it's 2015 again
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
i dont think thats what jeet is doing heer fwiw
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
I ordinarily don't have a problem with him
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
I have to think it's not a great sign that Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate for 2024, is signaling constantly to a fascist death cult devoted to the idea that he should be a dictator. https://t.co/Dqa7WBeboj— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 6, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
Aanyone here in the year of our lord 2023 who isn't well aware that becoming a dictator for life is Trump's biggest dream...
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
it's worthwhile to understand his strategy in order to plan how to beat it
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
I feel like have studied history a decent amount. I am not aware of anyone who was so driven by ego to become a fascist dictator, while being comically lazy at the same time.
Seriously, yr Caesar/Napoleon/Hitler/Stalin/Mussolini type doodz were fanatical egomaniacs, sure, but they put in the WORK, yo. They brought attention to detail. They looked at maps and org charts and such.
Trump just wants his name on stuff. Low energy. Sad.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Thing is, he doesn't have a "strategy" beyond just yelling his cultists' grievances back at them.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Eh, Mussolini was pretty lazy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
That's a dangerous assumption to make, hitting the competition on SS and Medicare is a fairly smart direction to go. It will be more difficult for him to paint himself as the moderate option as he did in 2016, but this kind of stuff pushes in that direction.
xp
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Moodles, he has lucked into good lines of attack but there aren't principles behind it - it's all in the service of ego.
Mostly though he is a human feedback loop for MAGApplause. Doesn't matter what he says or whether he believes it or can even articulate it correctly, it's just "how do I get these chuds to cheer me and wear my stupid hats?" Like, embracing diversity would be a real position. Trump can only manage to tweet that he loves taco bowls. Acknowledging that non-college-educated voters are real people with real concerns would be an actual position; the best he can do is the garbled "I love the poorly educated."
Everything is filtered through the lens of whether it glorifies his name or doesn't. Everything that works gets repeated; anything that doesn't work gets rapidly abandoned. There is no secret sauce other than that. It is a remarkably simple formula, and it slightly depresses me that it has worked this well for this long.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
lol remember when he praised the vaccine in fall '21 -- the only good thing to emerge from his wretched term -- but stopped when the crowd booed? Now he's attacking DeSantis for not opening the state early enough.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
I agree that there are no principles behind it, but principles and strategy are two different things. He clearly doesn't have any strong beliefs or moral center, but he is running an actual campaign and trying to win.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 6 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
giving people what they want aka populism is a powerful political art, particularly when contrasted with politicians who are more concerned with giving corporations what they want
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
or at least telling people what they want to hear, the actual giving is a little trickier
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link