“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more,” he said.
"Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.
“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”
“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. But rather it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world,” Trump said.
“Right now, if you leave Florida, ‘Oh, let’s go, darling, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,’ and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped,” he warned, promising that he’d run the city “tough and smart.”
Watch Here:
Watch how this story disappears within a day. But the trolls will still be talking about Biden in the debate until next January.
Difference is, no republican cares if Trump is mentally fit to be president, nor will being mentally unfit cause him to lose the election.
Democrats and Biden on the other hand…
no republican cares if Trump is mentally fit to be president
This issue, in this case, isn’t mental fitness. Trump’s comments are right in line with what he was saying four, eight, and forty years ago.
He loves the idea of lynchings as a tool of criminal justice enforcement, particularly when the lynchings target the political underclass. He loves the idea of accusing entire populations of violent criminality, particularly when those communities don’t support his political goals. And he loves the spectacle of it all - the pomp and circumstance of the courts leveraged against his opponents, the “beautification” of a gentrified neighborhood, and the fixation on tourism as an end goal of any socio-economic renovation.
Republicans eat this shit up now, just like when they ate up Michael Bloomberg’s Disneyfication of downtown New York or the massive tourist traps that Nevada and Arizona and Florida has been turned into. Conservatives dream of living their lives in one big resort community, Donald Trump knows it, and this is his promise to do to DC what was done to so many other Reagan-Era cities and states.
To say he’s mentally unfit would imply he wasn’t vibing right along with the tens of millions of white nationalist suburbanites who think the whole country should be a country club that pampers them 24/7.
The mental fitness question isn’t because of his view that we’re already in a Mad Max hellscape only he can lead the true believers out of.
The mental fitness question is because he sounds like he’s having a stroke anytime he has to string together more than 2 sentences.
Why would it disappear? Everyone’s talking about it, more and more every day. The Internet is exploding with demands for trump to step down.
Any source? I didn’t see anything like that.
crickets
That’s what everyone’s telling me. Everyone I know says it.
Nah, I can’t continue. I don’t even know his rhythm of idiot logic enough to copy it.
Lots of people are saying it. Smart people ;]
Media: BIDEN OLD
That’s because democratic voters expect more from their candidates. Let the republicans put up this joke of a fascist. I expect better than Biden and Hillary Clinton and will be happy the day Biden drops out.
And if he doesn’t, I will vote for him and bitch about the Democratic Party the same way I did in 2016.
I’ll be doing the same. Unlike a lot of the people complaining here. Hopefully he wins and we can regroup over the next four years. If the no-voters learn their lesson from how close it can get, maybe we can work together over that time to get someone younger, and more effective. Until then- Biden is all we have to stop America from becoming a fascist dictatorship.
Disclaimer: To the troll that follows me around accusing me of making blanket statements when I never do- note how I said “a lot” not “all.”
I disagree that he is all we have. If he drops out before the DNC, that is plenty of time for his replacement and their VP pick to make an impact on the campaign.
there’s nothing trollish about it. first of all, i don’t understand why some liberals are crying so much about TFG fumbling and no one calling for him to drop out.
WHO’S SUPPOSED TO CALL FOR IT?
his base? they love him and don’t care.
his opposition? why? he’s a terrible candidate most people hate. why would his opposition want him to drop out? so that a less hated person replaces him and guarantees the republican win? you do know Clinton was the only person in the world who could’ve lost to him, and now Biden is trying super hard to be the second, right?
the reason people are calling for Biden to drop out is because he’s polling unfavorably against TFG. the reason they’re not calling for TFG to drop out is because he’s a much hated person who would’ve surely and easily lost if only someone looking vaguely alive would run against him.
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Sure, convince the DNC that a progressive should be on their ballot, so we can vote for them and not waste it instead of senile men fighting for scraps.
The system needs to be gently brought to its knees before we can remove its head.
‘Effing gold Dingdong.
Mockery is the most effective way to beat Blue Maga (imo). We need to show how embarrassing it is to be associated with them.
And calling out the propagandists for their inability to understand the simplest concepts of politics, and their blatant misinformation is the most effecting way to beat MAGA trills.
How many of you get your posts removed for misinformation? Check the mod logs bud. Because from where I sit- the people urging everyone to vote get only their shit removed for bing uncivil and aggressive towards the propagandists urging people not to-
whereas the propagandists get their shit removed for misinformation. CONSTANTLY.
You are the propagandist kiddo, or rather, you are that whom have been so heavily propagandized to, you’ve lost your connection to reality; so from your perspective, everything that disagrees with your world view appears to you to be propaganda, because your connection to reality has been effectively severed.
And specifically thing thing that got called “misinformation”? It was an ground up analysis I did looking at Bidens probability of winning given his current approval rating. I can repost it if you like.
And guess what?
That analysis predicted this exact moment.
It’s unbelievably funny to me how you people cite “analytics” and polls to support your bullshit where you’ve been told time and again that that shit can say whatever you need it to say to support an agenda/argument, or in the case of news media- PROFIT.
Congrats man. You’re the reason you’re getting the news that supports your own beleif. Crazy, right? I know! Bonkers!!!
Everyone needs to vote like polls don’t exist. Plain and simple.
“You people”
People like Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff?
Bro you’ve gaslit yourself into a fantasy land and you just live in denial.
I listened to a podcast yesterday that said the same thing. Most of us were conservative/liberal at some point. What started to change our minds? Many change when our views are mocked by their wider social circles. Maybe not at once, but eventually.
That’s because of his diminished cognitive capacity.
Voters are demanding that trump step down and let another candidate take his place. It’s all over the Internet. I heard he can’t even tie his shoes anymore.
He has visibly struggled with operating a glass of water.
“Don’t you think he looks tired?”
Well, he was asleep a lot of the time he was being convicted of being a felon so he is probably as tired as he looks.
But his voters/supporters love how his mental abilities are lower than theirs
Bigly diminished. The best even.
His cognitive decline has been tremendous.
“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”
Man who flies exclusively on private jets complains about public air travel.
Trump must really think we’re all fucking idiots.
Trump must really think we’re all fucking idiots.
Sadly, the people who attend his rallies are.
Etymology
The word “idiot” ultimately comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs ‘a private person, individual’ (as opposed to the state), ‘a private citizen’ (as opposed to someone with a political office), ‘a common man’, ‘a person lacking professional skill, layman’, later ‘unskilled’, ‘ignorant’, derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios ‘personal’ (not public, not shared).[3][4] In Latin, idiota was borrowed in the meaning ‘uneducated’, ‘ignorant’, ‘common’,[5] and in Late Latin came to mean ‘crude, illiterate, ignorant’.[6] In French, it kept the meaning of ‘illiterate’, ‘ignorant’, and added the meaning ‘stupid’ in the 13th century.[7] In English, it added the meaning ‘mentally deficient’ in the 14th century.[2]
Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
Seems to be accurate. Very accurate!
I mean that’s a reasonable superficial analysis and you can probably get through life on that without a lot of trouble… unless your smart, engaged son or daughter starts talking this bullshit one day, and you have to figure out what is really wrong, so that you can help them. Because calling them a fucking idiot? Ain’t gonna save them.
I think this is a defense mechanism on your part. It’s hard to deal with this, that so many people are so badly removed from reality that they cannot see these simple, important facts. But it’s a lot like someone sees a homeless person, and they immediately jump to denigrate that person, to help them cope with their own emotional needs at the expense of their own empathy.
Oddly, I don’t have a lot of empathy for people who support a guy who has promised to destroy anyone who opposes him. There are only 4 basic reasons to support Trump: you’re really stupid, you’re really hateful, you’re a Christian fundamentalist (heavily overlaps with “hateful”), or you’re really rich. Usually it’s a combination of those things.
The guy was president for 4 years and showed exactly who he was. You don’t get to use the “Oh, they’re just misguided souls” excuse any more.
Calling them idiots isn’t an effort to save them and in no way needs to fulfill that objective. Further, swallowing Trump’s bullshit and honestly believing it is itself sufficient to qualify someone as an idiot. If someone is, in your words, so far removed from reality that they cannot see the simple important facts, then they are by definition not also smart and engaged.
You say that like I wouldn’t jist discipline and/or disown them for it
I guess we aren’t really the ones he’s “speaking” to though.
His voters are, thats the problem
He flat-out said “I love the poorly educated.”
“Poor kids are just as bright as White children" -Biden
One of his many gaffes, and his biases are showing. But you could print a book of the horrible things said by Trump, and he meant every one of them.
Sure sounds like Trump is advocating for more government intervention.
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media: why isn’t biden resigning?
Because Right Wing hacks own it
I would say this is because Trump’s potential voterbase doesn’t give a damn about having a competent, sane candidate. Biden’s potential voterbase has significantly higher standards. It’s easy to point out that there could theoretically be a better-performing candidate than Biden, but I don’t think it’s so easy to find someone that will get more conservative voter engagement than Trump.
Biden should resign, though. Trump’s mental decline doesn’t erase Biden’s.
lemmy doctors are absurd as congressional doctors who diagnosed terri schiavo over the tv.
No, he shouldn’t, and no, Biden isn’t “mentally declining.”
I believe it when a doctor says it. Not some political pundit.
Girl, did you watch the debate? What about earlier today when he spoke and said “Vice President Trump” instead of Kamala?
I’ve always thought Biden was polite and well spoken. He is VERY DIFFERENT when speaking now versus last time/2020. Not only is he incoherent at times, he’s also weirdly petty and grouchy - he started to blame his staff today and then interrupted himself and said his wife was telling him not to. It was WEIRD because he normally would keep his composure and not even mention it. It’s bad. He is clearly in elder decline.
I’m not a girl, but if you want to call me one, be my guest. I have better things to be concerned about.
I watched the debate and he did much, much, much better than I could ever do, because I suffer from stage fright. Does that mean that I’m not “mentally competent” to be a president because “I can’t speak good” in public? Is he not the same as 10 years ago? Sure. But as long as a doctor, a doctor does not declare him incompetent, I couldn’t care less what anyone else says about it.
The bigger issue here is Trump. Trump lied left and right. He said horrible things, like “illegal immigrants will take black jobs” and “there will be a bloodbath if I don’t win.” Oh, but ERGMAGERD BIDEN OLD!!!
I don’t care to compare Biden to a random person - I care to compare him to himself, 4 years ago. And I’ll vote for him, but for fucks’ sake, stop gaslighting us. It’s clear he’s in mental decline. If this was my grandpa, I’d force him to go to the doctor and I would probably not let him drive.
And yes, part of being president is public speaking - so if you cannot do that, then you aren’t qualified to be president. You’re correct there. That’s like, vitally important to the job.
No doctor can make that declaration due to HIPPA and state laws regarding diagnosing someone who isn’t your patient.
Yes, Trump is worse. I’ve never disagreed there. But it’s kinda concerning the only thing in the way of a fascist dictator is a man who is visibly going senile, and that man also will be in charge of laws and nuclear codes. It’s like, bad dude. Like really really bad. I’d vote for fucking Dolly Parton or Willie Nelson over either of these guys. I’d vote for a dog or a cat. I’d vote for a toddler over them. I’m sure a toddler could understand climate change better to be honest.
It doesn’t matter really anyway. We ran out of time. We are all walking corpses anyway. Enjoy your last few years. Even if we got the perfect climate president, even if every country in the world had perfect climate presidents, we’d still be pretty much out of time before we could make a solution (which will take years and will release more carbon and greenhouse gases). It was a good run.
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Work is inherently ableist. There are many many medical conditions that would stop someone from being an effective president, including dementia and aphasias. You could say it’s ableist to allow a person who can’t consent (not being in their right mind), to do as dangerous of a job and as taxing of a job as president.
And being able to communicate is pretty critical lol, regardless if you agree or not. A speech impediment is fine if it doesn’t impact communication, but yes it’s an issue if you can’t understand them at all, unless they could perhaps sign (as in sign language). Communication isn’t about speaking perfectly, it’s about understanding your thoughts and getting others to see your point of view. Biden is not able to do either as he’s switching names entirely, eg VP Trump and President Putin snafus.
He’s right though. I get shot, mugged and raped at least three times per week in DC. And I’m not even from Florida.
Just another day in DC.
The shootings, muggings and rap rings will continue till morale improves.
we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’
That sounds like what happened to Anti-vaxxers during COVID.
Sounds like a school shooting.
Don’t worry, the kids are already dead by the time they let the parents in.
I can’t believe they expect Big Government to solve the problem of children hopelessly dying in the arms of their screaming mothers. They should let private enterprise take care of that.
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The man is nearly as dumb as the people who vote for him.
That’s his secret of success. He has the unique ability to fervently believe his own lies. If some other fucker like Cruz or DeSantis lies, you can always see they’re aware of it and cringing inside. That’s why they are never perceived as “authentic” by the moron base.
The rapist Dementia Don 34 needs to drop out. He’s too old and his brain is cooked from all the adderall.
and the obvious incurable syphilis
But Biden got confused during the debate after Trump lied about 50 different things. I’m not really sure I want a president who will get confused like that.
~literally all the pundits. (minus talking about Trump’s blatant and near constant lies, I added that bit for color)
Biden is in obviously the better choice but he is a pretty terrible choice. I didn’t have a ton of my governor Newsome but if take him in a heartbeat over Trump and Biden. My issues with newsome are mostly based on him being a slimeball but not his politics.
We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime.
Uhhh why you no do that during your first term? It’s not like DC has suddenly become shitty in the last four years.
He also stirred his followers up to attack those capital police officers, so objectively he’s done more harm than good.
DC also has a mayor, and it’s not the president
Trump should also stop running for president.
I think I saw in another comment here on lemm.ee that biden should make it illegal for felons to be president (dont worry, its an official act!) and then biden resigns. I hope it happens. We need turn the country off and turn it back on again.
lol keep dreaming
“Trump is going to be a dictator, so Biden should become a dictator first!” lol
Biden is already a dictator, the supreme court decided that. He has the responsibility to use his powers as a dictator to return us to a democracy, but he’s too out of touch with how much the political landscape has changed to do anything about it.
i don’t care how the good guys win
“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C."
Can’t disenfranchise us, we’re already disenfranchised. Give us 2 senators and a representative, then you’ll have something to take away.
Let’s get Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands proper representation as well.
Fun fact: every battleship built by the United States has been named after a state except one, USS Kearsarge, which was named that in honor of the Kearsarge which sank the Confederate raider Alabama during the Civil War (the US Navy since then has always had a ship in commission with that name, as presumably a giant fuck you to the South). In order to restore the beautiful consistency of having every battleship named after a state, I think we should allow any of the territories you listed above to become the 51st state - so long as they change their name to “Kearsarge” first.
Can’t make DC a state for the same reason we can’t make Puerto Rico a state
It makes perfect sense to do so, but would negatively impact the electoral college in favor of people who aren’t Neo Nazis
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What slide? He was this incoherent during his presidency. This has been his way of communicating the entire time, and yet people die for him.
Here’s hoping…
Something tells me he’s not going to include the Sacklers in this crusade against “drug dealers.”
And why didn’t he do this during
2020-20242016-2020? And don’t say because of Covid, because, according to him, “it was a hoax.”Edit: Yes, sorry, I meant to say 2016-2020.
2020-24?
Yeah, I think they meant 2016-2020.
Yup. 2016-2020. Thanks.
Oops! Sorry yes, 2016-2020.
“powerful” death sentence.
Well, yeah. Wouldn’t wanna get involved in one of those limp-wristed, rainbow colored LIBRUL executions, now would we?
I crave a mighty death 😦
