‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said
Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.
The former president has made a number of insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”
New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.
“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.
Cry baby snowflake felon is little cry baby snowflake felon - big shocker here
Remember when Amber Rose said she would back Trump because he was a “real man”?
Lol
It’s almost always just power plays imo. On both sides.
I think a big problem we have is that our populace is so large. We have a lot of culture and lifestyles to embrace, so politicians in order to appeal to the broad audience wash out most of who they actually are and end up with these surface level generalists who still have personalities below that we won’t see.
Hard to be a singular representative for a large populace and stay popular.
What exactly is “both sides” here? You’re getting pushback because that’s a loaded phrase and is basically never used in good faith. But show us this is an exception, if you can.
I was just expressing that I believe shallow politicians can exist on both sides, and do to some extent. Not drawing any specific statistics. To be clear, that means I’m also not saying both sides exhibit this characterization at an equal rate of occurrence, just that it is and has been happening on both sides.
Politicians, like it or not and regardless of party lines, sometimes are just in it for the power and the glory.
Again, this doesn’t happen at an equal rate on both sides, and I’m sure it does happen at a disproportionate rate, but it’s an overall problem that comes with positions of power and authority that I think should be tackled outside of party-specific focus. You could argue burning houses as rationale to target, but if there’s fires in both houses and you’re able to, you should take both out or the other will be just as bad at some point.
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Just trying to understand - are you saying that it’s not both sides?
I personally think that republicans are more likely to go back on their word, but dems do it as well
To address the problem we need to have the problem in full in front of us if we’re to eradicate the problem and not just swing a pendulum back and forth endlessly until the planet boils us alive
Person A quietly swipes a pen off your desk.
Person B robs a bank at gunpoint, and it goes bad, murdering 12 people in the process, including kids.
“Obviously both sides must be talked about with the same weight of seriousness.” “That was my favorite pen, how dare he!!!” “They’re both thieves, and there’s no difference between them.” “They’re both the same.”
Fuck that.
So, based on this- he’s been having a nervous breakdown for the past four years following four year of…. [Checks notes] a four year nervous breakdown.
Mad (wannabe) king, with his subjects all in diapers, fixated and all chanting along in unison as he deteriorates “the nurses are all stealing the desert off my food tray!!! The nurses are all stealing the dessert off my food tray!!! The horses are all feeling the dress shirts on my good day!!! The morsels are healing my farts and the dogs gay!!!”
All the grifters surrounding their grifter in chief are going to “Weekend at Bernie’s” his old, weird deteriorating body and mind so hard.
I think almost dying really rattled him. He seems very unthrilled about being out in public now.
He was SHOOK at the RNC days after the attempt - it would have been the funniest thing for someone to pop a balloon right as he walked out
Ha! Missed me.
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Theoretically, what would happen if this close to the election, the stress causes a blood vessel to burst and Trump just strokes out?
I mean, besides the post-jedi levels of celebration, would Vance just be inserted into the ticket if it’s too far along to have a new primary?
Is being alive a qualification to be elected? I have no doubt Trump’s people will try to pull an Air Bud “there’s no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball” move.
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Once the individual state filing deadlines have passed, it’s likely that Trump/Vance would have to remain on the ballot. But this is one instance where the Electoral College helps, because the election is not for the candidates themselves, it is for electors who support the ticket. And the final certification of electors is up to each State Legislature.
So, if God exercises His Ultimate Veto on Trump’s Presidency, it will be commonly understood that Vance would take over the ticket. He will pick a new VP, and any former Trump/Vance electors would likely cast electoral votes for Vance/Chesterfield instead. While it is possible that State Democrats might challenge this, it’s also absurd to force electors to vote for someone who can no longer take office, so it’s likely that States would give their blessing to the substitution. Particularly if Harris is the overall winner regardless, and the Republican EC votes are simply for the historical record, and have no effect on the outcome.
Vance/Chesterfield
First VP with a sexual harassment claim against their boss?
Based on what I’ve seen Republicans claiming online, prompted by recent changes in the Democratic ticket, such a change would be very dangerous to our democracy and therefore we should go forward with Trump being President despite the minor setback of being dead.
A bigger question is, how could we tell that even happened?
Edit: I mean short of him dying or becoming a drooling vegetable. The man is already deeply deranged and exhibiting significant mental declind
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His cult would still vote for him if he’s got a pulse.
How come when this guy has a public nervous break down it’s big news, but when the rest of us have one it’s “suck it up and get therapy?”
I want people to get worried about the country when I have a nervous breakdown.
Had Trump not regularly insulted people who seek out therapy there might be a bit more sympathy for the situation he finds himself in.
How is your nuclear engineering? You could potentially make folks quite nervous, indeed.
I have no certifications, but I do understand more than I need to about PWR and BWR plants. I mean, I couldn’t run a plant myself, I don’t know what all the buttons do, and I don’t know the various smaller parts and components.
I mean if you gave me time and low enriched nuclear fuel, a machinist, an electronics technician, and some money to buy other components and generators I could probably get one built. Would it be safe? Unlikely, but it would work.
But that’s also sort of the same lines as, yes technically I’ve worked on a flight control computer for commercial air craft, or heart pumps. I’ve definitely been capable of working on missile control systems but I decided I didn’t like the idea of building weapons.
So I mean, in all, how worried I make other people is entirely dependent on what makes people worry.
Being commander in chief seems to make a lot of people worry without a lot of effort
How would you be able to tell?
What a fucking useless article. “Just write anything about Trump, we need the clicks”. Fucking “journalists”, absolutely complicit in the downfall of the US and the turn towards fascism.
‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’
He had some?
“Yeah, he lost 'em good!”
These are his marbles. These are his happy thoughts :)
If he wins, his legal troubles go away. If he loses they come back with a vengeance.
Looks like this weird old man is starting to get nervous and lash out.
Please continue.
Finding out the Supreme Court isn’t going give him unlimited power might’ve blown a gasket.
On top of what you said if Harris wins a prosecutor who Trump constantly insults will be president, and Biden, who Trump also insults and put his son in prison, will have 3 months to do whatever the fuck he wants. Lol
Amazing how quickly things can turn around. I was getting worried when Biden was still in the race. Now it’s open season on those peculiar far right oddballs.
All true except Biden had nothing to do with his son being prosecuted. At most, Biden will allow him to go to prison by leaving office without pardoning him (which I believe he will do, because it’s the not-corrupt thing to do.)
Biden should direct the ATF to pull Marijuana Receipts and IDs from dispensary logs. Then compare that against FID card dates and charge the lot of them.
Conservatives would howl about prosecution, then he can just pardon all of them, including his son.
No, he absolutely should pardon Hunter. He should acknowledge the hypocrisy in a public statement, though. He should note the broad power the Supreme Court has given him to take Official Actions like this with impunity, and double-dog dare Congress to do whatever it takes to rein in abuses like that.
This would actually be pretty cool, and might even work to restore some balance to the scales of justice. Alas, I don’t think Biden has the requisite cojones.
Since it involves his kid, though, he might find the juice to do it.
I don’t think it’s a matter of having the chutzpah or not.
Biden at his core is a pretty solid straight lace public servant. He listens to the majority of the people and tries to do what’s best for the country. While that move would be great for the country, it goes against his straight lacedness.
I mean, this is what I’d do.
I try hard to hold onto my moral compass and practice what I preach, but when it comes to my kids I probably could go hard. Especially if they were facing a future in a cage. If I had the power I just wouldn’t let it happen.
Hmm, that’s a good point.
Is it? Presidents had pardon power before the SC ruling.
It’s not an abuse, or at least not a new abuse. Presidents always had pardon power, and trump himself pardoned his friends. Nothing to do with the SC ruling.
But he can now highlight it as an “official act”, which means that he can do whatever he wants, no backsies.
He can further drive the point home by publically stating that Hunter gave him a $5 “gratuity” afterwards, and daring Mike Johnson to impeach him over it.
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“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham
Important to note that what Lindsey meant was that they would get “destroyed” in the election (which obviously did not happen), not that the party itself would be destroyed. But I hope that second meaning comes to pass regardless.
Let’s hope in hindsight it feels like a Monkey’s Paw Event
“Took fucking long enough”-me
In less than two months Trump will be able to sell his shares in Trump Media/Truth Social. The value of those shares are artificially inflated. Put yourself in his shoes. Sell while the price is still high and stab everyone in the back or wait until the election which he risks losing and possibly see the stock crash hard. If he loses, his political career is certainly over and the GOP will know his brand of politics can’t win national elections. They’llbe lookingto sweep him under the rug. If he cashes in early all that money could buy a lot of lawyers to drag out the trials he faces and that’s been his strategy so far.
Mental instability should be automatic disqualification from federal service
A lying psychopath would pass the test while an honest anxious person would fail. More rules on who we can elect will work just as well as the age minimum does.
