He’s ready to go personal in next month’s debate against Harris. Advisers are urging restraint.
  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “Whoever they are, doesn’t matter, I hate them. If they agree with everything I say, I hate them. If they are my own family, I hate them. Whoever they are, whatever problem that you personally have, it is actually their fault, the way I tell it at least. We actually wrote the “I hate…” statements first, and then we just insert the name eventually. We’re making it all up you see, I have to be the president or else I go to jail or russia.”

  • ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    He really hated Obama, but now there’s a real fear that the entire nation will say they like a black woman better than him. And I just don’t think he could handle that kind of rejection.

  • ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Do you even know who your opponent is? Do you know what day it is? Point to the cow in this picture. No, that’s a horse.

    • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.

      Why not “very high” then?

      MBFC:

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Reading what he said in the article, that’s pretty close to the truth. He wasn’t saying that he hates Harris particularly, but that whomever his opponent is, he hates that person and he’s going to be mean.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      This, but unironically.

      Trump is a toddler who never gets told no. He instinctively and compulsively hates anyone who opposes him, because they had the audacity to stand between him and something he wants. There’s no deeper thought to it than that.

  • Bonifratz@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Trump suggested that restraint would be unfair since his Democratic critics are “getting personal all night long.”

    This shows why it was paramount that the Democrats left the “high road”. Trump has no clue how to react when someone finally hits back at the bully.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Right? I was taught to not start fights, but if someone wants to attack me and mine, to make sure that I finish that fight. I get wanting to be the bigger person, so to speak, but at least defend yourself.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        It’s all about principles and turning the other butt cheek like good people do, as if that was going to convince the bully that their way is wrong…

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          It’s not about convincing Trump, it’s about getting the Independents to vote.

          Dems won with Biden in 2020, so they figured that he’d be fine in 2024.

          If something worked for a long time, people are reluctant to try something new.

          I myself was leery of Biden dropping out, and I was shocked by the Kamala surge.

          • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            I don’t know why so many democrats think themselves into closed boxes like this. Biden was a very poor candidate from the beginning, and was one of the worst candidates chosen from the original primaries. He (and the democrats) nearly blew the 2020 election, and were only saved by Trump’s massive failures with COVID-19.

            I mean, go back to Obama selecting this man and people hated the guy. I recall people ranting and pleading with Obama to pick someone else.

            • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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              5 months ago

              The Dems do this because the Left stays away from the process and then [possibly] shows up on election day.

              AOC jumped in with both feet and got herself elected. And seen plenty of people rage on her because she didn’t set herself on fire to fight the Dem leadership.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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            5 months ago

            I’m not talking Biden or Kamala or Trump or who needs to come out and vote, I’m talking about the way more progressive people act in general, they believe people who are harsh and disrespectful just need to be shown a better way because if progressives can be good people so can anyone else, just like bad people project unto others their own faults (if I can imagine myself doing X, it means everyone could do the same, the best example being all people who committed election fraud being Republicans when they’re the ones abusing the Democrats of doing it).

        • USSMojave@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Lol turning the other cheek is not about your butt, it’s for if someone slapped your face, so you turn your face to give them the other cheek to slap

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Baiting Trump to keep doing the thing that his voters are starting to hate because he can’t shut his damn mouth is so funny I’m actually surprised the dems are doing it.

    • suction@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Also he will never be able to turn the tables and take the high road because he’s trash. Trash with enough money to impress Americans, but he’ll never be able to speak or act like a truly classy person.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Let him get mean and personal. So she can be ready and hit him back with “you’re a felon and a sexual deviant” over and over. I would love for him to fall apart and call her mean and nasty after she snacks him around.

  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    I’m not even American and I’m keen to see what the debate will be like. I seriously doubt Trump has enough self-control to stop himself lashing out at Harris, let alone the presence of mind to listen to his advisers!