‘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.
The behavior hasn’t substantially changed, but the narrative is shifting. Trump took office on the back of a wave of sardonic, nihilistic memes. He was constantly excused for being bigoted and unintelligible because his dork enlightenment cronies could cynically spin everything as nine dimensional water backgammon. The fact they weren’t making sense was a plus, not a minus.
Biden dropping out and team Kamala stepping up so hard so fast on the meme front has completely taken the right by surprise. They weren’t mobilized to defend against this. So now they’re on the back foot, the memes from the mainstream left are sharper and meaner than Trumpworld has ever had to deal with before, and the messaging is laser focused.
Spouting nonsense only works if it looks like you’re winning by doing so. Don just keeps showing how old, tired, and weak he really is, so the cracks are forming. Just think of all the political capital he’s spent trying to make diapers cool, and then he makes a VP pick who Snopes has confirmed literally fucked a couch on live video.
Didn’t click the link, but I really really hope it’s Rickrolling…
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XcQ, link stays blue
Get out of here with this fake news! There’s no video! This is just a hit on Vance!
Again, there is no video of J.D. Vance fucking a couch. He only wrote about it in his autobiography (chapter 11, page 180).
I assume you’re just memeing siince he never actually wrote about that?
If he didn’t write it, maybe Jesse Watters should be demanding to see the book and not just a video he could masturbate to.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/fox-news-jesse-watters-jd-vance-couch-video/
Just gonna share this here anyway since I fell for it originally:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/
Snopes doesn’t need to be “helping” right now.
I’m confused… Are you saying we should encourage disinformation?
Yes. I am saying America should be convinced that J.D. Vance fucks couches.
Because that’s what you do when the opponents do things like say your candidates turned black all of a sudden or that he wasn’t born in the United States.
I mean, there’s so much bullshit to use against them we hardly need to stoop to lies. The truth is already incredibly damning and is tearing them apart right now.
There are two kinds of people: those who understand it’s juvenile humor and are just memeing on it for funsies, and those who don’t understand that and are never going to be high information voters and JD Vance fucks couches must just be the message that gets them to vote.
My optimism in humanity leads me to believe there are very few of the latter. What I’m certain of is the joke does no harm and is a silly little meme. President Trump was a silly little meme in 2015 but then Hillary ran the worst campaign in living memory (Kamala saved Biden from that dubious distinction), and here we are. So I’m okay with it, but obviously it has no place in serious conversation except to inject some laughs.
We should encourage ridicule. Their positions are not worth the dignity of rational debate.
Watters insists the couch-clapping story is as real as Covid-19. That sounds like an admission to me!
I have no idea how I’ve never seen this up to now, but good god that’s the perfect encapsulation of that particular sect of morons.
Damn, clicked it. Didn’t expect that.
I did but I clicked anyway.
Some things truly cannot be unseen.
Goddammit. <facepalm>
Agree with both above parent comments, but what can they hope to gain by starting to point out his meltdowns now? Do they think they can convince him to step down as well? To change his rhetoric?
Possibly just distancing themselves from Trump to position themselves for a post-Trump world. Normally its only retirees who don’t face reprisal from Trump or voters that speak out anyway.