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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:39 AM Jul 2019

As expected, last night's vote has resulted in Trump ramping up his "Squad" bullshit

There have been a few conversations of MSNBC in the last week which boil down to this:

While Trump continues to regularly taunt Biden, in the absence of a final. confirmed Democratic candidate for 2020, Trump needs an "enemy" right now. He's only happy when he's in a fight, and the uglier the better. So, through endless repetition and childish / mysoginistic insults, he's attempting to brand "The Squad" as "The Face of the "Democrat" Party."

Nancy Pelosi SUCCESSFULLY entered Trump's name into the Congressional record, spelling out his racist behavior, and his response was to tweet a "WOW!" at the number of Republicans who "stood by him."

I'm not going to give any additional oxygen to his most recent tweets by sharing them here. What you'll see, if you choose to go to his Twitter feed and read them for yourself, is that tonight's MAGAt rally in NC will most likely be a full-throated campaign speech to his base, painting the "Democrat" party as the party of AOC & Co, peppered with every fear-mongering, conspiracy theory lie he can come up with regarding "what will happen" if a Democrat is elected in 2020.

We are NOWHERE NEAR "bottom." We're still soaring above the clouds when it comes to the depths he'll sink to in order to save his bloated hide and avoid the SDNY as "private citizen Trump" in January 2021.

PLUS, there's the new video of him "boogie-ing down" with Epstein in a cheerleader-filled room at Mar-A-Lago, and we're a week away from Mueller's testimony, unless Barr finds a way to run it off the rails.

We haven't seen the worst yet. But we see the direction he's taking. Last night was another WIN for Pelosi...she appropriately branded Trump, and by default, every Republican elected official who had his back.

Strap in, kids...bumpy ride ahead.

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As expected, last night's vote has resulted in Trump ramping up his "Squad" bullshit (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2019 OP

This will be on record forever, Trump is a racist katmondoo Jul 2019 #1

But it will help him win votes so he's Fine with it. Kablooie Jul 2019 #4

When will he say "n*****" in public? The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #2

Then they will all vote for him, what else? Kablooie Jul 2019 #5

I've wondered that myself. Miles Archer Jul 2019 #6

Make no mistake, all his best words are coming. onecaliberal Jul 2019 #8

Sadly, I agree. Nowhere near the bottom Va Lefty Jul 2019 #3

This stuff ScratchCat Jul 2019 #7

He's trying to make 2020 a referendum on four women. dalton99a Jul 2019 #9

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

1. This will be on record forever, Trump is a racist

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:45 AM

Jul 2019

Kablooie

(18,644 posts)

4. But it will help him win votes so he's Fine with it.

Reply to katmondoo (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:48 AM

Jul 2019

The more he's attacked for being horrible the more his base loves him.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,900 posts)

2. When will he say "n*****" in public?

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:46 AM

Jul 2019

It's only a matter of time. He keeps pushing the envelope of bigoted comments, and he gets away with it and his base loves it. At some point he'll start using the words in public that we know he uses in private. What will the GOP do then?

Kablooie

(18,644 posts)

5. Then they will all vote for him, what else?

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:49 AM

Jul 2019

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)

6. I've wondered that myself.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:51 AM

Jul 2019

He becomes "energized / emboldened" by the adoration he receives from the MAGAts at his "rallies."

It's clear that, other than the 4 Republicans who voted "YEA" last night, that self-preservation is the number one concern among the GOP.

So whether he "slips' and uses "the n-word" or simply gets as close to it as possible by speaking in code that will be easily understood, he'll go there one way or another. He's already pulled out a few new "nicknames" that REEK of Kellyanne Conway. I'd bet the farm that he "composed" the most recent tweets with her "assistance."

onecaliberal

(32,931 posts)

8. Make no mistake, all his best words are coming.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 11:14 AM

Jul 2019

#RapistRacistPresident

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

3. Sadly, I agree. Nowhere near the bottom

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:47 AM

Jul 2019

ScratchCat

(2,002 posts)

7. This stuff

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 10:53 AM

Jul 2019

Doesn't play with the people who "held their nose" and voted for Trump because they didn't want Hillary as POTUS. He can create all the boogeymen, er, "boogeywomen" he wants, but this is not how you attract independents and run-of-the mill Republicans. If this is his 2020 strategy, he loses by a landslide.... because he isn't running against the people he is attacking. The 2020 election isn't the 2018 Florida elections where they successfully pulled this off by scaring old white folks to the polls to vote for Scott and Desantes because of the scary brown guy running on socialism, taxes and gun control. This is a losing strategy nationally. People across the nation are not going to run to the polls to vote for Trump because of these four Democrat Congresswomen.

dalton99a

(81,637 posts)

9. He's trying to make 2020 a referendum on four women.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 11:19 AM

Jul 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-squad.html
Trump Sets the 2020 Tone: Like 2016, Only This Time ‘the Squad’ Is Here
By Jeremy W. Peters, Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman
July 16, 2019

...

Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, has been telling people that it is very hard to persuade voters in the current hyperpartisan political landscape.

Mr. Trump’s re-election strategy, instead, is to solidify his base and increase turnout. A major component of that is to portray his opponents as not merely disliking him and his policies, but also disliking America itself.

The strategy is reminiscent of how President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican Party tried to frame their fight with Democrats during the 1972 elections around questions of patriotism and loyalty. Nixon supporters took to using the slogan “America: Love It or Leave It” to cast the Democrats and the growing opposition to the Vietnam War as anti-American — not merely anti-Nixon or anti-Republican.

Pat Buchanan, the populist, conservative former presidential candidate who served as an aide to Nixon, said that by elevating the four, Mr. Trump is trying to set the terms of his re-election fight.

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