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riversedge

(70,267 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:41 PM May 2020

story on all that Trump is hurling at Biden--including a wave of F'book ads painting him as.........




Lots in our story on all that Trump is hurling at Biden—including a wave of F’book ads painting him as senile—and the president’s son is now suggesting the former VP is a pedophile >>

https://nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html


A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis



By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Tru​mp has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans.

May 15, 2020


​​Even by President Trump’s standards, it was a rampage: He attacked a government whistle-blower who was telling Congress that the coronavirus pandemic had been mismanaged. He criticized the governor of Pennsylvania, who has resisted reopening businesses. He railed against former President Barack Obama, linking him to a conspiracy theory and demanding he answer questions before the Senate about the federal investigation of Michael T. Flynn.

And Mr. Trump lashed out at Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic challenger. In an interview with a sympathetic columnist, Mr. Trump smeared him as a doddering candidate who “doesn’t know he’s alive.” The caustic attack coincided with a barrage of digital ads from Mr. Trump’s campaign mocking Mr. Biden for verbal miscues and implying that he is in mental decline.

That was all on Thursday.

Far from a one-day onslaught, it was a climactic moment in a weeklong lurch by Mr. Tru​mp back to ​​the darkest tactics that defined his rise to political power​. Even those who have grown used to Mr. Trump’s conduct in office may have found themselves newly alarmed by the grim spectacle of a sitting president deliberately stoking the country’s divisions and pursuing personal vendettas in the midst of a crisis that has Americans fearing for their lives and livelihoods.

Since well before he became president, Mr. Trump’s appetite for conflict has defined him as a public figure. But in recent days he has practiced that approach with new intensity, signaling both the depths of his election-year distress and his determination to blast open a path to a second term, even at the cost of further riling a country in deep anguish...........................
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Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. You ain't seen nuthin' yet!
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:46 PM
May 2020

Just brace yourselves. When in a corner, the rat goes for the throat if it has to. This is a very dangerous person we are dealing with who is not at all presidential material, but could be a really bad, half-assed, tin pot dictator if he gets the chance with another term.

cayugafalls

(5,641 posts)
7. It's not just dump who is dangerous, it is the whole cabal.
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:57 PM
May 2020

Dump would be nothing without Scavino...his thumbs would have frozen solid years ago.

These are evil people bent on enabling dump to continue his tyrannical power grab. For some reason, they have sold their souls and do dumps bidding without the slightest hesitation.

sop

(10,226 posts)
8. Is there anyone left out there who hasn't yet decided who they support, or who can be convinced
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:02 PM
May 2020

to change their minds? Trump will make this the nastiest, dirtiest, most disgusting name-calling shitshow election in American political history, hoping to discourage voter turn out. Fuck Trump and his bullshit campaign. Just GOTV.

LakeArenal

(28,833 posts)
9. Who is that??? It boggles that there could be enough to sway an election.
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:16 PM
May 2020

But I know I’m wrong.

JI7

(89,260 posts)
12. No, There are some who claim to be the left and are undecided but they are mainly opportunistic
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:56 PM
May 2020

types that go whichever way they feel like they can profit the most.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
10. Then highlight Biden's strengths
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:48 PM
May 2020

Intelligence, experience, empathy, likeability, level-hededness (not a word but you know what I mean).

Biden could simply start out every response to hair furor like "President Trump* has said nothing but smears, insults, ludicrous lies, and self-aggrandizement when faced with any adversity. Here is what we should do about this issue." And then enumerate the many things that he and Democrats have planned to improve the situation.

Force that gap between IQ45's infantile temper tantrums and playground taunts with Biden's maturity and ability to focus on what's important. Biden is a million times more professional and capable than the current White House squatter ever thought of being. Push it again and again.

* Sorry, don't gag. The term is only used when the honorable VP is proving his worth over the dick-traitor.

sop

(10,226 posts)
14. Trump's most violent reaction occurred when Hillary called him Putin's puppet during the debate.
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:24 PM
May 2020

It really struck a nerve, he rose up like Hillary had poked him with a cattle prod. Joe should refer to Trump as Putin's puppet at every opportunity.

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