Trump, reciting songs and praising cannibals, draws yawns and raises eyebrows
Trump, reciting songs and praising cannibals, draws yawns and raises eyebrows
Former US president Donald Trump raised eyebrows among his no-nonsense New Jersey crowd at a rally Saturday when he recited a 1963 soul song in its entirety and referenced a fictional cannibal as "great.""A tenderhearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake," Trump said, reciting -- but not singing -...
The article lost me at "[Trump's] no-nonsense New Jersey crowd at a rally".
Am I supposed to assume that the folks showing up at a Trump rally are no-nonsense? I beg your forgiveness, but I'm struggling with that one. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
As for "draws yawns" and "raises eyebrows", cool stuff if some of these folks are feeling fatigue from the hate machine or are newly perplexed by their political leader. Better late than never, I suppose.
Frankly a no-nonsense crowd implies existence of a nonsense crowd for Trump and frankly I miss the fun crazy. The genocidal crazy is getting to be too much these days.
All the death from COVID was just "fun crazy", eh?
The “fun crazy” was just a distraction while he raped the nation and the planet. The one place you won’t see the scam is where the street hustler tells you to look.
Yeah, instead of no-nonsense they could've write "sense"...
At first I thought it read "praising cannabis" and I was like, wait that doesn't make sense, better re-read it ... then it made even less sense...what the heck is going on? We have puppy killers and cannibal praisers who believe they should be leading the US, and the worst part is that people vote for them, a lot of people.
If you've ever listened to Trump speak for even a minute and you think "yep, that's my guy", you're totally lost already. And those people will still vote for him no matter how unhinged he or how obvious his dementia becomes.
This is a quote from the rally. It is very unclear the intent of this paragraph, nonetheless it is talking about cannibals.
Silence of the Lambs. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man. He often times would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me. I’m about to have a friend for dinner,’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter. We have people who are being released into our country that we don’t want in our country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked, totally unvetted.
Why is it that the more detail you read about these things, the less sense it makes. What the hell is going on in that block of text? It's like the literary equivalent of one of those magic eye puzzles where you feel like there must be something there but you just can't make sense of it no matter how much you squint at it.
For people wondering about the cannibal thing, there is the full quote.
Silence of the Lambs. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man. He often times would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me. I’m about to have a friend for dinner,’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter. We have people who are being released into our country that we don’t want in our country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked, totally unvetted.
This really is going to come down to who can lose the most voters, isn't it?
Hard to tell how much Biden will lose. He's definitely not liked but a lot of the "not going to vote because Palestinian genocide" is probably trolls (likely Russian/Chinese). Things would be worse for Israel and Ukraine under Trump and they know it. I'm more interested in whether Dems can be shifted further left to stop the genocide, help Ukraine more, and get some basic rights back.
Trumps' base is still loyal but I think many non-extremists are just fucking tired of him and his ilk. His base is also old and more Rs than Ds died by not vaccinating.
It’s not just Gaza, though. There’s a lot there and it was always going to come down to who loses the most votes.
It’s not going to be an easy election for Biden.
but a lot of the "not going to vote because Palestinian genocide" is probably trolls (likely Russian/Chinese). Things would be worse for Israel and Ukraine under Trump and they know it.
What a load of crap. Opposing a genocide and the people providing them the means to do it makes you a Russian troll now in this bizarro timeline that we're in?
I'd love to hear your explanation for how things could possibly get worse for Palestinians. Are they going to start double murdering people?
A lot of comments are questioning Trumps appeal after listening to him talk, but I think I understand why he’s appealing to his base and I think that it’s the same reason many are finding Biden a repellant: people are mired in uncertainties about their futures, their families futures and that of things they thought were tried and true (work hard, get job, get house and raise family). People like how Trump sounds certain and sure and strong, even if some of them don’t like what he’s saying. They want someone certain and sure to lead them when they’re feeling uncertain. The counter to Trump is to use reassuring and strong language for similar themes (job security, inflation, climate, housing, migrants, health). Or at least I think so, I could be wrong.
People like how Trump sounds certain and sure and strong,
He's telling them whatever lie he thinks they want to hear.
And for reasons I can't explain, far too many people are comforted by that blatant lie. Even when it contradicts the lie he told yesterday.
He just tells them what they want to hear. They like that he wants to cause pain to people. The problem for his cult is, they don't understand that they're part of the people he wants to inflict pain on.
I thought this said "cannabis", and I was so confused lol