That's a pretty weird thing to do.
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Lol every time I read one of his headlines I now think 'how weird can one person get?' and he somehow finds a way to out do his record almost daily.
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In a rant rife with misspellings and baseless conspiracy, Trump wrote: "What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination."
The ex-president continued, "He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"
I don’t think Trump knows what the constitution is
He just can't accept that someone willingly can give up power, I think this is very close to what he felt when the 2020 election was "stolen" from him.
And it's funny how he can't let Obama go from his mind, talk about living rent free...
What power? Didn't Biden lose? \s
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I know Trump doesn't know what the constitution is.
He swore to protect it and then violated the one law defined within it that an individual can break that has a prescribed punishment. Why we haven't implemented the prescribed necktie outlined in the constitution I don't know. I guess we just don't want 100% of the people we've tried under that law to be white dudes? And also! What he did was 1000x worse than what John Brown did.
Why we haven't implemented the prescribed necktie outlined in the constitution I don't know.
I do: we have at least 34 Senators and 5 SC Justices who let him do it. It's as simple as that. If he didn't have either group of people in his pocket, he'd be in jail right now.
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Honestly that first quote reads like a bad AI impersonating trump, it's that unhinged.
The second before he posted it, an SNL audience would have been in hysterics if someone did an impersonation of him and read that verbatim, as it would have come across as a comically flanderised version of the real him.
Alas, we continue through the bottom of the barrel beneath the one we started in
Kamabla?
If that’s what he’s going with, he’s toast.
He has said it several times now. I'm still confused by it.
I’m guessing he made a typo but doesn’t want to admit it, so now he’s locked in.
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The ex-president continued, "He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"
Sure sounds a lot like something he would do himself.
Holy... He's live blogging his meltdown. *grabs popcorn*
Insane to me this man is in serious contention for the Presidency of the United States in 2024.
At least he didn't sell out to grammarly based on this spelling
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God he wants Joe back so bad. He was jilted at the altar.
He'll never get his rematch, he'll always be 0-1 to Joe and it's driving him insane. Let alone the fact that his new opponent is his kryptonite and killing him in his beloved "ratings". He's getting booed off stage and Democrats are filling arenas with people chanting "U.S.A".
If anyone reads the writing on the wall to him, he might finally snap.
I hope she starts talking about the size crowds she pulls. He will blow his top!
I really wish I could just whisper in trump's ear
Biden beat you
No he cheated
Then he cheated better than you did
No I didn't cheat
Then you where too stupid to get away with it
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In case anybody hasn't noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of "plausible deniability" or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don't think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.
He said Obama went online and publicly withheld his support for Harris, only for news outlets to show the moment he endorsed her, which was two days before his post.
He said Harris was a "border czar" that she literally never was.
And now, whatever this word salad is. I'm not even going to try to make any sense of it because there is absolutely no possible way that any of that makes even the slightest bit of common sense no matter how many conspiracy theories you subscribe to or how much meth you've taken. Remember that scene from Billy Madison? "I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul". Billy Madison would look like a Harvard graduate compared to this.
All he's doing now is just accusing random people of random things and hoping his base believes it.
In case anybody hasn't noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of "plausible deniability" or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don't think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.
I feel like this has been going on for a long time, though? He literally lied about the crowd size of his inauguration 8 years ago despite pictures of the actual crowd being widely available.
only for news outlets to show the moment he endorsed her, which was two days before his post.
This is the difference right here. He's getting fact checked instead of journalists just coughing politely when he spews pure nonsense.
Sure, and if they'd have done that from the start 10 years ago maybe things would have developed differently. But at this point everyone already knows he is a pathological liar, and neither his devoted supporters nor the independent/undecideds seem to care.
Yeah this is classic Trump actually, the famous difference between a Bullshitter and a Liar. He's a Bullshitter because he doesn't care what the truth is, he just says whatever will help him. Biden is re-joining the race. Covid restrictions will end by Easter 2020. He won the 2020 election. Obama is a secret Muslim with a fake birth certificate. Just whatever. He gets called out on these things and just sticks with them.
A Liar has a relationship with the truth but says the opposite. A Bullshitter has no relationship with the truth.
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In case anybody hasn’t noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of “plausible deniability” or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don’t think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.
Fox news called. It's their bread and butter all day every day forever. I got so sick of having to do the research my father refused to do as Sean Hamface yelled "truth" at him over the tv. There is almost always a grain of truth that they abuse. You do 30 seconds of "research" and it verifies their claim. You need to actually learn about nuance to discover they are lying by omission on most things. It's incredibly tiring...
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His only chance is if Dems ran a historically unpopular candidate like Hillary or Biden.
Kamala is far from perfect, but it's not exactly a high bar to be better than trump.
I wouldn't call Biden historically unpopular. He won once, after all. He didn't back out because he was unpopular, he backed out because he was not the same candidate that won in 2020.
He made the biggest choice for this country. A really big and important sacrifice. I am glad I voted for him now
He won once, after all
Against an incumbent trump... People weren't voting for Biden, they were voting against trump.
40 years after his first attempt at running for president.
If the people wanted Biden as president, it would have been back in the 80s when he was at his peak. He'd have probably been a good president back then.
Unfortunately his personality got in the way and screaming at reporters that he had a higher IQ and it didn't matter that he plagiarized campaign speeches or his classwork in lawschool torpedoed that campaign.
It just seems like the people who defend Biden the most, don't know anything about him besides that he was Obama's VP.
He was rejected by the American public over and over again for decades. It wasn't until the only other alternative was four more years of trump, and he just barely beat Trump by the skin of his teeth.
I view it a bit differently. I like the job Biden has done, and think he made a good President. But Biden has always had some key liabilities which limited his ability to win a national election. He has a long history of saying stupid stuff, and he has had a history of "heavily borrowing" from other sources in his speeches. There's a reason why his campaigns in the 80s usually ended by Super Tuesday.
But all of those liabilities didn't matter once he ran against Donald Trump. Trump said 10x more stupid stuff, told 10x more lies, and trigged Biden to fight 10x more fiercely. It is very possible that Donald Trump is the only candidate Joe Biden could ever have beaten in a national election.
That doesn't mean that people were voting against Trump, but it does mean that Biden's strengths were most apparent when running against Trump. And it also explains why his campaign floundered this time: there was a demonstrated lack of energy due to his age that he couldn't overcome.
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If the people wanted Biden as president, it would have been back in the 80s when he was at his peak. He'd have probably been a good president back then.
Strange to see you, of all people, saying that. Biden of the '80s would have been much more corporatist and neoliberal than Biden of the 2020s, and therefore way worse despite being in his prime, age-wise.
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Next from JD Vance: 50 Shades of Grandma's Couch
“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination.”
I can't even.
Why does it sound like Trump comes up with his childish nicknames by consulting Garbage Pail Kids trading cards from the 80s?
If you told me that the last time Trump read something it was the text on a children's toy in the 1980s, I wouldn't have trouble believing it.
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This was a fever dream... he knows he's screwed against Harris and is wishing it was still Biden.
He feels he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he hates most, and he wants it back, NOW!!!
I honestly think he forgot what he was talking about halfway through the tweet, and started talking about himself in the third person (as he does) and how they "stole" the presidency from him.
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I refuse to believe this is real. This is even stupider than the stupidest thing that happened so far. This is beyond belief.
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Don't interupt your enemy in the middle of making a mistake. This can only delay his ability to deal with the reality of the situation.
I honestly think that happened in a dream of his, and he posted it because the dream made him happy.
And the most pathetic part? He totally bombed on AO3 - he only got two kudos and one was from EricsRump and the other from NYCMAYORRUDOLPHGIULIANI.
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Watching the mental decline in real time is pretty amazing. This will be in the history books for generations as what not to let happen again.
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This is the ultimate result of believing that perception is reality.
Fake news. He can't write.
Is he trying to get people to watch the democratic convention? I'm sure the democrats will be happy for more people to watch.
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