Donald Trump mocked after Nikki Haley gaffe: "Losing his mind"

But he knows a 'camel' when he sees one, unlike old Joe Biden who can only muster complex legislation through Congress and hold together the Western alliance and end pandemics

Pandemic isn't over. We're just over pandemic. 4500 deaths a week in the US from covid.
- The Measles virus isn't over either. A vaccine was created in 1963. By 1981, the number of reported measles cases was 80% less compared with the previous year. Today there are outbreaks in Britan. Why? Didn't get the damn shot.
I'm all for giving him credit when due, but ending a pandemic by having it turn into an endemic feels cheating.
- What was the alternative in your magical world?
- A pandemic is by definition something that affects more than one country, even if it has the ego of USA

Not a mistake, the misuse of language is intentional. By sowing generalized confusion and mistrust, people are encouraged to give up on their own civic duties in favor of focusing on issues in their own immediate lives. It's a simple prioritization of time and energy.

We need to stop looking at other people from our own values and beliefs, and accept that people are capable of, through a militaristic mindset, doing whatever it takes to accomplish their goals. Including destroying others' ability to communicate with each other effectively.

This is the same generalized mistake that leads people to wonder why Russians don't rise up against Putin. The reason? They're broken. This is part of how you break people, and when done during childhood, is particularly effective and often long-lasting.

I'm getting tired of our innocence on this issue. It's not a mistake, it's blatant malice, done with a secret smirk. It's common through history. We are the unusual ones in a historical context, the products of the Reformation and Enlightenment periods of history. He is the more common one, that embraces our more animalistic natures and disregards all else in the pursuit of power and control over his environment. Other people are simply things in his environment. He does not acknowledge your humanity, only your use to him. This is authoritarianism. There is no truth that is objective, only the instructions of authority, the Words of Who Has Power.

The projection comes in because all this is what they think we're doing, with all our science mumbo jumbo, and our facts, and objectivity. All of that gets in the way of organized criminality with a strongman on top who can maintain his power in a world where he is not actually special, and knows this. It ends up looping right back around to conspiratorial thinking, because their worldviews are fundamentally different from ours, and they will not acknowledge this.

/rant

Agreed but HOW it’s done, as opposed to the fact that it is done or the why, is the relevant target.

Corporate news absolutely has to take as given that this convicted fraud and rapist staged a coup to overthrow American democracy.

Nothing less. When they intentionally leave it vague - that’s how you know we will be in a fascist state soon.
There's no fucking way Trump is smart enough to pull this off
- Mussolini was a moron too. They play to image and emotions though, which doesn't take smarts, just a decent understanding of people. Which can come from experience and operate more instinctively, you just do it, you don't have to understand how any of it actually works.
  
  They actually often come after the smart people, who can be an obstruction in their path, due to smart people being better at seeing through emotional bullshit. So, if they get rid of us more rational sorts, we can no longer stand in their way. They end up with brain drains from this, but I don't think that would really bother Trump.
  
  Fascism is very anti-intellectual overall.
This is the real stuff here. I'd like to put another question to you.

Donald Trump as a strongman was the whole image he projected in his first election, but the point at that time wasn't "I'm a dictator" but "It's time someone actually got something done at the top.". Even with all this fire and brimstone, I think this underlying suspicion that our government doesn't actually govern effectively is still the real problem.

I don't know that it's one that the Democrats can cure either, even if they somehow come out on top. Do you?
- Yes, I do. While no form of human government will ever be truly as consistently effective as we might like, this door was opened for them in the first place by an extended policy of greed being good.
  
  If we accept that as a mistake, we can do some reforms that return a better balance of politician responsibility to their citizens. We need election reform for that, though. Campaign funding should be more equalized so being rich is less advantageous, anonymous campaign funding banned so having rich friends is irrelevant, and voting districts drawn up by independent powers because gerrymandering. That would require a powerful mandate. Or a very bloody war, which I think we'd best try to avoid.
  
  While their distaste for objective facts can lead to battlefield incompetence, it would nonetheless be a total dice roll what we might end up with after a massive outbreak of widespread violence.

I want to urge people who view themselves in opposition to Trump to stop reveling in imaginary victories.

Its clickbait, its ragebait, it does and serves nothing other than to give you the illusion something has been accomplished.

To put it a different way, nobody is coming to save you. You have to do that yourself.
This advice carries the Paul Anka Guarantee.

I can’t wait to vote for Biden this year. Fuck this guy. Dude belongs in an old folks home

On federal death row. Dude belongs on federal death row.
- Short fall sudden stop from a rope.

How many years has he spent bragging about that competency test, anyway?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The group added the hashtag '#TrumpIsNotWell', which became a trending topic across the United States and was used by Rick Wilson, co-founder of anti-Trump conservative faction The Lincoln Project.

The attacks on the former president come amid a heavy focus on the health and mental acuity of 81-year-old Biden, with recent polling showing a majority of Americans don't want either man to run again in 2024.

Democratic activist Joanne Carducci, who goes by the username JoJoFromJerz on X, commented: "Umm... Donald Trump just repeatedly confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.

Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of self-styled "pro-democracy news network" Meidas Touch, wrote on X: "If Trump really wanted Desantis to drop out early he probably shouldn't have given a speech tonight where he said Haley was in charge of security at Capitol on J6 [January 6, 2021].

Trump has pled not guilty to criminal charges at both the federal level and in the state of Georgia, related to claims he broke the law while trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.

He denies any wrongdoing and has repeatedly said that the charges are part of a political witch hunt aimed at derailing him as GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Remembering things come hard for those with little to no brains like him.

Not the verb tense that I'd use, but okay

He already has.