How does she feel about protecting the "Hispanic and Black jobs" from the "illegals"? With messaging not even trying to hide the dog whistle anymore I don't see how he stands a chance outside of uneducated white poor people like Vance talked about before kissing the ring of his Führer.

Under Schedule F of Project 2025 Trump (and his horrible fascist administration) will look to replace possibly hundreds of thousands of career civil servants in all branches of the government and fill them with pro-fascist bodies ready to rubber stamp everything. And part of 2025 is also making it so non-fascist friendly media loses their licenses and basically be forced to conform to the US version of RT, or fold.

He is going to demand loyalty or he will shut it down. They aren't going to get any tax breaks or deregulation, he doesn't see them as people (unless they write BS positive "news" about him his people can print out for him).

Well listening to all the conspiracies coming from the Right prior to the debate they expected the Biden we saw at the State of the Union. And afterwards they accused him of being on performance enhancing drugs (because he could make whole logical sentences that Trump is struggling with these days).

Trump had a plan of just spewing a bunch of shit and calling Joe names, full stop. He got lucky that Joe made that easier for him, although he still made more sense than Trump. The Right has been running on the following since Trump announced:

1. The immigrants that our economy depends on are out to replace white people/kill and rape white women/bring crime.

2. Joe is old/sleepy (and sometimes responsible for things Trump did).

3. Bury any mention of Project 2025 because nobody but elite Christofascists will benefit from it, and thus wildly unpopular even with the right.

4. Keep Trump out of jail.

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I "heard" anyone disrupting his visit were FBI plants and the arrested ones would be political prisoners (even when video/photographic evidence says otherwise).

And the whole reason he announced so early was because he knew the indictments were coming and wanted to play the "election interference" angle to try and shield himself from being held accountable.

Well all he cares about is optics and being in the news (good or bad) more than anything else. Any "policy" he word salads about is just a vehicle to get attention. At the RNC he couldn't even help himself and had to mention his crowd size and how they cared so much about him when recounting his assassination attempt (even went on about how nobody even moved when they heard the shots because they needed to know he was ok - I saw video showing otherwise).

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I think it was the perfect storm of sickness/tiredness/anger/and his speech issues that become magnified with any of the above. And he was never a spring chicken, but he has been doing the job just fine, but the media suddenly saw a way to cash in on their constant both sides bullshit and jumped on the "Biden old" train along with the fascists.

Is he old, yes. And he should have long since retired, but he is still alert enough to have a conversation with people and make decisions, both of which have been glaring issues for Trump.

If anything the media should worry about their constantly giving a platform to fascist talking points and fear of losing revenue because they are "taking sides". I think reporting on the real issues surrounding Trump and Project 2025 is perfectly valid without needing to "balance" their reporting with something negative about the democratic candidate. It's actually the job of the press to report the facts, not to always both sides everything to maintain a fake neutrality.

It's not that he needs to do the debate, but he did the first because it fed his ego of being a strong man. So, him having to back out of the debate without having a scapegoat will eat at his ego of a strong man. So this word salad he spews setting the stage to duck the debate is as about rationalizing it to his ego far more than any real campaign reasoning. Trump does everything for Trump, and this whole campaign is largely about getting in the White House so he can stay out of the big house (prison).

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Terrified Trump is scared to face another prosecutor.

He has lost to an alarming amount of them already.

They'll all buy credits, problem solved!

The right is in a panic and pushing this "questionable legality" and "it's too late to change their candidate" nonsense. They are publicly running on the issues of banning abortion, putting tariffs on everything coming into the country, and mass deportation of "illegals" that are taking "Hispanic, Black, and union" jobs at record rates. That last part of which I don't know how the media hasn't called it out for being overtly racist and complete bullshit. Yet they let it slide at the debate, because they were all racing to write about Biden, and then again at the RNC.

The whole title. They had no talk of unity, and repeating it even to later denounce it only aids the ring wing talking points, and is completely missed by people only reading headlines.

I read that title as, the GOP calling for unity even amongst its growing hard right faction, but not a bit of that is true.

All these "journalist" need to stop with these "both sides" headline bullshit. The RNC contained nothing about unity, and they continued their calls for violence. The media needs to wise up at some point and realize that a Trump win means that Project 2025 will allow him to turn all media into state sponsored propaganda machines, else lose their license and be out of business. So unless they all want to be the next RT (which Trump really only needs one), they better stop this whole "balanced" nonsense and start reporting on these monsters for the danger that they are. Continuing to treat them like they have "turned a corner" just continues to normalize their destruction of norms and disdain for the law.

This title should read more like, "During an unhinged RNC, GOP nominate Trump and call on MAGA to 'fight, fight, fight' against democracy".

Its much like turning their seasonal "cheap labor" into "illegals", once you make it so they cannot report you, then these monsters feel emboldened to exploit them. It also probably doesn't make much difference to a lot of these monsters as they are interested in girls (not women) to young to legally do porn to begin with.

45mins into this talk about a guy that was a private investigator that did cult information gathering. Very interesting, able to give real examples of stuff he had to do to stay undercover. It's pretty wild!

I also find the stories of people that have attempted to go undercover to document and eventually report out the inner works of a cult, only to be sucked in and disavow their prior life.

Well, the for sure way he doesn't win is if those wanting to stop a fascist continue to put all our energy into this diversion. It doesn't matter who the candidate is opposite the fascist, it should be a clear vote, and I just have trouble grokking otherwise. Is Biden the best candidate, nope not even close, but between him and an end to democracy I just don't see how it's a hard choice for anyone not part of the cult.

It's a vote for or against fascism. Would anyone else but Biden be a better choice, almost certainly, but currently that's not an option yet. And Biden is currently doing the job, so he seems at least somewhat capable right now.

So the worst case scenario is Biden doesn't step aside and we all need to vote Biden and just have Harris try the 25th down the road, but that can all be handled outside the urgency of a fascist coming to power.

Getting people out is commendable. However, if everyone in a non-swing state forgoes voting, that just lowers turnout and will help fuel Trump's election denial plan the Right will launch if they don't crown him king on election night.

And I don't mean to be shitting on someone doing a good thing for a vulnerable group, but we need to win with numbers that are outside any reasonable margin of error.

It's very much like how people have created cults, slowly pushing the boundaries people will accept, while also claiming to be the authority of everything and accept no blame. And people crave a sense of belonging, and community. By the time people find out they are following a monster they are so far down the wrong path they feel trapped and it's the path of least resistance to just go with it. Also an example is made of anyone trying to rock the boat.

Was an episode of The Dollop (podcast) about a teacher that created a cult of his students to show them this exact scenario (how everyday Germans got behind Hitler). I'll look it up later if nobody beats me to it before then.

Edit - nevermind found it faster than I thought I would.