Donald Trump

[Maintainin]

Arrest a man outside a Trump rally but allow them to walk around in crowds during disturbances.

What a fucked up system.

Whole thang has a stench more pungent than Fulton Fish Market, on a good day!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Western civilisation is fucked if this **** gets in.

 

[Dax777]

The guy bonds out on $5K ...fishy as fuck !

California soft on crime policies to blame for that.

 

[SWP's back]

There would be a train of thought, that admittedly I haven’t over thought here, so if I haven’t completely thought through my argument, feel free to pick it apart….,
Anyway it goes along the lines that it goes back much further than this and the last generation of parents.
It goes back to your days of Empire when you systematically f**ked up any ex-colonial state you were leaving.
There’s several current examples to choose from for demonstration.

The difference now is that with the shrinking or nonexistent empire, you are left with just yourselves to f**k up.

Maybe it’s concentrated the collective Working class British mind on your own ruling system.

Just a thought.

Oh do fuck off.

 

[SWP's back]

Thanks , enjoy the game . I will be glued to CNN, here is hoping Kamela can do it

The polls won’t have closed during the game.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Whole thang has a stench more pungent than Fulton Fish Market, on a good day!

Did you, uh, actually read the article?

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

California soft on crime policies to blame for that.

Did YOU actually read the article?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

But some seem to think he and Vance aren’t really a threat to what is left of democracy (both in America and elsewhere) and forceful denouncing and opposing them is just “silly American politics”.


Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric depicting his political rivals and critics as criminals, while dropping a long trail of suggestions that he favors outlawing political speech that he deems misleading or challenges his claims to power.

In a speech Friday in Aurora, Colorado, the Republican presidential nominee blasted the immigration system and lobbed a rhetorical grenade at his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“She’s a criminal. She’s a criminal,” said Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial. “She really is, if you think about it.”

It’s a pattern of messaging that has long been part of Trump’s stump speeches but has escalated significantly in his 2024 candidacy. In the final stretch to the Nov. 5 election, the former president has developed a tendency to claim that speech he disapproves of is illegal, even if it is protected by the First Amendment.

A questionable cut of a “60 Minutes” Harris interview? “Totally illegal,” Trump wrote on X, saying it makes Harris look better and that CBS should have its broadcast license revoked.

Donald Trump is increasingly calling speech he doesn’t like “illegal.”

The Harris campaign editing headlines in paid Google ads? “Totally Illegal,” he wrote, vowing that Google “will pay a big price” for it.

'Totally illegal': Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism

“This is out of the autocratic playbook. As autocrats consolidate their power once they’re in office, anything that threatens their power ... becomes illegal,” historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat said.

www.nbcnews.com

I'm not sure some people can grasp that by not liking him twice as much their vote against him isn't any more significant. He is absolutely a symptom of 'silly American politics'. Trump is not the issue, he's just a savvy opportunist adept at mobilising rw fears. Trump is not the problem, the problem is that a huge chunk of the US electorate think he's a good idea.
Like the oxygen, heat, fuel fire triangle you need to take something away to put the fire out. I think the 'trump triangle' consists of right wing ideas, economic hard times, liberal hatred outrage (to create polarisation and a sense of persecution). Imho take any one of those away and trump goes away - good luck trying to stamp out rw ideas/resentments and fix the blue collar economy.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I'm not sure some people can grasp that by not liking him twice as much their vote against him isn't any more significant. He is absolutely a symptom of 'silly American politics'. Trump is not the issue, he's just a savvy opportunist adept at mobilising rw fears. Trump is not the problem, the problem is that a huge chunk of the US electorate think he's a good idea.
Like the oxygen, heat, fuel fire triangle you need to take something away to put the fire out. I think the 'trump triangle' consists of right wing ideas, economic hard times, liberal hatred outrage (to create polarisation and a sense of persecution). Imho take any one of those away and trump goes away - good luck trying to stamp out rw ideas/resentments and fix the blue collar economy.

Wow, then problem solved! No “economic hard times.” Sorted.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Wow, then problem solved! No “economic hard times.” Sorted.

Very possibly - all around the western world we are seeing rw populists springing up just has we have done throughout history when times are hard.