Donald Trump has taken his obsession with crafting falsehoods about Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to the next level, penning his own fan fiction on Tuesday about the vice president.
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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 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.
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.
I made a few conservatives mad for saying that Trump was the only person who could have lost to Biden in 2020, they really didnt like it phrased like that.
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.
Maybe he should make a fanfiction wheres he’s compitant and mentally capable of being president.
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.
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.
But there was at least some subjectiveness to it. Crowd sizes can be relative. The exaggerations he made were akin to the exaggerated benefits of whatever product you see during a television commercial. It was subjective hype, largely opinion based and about things that in the end really don’t matter outside of inflating his own ego. When he was saying things that other people did, there was a kernel of truth to them if you dug down far enough. It’s just that kernal was intentionally spun, misinterpreted, and twisted well beyond being out of proportion.
“He did XYZ, which is a criminal act that the American people will not stand for and will bring harm to all sorts of families like nobody saw before blah blah blah blah blah.” Everything else about it may be a complete lie taken way, way, way out of context. But most of the time, at least XYZ happened. Trump’s twisted interpretation of it and the context of it was what Trump used to lie about.
Now he’s not even bothering to look for the kernel of truth to latch on to. He’s just making it all up. The distinction might be subtle or even irrelevant to most people, but it’s there and it’s important to point it out because it shows that Trump’s normal lies aren’t even working any more and he’s becoming more and more desperate.
I love your optimism in trying to find signs of desperation, but I just don’t think it’s true. A quick perusal of the wiki page detailing his false and misleading statements shows his blatant lies with no ground in the truth go back way farther than even his political career.
A personal favourite is the erection of a monument commemorating the so-called River of Blood Civil War event while renovating his golf course - an event that of course never happened on a site where no major battle took place.
Crowd sizes can be relative
Ummmm…that’s not how counting works.
I agree with you that a lot of things can be relative. But crowd size at his inauguration is a terrible example of that (no offence). Two rallies in the same location, the number of attendants isn’t a relative ephemeral thing, it’s a cold-hard-statistic.
But there was at least some subjectiveness to it. Crowd sizes can be relative.
Like with just about all of the annoying orange lies, its only really subjective if you don’t know the truth and have 0 curiosity.
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.
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…
Fox news seems to have given up on it recently as well. It appears to be outright lies about Harris recently, without any deniablity.
Hannity, Ingram, Carlson, all those fuckers should be shot out of a cannon into the sun.
I wish I was religious so I could believe these pieces of garbage would suffer consequences for the shit they’ve caused, but they’ll grow old, stay rich and die “happy” never having to suffer as they have caused on to others.
Disgusting.
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.