Donald Trump’s rambling disaster of a speech did something no one could have predicted: Give Democrats hope
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/donald-trumps-rambling-disaster-of-a-speech-did-something-no-one-could-have-predicted-give/article_88c91358-4589-11ef-959b-2b7ae1a1fea3.html
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I disagree with one thing in the article’s title though. Everyone could have predicted this. Trump is the same hateful, rambling, dishonest, conceited person he’s always been. Anyone thinking he’d change or become a more decent person is delusional.
I legitimately can’t imagine any scenario where the DNC won’t be a complete mess. Like the bar is set so unbelievably low and I have zero faith that it’ll turn out well, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
You know damn well they think the ace up their sleeve to drum up hype is trotting out some relic of 90s Hollywood to tell people to “get out there and vote!” or something.
I listened to Don Jr.s speech the other night and it was weak too. Same old schtick. And JD Vance is a horrible person that’s not going to win over independents.
Why is the bandage so big and barely even on his ear
Well, according to the news, neither candidate can win… so… I’m very excited for the surprise Ralph Nader presidency I guess.
Why isn’t the media calling for Trump to drop out if his speech was such a disaster? Tired of the double standards.
I think the GOP did a decent job with the convention overall. If anything, Trump is their weakness imo. He’s beatable for sure. The Dems either need to finish walking Biden off the plank or give up on the mutiny though, and fast.
The most striking part to me was the low energy and the “phoning it in” demeanor.
I actually wonder if the low energy is that post-adrenaline feeling you get after a chaotic and traumatic experience or just an existential crisis after being so close to death.
The “fist pump” while the hot blood was pouring down his face was absolutely an act of *pure adrenaline* and transcendent euphoria for having survived.
Anybody who has had a “near death” experience knows this surreal feeling and how exhausted and disassociated you can feel in the days afterwards.
Movies have been made about this phenomenon for ages; Everything from “Alive” with Jeff Bridges to “Office Space”
I imagine his mind is still reeling from the sensation of the bullets whizzing by and the screams and is just trying to “get back into it”
Now, I don’t for a minute think he’ll have some epiphany insofar as thinking “I should become a more compassionate and thoughtful person”, but there is no way what happened is **not** fucking with his head.
The scarier part to me isn’t how he’s acting now, it’s what he’ll be like when the PTSD starts to set in.
And *it will* kick in.
This man is going to be waking up in a panic for years now. He’s going to be imagining murderous democrats around every corner waiting for him with concealed weapons.
Combine the effects of aging and PTSD with his *already* huge victim / god complex with near absolute power and you can imagine where this may go.
I really don’t know how people expected anything other than what we got lol.
Yes, it was quite a spectacle. It would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous.
Why should all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, care about Project 2025 and the threat of Trump returning to the presidency?
Other than January 6 which is disqualifying for the presidency, Project 2025 is the conservative plan to “assemble an army of … conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State”, eg, consolidate and put the entire executive branch under the direct control of the president under Article II of the Constitution, based on the controversial unitary executive theory, and reclassify thousands of federal workers as political appointees, in order to replace them with Trump loyalists. There were a few adults in the room during Trump’s last presidency. In his next term, those guardrails will be gone.
Project 2025 highlights you should know about:
Healthcare
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/XWOnJyuqd6
Education
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/mYJlsLkVbB
Parenting
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/fJbtWPZUkv
Immigration
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/HB8CkhGb6r
Employment
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/0uM4IRQytN
Government
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/8pbI7aNlx3
Journalism
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/YygesQ6HVr
Censorship
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/Q3pfQZW7ZY
Environment
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/p75Q9owLz7
Trump can never be let near the Oval Office again. Vote Democrat down the ballot.
The cult will still somehow think he is mentally fit too and will still shoot themselves in the foot
I hope his entire campaign is like this and swing states are like “oh, right… this is who trump is”
Trumps sense of divine wind is going to make him intolerable. He has no control over it. He actually now thinks he is divinely selected and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It is only going to get worse.
He’s been giving rambling, really bad speeches for years. Why do yall think this actually makes a difference?
Is that Scotch Tape on his ear envelope? His wardrobe and makeup people should do better.
Not just the speech, the entire convention looked a lot like Wrestlemania. Yikes… and we thought the movie Idiocracy was just a joke. Now it’s a reality, and here we are.
I wanna see that scratch. What a pussy.
Wtf is his deal with the Hannibal Lector stuff?
What the Dems needed was to show that Donald is as incoherent as old Joe, and then have Joe step down and show a commitment to country that Donald simply is unable to match.
What they need now is a name, a strong replacement candidate to really behind, and I’m terrified that name won’t be forthcoming now, after we’ve shown all this weakness. Now is the time to do it, so fucking do it.
It’s insane that Trump’s previous horrible performance as president, his criminal convictions and his indictments, his racism/fascism, and his general incompetence didn’t already destroy his chances of being elected.
It’s been my great frustration that with the ‘Biden is old’ rhetoric that Trump doesn’t get the same service in the same breath. He’s also old, freezes when the teleprompter quits, starts talking nonsensical shit about sharks and batteries when he’s off script. It should be a wash.
He is a rambling disaster 24/7
He should drop out.
…as if anyone expected more of him? This is who he is.
I’m exhausted by journalists farming for clicks acting brand new.
Trump will not change. He’s always been this way and will always be this way.
No it fucking didn’t. We are going to sleep walk into another 2016, but this time it’s going to have major consequences. You know what would give Democrats hope? Not putting our worst possible candidate up against what should be the easiest challenger of all time.
Guy doesn’t know how to talk when he’s not in rage mode.
The speech was incoherent rambling sea of verbal diarrhea from a demented addled orange sack. Low energy fabrications raving about loving cannibals and praising dictators. Anyone keep beat that at least 6 times bankrupt, twice impeached, convicted rapist.
Big bandage= because he is unable to slather his ear with his orange makeup base, so he uses it to cover his pale ear
What I don’t understand is how easily people forget all the horrendous ramblings he already had as President and on his campaign trails. To think that his speaking capabilities are somehow better than Biden’s is asinine. Not to mention all the outrageous twatter storms he’s had too. Covfefe anyone?
Trump was at his most powerful in 2015/16 where he could portray himself as an outsider who’s gonna shake things up. Him trying to return to power after repeated humiliations just doesn’t hit the same
Anybody should be destroying Wal Mart Adolf.
Nothing was more indicative of how few actually undecided voters there are than the CNN panel of “undecided” Wisconsin voters after Trump’s speech. Half of them gave the speech a B, either because of the first 15 minutes or the standard rally speech that followed it. Two people gave it an A, with one saying it was because “he was Trump”. And when they asked if the speech changed their mind on who they would vote for, one said it convinced her to vote *for* Trump, and three people then agreed.
Anyone who identifies as “undecided” at this point is either lying to themselves about their political alignment to feel more impartial, deliberately trying to make Trump look popular to the middle, or severely uninformed. Trump giving the bare minimum of a hopeful and unifying message gave self-described moderates permission to vote for him guilt-free despite him completely backtracking that messaging right after.
Just like the last 8 years of his rhetoric, Trump’s speech was 80% red meat of hyperbole and unkeepable promises, and 20% standard politician talk about how “things you dislike are bad, things you like are good”. The former riles up the base, while the latter is what people can say is what they actually find appealing. Trump is not a changed man in the slightest, and that hurts his chances just as much as it helps them.
i don’t see how anyone can vote for trump and project 2025. incoherent ramblings aside. he is an absolute mess. last night was an embarrassment to american politics. it’s all one big joke it seems. nobody is serious anymore— it’s all for clicks, views.
amber fucking rose though? THEY COULD HAVE PUT ANYONE UP THERE, they chose amber rose???
this is an all blue season.