US Politics The 2021 Former President Trump Thread - I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

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He's pretty good when it comes to political theater, really good in fact. He's a natural when it comes to the political "dark arts", like playing to the crowd/mob, exploiting grievance and/or revanchist sentiment, and constructing suitable propaganda. One thing that someone pointed out recently to me, that I had never noticed before, is that Trump never says "um" or "uh" or anything like that when he speaks (in contrast to, say, Obama)...whenever he needs time to think while speaking (as people inevitably do), he'll simply repeat himself. Also, it's well-known that if you read a transcript of a Trump speech, more often than not it'll come across as only barely-comprehensible nonsense, if that. It's the manner in which he delivers the nonsense, the body language etc which makes it very compelling and impressive imo. He just absolutely nails the performative aspect of public speaking like no American politician I've seen during my lifetime...the only one who comes close is probably Obama but he was more traditional, while Trump's style is more innovative. I've always been fascinated by "Trumpism" as a linguistic phenomena tbh

Exactly my point. "Um" and "uh" and all those filler words are missing. He exudes "power" with his unwavering confidence, which is an art in itself, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.

 

[AutoTripper]

Exactly my point. "Um" and "uh" and all those filler words are missing. He exudes "power" with his unwavering confidence, which is an art in itself, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.

I agree firmly with that. I don’t bother at all worrying about being judged or frowned upon for saying ever since, apart from a number of select very key matters for which I am not holding any real opinion or belief of Trump now, I have always admired his speaking, communicating, fluent, calm and flexible use of language natural ability

He was very powerful. Nobody ever dominated him verbally, with body language, intimidated him into keeping squeak and backing down.

They all talk about him here as a 4 yr old child with no brains.

Biden cannot speak for shit, he can’t command power, hold his own, has no backbone, is too easy to bully and deter, catch out, confuse.

It’s just as well he is being so heavily sheltered throughout his pantomime of a term.

 

[alasdairm]

here's donald trump, who's railed about keeping politics out of sports, putting politics in sports and showing his patriotism by trashing the u.s. women's national team:

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

"If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!"

what a douchebag he is. maybe he should take his own advice and stfu...

alasdair

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

here's donald trump, who's railed about keeping politics out of sports, putting politics in sports and showing his patriotism by trashing the u.s. women's national team:

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

"If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!"

what a douchebag he is. maybe he should take his own advice and stfu...

alasdair

If ever assassination could be justified, Trump would be top of the list.

Somebody? Please...

 

[Xorkoth]

here's donald trump, who's railed about keeping politics out of sports, putting politics in sports and showing his patriotism by trashing the u.s. women's national team:

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

"If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!"

what a douchebag he is. maybe he should take his own advice and stfu...

alasdair

Wish I could say it was surprising, but the man is well known for being a massive hypocrite.

Even so, holy shit what a dumb sounding diatribe to display his hypocrisy with.

 

[Hannah Capps]

I and my wallet miss the lower gas prices… I’ve not seen gas this high sense 2014…

 

[Xorkoth]

Don't get too worried yet, the recent pipeline ransomware attack (for gas) and general supply chain issues have caused a lot of price increases that many experts say should go back down once the global supply chain recovers from issues related to the pandemic. The whole thing has exposed some serious weaknesses in our global supply chain.

 

[Hannah Capps]

Don't get too worried yet, the recent pipeline ransomware attack (for gas) and general supply chain issues have caused a lot of price increases that many experts say should go back down once the global supply chain recovers from issues related to the pandemic. The whole thing has exposed some serious weaknesses in our global supply chain.

for all our sakes I hope you are correct.

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah, me too...