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[Huntn]

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.

www.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Debra Ell opened her Trump Shoppe in a dingy Saginaw strip mall back when establishment Republicans and TV pundits were still scoffing at the man who was about to remake US politics.

Ell latched on to Donald Trump as a winner not long after he declared his run for the presidency in 2015. But she understood that the key to his success in her corner of swing state Michigan was to keep a distance from the local Republican party, which Ell regarded with almost as much hostility as she did the Democrats.

So the Trump Shoppe was born, soon drawing in people who had never voted Republican in their lives. Ell recalls the car factory workers struggling after General Motors closed the plants that propped up Saginaw county’s economy.


“There’s no way union workers were going to go into Republican offices but they came in here because Trump’s name was on the sign and said: ‘There’s no way in hell I’m voting for Hillary Clinton.’ So we had that gift, and then they wanted to know more about Trump,” she said.

“We’d educate them in what he was saying and they liked it because he’s a phenomenon. We’ll never ever see anybody like Donald Trump again, ever. It’s not going to be fun anymore when he’s not around. Even if you don’t support him, it’s fun, don’t you think?”

Nearly a decade later, the Trump Shoppe is still in business, squeezed between Lovely Nails and an insurance company. These days, it’s busy with people buying “vote Trump” signs sporting slogans tailored to military veterans, bikers, union members, Black people and Latinos. “Cats and Dogs for Trump” signs have done well since the former president accused Haitian immigrants of eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

A blanket imprinted with a picture of Trump raising his fist in the moments after the July assassination attempt is for sale near the entrance. T-shirts carry the words Trump shouted as he walked away with blood running down his face: fight, fight, fight.

But besides serving as a shrine to Trump, the office is now also the local Republican headquarters after Ell led a campaign to purge the Saginaw county party of those she derided as “Rinos” – Republicans in name only – for their lack of total fealty to Trump.


She led a takeover last year by packing the local party with delegates aligned with the America First movement, a populist political philosophy embraced by Trump that promotes a nationalist agenda of unilateralism and protectionism but has frequently been accused of being underpinned by racism.……

‘This man is everything’: how devoted Trump supporters took over the Republican party in a Michigan city

Some Republicans question what they see as the local Saginaw party’s obsessive focus on conspiracy theories

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

It’s a personality cult, sadly.

 

[Taurus]

It’s a personality cult, sadly.

Interesting how she says "fun". This is on both parties, but millions view politics as theater. Nobody means what they say, it's all fiction. So why not vote for the most entertaining fiction?

 

[MT15]

Interesting how she says "fun". This is on both parties, but millions view politics as theater. Nobody means what they say, it's all fiction. So why not vote for the most entertaining fiction?

Yeah I think the clownish aspects of Trump tend to drive news coverage. You never know what he’ll say next and a lot of it is fascinating in a way. But his darker assertions are not entertaining and his actual pathology is toxic in the end. He’s clownish, yes, but also unbelievably cruel.

 

[MT15]

Speaking of a cult, a very weird cult

 

[SaintRob]

Trump Claims ‘Nobody Thought’ a Hurricane Would Hit This Time of Year Despite It Being Peak Hurricane Season

Donald Trump claimed that "nobody thought" a storm like Helene would make landfall at this point in the despite the fact that it is peak hurricane season.

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“It’s so extensive, nobody thought this would be happening — especially now it’s so late in the season for the hurricanes,” he added.

It's literally peak season right now. Yes, the season seemed to be delayed a bit, but middle to late September is PRIME hurricane season - the opposite of "so late in the season for the hurricanes".

 

[LA - L.A.]

Yeah I think the clownish aspects of Trump tend to drive news coverage. You never know what he’ll say next and a lot of it is fascinating in a way. But his darker assertions are not entertaining and his actual pathology is toxic in the end. He’s clownish, yes, but also unbelievably cruel.

Trump is metaphorically the postman who bites the dog. Though, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Trump were to ever actually bite a dog.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Instead of starting a new thread... Damn

Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir. After several exchanges about a possible interview, the publisher sent an unusual demand last week: an interview would cost $250,000.

In an email to CNN, Skyhorse Publishing sent a document labeled, “Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement” that laid out strict terms for an interview and use of material from the book, titled “Melania,” due to publish on October 8. On top of that, the agreement stipulated that “CNN shall pay a licensing fee of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).”

CNN did not sign the agreement.

Days later, after a separate CNN journalist asked Skyhorse Publishing about the exorbitant interview fee, the publisher said it had sent the payment demand by mistake.

CNN requested an interview with Melania Trump. Her book publisher asked for $250,000 in exchange | CNN Politics

Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir. After several exchanges about a possible interview, the publisher sent an unusual demand last week: an interview would cost $250,000.

www.cnn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Instead of starting a new thread... Damn

CNN requested an interview with Melania Trump. Her book publisher asked for $250,000 in exchange | CNN Politics

Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir. After several exchanges about a possible interview, the publisher sent an unusual demand last week: an interview would cost $250,000.

www.cnn.com

never stop grifting

 

[fooferdoggie]

never stop grifting

maybe its to help defray the cost of divorce now

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Instead of starting a new thread... Damn

CNN requested an interview with Melania Trump. Her book publisher asked for $250,000 in exchange | CNN Politics

Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir. After several exchanges about a possible interview, the publisher sent an unusual demand last week: an interview would cost $250,000.

www.cnn.com

Days later, after a separate CNN journalist asked Skyhorse Publishing about the exorbitant interview fee, the publisher said it had sent the payment demand by mistake.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump is facing backlash for downplaying the traumatic brain injuries suffered by 109 U.S. service members after an Iranian ballistic missile attack in 2020.

The Republican presidential candidate made the remarks at a campaign press event on Tuesday after a reporter asked him if he should have been “tougher” on Iran during his time in the White House following the attack that left troops injured.

“First of all, injured, what does injured mean?” Trump replied. “You mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort.”

More than a dozen missiles struck the al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on January 8, 2020. No U.S. service members were killed but approximately 109 were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Twenty-nine of the injured soldiers received Purple Hearts in the wake of the attack.

At the time, Trump tweeted: “All is well!” – apparently against the advice of his officials.…..

Fury as Trump downplays severity of brain injuries suffered by 109 US soldiers

More than a dozen missiles struck the al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on January 8, 2020, leaving dozens of soldiers injured

www.independent.co.uk

 

[efil4]

Donald Trump is facing backlash for downplaying the traumatic brain injuries suffered by 109 U.S. service members after an Iranian ballistic missile attack in 2020.

The Republican presidential candidate made the remarks at a campaign press event on Tuesday after a reporter asked him if he should have been “tougher” on Iran during his time in the White House following the attack that left troops injured.

“First of all, injured, what does injured mean?” Trump replied. “You mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort.”

More than a dozen missiles struck the al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on January 8, 2020. No U.S. service members were killed but approximately 109 were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Twenty-nine of the injured soldiers received Purple Hearts in the wake of the attack.

At the time, Trump tweeted: “All is well!” – apparently against the advice of his officials.…..

Fury as Trump downplays severity of brain injuries suffered by 109 US soldiers

More than a dozen missiles struck the al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on January 8, 2020, leaving dozens of soldiers injured

www.independent.co.uk

the mere fact he refers to our bases as "forts" should disqualify him from ANY 21st century office.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A woman has drawn similarities between Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and the apocalyptic, religious sect she escaped from.

In the autumn of 1974, as former president Richard Nixon resigned and the US was still entrenched in the Vietnam War, Cyd Chartier and her parents were introduced to the fundamentalist religious organization The Move of God.

The Move was founded by Sam Fife after he was allegedly booted from the Baptist church for adultery.

As the sect’s enigmatic and autocratic leader – up until his death in 1979 – Fife wrote a Divine Order doctrine in 1974 in which he claimed God had put The Move in place as a “many-membered manchild to govern the world.”

Now, five decades after she joined the religious sect as a child, Chartier has spoken out about the eerie resemblances between the group and Trump’s loyal fanbase setting out to “make America great again.”

“Mom and Dad bought it all: Fife’s lies, delusions and conspiracies,” Chartier writes in anHuffington Post essay.

Chartier says she saw the same thing happen when Trump announced he was running for president in 2016.

“Under the guise of a politician with a fake tan and bad haircut was an angry man, an arrogant man, a dark and dangerous man – a man so like Sam Fife that I immediately knew I was facing the same threat I had faced as a young woman all those years ago,” she writes.……..

Woman compares religious sect she escaped to Trump’s MAGA movement

The Move of God ringleader Sam Fife believed God selected him for a greater purpose

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

Narrator: No, in fact, the majority of women are repulsed by Trump and hate his guts.

 

[MT15]

 

[fooferdoggie]

He finally went all-out racist instead of the plausible deniability he has always done. well glad he told us his genes were prone to being a criminal.

 

[MT15]

Trump attended a memorial service today for the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Israel. There were apparently several inappropriate moments from what I am reading. He offered to sign someone’s prayer book after the moment of silence, which he fidgeted through, he (2x) did one of his little dances, and then this, (edit - tweet was deleted, maybe it was fake or something). I did see video of the others though.