“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more,” he said.

"Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.

“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”

“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. But rather it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world,” Trump said.

“Right now, if you leave Florida, ‘Oh, let’s go, darling, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,’ and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped,” he warned, promising that he’d run the city “tough and smart.”

Watch Here:

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1810853096609694084

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1810842300961956147

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    NGL… Gonna be a good day in America, IF and when he has Zuckerberg thrown into prison along with all the other corrupt animals.

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        Whoever is corrupt, get rid of them, no mercy. It’s why I’ve recently became a fan of Bukele, guy not only cleaned up the streets of his nation, but then put the cross hairs on his own administration to make sure everything is halal.

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    When is he going to step aside for a more coherent Republican replacement? He is not fit for the office at such an age!

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    “You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”

    Man who flies exclusively on private jets complains about public air travel.

    Trump must really think we’re all fucking idiots.

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          One of his many gaffes, and his biases are showing. But you could print a book of the horrible things said by Trump, and he meant every one of them.

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        Etymology

        The word “idiot” ultimately comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs ‘a private person, individual’ (as opposed to the state), ‘a private citizen’ (as opposed to someone with a political office), ‘a common man’, ‘a person lacking professional skill, layman’, later ‘unskilled’, ‘ignorant’, derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios ‘personal’ (not public, not shared).[3][4] In Latin, idiota was borrowed in the meaning ‘uneducated’, ‘ignorant’, ‘common’,[5] and in Late Latin came to mean ‘crude, illiterate, ignorant’.[6] In French, it kept the meaning of ‘illiterate’, ‘ignorant’, and added the meaning ‘stupid’ in the 13th century.[7] In English, it added the meaning ‘mentally deficient’ in the 14th century.[2]

        Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

        Seems to be accurate. Very accurate!

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        I mean that’s a reasonable superficial analysis and you can probably get through life on that without a lot of trouble… unless your smart, engaged son or daughter starts talking this bullshit one day, and you have to figure out what is really wrong, so that you can help them. Because calling them a fucking idiot? Ain’t gonna save them.

        I think this is a defense mechanism on your part. It’s hard to deal with this, that so many people are so badly removed from reality that they cannot see these simple, important facts. But it’s a lot like someone sees a homeless person, and they immediately jump to denigrate that person, to help them cope with their own emotional needs at the expense of their own empathy.

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          The problem isnt this obviously true fact you stated; it’s that in the made up scenario in my head, your parenting skills are sub-par

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          Oddly, I don’t have a lot of empathy for people who support a guy who has promised to destroy anyone who opposes him. There are only 4 basic reasons to support Trump: you’re really stupid, you’re really hateful, you’re a Christian fundamentalist (heavily overlaps with “hateful”), or you’re really rich. Usually it’s a combination of those things.

          The guy was president for 4 years and showed exactly who he was. You don’t get to use the “Oh, they’re just misguided souls” excuse any more.

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          Calling them idiots isn’t an effort to save them and in no way needs to fulfill that objective. Further, swallowing Trump’s bullshit and honestly believing it is itself sufficient to qualify someone as an idiot. If someone is, in your words, so far removed from reality that they cannot see the simple important facts, then they are by definition not also smart and engaged.

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    For comparison, this is how Trump used to talk, back in the 2016 RNC debate.

    He’s always been an obnoxious and crass New Yorker, never what you’d call an intellectual or academic. But he used to stay on topic, finish sentences, make coherent points, and generally function. Now he’s reduced to somehow shouting and mumbling at the same time, confusing names and years, connecting vague concepts together until he gets applause from the audience.

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    This is why fumbling is such a bad argument. People aren’t listening to the overall message. They are just tone fucking each syllable now as the only problem between these two and that’s a real problem

    The problem with Biden was he should step down for someone else and the concern of that is pivoting this late can be bad for dems.

    But that doesn’t mean we start the same measurement on trump as the message he is conveying is horrible. It doesn’t compare.

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    I know I’m gonna get downvoted to hell on Lemmy but it was just a normal speech fumble like everyone has, it was a bit weird that he changed subject like that but overall I wouldn’t say “Fumbles Repeatedly in Terrifying Speech”, this news to me seems petty and comes of smelling of desperation.

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      I’m sorry, but if you’re a presidential candidate, I’d rather you not fumble and speak coherently about how you’re going to lead the nation.

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      Yeah, I think that the media is reaching to show that Trump is also unfit after they spent so freaking out about the Biden debate.

      The problem is that Trump is unfit for very different reasons than Biden is unfit.

      Trump had some run-on sentences in those clips, and a lot of what he was saying was either false or terrible policy, but I understood every point that he was ineloquently making, even if I thought they were bad points.

      Biden’s debate performance, on the other hand, had several moments where I don’t know what he was trying to say.

      Trump in these clips changed topics within the scope of the larger argument that he was making: “America is broken and only I can fix it”. I disagree with his argument and several underlying pieces of evidence. He wandered between very different points without clearly transitioning. In spite of that, he was still coherent and I could immediately understand what he was saying.

      Biden answered a question about abortion by talking about how Trump thinks illegal immigrants kill little girls, allowing Trump to segue to that topic and not address overturning Roe V Wade. Several times in that debate, I didn’t know what point Biden was trying to argue.

      I will vote for Joe, but pretending that Trump’s mental state has deteriorated to the same level as Biden’s is clearly a delusion. Trump had less mental acuity to lose, but it’s still there and still lying and rambling and meandering around a given theme, saying everything and anything to support it regardless of if it makes sense. Biden can’t seem to remember what he was talking about after a few seconds.

      If you want to focus on Trump’s lack of fitness, this is the wrong way to do it. It’s entirely being framed around the ways that Biden is unfit. Within that framing, Biden always looks worse. Trump is unfit for other reasons, and we should focus on those until we have a candidate running against him with a bit more mental acuity.

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      The fumbles are similar to what people have been upset about in the debate. Probably there are more important things to focus on, such as policy and competency.

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    We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime.

    Uhhh why you no do that during your first term? It’s not like DC has suddenly become shitty in the last four years.

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        No, he shouldn’t, and no, Biden isn’t “mentally declining.”

        I believe it when a doctor says it. Not some political pundit.

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          Girl, did you watch the debate? What about earlier today when he spoke and said “Vice President Trump” instead of Kamala?

          I’ve always thought Biden was polite and well spoken. He is VERY DIFFERENT when speaking now versus last time/2020. Not only is he incoherent at times, he’s also weirdly petty and grouchy - he started to blame his staff today and then interrupted himself and said his wife was telling him not to. It was WEIRD because he normally would keep his composure and not even mention it. It’s bad. He is clearly in elder decline.

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            I’m not a girl, but if you want to call me one, be my guest. I have better things to be concerned about.

            I watched the debate and he did much, much, much better than I could ever do, because I suffer from stage fright. Does that mean that I’m not “mentally competent” to be a president because “I can’t speak good” in public? Is he not the same as 10 years ago? Sure. But as long as a doctor, a doctor does not declare him incompetent, I couldn’t care less what anyone else says about it.

            The bigger issue here is Trump. Trump lied left and right. He said horrible things, like “illegal immigrants will take black jobs” and “there will be a bloodbath if I don’t win.” Oh, but ERGMAGERD BIDEN OLD!!!

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              I don’t care to compare Biden to a random person - I care to compare him to himself, 4 years ago. And I’ll vote for him, but for fucks’ sake, stop gaslighting us. It’s clear he’s in mental decline. If this was my grandpa, I’d force him to go to the doctor and I would probably not let him drive.

              And yes, part of being president is public speaking - so if you cannot do that, then you aren’t qualified to be president. You’re correct there. That’s like, vitally important to the job.

              No doctor can make that declaration due to HIPPA and state laws regarding diagnosing someone who isn’t your patient.

              Yes, Trump is worse. I’ve never disagreed there. But it’s kinda concerning the only thing in the way of a fascist dictator is a man who is visibly going senile, and that man also will be in charge of laws and nuclear codes. It’s like, bad dude. Like really really bad. I’d vote for fucking Dolly Parton or Willie Nelson over either of these guys. I’d vote for a dog or a cat. I’d vote for a toddler over them. I’m sure a toddler could understand climate change better to be honest.

              It doesn’t matter really anyway. We ran out of time. We are all walking corpses anyway. Enjoy your last few years. Even if we got the perfect climate president, even if every country in the world had perfect climate presidents, we’d still be pretty much out of time before we could make a solution (which will take years and will release more carbon and greenhouse gases). It was a good run.

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                  Work is inherently ableist. There are many many medical conditions that would stop someone from being an effective president, including dementia and aphasias. You could say it’s ableist to allow a person who can’t consent (not being in their right mind), to do as dangerous of a job and as taxing of a job as president.

                  And being able to communicate is pretty critical lol, regardless if you agree or not. A speech impediment is fine if it doesn’t impact communication, but yes it’s an issue if you can’t understand them at all, unless they could perhaps sign (as in sign language). Communication isn’t about speaking perfectly, it’s about understanding your thoughts and getting others to see your point of view. Biden is not able to do either as he’s switching names entirely, eg VP Trump and President Putin snafus.

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      I would say this is because Trump’s potential voterbase doesn’t give a damn about having a competent, sane candidate. Biden’s potential voterbase has significantly higher standards. It’s easy to point out that there could theoretically be a better-performing candidate than Biden, but I don’t think it’s so easy to find someone that will get more conservative voter engagement than Trump.

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    Trump’s plan is to do nothing more than inflict pain and death on people.

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      His plan is to do what Republicans have been doing since Coolidge and Democrats have been doing since Carter. More police, richer bankers, lower taxes, bigger prisons.