Is it just me, or has Newsweek been putting out a lot of content about how Trump is losing and doing poorly, despite most polls saying otherwise?
Beware this source. It’s one step away from a tabloid.
Reddit and even Lemmy is notorious for this.
Trump this, Trump that. Trump is a pedophile. Trump has 34 felonies. Trump had sex with a pornstar. Trump called veterans losers.
Does that all matter when Trump is still polling among the American working class who felt left out from globalisation and had to compete for underfunded and limited infrastructures and resources with immigrants, who themselves are also trying to get better lives as the American working class?
Not one from these articles mention why Trump still has support: it’s because those from the Rust Belt, whose jobs were outsourced, literally have nothing left to lose. They are pinning their hopes to a conman who says things that disenfranchised salt-of-the-earth wants to hear. But most of the media do not mention this. Instead, they paint these disenfranchised people as racists and ignorant. Sure, some of them are, but people who feel insecure become desperate cling to any lifeline-- even coming from a devil. So the people are tricked to vote against their own interests. But the media never mentions this. Why? Because they themselves are part of the elites who have their own economic stake. They have houses now worth ten times than what they initially bought them for, and they don’t want someone further left to be elected to alleviate the housing crisis. That’s why Bernie Sanders was never given a chance by the liberal Democratic Party.
And imo, and this is a hard to swallow pill, is that even normal middle class is complicit to growing right wing movement for not acknowledging the economic anxiety and disenfranchisement of the working class with constant and endemic NIMBY-ism. “Oh those poor homeless people. I want affordable housing for them but I don’t want them built close to my neighbourhood because it will depreciate the value of my property.” I admit, I am guilty of it. I should join protests and show solidarity with the working class but I haven’t joined any in my life.
Excuse me for the rant but the corporate media is definitely trying to hoodwink the public by not mentioning the actual cause of rise of racism and bigotry, and the public is none the wiser because their only source of information is from the same corporate media who do not tell them that housing and job insecurity is what made Trump and far-right in Europe gaining votes. Here in Europe, the media and politicians acknowledge the issue of immigration and stating it’s important to separate the genuine racists from those with “genuine concerns”. Jeez, what might those be genuine concerns, I wonder? Is it lack of jobs and housing? How come the media and politicians never say what those actual genuine concerns are?
You can call Trump, Le Pen, Sweden Democrats, Orban, PiS, Meloni etc. racists and fascists, but if people don’t have jobs and housing, does the name-calling ever matters? Gee, how come people from Rust Belt, the de-indutrialised Northern France, England and Western Sweden voted for the far-right? And here comes the Principal Skinner meme moment: nah, they’re ignorant and racists. Totally not because of decades long neoliberalism and austerity, despite UN report warning that lack of public investment fuels the far-right.
It provides a false sense of security for the left even though they should still definitely be worried. The past week is reminiscent of 2016 when everyone thought Trump was a joke candidate and Hillary was going to crush him.
That’s one thing to remember, troll factories don’t just shove out the same piece of propaganda. They try disenfranchise, disinterest, and even guide the people they don’t want to win towards candidates and policies they know will play into their hands. Kamala Harris is certainly a good candidate - for democrats. She’s not likely to influence Trumpers, and a more traditional candidate might have been more popular with anyone who really was undecided. A better option might have been to appeal to times when politics wasn’t as divided, and I have even joked that someone like John Kerry with Mitt Romney as VP would have been a sure win.
Kamala’s a very traditional candidate, if we’re talking about her record. Trump, on the other hand, is the only President in US history to’ve never held public office or served in the military before being elected. Very non-traditional.
It’s the left who is dividing us by having the R’s run a convicted felon! I don’t understand how anybody doesn’t understand this !!
If the voters that mattered bothered to look at records, there would be no Trumpers. Sadly, I feel it has to be shoved into their face in the most traditionally stereotypical matter. Harris might seem to be doing good, but here is how good Hillary was doing before she lost to Trump: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/23/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-presidential-polls/index.html
The problem isn’t on the left, it’s on a weighted and loaded electoral system that favors those most likely to be susceptible to misinformation.
Anyway, since it’s beside the point as Harris seems pretty set, I just hope it does not play out like Hillary versus Clinton and hope that she gets elected. This times are different, but so is the degree to which people have bubbled themselves within their social networks and the most able to discern it are those who own them, who are basically in the same league as Trump and quite capable of shoving money and influence into them.
I mean, everyone is saying it. Everyone. Even some of the magaloons know it. Even if it’s only a very tiny voice they hear only after they turn off the Faux “News”, turn off the hate radio and shut off 4chan or whatever and go to tuck themselves in…they know it.
He confused Biden and Obama, Haley and Pelosi. Bizarre stuff spews from his mouth nearly every time he opens it. Where’s the outrage?
Everyone sane is outraged.
Where’s the outrage?
Gnawing a hole in my gut.
No, that’s just the Indian food you had for lunch
Its an expired Vietnam era M-ration but good guess.
You should make a YouTube channel!
I am not steve. Anyways I was simply making a joke.
He’s been doing it for so long it’s exactly what we are conditioned to expect.
Well I was calling Trump too old and Biden too old to be running for eight years now but that’s not the point is it?
Doesn’t matter if he’s too damn old when economic anxiety runs rampant in the American voting public.
This really demonstrates a difference between democrats and republicans.
Democrats cared about the hypocrisy of pointing out that the opponent candidate was too old, and only started saying this after this was no longer a problem.
Republicans didn’t care that their candidate was also too old.
Damn, that’s a great point
He’s always been too old. Biden dropping out is just his core from dating it because they at least understand the concept of “don’t throw stones in glass house.” Meanwhile conservatives only speak two languages - hypocrisy and fanaticism.
“don’t throw stones in a glass house” bitch I’ve been pelting this greenhouse since before the first term.
SOME democrats like living in glass houses, walking on eggshells, and sticking to bad options.
He could always drop out if this is hurting his feelings.
Just look at that turkey gobbler! That is a sure signs of someone who is too old!
The fascists are pikachu facing that people are fine voting for another democratic candidate after one day because they cant fathom losing their strong man candidate. In their world Dems losing Biden = loss of voters because if Trump somehow stopped running literally no one would turn out for the GOP ticket. Lesson is: one party is based on a vague platform, the other is based on a lunatic personality cult.
Jesus Fred Christ what are the photo editors doing?
Every trump article has an ever-more-close-up even-greasier horror picture of his sociopathic rapist fraud face. Man, nobody wants to see that shit!
Exactly what they should be IMO. It’s an article talking about how he is too old and that photo, even from the tiny thumbnail I see, is just perfect for demonstrating that fact.
Ugh. It’s so horrible.
And, counterpoint, they use these pictures for other non-old-related topics too.
Opening the eyes of the blind
It’s clearly ai generated
In what way does this look AI generated?
Btw, Jesus’ middle name is Harold.
Ie, hark the harold’s angels song.
trumps dad’s middle name was christ so - y’know. it fits right in there.
I thought it was Hoobastank.
It was all the media really cared about before. Should be their number 1 concern now. Right?
This fat bitch trying to look like Emperor Palpatine or something in this picture lol
More like angry Oogway turtle.
That’s Moscow Mitch
Trump\McConnell Nutjob Turtles 2028
This tactic implies that Trump voters ever gave half a shit about age in the first place. They attacked biden’s age because it was low hanging fruit. No risk, high reward. Nice easy way to say they’re “holding their noses and voting for Trump”, even though that was the plan all along, because Biden’s age gave them a convenient excuse to justify their choice without exposing themselves as bigots.
MAGA alone isn’t enough to win. Trump has his floor, but he needs the votes beyond it who aren’t as blind to his flaws. And they care that Trump portrays some facile version of “strength”, but without Biden to discount it by be even older every little frailty and senile sentence can be highlighted. And he’ll take it personally and sound even worse.
It was a convenient excuse but it was never a good one. It’s like they’re unaware that Trump and Biden are basically the same age.
#2Old2Run
Reminder that he shits his adult diapers daily
I love how you try to revise history when it was Biden, caught on camera, during a ceremony in France, who apparently shat his pants.
LOL fkin revisionists are amazing. I swear.
Not sure if you’ve heard yet, but Biden’s not running.
No one said Biden didn’t have continence issues. They are saying it is obvious Trump has to wear adult diapers when he sits down, thus he is likely needing them regularly. You are so primed to either suck-off trump, or shit on biden, or both, that your reading comprehension just gets by-passed by the hair-trigger response.
FWIW, Snopes says the claim that Biden shat his pants in France is false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-invisible-chair-dday/
Thanks for this. StaySquared is too much of a chickenshit to retract his claim, I suspect.
Is that actually a thing lmao
If you Google the debate something like an hour 18 or so you can hear him pause mid sentence shit and continue as if that was normal.
There are multiple pictures of Turd sitting down where it’s painfully obvious he is wearing a diaper.
Normally there is nothing wrong with that, but he, and everyone who votes R, is a piece of shit and was mocking Biden for his age with diapers. Have never seen a photo of Biden like that.
Also, it was one of those unconfirmed by everyone in the White House and who works with Turd that he shits himself constantly.
Nah… instead the world witnessed an old man… in action, shitting himself.
Source?
Is that from old age or years of hard drug abuse? You may be off topic with your diaper fact… which is crazy to think about since he has been a serious contender in three presidential elections. 🤦♀️
there’s a lot of things you can say about trump but he’s actually a t-totaller afaik
