‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity  at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’d prefer my own political party to believe truthful things. Despite the wild success the reverse has shown in other parties.

    Call it a quirk.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Well then wake me up when they stop deifying JFK. Otherwise I’m not too concerned about a couch-fucking rumor.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        When Democrats stop deifying JFK?

        Well, I guess you’d have to specify. For one thing that was six decades ago.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          And yet Democrats believe all sorts of myths about him anyway. And ignore things like how he stalled civil rights legislation and got the U.S. into Vietnam.

          • Optional@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            I suppose some do, but no one’s actively promoting that. Are they? The record is pretty clear by all accounts.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              If the record was clear, people wouldn’t still be talking about Kennedy when they talk about civil rights. And yet they do. All the time. Actively.

              I’m not sure why you don’t think politicians reach back to their predecessors and talk about how amazing they were when it constantly happens. With Democrats, it’s Kennedy. With Republicans, it’s Reagan.

              • Optional@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 months ago

                The Early Sixties
                Racial tensions continued to build. In 1962 President Kennedy sent hundreds of U.S. marshals to enforce a court order to admit African American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. The marshals encountered fierce resistance from violent segregationists. In a melee, two people were killed and dozens injured. In February 1963 Kennedy submitted a civil rights bill to Congress that did not address the important issue of integration of public facilities. He did little to support the bill and it floundered. When racial violence erupted in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963, John Kennedy realized it was time to put forward a broad new civil rights bill. Most of his advisers told him it would be a terrible political mistake. But Robert advised him that the future of the country was at stake and urged him to go ahead with the bill.

                A Landmark Speech
                On June 11, 1963, the day that Governor George Wallace made his “stand in the school room door” to prevent two black students from attending the University of Alabama, President Kennedy spoke to the nation in a televised address to ask for support of the civil rights bill. He said, “We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities.”

                Two Reactions
                For some, Kennedy’s speech was a long-awaited show of support. “All of a sudden, he brought passion to it, he brought that eloquence to it and it electrified me and all kinds of other black people,” Roger Wilkins remembered. Fellow civil rights activist John Lewis said, “that night in June… he spoke, I think, to the heart and to the soul of America. I would never forget that speech.” For others, the speech was intolerable. Later that night, a reply came from those who opposed civil rights. Segregationist Byron de la Beckwith shot and killed Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s field secretary in Mississippi.

                Source

                I dunno how we got here from couch-fucking memes, but, okay?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  He did little to support the bill and it floundered.

                  Cool. One sentence that is a mild criticism of what actually happened.

                  Thank you for proving my point.

                  Please do show me the next link about how the Soviets started the Cuban Missile Crisis.

                  • Optional@lemmy.world
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                    3 months ago

                    There’s more in the paragraphs before about their unwillingness to pursue civil rights legislation. Suffice to say it was more nuanced than “JD Vance fucked a couch”.

                    What’s your point again?

    • ChadCMulligan@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Well, put your mind at ease. The Democratic Party doesn’t think jd Vance fucked a couch.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Which members? Because 100% for sure some of them believe it. When I heard it “was in the first edition of the book” part I was sorely tempted myself.

        It’s a trifle. Not important, and barely a whisper of a shadow of the simplest lie the republiQans tell on an hourly basis. But for the record, there absolutely are Democrats voting for Kamala that believe it to be true. That’s just how media works. Especially when it’s so plausible.