When I saw this post scrolling by the thumbnail really got my attention…
That little piece of black mic in front of his nose…it just reminded me of some figure from the not so distant past…he also rallied huge crowds and they were all cheering for every single word he said.
Lol you are right. Need to start Photoshopping black mics on all the photos
It’s a different thumbnail now…what a pity.
You really have to be full of hate to take such a position. Wtf.
Hey, you know what’s cool? Traumatizing victims of trauma!
Well he should know, he’s into both.
Rules for thee, not for me.
They made excuses for his porn star affiliations, his “take their guns away” comment, but this may be too far.
He’s probably paid for an abortion in a case of rape and incest.
That is one cursed, which is not to say inaccurate, conjunction.
We have court records alleging almost as much. It was a kid on Epstein’s Island.
One abortion for both cases or separate incidents?
More likely he promised to pay for an abortion and then didn’t.
Even Donald would’ve have been fucked if teenage Ivanka gave birth to one of his abominations. He didn’t have the cult yet so he was only protected from financial crimes.
With campaign money.
Scrolling by quickly, the thumbnail in my Lemmy client makes it look like he’s got a hitler mustache. The framing of the microphone and his hand is almost perfect and very fitting.
Floundering for a platform when the only platform they had, “fuck Biden”, was suddenly pulled out from under them. Now they don’t know what to do.
You shouldn’t have to file a police report or be seriously ill to get an abortion. Fuck the GOP’s stance on abortion.
That’s Trump’s stance on abortion. GOP stance is: you’re not an American if you support ANY abortion publicly.
probably not even his stance on abortion.
“Yeah… i support exceptions for, uh, rape, and stuff… <whink whink whink>”. the boos were because he didn’t make the winking obvious enough for the troglodytes in the back.
He’s been on the record in the past fully supporting abortion; I believe it’s a service family members of his have used more than once.
Also probably “dates” of his.
His stance on abortion is:
“What will benefit me personally the most”?
They don’t think you’re human if you support abortion. They see you as some sort of serial killer. It’s absolutely batshit crazy.
The American way is to have children die of preventable diseases because they can’t afford healthcare or by school shooting.
This. Only this.
Lol at GOP writing a law where a police report is sufficient. They will only include a rape/incest allowance if there’s a conviction. Of course that will never happen in time, so the exception becomes meaningless.
This is probably why he has been so hesitant on making campaign promises this time around.
If he takes up a stand other than “dems are bad”, he risks dividing his fanbase.
Sure, but I mean, that’s not why he and the GOP don’t have a platform. It’s because he is a compulsive liar and nobody - least of all himself - can even keep track of all the contradictory positions he’s taking.
Well his issue is that he has been saying shit to appease his cult and they took a turn for straight up fascism, and then his issue is that the coup failed and he is no longer in power and that maga cult is simply not big enough to get him elected, he has to take some more reasonable stances to attract the “normal” republicans, but then those somewhat normal views are too fucking extreme for his maga cult so he is in risk of losing them if he says stuff like this, he is kinda fucked
Why doesn’t he just do the classics which they all agree on? Promises of overt bigotry and being financially cucked by billionaires always work great on Repubs.
He should be just promising to invade some ME country and not touch upon domestic issues other than “it’s gonna be truly great this time folks”.
He should promise to invade Mexico, build a wall farther south
That would be very traditional, but a bit contradictory to his promises of not bringing in more Mexicans. Unless genocide is implied, of course.
It worked when he had it in the bag because potentially democratically voters would’ve stayed home for Biden.
Now they get mobilised because they feel the shift in energy, so Trump has to try fishing in the less extremist ponds.
Trump’s one strategy is to say something and see if it catches. If it falls flat, he won’t bring it up again. If it works, he’ll hammer it harder next time.
He must have felt how much they’re losing on abortion and tried to pull it back, but the base won’t follow him there. You probably won’t hear him bring it up again for the rest of the campaign.
Oh, that’s true. He literally said that’s what he does. He was talking about “drain the swamp” and admitted to exactly what you wrote here.
He’s trying to win the other side. As he has competition now.
Man is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He doesn’t want to make this election a referendum on abortion, because as we’ve seen in ballot measures in the past two years, he can’t win that fight. However, his base won’t accept anything but a hardline stance. Must suck to be him, couldn’t happen to a worse person.
He put himself there. Remember that in 2012 he was pretty waffley on abortion and then he listened to the Christian nationals and stuffed to court with people who wanted to kill Roe. Whether he is truly drinking the Kool-Aide (personally I don’t think Trump gives a shit about anything as long as he gets money and fame) or not he is now committed to a position that 70% of Americans disagree with. The fact that Dems aren’t knocking it out of the fucking park (we’re moving in the right direction finally, at least) is a pretty clear sign that America is sick and tired of neoliberalism and wants actual change.
While he doesn’t care about anything 9ther than himself, I think that he such poor management skills that he doesn’t know how to resolve any situation that you can’t bully yourself out of.
Man is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Imo this is also one of the issues that shows how he has boxed himself into a corner with his VP candidate choice. If he had chosen someone that appeals to a different voter base, rather than Vance, who caters to the same crowd, then they’d have an easier time arguing both sides at the same time.
He could always drop out and tend to his fake bullet wound 🤷
There’s one thing Trump hates, and that’s being seen as weak.
I rather him push forward and continue raging until he expires.
If he wins the coming election, we don’t have time until his expiry.
Same situation where he was almost begging his cult to take the vaccine. You can see him share how important it was, realizing they were gonna lynch him, and immediately kept twisting it over and over until he was on their side again.
If he hadn’t politicized it in the first place it would’ve been ok, but he saw the blue cities being hit first and so it was initially a benefit because people voting against him were dying. Then his big dumdum a-brain couldn’t extrapolate to the future where eventually only people against science would be dying, so he came out against protections. By the time the he realized his cult was dying off it was far too late for them to change their personalities.
While this is all true, I do want to clarify. He was always for the vaccine. Because you take the vaccine and then the problem goes away.
He was always against masking and social distancing, because that hurts the Dow Jones Industrial Average. He cared more about the S&P 500 than he did about the American people.
Moreover as Fauci recounts, tiny hands wanted it to be just like the seasonal flu that ‘in a few months just goes away’.
His idiot brain wanted it gone by obfuscation and denial.
How booing is good here? There are many other reasons to boo at him, but this one is not such reason.
Just goes to show that trump isn’t bad enough for a lot of Republicans. It’s unfathomable.
Where have I seen this?.. Criticizing the Great Leader for not being militant enough.
I’m not surprised.
Are you a MAGA?
The significance of the headline is that the right is fracturing.
Are you a MAGA?
How supporting abortions is MAGA? How can non-American be MAGA? Oh, right, Trump said it, so now it is MAGA.
I think beind “against whatever Trump says” is harmful. Today Trump says in support of abortions, tomorrow that corpobrained will say something in support of UHC. Should then everyone start hating UHC?
The significance of the headline is that the right is fracturing.
It’s more like plaster fell off exposing long-existing cracks, but ok.
He created that monster. It’s his own fault if they eat him alive- because I guarantee you, they’re going to get far worse and they’ll turn on him in a fucking second if he even so much as glances to the left.
hell one of them already took a shot at him. If that’s not a wake up call I don’t know what is.
Glances to the slightly less far right you mean?
i don’t understand why people are still anti-abortion in general, but even for those who are completely against it, why not allow it in extreme cases like medical reasons, rape, and incest? surely your god wouldn’t want a young girl raped by her father to give birth to her own child-sibling who’s definitely going to be all kinds of genetically and mentally fucked up?
“Christians” didn’t give two shits about abortion until integrating schools became a thing in the South. Then, suddenly, we care about the “unborn.”
Just gonna leave this here:
"The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
- Pastor David Barnhart
Because they believe that women should be subordinate to men, and that their sexuality should be tightly controlled. For the same reason, they want to make it harder to get divorced.
It has never been about religion, that’s just a smokescreen. it’s just control over women.
Mental illness.
Because they believe that a fetus is a human being, and that killing a human is murder. I find it sad that so many people cannot understand that many Christians really believe that.
Christians believe that a zombie can come back to life too. Why would any of their fantasy beliefs matter in the slightest.
We understand that they believe it. We don’t agree with it and resent being told we have to live under someone else’s belief system.
Forcing others to live their lives according to your religion that they do not share is violence.
The rest of humanity does not want or need your beliefs forced on us, so kindly keep them to yourselves.
The post I was replying to literally started with the words “I don’t understand”.
it starts with that because i, as an individual, don’t understand! i’ve lived my whole life surrounded by atheists, was born and raised as an atheist by other atheists, and i genuinely don’t get how someone can think that their outdated organised religion should dictate modern life
I have seen no evidence that they actually believe that, considering how this diverges from their beliefs about the sanctity of life in many other areas.
Buuut they don’t. When was the last time a so called Christian held a funeral for a miscarriage??
They do not believe what you said, not at all.
Their religious texts don’t say it. They don’t believe because they are not ready to throw their sisters and mothers in prison for abortions.
It is all a big fat lie perpetrated by politicians using religion for their personal gain. They have used effective propaganda to dup non-political people into voting for them.
There are some extremists that may believe this but they are not mainstream at all despite how badly they want to be. I would argue these people are not Christians at all.
It’s crazy how many of those same Christians are okay with killing a human if it’s a stand-your-ground home break in, or if it’s a thief, or if it’s a black guy with a counterfeit dollar bill, or if it’s the death penalty.
It’s sad how people fall for their stupid double-speak but here we are.
Yes some Christians are hypocritical. Yet some really do walk the walk. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a monster.
All Christians are irreedeemable fascist monsters.
I have never met a Christian who wouldn’t kill in self-defense.
I didn’t call them monsters, I called them morons.
Not defending them, but they would probably say it’s about innocence. If it’s a criminal they can convince themselves that they deserve it (and they’re racists, so they’ll just assume that any given black person is a criminal).
Apparently it’s when they are old enough to be in school shootings that they cease to be a precious important life to be protected at all cost.
“If you’re preborn, you’re fine. If you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”
Sure, they “believe” it is murder up until they or their family would like to undergo one.
Honest answer? Yeah, many of them would. Because God doesn’t make mistakes and it must therefore be God’s plan.
Why is rape part of God’s plan but abortion isn’t? No clue, beats me.
Abortion is part of god’s plan, he gives instructions for one way to cause a medical miscarriage in Numbers 5:11-31. They just ignore the parts of the book that don’t agree with their fascism.
It’s all part of God’s plan? It’s either all or not all, so which is it?
Expecting critical thinking supported faith is a waste of time ;-)
Nah, only things I want and like is gods plan, the rest is of course the devils plan!
It’s so simple, right?
Because it’s always just been a lie designed to control, the entirety of their worldview is
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Or some other bullshit they tell themselves to justify the horrors of the world. The Lord is almighty. No, fuck you, the “lord” does not exist, you imbecile.
Trump: I don’t want to be financially responsible for my rape babies.
Crowd: boo!
Well that’s ironic cause he’s guilty of at least one of those things and wants the other, at the very least.
