Earning trust

He’s desperate and going for any Hail Mary in reach.

Like yeah it’s bigoted, we knew that, but holy fuck it’s just weird to do that. I wouldn’t do that, I’m pretty weird myself but I’m nowhere near that weird

He seems like a "wing it on the night" type

He doesn't need to prepare answers when he has a generic template for everything. "I'm the best at [blank]". He even changed it up a little this time with ". . . since [historical figure]".

Now accept that answer at face value and you, too, can be a standard Republican voter.

Ironically he was expelled (by royal degree no less) for skipping out on mandatory military service. Twice. Didn't even made an excuse like bones spurs or something.

But yeah, making money by exploiting the vulnerable lays in the family at least since the brothels of the gold rush.

Opa Trump got rich with brothels and liquor during the gold rush in the US. Not because he was such a hard worker and awesome bussinessman that he pulled himself by the bootstraps into the millions. But by the fortune that he found enough women to exploit and that there were a lot of lonely men paying for it in gold.

I believe he would have never had the chance to make big money in europe at the time. He wouldn't have skipped out on military service and would have been conscripted early into WW1 and would have possibly died at the Somme or Verdune. The family would have sunken into poverty and obscurity without a breadwinner and nobody would have even heard of any of these Clowns.

Not that I'm surprised, but it's good to see from the video quite clearly they Trump was lying when he said the journalist didn't even say hello.

Thanks!

The cheering from the crowd is fucking wild.

Republicans want to pander to big business with promises of cheap labor while pandering to labor with promises of future self-enrichment.

Black workers are the fulcrum that argument turns on. They're the workers you can use as scabs when you need to break up a union. And they're the workers you can blame for Woking and DEIing your professional jobs.

That's why Trump sounds so incoherent around them. He's trying to pander to white nationalists and black labor at the same time, and it comes out as gibberish.

Republicans could honestly pick up a lot of black votes if they were capable of dropping the racism. Unfortunately it's so deeply ingrained into the base now that I doubt they could pull it off.

Guys like SC-R Tim Scott figured out how to run as a Black Republican and tap into a sizable split in the Democratic base, beating his lily white rivals by filling a niche with the state's large base of socially conservative black voters. Allen West, down in Florida, managed a similar stunt to beat out his whiter conservative rivals, before moving to Texas to chair the state's wealthy and nationally influential Republican Party.

I think they do see black voters as winnable constituency, based on how they align on religious beliefs and economic beliefs. During the late 19th / early 20th century, the GOP benefited enormously from an African American voter base that would support New York / California business tycoons simply because they weren't racist Dixiecrats. But then Nixon did the Southern Strategy to win the Dixiecrat segregationist rump in the 70s, and they've been pandering to them ever since. Bush Jr tried to bridge that gap from 2000 to 2008, identifying a host of POC cronies willing to shill for big business without regard to their skin color. But he ultimately failed when the party went into a reactionary anti-Obama backlash.

There are plenty of Republicans who would love to get back to a kind of color-blind corporate hegemony, because its far more profitable to exploit the entire underclass than to be pinned to a chronically disaffected white middle class male base. But you gotta dance with who brung ya. And its the Used Car Dealership voter that's powering the Trump campaign.

Traditionally across human history, poor or dissenting political opinions were punished by having the shit beat out of you.

Not saying I agree with it necessarily, but them's the facts.

While we may wish to build a more civilized and less violent society, which I think we should, we are giving up some things in the process. Most major consequences for being an asshole fall under the things we're trying to do away with. Vigilante justice, like it or not, was a big contributing factor in keeping the crazies quiet during many times in many places in the world.

It seems the NABJ invited both Kamala and the trumpster fire. Kamala's team couldn't make the date and suggested video conference. The head of NABJ then cancelled Kamala's appearance, rather than make it work. Not sure why but they choose that but we got delicious news out of it.