Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The base DOES care about one thing: looking weak.

Perception of strength, as understood by emotionally stunted juvenile MAGAs, has been and continues to be the entire premise of MAGA-dom. Trump's mandate is to do anything possible to look strong, which means threats, bluster, insults and menace no matter the circumstances. It doesn't actually matter to them what he actually does... as long as he says what he's going to do in a sufficiently aggressive tone of voice.

But now Trump is looking weak.

That's anathema.

It's going to be an interesting last 3 weeks!

I really don't understand how anyone can still look at that bumbling, doddering, rambling, confused old fool Trump and think he's any kind of symbol of "strength."

I really don't. He's shown he's too chicken to do interviews, he's too chicken to face Harris in another debate, he's been running away from one thing after another lately. And given he's shown he isn't tough enough to stand up to Harris, he's clearly not tough and strong enough to stand up to any other world leaders. His time is past.

Right but until now he could stand stolidly on stage, pump his fist, and speak at a normal cadence, spurring himself with increasing threats of violence towards perceived enemies. Now he loses track of his thoughts several times in one sentence, forgets what he said 5 minutes ago, gets upset at friendly/neutral interviewers and has lapses in judgement such as shutting down the Q&A session 4 questions in and deciding to stay on stage and vaguely move about for 30 minutes with music. Doubts may seep into the more aware elements of the MAGA population, that he's not as with it as he used to be. Fox will shield them from the worse, of course. That's the problem. Most MAGAs are locked into their own separate universe, and don't have access to the videos and transcripts we have.

So we'll see.

Anonymous wrote:Trump just insulted America’s auto workers by saying a “child could do their jobs.” That’s it for Michigan.

The mask is slipping off for sure.


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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The base DOES care about one thing: looking weak.

Perception of strength, as understood by emotionally stunted juvenile MAGAs, has been and continues to be the entire premise of MAGA-dom. Trump's mandate is to do anything possible to look strong, which means threats, bluster, insults and menace no matter the circumstances. It doesn't actually matter to them what he actually does... as long as he says what he's going to do in a sufficiently aggressive tone of voice.

But now Trump is looking weak.

That's anathema.

It's going to be an interesting last 3 weeks!

I really don't understand how anyone can still look at that bumbling, doddering, rambling, confused old fool Trump and think he's any kind of symbol of "strength."

I really don't. He's shown he's too chicken to do interviews, he's too chicken to face Harris in another debate, he's been running away from one thing after another lately. And given he's shown he isn't tough enough to stand up to Harris, he's clearly not tough and strong enough to stand up to any other world leaders. His time is past.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on how his base feels about his running mate.

SE Michigan, where the Big 3 (now 2?) are, usually carries the state. They will be upset but they were already reliably blue. Will have to see how much the rest of the state will sympathize with the auto workers. Western MI has some red stalwarts.

Will also depend on where Dearborn lands. Plenty are upset with the Dems when I was home this summer.

Anonymous wrote:Harris already lost Michigan, what with Big Gretch acting out a Catholic rite with some influencer - while wearing a Harris/Walz hat. Klassy.

Anonymous wrote:Depends on how his base feels about his running mate.

SE Michigan, where the Big 3 (now 2?) are, usually carries the state. They will be upset but they were already reliably blue. Will have to see how much the rest of the state will sympathize with the auto workers. Western MI has some red stalwarts.

Anonymous wrote:
The base DOES care about one thing: looking weak.

Perception of strength, as understood by emotionally stunted juvenile MAGAs, has been and continues to be the entire premise of MAGA-dom. Trump's mandate is to do anything possible to look strong, which means threats, bluster, insults and menace no matter the circumstances. It doesn't actually matter to them what he actually does... as long as he says what he's going to do in a sufficiently aggressive tone of voice.

But now Trump is looking weak.

That's anathema.

It's going to be an interesting last 3 weeks!

Anonymous wrote:

He's been in complete dementia freefall for 4 days. I wonder whether it's natural or whether he had a mini stroke to accelerate his previously slowly-progressing dementia.

Anyway. Medically, there's clearly a problem and everyone's seeing it now.