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Donald Trump on Wednesday night falsely smeared Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a “proud member of Hamas.”

The Republican presidential nominee made the insulting remark about the top-ranking U.S. Jewish official at a rally in Pennsylvania. It came on the same day that Trump separately sparked an angry backlash for questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (5 children)

He’s melting down. Just a matter of time before he says a slur in public. His fan base won’t care, but it’ll be enough to turn off fence-sitters and moderates.

[–] solsangraal 89 points 2 months ago (5 children)

i’m having a real hard time believing that anyone’s actually “on the fence” about whether to vote R or D at this point. i think they’re voting R and just don’t want to say it out loud

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re called “low information voters”, the common clay of the new West.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's from this scene in Blazing Saddles if you weren't aware.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

That’s why I lol’d

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real question at this point is who shows up to the poll booth. I'm not sure how much trump using the n word would depress his turnout or enthuse kamala turnout.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Him saying it out loud would probably make his turnout better, but also enthuse Harris turnout

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a real hard time believing in a mythical voter who has no problem with "grab 'em by the pussy" but draws the line at the hard-r n-word.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I think open sexism is more normalized than open racism. There's no "it's just boys being boys" or "locker-room talk" description of dropping the n-word.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Black conservatives blindly holding out hope it's not true that he's a racist?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If they're able to think that after all he's done, they'll find an excuse to ignore it just like everything else.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is pretty par for the course. He called Biden a Palestinian *a while back.

*Was gonna say months ago but the time dilation on this campaign is ridiculous. Might've happened yesterday for all I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the over/under on him doing a hard-R before November?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Seems Trump's age related cognitive decline is making him mix up a Jewish member of the Senate with the terrorist group Hamas. Maybe Trump should drop out, he doesn't seem fit for the job.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty weird if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

He is weird, and creepy. Weird, creepy Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

He should but he won't. He'll be going to jail if he doesn't win the election, so he's motivated to drive on no matter how bad it gets.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies keeps forgetting and says the quiet part out loud. He's just too old and racist. He needs to drop out. He's pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

His narcissism, racism, and sexism are all fighting for the spotlight.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real smear is in his pants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It should have been in his father's pants

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After watching Jon Oliver's latest video on the West Bank I'd almost consider this a complement. Netanyahu is a bigger asshole than Trump and I didn't think that was humanly possible.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's really struggling with this whole Biden dropping out thing isn't he

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's like when you have an old, mostly blind dog that knows their way around by memory, and then one day you move the furniture leading to just years and years of them bumping into the side of the couch for hours on end.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This guy is losing his mind and I love watching the melt down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, you're watching in real time Trump giving new lines to his legions of online weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That’s the worst part. His cult take and echo his every thought as gospel, regardless of how insane they may be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's always been like this tho.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

But he’s always had control over the narrative in the media and he’s starting to lose it because his opponent is now much more coherent than he is.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if trump went senile would there be any signs

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How much does it take for journalists and other politicians to be able to call him a liar? This is incredible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What we have today isn't journalism. Hardly anyone asks tough questions.

Corporate control has turned most 'news' into propaganda machines for the owner class.

Reagan crippled so many regulations and policies that protected honest journalism, that fucking rancid mega-assmaster.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I just say how weird his behavior is? And how good it feels knowing the constant flood of shit from his mouth is finally being de-normalized?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a bit of a feeling of old people using the new slang they just learned with the "weird" campaign, but then you step back and like, it's a really apt description. MAGA culture IS extremely weird, even if you can ignore its terrible politics, and if Donald Trump was a coworker, "weird" would definitely be a common description of his rambling stories and obvious lies. It's well beyond just "that guy lies about stuff" and into "somethings wrong with him, why does he think anyone would possibly believe those claims?".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I used to know a guy who had a problem with pathological lying. As in, I'm pretty sure he had a legit diagnosis.

He was weird. And I haven't thought about him in at least ten years, but thinking back, his particular weirdness reminds me of no one so much as Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He's also a bit weird.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This from the guy who raped 13 year old girls and was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This article is for anyone that thinks threatening to not vote 'Democrat', as if there was a choice, is fooling anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude is just incapable of shutting the fuck up.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump has gotten more extreme in the last three days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He's scared.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Trump doesn't believe any of the things he says. He doesn't care.

He's a shitpost in human form.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

such a clown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • Slams? - Nyet
  • Blasts? - Nyet
  • Smears? - Da

Is OK.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smear I get. Smear campaign. The others? Not so much.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The entire DNC called every pro-palestinian protester a member of Hamas

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