Trump’s Truth Social crash out shows how ill-prepared he is for the midterms
By: Mr Frost
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President Donald Trump marked Labor Day, the unofficial start of the fall election season, as only he could: with a spree of bonkers social media posts that suggested, among other things, that New Mexico should be renamed “New America.” He also posted a series of artificial intelligence slop images depicting him as presiding over a hellish hi-tech autocracy with armies of robots.
His midterms strategy , if you can call what he’s doing “strategy,” is ignoring the polls that show his approval rating cratering and delving ever further into megalomaniacal fantasies of absolute power.
Between Saturday evening and Monday evening, Trump published more than 100 posts on Truth Social that included jabs at allies, egoistical boasting and a couple of posts depicting him conferring with President George Washington. But there were also some themes — at least nine fixated on changing the name of New Mexico . It’s quintessential Trump: floating a rebranding effort to conjure up right-wing nationalist ideas without achieving any substantive change. Never mind that Trump lacks the legal authority to change the name of a state. Suggesting that New Mexico be renamed allows him to taunt our neighbor to the south (in an unbearably corny way).
In one of the posts unrelated to New Mexico, Trump stands before an army of robots shooting lasers out of their eyes. A fissured moon hangs over his head, and below the image a caption reads, “They will dream of us forever.” In another, he walks before a different robot army — this one features flying spiders! — and the caption reads, “They will never sleep again.” In yet another , he stands on a throne flanked by giant robots, with a caption that says, “Give them nightmares.”
If we lived in a functioning democracy, these posts would be considered politically disastrous and a glaring sign that a party needed to immediately remove its leader.
If we take the posts at face value, Trump appears OK with the leader of an openly sadistic regime using autonomous weapons to suppress the population. If we don’t take the posts at face value, then who knows what they mean. They aren’t purely ironic — there isn’t anything funny about the images, and in the real world, Trump sincerely and ceaselessly attempts to accumulate power using every tactic he can. Ultimately, the images betray his reported desire to be seen as a great man of history. Trump reportedly believes he belongs on a list of many of the most powerful men in human history, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. He wants to be feared.
But the disconnect between Trump’s frivolous “New America” obsession and his robot tyranny distills how his ambition is destined to go unfulfilled. Trump is too petty, self-involved and fixated on shallow branding exercises to be an effective despot. In fact, he’s so petty, self-involved and fixated on shallow branding exercises that he’s not even able to put his party in the best position to maintain a majority in Congress.
Consider that Trump is begging voters to “pretend” that he’s on the ballot and reportedly planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars available to his super PAC, MAGA Inc., making the case that he — not the rest of the GOP — is who voters should consider themselves to be voting for. (He has however donated $10 million to Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.) Yet Trump is as unpopular as he’s ever been , has lost his touch with endorsements and he has no solutions for widespread anger over the cost of living, exacerbated in no small part by his catastrophic war on Iran.
Trump’s thirst for power seems completely irrepressible. It’s leading his messaging to become stranger, more vulgar, more cartoonish. He’s gambling that enough Americans share his sentiments to keep his movement afloat. I wouldn’t bet on it.
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RCP, (an average of ALL the polls), has trump at an abysmal 39.6% job approval. WOW. Even his family must hate him.
a race to make his mark in DC and name as much as he can after himself, because when he finally ends up in a box, nobody else will ...
He said as much the other day so he knows how much he is hated. I just hope the next president removes trumps name and monuments from all over the USA.
I'm hoping for the removal from the US of almost the entire trump family, after all of their ill gotten assets gained by violating the emoluments clause of the constitution have been seized by the US treasury ...
we'll be long dead before any of that trump and maga bullshit is worth more than what some moron paid for it ...
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I've got a campaign button from '68 for george wallace, "stand up for america", still cracks me up whenever I look at it ...
that's a little mean. Just a little
meh, the only good goober racist is a dead goober racist ...
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“…george wallace…”
My parents were volunteers for his campaign when we lived in Iowa.
Even as a ten year-old, I somehow knew it was wrong. Our relationship changed and morphed into less a ‘do as I say’ and more a cautionary tale of disappointment and dysfunction.
You don't have to worry about them, the vast majority of those old Southern Democrat bigots left the party long ago for more racist pastures among in the Republican party where they protect confederate monuments and fight for their right to fly the confederate flags and march alongside their fellow neo-Nazi's.
These are the goober racists in question and they're all a bunch of poorly educated Trump supporters the world would be better off without.
I'm anxiously awaiting trump's karmic comeuppance ...
If it does come, it will be EPIC.
The next time somebody here says the Democrats are the party of the KKK I'm gonna take a ticket and tell them to fuck off. I'd rather punch them in the throat but we violent leftists have to take what we can get.
Who wants to give it a try? I'm going on vacation for the next week so I really don't care
wtf? who's going to protect me from the mean old Guardians Of Pedophilia, where Molesters Are Getting Anonymity? /s
Molesters Are Grifting America
I can't keep up with all of the maga definitions now ...
Perhaps ICE will deport them?
(How did President Trump get to be a citizen anyway???)
They all deserve to be thrown in the worst prison in El Salvador to serve out multiple life sentences.
All he has left are his die hard MAGA racists.
oh look, it's the goober swastika ...
That's all trump cares about; money, power and fame. It's why he literally refused to go to the 25th anniversary of 9/11 because he couldn't make it about himself. He is seriously, without exaggeration, sick in the head. Conservatives can't even defend him anymore.
gee, the fear over imposition of sharia law in america as a wedge issue doesn't seem to be bringing out the maga trash this election ...
tough shit, christo-fascists ...
There are those that would agree with you:
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Well, yeah.
I ain't afraid of spiders. Wanna give me nightmares? Make them flying scorpions or centipedes
I kill centipedes and spiders. with fall coming, I'll be entering spider bite season shortly. they like how I taste, apparently. can't remember what year my last mosquito bite was, but I'm pretty sure it happened in texas ... ... I leave bees, ladybugs, butterflies, and praying mantis alone ...
... flying scorpions? wtf?
Morning... nothing wrong with spiders...can't see the problem myself..
This one was made for a Koori art exhibition and exceptionally well made using string and bark.. a lovely Huntsman...
I was most impressed and if one was that big in my house I would probably move out..
Don't be such a sooky, mozzie bites don't even rate here...and it's an embarrassment even mentioning them..🤣
Not to mention "When pigs fly . . . " '
There were a few in the Philippines that gave me pause...Went to step on it and thought, "what if I'm not heavy enough?".
Scorpion Fly - Animal of the Week
The funniest thing about this little guy, is that the scorpion-like stinger is actually its genitals...
That is an absolute abomination
For a good time-call...
hold still, there's one on your back ...
"say it with me, democrats are baaaad, baaaad, baaaad ..."
It’s hilarious that he needs to lure back the ones that were stupid enough to support him in the first place with lies about $5k checks. They’re the only ones dumb enough to fall for such naked pandering.
the fading maga coalition of thumpers, suckers, and racist dipshits ...
Trump can barely get a burger from the plate to his fat mouth much less lift TWO firemen.