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UTUSN

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Thu Sep 12, 2024, 03:01 PM Sep 12

Local radio talk show wingnuts rewriting the debate result, "Can he come back from that?" [View all]

Along the lines of Drumpf reciting “polls” in the 95 percentile declaring him the winner of the debate, here’s a poll (conducted by and of the only responder, me) to the effect that 99% of the Drumpf content was not new since 2015 – the seething anger, the arrogance, the lies, self-aggrandizement, the self-delusion, racism (YES, RACISM), the absolutely BIZARRE melt-downs. Actually, the BIZARRE melt-downs *did* shock for being so blatant without any pretense at normality - like, no-F**ks-to-give. Then after he stormed out of the debate stage, he went to the Spin room that NO candidates do from debates, wandered around yelling that he WON with dozens of poll numbers (only advanced extra terrestrials could have the technology), in a totally different mood from the debate, like (another diagnosis) a Multiple Personality.

But then, as always, there’s the local radio wingnut talk show personality disorders: The head wingnut coordinated a BIZARRELY (that word again) upbeat rewriting of the debate results, admitting throughout that Drumpf had done badly but shot through with “Can he come back from this?”

Which leads to the point of all this: In the face of all the KNOWN wrongness of all-things-Drumpf, all in stark evidence at the debate, one of the Eternal Questions: WHAT do these wingnuts GET out of putting a clinically DERANGED person in charge of the 6-minutes nuclear decision? They have been totally willing to give up EVERYTHING for that a-hole, democracy and yes the planet. Are tax breaks and theocratic commandments worth it all to them?

There’s a YouTube “intellectual” named Eric WEINSTEIN with a video now, saying, “I don’t know whether Donald (Drumpf) will be ALLOWED to become president.” First of all, embedded there is the assumption that he somehow deserves or is entitled to be president and that there is some vast mechanism designed to keep him from it. His rationale is that the post-WW II world order is “running on fumes,” that all this time we have been operating under a network of agreements and alliances that created a system where leaders of both parties were ALLOWED to lead by their both agreeing not to disrupt the underlying network, that Drumpf is the first non-politician/non-military type bull-in-china-shop to have gotten in the first time and will explode the whole shop if he gets back in now. That BIDEN is the absolute last of the generations and HARRIS is barely the last of the Boomer generation and is the thread of the caretaker of the old network.

Is it fun that the whole mess of everything is topsy turvy, that democracy is being questioned and written-off, that even the wingnuts are fighting themselves – Marjorie TAYLOR Greene is cat-fighting Laura LOOMER and Drumpf and his pick VANCE are sniping at each other – Drumpf saying at the debate that he and VANCE don’t discuss much/VANCE “doesn’t matter” and VANCE snipes back?

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