Following the global economic crisis that hit stock markets around the world today, Trump posted this:
“Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can’t play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!! Japan down 12%, India down 6%. Germany way down also. U.S. really bad. This is a preview of the world markets without Donald J. Trump in the White House. None of this happens if Trump is in. Kamala and the markets don’t go together. She’ll destroy the markets. She’s in power now and look at what is happening. One week of the fake media saying better polls and you get a market crash.” – Trump, on Truth Social.
Two weeks ago, when markets were booming, Trump posted this to Truth Social: “This is the Trump stock market because my polls against Biden are so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”
Putting aside the grandiosity, hyperbole, histrionics, and lies (Kamala Harris is in power? Over the global economy?) is Trump acknowledging that it looks like he will lose? Does he have an impaired memory? Does he say whatever he thinks will score him points in the moment regardless of the truth?
He is the kind of man the legendary Nelson Mandela described in this classic quote: ′′Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations.”
′′Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations.
Trump also believes that the recession that he spearheaded, never occurred. And he inherited the worst economy in US history, and turned it into the longest economic expansion in US history.
By his logic, three years and one month is the longest economic expansion in US history. It’s actually ten years and nine months under both Obama and Trump (mostly Obama), yet don’t tell the orange turd, since facts and reality only confuse the man….:)
Bad Faith knows no bounds. No shame. No scruples. No honor. No respect. No morals. Just win at all costs. See Roy Cohn, Donald's mentor. Roger Stone and Elon and Vlad (RT.com) and Murdoch (WSJ and Fox News) are fully engaged in a coordinated effort to con and trick American voters. The legit Press just watches. And fails to report the truth.
"Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations." What an idea coming from Donald Trump! It makes sense. WEIRD, however, is that Trump has been espousing revenge for the last 4 years!
I have no pull with the powers that be at MSNBC, but I think each of their commentators should have a segment each day entitled: "The WEIRD in Politics today". We have to keep pushing the WEIRD narrative to keep them off balance. It will be fun to see the reactions, and why not enjoy it while we can, it's working. We do not have to be cruel, be we can use their own words and actions against them.
It seems you are confusing logic with something that might be processed through the mind's of this election's undecideds. That would be called banging your head against a wall. People like that read a scary headline and that's it. This is one of the undoubedly many shoes to drop for the Democrats. Better super-rally the young votes because the rest are reading headlines.
I just listened to Guilfoyle's 10 minute speech and am left in shock and disbelief. She didn't just lie or distort the truth or omit relevant information. Everything she said is the polar opposite of the truth. The hatred and division she spewed while condemning hatred and division was greeted by enthusiastic cheers from her audience. That we have so many Americans who feel this way is truly frightening. What is wrong with them?
Fox. Read Dan Pfeiffer's book on it. Library should have it and it's a page turner how it's become DISinformation infrastructure to change the narrative. I think it's one reason two network execs resigned recently.
Replace the word “weird” with “sociopathic” and we may be on to something. Weird is an understatement.
What MAGA embodies is hate, revenge, intolerance and fear. They hate of all those not like them. They seek retribution against all foes; mostly imagined and conjured up from thin air. And they fear any change and progress. They can’t image a world where White Christian males aren’t in control, and they will burn the house down challenging all those who don’t believe their parochial worldview.
This is a fight for the soul of our nation’s existence, and failure is not an option!
One weird thing I noticed in the comments is someone, who appears to be uneducated in a formal sense, attempting to disparage others by claiming there is a class of “over educated” who are somehow gumming up the works. This idea that someone can be over educated completely dismisses the idea that knowledge and education are worthy in themselves and that many people simply enjoy learning, reading, and attempting to better understand themselves and the world around them. In my opinion that is a weird sentiment!
As JD Vance reclaims the poster boy of Appalachian values I spent much time in that general environment; in southern West Virginia instead of eastern Kentucky. My mom’s family was from there. However shortly after she married Dad they decided to move with their firstborn and two future-born children up to the steelmaking region of Northwest Indiana in 1953 with their high paying and somewhat less dangerous jobs. I spent most of my K-12 school years being a “brain” or nerd/geek. The cultural attitudes towards education and thinking on one’s own did not change much in the rust belt communities that the Appalachian Diaspora settled in. Most of the time education was expected to end at high school graduation and the children that aspired to attend university were often ridiculed, laughed at, or looked upon as weird by family, relatives back in the “hills”, and the factory town in the Midwest that they settled in. Even today the attitudes hold among the subsequent generations of the Appalachian Diaspora, their high schools underperform to point where they only “excel” against the majority black or today majority Hispanic schools, and the reverse pride in not being educated or “book-learned” is predominant.
Yes, anti-intellectual sentiment runs deep in America. It is manifest everywhere to the point that the most ignorant and undereducated are often championed as the true Americans. Often the Americans who figured out flight, construction, transportation, computers, and all manner of technological advancement are overlooked or dismissed. While the rest of the world looks up to our medical establishment sometimes our own citizens feel pride in ignorance. It’s astonishing to find it right here in these responses…the absurd notion that we are suffering in this country due to an out of touch, over educated class!
I wonder what knowledge they're against. What should people not know. Maybe they're anti Liberal, and a Liberal education is a broad and inclusive education by definition, like maybe a science major shouldn't know how to change the tire on their car. That's weird and odd.
Well, apparently about 40-45% of US Americans do, in fact, want Weirdos in the White House. It’s up to the other 55-60% to prevent that from happening. I think that will be the case. What concerns me is what direction our country will take moving forward. Trump didn’t invent the fascist underpinnings of MAGA, he just accurately read it and manipulated it for personal gain. How do we co-exist with that percentage of weirdos?
This is really the crux of the problem. In my state of North Carolina, we elected a man Lieutenant Governor who said before he was elected that this country was a better place when women could not vote. He received 2,856,000 votes and won by 300,000 votes. Does this mean he is right in his thinking? From the election results, it would appear many in this state think so.
JD and Donald and the rest of Trump World are bad weird.
Project 2025 would give control of the Federal Reserve to Donald-the-economic-moron. Or abolish it. The Fed saved the economy from collapse during the Covid crisis. It's doing pretty darned well without these meddlers.
Donald's promise to arrest and deport 15 to 20 million people is bad weird (actually nuts). This would go down as the human rights crime of the century.
Donald kowtowing to Putin and Kim and XI with backing from Elon and Thiel and Murdoch and the New York Times is bad weird.
Pathological gaslighting and lying are weird. Clinically speaking, however, they are also symptoms of severe individual and collective mental disorder, as some of America’s most eminent psychiatrists, notably forensic psychiatrist and violence expert Dr. Bandy X. Lee (who has a newsletter here on Substack) have assessed and warned for years, mostly to no avail by a mindless media cognitively enslaved by a myopic, unimaginative, cowardly and morally complicit framing that perpetuates the myth of false equivalence and demonstrates self-inflicted obtuseness.
I’m not convinced weirdness is actually strong enough for what MAGA represents. Nor do I think labeling MAGA with such a term would actually put a dent in the hardcore or persuade the undecided to say no it. I am not sure what will work best and unfortunately I think the election will be so close that a label of any kind will not matter. I think the way to go is a sunny vision about possibility — what General MacArthur said are cherished hopes for freedom, tolerance, and justice.
They are right. They are not weird. They are telling you who they are. They are the social misfits trying to normalize but don’t have the ability to be normal.
Trump is an evil farmer that spreads the seeds of evil, disaster, malcontent and retribution. He then waters the seeds with lies, fantasy, nonsense and stupidity to make these seeds take root and grow.
Donald Trump actually knows he is lying, knows he makes up facts, knows when he is cruel. He has no conscience to limit his speech. He has no empathy or remorse in his body to care that he is constantly lying.
It’s a shame that he seems never to be fact checked in real time to his face. His answer when it is done , he will lash out saying the person is a horrible person.
Just one time, at least, I d that person to say to Trumps face that he is a coward, a liar, and the traitor to this country.
They are weird, not because of their fascist views but because they keep bringing up the wrong thing at the wrong time and thank God for their weirdness. I just hope they keep doing what they are doing for the next 3 months. If the Harris campaign can keep the focus on Trump's behavior, the Democratics will win big. However, if Donald can flip the script then it is a toss up and maga could win. I hope VP Harris chooses wisely in her VP running mate. It could be the difference maker this fall.
In line with weird, if I ran the Harris campaign I'd just mock him. I wouldn’t concentrate on trying to impress voters with how good Harris is but I’d expose Trump for how dangerous he is. I've been trying to get some pickup on this piece I wrote for Daily Kos in that vein, where others would write as if they are Trump describing what goes on in his venomous brain: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/3/2260404/-Here-s-an-idea-to-do-something-with. (Recommending it will help get it seen.)
It’s so weird how the MAGAts are expending so much effort on telling us they aren’t weird. Kinda like the time spent on denying JD Vance had sex with a couch.
Anne Coulter once described herself as a Christian, but a mean one. The term mean does not bother them in the least. Weird, however, is getting under their skin.
Talk about weird:
Following the global economic crisis that hit stock markets around the world today, Trump posted this:
“Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can’t play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!! Japan down 12%, India down 6%. Germany way down also. U.S. really bad. This is a preview of the world markets without Donald J. Trump in the White House. None of this happens if Trump is in. Kamala and the markets don’t go together. She’ll destroy the markets. She’s in power now and look at what is happening. One week of the fake media saying better polls and you get a market crash.” – Trump, on Truth Social.
Two weeks ago, when markets were booming, Trump posted this to Truth Social: “This is the Trump stock market because my polls against Biden are so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”
Putting aside the grandiosity, hyperbole, histrionics, and lies (Kamala Harris is in power? Over the global economy?) is Trump acknowledging that it looks like he will lose? Does he have an impaired memory? Does he say whatever he thinks will score him points in the moment regardless of the truth?
He is the kind of man the legendary Nelson Mandela described in this classic quote: ′′Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations.”
′′Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations.
Trump also believes that the recession that he spearheaded, never occurred. And he inherited the worst economy in US history, and turned it into the longest economic expansion in US history.
By his logic, three years and one month is the longest economic expansion in US history. It’s actually ten years and nine months under both Obama and Trump (mostly Obama), yet don’t tell the orange turd, since facts and reality only confuse the man….:)
Bad Faith knows no bounds. No shame. No scruples. No honor. No respect. No morals. Just win at all costs. See Roy Cohn, Donald's mentor. Roger Stone and Elon and Vlad (RT.com) and Murdoch (WSJ and Fox News) are fully engaged in a coordinated effort to con and trick American voters. The legit Press just watches. And fails to report the truth.
Nailed it. Spot on. Bullseye 🎯
We don't have a functioning two-party system. One party is the ongoing MAGA-Coup.
"Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build nations." What an idea coming from Donald Trump! It makes sense. WEIRD, however, is that Trump has been espousing revenge for the last 4 years!
I have no pull with the powers that be at MSNBC, but I think each of their commentators should have a segment each day entitled: "The WEIRD in Politics today". We have to keep pushing the WEIRD narrative to keep them off balance. It will be fun to see the reactions, and why not enjoy it while we can, it's working. We do not have to be cruel, be we can use their own words and actions against them.
The term "Weird" seems to get more traction than the term "Fascism" with MAGA.
It does! Probably because they obviously don't understand the term Fascism, but they get weird. lol
His toadies have no accumulated memory whatsoever.
I don't need to say more. You channeled my thoughts. 👏👏
It seems you are confusing logic with something that might be processed through the mind's of this election's undecideds. That would be called banging your head against a wall. People like that read a scary headline and that's it. This is one of the undoubedly many shoes to drop for the Democrats. Better super-rally the young votes because the rest are reading headlines.
I just listened to Guilfoyle's 10 minute speech and am left in shock and disbelief. She didn't just lie or distort the truth or omit relevant information. Everything she said is the polar opposite of the truth. The hatred and division she spewed while condemning hatred and division was greeted by enthusiastic cheers from her audience. That we have so many Americans who feel this way is truly frightening. What is wrong with them?
Couldn’t watch it until the end. I also wonder who those people in the audience are. Have they lost the power to think? Of course we know where
they get their information. MSM has let them down
Fox. Read Dan Pfeiffer's book on it. Library should have it and it's a page turner how it's become DISinformation infrastructure to change the narrative. I think it's one reason two network execs resigned recently.
They are weird. So there's that.
Replace the word “weird” with “sociopathic” and we may be on to something. Weird is an understatement.
What MAGA embodies is hate, revenge, intolerance and fear. They hate of all those not like them. They seek retribution against all foes; mostly imagined and conjured up from thin air. And they fear any change and progress. They can’t image a world where White Christian males aren’t in control, and they will burn the house down challenging all those who don’t believe their parochial worldview.
This is a fight for the soul of our nation’s existence, and failure is not an option!
One weird thing I noticed in the comments is someone, who appears to be uneducated in a formal sense, attempting to disparage others by claiming there is a class of “over educated” who are somehow gumming up the works. This idea that someone can be over educated completely dismisses the idea that knowledge and education are worthy in themselves and that many people simply enjoy learning, reading, and attempting to better understand themselves and the world around them. In my opinion that is a weird sentiment!
As JD Vance reclaims the poster boy of Appalachian values I spent much time in that general environment; in southern West Virginia instead of eastern Kentucky. My mom’s family was from there. However shortly after she married Dad they decided to move with their firstborn and two future-born children up to the steelmaking region of Northwest Indiana in 1953 with their high paying and somewhat less dangerous jobs. I spent most of my K-12 school years being a “brain” or nerd/geek. The cultural attitudes towards education and thinking on one’s own did not change much in the rust belt communities that the Appalachian Diaspora settled in. Most of the time education was expected to end at high school graduation and the children that aspired to attend university were often ridiculed, laughed at, or looked upon as weird by family, relatives back in the “hills”, and the factory town in the Midwest that they settled in. Even today the attitudes hold among the subsequent generations of the Appalachian Diaspora, their high schools underperform to point where they only “excel” against the majority black or today majority Hispanic schools, and the reverse pride in not being educated or “book-learned” is predominant.
Yes, anti-intellectual sentiment runs deep in America. It is manifest everywhere to the point that the most ignorant and undereducated are often championed as the true Americans. Often the Americans who figured out flight, construction, transportation, computers, and all manner of technological advancement are overlooked or dismissed. While the rest of the world looks up to our medical establishment sometimes our own citizens feel pride in ignorance. It’s astonishing to find it right here in these responses…the absurd notion that we are suffering in this country due to an out of touch, over educated class!
I wonder what knowledge they're against. What should people not know. Maybe they're anti Liberal, and a Liberal education is a broad and inclusive education by definition, like maybe a science major shouldn't know how to change the tire on their car. That's weird and odd.
Well, apparently about 40-45% of US Americans do, in fact, want Weirdos in the White House. It’s up to the other 55-60% to prevent that from happening. I think that will be the case. What concerns me is what direction our country will take moving forward. Trump didn’t invent the fascist underpinnings of MAGA, he just accurately read it and manipulated it for personal gain. How do we co-exist with that percentage of weirdos?
Without proper education in history, civics, and critical thinking skills, we're doomed.
This is really the crux of the problem. In my state of North Carolina, we elected a man Lieutenant Governor who said before he was elected that this country was a better place when women could not vote. He received 2,856,000 votes and won by 300,000 votes. Does this mean he is right in his thinking? From the election results, it would appear many in this state think so.
Thanks Steve. There's good weird and bad weird.
Weird Al Yankovich is funny good weird.
JD and Donald and the rest of Trump World are bad weird.
Project 2025 would give control of the Federal Reserve to Donald-the-economic-moron. Or abolish it. The Fed saved the economy from collapse during the Covid crisis. It's doing pretty darned well without these meddlers.
Donald's promise to arrest and deport 15 to 20 million people is bad weird (actually nuts). This would go down as the human rights crime of the century.
Donald kowtowing to Putin and Kim and XI with backing from Elon and Thiel and Murdoch and the New York Times is bad weird.
I'll stop now. The list is long.
If Americans vote this asshat, or GOP manages to get Congress to choose, itll go to shit quickly, and chaos will follow.
Yup. For example see Bangladesh today.
Pathological gaslighting and lying are weird. Clinically speaking, however, they are also symptoms of severe individual and collective mental disorder, as some of America’s most eminent psychiatrists, notably forensic psychiatrist and violence expert Dr. Bandy X. Lee (who has a newsletter here on Substack) have assessed and warned for years, mostly to no avail by a mindless media cognitively enslaved by a myopic, unimaginative, cowardly and morally complicit framing that perpetuates the myth of false equivalence and demonstrates self-inflicted obtuseness.
I’m not convinced weirdness is actually strong enough for what MAGA represents. Nor do I think labeling MAGA with such a term would actually put a dent in the hardcore or persuade the undecided to say no it. I am not sure what will work best and unfortunately I think the election will be so close that a label of any kind will not matter. I think the way to go is a sunny vision about possibility — what General MacArthur said are cherished hopes for freedom, tolerance, and justice.
They are right. They are not weird. They are telling you who they are. They are the social misfits trying to normalize but don’t have the ability to be normal.
Trump is an evil farmer that spreads the seeds of evil, disaster, malcontent and retribution. He then waters the seeds with lies, fantasy, nonsense and stupidity to make these seeds take root and grow.
Donald Trump actually knows he is lying, knows he makes up facts, knows when he is cruel. He has no conscience to limit his speech. He has no empathy or remorse in his body to care that he is constantly lying.
It’s a shame that he seems never to be fact checked in real time to his face. His answer when it is done , he will lash out saying the person is a horrible person.
Just one time, at least, I d that person to say to Trumps face that he is a coward, a liar, and the traitor to this country.
Weird doesn't begin to describe it all, but it's a start.
They are weird, not because of their fascist views but because they keep bringing up the wrong thing at the wrong time and thank God for their weirdness. I just hope they keep doing what they are doing for the next 3 months. If the Harris campaign can keep the focus on Trump's behavior, the Democratics will win big. However, if Donald can flip the script then it is a toss up and maga could win. I hope VP Harris chooses wisely in her VP running mate. It could be the difference maker this fall.
In line with weird, if I ran the Harris campaign I'd just mock him. I wouldn’t concentrate on trying to impress voters with how good Harris is but I’d expose Trump for how dangerous he is. I've been trying to get some pickup on this piece I wrote for Daily Kos in that vein, where others would write as if they are Trump describing what goes on in his venomous brain: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/3/2260404/-Here-s-an-idea-to-do-something-with. (Recommending it will help get it seen.)
It’s so weird how the MAGAts are expending so much effort on telling us they aren’t weird. Kinda like the time spent on denying JD Vance had sex with a couch.
weird isn't the right word the right word is MEAN
Anne Coulter once described herself as a Christian, but a mean one. The term mean does not bother them in the least. Weird, however, is getting under their skin.
Yes, they don't mind being called "Fascists"....but "Weird'? That gets under their skin!
Weird, yes. Even more to the point: demented. There is no real evidence of any human traits here except selfishness, meanness and stupidity.
Trump is insane. Does that make him weird? You decide.