I don’t normally read the Daily Wire, but they baited me with that title in an email. It’s classic DW: reduce a complex issue to a single point, challenge a group of people with it, and claim victory when they don’t get a simple answer. It’s what they did with the “what is a woman” question, and it was the entirety of Charlie Kirk’s “debate” strategy. So yes, confront people who aren’t expecting a quiz while point cameras and microphones at them, and most will freeze and be more inarticulate. That doesn’t mean you’ve won something, it means you’ve exploited normal human social awkwardness.
I would answer that he’s flouted the constitution, has essentially declared war on states that don’t support his policies, is capricious and arbitrary in his decisions, and is trying to neutralize the checks and balances of the Republic. I’m sure you all could write whole paragraphs citing his self-serving actions.
But DW goes on to point out the horrors of the No Kings protests. Such violence!
Some protests took unsettling turns. A disturbing video from Chicago shows a middle-aged woman making a gun gesture with her hand and pointing to her neck. Towards the end of the D.C. protest, a chant broke out that “Turning Point has got to go.” Many signs featured rhetoric claiming “Trump was a Nazi” and “ICE = Gestapo.” A small fragment of the protest made the event a family affair with children holding signs such as “Stop Kidnapping People.”
Yes? I don’t get what the concern is about pointing finger guns at your own neck, and I agree that TPUSA is toxic and that there is a strong resonance between the Republican party and Nazis. And please, please, please do stop kidnapping people.
I think the right wing is floundering.
Notorious left-wing radical James Donald Bowman once compared Trump to Hitler
How much you wanna bet that at least some of the people they asked were, in fact, able to give a coherent answer (e.g., having effectively usurped the Congress’s Article Ⅰ enumerated power of the purse, just to name one), and they just elected not to print any such answer. Ray Comfort-level malicious vox pop tactics.
It’s the same street interview tactic that Kimmel uses. You only show the dumb ones. People answering correctly and coherently aren’t funny.
For the DW, people who make valid points don’t enrage their audience.
@Reginald, heh I should’ve noticed James Donald’s initials were J.D. before looking him up.
@4 ‘m sure we all agree that people should use the name they were assigned at birth, and not be allowed to change them willy-nilly. Also; three names, just like most serial killers.
The No Kings protests had almost zero arrests for anything.
Which is remarkable for marches with 7 million people.
You can’t say the same for the very few MAGAt counterprotesers though. More of them were arrested.
.1. Woman admits to waving gun at protesters at Myrtle Beach …
.2. City police arrested a man who flashed a gun to people protesting President Donald Trump’s administration at Saturday’s “No Kings” event at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania…
.3. Man Drives Truck Through No Kings Protest, Hits Woman, and Speeds Away in Jackson Township, Ohio.
.4. Man drives into crowd of protesters at ‘No Kings’ rally in Virginia
.5. Etc. Quite a few car attacks where someone drives into the crowd.
I’ve seen one tally that 22 MAGAt counterprotesters were arrested for violence or threats of violence. The number of protesters arrested was barely above zero.
One person was arrested for being in an inflatable penis costume. In Alabama. No surprise.
Of course photos and videos of the woman in the inflatable penis costume are now all over the internet.
Well, Alabama, no surprise.
You can’t even buy publicity this bad.
@ ^ Reginald Selkirk : hey George Santos used multiple names and alias and thatwa sjust fine by Trump – who, oh yeah, himself has used quite afew differnet aliasés (ali-ii?) over the years.. Hey if George Elliott and Samuel Clemens can do it..
To answer the question of :
What made Trump a King?
I’d say quite possibly some really dodgy election cheating & rigging by Musk, definitely voter suppression plus those who disastrously counter-productively either did not vote, voted for third party spoilers esp Stein and West, or were brain-washed Trump cultists who voted for him. Basically, anyone who did NOT vote for Kamala Harris and the Democratic party despite being warned and knowing what Trump was and what he’d do especially after 2016 and his first term and, oh yeah, Jan 6th 2020.
Now the rest of us in the rest of the world and those who did pass the most basic test of ethics and intelligence in the USA and thus voted for Kamala also have to pay the price of that apocalyptic error.
Kings? Inbred royalty are not very clever. And King Prince Charles refused to remove Andrew from the official list of royal deputies (in case of the king getting sick) when Angela Rainer brought up the issue 2022. This backfired with the Andrew scandal that arrived two weeks ago. I would say Charles is not as crass as DJT but not a genius either.
So a mediocre to stupid person surrounded with sycophants with no talents and an enormous sense of entitlement is the normal description of royalty.
(The Scandinavian royals have mostly avoided this trap. So have the Dutch royals. The rest? Not so much, in fact most have gone extinct because of blunders)
I expect the MAGA lord to stumble out of history without leaving a viable political successor.
And in regard to his affinity to excrement, it tracks that his colleague King Ubu shouted “merde!” over and over.
Someone asked me tyhe same question, as if it were an unanswerable “gotcha.” My imediate response was, “Well, there’s the multiple pictures he posts of himself wearing a crown, and his complete disregard for the other branches of government, the rule of law, and the Constitution. Is that enough or do you want more?”
@ 9. birgerjohansson : With you up to the last sentence where I really don’t get your reference sorry.