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[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 208 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Trump suggested that restraint would be unfair since his Democratic critics are “getting personal all night long.”

This shows why it was paramount that the Democrats left the "high road". Trump has no clue how to react when someone finally hits back at the bully.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 4 weeks ago

Baiting Trump to keep doing the thing that his voters are starting to hate because he can't shut his damn mouth is so funny I'm actually surprised the dems are doing it.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 81 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Seriously. When did "don't fight back" ever work against a bully?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

It's all about principles and turning the other butt cheek like good people do, as if that was going to convince the bully that their way is wrong...

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 42 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not about convincing Trump, it's about getting the Independents to vote.

Dems won with Biden in 2020, so they figured that he'd be fine in 2024.

If something worked for a long time, people are reluctant to try something new.

I myself was leery of Biden dropping out, and I was shocked by the Kamala surge.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear ya. Turning the other cheek is important. But God also killed Jobs family.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm fond of the Gnostic view.
I don't believe in any of it, but it makes more sense.

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not sure that idiom is what you think it is.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It's proper manners to sneak a cheek when you fart in public

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[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Makes me think the person that made up that rule was a bully themselves.

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[–] suction@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Also he will never be able to turn the tables and take the high road because he’s trash. Trash with enough money to impress Americans, but he’ll never be able to speak or act like a truly classy person.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 79 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

He doesn't know who his opponent is, but he hates them.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 weeks ago

I'm still convinced he can't tell the difference between Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks ago

This, but unironically.

Trump is a toddler who never gets told no. He instinctively and compulsively hates anyone who opposes him, because they had the audacity to stand between him and something he wants. There's no deeper thought to it than that.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Reading what he said in the article, that's pretty close to the truth. He wasn't saying that he hates Harris particularly, but that whomever his opponent is, he hates that person and he's going to be mean.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Everyone but Dump has always known: his opponent is him.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 67 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Of course Trump hates her. She's Black.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He’s also being walloped by a woman.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thats probably why he hates it so much, being beaten by a woman is very much not his thing. If a woman's gonna do anything to him, he'd prefer something a little warmer, perhaps also golden even.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Now now. Trump hates people of every complexion.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

We knew he was a crybaby before, but outright proving he's a crybaby is weird

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 56 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Boy those articles about a "new Trump" aged like milk on a Phoenix sidewalk huh?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago

About as well as all the many, many, many times the "liberal media" kept talking about how "Presidential" donnie was acting after he held in the crazy for 30 seconds that one time, and how he was going to "pivot" into the role, and so on.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 31 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not even American and I'm keen to see what the debate will be like. I seriously doubt Trump has enough self-control to stop himself lashing out at Harris, let alone the presence of mind to listen to his advisers!

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago

Good, good. We hate you too, but we’re not mentally defective.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago

Shut the fuck up, nobody likes you. Nobody wants you. At least, nobody that matters. Read the god damn room.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

He's so old, desperate and weird.... he's 100% going to call her that word that starts with C on stage at the debate and break another bigot republican glass ceiling.

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[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You called me weird. I hate you.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

it's hard to imagine someone over five being that sensitive and fragile

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.” -Donald Trump https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/opinions/president-trump-six-year-old-with-nuclear-weapons-dantonio/index.html

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

How in the fuck does even the stupidest, most un-selfaware person on earth think that that line is somehow a flex.

Donnie...buddy...bubbala...being the same person you were at five is not something to admit to. It's a sign of a deep psychological short-circuit in how your fucking brain works...

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You've had several years with non-stop coverage of this specific exemplar (and decades of consistent wtf before that) to practice with, but it's still hard to imagine? 🤪

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

i hope i never get to a point where i just accept that this is just something that happens

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm with ya there, 100%, no contest. I was merely being glib about "hard to imagine". 🙇🏽‍♂️ In actuality, if the last several years were described to past me as the upcoming timeline, I would've genuinely asked that narrator if they were fuckin' high. 😵‍💫

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

Was he over 5? That’s why he looks so old.

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[–] ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 weeks ago

Do you even know who your opponent is? Do you know what day it is? Point to the cow in this picture. No, that's a horse.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Goddamn he is so fuckin' old.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course he does. He's full of hate.

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[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

That's alright bias fact checker. The biologicals can suss this one out... True. Great share, OP, thanks!

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

He really hated Obama, but now there's a real fear that the entire nation will say they like a black woman better than him. And I just don't think he could handle that kind of rejection.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Well yeah, she's too old for his tastes, and much more independent and strong than he thinks women ought to be.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Let him do it. It will hurt him in the polls.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Get new material Donald.

Hate is out, hope is in.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

"Whoever they are, doesn't matter, I hate them. If they agree with everything I say, I hate them. If they are my own family, I hate them. Whoever they are, whatever problem that you personally have, it is actually their fault, the way I tell it at least. We actually wrote the "I hate..." statements first, and then we just insert the name eventually. We're making it all up you see, I have to be the president or else I go to jail or russia."

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Let him get mean and personal. So she can be ready and hit him back with "you're a felon and a sexual deviant" over and over. I would love for him to fall apart and call her mean and nasty after she snacks him around.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

Hate. From the T rump? Well I never. Lets look at both sides here though. given all the Disdain, Revulsion, Disgust, Loathing, Contempt, and even pity. Oh I guess theres hate to though.

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