Trumps Political Downfall; The Fat Elvis Phase Begins

[skews13]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

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Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

 

[surada]

Trump is getting worse and he can't help it

Cornell expert says Trump’s frequent phonemic paraphasia ‘are signs of early dementia’ | Cornell Chronicle

As the 2024 U.S. presidential campaigns heat up, both camps are watching closely for gaffes from the two presidential frontrunners, in an effort to discredit the other over age and psychological capacity, but complaints about Joe Biden have been more vague and there is no evidence of dementia...

news.cornell.edu

 

[shockedcanadian]

Boo!

 

[sealybobo]

Boo!

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[Mac1958]

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

I dunno. We'll see how the polls move. But after what I've seen since 2016, we don't know what people are going to do when they're in that voting booth alone. That's where any grievances and biases come out, more than anywhere else.

 

[candycorn]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

www.dailykos.com

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

Its about all he really has to offer that is new. Everyone knows that his words mean nothing; less than nothing actually since he often does the exact opposite of what he promises (Trump promised to eliminate the national debt. It has risen by $3 trillion).

So now he has an opportunity to actually do something he can follow through on and it will be something at which he couldn’t fail if he tried...keep a black woman from becoming president.

Sadly, that is enough for some voters.

 

[skews13]

Its about all he really has to offer that is new. Everyone knows that his words mean nothing; less than nothing actually since he often does the exact opposite of what he promises (Trump promised to eliminate the national debt. It has risen by $3 trillion).

So now he has an opportunity to actually do something he can follow through on and it will be something at which he couldn’t fail if he tried...keep a black woman from becoming president.

Sadly, that is enough for some voters.

It's going to be a challenge for him. This time Democrats have a weapon they've never had before.

The Taylor Swift, and the Beyonce vote.

Will it be enough? We will have to see. If it is, that will change every pollsters metric, on rating every election going forward.

Trump won in 2016 for one reason, and one reason alone.

Celebrity.

We live in a braindead, celebrity oriented society. Which isn't good for the country, no matter which side you're on.

 

[BULLDOG]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

www.dailykos.com

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

Fat Elvis. I never thought of him like that before, but it makes sense.

 

[petro]

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A lot of women still would have thrown themselves at Fat Elvis.

Is fat shaming supposed to get me to change my mind?

It's not working.

 

[candycorn]

It's going to be a challenge for him. This time Democrats have a weapon they've never had before.

The Taylor Swift, and the Beyonce vote.

Will it be enough? We will have to see. If it is, that will change every pollsters metric, on rating every election going forward.

Trump won in 2016 for one reason, and one reason alone.

Celebrity.

We live in a braindead, celebrity oriented society. Which isn't good for the country, no matter which side you're on.

Meh...we’ll see. I disagree with you on the 2016 reason. He won because of voter apathy on the part of the democrats. Folks stayed home and Clinton lost with terrible ramifications. They haven’t learned their lesson. I doubt they ever will.

 

[bendo]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

www.dailykos.com

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

That's so unfair to the King. He wasn't an evil person.

 

[skews13]

Meh...we’ll see. I disagree with you on the 2016 reason. He won because of voter apathy on the part of the democrats. Folks stayed home and Clinton lost with terrible ramifications. They haven’t learned their lesson. I doubt they ever will.

That's true to an extent, but Trumps celebrity status was more of a draw. If it had been a generic Republican, the turn out would have been different.

 

[bendo]

Meh...we’ll see. I disagree with you on the 2016 reason. He won because of voter apathy on the part of the democrats. Folks stayed home and Clinton lost with terrible ramifications. They haven’t learned their lesson. I doubt they ever will.

The Lock Her UP shit has come back to haunt him, but the reason voters were apathetic is the Clintons were corrupt and mean

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

www.dailykos.com

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

Again, this is hilarious

thank you

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Trump is getting worse and he can't help it

Cornell expert says Trump’s frequent phonemic paraphasia ‘are signs of early dementia’ | Cornell Chronicle

As the 2024 U.S. presidential campaigns heat up, both camps are watching closely for gaffes from the two presidential frontrunners, in an effort to discredit the other over age and psychological capacity, but complaints about Joe Biden have been more vague and there is no evidence of dementia...

news.cornell.edu

I give him a pass. Must be lingering side effects from that bullet he "took to the head" - ty Jesse Watters. I mean, did you see the size of the bandage Trump had to wear? Wowza! The man is superhuman and favored by the gawds -- gawd damn!


note: source: When One of Two Presidents Was Shot in The Head. Two Presidents?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I dunno. We'll see how the polls move. But after what I've seen since 2016, we don't know what people are going to do when they're in that voting booth alone. That's where any grievances and biases come out, more than anywhere else.

In 2016 Trump got 46.1% of the popular vote (62,984,828), while Clinton got 48.2% of the popular vote (65,853,514), so it was in specific states and sometimes on the margins that Trump and his grievance brigade came through.

*In 2020 Trump got 46.8% of the popular vote (74,223,975), while Clinton got 51.3% of the popular vote (81,283,501), so it looks like percentage wise Trump was static. Far too much has been put behind false narratives about the support for Trump. So much so, that people start believing he's unstoppable, while in reality a man they labeled as tired, weak and sleepy beat the shit out of him in 2020.
* Wikipedia entry

Specific states and voter enrollment will help decide -- as well as a new addition for other than Trump: and enthusiasm

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Fat Elvis. I never thought of him like that before, but it makes sense.

Agree. Great observation.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

A lot of women still would have thrown themselves at Fat Elvis.

Is fat shaming supposed to get me to change my mind?

It's not working.

Really? If you want to believe old broads in walkers and with dementia were able to throw themselves at anything but the floor...

And none were throwing their undies on the stage as their Depends were fit tight.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.

He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?

The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.

He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.

His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.

His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him,...

www.dailykos.com

Hey, I know. Lets bark about Kamala Harris' race. That will surely revamp the campaign.

Nothing from Trump but the same tedious lies and rhetoric of division and hate.

 

[BluesLegend]

LMAO Trump just obliterated your Dem candidate fools. Whooped him so bad he QUIT the race.