exactly. although he's doing it less artfully than most, he's just practicing identity politics;

Exactly this, and a great many of them whine hysterically about Democrats playing the "race card" without even the slightest understanding how they're doing it themselves and how they've been played for fools and hypocrites by their right-wing handlers for decades as they regurgitate the GOP racist spew. Who said it best?

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

~ Lyndon Baines Johnson

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the transparent goal is to convince his audience of African-Americans that Kamala is "not really black," and therefore not worthy of their vote.

Exactly... not one of you or not one of us... the exact same way Trump used race to otherize "Barack Hussein Obama" (they call him) and claim Obama isn't even an American, not like us, and they repeatedly mispronounce and otherize their names as if it's a slur and march out other Blacks to make the asinine claim that "we don't know" what he/she is and need proof/papers.

It doesn't stop there either, Trump is also more frequently playing a transparent game of "good Jew" "crappy Jew" wherein he slurs Americans and otherizes them in that way, and I suspect if Harris chooses Josh Shapiro as her vice-presidential running mate, we'll begin to see more of that absolute racist bullshit too.

Same old, same old drearily predictable Old Man Trump and bleating sheeple.

~ Donald Trump

So it's useful to understand how this latest asinine bullshit by Trump is both gaslighting and also total projection/confession because Trump himself spent decades informing people he was of Swedish descent while knowing full well he was German. This family lie continued well into the 1980s and Trump's 40s where he claims in The Art of the Deal that his immigrant grandfather "came here from Sweden as a child."

Donald Trump has zero Swedish roots. He and his family lied for decades about their heritage because of anti-German sentiments in the United States during and after the World War II. Trump's father, Fred Trump, made up the Swedish ancestry so they wouldn't have problems selling apartments to Jewish buyers on account of their German heritage.

Trump is accusing Harris of his own deception. Harris was born Black, whereas Trump is a born con artist, pathological liar, and human projector. That's today's GOP:

G - Gaslight
O - Obstruct
P - Project

And he apologized dogs.

So their weak-ass attack line is that Kamala Harris hasn't given birth to a child!? I guess it never occurred to the MAGA morons that neither did the previous 45 presidents.

We fashioned the post war Marshal Plan anti-Commie world order: join Murica and we’ll protect your shipping and access to the world’s markets — just be on OUR side. Has worked for 78 years, BYW.

we know exactly where Vladimir Vladimirovich is.

In fact, we probably know what’s on his lunch menu before he even sees it — it’s hard to keep secrets when every Russian is for sale.

I’ve no doubt he has been informed that if he launches even ONE itty bitty little tactical nuclear weapon — anywhere on this planet — our response will be directed at him, PERSONALLY. That is, there is no launch scenario in which Putin survives.

I’m familiar with Russian Nuclear Doctrine, down to how many Russians have to say “yes” to launch (SPOILER: three, the last time I checked)
So Vlad (and even Kim Jong-Un, I suspect) can’t simply incinerate the planet by themselves.

Governments know this but Putin tries to frighten the low information knuckleheads in the West.

OUR West, by the way. Rich guys have bought a lot of “democracies” including ours, but f*ck the “Eastern Block” or whatever Chairman Xi decides to call the Axis of Evil 2024 edition.

But we’ll be fine behind Kamala because she knows the score.

Because a still viable Trump generates many more clicks and clicks (aka profits) is a priority over any of that 4th Estate nonsense.

The orange weirdo is really not good at this politics thing.

exactly. although he's doing it less artfully than most, he's just practicing identity politics; the transparent goal is to convince his audience of African-Americans that Kamala is "not really black," and therefore not worthy of their vote.

BashiBazouk wrote:

You can always tell how bad a day Trump had by how hysterical Michale is the morning after...

Or hide himself away. I fully expect him to disappear in November when Cheeto Jesus suffers a Goldwater-level defeat. So maybe he’s ducking out early?

Fat Donny is a con man. He's a yuge liar and a fraud. He's criminally insane. He's well practiced in front of the camera. You don't know what he thinks or believes.

Please stick to reporting on what he says and does. He's otherizing her, not trying to sort out some racial confusion in his elderly, demented brain.

“And that is a good reason to vote for Kamala Harris, to vote for Democrats in both the Senate and the House.”'
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/28/warren-biden-supreme-court-ballot-00171530

I've known [Kamala Harris] a long time indirectly, not directly very much.

How do you “know” someone “indirectly”? You know who the person is but have never interacted with the person directly. You know… the way all of us know Kamala Harris. How do you know someone directly, but not very much?

And the big question for Trump to answer:

“Did Kamala discuss how she wanted to be identified indirectly with you?”