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Trump turns to Truth Social to share sexual jokes and calls for ‘military tribunals’

As the presidential candidates head into the most heated phase of the election year, former President Donald Trump has made a tone shift on Truth Social.
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Just this week, trump reposted messages calling for his political opponents to be jailed, calling for a return of “public military tribunals” for people like former President Barack Obama, as well as making a graphic sexual joke about Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016. The repost of the sexual joke now appears to have been removed from Trump’s profile. (Trump's continued call for "military tribunals" for civilians is disconcerting. It points to a mindset of a system of government controlled by a single entity using the military as the backbone of compliance monitoring. Sound familiar? Germany in 1939 perhaps?)

But you’d only see that if you’re a user of Truth Social. On other more mainstream platforms like X and TikTok, Trump has maintained a more even tone, one seemingly designed for consumption by a much wider swath of American voters.

On Truth Social, Trump has been able to feed the frenzy of fans who post more extreme conspiracy theories and calls to action, while maintaining a far more manicured presence on larger platforms like X.

On Wednesday, Trump made and shared a particularly extreme series of posts on Truth.

“How to actually fix the system,” one Truth repost read, with photoshopped images of Hilary Clinton, President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former public health official Anthony Fauci, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Harris all sitting in orange jumpsuits behind prison bars.

In March, he shared a video that included an image of Biden bound in the back of a pickup truck. And in July, he reposted another call for a “televised military tribunal” for former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and a quote from Ulysses S. Grant after the start of the Civil War, in which he said: “There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots.” (trump definitely calls for violence in these not so subtle ways)

“This attack is so, just, beneath a campaign, especially a presidential campaign, that it does make sense for the Harris campaign to ignore it and to allow it to speak for itself,” Curbelo said. “Ultimately, this ends up hurting him with the types of swing voters who will ultimately decide this election.”

On TikTok, which Trump joined in June after trying to ban the app while in office, he has similarly posted content that is relatively tame by comparison. (lol, trump tried to ban tik tok while president and now he has a tik tok account)
 
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Explains most of jazzfanz and the level of TDS around here.

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Dude, this describes Trump’s methodology in crafting the Big Lie. Began in 2016, when he started his claims that if he did not beat Clinton in 2016, it would be because the election was rigged. And the truism that it’s easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled certainly applies to the Trump cult. I have nothing against you or other Trump supporters, personally, but what you posted is pretty strong evidence of the MAGA cult’s inability to see the truth of their own situation. As well as historical amnesia. People seldom recognize what is happening, right in front of their eyes, while it is happening. Your quote is describing the situation in which you yourself find yourself. But, without recognizing that is what you are doing. What you describe is the Trump methodology that worked on yourself!
 
His MO is to talk his alternate reality into existance. It’s just total dedication to “repeat a lie often enough”. There was just a news report detailing the opinion of one of his close aids to the effect “he told me just keep repeating”. If I find that, I’ll post it. Is there anyone better at creating alternate realities, “alternate facts”? He succeeded big time with the Big Lie. Ushering in a Post Truth era? How does government even function moving forward when the electorate is split near down the middle on what constitutes…..reality!!


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A big problem for Democrats in 2024 is that they’ve painted Trump as literal evil incarnate.

In response, Trump is going on a ton of long-form podcasts where a lot of independents are watching and listening to Trump speak - many of them for the first time - and are able to form an opinion based on what they see first hand.

This is a stark contrast to how a lot of us have absorbed information in the past, which is whatever Legacy Media has shoved down our throats. It is not secret that Legacy Media, by and large, has a left-leaning bias.

This will - without a doubt - win voters that are unhappy with the system (which is A LOT of people - 19% of the country think Congress is doing a good job, 50% of the country identifies as Independent).

Trump’s entire position since the beginning is being the hammer to whatever we’ve built thus far, which has been very ineffective for many to put it mildly. His ability to be an effective hammer is still an open question.

However, by default, if Kamala doesn’t start doing long-form interviews or podcasts where Independents are able to gauge, first hand, her policy and who she is as a person, she will lose, and likely lose by a lot.

Anecdotally - I have many folks within my circle that I consider to be independent voters. As a whole, my circle leans left. None of them are enthusiastic about Kamala, and all of them have been softer on Trump vs 2020.

This is obviously in stark contrast to many polls, so my very small sample could be totally wrong.

But just like 2016, I think polls are missing a very significant shift in the general public. I think this shift is being driven by many choosing to forgo Legacy Media as their primary source of information, and instead absorbing information from more independent voices.

A lot of these voices, at least from what I’ve noticed, are questioning the system much more often, much more loudly, and much more confidently.

I think how COVID was handled, paired with Government’s heavy-handed approach to silence speech that was challenging the ‘true’ narrative - which by the way is now proven to be unquestionable true (Twitter Files, Zuck’s letter)… which is a literal obstruction of the First Amendment - have many convinced that whatever we’ve got going on now ain’t working.

In short - the whole ‘Trump is an evil dictator’ and ‘Kamala is an evil communist’ rhetoric is shallow and does nothing.

Instead, in depth discussions that reveals the individuals character, paired with policy, will win the day.

Only podcasts can do this, and only one candidate has taken this on.

Let me know what you think.
 

"Donald Trump’s public appearances tend to follow a pattern. The former president will have a message he intends to deliver, and he’ll have a teleprompter to guide his rhetorical path, but the Republican will invariably ramble, sharing weird and random thoughts about all sorts of things.


To hear the GOP candidate tell it, his stream-of-consciousness nonsense only appears to be incoherent.

“You know, I do the weave,” Trump boasted last week. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”

For one thing, the idea that the former president hangs out with “like, English professors” is hilarious. For another, there’s no hidden genius in Trump’s rambling. He seems to enjoy sharing bizarre ideas, theories, and the details of conversations that occurred only in his mind. There’s nothing “brilliant” about it.

Elaine Godfrey wrote for The Atlantic this week about one of the GOP candidate’s latest gems.

During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me — a seasoned visitor to Trump’s theme park of hyperbole — look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience. Said Trump: “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
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Not to put too fine a point on this, but Trump’s claim was plainly delusional. The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries.

But while the rhetoric was certainly ridiculous, it wasn’t altogether surprising.

Trump’s bizarre comments about “the transgender thing” came on the heels of the former president blaming wind power with people eating less bacon.

“You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” he told a Wisconsin audience last week. “Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.”

As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones responded, “I don’t know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that.”

This rhetoric followed Trump speaking — more than once — about his fear of sharks, which apparently had something to do with electric boat batteries. It led author Steven King to note, “This is like listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”

The larger question is whether Trump is actually getting worse.

My MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem presented a persuasive answer this week: “Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker for so long that it can be easily to forget how far he is from fulfilling the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly. Trump’s speeches seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the day.”

The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie made a related case, arguing that the Republican presidential hopeful is unable “not just to speak truthfully about a topic, but speak coherently about any topic. ... Trump hasn’t just deteriorated, he’s clearly cognitively impaired, and it is bizarre to me that this isn’t just a major story.”

For much of the year, there was a spirited public conversation, fueled by intense media interest, about whether President Joe Biden was too old and addled to do the job. Perhaps it’s time to renew that conversation, turning attention to the incumbent’s immediate predecessor and would-be successor?

As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes summarized last week, “It is a little weird that ‘age concerns’ have disappeared as a constant focus of campaign reporting and discussion even though the GOP nominee would be the oldest man ever sworn in to the office and is very obviously sharply declining before our eyes.”
 
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