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[Politics] Donald Trump 2024



Crawley Dingo

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‘Dog whistles are a calculated tactic used to manipulate and stoke prejudice in others. Dog whistles are often deployed with the aim to spread and amplify racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, aporophobia, or other antagonistic attitudes towards marginalised groups. Plausible deniability and reliance on “outgroups” not understanding the coded message aimed at the “ingroup” are key components for all dog whistles’

I can’t be bothered to reference the meaning above which is in the context I was using it.
Dog whistles are a conspiracy theory, a made up smear of political opponents. Shoe me someone confessing to using one aka a whistle blower.
 




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Dog whistles are a conspiracy theory, a made up smear of political opponents. Shoe me someone confessing to using one aka a whistle blower.
You are barking mad.

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Kinky Gerbil

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Did you miss my earlier response to you on this point?

’The Dems’ are not ‘going after‘ Trump, the Department of Justice is -

For you to keep saying these indictments are being brought by the Democrats is giving weight to the lies Trump wants his supporters to believe - that he is the ’victim of a witch hunt’ and he is only being indicted because he is running for President - this is absolute nonsense. He has been indicted by the DoJ for a number of crimes because their investigations have concluded that there is enough evidence to do so and the investigations began long before he ever announced he would run again.

These are not a political indictments (as when he was twice impeached) but legal ones and he has already been found guilty on a number of charges by Republican appointed judges as well as Democrat ones. Grand juries consist of members of the public selected by the defence and prosecutors - they are certainly NOT all Democrat supporters..


As for timing, these Grand jury investigations started way back in 2020 some dating back to even before he became President - and they invariably do take years, some including the Stormy Daniels case, in which the Grand Jury convened in 2021 stem back to 2016. Trump did not enter the Presidential race until November 2022 after these investigations began.

Your point about ‘leaving it until 2025’ assumes Biden will win - the DiJ don’t make that kind of political decision about when to indict someone.

Leaving it until 2025 would be exactly what Trump wants and is trying for hence all the appeals - It is much harder to criminally indict a sitting President, it has not been done before, and the Constitution is not clear on the issue of immunity for sitting Presidents, who btw is immune from civil litigation anyway. Trump would probably have to be politically indicted by the House again and convicted by the Senate before it was referred to the DoJ - which isn’t going to happen if either candidate won a second term as there will very unlikely be a large enough majority in the Senate for either Party to convict him and remove him from power. This is one of the reasons that several criminal cases were not filed until 2020 after Trump was no longer President ( and it was probably one of the reasons he fought so hard to contest and legally challenge the results of the 2020 election ie to fend off Grand Juries knocking on the door as soon as he was no longer President).

As it is, these trials will continue and the DoJ will have to keep fighting against Trump’s deliberate delays to take them over the line.

Also, whatever your opinion of Trump, an American Presidency that ties a President up in criminal trials and litigation for his entire term would not be at all good for the Country.

Where have I said it's a witch hunt? He deserves everything that will come to him if he's finally nailed.

My point was it was dumb to do it now and reignite his campaign in the way it has done.


Each and every case that is brought forward increases the likelihood of him being sworn in again.

There are civil cases being brought as well as federal cases, there was absolutely a political game going on and it's backfired.
 




Kinky Gerbil

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A point I have tried to make several times now in response to KG but he doesn‘t see it or perhaps prefers not to because it does not support the narrative that Trump is maintaining about it being the Dems that are targeting him with these indictments and allegation of the crimes he’s committed have no foundation in truth but are all lies and just a political witch-hunt.
Or I've been at work all day with only a chance to have a brief glimpse on here?
 




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Charming, we've not agreed on certain things before, but not sure I've resorted to name calling?
Not you, FFS! We agree mostly.

Dingo. Dingo. Begone go!
 








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Always time for that.
I deleted my post out of a sense of kindliness. But you jumped the gun again.

Swift.

I don't suppose you.....can play.... left back ????

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Zeberdi

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Oct 20, 2022
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Where have I said it's a witch hunt? He deserves everything that will come to him if he's finally nailed.

My point was it was dumb to do it now and reignite his campaign in the way it has done.


Each and every case that is brought forward increases the likelihood of him being sworn in again.

There are civil cases being brought as well as federal cases, there was absolutely a political game going on and it's backfired.
i understood your point and not disagreeing that he has exploited the charges to his advantage electorally - that is a testament to all the gaslighting of his opponents and manipulation of his supporters he has done.

However, I simply disagree that it a case that the Dems are being ‘dumb’ or that the charges against him are a ‘political game’, it is the DoJ that investigate and indict criminal offences not political parties - it is also the DoJ and not the Democrat Party who decide the timetable of his court cases - in fact it has been Trump that has been largely influential on the timetable by keep pausing the proceedings to appeal on points of law to SCOTUS. Direct me to any article/news story that says it has been Biden/the Democrats that have either sued or indicted Trump for criminal charges or asked the DoJ to hold the trials when it suits the Dems? Accusing the Dems for Trump facing either civil or criminal charges is exactly what he wants his supporters to believe so he can argue that he is the victim of a political game rather than being actually guilty of the crimes with which he is charged - ( his audience being too dense to tell the difference between the Department of Justice and a political party or too biased to care)
 




Zeberdi

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Or I've been at work all day with only a chance to have a brief glimpse on here?
I was referring to our discussion yesterday evening when you were here!
 








Kinky Gerbil

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i understood your point and not disagreeing that he has exploited the charges to his advantage electorally - that is a testament to all the gaslighting of his opponents and manipulation of his supporters he has done.

However, I simply disagree that it a case that the Dems are being ‘dumb’ or that the charges against him are a ‘political game’, it is the DoJ that investigate and indict criminal offences not political parties - it is also the DoJ and not the Democrat Party who decide the timetable of his court cases - in fact it has been Trump that has been largely influential on the timetable by keep pausing the proceedings to appeal on points of law to SCOTUS. Direct me to any article/news story that says it has been Biden/the Democrats that have either sued or indicted Trump for criminal charges or asked the DoJ to hold the trials when it suits the Dems? Accusing the Dems for Trump facing either civil or criminal charges is exactly what he wants his supporters to believe so he can argue that he is the victim of a political game rather than being actually guilty of the crimes with which he is charged - ( his audience being too dense to tell the difference between the Department of Justice and a political party or too biased to care)

There are a few:

This one didn't get very far - but it plays into his victim stance



Again, he deserves it all and should be in jail.
 


herecomesaregular

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I'm reading a very interesting (and thankfully,v thin) book "How To Stop Gambling Now" (by Sid Harris, a friend of my neighbour, a "professional gambler" now in hard times - my neighbour not the author). A quote he reprinted reminded me of this thread:

"You cannot convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on the deep seated need to believe". (Carl Sagan)
 


Zeberdi

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There are a few:

This one didn't get very far - but it plays into his victim stance



Again, he deserves it all and should be in jail.
I wasn’t aware of these but it is not surprising- Trump has numerous civil lawsuits filed against him - he did before he even became President.

However - These are minor civil cases brought by the civil rights organisation, NAACP to which Democratic lawmakers (in their capacity as House Committee members) joined in suit. It was about Trump‘s role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6 preventing members of Congress from tallying up the votes and subjecting them to a violent attack - hardly ‘victimising Trump’ - more the other way round.

As you say, the other documents case went no where and was part of the oversight of a sitting President who was using his personal property (The Trump International Hotel in Washington) to make money from people renting rooms because it gave them access and possible influence over the Whitehouse - again entirely appropriate line of investigation where there was an obvious conflict of interest and Trump using the Presidency for private enrichment.

Trump can’t break the law with impunity and then claim he is being victimised and witch-hunted when attempts are made to bring him to justice 😂 - that is absurd but I’m afraid it has been his modus operandi for decades.


I just can’t believe that in 10 months we could be going through all this again.
 






marlowe

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Dec 13, 2015
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Talking points…

You cannot for a moment believe that the majority of his core supporters would have the intellectual capacity to understand the retrospectively applied nuance of what he was referring to when he used the term "bloodbath".

Whether it was intentional or merely symptomatic of his characteristic inarticulacy and incoherence, Trump certainly did not make it clear what he meant, because his comments preceding and following his use of that word were stumbling, disjointed, vague and lacked coherency.

Given the perceived inflammatory nature of the term he used and given the context of his previous comments in relation to Jan 6th and the actions of the people who took part who he describes as "heroes" and "hostages", and given the fact that numerous people died as a direct consequence of those events, and given the fact that many of his supporters have repeatedly called for the execution of those who have not bowed to Trump's orders, wishes and whims, within all of that context and with the benefit of that hindsight, it was the responsibility of Trump and Trump alone to make absolutely clear what he meant by his use of the term "bloodbath" so that there was no ambiguity or possibility of misinterpretation. But Trump failed to do that.

The question is why did he fail? Was it intentional or was it merely because he is a bumbling, incoherent and inarticulate orator?

What there can be no doubt about is that because of his inability to make the meaning of his message clear, a significant number of his core support, many of whom, by Trump's own acknowledgement are lacking in education and intellect, would have taken his "bloodbath" comment literally and as a call to arms.

Trump knows this. He has already stated on numerous occasions how he likes people who are uneducated as long as they love him. So he knows exactly how these people would interpret that comment if he was intentionally vague and unclear.

So its not the so called "left wing" media who there should be any concern about for their misinterpretation of his comments, whether intentional or otherwise, as their misinterpretation will not potentially incite violence leading to further deaths and serious injuries.

The only ones that there should be any concern about regarding any possible "misinterpretation" are those who are amongst Trump's more uneducated,, more easily influenced, or more potentially violent supporters, of which there are evidently many.

Trump has a duty of responsibility to brush up on his oratory skills to ensure those people amongst his supporters do not misunderstand or misinterpret the meaning of his message, or the consequences could be extremely dire and potentially fatal, but of course, I'm sure Trump already knows that.
 




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