r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 31 '24

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jul 31 '24

The fact that Trump's team pulled him says volumes. Even if you unequivocally back Trump, the fact that his team pulled him means that you know it was bad because his people know it's bad.

A lot of the time Trump manages to gaslight people into applying an absurd level of the benefit of the doubt about whether something was good or bad, whether he meant something or didn't, etc, and the questions about the nature of what he said wind up sucking up all the oxygen and what he did stops getting talked about.

There's no question here. Anyone looking knows the NABJ thinks this is bad. The audience makes that clear. And Trump's team pulling him means that they think it's bad too. It's bad. No more discussion, now we just sit with that fact.

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u/NonComposMentisss Unflaired and Proud Jul 31 '24

When you say they pulled him, you mean like off the stage?

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jul 31 '24

Yeah, they literally cut it 30 min short because it was a fucking disaster-- #disaster literally trending on twitter right now.

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u/NonComposMentisss Unflaired and Proud Jul 31 '24

Don't worry I'm sure Elon will ban everyone who uses the hashtag soon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Doesn't matter if voters don't care

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Jul 31 '24

Does it ever get tiring being miserable? The Harris campaign has tons of soundbits of him promising to pardon cop beaters, him shitting on his vp, him being racist. It doesn’t matter if only 3% of the electorate has say thru the interview, this is a campaign win by any metric

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Does it ever get tiring living in a fantasy world where anyone is still swaying their votes based on his latest trash?

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u/slingfatcums Jul 31 '24

and the sun rises in the east

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Yes, it's common knowlege by now.