EmmetK, Trump Propaganda Meister ??

[Bingo T Dog]

This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of the coronavirus threat by the Trump Administration and the slow and mismanaged federal response. The analysis highlights the extent to which the factors identified by previous studies of policy surprise and failure in other security domains are relevant for health security. The paper concludes by addressing the crucial role of executive leadership as an underlying factor in all three perspectives and discussing why the US president is ultimately responsible for ensuring a healthy policy process to guard against the pathologies implicated in the federal government's sub‐optimal response to the COVID‐19 crisis.    FROM NIH.GOV

[Bingo T Dog]

@EmmetK I guess the American people shouldn't care about Covid either??????????????

[Suckrates]

3 minutes ago, Bingo T Dog said:

@EmmetK I guess the American people shouldn't care about Covid either??????????????

Dont Worry... RFK Jr and Dr Oz will "take care of you".....

[Bingo T Dog]

16 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

Dont Worry... RFK Jr and Dr Oz will "take care of you".....

They'll take away fluoride from the water.  Trump will then sell TRUMP FLUORIDE WATER at $10.00 for a 12 oz can.  GRIFTERS GOTTA GRIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EmmetK]

So:

Trump:
Is a grifter.....
Will take fluoride out of our drinking water...
Will cruelly deport millions of people...
Mishandled the COVID crisis.
Led an insurrection against the country....
Will end democracy...
Is a convicted felon...
Will destroy the Constitution...
Is a womanizer (or hates women. Depending on which liberal you choose to believe)
Is a Nazi, Fascist, Hitler...
Blah, blah, blah..

Yet with all of that baggage, he defeated Cackling Kamala in the popular vote and the Electoral College, won the White House, won the Senate, won the House, and enjoys the support of 59% of the American people according to the CBS/YouGov poll out this weekend. The same poll shows the American people are more optimistic about America's future under Trump than they have been in decades.

This all proves that:
1. The liberals on this site have absolutely no idea what is going on in this country outside of their woke bubble.
2. The liberals on this site need to take their anti-TDS meds.
3. Cackling Kamala was a lousy candidate who, though flushed with ONE BILLION dollars, ran an awful campaign.
4. Trump is a political genius who was able to fool the American people.
5. Allan Lichtman aka Tweedle Dee Dee, aka the Village Idiot, aka the Smug Professor, is a total moron (as are those who promoted him).

Everyone needs to take a deep breath and get on board the Trump train.

ALL ABOARD the MAGA EXPRESS
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW

TRUMP2024
MAGA

 

[Bingo T Dog]

I think we all realized how stupid the American voters can be years ago.     

[stevenkesslar]

2 hours ago, Bingo T Dog said:

I think we all realized how stupid the American voters can be years ago. 

Actually, I think W. nailed Trump 2.0

 

Anyway, a majority of the American voters did not get fooled again.  First of all, some of them are the cult that think the Jubilant Patriotic Cop Beating was a Day Of Love.  Tell that to the cops who got their bones broken by flagpoles.  Second, even if you include the young Latino men who are pissed that mortgage rates are so high (which is not a foolish way to feel), Trump got 49.9 % of the vote.  

@EmmetKruelty is doing his job superbly, helping to push the clown wing of MAGA to excess and cruelty.  He gets no credit for the win, and 100 % of the credit when the excess and cruelty turn most voters off, just like in 2018 and 2020.

TRUMP2024
MAGA

PLEASE, @EmmetKruelty, expose MAGA's cruelty

PLEASE, @EmmetKruelty, expose MAGA's cruelty

PLEASE, @EmmetKruelty, expose MAGA's cruelty

[stevenkesslar]

4 hours ago, EmmetK said:

3. Cackling Kamala was a lousy candidate who, though flushed with ONE BILLION dollars, ran an awful campaign.

I was going to start a new thread, but I will post it here.   The interesting question to me is this:  why did our Latinx Latina neighbor, Claudia Sheinbaum, a model of integrity and intelligence for women and Jews all of the world, win in a landslide?   While Harris lost, narrowly?  And why can't Israel elect a leader like Golda Meir Claudia Sheinbaum, who governs with compassion rather than cruelty?

First, I think it is objectively true that these two women outperformed White men, Black men, Latino men, and Asian men (and cruel clowns, for that matter) all over the planet.  

The ‘super year’ of elections has been super bad for incumbents as voters punish them in droves

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Since the pandemic hit in 2020, incumbents have been removed from office in 40 of 54 elections in Western democracies, said Steven Levitsky, a political scientist at Harvard University, revealing “a huge incumbent disadvantage.”

Trump, of course, was one of the first incumbents removed in 2020.

So, right out of the gate, being the incumbent party and winning makes you the exception to the rule.   Alan Lichtman is right, that incumbency is an advantage most of the time.  But not since COVID.  That is as true for the US as it is for India, or Japan, or Botswana.

Poor Trump.   If this were Rwanda, he could win by almost 100 % of the vote.   Why is that countries like Russia and Rwanda that have fake democracies are also most likely to solve their problems through genocide?  But that's a different post.

Why did Sheinbaum win?  If you look at the Pew report referenced in the AP article, Mexicans clearly had more respect for their leader, AMLO, his party, and Mexican democracy.  As the AP artucle states, 

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Mexico is one of the few countries in Pew’s survey where voters reported satisfaction with economic conditions.

As of Spring 2023, when that study was done, 83 % of Mexicans viewed their leader, AMLO, favorably.  The only leader viewed more favorably (89 %)  was Indonesia's Joko Widodo, who is also a ........................................... wait for it .............................................................. economic populist and nationalist.   He championed the death penalty for drug smugglers.  Maybe we can send Tom Homan and @EmmetKruelty to Indonesia?  Joko also got his chosen successor (and his son, as Veep) elected.

I think AMLO's success boiled down to two words:  Mexico's New Deal Nuevo Trato.  Although they would never call it that, or imitate an American political concept.  😉  The big deal was pensions for seniors.  But there were lots of small deals for workers.  And constant pro-worker and anti-elitist messaging.  People in interview after interview said they were voting less for Sheinbaum, and more for a party or set of policies.  Same reason Americans voted for Harry Truman in 1948.  They didn't particularly like him, but they did like FDR's policies.  In Mexico's case, they seem to like both the woman, and the party and principles she represents.  Hence, a landslide.

Up until this Spring I thought Biden might win for the same reason Truman did.  And maybe he would have, if he were 20 years younger.  And if he did not have a wall of lava racing at him, like every other incumbent in the world.

 

So since I am going long post, I'll throw in these related questions as well:   was Kamala Harris the wrong candidate?  And could this race have been won, whether she was the candidate or not?

In a separate 2way, Halperin argued that she was the wrong candidate, in that she was the only one that is Joe Biden's Vice President.  So if the goal is to separate from Biden, Harris is objectively the worst candidate to take his place.  And that did play out in the campaign.

The only problem with this concept is that there was no way Democrats had a choice.  First, how do you explain to Black women that Mark Kelly is a better candidate?  Second, even if Black women agreed, how do you do that without a primary?  And how do you hand him, legally, the money and turnout mechanics of Biden/Harris, which I am pretty sure helped get 4 of 5 vulnerable Senators over the top in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan.  And by the way, do we really think Mark Kelly would have brought the burst of money, volunteers, and enthusiasm Kamala Harris created?  I don't think Democrats had a choice. 

Biden clearly fucked up by letting his ego go first.  In some ways, the question all along is whether Biden's ego or Trump's ego would be worse for America.  Trump won, thanks in large part to Biden's ego.

The other question is could Democrats have won this race, with Harris or anyone?  I think Dan Turrentine is right that, in a race this close, there had to be a way for some Democrat, including Harris, to beat Trump.   The question is, how?  There will be over a million answers, none of which can be proven right or wrong.

I will happily vote for Harris is she runs for California Guv.  California politics is a knife fight.  And every time she entered that fight she won.  The Dan Balz/WaPo article that is the first insider look at why she lost, from the campaign's perspective, reveals that they never thought she could win the Sun Belt.  Which is to say, they knew that she started with huge handicaps that were not of her own making.  What handicap was of her own making?  I agree with Dan.  Her caution did not match well with the situation she found herself in.  Nor does it match well with running for President, period.  It matches better with being a Governor, where you have to balance all kinds of interests and be competent.  She proved she can do that as DA and AG.  She'd be a good Governor.  Her caution just does not fit well with the political skill you need to be the leader and messenger of her party.  Trump is much better at that.

Speaking of California Guv, there is a great case both for and against Gavin Newsom in 2028.  The case against him is the last fucking thing we need is a California liberal.  Run Andy Beshear instead.  But I doubt the Democratic Party will go that far.  Newsom is the opposite of cautious.  He can say, not this bluntly.  "I had to deal with all that woke bullshit every day of the week.  So I sanded off the rough edges, without actually being cruel to people."  He is still a liberal.  This is basically what Obama did for eight years.   But, like Obama, Newsom can play to the center in a way Harris simply did not.  If Democrats somehow decide that what we really need is a nice centrist who talks pablum and stands for ..................... what? ................. check with Al Gore about that.

To end where I started, I don't think AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum dodged the anti-incumbent bullet because of anything they said, or messaging.  I think they won because of what they did.  AMLO delivered a New Deal to Mexicans.  He actually delivered for the working class.  That is what mattered.  Not words.   

This election was a close call.  I think if Democrats had two different Senators from 2020 to 2022, and Biden had had the votes to raise taxes on billionaires and deliver some programs that helped the working class, that alone may have been enough to put Harris over the top .................. but barely.

The potential good news for Democrats is now we will have to fight like hell for the forgotten working class.  Great!  I am almost certain that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are already racing to think of how to raise taxes on themselves, which the working class wants, to help the working class.  I am almost certain that Donald Trump and his conservative corporate donors are racing to embrace unions, since the majority of union members still support Democrats.  But just in case Trump uses his power to do exactly the same shit he did in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, Democrats now have a choice to offer a clear pro-working class alternative.

That is what AMLO and Sheinbaum did.  That is why they won in a landslide.

 

[Bingo T Dog]

7 hours ago, EmmetK said:

Maybe because nobody cares about Jan6th.

Police officers are killed and "nobody cares".  Speaks volumes............

[stevenkesslar]

1 hour ago, Bingo T Dog said:

Police officers are killed and "nobody cares".  Speaks volumes............

I'll be the data geek that just keeps repeating facts.  They don't mix well with cruelty, but they are always part of a healthy diet.

49 % of Independents said their worst fear of a Trump Presidency is that he will act like a dictator.  Overwhelmingly, their greatest hope is that he will end inflation and price increases.

52 % of all voters and 55 % of Independents think his trials should continue.  They not only care about Jan. 6th.  They want Trump to be judged by a jury of his peers.  

[stevenkesslar]

8 hours ago, EmmetK said:

1. The liberals on this site have absolutely no idea what is going on in this country outside of their woke bubble.
2. The liberals on this site need to take their anti-TDS meds.
3. Cackling Kamala was a lousy candidate who, though flushed with ONE BILLION dollars, ran an awful campaign.
4. Trump is a political genius who was able to fool the American people.
5. Allan Lichtman aka Tweedle Dee Dee, aka the Village Idiot, aka the Smug Professor, is a total moron (as are those who promoted him).

Please focus on being cruel, okay?   You left out Michael Moore.   Don't get so excited by your cruelty that you start to get sloppy.

Moore just issued a double apology to @EmmetKruelty:  for being wrong about a wave of women electing Harris, and for defending Palestinian women and children.

Okay, I lied.  Moore did not apologize to @EmmetKruelty.   Moore will keep defending Palestinian woman and children from war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer's genocide.

In fact, he's still standing with Black women.  They're the main one saying, "Okay.  Get used to it.   This is America.  Trump is who we are."

I think the election can be boiled down to one word:  not.

In his emotionally upbeat prediction that Harris would win, the core of Moore's argument was this:  "We are a good people."

The core of his analysis of why Harris lost is "We are not good people,"

Both are obviously true.

For example, the good America is @EmmetKruelty, who unleashes war criminal Bibi to kill lots of women and children he tries hard not to kill.   The bad America is anti-Semitic @stevenkesslar,who whines about genocide.

Ha ha!  Lied twice in one post.  This is fun.  I can see why @EmmetKruelty lies all the time.

 

[Goober]

As our resident clown continually points out, donOLD is very talented  at identifying and inflating hot button issues and CONvincing people that he has solutions to fix them. Will his MAGAts turn on him when they realize most of his campaign promises was just blustering, and when he actually starts enacting his whack-a-mole approach to policy, their initial elation may be short lived over deporting millions of immigrants, attacking trans and gay people, and imposing tariffs on imported goods when they find these policies have little to no positive affect on their lives?