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Tue Aug 13, 2024, 10:18 PM Aug 2024

Trump Is Looking Like a Loser Again - Baker, WSJ

Poor commentators. They really really want to put whiny in a positive light and all their op-eds are surround with "but they, the Ds are bad.."

So don't bother to pick these but and however. I love this section:

By my calculation, about one-third of Mr. Trump’s remarks fell into three categories: false, obtuse or lunatic.

I’m not even talking here about the usual grotesque hyperbolic assertions or baffling verbal manufactures, the finest of which last week was surely the description of “people dying financially because they can’t buy bacon.”

I am talking about things like these:

• The argument that he must have won Georgia in 2020 because he easily won Alabama and South Carolina, suggesting he thinks that Georgia—which has two Democratic senators, and which two Democrats have carried in the last eight presidential elections—is politically indistinguishable from states that no Democratic candidate has carried since 1976.

• The claim that the crowd at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally was as big as the one at Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963.

• The assertion that everyone in America agreed that Roe v. Wade needed to be overturned.

We can add to this his failure to identify Gov. Tim Walz, Ms. Harris’s running mate, by name, but warning that this anonymous figure was “heavy into the transgender world,” a pregnant remark that conjured up an image of a slightly pudgy 60-year-old Minnesotan showing up for affairs of state in a tutu.


https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-looking-like-a-loser-again-mar-a-lago-news-conference-2024-election-02ec5c8f?st=m7bwfsk2bkvzsy5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Trump Is Looking Like a Loser Again - Baker, WSJ (Original Post) question everything Aug 2024 OP
Pete, the guy is a 34x convicted felon. Why would you think his intentions are honorable? OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2024 #1
Not Peter Baker, Gerald Baker is the writer of this article. House of Roberts Aug 2024 #2
Trump "I Have a Scheme" speech draws yorkster Aug 2024 #3
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