"I know what happened, and you're not supposed to do that. It's not supposed to be probably constitutional. She got no votes. He got 14 million votes. All of a sudden they're telling him to get out. or they threatened him. And he is an angry person."
Von breaks in to ask, "But who are 'they'?" and Trump responds:
"Well, I would say Schumer, Pelosi, and numerous other people — the heads of the Democrat Party, yeah — and they did, they threatened him violently, I think. And he didn't want to get out. Remember he said only God will get me out — right? Only God... Yeah, and what happened is they went to him, and they said — this was after the debate — now, if he didn't have the debate he would still be running...."
What violence is Trump talking about?
Haven't I looked into the word "violence" before? Yes, I did the OED routine back in 2019 when Elizabeth Warren introduced the term "traffic violence":
Back then, the issue was the lack of intentionality in car accidents. Pressuring Biden to drop out was completely intentional, so the issue here is whether "violently" connotes physically injuring him. I find it very hard to believe anyone threatened to physically injure him, but perhaps it's not so hard to believe that Trump thinks that or that Trump would lie and say that he thinks that.To what extent does "violence" mean that the damaging action was intentional? The first definition is, as expected, "The deliberate exercise of physical force..."
But then there's "Great strength or power of a natural force or physical action" — for example, a storm or an earthquake. There's no mind deliberating there (though maybe there's an implication of human will and the usage is metaphorical, such as when corny writers tell you the sea was "angry").
"Violence" is also "Great intensity or severity, esp. of something destructive or undesirable. Example: " Mrs. Viveash had been reduced, by the violence of her headache, to coming home..for a rest." (That's Aldous Huxley.)
Similarly, there's "Vehemence or intensity of emotion, behaviour, or language; extreme fervour; passion." Example, from Shakespeare, "Marke me, with what violence she first lou'd the Moore." But now we've got the human mind in play again. I don't think what's being called "traffic violence" is any intensity in the traffic, just accidents, by people who didn't mean to do that (if we set aside the very tiny proportion of car damage done by an evildoer deliberately running somebody down).
"Violence" is also used to refer to restrictions imposed on nature, as in "He was obliged to attend near a Quarter of an Hour, though with great Violence to his natural Impetuosity, before he was suffered to speak" (Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones" (1749)).
And then there's the "Improper treatment or use of a word or text; misinterpretation; misapplication; alteration of meaning or intention." Again, from "Tom Jones": "A Passion which might, without any great Violence to the Word, be called Love."
But let's look at the fact that Trump did say that he thinks Schumer, Pelosi, and numerous other people — the heads of the Democrat Party — threatened Biden violently.
Now, maybe the word "violently" was used in a different sense that doesn't involve physical injury, that aligns with the OED's definition of "violence" in terms of great intensity, severity, vehemence, fervor, and passion. Maybe Trump just meant to say They threatened him very strongly. Then his use of "violently" may be easy to accept... depending on what the meaning of "threatened" is.
Of course, Trump has been accused of inciting violence on January 6, 2021. That word looms large in his subjective experience of persecution. So I don't think he uses it lightly. I think he feels mistreated in these accusations of violence. Perhaps he thinks: If they're going to use that word wildly as they come for me, I'm using it against them. Very strongly.
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What violence is he talking about?
Ask Harry Reid.
They threatened to put Hunter in jail and to forcibly remove Jill from the White House after he was taken out of office by the 25th Amendment.
That's actual violence.
"It worked, didn't it?" - Harry Reid
People are starting to notice that Democrat women have a tendency to show up drunk in public. This is one of the coping mechanisms of people abused in domestic relationships.
Both political parties have always been infested by sick abusive people. The type of person who seeks political power is the same personality type that manipulates and abuses others.
Gotta watch out for those treadmills.
25th Amendment, plus full throated prosecution of Hunter, plus threatened cooperation with the Republicans in their impeachment efforts for bribery, plus forfeiture of his ill gotten gains and their proceeds, followed by a judicial finding of incompetence and commitment to a very secure nursing home should do the trick.
Pelosi made Biden an offer he couldn't refuse.
He's riffing on the "your speech is violence" tendencies of the DNC crowd, IMO. It's pretty clear he was threatened with something awful. Just days prior he had vowed to NEVER get out of the race. So if he was going to "hand the baton" to Kamala he would have done it last year, like he suggested was the plan in 2020. But like all Democrat promises that came with an expiration date.
As a surprise to Joe, so did his candidacy. And it was not a date of his choosing, as they say.
They threatened to remove him via the 25th Amendment. Biden should have called their bluff but in his enfeebled state he didn't have the brains or the courage to do so.
Do any of you (Trump includ) have a shred of evidence to back up your ridiculous assertions? Or are you (again Trump included) just listening to the monkeys flying out of your butts.
Yes, we have all the evidence we need. Just like Harry Reid did.
pretty confident, that they told them he'd tragically DIE if he didn't drop out.
Plus WHAT was the medical emergency in Las Vegas? a stroke*? a show of force?
stroke* what is the french word for Stroke? Anybody?
It is not surprising that Donald Trump's loyal supporters would justify his use of the term violence without any evidence. The long detailed analysis of the etymology and definition of violence given by the law professor actually justifies the overuse of the word violence by the woke me to Lily livered liberal complaints that talk about harsh speech as being violence. They overuse of the term violence has been used to justify limitations on free speech. Now that it has been used in that context by your lord and savior it is automatically approved.
That being said I thought the conversation that Trump had with Theo von was very good. It's too bad more politicians don't do that sort of thing
Your troll fu is weak dude
Trump has no natural political allies, no “team of rivals” around Him, and he keeps other Republican leaders in check by threatening them with being burned to the ground if they don't bend the knee.
The Republican Party is now fully organized as a cult of personality.
As we see this week in Chicago, the Democratic Party is unified, not behind one or two people, BUT AS A PARTY.
I predict Trump will come unglued over the next seventy days, and we will see the Republican Party and him get pulled apart.
Trump, who never accepts blame, will viciously turn on everyone else in the Republican Party; this includes Vance, who is young and will be focused on his future political viability.
The party who encouraged the alexandria shootout who looked om as rand pauls ribs were crushed you have some nerve
Perhaps he thinks: If they're going to use that word wildly as they come for me, I'm using it against them.
The left has been violent for decades. It is one of their primary methods of influence. The last 50 years has been a parade of leftist political violence.
Trying to kill Trump was just the latest and most obvious.
Also notice how the videos of Police absolutely destroying leftist agitators at the democrat convention are being glossed over almost completely.
The democrat party is founded on slavery and political violence.
Fair enough, Freder- where is your evidence Biden stepped down for selfless reasons?
So, you are just listening to the 🐒
"Do any of you (Trump includ) have a shred of evidence to back up your ridiculous assertions?"
"Evidence" is a very low standard. It's anything that makes a fact in issue more likely (or less likely). But I don't know what "assertions" you are referring to, other than the Trump assertion I discuss in the post. Are you accusing ME of making an assertion you regard as ridiculous? Please quote it. I'm careful about not asserting what I don't know.
Withholding ice cream from Joey constitutes violence.
He likes Chocolate Chip.
No joke.
The videos of Democrats attacking people are legion.
The regime just tried to publicly kill Trump.
I have high confidence they told Biden he would serve much better as a martyr killed by a "Trump supporter" than as a candidate at one point or another.
Oh, the italics demon is back!
It is important to get the 83 IQ take out there.
That way the average democrat voter knows they are not alone.
yes, credit for examining Warren's weird use of the word, though it isn't the abusive, gross misuse of the word by the left that provokes the inspection of the word- it takes Trump to force the question the use of the word, and we must infer he intended to use it incorrectly. More of that shitty asymmetry...
"... your ridiculous assertions..."
Maybe you're talking about Just an old country lawyer, who offers a list: "25th Amendment, plus full throated prosecution of Hunter, plus threatened cooperation with the Republicans in their impeachment efforts for bribery, plus forfeiture of his ill gotten gains and their proceeds, followed by a judicial finding of incompetence and commitment to a very secure nursing home should do the trick."
I don't read that as expressing knowledge of what a threat might have consisted of. I think that's saying: here are things that could have been threatened. But I'd say about that: These are not violent things (unless you understand the word in the loose sense discussed in the post).
"Do any of you (Trump includ) have a shred of evidence to back up your ridiculous assertions?"
The most important shred of evidence is that Biden — after working so hard and asserting that only God could get him to leave — did in fact leave. If you don't think it was something like what Just an old country lawyer listed, what do you think it was?
When have I ever posted any comment speculating about Biden's reasons for pulling out? Don't listen to the monkeys flying out of your butt when they tell you Freder said this or that..
Be careful using italics tags
if you open one and don't successfully close it
So is the database update demon.
I advise people to have patience after posting a reply to another post. I think there is an attachment issue in the database that delays their appearance to a normal http request.
It continues and italicizes what comes next.
Trump says clearly he knows what happened to Biden to get him to quit but then he doesn't go into any details and Theo doesn't follow up
We have infinitely more evidence that they threatened Biden and forced him out than you had of Russian Collusion or that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.
You listen to flying monkeys all of the time Freder. Your entire party is based on lies.
And you may think you've closed it, but it won't work unless the letter "i" in your closing of the tag is a lower case "i"... which is very hard to do because of autocorrect. I need to cut and paste a lower case "i" to get it to appear properly.
It's pretty obvious now it would have been wise for Trump to prepare to campaign against Kamala as early as January 2021. It wouldn't have been a shock if Biden had died, and Kamala got a big Inaugural event. Didn't Trump have some kind of contingency plan? He seems a bit lost. It wasn't contrary to the Constitution for the Dems to do what they did. It's contrary to the big-P Progressive measures that go back to Wizard of Oz days, primaries and all that, power to the people.
I like Trump, but it's a real question: since the Dems are saying Biden is not competent to serve another term, why not invoke the 25th Amendment? They make it obvious they are thinking only of the election, but is the present situation good for the country? Invoking the 25th would once again give Kamala an Inaugural event.
Since the DNC/Intel cartel just tried to assassinate Trump, I’m going with the literal interpretation of “violence.”
This is a standard guardrail bug. They should not allow a post to be published with an open HTML tag. This is a 1 hour fix at most.
can I leave an open bold tag too?
"...they threatened him violently...." could mean
..they roughed him up while threatening him, or
..they smashed a chair while threatening him.
"Trump says clearly he knows what happened to Biden...."
Yeah, Von should have noticed the use of the word "know" and asked him how he knows.
And of course, he should have asked what Trump means by "violently."
I don't know Von enough to know his techniques. Clearly, he's not a journalistic interviewer. He's trying to relax his interlocutor and draw him out. At that, he's not as good as Joe Rogan.
Ann, maybe President Biden became convinced by other Democrats (and the polls) that he was not the candidate who could defeat Trump and that he no longer had the complete confidence of his fellow Democrats, which is needed to lead a winning team.
Isn't the above actually the truth of the matter? Could Biden lead the Dems to victory in the fall? Isn't the new head of the national ticket a much better bet?
It seems that Trump thinks so, and that is why he is going crazy over it.
As you have done in the past, you are taking comments clearly aimed at the commenters and thinking they are directed at you. Sorry you misunderstood.
But of course that begs the question why you would publish a post highlighting Trump's unproven assertions.
Again, when have I ever commented on Hunter's laptop?
I hope Trump spends the next ten weeks focused on how unfair it is to him that Biden left the race.
What a narcissistic whiner.
The violence already happened to The Big Guy when pre debate his handlers substituted a placebo for his standard Rx cocktail of wake me up drugs with a testosterone boosters. The debate moderators were ready for it too.
The more interesting part of the conversation was about be g pharma big insurance and big health care bankrupting Americans with hidden costs and powerful lobbying in DC. The Biden coup is a silly sideshow.
"What violence is Trump talking about? "
Threatening a man with the denial of ice cream cones for the rest of his life is the essence of violence.
You are believing the same people that lied about Hunters laptop.
You pretend like your previous lies don't affect your credibility now. You are a liar Freder. You have always been a liar. You are a liar now.
Democrats have lied repeatedly about almost everything. Democrats are liars. Now we just assume everything they say is a lie. That is how it works.
Trump needs to move on. Yes - the left are cheaters, liars, constitutional butt wipers.
Move on.
Pres. Trump survived an assassination attempt a month ago. He has violence directed at political figures on his mind. BTW is it a coincidence that shortly after the attempt on Pres. Trump’s life, Joe Biden decided to follow the recommendation of his Party’s leaders and resign from perusing a second term?
The democrat party and it's members have a clear pattern of lying.
At this point it should just be assumed that a democrat speaking is lying until proven otherwise.
One can hear the wood cracking from all of the Republican officeholders who are currently crawling into the cracks of the walls, trying to get away from Trump before he totally goes loco.
pursuing
I don't think they threatened the 25th Amendment, because that process would simply take too long, and it would require the cooperation of the Republicans. It wouldn't work. No - I think the strength and power of the Surveillance State was brought to bear, the portfolio of evidence was pulled out, and the myriad of corrupt practices, influence peddling, and flagrant abuses of power, going back through the years, was put on display under Joe's nose. Joe may not have thought they would stoop to this. Joe may not have even been aware he was being watched, and his activities cataloged. But the prospect of immediate disgrace and prosecution, a loss of legacy and prosecution of family members, that would have been enough - because it would imply the use of violence as well, or at least the ruthlessness and willingness required.
Not to go all David Brooks on you, but Max Weber defined the modern state by virtue of its monopoly on the use of violence, which would include prosecution and persecution. Something Trump is very familiar with:
State monopoly on violence, in political science and sociology, the concept that the state alone has the right to use or authorize the use of physical force. It is widely regarded as a defining characteristic of the modern state.
In his lecture “Politics as a Vocation” (1918), the German sociologist Max Weber defines the state as a “human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.” Under feudalism, no lords, including the king, could claim a monopoly over the use of violence, since their vassals promised to serve them but remained free to exercise power in their fiefdoms. Moreover, the king and the landed nobility had to share power or compete with the Roman Catholic Church. The modern state, according to Weber, emerged by expropriating the means of political organization and domination, including violence, and by establishing the legitimacy of its rule.
“They kept us off stages, manipulated polls, sued us in every possible state, and even planted insiders in our campaign.”
— - RFKJr’s VP Nicole Shanahan on how the DNC sabotaged their campaign.
She was a Democrat.
You paint FJB as self sacrificing, and willing to bow out for the team. Absolutely no real evidence that he has ever really done so. And he seemed quite angry that he was forced out. Not the actions of someone taking a hit for the team, but rather, someone who was betrayed.
My theory is that he was forced out, likely by threats of something or another. Maybe it was the threat of taking his ice cream away. But I suspect that it was something more. That the family members behind him were somehow threatened. I think more likely blackmailed for their financial crimes. Jill. His brother. Ashley. And maybe Hunter, but I suspect that he had already been sacrificed. Cocaine in the private quarters of the WH may have been one felony too many (unless it was Ashley’s - we just know that it was almost certainly a family member’s from the DNA testing).
It was, as noted, likely led by Pelosi and Scheamer, maybe with help from the Obamas. Never much love between Jill and Michelle. But facilitated by the Deep State, and esp the Secret Service, who know everything that happens (or doesn’t - see the assassination attempt against Trump) with the President and his family. How many times did his last dog bite one of their agents? My memory is over a dozen, at least. Doesn’t engender a lot of loyalty on their part.
He didn't say threatened with violence. He said violently. As mentioned above, words are violence these days. I envision the threats imagined above being yelled in Joe's face, violently
Shake it off, Fredo.
Does Trump have surrogates out campaigning for him? I do not see any here in Wisconsin. Elected Republicans are quietly quitting him. They know he is a ticking time bomb. It is best to take cover and stay out of sight. Heck, Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law are nowhere to be seen.
At seventy-eight, Republicans can now outwait him.
That sound is most likely your hemorrhoids bursting from the cranial pressure you’ve applied.
I think about the way Donna Reed uses violent in "It's a Wonderful Life:" He's making violent love to me Mother.
Corruptocratic insiders do not want anyone - but those who can be managed - and those who obey.
Rotwang's Cabana Boy has never heard of the fruit of the poisonous tree? How sad... How completely expected.
As I noted above, FJB hasn’t been making the big decisions for some time now (I think that he still may be allowed to pick ice crème flavors). So, this most likely wasn’t his personal decision, but rather those propping him up. And I don’t think that he was happy with it. Which translates, I think, into blackmailing his close family members. Which further translates to the Deep State, with the Secret Service and FBI providing much of the blackmail material. Just like they knew that Hunter’s laptop was legitimate and intentionally hid that fact 4 years ago.
Leftists in power - or soon to be given power - (and their family members) are excited about their bank accounts.
...said the paid troll, 'without evidence.....'
On the left - we are ruled by a mob-like shadowy group. Biden is not in charge. Kamala will not be either.
This seems most plausible to me, too. Biden couldn’t risk more heat being brought on his family.
Plus, he knows how utterly ruthless his party can be.
Violence? Trump points to ear.
It’s the monkeys.
DARK BRANDON,KAMALA and the power brokers pulled off the biggest political bait and swith in history, leaving republicans heads spinning and trump losing whats left of his mind. They knew after the registered republican shooter took aim at him and killed another that he would be unravelling and this was final straw,This will be political history long aftr im gone and my grandchildrens grandchildren will read about it in school.trump will lose again and this time by over 10,000,000 popular votes,women are on the move.The DEMOCRATS schooled the GOP with this bait and switch and aint taking no prisoners ,Kamala for 8 then Hakkem Jefferies the GOP will have to straighten up or go the way of the WHIGS. 3 PRESIDENTS,2 VICE PRESIDENTS CONGRESSMEN,REPUBLICANS ,GOVERNORS all up touting KAMALA/WALZ , and GOP Chaki James woods,Ted NUGGENT THE C team My goodness STEVIE WONDER ROCKING the DNC cmon man..
Trump doesn't even have to point to the ear- since 2021 he and his supporters have been subjected to a campaign of state sanctioned violence utilizing the DoJ and various state departments of justice.
The 'tell' is this, IMO: Jill Biden is being very quiet. She's gone back to being the quiet Presidential wife. Jill is the 'dog that didn't bark'.
Joe is not and has never been "self-sacrificing" and roly poly provides no evidence.
Joe recently said, and aids quoted him, that he obsessively reads all the Hunter Biden news and it "rips his heart" so with the ongoing drip drip drip of Hunter news coupled with impending trial(s) it doesn't take much imagination to see Nancy and company further ripping at Joe's tiny shriveled heart, metaphorically speaking.
And it is so like democrat drones on here to take Trump's words literally but not seriously. That is, y'all are extremely hung up on the violence word (but not so much when your tender snowflake allies claim our words are violence to them) yet completely overlook there was an extreme change in Joe's behavior predicated by a self-admitted "talking to" that Pelois gave him, and like good little party NPCs you don't a shit about that at what exactly did motivate Joe to do "what only God could make him do." Did he see God? Was it a violent encounter?
Ah, so. 'OK when my side does it.' Thank you.
Can everyone sense the sudden change over the last couple of days- the lefties are beginning to realize the propaganda isn't working and they are now spinning out of control.
I'm sorry, I missed the story where they DNA tested the cocaine and found that the DNA matched someone in the Biden family. Can you provide a link to this stunning development?
Don't forget the conspicuous absence of Melania.
Excellent post.
When it comes to violence, I’m pretty sure Trump is mostly focused on what happens to him a month ago.
And remember, back in the day somebody beat up Harry Reid.
When my daughter was a very wise three years old, and I'd tell her "No" for some reason, or disagree with her expressed wishes, she would tear up and blubber at me, "Stop yelling at me!" The "yelling" wasn't my vocal volume, it was her hearing something opposite to what she wanted. She was, after all, three years old and unable to express any better that she didn't like doing what she was told.
Likewise, the "violence" of January 6 and the "violent" nature of Biden's ouster are merely the responses to something the Democrats didn't like (Jan 6) and that Biden didn't like (ouster). There is no better expression used for the opposition to the protests and for the unseemliness of Biden's ouster, because the Dems are the equivalent of three year olds where opposition to them is concerned, and Trump is explaining to the Dems - still, three year olds - that what they did was wrong, in words they understand.
My daughter grew out of complaints that I was "yelling" at her, mostly because I ignored her complaints. Would that the nation could get the Dems to grow up, especially if we could do so by ignoring them.
That makes the most sense. The wild accusations like Dixcus’ or Achilles’ are just the flying monkeys.
Holy Moly, he will. I think he’s mourning and we’ll continue to see him unravel. It won’t be pretty.
Yes, or the splashing of them jumping overboard.
None of his family is stepping forward, even Don Jr and Eric are uncharacteristically quiet.
Bill Clinton would be considered a MAGA extremist today.
Trump has considerably more experience with trauma then you or I have.
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She was attached to someone the Dems want no part of, we don’t need people like her and RFK to be or represent Democrats. They shouldn’t have tried to make a deal with Dems to endorse Kamala in exchange for a cabinet position like they tried to do on August 15th. Of course they weren’t given the time of day, so they slunk off to Trump, lol.
The casual way in which you refer to a candidate that you’re wide just tried to assassinate in hideous. Inga, of course, is willing to shrug off the fact that her thugs tried to murder Trump, because it’s OK with her.
What?
Hopefully for years to come until Republicans can rid themselves of the Trumpism stench and go back to being Republicans.
No proof is needed that the DNC/Intel cartel tried to murder Trump. It’s obvious. The refusal to see the obvious just means you approve of murdering your political opponents. That’s Inga.
Wishful thinking, lol.
I have a lot of experience dealing with people in advanced dementia. My father suffered through it. I worked in clinical trials on Alzheimer’s drugs. Do you have any idea how easy it is to kill a person with advanced dementia just by withdrawal of treatment and custodial support?
The anonymous people who are running the country are still doing so. That's why Biden can be left as a symbol.
Inga and Freder lied about Russian collusion for years. They ran with multiple rape hoaxes. Lied about Hunter's laptop.
Just now the regime admits it was lying about job numbers the whole time.
These people pretend they are at all believable about anything.
Inga, the entire Democratic Campaign the last month has been the biggest wishful thinking operation in all of history.
Yes and hopefully for enough years that gives the Republicans time to remove the stench of Trumpism and rebuild their party.
Biden most likely had a stroke in Vegas because they messed with his blood thinners.
If anyone is spinning out of control it’s your cult leader, you don’t see it before your own eyes.
Trump has fewer than twelve weeks left to define and destroy his opponent. This week he’s defending Joe Biden’s sacred honor, and next week he’s planning on getting to the bottom of whether he once took a helicopter ride with Willie Brown.
No matter what the threats were, simple fact is tough guy Joey Biden, who always talked about beating people "behind the shed" wimped out when the going got rough.
He will always be known as the cowardly lion. Big roar with nothing to back it up.
Trump, on the other hand, persecuted by the government, death threats daily, shot in the head, and never skips a beat. Unlike weakling Biden, he fights back and doesn't scurry away like a Dem rat.
The left bravely insult and demean Trump while he continues his campaign with modesty, civility, courage, and honesty.
Reading comments “the other way,” the latter ones are all in bold. Me try fix.
The dullard is OK with anything the DNC did because "They want no part of" someone. I'm sure she is OK with the lawfare against Trump, too.
Violins. Never mind.
They have the goods on Joe and his crime family. That's why they made him President and that's how they made him give up the nomination.
I'm sure they didn't select Kamala because they have total control over her too. They probably selected her because her semantics are so strong. She just blows Trump away semantically.
The first inklings of Kamala's communist agenda has shaken a few old fashioned Democrats.
Exactly, Mike- once Kamalamadingbat started outlining her plans, even the Democrat pollsters are having second thoughts about pushing her numbers higher- at a certain point reality always forces a reevaluation unless you are as dumb as Inga.
Biden was just a figurehead. Kamala will be a figurehead. Its the big donors and the Democrat establishment that runs things. Biden just rubberstamped everything his Chief of staff and Cabinet heads did. Kamala will do the same. She no real executive experience, and if elected will have won no primaries and made almost no detailed speeches or taken any tough press conferences.
SHe doesn't have to. The MSM gives Trump 89 percent negative coverage, and gives her 90 percent positive coverage.
As for Biden getting pushed out, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. LOL. What a angry corrupt graceless tool he is. And he's a coward since the Democrat Establishment could never have FORCED him out unless they were willing to lose the election. IMO, they probably told Biden "Hey, it'd be a shame if we stopped running cover for Hunter Biden, and the FBI started investigating all your shady deals with China and Ukraine. Nice bank account you got there, it'd be shame if it suddenly got emptied paying lawyers and trying to stay out of Jail"
Trump is different in his exceptional powers of perception of what people he meets are up to. That makes him a great friend and talker about everything until he takes the role of law enforcement. Then he instantly is attacked as are all of the drug sniffing dogs.
His role is loyal friend to those who are loyal back. But he is still a targeted danger to friends who have something to hide… like GeorgiaGov. Kemp.
the details jordan schachtel turned up suggests that,
Another day of Trump just saying stuff.
How can hemorrhoids jump overboard?
I don't know Von enough to know his techniques. Clearly, he's not a journalistic interviewer. He's trying to relax his interlocutor and draw him out. At that, he's not as good as Joe Rogan.
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Theo Von got his start on MTV's Road Rules or The Real World, I forget. Reality tv. Joe Rogan gained his fame on fear factor. You are tuning into to entertainers, ann. They're not journalists, they talk and see what is said... nttawt. Don't try to squeeze butter from a stone. It's entertainment.
And don't go running for your dictionary to understand how men talk. Violently means physical because you are a woman and only now discovering dictionary words in retirement, it seems.
Try to listen more to how people speak if you go out. You are more practiced at lecturing than listening, and I doubt you know many real world men. You're kinda a Queen Bee know it all imposing your own understanding on campaigns, like the whole onion ring thing, and the Nig pajamas that showed us where your mind is and how it interprets your small world...
Hth
Lol. Another day of the prof running for her dictionary to "translate" for us, instead of just asking others if THEY understand what he meant. Most of us, I suspect, do.
My theory is that he was forced out, likely by threats of something or another. Maybe it was the threat of taking his ice cream away. But I suspect that it was something more. That the family members behind him were somehow threatened.
Disagree. Biden is an egotist who cares nothing for his family. It's all about him. Being the coward he is, he was threatened with loss of imagined prestige. He knows in his heart that he has always been a blustering coward and is aware that his backstabbing friends would not hesitate to continue their MSM assault on his pathetic behavior.
Look how the media was prepared to destroy him after the debate. First, his handlers drugged him stupid (easy to do), then media pounced within minutes of debate conclusions. Same media that had been clarifying his remarks and covering for him for years had their orders and had been practicing their comments for weeks prior to debate.
Then, entire Democrat populace, as usual, followed their media masters, piled on. Simply look at leftist comments throughout the internet, where people are making fun of his humiliation by pretending Joe dropped out for the good of the party , while laughing about him behind his back.
Naturally, many educated, but unintelligent, dems believe the spin. Same people who trusted media about the infamous laptop and Russian collusion.
They cannot be blamed for their shortcomings, they were born that way, just like some men were born in womens bodies, and some women were born in mens bodies.
Fortunately, men and women can switch bodies, but, you can't fix stupid.
The Democrats tried to murder Donald Trump. We're beyond evidence as a nation. We are on to vengeance.
"Threatened violently" isn't the same thing as "threatened with violence." If Pelosi was alone with poor, disoriented old Joe and started screaming at him loudly, that would be violently threatening. Still, Trump has a way of setting people off into dead end streets: the Democrats and progressive media may say that Trump said that Pelosi threatened Biden with assassination, and the conspiracy theory right may think that she did just that.
The bureaucracy is on the same page as the Democrats, the non-profits, and the media, so a lot of what the administration has been doing comes directly from the bureaucracy.
"Threatened violently" is different from "threatened with violence." If Pelosi was alone with Biden and started loudly screaming at poor, disoriented old Joe, that would be violently threatening. Of course, Trump can set people off into dead end streets. Democrats and the media my claim that Trump accused Pelosi of threatening Biden with assassination, and the conspiracy theory right may assume that she actually did.
This thread is cursed. Idiots have infected it three times with open tags.
Maybe add a threat to pull his Secret Service detail. Or to make sure Vlad Putin always knows his geocoordinates
Stop the open tags.
I agree that "Dr Jill" has been awfully quiet.
I don’t think it’s likely they can jump overboard, but then I remember it’s Inga and it may be a case of rats and sinking ship syndrome.
Just listened to the podcast on Podcast Addict. Very interesting to see him in a conversation instead of a confrontation. The confrontation is on the fake news organizations, not on President Trump.
One thing I liked was that it was a conversation of equals. President Trump called him Theo, Theo called him Donald or Don.
That is as it should be. Donald Trump worked for and will work again for Theo and all the rest of us American citizens. It is nice to be on a first name basis. I would be OK with PEDJT calling him Mr Von and Theo calling him president or Mr Trump.
My objection is to politicians thinking they have the right to address me by first name while not openly extending the same courtesy to me.
John Henry
I don't think Melania is very happy with him risking his life like this. Eric is running the company and Don Jr is a lightweight. None of you lefties would risk this when you don't need the money. The Obamas have their stash and are content.
The Feiler faster thesis suggests twelve weeks is too early to taker her down. See also: Trump's obliteration of Biden's campaign.
Parademons carry the tags,
The dullard likes Republicans like the Washington Generals. Romney etc.
I have yet to see this italics problem manifest itself. In the old format, if I didn't close an italics thingamajig, the comment wouldn't post and there'd be a little explanation of what I'd done wrong. Another reason why this new format sucks.
Maybe what Trump meant is that they threatened Biden very bigly.
It took Tulsi Gabbards less than 2 minutes to end Kamala's last Campaign.
Kamala's campaign was over before it started. She will not have more than 60 million voters in November. They wont be able to mail in enough ballots this time.
Another day of Kamala not disclosing her plans.
Joe Biden was most likely persuaded to abandon his run by a well-connected Justice Department official who discreetly whispered through an intermediary, ‘It would be a pity if we finally felt obligated to look into the tax implications of your family shakedown operation’ and ‘Your family will enjoy your final years more if they don’t have to talk to lawyers every day.’
According to my sources, the Governor of Minnesota told Biden, "If you don't withdraw, some experienced ruffians from Cass Lake with a long history of Fish and Game violations will come to your beach house, pull down your pants and shove a walleye right up your ass and the Secret Service will look the other way."
Maybe that's what Trump was referring to when he used the word violently.
That has a certain ring of plausibility.
Well, as a 75 year old, not senile yet, that list would be persuasive to me, and would probably affect me more "violently" than most actual physical attacks short of death.
"Now, maybe the word "violently" was used in a different sense..."
There's no "maybe" to it. It's clear from the video he wasn't referring to physical violence, but to all the terms you used in your second "maybe."
You expect them to swerve and then they derve.
We got them going in circles… woe, woe, woe round and round they go.
I haven't seen it either. Maybe it's browser issue.
@Ann - "The most important shred of evidence is that Biden — after working so hard and asserting that only God could get him to leave — did in fact leave." That would normally be important, but coming from Biden, it could have been coming from God's voice in his head.
Let's go straight to the one who is really in charge in that family: "Dr" Jill. She went on record on the front cover of Vogue, artfully posed in Power Broker mode, proclaiming - "we will decide our future". As they say on the internet, that didn't age well, once Joe Public was confronted with direct, irrefutable evidence that Slow Joe had not aged well at all.
And Trump now has everybody wondering "What DID happen there, anyway?" Covfefe.
Heck, that his people were saying that morning he was not dropping out seemed really sketchy to me.
It is not surprising that Donald Trump's loyal supporters would justify his use of the term violence without any evidence.
People who tried to kill Trump have no room to lecture others about violence.
She was attached to someone the Dems want no part of, we don’t need people like her and RFK to be or represent Democrats.
Do you realize just how arrogant you sound? As if you speak for the entire left side of the aisle?
Get over yourself.
We know Biden had a medical incident and was flown home. Then a statement was issued on his behalf that he had withdrawn. Then he wasn't seen or heard from for days.
We'll probably never know what really happened, but whatever it was it wasn't pretty.
Hindsight is 20-20, but Trump should have waited to debate Biden until after Biden was nominated at the convention.
Incarcerating one's son seems rather violent.
Good point, particularly about Jill. The prosecution of Hunter and a potential impeachment of Joe would hit only the two of them. But a dossier of Biden's family corruption would see Jill facing prison like Nadine Menendez.
You guys are silly. Don Jr. has a podcast. He just put up one with David Limbaugh on Rumble 5 hours ago. The latest available on Apple has Jr. interviewing elected Republican Senator Tom Cotton. He interviewed Tulsi Gabbard 5 months ago, which she posted on YouTube. Tulsi is posting all over social media how she's debated Kamala Harris and considers her unfit to be President. That's before we get into RFK Jr. coming to Trump's side. Then there is Peter Thiel making the rounds on podcasts.
But using surrogates is mostly what Biden and Harris do. Trump is capable of campaigning himself and speaking in front of crowds. He doesn't need surrogates to do it for him. If you don't think Trump is effective in his own campaigning, then you are definitely not paying attention to this blog and the host.
"We know Biden had a medical incident and was flown home.
I don't know that, and the evidence is weak.
Yes and his face was bruised when he gave his Oval Office speech after that. So maybe Trump was being literal
https://loudobbs.com/news/is-joe-okay-viewers-notice-apparent-bruise-on-bidens-jaw-in-oval-office-address/
He's doing so with Harris, and she's already backing out of the deal. She won't go on Fox. As it is, Harris poll numbers are dropping in Pennsylvania while the DNC is going on, and even Newsweek is noticing:
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-suffers-triple-polling-blow-before-dnc-convention-1940947
That's a must win state for Harris, especially with Trump ahead in Likely Voters in Georgia and Arizona. Trump was right to say "Thank You" when Harris announced Walz as her VP choice.
Something we can and should do is include non-italicized and non-bold text after the part where we used the i or b tags. Then we can catch the problem and quickly delete our comment.
But! I did prefer that the commenting function not only included checks for unclosed tags, but the Preview allowed me to look for typos. (Not that I always caught all of them.)
Figures Blogger would have some bugs in the new commenting system. But not having included a routine to close the unclosed tags in a post... that's just basic shit. Can't believe they missed it.
A cautionary note to Althouse: A platform that doesn’t care about this is a platform in danger of collapse.
Kill the chicken (Trump) to scare the monkey (Biden).
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