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"Under the stress of the final weeks of the campaign, #Trump has somehow become ever more bonkers than he already was. Over the past week, he proposed using the #NationalGuard or the #military against “radical left lunatics”... he called the #UnitedStates an “occupied country.” He stood onstage at what was supposed to be a “town hall meeting” and swayed and danced to his campaign playlist for 39 minutes........"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/trump-doom-windows-cows-ban-harris/

#Weird #GOP #Fascism #Politics #Election2024 #News #USA

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Under the stress of the final weeks of the campaign, Trump has somehow become ever more bonkers than he already was. Over the past week, he proposed using the National Guard or the military against “radical left lunatics” on Election Day, and he called the United States an “occupied country.” He stood onstage at what was supposed to be a “town hall meeting” and swayed and danced to his campaign playlist for 39 minutes. He bickered with an interviewer at the Economic Club of Chicago and slurred words at a rally in Georgia. He threatened to impose 2,000 percent tariffs on cars. He called his opponents the “enemy from within” and made up stories about migrant gangs taking over buildings in Colorado. He held a Fox News event with women and proclaimed himself “the father of IVF,” then acknowledged he asked a female Republican senator to “explain IVF” to him.

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"And his doomsaying has gotten even more outlandish...

Perhaps the weirdest part of these prophesies of #doom is that they aren’t even original. In the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign, #Trump issued similarly cataclysmic visions — in some cases, word for word the same — about a Joe #Biden presidency. They apparently didn’t come true. (We’re still here, after all, and so are the cows & windows.) Yet Trump is repeating the same loony forecasts this time around"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/trump-doom-windows-cows-ban-harris/

#Weird

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And his doomsaying has gotten even more outlandish. Under Harris, “America will be condemned to a fate of decline, desperation and despair,” Trump said at one stop. “Your family finances will be permanently destroyed. Your borders will be gone forever. Tens of millions more illegal aliens will invade our cities and towns. ... Medicare and Social Security will buckle and collapse.” He went on to say that businesses would be “worthless” and that Harris “would crash the stock market like in 1929, annihilate the pensions, 401(k)s and all of the retirement accounts” and cause “your income to plummet, your net worth to collapse, your tax bills to soar and your jobs to totally disappear.” But none of this will matter, because, in Trump’s telling, she’ll also start World War III.

Perhaps the weirdest part of these prophesies of doom is that they aren’t even original. In the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign, Trump issued similarly cataclysmic visions — in some cases, word for word the same — about a Joe Biden presidency. They apparently didn’t come true. (We’re still here, after all, and so are the cows and windows.) Yet Trump is repeating the same loony forecasts this time around, as if 2020 didn’t happen. Not for the first time, he seems to think Americans have very short memories and don’t know how to Google stuff.

“Cows are out,” Trump said in September 2020. “They don’t want cattle.” Also: “We’re not going to have windows anymore.” ...

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"Back in 2020, Trump predicted that [if Biden won] “you will have a #StockMarket go down like you wouldn’t believe.”...

#Biden has presided over a three-year bull market, w/stocks gaining more than 50% overall & setting records dozens of times this year. The economy grew at a substantially higher clip under Biden than under Trump and added more than 16 million jobs — compared with the 2.7 million lost under #Trump."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/trump-doom-windows-cows-ban-harris/

#IsTrumpSenile? #Politics #News #Election2024

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Four years later, there are still 87 million head of cattle on U.S. farms. And the multibillion-dollar U.S. window market is growing steadily. Yet it didn’t occur to Trump to defenestrate these wacky claims.

Over and over, Trump has predicted that “Kamala will deliver a 1929-style depression” and crash the stock market, thus eviscerating retirement savings. Back in 2020, Trump predicted that “on the chance that Biden got in, you will have a stock market go down like you wouldn’t believe.” He warned that “if Biden and Harris and the radical left gain power, they will collapse our economy and send our nation into a very steep depression.” It would be “a crippling depression, the likes of which you’ve never seen.”

Instead, Biden has presided over a three-year bull market, with stocks gaining more than 50 percent overall and setting records dozens of times this year. The economy grew at a substantially higher clip under Biden than under Trump and added more than 16 million jobs — compared with the 2.7 million lost under Trump.

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