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Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’

‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/05/republicans-cringe-trump-harris-attacks-00172724.

kandoh ,

I think almost dying really rattled him. He seems very unthrilled about being out in public now.

Milk_Sheikh ,

He was SHOOK at the RNC days after the attempt - it would have been the funniest thing for someone to pop a balloon right as he walked out

Tja ,

Ha! Missed me.

eestileib ,

Well that’s one thing I can sympathize with him about.

Lizardking27 ,

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IchNichtenLichten ,
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If he wins, his legal troubles go away. If he loses they come back with a vengeance.

Looks like this weird old man is starting to get nervous and lash out.

Please continue.

IllNess ,

Finding out the Supreme Court isn’t going give him unlimited power might’ve blown a gasket.

On top of what you said if Harris wins a prosecutor who Trump constantly insults will be president, and Biden, who Trump also insults and put his son in prison, will have 3 months to do whatever the fuck he wants. Lol

lolcatnip ,

All true except Biden had nothing to do with his son being prosecuted. At most, Biden will allow him to go to prison by leaving office without pardoning him (which I believe he will do, because it’s the not-corrupt thing to do.)

dhork ,

No, he absolutely should pardon Hunter. He should acknowledge the hypocrisy in a public statement, though. He should note the broad power the Supreme Court has given him to take Official Actions like this with impunity, and double-dog dare Congress to do whatever it takes to rein in abuses like that.

lolcatnip ,

Hmm, that’s a good point.

Tja ,

Is it? Presidents had pardon power before the SC ruling.

crusa187 ,

This would actually be pretty cool, and might even work to restore some balance to the scales of justice. Alas, I don’t think Biden has the requisite cojones.

dhork ,

Since it involves his kid, though, he might find the juice to do it.

toasteecup ,

I don’t think it’s a matter of having the chutzpah or not.

Biden at his core is a pretty solid straight lace public servant. He listens to the majority of the people and tries to do what’s best for the country. While that move would be great for the country, it goes against his straight lacedness.

theangryseal ,

I mean, this is what I’d do.

I try hard to hold onto my moral compass and practice what I preach, but when it comes to my kids I probably could go hard. Especially if they were facing a future in a cage. If I had the power I just wouldn’t let it happen.

Tja ,

It’s not an abuse, or at least not a new abuse. Presidents always had pardon power, and trump himself pardoned his friends. Nothing to do with the SC ruling.

dhork ,

But he can now highlight it as an “official act”, which means that he can do whatever he wants, no backsies.

He can further drive the point home by publically stating that Hunter gave him a $5 “gratuity” afterwards, and daring Mike Johnson to impeach him over it.

Corkyskog ,

Biden should direct the ATF to pull Marijuana Receipts and IDs from dispensary logs. Then compare that against FID card dates and charge the lot of them.

Conservatives would howl about prosecution, then he can just pardon all of them, including his son.

IchNichtenLichten ,
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Amazing how quickly things can turn around. I was getting worried when Biden was still in the race. Now it’s open season on those peculiar far right oddballs.

garretble ,
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stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Cry baby snowflake felon is little cry baby snowflake felon - big shocker here

IllNess ,

Remember when Amber Rose said she would back Trump because he was a “real man”?

Lol

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

It’s almost always just power plays imo. On both sides.

I think a big problem we have is that our populace is so large. We have a lot of culture and lifestyles to embrace, so politicians in order to appeal to the broad audience wash out most of who they actually are and end up with these surface level generalists who still have personalities below that we won’t see.

Hard to be a singular representative for a large populace and stay popular.

borf ,

both sides

ignores the rest of the comment

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Just trying to understand - are you saying that it’s not both sides?

I personally think that republicans are more likely to go back on their word, but dems do it as well

To address the problem we need to have the problem in full in front of us if we’re to eradicate the problem and not just swing a pendulum back and forth endlessly until the planet boils us alive

TrickDacy ,

What exactly is “both sides” here? You’re getting pushback because that’s a loaded phrase and is basically never used in good faith. But show us this is an exception, if you can.

DaddleDew ,

His Olympic-level mental gymnastics abilities are starting to fail at keeping him convinced that what is happening to him isn’t someone else’s fault.

peopleproblems ,

How come when this guy has a public nervous break down it’s big news, but when the rest of us have one it’s “suck it up and get therapy?”

I want people to get worried about the country when I have a nervous breakdown.

MagicShel ,

How is your nuclear engineering? You could potentially make folks quite nervous, indeed.

peopleproblems ,

I have no certifications, but I do understand more than I need to about PWR and BWR plants. I mean, I couldn’t run a plant myself, I don’t know what all the buttons do, and I don’t know the various smaller parts and components.

I mean if you gave me time and low enriched nuclear fuel, a machinist, an electronics technician, and some money to buy other components and generators I could probably get one built. Would it be safe? Unlikely, but it would work.

But that’s also sort of the same lines as, yes technically I’ve worked on a flight control computer for commercial air craft, or heart pumps. I’ve definitely been capable of working on missile control systems but I decided I didn’t like the idea of building weapons.

So I mean, in all, how worried I make other people is entirely dependent on what makes people worry.

Being commander in chief seems to make a lot of people worry without a lot of effort

kent_eh ,

Had Trump not regularly insulted people who seek out therapy there might be a bit more sympathy for the situation he finds himself in.

DarkDecay ,

Could just be his old man dementia finally surfacing. He’s fucking old, the oldest presidential candidate for sure. He’s done, he should just drop out, it’s pathetic.

Valmond ,

Donold Trump.

dumples ,

He’s way to old to be running for president. He should drop out

IllNess ,

Would have been interest if Nikki Haley was the Republican candidate.

That means a person of color woman would be president of the US with almost a 100% certainty. Also the for first Indian American.

eestileib ,

Yeah but Haley would have a serious problem getting the Republican nomination, because she isn’t white or a guy.

GTac ,

How would you be able to tell?

gnutrino ,

Pretty sure he lost his marbles years ago, if he even had any to start with…

brucethemoose ,

To be fair, there’s a lot of bad blood between Kinzinger and Trump.

cynthorpe ,

Is there anyone he does not have bad blood with

brucethemoose ,

I mean, there’s not an open feud with most Republican senators. Kinzinger essentially retired because he was anti Trump, like most anti Trump Republican congresspeople.

cynthorpe ,

I mean Trump

RememberTheApollo_ ,

“Donald Trump is losing his marbles”

Yeah, that’s been obvious for a while.

I wonder if the republicans want to do a copycat switcheroo of the Dems replacing Biden and replace Trump with someone younger and more quietly fascist. But oh well, this is the monster they created. They’re stuck with him.

Assman ,
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Pretty sure they can’t at this point, some Ohio deadline, which they need to win.

Nougat ,

At least 20 years too late on that "worry."

SteveFromMySpace ,

They forgot that this is exactly how he operated in 2016. My amateur theory is that he decided the safe and respectable route is what cost him 2020 and is going to cost him 2024, so he’s going back to what he believes ultimately made him win.

Meanwhile the Republicans are looking at the last eight years of near nonstop national defeats but don’t have a way of dealing with this bull in their party-equivalent of a China shop

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
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“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham

phdepressed ,

“Took fucking long enough”-me

samus12345 ,
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Important to note that what Lindsey meant was that they would get “destroyed” in the election (which obviously did not happen), not that the party itself would be destroyed. But I hope that second meaning comes to pass regardless.

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