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“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more,” he said.

"Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.

“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”

“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. But rather it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world,” Trump said.

“Right now, if you leave Florida, ‘Oh, let’s go, darling, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,’ and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped,” he warned, promising that he’d run the city “tough and smart.”

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[-] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 273 points 4 months ago

Watch how this story disappears within a day. But the trolls will still be talking about Biden in the debate until next January.

[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 149 points 4 months ago

Difference is, no republican cares if Trump is mentally fit to be president, nor will being mentally unfit cause him to lose the election.

Democrats and Biden on the other hand...

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 37 points 4 months ago

It gets old seeing the people with power continue to use it delicately so as not to upset people, while also not doing a goddamn thing about the opposition who FULLY abuses everything they can touch.

It's always the same thing

One side speaks respectfully of the other

one side doesn't push hardline questions and issues when they know can get the other side to say something that shoots themselves in the foot

One side tries to keep the peace

One side treats people with kiddie gloves

One side has reasonable policies and goals, or just simply doesn't change bad ones

The other side however, is constantly spraying a firehose of bullshit all over everything at every opportunity by constantly sabotaging the entire country in order to "one up" some imaginary opponent, actively calling for persecution AND prosecution of anyone who doesn't fit their cookie cutter mould (that they themselves don't need to fit into), punishes anyone for trying to make the country better, and has no qualms with lying, cheating, sabotaging, straight up committing massive amounts of felonies, all for no better reason than the infantile desire to be in opposition of something that helps another person.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

no republican cares if Trump is mentally fit to be president

This issue, in this case, isn't mental fitness. Trump's comments are right in line with what he was saying four, eight, and forty years ago.

He loves the idea of lynchings as a tool of criminal justice enforcement, particularly when the lynchings target the political underclass. He loves the idea of accusing entire populations of violent criminality, particularly when those communities don't support his political goals. And he loves the spectacle of it all - the pomp and circumstance of the courts leveraged against his opponents, the "beautification" of a gentrified neighborhood, and the fixation on tourism as an end goal of any socio-economic renovation.

Republicans eat this shit up now, just like when they ate up Michael Bloomberg's Disneyfication of downtown New York or the massive tourist traps that Nevada and Arizona and Florida has been turned into. Conservatives dream of living their lives in one big resort community, Donald Trump knows it, and this is his promise to do to DC what was done to so many other Reagan-Era cities and states.

To say he's mentally unfit would imply he wasn't vibing right along with the tens of millions of white nationalist suburbanites who think the whole country should be a country club that pampers them 24/7.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The mental fitness question isn't because of his view that we're already in a Mad Max hellscape only he can lead the true believers out of.

The mental fitness question is because he sounds like he's having a stroke anytime he has to string together more than 2 sentences.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 34 points 4 months ago

Why would it disappear? Everyone's talking about it, more and more every day. The Internet is exploding with demands for trump to step down.

[-] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Trump stepping down would be the single most unlikely thing in the universe. Where tf would they find an equally shitty candidate to replace him? Nikki Haley might have a chance but is a little too sane to fit the bill. If they replace Trump I'll go outside and watch for flying pigs.

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Any source? I didn't see anything like that.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago
[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/11/new-york-times-trump-unfit

Here, since you seem to be incapable of a Google search.

Enjoy your ~~false pretense~~ afternoon

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

That's what everyone's telling me. Everyone I know says it.

Nah, I can't continue. I don't even know his rhythm of idiot logic enough to copy it.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Lots of people are saying it. Smart people ;]

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Media: BIDEN OLD

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

That’s because democratic voters expect more from their candidates. Let the republicans put up this joke of a fascist. I expect better than Biden and Hillary Clinton and will be happy the day Biden drops out.

And if he doesn’t, I will vote for him and bitch about the Democratic Party the same way I did in 2016.

[-] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’ll be doing the same. Unlike a lot of the people complaining here. Hopefully he wins and we can regroup over the next four years. If the no-voters learn their lesson from how close it can get, maybe we can work together over that time to get someone younger, and more effective. Until then- Biden is all we have to stop America from becoming a fascist dictatorship.

Disclaimer: To the troll that follows me around accusing me of making blanket statements when I never do- note how I said “a lot” not “all.”

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I disagree that he is all we have. If he drops out before the DNC, that is plenty of time for his replacement and their VP pick to make an impact on the campaign.

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