Ich seh mir gerade live im TV die Debatte zwischen #KamalaHarris und #DonaldTrump an. Mir war klar, wie unterschiedlich die beiden Menschen, die Parteien, die gesamte USA sein können.
Aber das live ungefiltert zu sehen, ist schon erschreckend. #Trump erzählt von der ersten Minute an nur Lügen, Blödsinn, Phantastereien, Schuldzuweisungen an Andere und Scheisse. Es ist mir echt schleierhaft, wie ein solches Großmaul überhaupt schon mal Präsident der USA werden konnte.

Kamala #Harris ist sachlich, redet über mögliche Problemlösungen und Ziele. Für die Politik, das soziale Leben, die Wirtschaft. Während Trump ausschließlich herum-ätzt und Schuld an Andere zuweist, rückt sie ihre eigene Vision der Zukunft in den Fokus und korrigiert Trumps Lügen.
Die Mimik der beiden, während jeweils der/die andere spricht ist sehenswert!

... und wenn ich mir gerade jetzt so das Schlusswort der Debatte ansehe, muss ich echt als Laie feststellen: Trump ist wirklich psychisch gestört.

Inside the Trump Plan for 2025

A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President’s return to the White House.

One evening in April of 2022, a hundred people milled around a patio at Mar-a-Lago, sipping champagne and waiting for Donald Trump to arrive. Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, stood in front of an archway fringed with palm trees and warmed up the crowd with jokes about the deep state. The purpose of the gathering was to raise money for the Center for Renewing America, a conservative policy shop whose most recent annual report emphasized a “commitment to end woke and weaponized government.” Its founder, Russell Vought, a former head of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, and a leading candidate to be the White House chief of staff in a second term, was in attendance, chatting amiably with the guests. He is trim and bald, with glasses and a professorial beard. His group is a kind of ivory tower for far-right Republicans, issuing white papers with titles such as “The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice.” In 2021, he wrote an op-ed for Newsweek that asked, “Is There Anything Actually Wrong with ‘Christian Nationalism’?”

The Center for Renewing America is one of roughly two dozen right-wing groups that have emerged in Washington since Trump left office. What unites them is a wealthy network based on Capitol Hill called the Conservative Partnership Institute, which many in Washington regard as the next Trump Administration in waiting. C.P.I.’s list of personnel and affiliates includes some of Trump’s most fervent backers: Meadows is a senior partner; Stephen Miller, Trump’s top adviser on immigration, runs an associated group called America First Legal, which styles itself as the A.C.L.U. of the MAGA movement; Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department lawyer facing disbarment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, is a fellow at the Center for Renewing America. All of them are expected to have high-ranking roles in the government if Trump is elected again. “C.P.I. has gathered the most talented people in the conservative movement by far,” someone close to the organization told me. “They have thought deeply about what’s needed to create the infrastructure and the resources for a more anti-establishment conservative movement.”

C.P.I. was founded in 2017 by Jim DeMint, a former adman from South Carolina who spent eight years in the Senate before resigning to lead the Heritage Foundation. During that time, he was one of Washington’s most notorious partisan combatants. As a senator, he attacked his Republican colleagues for being insufficiently conservative, tanking their bills and raising money to unseat them in primaries. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, called him “an innovator in Republican-on-Republican violence.” With C.P.I., DeMint wanted to create a base of operations for insurgents like himself. “If you’re not getting criticized in Washington,” he once said, “you’re probably part of the problem.” ...

Rest of article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/inside-the-trump-plan-for-2025#intcid=recommendations_the-new-yorker-bottom-recirc-v4_d5058269-8187-4c37-91fa-c69b77f8e480_similar2-3

#2025 #trump

If you think #Trump really did #Jan6, but you refuse to take the very real, very believable issues around the #Biden presidency seriously, you're just an empty gong.

#GOPDebate

I didn't vote Trump either time, but anyone can see he's being railroaded.

Come on infosec people, you *know* the signs of social engineering/phishing. High stakes, time constraints, call to action. You're not being smart, you're being a mark.

If you cannot articulate your opponent's position as they would articulate it, you are not qualified to have an opinion on that person or able to have a rational debate. Reductive malicious catch phrases like "Don't Say Gay BIll" or "Republicans want to ban books" are great slogans for ginning up emotional reactions, but don't describe the intent or heart behind the actions. Exactly -zero- Republicans I've ever met want to actually ban books. I've run into more on the Left who want to control speech than vice versa.

I'm horrified by the idea of either the swamp things on the Republican side or the Comrades in the Democrat party taking complete control. The result is the same - "A boot standing on a human face - forever."

End #rant