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The election is in three weeks, and Pennsylvania is a must-win state for both Trump and Kamala Harris, but during a rally last night in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, Trump got bored with the event, billed as a “town hall,” and just played music for almost 40 minutes, scowling, smirking, and swaying onstage. Trump is no stranger to surreal moments, yet this was one of the oddest of his political career.

This kind of behavior would have resulted in discussion of dementia and Alzheimers if it was a Democrat.

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[-] voluble@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

One of the strangest elements of this story is that the Village People and Rufus Wainwright are on the Trump campaign playlist.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours ago

Weirdness - very on-brand for the cons, who are total freaks, and not in a good way of being a freak.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago

I cannot help but wonder if we are in the Matrix, and David Lynch has been given the reins for the direction of what this time-line is....all donnie needs now is to dance with the backwards talking little man and to have the tall man materialize behind him....

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 111 points 19 hours ago

This is a comment i made in a different thread:

The actual event is, as usual, fascinatingly cringey.

This is right after the second guy fainted, so trump’s already been interrupted twice, the venue’s tiny, and I think he doesn’t like dog killer Kristi Noem despite obvious commonalities. She was probably insufficiently subservient.

He wants security to open the doors to let fresh air in, but they can’t because of USSS measures to protect his dumb ass. Watch how he loses his mind in rage, suppresses it, and rolls it into his patter in the span of one second.

Then he says hey everybody lets all hear my favorite - Pavarotti singing Ave Maria! (Crowd cheers). The fuck? It gets weirder from there.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 27 points 7 hours ago

This whole thing is just afucking fever dream. I hope you americans can sort your shit out

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

You ain't the only one, bubba.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago

It would take the entire current government being replaced to do that.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Well what are you waiting for? Start wheeling out the guillotines.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

That was a hard, bizarre watch - and from Fox no less. They're not beating the weird allegations, and they're not sending their best.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 67 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Republicans don't want a leader. They want a vegetable. Every (normal) Republican runs on limited government, then gets into power and adds government: (Nixon and the EPA, Bush and Homeland security, etc...) Regan came to power and then didn't do any of that, since he had alzheimers and didn't know who he was half the time.

That is the golden age they want to bring back.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago

Wait... Ronald Reagan didn't "didn't do any of [add government]" just because no new "three letter'd" agencies got founded under his tenure. In 1982 (or 83... I forget and am drunk right now), he almost doubled spending for the Department of Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy_of_the_Ronald_Reagan_administration?wprov=sfla1

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Who are the "they" in "they want to bring it back"? Some of them are war profiteers.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago

The orange loser should toss out some Gold Diapers.

[-] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 154 points 22 hours ago

This kind of behavior would have resulted in discussion of dementia and Alzheimers if it was ~~a Democrat.~~ literally any other person on the planet.

Fixed it for you.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

I disagree, I remember how Fox totally ignored Bush choking on a pretzel or pushing on a pull door.
They protect their own and they'll defend anyone with an R next to their name.
If Trump ran as a Democrat, do you really think conservative media would ignore his obvious sundowning and pants shitting?

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

What about Elon of the weirdos gang?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

They don't care either; Vance is one of their creatures.

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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

Remember though…. bOtH siDeS r tEh sAmE!

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