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Weirdo ex-president wants everyone to know that he is NOT DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by FlyingSquid to c/political_weirdos

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[–] Zombiepirate 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's so funny how much the weird thing pisses off conservatives.

It inflames their deepest insecurities.

[–] krashmo 26 points 2 months ago

I'm not weird, you're weird. Look somewhere else. I'm not crying.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still talking about it days later. That's how you know it was a great speech

[+] [email protected] -30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I found it to be an extremely pro-war speech. But I doubt Trump had problems with that part of the speech.

[–] taiyang 16 points 2 months ago

It wasn't a bad speech, we're just not the target audience. Going "tough" is to counter bs notions that a woman would be soft on military (and it is bs, but your fellow voters are idiots). It's something Hillary tried too, but she was significantly less likable so she mostly came across as shrill.

She's banking on more progressive voters to assume she's not really so hawkish, or in my case, focus on the domestic issues I agree with.

[–] StarshotJohn 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any specific part you are referencing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some sentences are dispersed throughout the speech, but the majority are between the 30:00 - 36:00 minute marks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o10x76nSDEY

[–] StarshotJohn 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the reply and link

[–] eran_morad 51 points 2 months ago

Cringe af

[–] EleventhHour 36 points 2 months ago

Whatever you say, grandpa…

[–] jordanlund 22 points 2 months ago

"Ratings machine!"

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/dnc-ratings-rnc-trump-tv-crowds-rcna168089

"The DNC outperformed the RNC in a category that will probably vex Trump

TV ratings for conventions are far from an accurate indicator of who wins elections. But those numbers could very well upset a certain ratings-obsessed Republican."

[–] someguy3 19 points 2 months ago

They call me sob they do.

[–] garretble 19 points 2 months ago

❄️

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy 18 points 2 months ago

The weirdest thing here is: the sentence structure looks like a staffer! Even his staffers are writing weird shit now!

[–] Neon 14 points 2 months ago

How good we're NOT GIVING HIM THE ATTENTION HE'S SO DESPERATE TO GET

[–] xantoxis 14 points 2 months ago

My "he called me, I didn't call him" shirt is raising questions already answered by the shirt

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But didn't fox news cut him off because he was rambling?

[–] normanwall 2 points 2 months ago

It's really amusing watching the hosts trying to figure out when they can get a word in and wrap up his interviews, he used to do it more frequently and wouldn't shut the fuck up.

[–] captainlezbian 9 points 2 months ago

Yawn. His act certainly is old and weird, much like he is.

[–] schema 8 points 2 months ago

Crazy ex vibes

[–] SassyRamen 7 points 2 months ago

What a weird loser.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 6 points 2 months ago

no fracking

What a weird thing to put first in his list of things Kamala Harris didn't talk about.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 6 points 2 months ago

It says a lot that even though he clearly didn't type this out himself (too much punctuation, too little all-caps yelling - so he probably dictated it to a relatively normal human being), it still comes across as weird. Not even being smoothed out by someone else can take away the weird edges.