President Trump got in the face of ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asked him a question about the rationale behind his national midterm voter bribe.
“Mr. President, on the checks: The U.S. is still $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?” she asked Thursday night.
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“lunges” fucking click bait bullshit.
Well, with the way he stands, the slightest move forward could be interpreted as a lunge…
I’d more likely assume he was falling over. I’d say that’s irresponsibly generous, though. A mild cough could be interpreted as impending death.
What I was gonna say. More like immature backlash.
Misogynist bullshit that breaks all sense of decency at a minimum. “Immature backlash” is the least of what’s wrong here, imho. Not to disagree with you, mind.
Remember “QUIET, PIGGY!”
Definitely immature backlash. But more of a slight and slow lean forward, lunging implies a lot more. But hey, words today seem capable of transforming into any feeling, whenever needed so…who knows.
I assume they mean as in a verbal lunge, but as much as I hate clickbait shit, this doesn’t bother me even if it was meant as clickbait just because the actual situation is so bad that I don’t think putting it that way really oversells the sheer unacceptableness and misogyny.
But I"m normally on your side on these things, so I mean, you still got my upvote…
Ikr, it’s ok to use your size to intimidate women. They’re not even real people. Fake news!
…projection much…
The “greatest president”, you fucking wish, worst fuck up president definitely.
Twice!
Anyone have the actual video? The link does not, and a 5 minute startpage search didn’t find it either, god search engines suck now.
I could only find YouTube links unfortunately. https://youtu.be/HfCwnptZNH0
Ah thanks!
He really does have a thing with woman questioning or criticizing him, or blacks. He’s so much worse this term too.
Imagine the things he said about Kamala that we’ll probably never hear.
The link does have the video you just have to scroll. They made it very small as well, but it’s there.
I wouldn’t call it a lunge and that seems to be clickbait. He got closer and leaned in to tell a reporter to shut up basically.
What I found interesting is how much his speech is slurring and how slowly he’s moving in general.
Indeed honestly it wasn’t a lunge. Just another misogynistic disrespect of another female reporter. He really doesn’t like woman questioning him.
His health is getting bad, I’ve seen hm decline since after 2020, he’s a shell of the man he was then. He fell asleep, what is it now, 34 times or something at official events on camera this term so far? He has no internal filter left, openly admitting to patheticly giving himself awards and such.
god search engines suck now.
Truly. The enshittify. It sucks.
Remember that enshittify is just a colloquialism for how capitalism works.
Enh. I disagree, but acknowledge it’s arguable. It sucks either way!
I’d say how it was supposed to work vs how its actually worked. One is a work of fiction on the level of twilight, the other is historically important. Capitalism can’t control or regulate itself. Not as long as people are in control.
It can, but it doesn’t. Whether that’s because people-are-evil or not is a different discussion. Strong regulation, judiciously applied, makes a fair market better.
Of course money is the root of all evil, but then we like stuff.
No disrespect. If it “can” when did it ever? If never, then can it really?
The one and only time we ever came close in the United States was around the new deal. But that was forced on the capitalist. And they spent the next hundred years dismantling it again.
The 70s had some good progrss in several areas. Conservative/republican/fascist assholes focused on media right after that and that’s why it’s all been going to shit, but if we could shake off this fascist cult and elect a decent government they could get back on track.
No, you were sold a lie. This is how it’s always supposed to have worked.
keep the pressure on. he’s gonna snap and physically assault one of these reporters.
I agree that we are headed that way.
Yeah I was thinking about how that would maybe actually become a big deal.
Then I remembered about that GOP politician that literally body slammed a reporter and barely got a slap on the wrist.
He did not lose his job. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even get censured. So correction: it would be a big deal if a Democrat did it. Hell, I bet if a Democratic president had done this exact action in the OP, he’d be impeached. The hypocritical pearl clutching would be off the charts.
Edit: Greg Gianforte. The current Governor of Montana.
Body slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in 2017. Pled guilty to misdemeanor assault, then went on to continue winning elections until becoming the chief executive of an entire state.
This country is a piece of shit.
It will be deemed an official action and therefore legal.
And it should go to court to determine if that’s the case, as suggested by SCOTUS. Let the lower courts decide, don’t decide for them in the court of (a small fraction of the )public ('s) opinion.
He could be found not guilty due to Presidential action all day long for not committing assault and battery for all I care.
So long as the boxing champ working for AXY news or whatever is also found to have acted in self defense in accordance to their jurisdiction after their reflexive and mighty right hook starts a needed constitutional crisis.
The courts can handle the absurdity.
Not that the presidential immunity is ok at all, far from it.
But there’s a vital distinction between “Can’t be charged for anything while performing Presidential duties” and “Anyone who exercises a legal right that crosses unto the protected person has that legal right deactivated”.
Which…yes, pretty much is defacto currently for 99/100 things that any aggrieved party could claim as a grievance committed by the US. Gov, currently and effectively, I’m aware.
But unstoppable force meeting immovable mouth?
I feel codifying that too deeply would be a legal bridge too far.
Not for decency but because what it means for the puppeteering interests. The reporter would be more at risk of ending in a black site than a courtroom, imo.
The self-defender wouldn’t live to see trial. The secret service would eliminate them before their fist connected, let alone the matter reached court.
It doesn’t matter how big or tough you are. It does not matter what is legal, what is right or wrong, or any other factor. The victim would be dead, and the perp would be immune.
The secret service would eliminate them before their fist connected, let alone the matter reached court.
I don’t think you’re appreciating the different reaction times and speeds here. The punch would be a response to Trump’s lunge. It could be very fast and almost instinctual. The secret service response would be slower.
Even if the reporter had a secret service agent person standing behind them with a gun to their head and their finger on the trigger, the secret service agent wouldn’t be able to react that fast. Primarily because they weren’t planning to shoot the person and it’s difficult to tell if they’re just flinching or counter punching for a split second.
Before or after the punch connects makes little difference to the corpse, but it’s possible if it’s the right person I guess.
What you’re saying doesn’t make sense to me, as a person who has trained to react to similar situations. I’m going to switch to talking about this as a generic bodyguard protecting a client situation because it feels wrong to talk about striking the president, even in self defense.
A person who defends themselves by punching once as a quick reaction is not going to be taking a threatening posture. In fact, they’ll be on the back foot backing away. Any decent bodyguard wouldn’t be considering using lethal force at that moment. They would be getting in between their client and the boxer. They’re not blind to the fact that it was their client who made the aggressive move, and the other person was just reacting and trying to get away.
And I don’t think it matters much who the people involved are. As long as they’ve developed those boxing reflexes, even a person who is just a boxing gym regular would react faster than the fastest bodyguard. This is because one person is reacting on pure instinct, while the other has to make a judgement.
A bodyguard’s job is not to simply execute any person who their client attacks.
Except we’re not talking about a regular bodyguard are we. We’re talking about protecting an office, not a person. An idea, not a human being. It does not matter of the office holder is right or wrong in that moment. The office must be protected, and that includes from people with a rightful grievance against its current occupant.
anyone trained well enough to throw One Serious Punch is trained well enough to not throw One Serious Punch :ε
ice found that when one of their great great great grandfather came over on Ellis Island an "I* was not dotted in their name this it’s not legal
Who am I fucking kidding here, ice would just disappear them and unalive em without hesitation while wearing masks in unmarked cars like this microdicked pussy ass bitches they are
It would go through state court.
Remember, he wants you to pretend he’s on the ballots this November in the midterm elections - say “Not you” this November.
When Trump heard the phrase “the buck stops here” he thought it meant all the money, and not the responsibility of decisions.
I know, that’s giving a lot saying “he thought”.
lunge? did we watch the same video? he moves forward like an old man hard of hearing while respecting her space
He didn’t lunge, but nothing was respectful about it. He got in her face to yell at her
yeah true, smh… idk how people can tolerate this disrespect for money
It’s a fair question, and seeing as things are going so well he should have been more than happy to answer.
“I didn’t do it for turning out the vote, I did it as a reward for people having to put up with five years and four years of a horrible situation caused by Biden,” Trump replied
Then why doesn’t he do it today?
Biden really does have a big rent free palace in that empty brain of Trump’s.
implying trump even has a brain
You know, there are a few places where being that physically aggressive would get you shot.
If Rachel Scott putt a right cross in that demented rapist’s swollen orange spewbucket the internet would have exploded. She’d retire rich and we’d be on our way to fixing this decimated hellscape.
Stand your ground laws, do your thing.
Or at the very least pepper spray the kiddie-diddler-in-chief.
Lunges, come on. I hate headlines like this. You don’t have to exaggerate when the shit he actually does is already so awful.
Get Mike Tyson to ask His Orangeness some hardball questions and see his “tough guy” act dissolve.
Trump gets so bent out of shape by anything he takes as even the slightest insult. Someone should call him a loser to his face. I bet he’ll shit his pants and have a stroke on the spot.
It would be even more hilarious than that.
Assuming he couldn’t just TACO and leave the encounter at the first opportunity anyways.
He’d be trying to one-up the exchange but he’s neither smart enough for genuine roasting quips, nor half as crass as an instigator could be.
Just constant sad old man energy “No you’s” while getting dunked on.
Would take him like 30 seconds of genuinely facing vocal opposition he can’t simply pay to have stop, before he folds and completely narcissists-implodes into full body tantrums his physique can’t cash.
