‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity  at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.

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    I mean, there’s so much bullshit to use against them we hardly need to stoop to lies. The truth is already incredibly damning and is tearing them apart right now.

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      “Couch fucker” is catchy though, it rolls off the tongue, it’s easy to remember

      ‘Diaper Don and the couch fucker’ is a great response to ‘sleepy joe and low iq karolla’ or whatever tf trump is calling her

      — it sucks that this is where American political discourse is, but this is where THEY brought it to. Taking the high road isn’t a virtue when dealing with a bully and it isn’t effective.

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      The thing about lies is that they demonstrably work a lot better than the truth on the segment of voters we need to reach. They’re practically begging to be lied to, so I say give them what they want. If they wanted the truth, it would be extremely easy for them to find it.

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      “When they go low, we go high” almost never works in politics. So good luck telling people that they’re smearing poor J.D. Vance with a terrible lie.

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        I’m not saying we go high. By all means, rip into them. The Harris campaign is doing a great job of that, using the truth. There’s so much ammunition that the lies are just a drop in the bucket and serve no real purpose other than distortion. It’s just pretty pointless.

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          and serve no real purpose other than distortion.

          Dude, I just showed you that Jesse Watters devoted airtime to getting upset about it. So that’s demonstrably untrue.

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            Also, it creates social media engagement much like this thread, so that whether or not somebody believes the truth (that JD personally documented the experience of losing his virginity to a musty piece of furniture) they’re still engaging with the idea the whole time they read and respond. That’s called memetic fitness.

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              And every moment spent by Republicans defending Vance against this rumor is a moment not spent on campaigning for Trump.

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            I hear what expr is saying though - several Democratic-voting people I know actually thought it was real in the initial scrum of the meme. That part I’m not so big on. Everyone going wink-wink-nudge dude fucked a couch is fine.

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              What difference does it make if they think it’s real? I don’t see how that makes a difference in the grand scheme of things. People believe much sillier things that aren’t true all the time.

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                I’d prefer my own political party to believe truthful things. Despite the wild success the reverse has shown in other parties.

                Call it a quirk.

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                  Well, put your mind at ease. The Democratic Party doesn’t think jd Vance fucked a couch.

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                    Which members? Because 100% for sure some of them believe it. When I heard it “was in the first edition of the book” part I was sorely tempted myself.

                    It’s a trifle. Not important, and barely a whisper of a shadow of the simplest lie the republiQans tell on an hourly basis. But for the record, there absolutely are Democrats voting for Kamala that believe it to be true. That’s just how media works. Especially when it’s so plausible.

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                  Well then wake me up when they stop deifying JFK. Otherwise I’m not too concerned about a couch-fucking rumor.

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                    When Democrats stop deifying JFK?

                    Well, I guess you’d have to specify. For one thing that was six decades ago.

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          The rest of the world can’t do shit about your elections. And it’s scary as hell. So please keep throwing shit around it make the train wreck more entertaining.