‘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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[–] 228 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They're only worried that it will happen before the election.

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  • [–] 119 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well, they probably also realize that if it happens after he wins, and he can't continue in office, then no couch in the country is safe.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Vance's first presidential decree: All couches shall from now on be referred to as loveseats

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I am worried about his homosectional agenda.

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  • [–] 187 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Headlines like this have existed for the entire time Trump has been in the political spotlight.

    Do not trust conservatives will see this and agree. Do not get complacent. Vote. Encourage friends and family to vote.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    At this point the people who are already Trump supporters will not be swayed. He was always nuts, he was always weird, he always spewed out nonsensical word-salad. The fight is for independents who are still on the fence, and everyone on both sides considers them gullible idiots, and campaign strategy will reflect that.

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    [–] 119 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    It's called a Narcissist Shame/Rage Spiral.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's only a handful of people in the world trump could beat in an election...

    And he never imagined Biden would actually get out of the way, so he has no idea what to do now that it's not Biden.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I am absolutely convinced that Trump's entire election strategy was to just coast to victory on "Biden old" and "I got shot". By the time of the republican convention he was confident that he had it in the bag and didn't need to keep trying, so when Biden dropped out it completely shattered his plan and he's got nothing to replace it. He does not have the cognitive ability to pivot against Harris/Walz and his ego is way too big to actually listen to his campaign strategists (if he even has any that aren't just yes men).

    * this should not be interpreted as complacency. It is definitely not a sure thing that Harris will win

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Harris isn't a guaranteed win, but she'd have to royally fuck up to blow this election.

    trump just isn't as popular as he used to be. The last two elections there was trump shit all over my red state. I haven't seen a single trump bumpper sticker. Not even old ones from prior elections.

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    [–] 104 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If he wins, his legal troubles go away. If he loses they come back with a vengeance.

    Looks like this weird old man is starting to get nervous and lash out.

    Please continue.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Finding out the Supreme Court isn't going give him unlimited power might've blown a gasket.

    On top of what you said if Harris wins a prosecutor who Trump constantly insults will be president, and Biden, who Trump also insults and put his son in prison, will have 3 months to do whatever the fuck he wants. Lol

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    All true except Biden had nothing to do with his son being prosecuted. At most, Biden will allow him to go to prison by leaving office without pardoning him (which I believe he will do, because it's the not-corrupt thing to do.)

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    No, he absolutely should pardon Hunter. He should acknowledge the hypocrisy in a public statement, though. He should note the broad power the Supreme Court has given him to take Official Actions like this with impunity, and double-dog dare Congress to do whatever it takes to rein in abuses like that.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Has his behavior changed? Trump seems to be spouting the same kind of nonsense he always has. This just seems to be more of the same weird rants.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago* (48 children)

    The behavior hasn't substantially changed, but the narrative is shifting. Trump took office on the back of a wave of sardonic, nihilistic memes. He was constantly excused for being bigoted and unintelligible because his dork enlightenment cronies could cynically spin everything as nine dimensional water backgammon. The fact they weren't making sense was a plus, not a minus.

    Biden dropping out and team Kamala stepping up so hard so fast on the meme front has completely taken the right by surprise. They weren't mobilized to defend against this. So now they're on the back foot, the memes from the mainstream left are sharper and meaner than Trumpworld has ever had to deal with before, and the messaging is laser focused.

    Spouting nonsense only works if it looks like you're winning by doing so. Don just keeps showing how old, tired, and weak he really is, so the cracks are forming. Just think of all the political capital he's spent trying to make diapers cool, and then he makes a VP pick who Snopes has confirmed literally fucked a couch on live video.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's rich that he is claiming she has a low IQ when he got gentlemen Cs while at Penn. One of his professors called him his worst student ever.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

    How about this: instead of a debate they both take an IQ test created and administered by a neutral party. Recordings of them taking the test will be released to the public once they are both finished.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago

    .... But they will vote for him anyway, because doing otherwise is basically admitting you were wrong all along, and they would never do that.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This article is bullshit.

    Republicans don't actually think that.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Theoretically, what would happen if this close to the election, the stress causes a blood vessel to burst and Trump just strokes out?

    I mean, besides the post-jedi levels of celebration, would Vance just be inserted into the ticket if it's too far along to have a new primary?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    A bigger question is, how could we tell that even happened?

    Edit: I mean short of him dying or becoming a drooling vegetable. The man is already deeply deranged and exhibiting significant mental declind

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Cry baby snowflake felon is little cry baby snowflake felon - big shocker here

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    ‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’

    He had some?

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “Donald Trump is losing his marbles”

    Yeah, that’s been obvious for a while.

    I wonder if the republicans want to do a copycat switcheroo of the Dems replacing Biden and replace Trump with someone younger and more quietly fascist. But oh well, this is the monster they created. They’re stuck with him.

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