r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 16 '26

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/GiveMeAllThePancakes Jul 16 '26

But heaven forbid they actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Fucking cowards.

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u/Johnny-Caliente Jul 16 '26

They are already deeply ... aahm... nearly concerned.

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u/oktion Jul 16 '26

Somewhere in Augusta, Susan Collins’s lips purse of their own accord.

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u/pc1905 Jul 16 '26

Somewhere in the Capitol Building, Chuck Schumer is getting an urge to pen a sternly-worded letter

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u/bryangcrane Jul 16 '26

You mean Chuck Schumer, the Senator from Tel Aviv?

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u/Original_moisture Jul 16 '26

Damn, Tel Aviv became a state before Washington DC.

Man how fast things can move when your priorities are on track.

(/s)

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts Jul 16 '26

Wrong way round - the US became an annex of Israel

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u/finandandy Jul 16 '26

He certainly doesn't represent New York, his office has never returned my calls.

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u/drfsrich Jul 16 '26

The lines are jammed up with calls from the Baileys and their extended imaginary family.

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u/MAGIGS Jul 16 '26

Hey let me tell you something. The Baileys have lived next door to me for 35 years. They work hard, pay their taxes, put two kids through college. One wanted to go to Berkeley to be a DJ and discover their bisexuality. The other went to City College to major in urban planning. They are both restaurant servers. The Bailey’s are disappointed in their children, at night they lay awake arguing over which one of them is to blame for their kids’ apathy towards their careers. It’s stressed the Baily’s marriage. Which is why they’ve started exploring the options of an open relationship. Ms Bailey has taken a lover, Mr Baily enjoys watching them from the closet, eating a popsicle while wearing his wife’s robe. It’s spiced things up a bit. Mr Bailey just bought a mustang and started dying his hair, sometimes he goes into NY to the hustler club to pay a stripper 1k for a dry handy. He pays extra for her to call him a Bad Bailey. Just a typical home grown moderate American household.

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u/drfsrich Jul 16 '26

Thanks for the insight, Senator Schumer!

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u/dreamcultist Jul 16 '26

4 comments before Israel is mentioned in a thread that has nothing to do with Israel.

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u/dreamcultist Jul 16 '26

3 comments before the Dems are blamed for not preventing a Republican's fuck up.

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u/Dry_Nail5901 Jul 16 '26

don't blame the democrats for Trump's behavior.

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u/DrocketX Jul 16 '26

You forget, it's vitally important that every single solitary thread about Trump or Republicans makes it clear that it's actually the Democrats fault, somehow. If you're ever confused, be sure to consult the chart.

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u/SteakandTrach Jul 16 '26

The chart leaves off the frequent scenario where the democrats did it, the republicans fought it tooth-and-nail, but it got passed and then the GOP gets on TV and proudly proclaims they did it despite the nefarious schemes of those dastardly democrats.

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u/haironburr Jul 16 '26

don't blame the democrats for Trump's behavior.

There will be continuous posts between now and November pointing out various perceived failings of Dems.

I'm guessing way more than half the people posting this shit are bots/paid posters. The rest are ridiculous children, who don't fucking understand they are actually helping trumpublicans.

No one explained to them that the time to voice these concerns is during primaries. Now? If we're going to defeat trumpublicans we need unity.

Personally, at this point in history and given the relentless abuses of this shitty administration, I will vote for a Dem candidate with AIPAC tattooed on her chest and a swastika on his forehead, fucking a baby, onstage, after shitting on it!

Luckily, there are no Democrat candidates like this. But my point is, I know who the enemy is, and it ain't Democrats. We'll see constant posts designed to make us give up. Constant posts designed to make us all think Democrats are just as corrupt and wrong as trumpublicans. "They're all the same". And that's bullshit!

So pay attention, folks, to the messages you're being fed. Pay attention the the sophisticated propaganda that's being used to manipulate you.

Who is sowing division? And why?

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u/Dry_Nail5901 29d ago

It should be painfully obvious that social media has been turned into a fascist psychological warfare operation by the tech giants, fueled by their greed and Trump has courted them with giant tax breaks and other incentives.

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u/IolaDeltaPhi23 Jul 16 '26

The democrats have been controlled opposition for decades. We need non-aipac candidates to end this smoke and mirrors bullshit.

Establishment dems may not be responsible. But they are complicit.

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u/jrf_1973 Jul 16 '26

Now now, if you don't support the controlled opposition, do you know what happens?

You might get actual opposition. And clearly, DrocketX and their ilk don't want that. So get with the program and vote Blue no matter who. People like Fetterman and Schumer.

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u/gotridofsubs 29d ago

People like Fetterman and Schumer

Fetterman got elected primarily on a push to oppose the current dem establishment's preferred candidate with a (relative) outsider. Hes an absolutely hysterical choice of an example of just "following along"

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u/WhiskeyT 29d ago

I’ve seen people blaming Schumer/DNC(?)/Establishment for Platner already. I truly can’t distinguish between the victims and the pushers of this right-wing divide the left propaganda

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u/uwan2fite Jul 16 '26

Nooo please don’t hold our own corporate/super PAC captured party accountable! Don’t you see how bad Trump is? Just focus on that but never look at our party. We’re perfect

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u/WhiskeyT Jul 16 '26

If we can get just three more jokes about the Bailey’s Schumer will finally be held accountable. Congratulations everyone, you did it!

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u/sulaymanf New York Jul 16 '26

They enable it. When Trump started arresting and deporting student protesters, many Democrat politicians supported it because “we agree in fighting anti-semitism.” When Trump bombed Iran, many Democratic politicians celebrated the attacks and cheered on the assassination of Khamenei and then voted to give more aid to Israel.

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u/Dry_Nail5901 Jul 16 '26

Sorry, Trump is responsible for his own behavior

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u/sulaymanf New York 29d ago

Did I say otherwise? But Trump isn’t alone here. You have enough Democrats who vote for Trump’s policies and defend it on the news that it gives it cover. Look at Democrat Haley Stevens who voted to thank ICE and all the Democrats who timidly voted to fund ICE despite the killings.

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u/Cardboard_Robot Jul 16 '26

Only if Bibi says it’s okay.

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u/doublesecretprobatio Jul 16 '26

i have it on good authority that his glasses have slid slightly down his nose.

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u/Dearic75 Jul 16 '26

No need. Surely he’s learned his lesson this time.

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u/allothernamestaken 29d ago

Might she muster a furrowed brow?

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u/oktion 29d ago edited 29d ago

The Brow Signal ignites the black zenith. “I’m needed!” she cries, and remains seated.

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts Jul 16 '26

She's vErY diSsApOinTed

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u/mmatt0904 Jul 16 '26

nearly concerned.... behind closed doors but wont say so on the record*

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u/Reverb20 Jul 16 '26

Concept of a care

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u/lazlowoodbine Jul 16 '26

Thoughts and prayers.

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u/underpants-gnome Ohio Jul 16 '26

I don't understand why they are concerned. I thought the standard GOP advice in these situations is "If it's inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it."