@Sagittarius_Galaxie @diritschka @haiku_shelf "Our #president will start a war with #Iran because he has absolutely no ability to #negotiate. He's #weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get #reelected, and as sure as you're sitting there, is to start a war with Iran."

Wer hat's gesagt? https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/114725332661258097 (#Trump über #Obama, November 2011)

Seth Jones, president of the defense & security department of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (#CSIS), describes the #US role so far in the negotiations as "relatively #weak" & cautions that if the admin were to walk away from the talks "it would fundamentally shift the balance of power in the #war to the Russian side."

He adds that European nations could not easily or quickly replace the #intelligence that the US has provided.

Why are #Democrats so #weak in the face of #DonaldTrump’s #attack on #democracy?

In one of the worst weeks for the #country, #Democrats took a breather instead of #pushingback against #Trump.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/why-are-democrats-so-weak-in-the-face-of-donald-trumps-attack-on-democracy/

#ShadyVance’s (#JDVance) #Weak #Excuse for his “#Pet Eating” #Lie Just #BlewUp In His Face.

At bottom, Vance’s whole purpose of running with this #grotesque #scam about #Haitians has not been to draw attention to the #story of #Springfield, but to #rewrite it.

https://newrepublic.com/series/48/jd-vances-weak-excuse-pet-eating-lie-just-blew-face

"After Kamala Harris’s shellacking of Donald Trump at the debate, Trump ventured on to Fox News, where he attacked the moderators as deeply biased against him. Incredibly, he even said their network, ABC News, should have its broadcasting license revoked. This is really a show of weakness: What enraged him is that real scrutiny was applied to the lies he can air unchallenged on right-wing media."

~ Greg Sargent

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #ShrinkingMan #ManChild
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"The media has a duty to no longer play coy about the imminent threat our globe faces. We, as journalists, must acknowledge our enemies, and the weapons they are using that cause us to tear ourselves apart, allow cries of civil war, and the ongoing mind warping dragging people into alternate realities.

The only stage that man should have is a public sidewalk, wearing handcuffs, going into a courthouse."

~ Heidi Cuda

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism
/12

https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/kabuki-demon-masks

"A presidential debate isn’t just an argument. It’s a job interview. If you win the argument but come off as a jerk, you might lose the election.

When your opponent tells people that you care only about yourself, no amount of talking about yourself can answer that charge."

~ Will Saletan

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism
/11

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/narcissist-donald-trump-lost-the-presidential-debate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"It wasn’t the moderators or the network, or even Harris, who forced Trump to begin ranting that 'they’re eating the dogs!' That was all Trump. Ever the showman, he may understand just how awful last night’s show was for him—which is why he’s pointing the finger at everyone else."

~ Tom Nichols

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism #loser
/10

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/09/trump-blames-everybody-but-himself/679797/

"Be on the lookout for gender bias in the wake of the debate, and in general. Call people out on their shit. Do not let it fester and proliferate and become a thing on social media. If Harris is labelled too shrill, too mean, too condescending, or too abrasive, name it for what it is: misogyny of the kind that loses crucial elections."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #misogyny #ShrinkingMan #loser
/9

"It was, in many ways, a delight to watch Harris win the debate so decisively. ('I have a concept of a plan,' Trump ended up whining, limply.) Unfortunately, however, Harris is likely to be punished by many people for her display of competence. Already she has been called 'insufferable,' her voice likened to 'fingernails running uninterrupted down a blackboard.' Her faces were 'off-putting.'”

~ Kate Manne

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #loser #misogyny
/8

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/harris-wiped-the-floor-with-trump

"She beat him with the facts, and she beat him to the punch. She watched, her eyes sparkling, as the tired, angry old racist trotted out his predictable rancid tropes, and exposed himself for what he is, while also managing to bury himself even further into his dark, empty corner."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #ManChild #weak #ShrinkingMan #loser
/7

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/she-handled-him

"Trump is like 'one of those big balloons when you stick a pin in and it swirls around the room until it comes down to nothing,' Nancy Pelosi told Anderson Cooper last night. She said 'he's just greatly diminished.'"

~ Brian Stelter

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #ManChild #weak #ShrinkingMan #loser
/6

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1726144893687238c6722bc0a/raw

"Not only did Vice President Kamala Harris expose my uncle’s weakness on the debate stage last night, which left him seething with rage and reduced to sputtering incoherence, she also gave millions of us something we have needed for almost a decade — catharsis."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #weakness #ShrinkingMan #loser
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