This is a good article on the Orban playbook Trump and Republicans plan to follow:

The Orbanisation of America: Hungary's lessons for Donald Trump

Viktor Orban has seized control of nearly all the levers of power in Hungary since he became prime minister in 2010, effectively turning the country into an electoral autocracy.

Republicans in the US have noticed Orban's success. Orban's Fidesz party and the Republicans have lately strengthened their links significantly; Republicans appear to have learned from the former's march through Hungarian institutions.

In the four years since President Donald Trump left office, veterans of his administration have thought hard about how to make a new administration more effective than the last. Many believe that a similar seizure of control of the instruments of US governance is necessary.

If Trump wins the presidency, Republicans will likely adapt many of Orban's techniques to the US context to end what they view as liberal control of the "administrative state" and civil society.

If Trump wins next week and Republicans keep the House and take back the Senate, I expect the first hundred days of Trump's presidency to be a shock and awe take down of our current system of government. The groundwork has been laid down by the SC granting Trump immunity, and the plans via Project 2025 are in place. They are going to deconstruct the administrative state as Bannon once predicted they would. They know they will have to act quickly and without hesitation, and I believe they will. Chaos and confusion will ensue as they begin to undo the New Deal and strip away the social safety net. If there is any media bold enough to honestly report what is happening, they will be dealt with by buying out the owners and/or arresting the reporters. If average citizes take to the streets to protest, Trump will call out the National Guard/military to put those protests down. They have Orban's blueprint to follow, and they will follow it. See for yourself--creating Soros as the enemy, "Hungary is for Hungarians," building a fence, criminalizing migrants, consolidating the media under state control, creating a new constitution, instituting Christian nationism, eliminating LGBTQ rights, the list goes on:

#16 Ahh, TY, Lamp. The was a really nice thing to say.

I don't think all Republicans are garbage. The ones whe are no longer voting for him are not garbage. I don't think all Trump supporters are garbage either, but I do think a certain percentage of them are the deplorables Hillary Clinton described as I explained above.

You don't think this was walking them back?:

Biden then took to social media to personally clarify what he said.

"Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage--which is the only word I can think of to describe it," he posted on X. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation."

Trump supporters are garbage.
Prove me wrong.
#11 | Posted by ClownShack

I do think some of them are the deplorables Hillary described them to be. There were a lot of deplorables who stormed the Capitol on 1/6, and judging from the speeches and the cheers in response to those speeches, there where a lot of deplorables at MSG on Sunday.

Gal, you might have to convince ClownBeater otherwise.
Good luck with that.
#6 | Posted by oneironaut

I doubt I'll be able to convince anyone of anything:

Nearly half of US voters see opposing political party as 'downright evil': Polls

A survey conducted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University found that while 75% of Republicans who believe that Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, won the 2020 election, view Democrats as "downright evil", fewer than half of Democrats share this view of Republicans.

"Do you imagine Biden will walk back his statements about Trump supporters being garbage?
Biden suggests Trump supporters are garbage' after comic's insult of Puerto Rico
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He walked them back in the article you linked to:

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden "referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage.'"
Biden then took to social media to personally clarify what he said.

"Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage--which is the only word I can think of to describe it," he posted on X. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation."

I don't think Biden meant all Trump supporters are garbage. I think he meant the one(s) who spoke at the MSG rally on Sunday are garbage:

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden "referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage.'"

Biden then took to social media to personally clarify what he said.

"Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage--which is the only word I can think of to describe it," he posted on X. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation."

Here's what Elon's co-chair of the prospective Trump administration's "Department of Government Efficiency" had to say about America's future at Trump's MSG rally on Sunday:

Cantor Fitzgerald chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick came out and spoke of how his firm was decimated on September 11 when a plane struck just below their offices in the World Trade Center, how they'd given lots of money to the families, and then he finally provided a clear answer to that nine-year-old question: When, exactly, was America great?

The Gilded Age.

The crowd was a bit miffed when Lutnick extolled the virtues of the "turn-of-the-century" economy, and they didn't rouse much when he explained he was referring to 1900. They perked up a bit when he explained this meant "no income tax," though it was more of a smattering of cheers.

"All we had was tariffs!" he explained, probably expecting more of a roar, "and we had so much money that we had the greatest businessmen of America get together to try to figure out how to spend it!" Near-silence. "That's who we were then."

And there it was. We should return to the days when all the money flowed into a handful of pockets, when the Carnegies and Rockefellers got to make all the rules, and the way that billionaires like Lutnick will seek to do that is by getting Trump in there to abolish the income tax--as if any of them pay their fair share as it is. This was Reaganomics on anarcho-capitalist steroids, and the fairly frosty reception it got in the arena was a reminder of how much more effective Trump's economic populism has been for Republicans, even if he ended up signing the same old tax-cut-for-rich-people once elected.

If she can't prove her citizenship in order to vote in Texas, how is she going to prove her citizenship in order to stay in this country when the mass deportations begin should Trump be elected?

FTA:

"Health care reform's going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we're going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table," Johnson, R-La., said in Bethlehem while campaigning for GOP House candidate Ryan Mackenzie, according to video footage obtained by NBC News.

"No Obamacare?" one attendee asked Johnson, referring to the law Democrats passed in 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act.

"No Obamacare," Johnson responded, rolling his eyes. "The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that."

What could possibly go wrong?:

FTA: Trump has said he would appoint Musk to lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency," an agency that Musk would use to "trim the fat" from government operations and, presumably, enact sweeping cuts to public programs. The department, referred to by the acronym DOGE is a nod to Musk's favored meme cryptocurrency.

Also:

BREAKING: RFK Jr. says Donald Trump has promised him "control of the public health agencies."

RFK Jr. says "Trump has promised me ... control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others."

FTA:

Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump's blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk's remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.

"We have to reduce spending to live within our means. And that necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity," Musk stated in the call, fully endorsing the strain Trump's policies would place on Americans. Musk's words make it clear that the disruption is not an unintended side effect but an accepted"if not desired"outcome.

"He's Mexican making a Mexican joke" -- Internet defends George Lopez's Mexicans speech after criticizing Tony Hinchcliffe's Puerto Rico joke

That's the point I made yesterday when the topic came up on the Nooner:

Lopez is of Mexican descent. I tend to cut people who joke about their own self, family, culture some slack.
#16 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-28 09:33 AM

Yes. He's also been endorsing him repeatedly on Kill Tony, where a new generation of minority, disabled, and LGBTQ comics have made a mark and built careers.
We live in a weird world.
#51 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Thanks for the info.

Yes. He's also been endorsing him repeatedly on Kill Tony, where a new generation of minority, disabled, and LGBTQ comics have made a mark and built careers.
We live in a weird world.
#51 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Did he roast Trump and the GOP? Again, just wondering because I didn't see/hear his act.

Beyonce was asked to come and endorse Harris (or more likely she volunteered to do so). She did. Hinchcliffe was asked to come and perform. He did, and I assume was appropriately compensated (although I hope he got the check in advance). Did Hinchliffe also directly endorse Trump during his routine? I don't know because I didn't see/hear his act from that day.

The survivor doesn't believe Kelly's story that Harris does believe:

His remarks arrive in the wake of Harris's impromptu Wednesday appearance in which she echoed an alleged story by former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, that "while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had.'"

"I know President Trump, and he would never say this, and Kamala Harris knows this," Wartski said. "She owes my parents and everybody else who was murdered by Hitler an apology for repeating this lie."

Jews should support Trump because he is a mensch, a man of integrity, morality, and dignity, the survivor said.

"I believe that President Trump is definitely going to be good for Israel because everything that he's done up to now was in favor," according to Wartski. "He never double-crossed anyone, and he never showed any weakness."

"Watching President Trump pray for the hostages at the Ohel and spending time with them ... so meaningful. He has always stood with the Jewish people and the state of Israel," he added.

The Holocaust survivor is wrong because Harris never compared Trump to ------. She reiterated what Kelly said about Trump wanting generals like Hitler. I wouldn't go so far as to say as, Vance did, that Trump is America's ------. I would, however, say that Trump uses the same language that Hitler used, which is what the video in the link I provided upthread demonstrates.

"The person was a Democrat party rep for the county I believe."

HCDP confirms woman screaming at child was misidentified as Jordan Bowen

Jordan Sierra Bowen was misidentified as the woman in a viral video yelling at a child during a Kamala Harris rally.

Imagine defending the freak show at MSG.
#28 | Posted by cbob at 2024-10-28 10:48 PM | Reply | Flag:
Bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes would be like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not having her.. oh...
#42 | Posted by sitzkrieg

In that clip, Stewart defended the comedian, whose jokes he said he finds funny. I didn't see the show. Did he also defend the other speakers at the rally who weren't comedians?

In the end in terms of the election, it doesn't matter what most of us think about the joke about PR. What matters is what Puerto Rican Americans think about it and only then if it influences how they vote.

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck:

"A Holocaust survivor shamed Vice President Kamala Harris for comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and demanded that she apologize"

JD Vance called Trump America's ------. Any apology demanded from him as well?

Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!
#179 | Posted by truthhurts

Oh sheet. I just hit the Offensive Flag for that post rather than the Funny Flag. Sorry, RCade. My bad.