In wrestling, everyone has a nickname.
It helps people follow the storyline & identify the character.
Trump assigned all of his opponents a nickname. Little Marco Rubio. Low Energy Jeb Bush.
Crooked Hillary. Then Crooked Joe Biden & Crazy Kamala.
It's a simple playbook.
When Trump entered politics, it wasn't like people couldn't see in his bombastic style the lessons Trump had learned in the WWE. They did, very quickly.
https://www.salon.com/2015/08/17/donald_trump_professional_wrestler_how_the_billionaire_body_slammed_gop_politics_and_why_it_matters/
All of this time, of course, Trump was learning the art of manipulating a crowd of a certain type (and very large crowds) from masters of crowd manipulation.
Say whatever you like about McMahon's politics or how dumb the wrestling is, the WWE is huge business.
Trump becomes a regular part of the WWE storylines.
In 2009 he & McMahon announce that Trump had bought the WWE from McMahon.
He hadn't really, but the stock dropped 7% overnight, because the WSJ wasn't in on the kayfabe (wrestler slang for Fake, Babe!)
Later he would pretend to charge McMahon twice the price.
Trump first hosted the WWE Wrestlemania in 1988. He'd been watching wrestling since he was a kid.
In 2007 Trump became part of the story-line at WWE.
He was the 'face' & McMahon played the 'heel'.
At Trump's command, cash rained down on the fans.
We're going to do a thread about how Trump learned to fire up a crowd. And why he is afraid of the new Kamala/Walz ticket.
It's time to talk about Trump & the WWE!๐
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No I can't...
THE ROLLING STONES - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live)
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For REAL!?!
#politics
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SCOTUS ainโt there, bud
Does this have to do with the train derailments?
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-trains-derailment-mystery-1925131
From Decoding Fox News -
The advisory board of Project 2025. Some pretty interesting information in here about stuff like The Mandate For Leadership formed to advise the Reagan administration.
https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/p/project-2025-the-advisory-board-list
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Great segment about Kamala's VP choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJwNEfFtqc&t=313s
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๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฉ
It's a phenomenon oceanographers call a Taylor Column - and it's possible A23a might not escape its jailer for years.
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๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ก๐โ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ-๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ซ. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ
โFor 900 pages, Trumpโs Project 2025 playbook dives into excruciating detail on how a Trump-Vance administration will roll back workersโ rights, curbing the right to organize, eliminating overtime pay laws, gutting health and safety protections and protections against child labor.โ
~ Stuart Appelbaum, RWDSU
โWhen unions are strong, America is strongโ
~ Ms Harris
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/project-2025-trump-unions-overtime-pay
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BREAKING From Bill Harwood of #CBSNews:
Something is wrong with the Northrop Grumman #Cygnus that launched earlier today on a #SpaceX #Falcon9 from #CCSFS.
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Mission control just alerted the ISS crew to a possible issue with the Cygnus cargo ship: "Just to let you guys know, good comm with Cygnus, we're going to have solar array deploy in about an hour. The first two burns were not performed by Cygnus, so they're re-assessing what's the current state of the burn plan."
JD Vance makes it hard for Trump to say he doesn't know anything about Project 2025.
He wrote the forward for the book by it's chief architect & Heritage Foundation head Kevin Roberts.
https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book
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