• Zymi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      477·
      2 months ago

      The context was that it was after two medical emergencies at the town hall I guess. It’s still weird but there’s a reason it was this derailed.

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
        61·
        2 months ago

        Still doesn’t really explain it. Before he just said to stop asking questions, they had changed the format to just have a speaker ask him questions after resuming from the medical emergencies. He just gave up on it after only a few questions for no obvious reason

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
        53·
        2 months ago

        This is worse than…“Please clap,” by a mile. Jeb was making a joke, but it killed his chances. This should 100% kill his chances at winning…but it won’t. This race makes no sense…

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        2 months ago

        That makes no more sense than without context. A regular person would resume the town hall after the emergencies passed, or dismissed everyone. Keeping people there and playing random somes for twenty minutes is the action of a child or an idiot.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 months ago

        So… why wouldn’t he just continue afterwards, like what happens at any other public event that has isolated medical emergencies? Or even cancel/reschedule? Heh.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      Trump is just trying to stay ahead of the game. US politics are very much vibes based. Trump is going to the next level by literally vibing on stage. Who needs a health care plan when you’ve got vibe. And he is genuinely weird because that’s the Republican vibe, his weird vibe is appealing to his base.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Holy shit. It took me a long time to find it, but the video is somehow even weirder than I expected. That’s disturbing.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/

      Archive

      “Let’s make it into a music.” ??? And the dog killer next to him with a huge panic-smile for 30 minutes. Local doofuses on stage now thrust into this bizarro . . . meltdown? Senior moment? Looking like they really really want to go home. Wow.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    1102·
    2 months ago

    He’s trying his hand to become a disk jockey because he realized he can just call himself “DJ DJ”

      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        2 months ago

        It would blow my mind even if his opponent had zero qualifications. The fact that she’s actually competent and charismatic just adds to the surreality of the situation.

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Still kinda makes a lot of sense though. Pretty easy to see how the Simpsons, back to the future, etc could see it coming

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    591·
    2 months ago

    If you’re a Republican Voter against Trump, but you’re still going to vote Republican, then you’re not really against Trump are you?

    • Tja@programming.dev
      91·
      2 months ago

      I think they mean they want lower taxes, guns, and no gay marriage, but between trump or a democrat they choose the democrat, Harris in this case.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      211·
      2 months ago

      He has none. The test is for the corporate news. So far they’ve been failing with flying colors.

    • buttfarts@lemy.lol
      7·
      2 months ago

      I just imagine everybody standing board stiff holding their most sincere sieg heil salute while fighting back tears of rapturous emotion while Trump sways halfheartedly to Chumbawumba for twenty minutes

  • cranakis@reddthat.com
    46·
    2 months ago

    And the crowd stood there for hours before, waiting on him to show. Did he take any questions at all or just all his shitty playlist and fainting? This guy is pathetic.

  • spacesatan@lazysoci.al
    40·
    2 months ago

    I really want to hear the room chatter that was happening 5 minutes in. Surely after like 15 the sorts of people there would have been like ‘ok we’re vibing with the supreme leader listening to music, this is cool too’ but after 5 minutes there had to be some confused discussion that would be really funny to hear.

    • Hikermick@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      Watch the video on YouTube. Some in the crowd seemed to be trying to get riled up but besides YMCA the music was very mellow, very low energy. Do not trade mix tapes with Donald Trump

  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
    433·
    2 months ago

    It’s like if you went to church, and the vicar said:
    “You know what? I don’t fancy delivering this sermon with moral guidance. Lets just sing 10 hymns in a row.”

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 months ago

      … Y’all never had that happen?

      “The Lord has other plans for the service today, so we’re going to continue in this state of worship.”

      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 months ago

        I grew up JW, and their meetings were very structured and organized. They do sometimes show videos and such, but a congregation is organized around not one pastor or anything but a whole group of them, any of who could do the main Sunday surmon (and I have seen subs often enough). They also have “ministerial servants” who are I guess basically elders(pastors I guess?) in training, and they often handled a lot of stuff too.

        • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          That makes sense. This church was ‘non-denominational’, which meant that if they could just have the church band play a jam session and still make money, they would.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Honestly? I love hymns. Especially if the congregation sings in four-part harmony. I’d probably enjoy that more than a sermon.

  • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
    343·
    2 months ago

    Can I just say I’m happy there’s a section of Republicans that think he needs to go, and are actively pushing him out?

    The entire party isn’t a hive mind i.e sharing one mind.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            7·
            2 months ago

            So my plan is that we mail rifles to him by post, and he will be so touched by the gesture that he will immediately step down and then blow his brains out.

            It’s a long shot, but I think its worth the effort. Plus, the winner of the rifle he chooses gets a 2-day pass at DisneyLand.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Sort of. We forget the earliest primaries were kind of shaky, and Hayley and DeSantis came in with a lot of steam. The catch there is, if you’re anti-trump, those two aren’t much better and might somehow even be worse.

      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
        52·
        2 months ago

        Thankfully a lot has changed since then. Back then not even most Democrats thought he was as unhinged as he’s been acting in public since Kamala Harris took over the ticket.

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 months ago

          So, they were okay with the racism, okay with the Muslim ban, okay with the insurrection…but now they’re anti-Trump because he’s acting weird?

          • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            2 months ago

            You’re asking the wrong person. I’ve been disgusted by him ever since I had the misfortune of watching an episode of The Apprentice.

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          The corporate news wasn’t dunking on him as much for - all their reasons. He’s just gone so far off the map even they can’t explain it away now.

    • Rolder@reddthat.com
      17·
      2 months ago

      The real question is are those Republicans still going to vote for him on Election Day.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        2 months ago
        "trump is the worst. He has no ideas, he's just an awful, bigotted, racist piece of shit. Nobody likes him."

"Oh. Who are you going to vote for?"

"...I guess I have to vote for trump."

        What a time to be alive.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 months ago

      The problem is that a normal person can be talked into doing something not in their best interest. A narcissist could only ever be lured away to something bigger.

        • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          2 months ago

          That’s an interesting framing device you’ve got there; But yes, in the cases of antisocial personalities and narcissists. They have a markedly diminished capacity for empathy.

            • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
              101·
              2 months ago

              “Having the capacity for free will” is not even remotely the same as “being capable of making completely disposessed choices in every single circumstance”. When considering one’s options, different people in different situations give different weights to different factors.

              Consider a person acting under the threat of being murdered if they don’t comply with some demand, like in an armed robbery. The fact that making certain choices, like refusing to cooperate, is in practice nearly impossible for them in this case has no bearing on whether or not they “have the capacity for free will” in a general sense. Likewise someone being manipulated by a person they fell in love with.

              In the same vein, a narcissist is strongly compelled by internal factors to act only in ways that gratify their overinflated ego. While it may conceivably not be 100% impossible for them to go against this compulsion, it is extremely unlikely that it will even occur to them to do so, and given that it does occur to them to do so, it is extremely unlikely that they will choose that course of action. They act in predictable ways for this reason. The weights they place on certain factors are consistently different from average. This is entirely unrelated to the question of “free will”.

                • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  2 months ago

                  You made the original claim without citing any sources or even making a logical argument. I presented my reasoning. There is absolutely no reason for me to go to the trouble of citing sources when you made zero effort at all.

                  Also, facts that are common knowledge and/or self-evident do not require sources unless specifically challenged, and everything I said is both of these things.

              • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
                18·
                2 months ago

                Drag apologises if you don’t like free will debates. Drag will clarify that drag doesn’t have a non-determinist stance. Drag’s a compatibilist, and therefore thinks there’s no debate to be had over free will, and wishes everyone else would realise it too.