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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:17 PM Apr 2020

Time to "swiftboat" Trump. Come On Democratic Party! Get organized and attack.

I say a good offence beats a good defence.

Trump is going to go on the offence. You see it in Michigan already. Why isn't the Democratic Party organizing its supporters to get out on the street and let Trump have it????

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Time to "swiftboat" Trump. Come On Democratic Party! Get organized and attack. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Apr 2020 OP
Because Democrats are obeying sensible stay at home orders? EarlG Apr 2020 #1
Not really the pictures show some with masks. O LakeArenal Apr 2020 #6
Because we're too smart to be out in the streets during a pandemic? The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #2
What?... lame54 Apr 2020 #3
"Swiftboating" is lies and gaslighting. LuvLoogie Apr 2020 #4
I thought the same. LakeArenal Apr 2020 #5
You can't Swiftboat someone without honor in the first place Hekate Apr 2020 #7
Exactly. You can't defame Trump because he's actually done things The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #8

EarlG

(21,934 posts)
1. Because Democrats are obeying sensible stay at home orders?
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:20 PM
Apr 2020

The wingers have the streets to themselves at the moment because I guess they’re happy all going out there and infecting themselves.

LakeArenal

(28,802 posts)
6. Not really the pictures show some with masks. O
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:36 PM
Apr 2020

Maybe not fear virus but fear of identification. Either way chicken.

LuvLoogie

(6,913 posts)
4. "Swiftboating" is lies and gaslighting.
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:26 PM
Apr 2020

There is no need to lie or gaslight with trump.

We need to rub his supporters faces in the shit he spews.

LakeArenal

(28,802 posts)
5. I thought the same.
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:34 PM
Apr 2020

It’s just time for media start calling him out. He’s never going to answer the truth. So let him have his hissy fits and call him out as a liar cheat thief and philandering psychopath.

Hekate

(90,551 posts)
7. You can't Swiftboat someone without honor in the first place
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:39 PM
Apr 2020

That was the whole point of the exercise against John Kerry: to take a documented record as a wounded war hero who had commanded a Swiftboat, rope in a few disgruntled vets who claimed to know him, and make people believe he was a lying coward. I never did figure out why they hated him; maybe it was because he came home and testified against the Vietnam War in Congress.

In any case, that's "Swiftboating" and it can't work against a con man like Trump.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,584 posts)
8. Exactly. You can't defame Trump because he's actually done things
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:44 PM
Apr 2020

that are just about as bad as anything you could make up. He's completely shameless; moreover, his cult members wouldn't care if he were accused of or even proved to have buggered a Cub Scout on the White House lawn while performing an abortion and eating a puppy.

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