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During a rambling and largely nonsensical presser in Los Angeles on Friday, Trump constantly tripped over himself, outright rejecting important questions from reporters while making absurd claims, such as the fact that the country was “perfect” in January 2021.

In one portion of his speech, Trump badly botched the name of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by referring to her as “Comrade Howard” while shaking his head. He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist,” an ideological combination that is technically impossible, and attacked her for her “woman-made destruction.”

Shortly after the speech ended, Trump had one final thought to share, which he posted in brief on Truth Social: “#.” At the time of publication, the post had more than 2,700 likes.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist,”

It would make PERFECT "sense" to his cult of followers.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago

And shes an Antifa fascist.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

My father (who died in like 2008 so he never knew these Trump years) used to call people who made him mad "commie pinko bed-wetters." It's a whole thing for some people; chain your weird insult words together.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's only impossible to people who believe that everything can be fit into a one dimensional political spectrum.

China clearly is more fascist than communist these days (no matter what they call themselves) but at what point did it cease to be communist and become fascist?

Seems to me both communism and fascism are both authoritarian they just rationalize it in different ways. China has had a continuous authoritarian regime for many decades, but previously it was rationalized as being needed to bring equality. But now there's capitalism and billionaires in China (but no labour unions) so the rationalization for authoritarianism has shifted to needing a strongman to protect China from foreigners. Same government, just a shift in rationalizations.

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems to me you should read more. All these words have definitions even though it may not seem that way to you…

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what form of government does China have given there's capitalism, billionaires, no labour unions, an authoritarian government that oppresses minorities and a whole lot of xenophobia in the rhetoric of their leaders? What do your definitions say about a government like that?

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t say I was going to teach the class, I said you should educate yourself. But you seem to enjoy the folly of ignorance.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

You wrote a lot of words when you could've just wrote one. Maybe you'd have an answer and if you spent more time educating yourself and less time trying to come off as smarter than everyone else while saying nothing.