President Bidenās reelection campaign has dubbed former President Trump āBroke Don,ā taking a strategy out of Trumpās playbook that his political rivals know all too well.
Trump has used nicknames ā from āLittle Marcoā to āCrooked Hillaryā to āLyinā Tedā ā to put down a variety of opponents. For much of 2020, Bidenās moniker, courtesy of Trump, was āSleepy Joe.ā
Now, the Biden team is seeking to turn the tables in attempting to make one stick to Trump while it worked this week to highlight the former presidentās lagging fundraising numbers in the 2024 race.
Itās honestly embarrassing that our political landscape has been reduced to this.
If you think this is the first time in American history that our politicians have resorted to petty name calling Iām going to have to assume your lessons in American history stopped sometime in the third grade, right after you traced your hand and colored it in with crayons to look like a turkey.
Things were worse before, so you cant ever ask for more
Really should just be Bidenās campaign slogan at this point, heād at least get points for being upfront about it
Hey, democrats tried āwhen they go low, we go highā for 40 years and look where that got them.
Now theyāre trying āwhen they go low, we knee them in the fucking face.ā I say good on them for trying something different for a change.
Thatās not whatās happening though.
Republicans do shady stuff to change laws and regulations and get thing dones.
Dems still donāt so that, but now our politicians want to do memes and other stupid shit the Quibi creator thinks is popular with kids.
Remember when someone changing their mind was electoral cannon fodder?
Russia won the cold war.
This will age nicely
I am partial to āRapist Donald Trumpā I hope it catches on, like rapist Brock Turner.
Yeah, but republicans donāt care if youāre a rapist. They definitely care if youāre poor.
āTrump is a rapist.ā
Some R- āWHO ISNāT?!ā
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Whoās rapist Brock Turner? Is it the same rapist as rapist Brock Allen Turner who is currently using the name Allen?
Yes, I believe you are correct. Rapist Allen āBrockā Turner is the same person that raped that unconscious woman with a bottle. I wonder why he changed his name. What is he trying to hide?
I think the rapist Allen Brock Turner is upset his rape is actually a textbook example of rape, in a text book.
Ugh. If youāre going to go low, workshop the name-calling. Go with alliteration or rhyming. And nothing too fancy, like Destitute Don.
At least make it flow a bit, like Broke Donny.
Or go sing-songy, like: Donny Chapter 11, Don-o Busto, or Donny The Cheat.
But if you really want to get under his skin, you canāt go wrong with: Dirt-Poor Donny.
Repeat 1000 times.
Itās gotta be deadbeat don
You canāt use big words here. The right that are smart enough to know the word destitute, know why theyāre voting republican. Broke Donny would be my choice though. I already call him Donny or orange Jesus, to aggravate my parents when they start to talk about all the good heās doing now. Itās Easter Sunday next week, I look forward to testing each variation.
I like it. Sounds like ābroke downā.
At least make it flow a bit, like Broke Donny.
And let The Lonely Island make a song. Something like Shy Ronny.
Donny Broke - A donnybrook comes from Irish meaning a public quarrel or dispute.
I donāt know if thatād go over well with the many struggling broke Americans.
Yeah, broke might really anger Trump, but itās a bad look for a wealthy guy to be calling someone broke as an insult. I donāt know that Trump could capitalize on it, but his surrogates in the media might.
Biden is playing to an audience that gets upset when Trump attacks folks who are disabled or checks notes have a son killed in Iraq. I doubt it will hit the same, especially when so many Democrats are also broke.
Even broke people tend to feel a fair amount of pity and disgust when someone goes broke because of their own stupid decisions. When those stupid decisions include breaking the law, the ratio tends to have more disgust and less pity. Now top that with the person in question being notorious for disparaging broke people, and I think the only people who will get their hackles up about this are his rabid supporters.
Nah, broke democrats arenāt parading around pretending to be loaded.
He called himself āHonest Donā on Truth Social. Biden should just play on that and go with Dishonest Don.
āOl Broke Honest Don
Or just call him honest don while describing his lies and convictions
Deadbeat Don refuses to pay his bills after service has been rendered. Just ask his former lawyers.
And former contractors, builders, etc
My wife and I like to call him āthe oompa loompa of crimeā
āCrimes oompa loompaā for short
Crimoompa Loompa
I know Iām in the minority on this but Iāve always felt like Trump truly won when we started adopting his shithead name-calling habits.
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Its doesnāt accomplish anything and reduces every argument to finger pointing and smirking.
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Heās so much better at it than anyone else cause his supporters donāt care what he does and the rest of us arenāt that beholden to a single politician to proselytize their every word
Namecalling appeals to morons who have trouble parsing anything more complex.
Morons are a non-negligible proportion of the US electorate.
Yeah, just look at all the people on lemmy and reddit who focus on Trumpās skin color instead of his myriad crimes, piss poor performance as president, and attempted coup.
Namecalling as a strategy and namecalling as a means of releasing pent-up frustration are two different things, Iād argue.
Hell, Iād even put namecalling as provocation as different from namecalling as a strategy for garnering support.
itās just so disappointing that the GOP literally has no standards, while the Dems get called out for literally everything they do. Those criticisms can fuck off. The fascists are at your doorstep, you fools.
God forbid the party whose entire platform is āat least weāre not the Republicansā be held to a higher standard than the republicans
The standard of ādonāt hurl childish insults at bad peopleā isnāt a standard I care terribly much about. Neither the name calling nor the pearl clutching are important in any way.
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Unfortunately this is where the undecideds of our country are. Imagine not knowing who youād vote for this year.
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Poor little broke Donny no dough nary a dollar in sight he gonna cry into his my pillow tonight.
āBroke Donā never had a real job in his life.
Don Poorleone
Obese rapist has a nice ring to it
Should go with āBrokeback Donā, just because Conservatives would hate the implication.
Incidentally, Broke Don is also my rap name.
I got songs like āIām bad at trappingā, āThe In$urance Biz got me fuckedā, āIKEA dripā and āall my money (alimony)ā.
I think slinging mud about how much money oneās opponent has is a little tactless when so many Americans are struggling financially. The Dems get accused of being deaf to the problems of the rural poor enough without leaning into the rich urban elite stereotype.
Also, where are the ālock him upā chants?
