Name-calling - What does it mean to you?

[gsdx]

I read an article about Giuliani going all-out on Joe Biden, hurling childish insults at the former Vice President. He's joined Trump in the school yard and, between the two of them, have made a fine art of insulting people.

Giuliani said not one of the candidates currently receiving attention as potential 2020 opponents worries him, but he reserved his harshest comments for the former vice president.

“Joe Biden is a moron,” he said, claiming that Biden finished last in his law school class at Syracuse University and had been unable to understand issues Giuliani tried to discuss with him when he was a federal prosecutor and Biden was a Delaware senator. “I’m calling Joe Biden a mentally deficient idiot.”

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/giuliani-trump-win-second-term-161005625.html

People in power should be an example, and Trump and his ilk are setting all the wrong kinds of example, opening the doors for their supporters to join the party. Personally, it tells me more about their 'mentality' than it does about the victims of their attacks.

 

[opinterph]

People in power should be an example, and Trump and his ilk are setting all the wrong kinds of example, opening the doors for their supporters to join the party.

The [new] Republican base enjoys seeing “the wrong example.” And yes, it sanctions / encourages similar behavior when they join the party (lower case “p”).

 

[swmjck]

I read an article about Giuliani going all-out on Joe Biden, hurling childish insults at the former Vice President. He's joined Trump in the school yard and, between the two of them, have made a fine art of insulting people.



https://ca.news.yahoo.com/giuliani-trump-win-second-term-161005625.html

People in power should be an example, and Trump and his ilk are setting all the wrong kinds of example, opening the doors for their supporters to join the party. Personally, it tells me more about their 'mentality' than it does about the victims of their attacks.

You can be sure that the people they are calling names have disagreed with their agenda. It really doesn't matter who they are. Apparently in Trump world, no one including allies or friends, are allowed to have their own opinions or ideas about anything. It's very similar to a dictatorship and if this week is any indication, we know how Trump and company feel about dictators.

 

[gsdx]

It's very similar to a dictatorship and if this week is any indication, we know how Trump and company feel about dictators.

It's their absolute ambition. Trump already thinks that he had absolute power to do whatever he wants, that he doesn't have to abide by his oath to uphold the Constitution. Hell, he uses his own copy to wipe the dirt off his golf shoes. I feel sorry for the young kids today. Trump and Friends are setting one helluvan example.

 

[justdra]

They all talk shit on tv and to reporters but its different when its face to face, their tune changes. Chances are that's why Rand Paul got his ass beat by his neighbor. He forgot he wasn't on tv and protected and started running his mouth. The guy got 30 days in jail and a fine, not the 21 months they were trying and that upset Rand.

 

[Dystopian]

Rudi and even POTUS are not stupid. They are impulsive and self defeating in their arrogance and lack of insight, which makes them look stupid, but they aren't really the morons they appear to be. For POTUS, it is his favorite negotiation tactic. Unexpected, angering, vexing, inappropriate....makes the opposition see red and lose their cool. Shifts the conversation from concepts and ideas to something POTUS can deal with. Rudi is more like POTUS than anybody...well, I...suspected. Name calling gives him an initial psychological advantage where he would otherwise have no advantage, if only because he is trying to "help" POTUS, for whom there is no hope. There is shock value, and how does one respond to being called a moron. Like, "I'm not a moron, you're a big fat moron!" etc. It would be true, but most adults and an overwhelming majority of politicians and Heads of State avoid personalities and discuss the issues, as this is productive, or should be. For beginners, I am not sure why Joe Biden attracted Rudi's disdain. I may have missed it. "Moron" was a fave from the early MAGA lexicon, along with "cuck" used to describe anyone who is less that positive about Trump. let alone critical. Until Rudi's comments about Joe Biden, I had thought MORON had given way to "Unpatriotic" or whatever McCarthy Era throwback threat the Right are using to attack dissent from the Party Line. Joe's not a moron. Rudi's demonstrates he's an asshole, like his boss. How does this sophomoric behavior help anything?

 

[ballcaphair]

I read an article about Giuliani going all-out on Joe Biden, hurling childish insults at the former Vice President. He's joined Trump in the school yard and, between the two of them, have made a fine art of insulting people.


People in power should be an example, and Trump and his ilk are setting all the wrong kinds of example, opening the doors for their supporters to join the party. Personally, it tells me more about their 'mentality' than it does about the victims of their attacks.

I believe it is the crude tactic: "Throw enough shit at a wall and some of it is bound to stick."