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Trump blasts 'wacky & totally unhinged' Tom Steyer after impeachment ad campaign

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President Donald Trump blasted Tom Steyer on Friday, calling the Democratic megadonor “wacky” and “totally unhinged.”

“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!” Trump tweeted Friday morning.


Steyer, a California billionaire activist, is launching a $10 million national ad campaign calling for the president’s impeachment. The 60-second TV spot began running last week, according to Forbes.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/27/trump-criticize-tom-steyer-244234

IMO, Trump succeeded in his quest to become POTUS by relying on wacky and unhinged tactics. Tom Steyer's Ad Campaign pales by comparison. What do you think?
 
Trippy Trekker said:
From the article -



https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/27/trump-criticize-tom-steyer-244234

IMO, Trump succeeded in his quest to become POTUS by relying on wacky and unhinged tactics. Tom Steyer's Ad Campaign pales by comparison. What do you think?
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I am just glad Tom did not grab an sks and head to a baseball field like another crazed democrat. Blowing a ton of money is good therapy and could save lives in this case.

In the end I suspect he will be suffering buyers remorse regardless.
 
Fletch said:
I saw the ad and it was neither wacky nor unhinged. Only the wacky and unhinged would make such an ad, but he was obviously able to control his wackiness during the shoot.
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akyron said:
I am just glad Tom did not grab an sks and head to a baseball field like another crazed democrat. Blowing a ton of money is good therapy and could save lives in this case.

In the end I suspect he will be suffering buyers remorse regardless.
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How reassuring for the two of you to reply with minimal hyperbole! You give me a glint of hope for further civil discourse.
 
I saw the ad this morning.

He hit all the leftist's talking points, the untrue, the distorted, the biased, the only partially true. Yup. Hit them all.

Is it going to move the needle? I rather doubt it.
 
Trippy Trekker said:
How reassuring for the two of you to reply with minimal hyperbole! You give me a glint of hope for further civil discourse.
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He's loaded so if he wants to blow his money on things like this, I have no problem with that. Usually these big money guys fund others to do this sort of thing, so it seems strange he would do it himself. Is he planning to run for office at some point? It may be that this is just some sort of self-promotion.
 
Wacky and unhinged responding to wacky and unhinged? Its like Trump is looking at a mirror.
 
I had not heard of him, thanks. From wiki:
2017 activity
In 2017, Steyer spent around $10 million for a television ad campaign advocating the impeachment of President Trump and plans to spend millions more on a digital ad campaign to call for Trump's impeachment.[74]

I don't support impeaching Trump right now because of poison pill Pence, but it's his money.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
I had not heard of him, thanks. From wiki:
2017 activity
In 2017, Steyer spent around $10 million for a television ad campaign advocating the impeachment of President Trump and plans to spend millions more on a digital ad campaign to call for Trump's impeachment.[74]

I don't support impeaching Trump right now because of poison pill Pence, but it's his money.
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Hmm. Using the same tactics as the Russians have of late. I still don't think that it'll move the needle any, just as what the Russians did during the election didn't.

The US electorate have been exposed to TV ads and now digital media ads for quite some time, grown accustomed to them, and equally, how to ignore them.
 
eohrnberger said:
Hmm. Using the same tactics as the Russians have of late. I still don't think that it'll move the needle any, just as what the Russians did during the election didn't.

The US electorate have been exposed to TV ads and now digital media ads for quite some time, grown accustomed to them, and equally, how to ignore them.
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I have to admit I really don't know what you are saying or alluding to in the first 2 sentences. Maybe there's an alt-reality I'm not even aware of.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
I have to admit I really don't know what you are saying or alluding to in the first 2 sentences. Maybe there's an alt-reality I'm not even aware of.
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Recently, the Russians have been uncovered influencing US politics via digital and social media. Russian's have been trying to influence US politics for years using traditional media. Tihs most recent round they've adapted into the new social / digital media. Steyer appears to be doing the same, adopting the same tactics with his recent TV ad and social media efforts.

The conclusions drawn of the Russian efforts during the campaign was that it came to nought, it didn't move the needle. I surmising that this is probably because the US electorate have been so inundated with this stuff for so long that they are largely immune to its effects, so I'm concluding that Steyer's efforts are going to amount to the same and will also fail to move the needle.
 
apdst said:
I think the notion that impeachment can take place without evidence of a crime is wacky and unhinged.
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Lmao, okay.

apdst said:
Obama's get closer to impeachment, almost daily. The only y ti salvage his image at this point is to get into a war, somewhere.
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apdst said:
Yeah, then we can impeach his ass and be done with it.
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Then a few months later you backtracked:

apdst said:
I don't think Obama has done anything to rate impeachment, but the DNC thinks the evidence exists, or this is fear mongering to drum up donations.
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Then after Obama decided he would move forward on amnesty (and he eventually did):

apdst said:
None! Which is why articles of impeachment should be drawn up a few minutes after he announces the executive order has been signed.
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Then after Benghazi:

apdst said:
I think they're afraid of uncovering evidence that overwhelmingly supports impeachment and nobody wants to be the guy that impeached the first, "black", president. Besides that, Nancy Pelosi would **** a snake to protect Obama, because the Libbos can't afford for the first black president to become the biggest failure in American history.
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Yep, it sure is wacky and unhinged to constantly be yapping about impeachment without a crime being proven where it matters.
 
Hatuey said:
Lmao, okay.





Then a few months later you backtracked:



Then after Obama decided he would move forward on amnesty (and he eventually did):



Then after Benghazi:



Yep, it sure is wacky and unhinged to constantly be yapping about impeachment without a crime being proven where it matters.
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And what's this have to do with the thread?
 
apdst said:
And what's this have to do with the thread?
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I was responding to this general post with zero mention of any particular president:

apdst said:
I think the notion that impeachment can take place without evidence of a crime is wacky and unhinged.
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It seems only now you've come around to the notion that your posts on Obama's impending impeachment were wacky and unhinged. I am glad you have done so, apdst. Impeachment talk is wacky and unhinged and I am happy you've made progress on this notion. It's such a shame you only did so when a Republican president was in power. Actually, it's par for the course.

:lol:
 
Hatuey said:
I was responding to this general post with zero mention of any particular president:



It seems only now you've come around to the notion that your posts on Obama's impending impeachment were wacky and unhinged. I am glad you have done so, apdst. Impeachment talk is wacky and unhinged and I am happy you've made progress on this notion. It's such a shame you only did so when a Republican president was in power. Actually, it's par for the course.

:lol:
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Oh, nothing. I didn't think so. Do you have anything intelligent to add?
 
apdst said:
Oh, nothing. I didn't think so. Do you have anything intelligent to add?
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How is it nothing when you're saying it's wacky and unhinged to talk about impeachment of a president without evidence of a crime and I'm pointing out all of the times you talked about impeachment of a president without evidence of a crime?

You're trying very hard to avoid your wacky and unhinged talk about impeachment of a president, apdst.
 
eohrnberger said:
Recently, the Russians have been uncovered influencing US politics via digital and social media. Russian's have been trying to influence US politics for years using traditional media. Tihs most recent round they've adapted into the new social / digital media. Steyer appears to be doing the same, adopting the same tactics with his recent TV ad and social media efforts.

The conclusions drawn of the Russian efforts during the campaign was that it came to nought, it didn't move the needle. I surmising that this is probably because the US electorate have been so inundated with this stuff for so long that they are largely immune to its effects, so I'm concluding that Steyer's efforts are going to amount to the same and will also fail to move the needle.
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Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

Steyer doesn't have resources even remotely comparable to those at Putin's disposal. There's no way to know, but I think Putin is probably richer than that guy all by himself.

I've not personally seen anything that would suggest Russia was successful manipulating U.S. elections, but we really have no way of knowing. We are still learning things about their campaign. In the end, they did get Trump, and he has been as much of a lapdog as he can get away with.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

Steyer doesn't have resources even remotely comparable to those at Putin's disposal. There's no way to know, but I think Putin is probably richer than that guy all by himself.
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Not addressed or considered in my post, as I was likening the tactics used.

I've not personally seen anything that would suggest Russia was successful manipulating U.S. elections, but we really have no way of knowing. We are still learning things about their campaign.
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Agreed, there was no manipulation of the election that caused any discernible results or differences.

In the end, they did get Trump, and he has been as much of a lapdog as he can get away with.
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'they', as in Russians, didn't 'get' Trump. The US electorate 'got' the president they've elected by their proscribed process and system.

Trump is no Russian lapdog. I don't think Trump is anyone's lapdog, especially not the political establishment, which is fine by me.
 
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