Donald Trump picked a new fight Saturday with Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigned in the key swing state where he’s looking to avenge his narrow 2020 loss — a defeat he continues to blame on GOP officials for not giving into his false theories of election fraud.

Trump attacked Gov. Brian Kemp on his social media site before his rally and said Kemp should be “fighting Crime, not fighting Unity and the Republican Party.” He also criticized Kemp’s wife, Marty, for saying she would write in her husband’s name for president this fall instead of voting for the Republican nominee.

At Saturday’s rally, Trump assailed Kemp in a roughly 10-minute tirade, blaming him for his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden and for not stopping a local district attorney from prosecuting him and several associates for his efforts to overturn the results.

“He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said. “Little Brian, little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”

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      As a Georgian, I hope he loses again because the motivation for that might go down ballot too. Fuck em.

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          No, neither of them are. Senate terms are for 6 years, and Warnock came in on a special election to finish a term, then ran again to get a full term which he won, so those seats are safe a little longer. Still, our state house is dominated by Republicans, so it would be nice to have some better representation in the state.

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            If the Georgia legislature turns even somewhat more blue that could start a cascade around the state that might spread to the surrounding states. Atl please, for me your son who moved across the country for work

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    I hate it when he says things like Brian Kemp is a bad guy, because that’s objectively a true statement but not for the reasons he says them

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      As the trope goes, even Hitler loved dogs.

      The only way to be wrong about everything is to know what the right thing is and deliberately choose the wrong thing. So even Trump will be right occasionally.

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    “He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said. “Little Brian, little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”

    To the orange asshole …

    He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average rapist. Weird Donnie, weird Donnie Drumpf. Bad guy.

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            The video made me smile, thank you.

            Projection isn’t a well-thought strategy, generally; rather it’s an emotional reaction geared by instinctive drives by the same mechanism that triggers the fight/flight/freeze/fawn reaction. So intellectual acuity isn’t really a factor, in most people. In those who would use well thought projection, it doesn’t bode well for the target, but that’s a whole other topic, but it happens. Ed Bernays used it in marketing and politics, there are interesting docos about it on YT If you’re interested.

            Anyway, this is just plain survival instinct, in someone who didn’t learn proper coping/self-nurturing techniques as a child, adult or anywhere else along the way, which is unfortunate, as his family had the money to help him acquire the skills necessary, probably because it would have undermined the family dynamics that very well served the patriarch, who did have an intelligent Machiavellian personality disorder, which again, is a whole other topic, the main point being in most people, personality disorders are acquired as a survival mechanism, to grossly oversimplify.

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              Even then… At least when finches brag it’s because they did a really good job making their nest.

              They do the construction themselves, unlike Trump.

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    said Kemp should be “fighting Crime, not fighting Unity and the Republican Party.”

    Trump assailed Kemp in a roughly 10-minute tirade, blaming him … for not stopping a local district attorney from prosecuting him and several associates for his efforts to overturn the results.

    Sounds about right.

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      “Unity” = blind loyalty and obedience to Trump

      That it works so often is cause for bought of despair.

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    “He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said. “Little Brian, little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”

    Disloyal. Worship me and support whatever I say or do, no matter what. Else you are bad. Nothing else matters.