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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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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)

“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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He really does like calling people "little." Weird for someone who wears lifts.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Projection. Every accusation is a confession is pretty much true.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't know. That would mean he has a bird brain and parrots and corvids are pretty smart.

In fact, I have a feeling an African Grey wouldn't have much trouble with "Man. Woman. Person. TV. Camera." either.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uAZ-lLKIw5c

Just tell it that it will get a pistachio.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Think less of a corvid, more of a finch.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

Brian Kemp really is a bad guy. He was Secretary of State, overseeing Georgia's elections when he ran for governor against a popular Democrat. He is blatantly corrupt, but just doesn't want to hitch his wagon to the Trump train for some reason.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Trump is berating him about unity. Sounds cultish.