Interesting in a "root for injuries" sort of way. If only he could set up some kind of Deadhead situation where his knuckle-walking followers could follow him from rally to rally in their RVs, only interacting with (and thereby infecting) each other.
Trump officials are talking loosely about when rallies can resume, looking at end of April/early May, and looking at whether they can be done differently so attendees aren’t all pressed against each other. https://t.co/4EaqgFqwnU— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 29, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
Iirc Campbell County, Wyoming is the saddest county in the saddest state.
Have Trumpists gather there, put a plexiglass dome over it. Boom. Done.
― I met a strange baby, she made me nervous (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
Crud, autocucmber. reddest county in the reddest state. But whatevs
― I met a strange baby, she made me nervous (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
i was gonna say montana is pretty, friend
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
when will these lemmings find their cliff edge? when will their piss piper lead them to oblivion? NOTHING OF VALUE WILL BE LOST
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
NOTHING OF VALUE WILL BE LOST
They often have minor children.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
well okay yes you're right
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Kicking and screaming, but he seems to have deferred to "those two" (the doctors).
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Don't you think he sounded out of breath and even more incoherent than usual?
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
I really hope this kills him
Pence as the nominee will be easier to handle no matter what
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
(xpost) Just caught the last five minutes. His attack on the CNN reporter...I don't know--I'm dumb enough to be surprised it keeps happening, every day.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
at least we have such good examples to illustrate DARVO to people suffering from abuse.
― Yerac, Monday, 30 March 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
he suggested, multiple times, that health care workers are selling the masks for profit, like the entire PPE shortage is just a case of corruption on the part of health care workers.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 March 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
I’ll admit I do sometimes marvel at the new depths of projection he’ll manage to plumb, without the humans around him or news mechanisms blinking an eye
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Monday, 30 March 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
i feel like sociopathy and psychopathy should be more recognized as being on a spectrum and discussed publicly as such.
― Yerac, Monday, 30 March 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
I’ve always just heard them used interchangeably by people who don’t know what they’re talking about
― brimstead, Monday, 30 March 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
When you combine that astounding big-ratings tweet from earlier today with Trump's psychological blackmail of the governors (which he tried to finesse his way around tonight: "I don't call them, but that doesn't mean Mike Pence doesn't call them"...and of course you know, as he says this, that Pence has been told not to call them), it's clear that, consciously or not, he really does view this as some high-wire variation on The Apprentice or Survivor, where he and only he gets to decide which states will pull through and which ones get fired or voted off the island.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
Twitter removed two posts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday night in a rare instance of the social media giant censuring an elected world leader for a rules violation.Bolsonaro tweeted two videos that showed him flouting the advice of his own health officials, hailing the treatment of an unvetted drug to treat the coronavirus, gathering small crowds in the capital, Brasilia, and listening to complaints by locals that the churches should be reopened and people should be out working.In a statement, Twitter said it is now removing content that it says undercuts public health information.
Bolsonaro tweeted two videos that showed him flouting the advice of his own health officials, hailing the treatment of an unvetted drug to treat the coronavirus, gathering small crowds in the capital, Brasilia, and listening to complaints by locals that the churches should be reopened and people should be out working.
In a statement, Twitter said it is now removing content that it says undercuts public health information.
So they'll start doing this with our Asshole ... when?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
lame style: idiocracy predicted futurenew style: fury road informed presentlydon style: no future for you
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Monday, 30 March 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
So cool they can create new rules to take down posts from heads of state but won't enforce the existing ones and ban them
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
tbf, they own the system and participation is wholly voluntary, so they have room to be as arbitrary as they like.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
The man has a type pic.twitter.com/vlKSLmZrpm— Keith Edwards 🍥 (@keithedwards) March 30, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
I think they must have gone to work on him over the weekend. 1) It's the coronavirus now, not the Chinese virus. (He paused momentarily, like he had to remind himself.) 2) He readily handed the mic over a couple of times. 3) There seems to be an awareness that working with other countries instead of insulting them might be a good thing.
Tomorrow, who knows.
I do think--and believe me, this is not a defense of Trump; it's a strategy for protecting the world from him--at least for the time being, reporters should stop goading him into saying stupid stuff (which, with Trump, can be as basic as pointing out a lie or a contradiction from yesterday). Because if you do, he'll say stupid stuff. I remember a kid in my school a couple of years who was in the GLD class and had major anger issues. You had to be real careful how you spoke to him if you were on yard duty. He could be unbelievably rude, and sometimes you wanted to verbally get into it with him. I know I did, and every now and again, I stupidly would. One time, when I was needling him about his rudeness, he picked up a rock, and I, momentarily stepping into a Scorsese film, said "What are you gonna do, throw a rock at me?" Guess what? He threw a rock at me (in the direction of my feet, thankfully). I let it go, because I knew who I was dealing with and I let it happen. It's not supposed to work that way with a president, but it does with this one.
(Made my peace with that kid after that, until one day--big surprise, rough home life--he left the school.)
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
My Pillow guy is giving the presser
― frogbs, Monday, 30 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
My post above was based only on the pre-Q & A part of the briefing today--they cut away, they went back, the usual.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
I thought you were joking about My Pillow guy. I'm told he's telling people to read the bible. WTF
― akm, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
The My Pillow guy is a huge evangelical, and holds a lot of sway with the community because of course he does.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
Now that Trump has clearly stepped off the ledge in terms of reopening the country, I wonder what Fauci had to say to him behind closed doors to get him there? My guess is--with a little "I respect what you're going through, sir" sugarcoating--something on the order of, "Realize that if you go through with that, you'll go down as the greatest mass-murderer since Hitler." I honestly believe that's what it would take, and I think Fauci would say it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
keep in mind that, even with all of that, which i believe is plausible - trump could completely turn back on that at any moment, based off of what is on fox news
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
^
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
Trump also defers to the My Pillow guy because he's on TV alot.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
My Pillow guy is giving the presser― frogbs, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:46 AM (three hours ago)
― frogbs, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:46 AM (three hours ago)
I thought you were joking about My Pillow guy. I'm told he's telling people to read the bible. WTF― akm, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:09 AM (one hour ago)
― akm, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:09 AM (one hour ago)
The My Pillow guy is a huge evangelical, and holds a lot of sway with the community because of course he does.― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:20 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago)
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:20 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago)
Trump also defers to the My Pillow guy because he's on TV alot.― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:46 AM (thirty-one minutes ago)
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:46 AM (thirty-one minutes ago)
quick question: what's a My Pillow guy
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Lindell
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
are you seriously telling me there was a White House press briefing with the My Pillow guy?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
literally nothing is too stupid for this timeline
nancy can you nothttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/business/economy/coronavirus-economic-stimulus-taxes.html#click=https://t.co/rnDpddq4W7
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
In August 2016, Lindell met with then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at Trump's request, in the Trump Tower in New York City. They discussed products being made in America, bringing jobs back to the US, and working with inner cities.[3][19][20] Lindell became an avid Trump supporter, calling Trump "the most amazing president this country has ever seen in history."[21] On October 19, 2016, Lindell attended the final presidential debate in Las Vegas.[22] He spoke at a Trump campaign rally in Minneapolis on November 6, 2016, and attended the Official Donald Watch Party on November 8. He attended Trump's inauguration, receiving an inauguration lapel pin as a personal gift from President Trump.[21][23][19]
that was pretty much the peak time of my pillow guy
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
In the 1980s and 1990s, Lindell became addicted to cocaine, crack cocaine, and alcohol. His addiction loomed so large, that his house would be foreclosed and his wife filed for divorce. Lindell stated that he achieved sobriety through prayer in 2009, and since then, he has been clean.
Lindell created the Lindell Foundation, a faith-based foundation originally started to help addicts and MyPillow employees.
Important followup: does he wear a giant anthropomorphic pillow costume, including in his role as a representative of the US Government? (Please, no disappointing answers. I read it as Mr Pillow for the first few posts.)
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
to be fair these are number one pillows
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
Future Whitehouse expert...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/koZB-OppWsk/maxresdefault.jpg
― earlnash, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tcSzD0j.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/tcSzD0j.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/tcSzD0j.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
^themorningafter.png
Also curious about his continued using of cocaine, crack cocaine and alcohol without any problem, for two decades after his addiction issues were resolved, before using prayer to stop.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
I amazed someone has watched cable in the US and somehow missed those commercials.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
Dana Lasch still sells that beet supplement too.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
I’ve only heard him on the radio, he sounds like he has respiratory problems
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
“I haven’t heard about testing in weeks,” the president said. “We’ve tested more now than any nation in the world. We’ve got these great tests and we’re coming out with a faster one this week.” Reiterating his point, Mr. Trump added, “I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.”
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
Idgi kevin whats yr beef w Pelosi’s proposals?
Xps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:20 (four years ago) link
would largely funnel money to relatively high earners in high-tax states
awsum
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
her donors I guess