"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

It's like his perceptive bubble has finally and inevitably shrunk to within centimeters of his physical corpus. He cannot see beyond 'I am saying words right now so they must be amazing words that everyone will love'.

people are still gonna watch 60 Minutes though

there's 2 weeks left until Election Day, the more time he wastes on petty bullshit the better

Probably the 60 minutes edit would be more favorable for him. I bet they'd just lose the most embarrassing moments.

The only thing disastrous about the portion of the interview I was able to stomach was his incessant defensiveness, his mewling woundedness wrt any question or comment that deters him from saying wholly reality-divorced shit about how wonderful he is. It just makes him look utterly insecure.

I like how @KT_So_It_Goes has been framing his daily outburst in terms of the percentage of the remaining time he has before Nov 3.

excellent use of 8.33% of your remaining days sir https://t.co/0CB3YBpzZo

— kilgore trout, a crushed algorithm (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 22, 2020

That Stahl move is...not going to go well for him.

Yabbut if all you have is a base-only strategy, you have to double down on it.

I have a hunch the ratings for this Sunday’s 60 Minutes will be through the roof. Trump’s just given it a giant advertisement. The audience for broadcast television and the audience for Trump’s social media are not the same audience. Also I expect 60 Mins will be doing some extra reporting around the interview - will probably even talk about Trump releasing the footage, fold that into the story.

It's just...as an interview of some random public figure, it's a pathetic portrait worthy of a few lols. As an interview of a president making an eleventh hour case for his reelection, it's...well, yeah, a disaster.

Kudos to Trump for appealing to his base without expanding it 12 days before Election Day.

Yes and trumpoids will spin out the last week comparing the raw vs. edited footage, because SEE? MEDIA BIAS!!eleven!!!.

Great use of time, y'all. Golf clap.

I just saw a part where he says Biden is in the middle of big scandal, and she's all "come on, he is noooooooot." And this after Trump complains that if Biden is eating an ice cream cone, the only question he gets is "what flavor ice cream is that?" And just two days ago Fox literally asked Trump what is favorite milkshake flavor was! And he refused to answer!

from what i could stomach of it, Stahl seemed to be conducting a pretty terrible interview in the sense that she wasn't really pushing back on him in any substantive way, not half as much as Savannah Guthrie managed during the town hall.

She totally pushes back on him. But he's pushing back against a really stupid dishonest wall.

who among persuadable old people who care about this stuff is going to watch something shot on a cellphone without editing and a terrible mic on their phone for an hour to get the "truth"? they'll just watch in on sunday night.

Pushing back is more than saying "cmon really?". Anyone can do that. A professional journalist should at the least be able to say "you're wrong…and here's why!".

I think she does do that, as possible. But if she didn't eventually move on she'd get exactly one question asked, over and over, and it would never get answered. What's the Mitch Hedberg joke? "The thing that's depressing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."

I just want to say that I compulsively read and indeed post in this thread even though it makes my mood worse and accomplishes nothing BUT I did not know that perfecft Mitch Hedberg joke and so thank you for redeeming my practice for me, Josh.

He starts whining immediately about everything she says.

It's awesome that he's tweeting out all his worst moments, good job!

"We hardly even knew Barron had it" (covid, that is)

I'm sure you barely noticed!

If there were a fake ballot box, like those Letters to Santa boxes I see every Christmas, where I could drop my own fake ballots every day until election day, I would. Again and again and again until he's gone. Same for Santa, tbh.

you've described the SB system

tweeting that out is giving me flashbacks to Don Jr.'s "here's the actual email where I was colluding with the Russians" stunt

best play would just to tweet "covfefe" again after the interview ends

"full, flowing and 'magnificently brilliant'"

Next month's title, if "You're fired!" doesn't get it.

i swear to god, this is what they're mailing out two weeks before the election
http://i.imgur.com/0vxsNEw.png

he obviously leaked this because LS said (of the Biden crime family stuff), "Sir, this is 60 Minutes. We can't air accusations that are not verified."

okay now that's pathetic, holy crap

Lol that is the most insane shit I've ever seen. Two weeks before the election!

maybe our greatest accomplishments were the friends we didn't make along the way

Mollie Hemingway (writing in The Federalist) really appreciates how thoughtfully Trump has done nothing about the pandemic. It is among his greatest accomplishments!

it's like me every weekend of not really cleaning my house, maybe i'd feel better if every sunday night i said "but think of all the things you DIDN'T get done!"

A stranger's just a friend you haven't met.

trump 2020: he's done nothing and will continue to do nothing.

I have never seen Boyhood (and never will). Apparently the song from this Lincoln Project commercial features in it.

A Democratic aide told me to check out this ad — saying they thought it was actually pretty smart — and what they didn’t know is that it not only appeals to guys who want to make their fathers proud, but guys who love this song and still think “Boyhood” deserved Best Picture. https://t.co/bbDblEZYa2

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 22, 2020

It's all about the notes you don't play.

That Lincoln Project ad was like every ad for Ford or Chevy pickup trucks, only more so.

the looming threat of authoritarianism is more like a ghost note, i guess

I'd imagine the number of regretful 2016 Trump voters who think Boyhood should have won best picture must be around 14 ppl

http://quoteparrot.com/images/quote/i-am-a-ford-not-a-lincoln-129771.jpg

- Bob Marley

fuck the dicks who run LP forever and ever, but I do appreciate that sentiment.

one of the few ‘powerful’ social media posts I saw after Trump won was an ex-cousin-in-law eloquently bemoaning how his Trump-voting parents had Raised Him Better Than This and how shook he was by the victory. resonated like hell for me, anyway.

the commercial itself is eh, but it ain’t really made for me

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

the commercial itself is eh, but it ain’t really made for me

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

Ugh, sorry for double post ... it wasn’t that good a joke

--Bob Marley

It's the notes he doesn't play

Oh, sorry, that joke was already made, my bad