Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I don't know or care whether he's seriously ill or just a colossal asshole. That said, if I thought he were seriously ill, I might suggest that the right course of action is NOT to point it out or urge that he get evaluated. Let the tapeworm or whatever eat his brain. Fine with me; no loss.

I’m on board with that as long as they don’t let him make decisions

you know we have a world, right?

-Coldplay

lol

clara jeffr3y has a lot of... moments.. and the eric garland bit was definitely a tell

The other "symptoms" are stupidity, DGAF and a stunning lack of empathy - I mean the psychological "diagnoses" are obvious but he doesn't have a degenerative brain disease unless diagnosed as such.

Yeah, as I said I'm not cosigning - I stand by my observations of his physical and mental condition over the last few months of threads - just pointing out the actual argument made there, so folks can argue that rather than a strawman. Your list of symptoms are absolutely long-standing and certainly still a massive part of his behaviour, now more widely visible.

His speech patterns etc are the product of fatigue because the asshole has never had to actually work before.

Strongly disagree with this, though. His speech patterns have deteriorated significantly from 2016, and were significantly less focussed then than a decade earlier. (Also in 2016 it was easy to tell when he'd been racking up to focus - the crazy snorting in the debates - and whatever he's on now seems to still work for stamina, but not, or no longer, for concentration.) And it's not like he's doing any work now, he just has to leave the building his apartment is in, sometimes.

(For me, the way he's been almost completely kept from one-on-one conversations also speaks to Miller and his handlers being aware of decline - see also the terrified hostage eyes of the Fox & Friends hosts when he slips the net and spends an hour shouting down the phone at them.)

a dementia spasm

a well described medical phenomenon

qualmsley otm

Trump’s nuts rant about wind energy: “I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much... Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes & everything.” pic.twitter.com/DvkJq9NbWg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 23, 2019

MatthewK otm

I had a bad night but at least I’m not this guy pic.twitter.com/JktuBA830T

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 3, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP0nQEKWoAAy3us.jpg

Juuuuuuust wait.

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Isn't there another city in the wrong state, I'm sure there is but it's driving me nuts

West New York, New Jersey!

a bunch along the mississippi river

East St. Louis, Illinois and East Dubuque, Illinois come to mind

Missouri City, Texas

I’m still not sure what a Texarkana is

so sad how they learned US geography when he was absent from school due to bone spurs :(

Missouri City, Texas

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:49 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol this is the one I was referring to I think

Nevada City, California

there are like a billion of these

I’m still not sure what a Texarkana is

Texarkana, TX, near the border of TEXas, ARKansas, and louisiANA

Washington, DC isn't in Washington state

Miami University of Ohio

New Mexico City, New Mexico

xxp Texarkana is a city in arkansas pretty sure

There’s one in both TX and AR. Despite the CCR song “I was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana”, there isn’t one in Louisiana

I was annoyed as a kid when I learned about Indiana University of Pennsylvania

you can be a mile from a place in another state, justice 4 CCR

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Texarkana,+Arkansas+71854/Ida,+Louisiana+71044/

I mean, it's a bit more than a mile but it's not that far.

Also, Levon Helm did not in fact serve on the Danville train during the Civil War.

(Johnny Cash did, however, shoot a man in Reno. Just to watch him die. Motherfucker.)

CCR just quoting Leadbelly.

Paris, Texas

paris, arkansas
paris, missouri
paris, illinois
paris, iowa

paris is like the paris of the midwest

is this that Wakko song from Animaniacs

Virginia, Minnesota
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Florida, Massachusetts

These are a few of my favorite states

I feel like this should be turned into a poll

A man who is braver than me and braver than all of us in this room, he got whacked. He got whacked. My Steve, right? I went to the hospital with our great first lady that night and we saw a man that was not going to make it.

He was not going to make it. I said, she loves you. Why? Because she was devastated. A lot of wives wouldn’t give a damn. I would say, how is he doing? She couldn’t even talk, she was inconsolable. Most wives would say, not good, I’m going home now. The doctor came in and the wife was a total mess. She was really devastated. It really looked like he had a 20, 25 percent chance. I think you set a record for blood loss. And Steve Scalise, I actually — honestly, I think you’re better-looking there. You’re more handsome there. You weren’t that good-looking. You look good now. He looks better now, can you believe it? I don’t know what the hell that is. Better now.

What a guy. He was practicing for the baseball game against — I guess the Democrats, right? And this whack job started shooting, hurt Rogers. I don’t know if Rogers is here, but hurt a number of people. But really hurt Steve. He was the second baseman, and he went down and it was terrible. I saw the whole thing and it was terrible. Fortunately, you had two brave policemen with you because of your high position in Congress. You had two policemen and they were amazing. The man and the woman and they came — they didn’t have rifles. They were supposedly a pretty good sharpshooter with equipment, and all they had was a gun. They started coming in from the outfield, shooting. They were so far away that a handgun is not preferred.

This guy has the rifle and he’s hitting people. He was going to move up and there was no out. The entrance was a single entrance way on the other side from where he was. So everyone ran into the dugout. But Steve was hit really bad in the stomach with a bullet that rips you apart. It rips you apart. And these two people came charging forward, and one of them — you know who? Him? Got the shooter. Hit him. And then got him. Killed him. From a long distance. It was amazing. If you didn’t have those two people, you could imagine, right? You could imagine what would happen.

So Melania and I went to the hospital that night, and he was in such bad shape and he’s been working ever since so hard. Six months ago they had a baseball game at the Nationals’ Park. I was watching on television. It’s a game, you want to win it, right? And Steve is at second base. The poor guy can’t even walk.

Remember Bob Richardson of the New York Yankees? He was known for range. Bobby Richardson is the second player. This was not Steve Scalise. This was not Steve Scalise. This was not Steve Scalise. He had no range. I don’t know who put you on the field. This is a true story.

So the game starts, and the first pitch, Steve is standing at second base and the guy is really in bad shape, and I said, this is terrible. A shot, ground ball shot, is hit to 2nd. I didn’t have time to think too much, but I said, this is not good. That ball is going toward him. And this guy stopped that ball, caught the ball. He’s now laying down. He throws the ball to first base, he gets him out. I said it’s the most incredible thing. I’ve never seen anything like it. Right? [ Applause ]

And he gets him out and they then took him out of the game, which was a very wise thing because you could never do that again in a hundred years. But you weren’t going to let that ball go through. I don’t care if it was hit by the greatest of all time, that ball wasn’t going through because you’re a warrior. Steve, you are fantastic. You and Liz and Kevin, what a group. I got lucky. I got lucky, because you need the right people. If I had the wrong people there, it may be a different story.

Maybe we would be celebrating something else. But I really want to thank you. Steve Scalise. And, Elise [ Stefanik ], I just read this story. It’s most incredible what’s going on with you, Elise. I was up campaigning for helping her and I thought, she looks good, she looks like good talent. But I did not realize when she opens that mouth, you were killing them, Elise. You were killing them. There’s a big story in the new York post. I love the New York Post because they treat me well. There’s not too many that do, but today you’re treating me well.

Most wives would say, not good, I’m going home now (ftw)

⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ returns to the White House from Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo by William Moon at the South Lawn of the White House on February 7, 2020 pic.twitter.com/n1a1Z93LrJ

— White House Photos (@photowhitehouse) February 7, 2020

Accidentally snuck a Vic Berger one in there

that's probably a parody account, right?

I don’t think whether it’s a parody account or not has any dispositive effect on your clear duty to create a horrifying gif based on the image

i'm not sure what's going on here

https://i.imgur.com/464DqPR.gif

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-asked-reince-priebus-about-wisconsin-badgers-2020-2

"After Trump was reminded that the short-legged omnivore was practically synonymous with the Badger State, he'd make a point of bringing it up at seemingly random occasions to his beleaguered chief of staff.

"'Are they mean to people?' Trump at least twice asked Priebus in the opening months of his presidency. 'Or are they friendly creatures?' The president would also ask if Priebus had any photos of badgers he could show him, and if Priebus could carefully explain to him how badgers 'work' exactly.

"He wanted Reince — resident White House badger historian, apparently — to explain to him Wisconsin's obsession with the animal, how the little critters function and behave, what kind of food they like, and how aggressive or deadly they could be when presented with perceived existential threats.

"Trump also wanted to know if the badger had a 'personality' or if it was boring. What kind of damage could a badger to do a person with its flashy, sharp claws?

saw an apartment today in an old luxury high rise from the 60s. (no longer really considered luxury but still is ok). the broker provided some background on the building, which was unique for brooklyn at the time it was built because it was so large. the name of the bold developer who created it was fred trump.

just read the anecdote about the badger thing. better contribution to the thread than what i wrote

Remember when some twitter parodist convinced hundreds of thousands of people that Trump liked to watch gorillas fighting each other and his staff kept him entertained with a 24-hour a day gorilla cable channel? Turns out he was obsessed with badgers, I guess.

the presidency is very powerful, i don't see why he couldn't do both