Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Let's just conveniently ignore the thing where a lot of people can't even get approval for a test until/unless they're exhibiting signs of full-blown 'rona.

this means we have to hear it 100 more times before we even get to hear it a complete first time

dud

I've been tuned out for two or three weeks. When I heard him today, it's hard to even describe the sensation--different than what I'd ever felt before.

Why oh why won't the media report this obvious fact that anyone with 2 functioning brain cells could grasp while also realizing it's a fucking idiotic way to look at it, PLEASE TELL ME WHY THEY DON'T

what does this sentence mean

lol that he says doctors were surprised he passed a fucking cognitive test!! Wtf ?

Even if it were true, "the doctors were *very* surprised I passed a cognitive test" is not really the slam dunk the president thinks it is. https://t.co/7hk0LAFxcZ

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 10, 2020

Fucking shit we really are in some uncharted territory. I mean this whole shit show is so far beyond like Katrina level failure it’s insane.

yeah, with Katrina, Republicans were abandoning the Bush train and people were eager to sell him out. Katrina was bad, this is basically "is my cat playing Simcity"?

a cat playing simcity would be preferable, because although it might occasionally lay on the keys and accidentally trigger a disaster or bulldoze a small district, everything else would pretty run on autopilot, probably resulting in bad traffic and lopsided zoning. instead, trump is like a really, really dumb kid playing simcity, and that is so much worse for the simcitizens

“Rarely do people do what you just did.”

Truer words....

this is the one guy screaming "YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" in America's face over and over again

lol exactly

he was so right

well, we said as the water came to a full boil and the babies began to stop screaming, he DID tell us he was gonna do this

starting to think if there's a god, he's like that weird luminous one from God Told Me To

god is the god of job: he will ruin a good man's life just to make a point to the devil

motherfucker

Who, god? Or job?

Job is just God spelled backwards

scene at heaven's gates
peter is checking the guest list

"no."
"...motherfucker"

Job is just God spelled backwards
this would be a good tattoo

I just grasped how his lizard brain farted out the "1/100th" thing. 100th=hundredth so you gotta put a 1 in front of it if you mean to say "one hundredth". Wonder if he typed "1 100th" at first but knew that didn't look right.

I randomly think about "which do you prefer, old or new testament?", "ohh I'd say…equal" and start giggling

particularly like how he gives it a bit of thought before answering, it's a *real* opinion you see

whoever said his question replies are classic "forgot to prepare my book report" was painfully otm

The Trump baseball has been reduced from $88 to $87.50.

which pretty much confirms it was not a coincidence.

TRUMP: I hate being President. You think if I allow 200,000 to die from this thing, they'll vote me out?

ADVISER: There's no guarantee.

TRUMP: Fuck! How do you lose one of these things?

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 11, 2020

xp

i still have no idea about the original intent. seems impossible to prove either way, and of course the fact that his top aides are white supremacists means anything they do is pretty suspect.

but them changing the price now confirms nothing. would them keeping the price at $88 confirm that it was a coincidence? if not, then why does changing the price confirm that it was not a coincidence?

Well, at the least it seems to confirm they recognized it was problematic, because why else would they lower it by $.50? My guess, and of course it is only a guess, is some asshole picked that price on purpose, and some lesser degree of asshole caught it and changed it just to avoid the headache. Like, "lol, good one, Stephen Miller, own those libs, but I still think I should change this."

This bit (re: Woolery) is making me think this guy may be kind of a dud.

“I didn’t make a comment,” Trump told Herridge. “I did. I reposted a tweet that a lot of people feel. But all I am doing is making a comment."

I didn't make a comment. I did. All I am doing is making a comment.

To say those three things in a row is... just... boggling. How can anyone keep track of it? The answer is that you can't, and that that is the point. It's chaff. Throw up so many conflicting messages that no one can pin him down, and he can just walk away from any assertion without consequence.

Because once we've isolated and scratched our heads over this bit of nonsense, there will be three more by nightfall.

Master of challops

it's very much Rick James on Chappelle. Why would I rub my boots on his couch? That's crazy. But hell yeah, I rubbed my boots on his couch!

Climate change is not real, and it is real but it’s good for agriculture, and also there’s nothing we can do about it.


They’ve been rehearsing this bit since I was born

lmao that this guy wound up on with the job where you'd least want someone who's "just thinking out loud"

someone who's "just thinking out loud"

So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out... Dishwashers you didn’t have any water... In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain

today I tried to open a door and the knob fell off. then I picked up my briefcase and the handle fell off.

i'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Thanks to the dementia or the adderall or whatever it was actually closer to “You want to wash your hands and the watersssssumout”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/trump-wallowing-self-pity/614434/

One senses in Donald Trump no joy, no delight, no laughter. All the emotions that drive him are negative. There is something repugnant about Trump, yes, but there is also something quite sad about the man. He is a damaged soul. In another time, in a different circumstance, there would perhaps be room to pity such a person. But for now, it is best for the pity to wait. There are other things to which to attend. The American public faces one great and morally urgent task above all others between now and November: to do everything in its power to remove from the presidency a self-pitying man who is shattering the nation and doesn’t even care.

would you say he's... increasingly isolated?

Dud, methinks. he looks like an orange cheeto

The conservative movement in the 1980s, although hardly flawless, was intellectually serious and politically optimistic. And Reagan himself was a man of personal decency, grace, and class.

ideas/

William Bennett, a man of intellectual seriousness and optimism.

my cock's on fire

lol

lol x2

Reagan is my bad desire
whoa, oh oh my cock's on fire

There is something repugnant about Trump, yes, but he is such a raging asshole that it is impossible to be sad about the man.