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GoCubsGo wrote:
Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:19 pm
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2 minutes of my life I'll never get back :roll: Who the hell applauds that gibberish? It should be pitied, then evaluated for stroke and dementia :o
Apparently there was a lot of other gibberish spewed.
I'm sure. People are noticing, and calling out the MSM for not focusing.
NAILED IT
Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump’s Mental State
Mike Barnicle’s throw-down Wednesday should open the floodgates: Coverage of Donald Trump’s mental fitness for office is not just fair game. It’s necessary.


For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated as—a big and important news story in and of itself. If President Biden’s age merited extensive, focused coverage because his fitness for the job was naturally of interest to voters, goes this critique, then surely Trump’s visible incoherence, cognitive impairment, inability to cogently discuss the simplest public matters, and increasingly strange flights of fantasy deserve equivalent treatment....

“We have a damaged, delusional, old man who again might get reelected to the presidency of the United States,” Mike Barnicle, who served as a longtime columnist for The Boston Globe and other newspapers, said on Morning Joe early Wednesday. Barnicle continued that Trump frequently says “deranged” things in public that “you wouldn’t repeat” on “American television” or “in front of your children.”

“How did we get here?” Barnicle asked. Then he pointed a finger at his media colleagues. “Donald Trump can say whatever crazy things he wants to say, about submarines, and sharks, and electric batteries,” Barnicle said. He noted that such things are “not really covered” as a window into “who the man is” or a sign that he’s “out of his mind.” Watch the whole thing:

(2:14 video)

... More broadly, to grasp what coverage of Trump’s mental unfitness might look like, try comparing what little there is of it to coverage of President Biden’s age before his exit from the race. In a useful intervention, the Times’ Jamelle Bouie notes that in the latter case, the media adopted the premise that Biden’s age mattered precisely because it went to Biden’s core mental capacity “to do the job as president,” thus meriting extensive journalistic attention.

But if so, then why don’t things like Trump’s obvious cognitive impairment, his frequent inability to speak and think coherently, his resolute refusal to acquire minimal baseline knowledge on many consequential issues, his tendency to invent things on the fly that are wildly disconnected from reality, his intense narcissism, his deliberate lying and bigotry and misogyny—to name just a few traits—also go to his core mental and characterological capacity to do the job as president?

My suspicion is that some news professionals intuitively see cognitive impairment from age as an objectively verifiable condition, whereas identifying some of these other traits might require a value judgment that flouts conventions of neutrality. But that’s a weak excuse. Serial incoherence, lack of basic curiosity, pathological dishonesty, a tendency toward sadistic verbal abuses of many different kinds—all these things can also plainly be evaluated through the prism of whether they might impair someone from performing the job of president effectively. Journalists can say what they know to be true about Trump’s qualities on all these fronts....

Mike Barnicle’s eruption at his colleagues has put all this squarely on the table. It’s time to take it a lot more seriously—before it’s too late.
Lots of interest that I did not excerpt. We got used to Joe's age being mentioned with every story, it should be just as standard with DonOLD's dementia.

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Trump tries to use Walz's family against him, and fails hilariously

... That faint hiss you hear is MAGA world deflating with disappointment.
Awww :violin:
It’s possible that Trump’s choice to try to weaponize Walz’s family against him may stem from the fact that multiple members of his own family, including his niece Mary Trump and his nephew Fred Trump III, have come forward with damning stories about his history with them.

But Trump and his movement’s efforts to tar Walz in a similar way seem to have flamed out.
:---P :lol:

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Trump tries to use Walz's family against him, and fails hilariously

... That faint hiss you hear is MAGA world deflating with disappointment.
Awww :violin:
It’s possible that Trump’s choice to try to weaponize Walz’s family against him may stem from the fact that multiple members of his own family, including his niece Mary Trump and his nephew Fred Trump III, have come forward with damning stories about his history with them.

But Trump and his movement’s efforts to tar Walz in a similar way seem to have flamed out.
:---P :lol:
Well that's disqualifying. :roll:
And as for that Jeff Walz “endorsement” Trump was touting, it stems from posts that Jeff Walz published on Facebook saying he opposed his brother’s ideology and claimed to have “stories” he could tell that would show brother Tim is “not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.” It certainly sounded salacious, but Jeff Walz — who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign and said he’s had minimal contact with his brother over the last eight years — told NewsNation that he regrets the post and doesn’t want to be involved in the race.

And those “stories” about their younger years that he was prepared to tell? “Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Jeff Walz told the NewsNation. “There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.”
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Trump calls Elon Musk by wrong name as his biographer says the candidate is 'hyper-aware' voters are doubting his mental acuity



:wtf: Major donor and supporter, prospective admin role. Opps.
... Timothy O'Brien, the author of "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," spoke to the newspaper about Trump's rambling speeches and mental agility, which he said were coming under increasing scrutiny.

"The reason he's now offering these convoluted explanations of his speech patterns in his public appearances is because he's hyper-aware that people have noted that he's making even less sense than he used to," O'Brien said.

"What we're seeing now is a reflection of someone who's very troubled and very desperate," he added.

O'Brien was referring to Trump's response to criticism of his meandering speeches, which he said were part of a brilliant strategy he called "the weave."

... At one point in the debate, after Biden seemed to stumble over his words, Trump said calmly: "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either."

But with Vice President Kamala Harris now running against him, Trump faces a much stiffer rhetorical challenge, with his speeches seeming all the more chaotic. The two candidates will hold their first debate on Tuesday.
:lol: GoLeonGo

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“First of all, it’s important to remind the former president: You’re not running against Joe Biden. You’re running against me.”
-- Vice President Kamala Harris

Pay attention, DonOLD.
'Holy S**t': Jon Stewart Nails Exact Moment Kamala Harris 'Crushed' Trump At Debate

... Trump on Tuesday falsely claimed “Democrats, Republicans, and everybody else, and every legal scholar” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and the issue turned over to the states.

Stewart called that “insanely false” then played a clip of Harris’ firing back:
“I have talked with women around our country. You wanna talk about this is what people wanted? Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the healthcare providers are afraid they might go to jail, and she’s bleeding out in a car in the parking lot? She didn’t want that.”
“Holy shit,” Stewart said in awe. “She crushed that!”...
:cry: :---P :-||

Eric Trump’s Hot Take On Kamala Harris In Debate Goes Spectacularly Awry
Donald Trump's son was mercilessly mocked after delivering an epic self-own.


Your father didn't say anything but the same tired old lies. She crushed it, you guys got nothing. He looked old, angry and wouldn't even look at either woman in the room.
Harris crushed Trump. Keep up the whining.
Rather have someone who conducts themselves like a human being, and says just enough than be a rambling egomaniac racist lying piece of 💩 like your dad.
What was Don Senior's strategy ? Lies Lies Lies.
Q: Is there anything better than watching a weak, raging misogynist get his head handed to him by a strong woman?
A: Nope
Trump couldn’t tell the truth even if he wanted too
Have you ever listened to your father? Lmao.
Oh please, she is kicking your dad’s ass.
More tweets at the link :thumbup: :---P

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Good, though disturbing, discussion on MSNBC's Deadline White House (Nicolle Wallace). Essentially, Donny has unabashedly gone over to the extreme RW of racism and conspiracy theories, to wit:
* Was not accompanied to the debate by Melania, Ivanka, Jared or a responsible member of Congress. They have all given up on his self-destruction.
* Instead, he arrived with Goofy Gaetz and Laura Loomer, a woman so racist and extreme that even MTG WTF? is griefing her.
* Spewed hateful nuttiness about pet-eating Haitians, Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora, CO and "transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison.”
* Dared to show up at Ground Zero with 9/11 troofer Laura Loomer. Shameful.
* Trump is not on the internet, he is of the internet.
* If Trump wins the extreme RW will be validated.

:puke-left: :cry:

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Here's an excellent and entertaining article about how and why Trump blew his debate so badly.

"Behind the Curtain: Trump's big, unfixable, glaring glitch"

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/12/trump- ... arris-bait

My favourite line -
After being told specifically certain topics Harris could be expected to bait him on, and told how to respond ...
He didn't just nibble at the bait. He crushed it like a starving, roaring river salmon. He was on a wild run the rest of the debate.

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O Really wrote:
Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:23 pm
Here's an excellent and entertaining article about how and why Trump blew his debate so badly.

"Behind the Curtain: Trump's big, unfixable, glaring glitch"

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/12/trump- ... arris-bait

My favourite line -
After being told specifically certain topics Harris could be expected to bait him on, and told how to respond ...
He didn't just nibble at the bait. He crushed it like a starving, roaring river salmon. He was on a wild run the rest of the debate.
Good article. The real tragedy is that such a hateful, obviously broken man has a massive cult-like following. For example, see what happens when DonOLD's looniness gets contradicted by responsible and knowledgeable people with access to the facts:

Bomb threat shuts down Ohio city hall after Trump spreads baseless migrants rumor
Republicans sharing false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets has put national attention on Springfield


Is this what fascism looks like?
... X, which has also been flooded with AI-generated images of Trump surrounded by dogs, cats and ducks, some of which appear to be armed and in protection of him....
:roll:

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He is not ok. As a matter of fact, he's weird.

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Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:15 pm
He is not ok. As a matter of fact, he's weird.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 4152437163
He's racist weird.
:wtf: The LEGAL, "pet-eating" immigrants in Springfield are from Haiti. I guess they do all look alike :roll:
Karl Rove Flips Donald Trump's Insult For Kamala Harris On Ex-President
The veteran GOP strategist asked a scathing question of the former president and Republican nominee.


... Trump was “crushed” by Harris during Tuesday’s presidential debate, Rove declared in his latest column for The Wall Street Journal, echoing similar remarks from numerous other conservative commentators.

Rove, who is also a political contributor for Fox News, recalled Trump’s previous insult of Harris in July as “dumb as a rock” and wrote: “Which raises the question: What does that make him?”
:laughing-rolling: :---P
The question concluded Rove’s withering critique of Trump’s debate performance, which he said was a “train wreck” for the former president and “far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined.”

... Harris “came across as calm, confident, strong and focused on the future” while Trump was “hot, angry and fixated on the past, especially his own,” he added.
We have reached peak insanity if I'm agreeing with and quoting Karl Rove.

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:shock: :lol:


Opps.

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We really need to start recruiting higher quality assassins.
:twisted: :wave:

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We really need to start recruiting higher quality assassins.
:twisted: :wave:
Ha ha! :D

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The would-be golf assassin voted for DonOLD IN 2016, haha.
... Who is Ryan Wesley Routh?

Public records indicate that Routh lives in Hawaii, but voting records show he is registered in North Carolina as an unaffiliated voter.
Same as me!
The Raleigh News & Observer described Routh as a Greensboro resident with “an extensive criminal history” in the state — including “convictions between 2002 and 2010 of possession of weapons of mass destruction, carrying a concealed gun, hit and run, possession of stolen goods and resisting law enforcement, among other charges.”

NBC News reported that more than 100 criminal counts have been filed against Routh in North Carolina....

Routh has made several small donations totaling $140 to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democrats, since 2019, per the News & Observer. Per USA Today, Routh voted most recently in the 2024 Democratic primary election in Guilford County, N.C....

An account on X that appeared to be Routh's offered some clear political views.

In April, he suggested that President Biden’s campaign would keep “America democratic and free” and said Trump’s campaign should be called “make Americans slave masters again.”
Opps, guess he's one of ours.
... Semafor identified Routh as the head of the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine, a group that connects foreigners with locals to assist with the war effort.

Routh also spoke to Newsweek in 2022, saying that while other global conflicts “are gray,” the Russia-Ukraine conflict was “definitely black and white.” He continued, "This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook, you know, any movie we've ever watched, this is definitely evil against good."
Good on him.
... In an apparently self-published book, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” in 2023, Routh said he once voted for Trump but now describes him as a “child,” “fool,” and “buffoon,” the Associated Press reported.

In the book, Routh called Trump’s decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal a “tremendous blunder,” and even urged Iran to kill him.

“You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh wrote.
I'm glad that I never post something like that :think: :doh:

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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:53 pm
neoplacebo wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:58 pm
I didn't see the trump LAW (Lie And Whine) speech, but I'd bet anything he did the accordion hands thing while lying and whining. It's what he does.
Michael Cohen Reveals Classic Trump Hand Gesture That Shows When He’s Lying
The former Trump attorney explains the ex-president’s “tell.”


... “When you see the accordion hands start going, what that means is that he’s lying,” Cohen, who was Trump’s longtime fixer and personal attorney, told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Tuesday. “It’s a tell with Donald. Anytime that the accordion hands start, that means that he’s not telling the truth.”...
Nailed it, neoplacebo :-||

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:lol: It always cracks me up when I see him start doing that stupid shit. It boggles my mind that ANYONE can still support this moron.
ICYMI :lol: :
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Jimmy Kimmel Spots 'Dumbest' Trump Rant Of All Time: 'Even Fox News Cut Him Off'
The late night host said even the right-wing cable network seemed to have enough of the former president's rambling speech.


Jimmy Kimmel on Monday spotted a bizarre new conspiracy theory from Donald Trump as the former president claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s.

“She never worked at McDonald’s. It’s a lie,” Trump insisted without evidence on Friday. “She said she stood over those french fries when they were being fried. It was so tough for her. She never worked there. She’s a liar, she’s a liar.”
:wtf:
Kimmel was baffled by the former president’s newest obsession.

“You can see how personal this one is for him,” Kimmel said. “I don’t even know why he says she’s lying about this. Who would lie about working in McDonald’s other than to say, ‘I never worked at McDonald’s’?”
Exactly :crazy:
That wasn’t the only bizarre claim by the former president.

“Trump went on and on, rambling about the dumbest, nothing topics, to the point where even Fox News had to cut him off,” Kimmel said....
Awww :violin:

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Eamus Catuli~AC 000000 000101 010202 020303 010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.

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But wait, there's more.

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He's having himself a night.

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