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Who Can’t Find Their Pants Now?

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We’ve all noted the ongoing GOP and Co. drumbeat on Joe Biden’s alleged mental decline/incapacity.  C.f. the loathsome Nancy Mace declaring that in the debt limit farrago “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants.”

Who Can't Find Their Pants Now? 1

This is an obvious dog whistle, (“Be very afraid of the president-in-waiting”) and, as with every GOP/fascist accusation, it is also a confession.

Exhibit A:

Who Can't Find Their Pants Now?

 

I mean: that’s exactly what an organized mind, capable of sequential reasoning and clearly connected to empirically verifiable representations of reality, would say, amirite? (That was from Trump’s response to DeSantis’s Twitter campaign launch fiasco.)

Trump is increasingly reminding me of late first-term, early second-term Reagan. That’s when the cognitive decline was present, but mask-able in most settings, including any in which he was working from a prepared script.

Obviously, I have no more information on Trump’s neurological status than anyone else outside the omertà circle surrounding TFG.  But the point isn’t whether Trump is in fact tumbling into dementia, but that he’s already amply demonstrated to those outside the cult that he’s got serious problems distinguishing what he wants to be true from what is, in fact true–and more on point, that he’s not in any meaningful sense a less risky cognitive bet as a potential octagenerian president than Dark Brandon is.

He’s an old guy with crappy diet and exercise habits who possesses none of the habits that support intellectual flexibility as one ages.

But we know this. The question, as always, is how the mainstream media will handle the question of age and mental function.

The answer, as always, is “Badly.”

Open, this is, a thread.

PS: Why yes.  I did turn in my MS to my editors.*  Why do you ask?…Which is another way of saying that I hope to be a little more present around the joint than I have been.  No promises–I may go full time into my beachcomber avocation. But at least there’s a bit more mental space w/in my skull.  Nice to see you all…

*Many more stages to come, as the herd of authors here will attest. But a milestone nonetheless.

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  4. 4.

    NotMax

    This, part of a comencement speech given by Tom Hanks, flew under my radar at the time.

    “For the truth, to some, is no longer empirical. It’s no longer based on data nor common sense nor even common decency,” he said.

    “Telling the truth is no longer the benchmark for public service. It’s no longer the salve to our fears or the guide to our actions. Truth is now considered malleable, by opinion, by zero-sum end games,” he explained. “Imagery is manufactured with audacity, with purpose to achieve the primal task of marring the truth with mock logic to achieve with fake expertise, with false sincerity.”

    Hanks continued to hone in on the importance of truth, while lamenting about how many people “play fast and loose” with it and how “indifference” is its enemy.

    “Every day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made,” he said.

    “It’s the same option for all grown-ups who have to decide to be one of three types of Americans — those who embrace liberty and freedom for all, those who won’t, or those who are indifferent. Only the first do the work of creating a more perfect union, a nation indivisible. The others get in the way.” Source

  6. 6.

    smith

    Glad you brought up Reagan’s obvious cognitive decline. His incapacity was clear to anyone who was watching, but I don’t recall any drumbeat from the media like what they’re trying to do to Biden now.

    It’s also worth pointing out, again and again, that there is only 4 years’ difference in age between Biden and TFG, and when you get to be 70+ the exact number of years is largely irrelevant compared to the state of your health. Easy to see which of them is spry and which can barely waddle.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    @smith: Yeah, it drives me crazy that they attack Biden for his age, as though their guy is some Spring chicken. I mean, if DeSantis were the fave and the frontrunner (LOLOL) then at least there would be some shred of sense, even if it would still be ageist nonsense. Four years apart at that age doesn’t mean much, they’re roughly the same height (I refuse to believe Trump is 6’3″) and Trump clearly weighs a good deal more than Biden. Add in his frat boy diet and like…who is really the risk here.

  9. 9.

    MattF

    It must be stressful for the Trump minions. They must believe he’s the very model of a political genius and The Chosen One— it’s a condition for employment— while observing him rant about his resentments on social media. Pretty typical ‘bad boss’ behavior, except for the political stakes.

  10. 10.

    Ruckus

    Tom, you don’t think that anyone anywhere near close to SFB is going to in any way suggest that he might be approaching a complete and utter lack of any mental capacity whatsoever, do you? I mean they seem to lie like they have no idea what the word lie means. Plus, if they are that close to SFB it should be obvious that they themselves lack all mental capacity whatsoever.

  11. 11.

    dm

    So where does the “can’t find his pants” story come from?  Usually these things tie back to some story going around the wingnutosphere.

    Trump had a serious case of COVID, and one of the side-effects of that disease can be serious cognitive impairment.  He was always a little odd, but it struck me that the double-whammy of COVID and being rejected by the American people seemed to tip him over the edge.

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    @smith:

    Glad you brought up Reagan’s obvious cognitive decline. His incapacity was clear to anyone who was watching, but I don’t recall any drumbeat from the media like what they’re trying to do to Biden now.

    In fairness, a lot of that was that the media back then was generally more reticent to talk about that kind of thing.  They should have been willing to do it, but that wasn’t the way they rolled.  I think it’s generally good that the media is more willing to talk about this kind of thing, but it’s bad that they’re partisan about it.

    That said, Reagan’s mental incapacity was something people were willing to joke about, even if it wasn’t talked about in the media.  Sometimes the joke was how out of it he was, and sometimes he was shown as genuinely capable and using apparent incapacity as a shield, but people noticed.  It just goes to show that some topics can only be approached in comedy.

  18. 18.

    BlueGuitarist

    @dm:

    story source is mentioned above the picture, but easily missed, SC-01 rep

    the loathsome Nancy Mace declaring that in the debt limit farrago “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants.”

  19. 19.

    smith

    @Alison Rose: Given the obvious nonsense reflected by being worried about Biden’s health and not TFG’s, it’s hard not to conclude that the real problem, as Tom suggests, is the president-in-waiting. I think that even though the Nikki Haleys on the right will eagerly nominate themselves for VP, TFG’s ultimate choice will have the requisite pale skin and required personal plumbing. That’s what makes him safe from a right wing point of view, regardless of his chances of kicking the bucket.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @Juju: Not to mention buttons!

    Mushroom was ruined for me during the Stormy Daniels reporting.  Either she described it that way, or someone else did.

    But buttons?  Dammit, buttons are supposed to be safe.

  23. 23.

    Captain C

    Isn’t future President Baud the one who can’t find his pants, and isn’t this an intentional thing, rather than an actual inability?

  24. 24.

    Alison Rose

    @smith: But what’s confusing about that to me is like…they’re all acting like Biden has one foot in the grave and they’re trying to shove him the rest of the way in. But then they’d get President Harris! Just weird.

  26. 26.

    pat

    Rob?? Rob who?
    Just got here from watching Biden’s speech. Senile? Ha, I think not…

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    @dm:

    So where does the “can’t find his pants” story come from?

    It could have come from Mace herself, as a wild, made-up “example” of Biden’s supposedly diminished mental capacity. Whereas, as we’ve all just seen, Biden can not only find his pants, he can find Kevin McCarthy’s pants too, and even pick Kevin’s pockets clean before Kevin knows what’s happening.

  28. 28.

    JPL

    @dm: Right wing comment.   The new comment has to do with why did it take him so long to negotiate.  He’s suppose to excel at this but he waited until we were on the brink.

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @Alison Rose:

    I think you’re missing the point.  The goal is to use the threat of President Harris to scare bigots who might otherwise see Biden as a safe choice.  So yeah, Biden is a nice White guy, but if he kicks the bucket (and you have to worry about his health) then you’ll get the scary Brown woman.  Doesn’t that make you want to vote for Trump, who will surely pick a nice safe White guy like himself as VP?

  32. 32.

    dmsilev

    “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants.”

    Ok, let’s take that as a starting assumption. What does that say about the negotiation and strategizing skills of Republicans?

  34. 34.

    Cameron

    Sorry, I’m not buying “Dark Brandon has his shit together.”  Not once – not once – have I heard him say, “Person – woman – man – camera – TV.”  Gotta be a stable genius for that.  Haw, haw, haw – pwned again, libtards!

  35. 35.

    dmsilev

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    That’s how fucking negotiations work FFS!

    Traditionally, don’t those start with deciding on where to go for dinner and what movie to see?

  38. 38.

    smith

    @dmsilev: And if you’re going out with a Republican, you’re expected to settle on anthrax and tire rims. That must have been Biden’s mistake.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @smith:

    ShitForBrains will be 77 in 12 days. He’s never had the mental capability of Joe Biden. Even of the capability that Joe Biden has at 80 yrs old, he’s never been that mentally capable. His father was a wonderful role model – if you had the mental capacity of a potted plant – which is the level SFB has had his entire life.

  40. 40.

    MattF

    @Roger Moore: Except that Biden is not really such a safe choice for ‘conservatives’— considering how he just skinned and filleted McCarthy. This is not to suggest that Harris is a safe choice either.

  41. 41.

    Alison Rose

    @Roger Moore: Well, no, I did not miss that point, because it is quite obvious. My point was that they all act as though he’s gonna keel over at any second and they seem ghoulishly enthused by that, and yet don’t seem to think about what would occur next.

  42. 42.

    Jay

    @Alison Rose:

    Uncle Joe is both feeble, and Dark Brandon in their minds, at the same time,

    Most normal minds would explode in that sort of situation.

  43. 43.

    smith

    @Jay:  Just like Obama was both an evil genius and a slow-learning beneficiary of affirmative action.

  45. 45.

    MazeDancer

    Mr.Biden’s Oval Office address was so uplifting. Really, knowing he is the White House makes me feel safer.

    Not safe, of course, because the world is crazy. But at least I know there is a smart grown-up who will handle what happens.

  46. 46.

    japa21

    @Jay: They do that whomever the Dem President is.  Obama was the dumb N….. who totally coordinated a major whatever via time travel.  Same story with Clinton .

  49. 49.

    JPL

    @MazeDancer: During the trump years, it was not unusual for me to wake and read a mystery or horror book to lull be back into sleep.  A few days ago, I couldn;t sleep so started reading Michelle Obama’s book.

    different times.

  50. 50.

    Ruckus

    @Jay:

    Has anyone ever truthfully said that conservatives are smart or logical or even smarter than my dog? (BTW my dog has been playing in, well I’m sure not doggy heaven, he was a bit of an asshole (an understatement if there ever was one – he was loyal as hell though) where ever it is dogs end up)

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    @dm: Maybe from something like this:

    Danny – the Tourette’s guy:

    In his room, Danny is looking for a pair of pants. He grows progressively frustrated as signified by repeating the phrase “Where’s my pants?”

    Dunno.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  55. 55.

    RaflW

    I still don’t understand that Trump ‘blurt’. Is it about his mushroom? If so, what would Dictator Kim know about it?

    If it’s about the nuclear football, neither TFG nor Rhonda have it. And again, what on earth would Kim know about the USAs nuclear launch ‘button’?

    Trying to grock F(ailed)POTUS is an exercise in futility anyway.

  56. 56.

    Stuart Frasier

    There’s the story that when Fred Trump got dementia, they let him go to an office every day where they pretended he was still working.  Maybe we should build a replica Oval Office and let Donald live there and send out pronouncements via Truth Social.

  57. 57.

    RaflW

    @smith: We just hosted my out-laws friends, ranging in age from 70 to 93. The 93 year old was delightful, but not really still of Presidential timber.

    Among the rest, several were very on-the-ball. I am also related to a 49 year old who I like but wouldn’t let within 100 feet of important executive decision needs.

  58. 58.

    Tom Levenson

    @Ramalama: it’s the next book, So Very Small, which I swear I started working on before the pandemic, on the history behind and implications of germ theory.

    It will come out in 2025, and there will be plenty of stuff here about it before then.

  59. 59.

    Juju

    My mother has dementia. I am her caretaker. As far as my experience goes, Biden is in great shape mentally and physically for a man his age and even younger. I would be thrilled if my mother was half as cognitively capable as Biden. The moment I really took notice of Trump’s mental decline was when he was holding one of his “ Dear Leader” cabinet meetings and Rudy Guilliani was sitting right across from him and he didn’t recognize him and stated that Guillani wasn’t there that day. My mother has done that very thing with her grand children and daughters in law.  Trump has always been a bit of an inarticulate moron, but not recognizing a dear friend is a real bad sign. I don’t get the pants comment. Biden is always impeccably dressed and never been seen in public without some sort of pants. At least there are no pictures of Biden playing tennis while his shorts are giving him a major wedgie. That was an asinine comment by Mace.

    Since this is open thread, what the hell is wrong with those people who said it took three men to help Biden get up after his tumble?  What I saw was three men who were doing what a normal person would do and help a person get up after a fall.  What should they have done? Point and laugh?

  61. 61.

    smith

    @RaflW: I’m sure my perceptions are colored by the fact that both my parents were mentally quite sharp well into their 80s.

  63. 63.

    Juju

    @WaterGirl: I think the description was a comparison to a Pickachou character that looked like a mushroom. I’m not at all familiar with the Pickchou stuff except as a good aunt I would order and send card packs to my nephews who collected those cards. I never really looked at the stuff. Their mother just told me where and what to order. I have never heard the mushroom thing before because I hit the mute button a lot during the Trump years. Oops. Sorry I used the B word.

  65. 65.

    bbleh

    @dm: @Amir Khalid: @Another Scott: I think it’s just a random cruel make-fun-of-old-people remark.  Can’t find his pants, can’t find his teeth, forgets to put his pants on, yada yada yada.

    Mace knows better, but she’s decided there’s more mileage in channeling her Inner Mean Girl, and this is what she’s come up with.  And the Cult will yuk-yuk-yuk along, because that’s what a good cultist does.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    @Alison Rose:

    what’s confusing about that to me is like…they’re all acting like Biden has one foot in the grave and they’re trying to shove him the rest of the way in. But then they’d get President Harris! Just weird.

    They’re trying to terrify their voters into the thought of having a President Harris (and an unelected* one at that!)

    *as in, “no one elected her president!”  Well yes, sir, let me explain to you how the Constitution and presidential succession works…

    But that’s what this is about.  BIDEN OLD => BLACK WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT ANY DAY NOW, ESPECIALLY IF YOU GIVE BIDEN ANOTHER FOUR YEARS

    ETA: or what Roger Moore and others already said

  69. 69.

    beckya57

    @Roger Moore:

    This is it, exactly.  If TFG is the GOP nominee their best chance is to convince voters in swing states that Harris is his true opponent.  We already know from 2016 that this could very well work.  The Dems better have a good counter-strategy.

  71. 71.

    RaflW

    @Stuart Frasier: They should let him use the 7/8th scale replica at the Johnson library. Make mister “truck go vroom!” FPOTUS feel like an even bigger giant among men.

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    Oh my. Something not good going on backwise after lifting and shifting several not massively heavy (but not light either), cumbersome and awkward to grab boxes and small furnishings as part of a project have been slowly tackling for the past several days, some of which involved moving things back and forth the 60 feet or so outdoors to the garage of the main house on the property (which also necessitates navigating a total of nine stairs, five from the porch to the ground, another four from the lawn to the driveway). Pulled something in the lower left quadrant.

    On the up side, the project is completed as of today. Was contemplating getting mowing done this weekend but putting that on the back burner for the nonce.

  74. 74.

    Jeffro

    @beckya57: true, and they’ll try, but despite all their nonsense about Biden being too old, too out of it, etc, Biden’s still out there and still delivering.  I think most folks are taking note of that.

    More importantly, despite any reservations some may have about Biden, a nice-sized majority of voters know that between trumpov and Biden it’s no contest.  (and that’s GOP hack extraordinaire Marc Thiessen saying that!)

    Trump is effectively Biden’s “get out of jail free” card — the former president is the one Republican candidate who can save Biden from the political consequences [of all the lies and spin Thiessen cares to throw around, but whatever]

    If the GOP nominated a non-trump-worshipping, semi-sane candidate…AND if the GOP base could rally around that candidate without trump stirring the pot/threatening to go independent/actually GOING independent…then maybe they’d have a prayer.

    But as it is?  Whether it’s trump or trump-lite, Biden wins.

  75. 75.

    RaflW

    @Jeffro: Paste is for eating, glue is for huffing. Though sniffing is an acceptable alternate term when abusing glue.

    #moaryouknow

  76. 76.

    Jeffro

    @Jeffro: even more recent:

    Nearly all of the 15 gathered swing state voters described feeling negative emotions when they saw President Biden on a television or computer screens — “confused,” “concern,” “worry,” “sad,” “sorry” and even “panicked.”

    Every single one said they wished Biden and his old Republican foe Donald Trump were not running for reelection. Several offered dire assessments of Biden’s mental and physical capacities, calling him too old or speculating about the possibility of dementia.

    But as the focus group moderator steered the conversation to the possibility of a Biden rematch next year with Trump, the mood clearly shifted among these voters, who had all cast a ballot for Trump in 2016 and then Biden in 2020. Nine of the 15 said they would vote again for Biden, three said they would go back to Trump and three said they would either not vote or find a third-party candidate.

    The voters said they had supported Trump in 2016 because they had wanted a change or were wary of the Democratic candidate in that race. “I didn’t particularly like Donald Trump, but I guess I disliked Hillary Clinton more,” explained Scott, 55, from Wisconsin, who works for a college.

    Seven years later, most no longer gave the Republican the benefit of the doubt, criticizing his character, his social media use and bringing up the criminal investigations into his conduct. All participants said that they wished Trump was not running again. The words this group of voters reserved for Trump tended to be far more negative than Biden. Asked how they would feel if the former president was reelected, voters used words like “nervous,” “scared,” “shocked,” “sick,” and “horrified.”

    Scott said another Trump term would make him “feel like I was living in Nazi Germany.”

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    @RaflW: huffing, sniffing, to-may-to, to-mah-to

    Nancy Reagan and Len Bias (RIP) kept me off anything harder than light beer through my formative years, so there you go…

  78. 78.

    RaflW

    @Jeffro: To that last quote from Scott, yeah. Except I’d be living practically anywhere that would take me within the shortest reasonable timespan after Nov. 2024, should that come to pass.

    Not gonna wait to “see how it goes” if the country is insane enough to return to that corrupt chaos creep. The test drive was already terrifying.

  79. 79.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Ruckus: You mean aside from every Republican?  Haven’t you heard?  They are all the foremost experts on Economics, Climate, Crime Stats, Vaccines and now Gender.  People like my Dad who is an old-school, Buckley-worshiping conservative who thinks Buckley, George Will and Jonathan Turley are the real intellectual giants of our world, and thinks that because he is fairly good at math and Engineering (HARD SCIENCE!!) he’s smarter than those of us who actually follow scientific consensus and defer to epidemiologists etc.

  80. 80.

    Ruckus

    @MattF:

    So you are saying that he is far stupider than my dog.

    Well that is true, if they were at all smart they wouldn’t be a fascist asshole. As they have the brain of a flaming bag of dog shit, their sole premise is to stink everything up with that smell of burning dog shit.

  81. 81.

    M31

    ugh, watching PBS news hour and all they talk about wrt the debt ceiling bill is horserace bullshit with a nice helping of how it really strengthened McCarthy

    fuck you you fucking fuckers

    yeah yeah I know, my fault for watching it

  82. 82.

    frosty

    @NotMax: ​
     Here’s the book raven recommended:
    Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin.

    An investigative reporter suffering from back pain all her life, she goes through what you shouldn’t do, then wraps it up with what works. TL;DR various forms of exercise and posture improvement. It’s helped me.

  83. 83.

    Ruckus

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    They are all the foremost experts on Economics, Climate, Crime Stats, Vaccines and now Gender.

    That’s true, just ask them……

    Of course there is that trust issue whenever rethuglicans actually speak. I mean the odds here are far, far, far better than any odds in Las Wages that whatever comes out will be shit. No matter which end it comes from.

  85. 85.

    TriassicSands

    If Trump has dementia, his ignorance and stupidity hide it pretty well. Or another way of saying that is when someone is as ignorant and stupid as Trump is, it is difficult to tell whether the combination of stupidity and ignorance or dementia is responsible for his always coming across as a complete idiot.

    Q: If Trump is suffering from dementia, should we feel sorry for him or simply hate him for the miserable POS he’s always been?

    I’m going with the latter.

  86. 86.

    TriassicSands

    @TS: What REALLY happened the night Malcolm Fraser lost his trousers in a seedy Memphis hotel?

    Let me guess. He called Donald Trump for advice.

  87. 87.

    Ruckus

    @frosty:

    I have a herniated disc and have to sleep on a very firm surface. So I made my own bed. Welded it together from 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 angle iron and surface on top of that is 3/4 plywood. My mattress is a 1 inch layer of firm foam, topped by a 1 inch layer of memory foam. I sleep very well on it. Have been for 11 yrs and my back is fine. I do have to replace the foam every so often, say every 2-4 yrs.

  88. 88.

    Jeffro

    OT: I don’t know if it’s new or not but I just saw an ad w/ Casey DeSantis (in a fake Air Force flight jumpsuit?) trying to make a campaign pitch for “RD 24″…no Ron to be found.

    I don’t think they’re sending their best to take down their worst, is what I’m saying…

  89. 89.

    Jeffro

    @Jeffro: And I see that Brian Kemp is slamming trumpov for congratulating Kim Jong Un

    Taking our country back from Joe Biden does not start with congratulating North Korea’s murderous dictator.

    -BK

    Whoa nellie!

    Far be it from me to throw the GOP a lifeline (instead of an anvil) here but Kemp would make really good candidate/palate-cleanser for the party.

    Oh well.  Maybe 2028, or never!

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    @TriassicSands:

    I’m going with the latter.

    Me too.

    It’s easier and faster and he’s worked hard to maintain his stupidity, and the assholiness that is so well earned so why deny him that? BTW that is the only thing he’s earned in his entire life. Assholiness. Earned fair and square.

  94. 94.

    Bill Arnold

    @RaflW:

    I still don’t understand that Trump ‘blurt’. Is it about his mushroom? If so, what would Dictator Kim know about it?

    The first is (it is said) about the red Truth Social button for posting a “Truth”/.
    People do not know (from a brief search) how Kim Jong Un is involved; it seems to suggest private communications with Kim Jong-Un. Which would be a potential Logan Act violation, potentially even treason; the Korean War is technically ongoing, and Kim Jong-Uh has been rattling his nuclear sabre a lot.

  96. 96.

    Miss Bianca

    @smith: Rikyrah nailed it, I think, by posting this tweet re VP Harris’s reception among a HS audience – who will be of voting age  in 2028:

    The non-stop GOP sniping about Biden’s age masks their fear – abject terror, really – of a Black Planet Woman President.

    ETA: And I see you already arrived at that conclusion on your lonesome, right on!

  98. 98.

    JaySinWA

    @WaterGirl:But buttons?  Dammit, buttons are supposed to be safe.

    I thought buttons play a significant role in “bodice rippers”? Doesn’t sound all that safe to me.

  104. 104.

    dm

    @BlueGuitarist: Thanks, but I meant where did Mace get the idea for that particular alleged Biden disability?

    Though why I would want to plumb the depths of right-wing fever-dreams, I’m not sure.

    That comment sure came around to bite her, given how Biden pantsed the Republican House.

  105. 105.

    dm

    @RaflW:

    There was an early Trump tweet at Kim Jong-Un (probably after a North Korean missile test) about how his “Red Button” was bigger.

    As someone up thread mentioned, in this context, it probably is referring to Truth Social, but then Trump free-associated from “Red Button” to his early tweet at Kim Jong-Un

  107. 107.

    RaflW

    @UncleEbeneezer: +1 what cain said. I watched a lot of Love Boat in my slightly pathetic high school years. Don’t remember that story line, but there were a lot of episodes and multiple threads per show.

    Seems odd in 2023 to cast a cis woman in the role, but for 1982, seems very well done. Capt. Steubing seemed forced in his disdain, that part didn’t ring very authentic, he was typically very nice (and to my proto-gay eyes, also kinda gay himself).

  108. 108.

    kindness

    Trump’s people are remoras.  They know he’s unfit but they hang around for the scraps they figure a crazy man will shred and leave all around him.  Power and money.  That is why Trump has anyone hanging around him at all.

  110. 110.

    Ruckus

    @TriassicSands:

    Everyone has had 4 yrs experience with Shit For Brains. That’s what I call him. I like your’s as well – Your Assholiness. Either seems appropriate.

  112. 112.

    yellowdog

    @frosty: I always recommend acupuncture for pain. Worked for my carpal tunnel and my SO ‘s shoulder problem.

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