I won’t link to it, but Trump people have released a doctored image of Trump in a fire uniform, on the ground at the World Trade Center, along with this lie.
Here’s a stamp-sized version of the image:
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
I am enraged, mostly because of this, with the added bonus of being on hold with Comcast, which always makes me want to scream.
Open thread.
trollhattan
Everything. Everything is wrong with them. Quite an achievement, when you think about it.
ETA Do they have one of Trump on the phone, bragging he now owned New York’s tallest building?
frosty
Yeah, as if he was strong enough to wear a turnout coat and the other gear. Not to mention the air tank and hose. The people passing this around are
insaneunsane.Alison Rose
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OMG
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The fact that people are so fucking dumb as to fall for this is just…it’s either the funniest or the scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Good God
ETA I want reporters to ask TIFG about this. See if he’ll tell the lie flat out himself. Ask actual first responders if any of them saw him there. Fuck, ask Steve Buscemi who really DID put on his old volunteer firefighter uniform and go to Ground Zero.
Ken
It’s not a lie if you’re totally barking mad.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Jesus fucking Christ…
I know I should never let anything this guy does or says shock me, but this shit utterly floors me. I don’t even know where to begin here. Holy Christ, what a fuckhead.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
It is kind of funny that they forgot to edit the vagina out of his neck though.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
When your political party has dedicated itself for, at a minimum, the last five decades to the project of allying with those unwilling to let go of each individual toxic attitude; this is what is to be expected.
Alison Rose
Okay wait, though. Because the account I found this on is a satire account. Because there’s also this one with a hilarious picture.
MazeDancer
Good thread refuting Trump’s 9/11 lies
Old School
Since other recent tweets to this account include Trump inventing the wheel and saving children in Morocco during this past weekend’s earthquake, I’m going to guess they aren’t entirely serious.
Mustang Bobby
But I thought he was in New Jersey watching the Muslims celebrate the fall of the towers…
Andrew Abshier
Two things:
1) Not a cult, no, not at all.
2) The current world’s biggest lie is “your call is very important to us.”
scav
Trump comes down their chimneys once a year and delivers goodies to all the good little MAGAs! His very touch cures scrofula! Demon Pigs flee the afflicted bodies of true believers at his command! The first night of all their marriages, the prima nocta, is willingly devoted to his magnificent presence and there are GIFs and NFTs they can proudly buy and display in their wedding albums!
kindness
Stolen Valor.
lee
I’m pretty sure that image is from a parody account. Don’t feel too bad many many people have gotten hooked by it
trollhattan
@Alison Rose: Picturing “Donald Trump does George Santos.”
Searcher
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): It’s hilarious they appear to have used a relatively recent photo, instead of, you know, a photo from 200-fucking-1.
Here’s one from October 2001: link
Here’s one from 2018: link
hervevillechaizelounge
OFF TOPIC: I know I’m about three threads late with this, but you don’t need a gift link to read articles behind a paywall. Just use:
https://archive.ph/
Cut and paste the address into the search bar and voilà.
I refuse to pay the salaries of people like Megan McArdle and David Brooks and you should too:)
Alison Rose
@trollhattan: LOL ew
Rich2506
Personal cameras weren’t quite as ubiquitous as they are today, but there were thousands of people on the scene who 1. Would have immediately recognized Trump and 2. would have snapped his photo. But they have to use a painting because there are no photos of him there.
Sasha
This strikes me as an intentionally heavy-handed satire that got accepted as Gospel by the MAGAites.
Alison Rose
@hervevillechaizelounge: Hey sweet, that one works for sites the 12 Foot Ladder doesn’t. Thanks!
Alison Rose
Folks, read the comments, it’s a parody/satire account.
Geminid
WaterGirl, don’t let waiting for Comcast get you down. Just think about a certain fucking congressman who has left your area to work full time on K Street.
You can also look up Nikki Budzinski’s Twitter account and learn all about the Farm Bill.
Cameron
This is truly hilarious. I can’t get upset about it – people who would believe such nonsense would almost certainly be voting for Trump anyway. Somehow I don’t think The Undecided Voter will be swayed.
jonas
@Alison Rose: Poe’s Law on parade.
cain
@Alison Rose:
Even better – they used a picture of him from today not from when he was in 2001 where he would have used quite a bit younger.
Alison Rose
@cain: Maybe he was also an actual 215 pounds in 2001.
MazeDancer
Not that one can have good 9/11 memories, but one can certainly have inspiring ones.
Matt, the nice guy who runs “We Rate Dogs” on Twitter, made a wonderful video tribute to the Search & Rescue dogs who served so bravely.
They all got 15/10 ratings.
As a moving reminder to how dogs lives are too short, it has been long enough that none of the pups are still with us.
tobie
I was driving behind a pickup truck today and it had two bumper stickers. One for Trump and one saying “Fuck Biden.” No doubt the a-hole driver constantly complains that Hollywood, leftists and the teacher’s union are a threat to the well-being of kids. Trumpers are cultists. They have no self-awareness. Grievance is their drug, rage their outlet, and stupidity their nature.
Leto
I’ll echo what Trollhattan said: everything. Everything is wrong with these people.
Mike in NC
“Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It’s Trumpyman!”
Cliosfanboy
It’s satire guys. Chill.
rikyrah
Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) posted at 5:11 PM on Sun, Sep 10, 2023:
Not helping HBO advertise that documentary by quoting their tweet. Just wanna inform y’all Renee Bach is a serial killer who murdered 100s of children in Uganda pretending to be a medical professional. And she got away with it, because she’s a white woman who killed Africans.
Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) posted at 6:23 AM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
If you’d like to learn how Renee Bach killed Ugandan children pretending to be a doctor giving medical treatment with no training or license and blogging about it, read stories from Ugandan journalists:
Rosebell Kagumire @RosebellK wrote about her in 2019
https://t.co/IgUm8Xzln3
(https://x.com/UjuAnya/status/1701194844415152543?t=21Mdcg9I-Y_0zzB3E13jrw&s=03)
hueyplong
Maybe the argument is that this portrayal of Trump might appeal to that slice of the electorate that dismisses 80-year old Biden as too old but remains open to considering a ripped, 6-3, 215 lb, 77-year old in a fireman’s outfit.
In any event, it appears to be yet another instance of credulous rube donations spent propping up the morale of those same credulous rubes. So I guess I approve, not that MAGA asked
ETA: I never read the comments on those links. I read the comments here. Damn. So they didn’t spend money on that. Now I haz a sad.
Scout211
Snopes has a page on this and the other AI generated pics of Trump saving the world in ridiculous ways from this X account.
The photos and their captions are fake. But is it satire or trolling?
ETA: or maybe both.
Baud
See, this might be an example of liberals getting too entertained by right wing shenanigans.
Mockery is one thing. But imitation is the highest form of flattery.
YMMV.
Cliosfanboy
@tobie:
I saw a guy in a Lets Go Brandon sweater. Not a sweatshirt, an actual sweater that someone knit for him. And this was here in northern Virginia, which is blue, blue, blue.
Tony Jay
I have saved that picture for a huge number of drunken edits.
Also, Worst Stripper Ever!
cain
They are a cult and so the cult leader must always be victorious and super helpful – regardless of the truth. This shit is 1984 the movie through and through.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Portia![]()
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McGonagal portiamcgonagal1619 on Insta (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 11:49 AM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
“Tuberville’s spox responded, in essence, that Tommy Tuberville’s decisions are not Tommy Tuberville’s fault, but rather somebody else’s fault, in case you needed more evidence we were dealing with a mediocre white conservative man.”
https://t.co/B7jhubWf5U
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1701276725987176634?t=E2xBmDsq_SSqZhxNGYOEXA&s=03)
Steeplejack
Re image at top:
To be fair (gritting teeth), that site is a fake Trump “humor” site, but a lot of MAGAts sure do get off on it and pass around the memes. But I don’t think it meets the bar of “‘Trump’s people’ did this.”
ETA: I guess you did say “Trump people.” Still a stretch, IMO.
Ramalama
I mean on hold with Comcast? Enough for me to also lose my shitz at that satire account.
Stay strong @watergirl!
rikyrah
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 9:22 AM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
Poll Q: feelings about Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s presidential running mate in 2024?
Enthusiastic or Satisfied:
Under 30 – 62%
2020 Biden voter – 77%
Democrats – 84%
Black Respondents – 70%
Hispanics – 52%
Dissatisfied or Angry:
White – 60%
Indep.- 65%
Rep. – 87% https://t.co/yLmTEHcmJg
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1701239885548454034?t=JoZaMoR5P6hvlIkJH9yDHQ&s=03)
cain
@Scout211: It’s definitely trolling. It’s pretty disgusting though to use 9-11 – the site of so many Americans dying.
luc
… which demonstrates that the Donald is the most modest person in the world.
Imagine how many more good deeds he is hiding.
rikyrah
James Aymann (@AymannJames) posted at 8:53 AM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
“Men are simple creatures – it doesn’t take much to please us.
The problem is women. – Divorce is almost always their fault.
They refuse to be satisfied by what God has given them.
Unless they have been victims of domestic violence – they should not be… https://t.co/YqDkleXfBQ
(https://x.com/AymannJames/status/1701232552223052016?t=zCbVcs8i6QgS0G_jdjk2vw&s=03)
rikyrah
Brent Peabody![]()
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(@brent_peabody) posted at 1:31 PM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
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It was already official, but now it’s even more so—
Alabama will get a second Black-majority House seat, and that seat will come at the expense of far-right Confederate apologist Barry Moore (R-#AL02)
A huge win for civil rights https://t.co/WlBsmkoASj
(https://x.com/brent_peabody/status/1701302377632968984?t=pLzpElS4dbzlhkRPx6qo2w&s=03)
Alison Rose
@rikyrah: God he really needs to get punched in the face.
Mardam
Isn’t this LITERALLY stolen valor?
rikyrah
Britt With An IE (@seedofsenoj) posted at 1:08 PM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:![]()
Can ANYONE who is complaining about Kamala name the job description for Vice President tho?
We didn’t see Pence that much. We didn’t see Pence that much. We didn’t see Dick Cheney that much. We didn’t see Al Gore that much. Why is the bar so high for her???
(https://x.com/seedofsenoj/status/1701296764610027623?t=7baEYF-EdOwDmWbvOb1QPg&s=03)
Suzanne
I saw a fake McNaughton painting of TFG in a prison uniform yesterday and LAWLed.
rikyrah
tell it
Currently Stuck Inside A Victim’s Mentality! (@GullahRehabbed) posted at 1:07 PM on Mon, Sep 11, 2023:
Dear youth activists….
Please note that these queer HIV activists are protesting Republicans because they will not vote for legislation.
Protesting Democrats when the opposition is Republicans doesn’t work.
(https://x.com/GullahRehabbed/status/1701296472560488526?t=ese1jL6LuM-9Jq_WLGH3VQ&s=03)
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
Stolen valor is one of the greatest insults. Absolutely despicable.
Ramalama
@rikyrah: Woah, cool. Also nice touch with the Dark Brandon image on that tweet, right?
JPL
The only thing trump did on 9/11 was brag that he now had the tallest building in NYC
hueyplong
@rikyrah: I’m mildly confused. Once you’ve said “far right,” can’t you just assume the “Confederate apologist” part without typing the extra words?
mrmoshpotato
Someone wants to out-Ghouliani Ghouliani regarding his lie about Hillary Clinton not being at ground zero.And hoo boy is this a stupid way to do it!WaterGirl
@lee: I don’t care whether it came from a parody account. People are surely passing it on, believing the lie in the photo and also the lie in the accompanying words.
Either way, it’s appalling.
Steeplejack
@Alison Rose:
Yeah. C’mon, people—look at the account.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
I was going to say the same to Steep at 42.
“Humor” or not, it’s despicable to photoshop anyone into a first responder uniform from that day.
ETA – no being “fair” to whomever did that. Fuck ’em!
lowtechcyclist
On the subject of 9/11, I’ve got a rant about “Patriot Day.”
The head of my agency (for another 95 days :-) sent out a broadcast email this morning that started off:
1) “Patriot Day” is a terrible name. What could be less patriotic than a bunch of terrorists flying planes into buildings and killing thousands of Americans – enabled by our President ignoring a half-dozen increasingly hair-on-fire warnings from our intel community because he and his inner circle were already focused on Iraq, and besides, non-state terrorism was his Democratic predecessor’s thing, so he wanted to get away from thinking about that.
Fuck George W. Bush.
2) The President who did nothing to prepare for or prevent this disaster shouldn’t be able to choose the name for this day anyway.
3) Not to mention, Bush flat-out said, just six months after 9/11/2001, that bin Laden wasn’t a concern of his anymore. It took President Obama to finally track down and put an end to the man who killed nearly 3000 Americans.
4) FDR had the right idea with Pearl Harbor. Did he call it anything like “Patriot Day”? Hell no, it was “a day that will live in infamy.” This, too, was a day that will live in infamy.
5) I was in fifth grade on the 22nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Of course there were ceremonies observing the anniversary, but in specific particular locations. It wasn’t something that people felt the need to observe in some visible way all over the place. It wasn’t on my school’s calendar in 1963 like the 9/11 anniversary is on my son’s school calendar. (Of course on December 7, 1963, a more recent tragedy was still dominating our public thoughts. Maybe the better comparison would be to December 7, 1962. Same thing then.) Maybe it helped that we’d decisively defeated Japan.
It’s time to let this one go, regardless of the name – but if we must observe it, let’s follow FDR’s example and refer to it as a day that will live in infamy. Fuck George W. Bush, and fuck “Patriot Day.”
Gravenstone
Expecting sane behavior from a literal cult is a fool’s errand. Our best hope is that once he’s been crushed and shipped off to whatever prison he’s destined for, that his most ardent cult members simply stop interacting with the world at large.
rikyrah
US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall
By Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press
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Published: Sep 11, 2023 at 1:22 pm
WASHINGTON — The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter.
The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination. It’s part of a shift to treat fall updates of the COVID-19 vaccine much like getting a yearly flu shot.
There’s still another step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off. A CDC advisory panel is set to issue recommendations Tuesday on who most needs the updated shots. Vaccinations could begin later this week, and both the COVID-19 and flu shot can be given at the same visit.
hueyplong
I don’t know. It’s a pretty good parody, though I would have chosen Pearl Harbor or some other way-back event about which hurtful memories are more learned than experienced.
Gravenstone
@Alison Rose: He was too busy seeing the crowds of Muslims cheering along the Jersey shore, wasn’t he?
Gravenstone
@Mustang Bobby: … aaaaandddd I’m too late with the snark.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: I assume you know that if you click on the tiny thumbnail, you can see the full photo.
Scout211
Speaking of fake photos of Trump, remember all those students flipping the bird at Trump and booing him at the Iowa-Iowa State game? Well a Trump fan has produced an alternate picture and audio that makes it appear as though there were only Trump fans in the stadium. Link
Guess which one the true believers believe to be true?
wjca
Sounds like a reinvention of the droit de seigneur. Not that any of them would recognize the term.
smith
@rikyrah: Hmmm. I’m guessing Mrs. Cotton has been speaking to a divorce lawyer.
trollhattan
@hueyplong: Picturing Trump in a t-shirt showing Bf-109s divebombing the Arizona.
Alison Rose
@Steeplejack: Some of them are honestly funny. He was a military advisor to Genghis Khan!
cain
@Steeplejack: I gotta say that’s some pretty good AI work. I’m not sure how the person generated all those images.
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: I can agree that this one maybe went too far, especially since they don’t note on the account that is is in fact parody.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist:
Well said! Slight edits on my part. Hope you don’t mind.
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
Clicked. Copied. Ruthlessly mocked.
I do love how they picked a face shot that makes him look like he’s guiltily shuffling away from the damage he’s caused.
JPL
@smith: That was my first thought, and some would wonder what took her so long.
cain
https://twitter.com/Trump_History45/status/1694868696412606914
“these AI mugshots are getting out of hand” hahaha
ETA https://twitter.com/Trump_History45/status/1694543417051869396
“Donald Trump tells a young Vivek Ramaswamy that he will choose him to be his VP in the 2024 presidential election.”
cain
@mrmoshpotato: “George Fucked Up Day”
hueyplong
@trollhattan: The Bf-109 is a nice touch, Bluto.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Isn’t Patriot Day already a Massachusetts holiday to celebrate the American Revolution?
Cameron
@lowtechcyclist: I dunno. “Patriot Day” has sort of a catchy Third Reich feel to it. What is a “fellow colleague”? Are there “stranger colleagues”?
Baud
@Alison Rose:
Yes, I take back what I said. But how to prevent people from thinking their authentic.
hueyplong
@mrmoshpotato: Must not be many chowdah-heads here, because I’m thinking there is already a Patriots Day with a Bosox home game and a marathon. Or some such.
ETA: Oops. I see Baud paused his campaign to note the Boston holiday.
Alison Rose
Okay, y’all know how I feel about the discussion of Biden’s age, and Frank Bruni is very far from being my favorite person, but this intro to his column today did make me laugh:
Indeed.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Yes, but it is “Patriots’ Day.” Also the day of the Boston Marathon.
trollhattan
@hueyplong: See, I knew somebody here would get it. :-)
Alison Rose
@Cameron: If you work for a big enough company, probably.
trollhattan
@Alison Rose: Oh, done in one. Nice work, Bruni.
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
I didn’t say it was cool. But I think you can’t hang it on “Trump’s people.”
mrmoshpotato
And let nearly three thousand people be murdered.
And that doesn’t even cover the first responders who died of 9/11-related illnesses later on.
hueyplong
@trollhattan: Also a nice touch to go all subtle with the Bf instead of the more recognizable (and apt?) Stuka reference.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: My apologies.
Mr. Bemused Senior
On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream
(This American Life).
The rest of that episode is good too.
Scout211
You mean all those people that believe Trump is a billionaire, a brilliant businessman, was cheated out of his second term by fraud, is a victim of the deep state/Biden/prosecutors and is the best president ever in the history of the US who will save us all from death and destruction? Those people?
Don’t give it a thought Baud. They wouldn’t vote for you anyway.
piratedan
because of the volume of news that we get subjected too is often tsunamic in proportions…. ESPN is reporting that the Misogynistic head of Spanish Football has resigned. He waited long enough for us to be distracted elsewhere and then slunk off the stage, which is better than him continuing to be in charge
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38371526/spain-federation-president-luis-rubiales-resigns
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
I had never heard of “Patriot Day.” Agree that it’s complete bullshit.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
That’s Patriots’ Day in April.
Baud
@Scout211:
WatrGirl thought it was real. That’s not good. I don’t want the average voter to become blasé about actual outrageous behavior because libs are flooding the zone with mock outrageous behavior.
Chris
@lowtechcyclist:
This, from the tenth anniversary of 9/11, is still my favorite post about it: https://3weirdsisters.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/no-death-porn-celebrations-for-me-thank-you/ The last two paragraphs:
Alison Rose
I think the easiest way to point out to someone that this is fake is: If he HAD really done this, he wouldn’t have the shut the fuck up about it every single day since. He brags about everything, including lies, so if this were real, he wouldn’t talk about anything other than this.
Baud
People who don’t prefer Russia over America don’t need a Patriot Day.
sab
@Baud: That’s what I thought. Patriot’s Day. April 17?
Scout211
Good point. Sometimes it’s hard to tell when your posts are serious and when they are mocking. So I was being flippant because you usually are.
But that is, in reality, what you are expressing concern about. When is it good to mock and when is it important to point out the facts to those who aren’t sure. When is making parody accounts go viral okay when the other side is making them go viral as well, but for the opposite reason?
This is why I am a little worried that this account as not a parody account but an account from a foreign troll farm to stir up divisiveness. That is done every day on X, and this Trump History account is anonymous and has a blue check. So we actually have similar concerns that an over-the-top reaction may not be the best reaction.
scav
@piratedan: Still invoking his daughters as human shields for his I am being unjustly and uniquely perseeeeeeecuted mantra. The delusion and self-absorption is world-class in that biped.
tobie
@rikyrah: What the heck? I upchucked a little reading that truly nauseating statement from Cotton.
mbobier
@frosty: In the unlikely event that anyone who reads this site would need to have the ludicrous claims above debunked, here’s an old Post article that does just that. Even in 2019, Trump was lying about his supposed efforts to help on 9/11:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/12/trumps-fuzzy-vision-sept-attacks/
UncleEbeneezer
Never forget!:
Tom Levenson
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): OMG.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
I need some powerful brain bleach.
Timill
@sab: Third Monday in April
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day
and
September 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Day
hueyplong
@tobie: FWIW, the Cotton statement is the one about which my initial reaction was, “Is this fake?” So accustomed to McNaughton-esque Trump crap that the fireman thing didn’t even cause yellow or red warning lights re parody to flash.
pluky
@jonas: Beat me to it! Would upvote if the site allowed such.
bjacques
Thanks to the lamestream media, we’re not told that there were two more planes headed for New York City that day, but Trump climbed the Empire State Building and personally swatted them out of the sky. All footage of it has been suppressed.
Baud
Trump is asking Chutkan to recuse.
frosty
Isn’t that the truth! I think exactly that every time the Hold music comes on.
HumboldtBlue
This is satire.
Alison Rose
@Baud: Did he manage to do it without screaming SHE’S TOO BLACK!!!
Alison Rose
@HumboldtBlue: As many comments have noted :)
trollhattan
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Last month our internet was out on the weekend (not a Neil Young song) and I was on hold 1.5 hours with the ISP (Consolidated) with the same acoustic guitar tune on repeat the entire time.
When service dude finally arrived he told me “there’s a fire” and had no guess when service would be restored, only that it was across the entire metro area and he was led to believe the fire at least was out.
Two hours later internet and streaming returned, but that frickin’ earworm lasted a lot longer than that.
And for once, the cause was not “dude with backhoe.”
WaterGirl
@Baud: That as parody is indistinguishable from that made by Trump people.
It has exactly the same effect.
Baud
@Alison Rose:
Haven’t read it.
nonrev
Hello,
Some process should be investigated to include a link but behind a simple wall. This is a really wild story and I would have liked to share it. But before I do I like to check sources. No sources = will not share
Chris T.
He was also the first man on the moon, and he was the first to discover fire back in prehistory! He cured cancer in 1275, but then Joe Biden spread it again in 1277. And did you know that he invented the computer?
Aimai
@rikyrah: thank you so much for the link rikyrah! Really important story! Human rights violations in pursuit of the grift.
trollhattan
@frosty: Also love being bugged to “stay on the line and provide a review of your service call center experience.” That was topped last week by serial texts I got begging me to review my allergy clinic appointment. What would they possibly change, based on my thoughts about taking an hour of my day to go to a doctor?
frosty
@hueyplong: Stuka? That was Ju-87. The more common reference would be Me-109. To be fair, Stukas would have been better for attacking battleships than fighter planes.
@trollhattan: In either case, the passing reference to Bluto was much better than the quote from the movie I would have used.
lowtechcyclist
@mrmoshpotato: Thanks, and the bolding is an improvement. So thanks in return!
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: I still want to know how Cotton avoided the Neidermayer treatment.
Villago Delenda Est
Faux Noise is OUTRAGED that Joe Biden commemorated 9/11 in Anchorage, not NYC. Because he was on his way back from G20 and a visit to Vietnam.
Alison Rose
@Villago Delenda Est: Did they want him to travel via the transporter room?
dc
Anyone who believes that image, wants to be stupid and is succeeding.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@trollhattan: back in the day of 9600 bps serial ports a backhoe took out a 50-pair cable on the Stanford campus. After the cable was replaced they sent out an installer who was color blind. Usually he had an assistant to help but that day he was sick.
It took several days to straighten things out.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: He can sit on it and spin.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Telecom joke: When you go hiking, carry a short length of fiber optic cable with you. That way, should you get lost, you bury the fiber optic cable and a backhoe will find you.
lowtechcyclist
@tobie:
I’d like to see a good cite for that one. It’s sufficiently over-the-top that I find it hard to believe Cotton would say it publicly, even if it’s what he actually believes.
Chris
@Villago Delenda Est:
Like those people give a shit about NYC.
RSA
It is real, most of it anyway. He wrote it for the Harvard Crimson as a 20-year-old student. It begins,
Soooo believable…
Ken
@Alison Rose: If he were a young man like Trump, he could have flown all the way from Vietnam back to NYC, and his arms wouldn’t even be tired.
Tony Jay
@Chris T.:
There is no claim about Donald Trump so vaingloriously ridiculous that some honking loser in a ‘Make November 2024 White History Month’ hoodie and no relationship with his children won’t pretend to believe it.
He’ll, they’re still pushing that “He’s a billionaire” shtick.
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose:
I ain’t reading all that.
matt
He did say something like ‘now my building is the tallest’ on 9/11, which is a little bit like wearing a fireman’s uniform and helping people.
lowtechcyclist
@Villago Delenda Est:
A friend of mine in high school used to use that one, only it was “sit on it and rotate,” with emphasis on the ‘rotate.’ Wherever you are these days, Jeannie C., I’m remembering you fondly.
hueyplong
@RSA: It almost seems like GOPers have, through some kind of Spencerian program of marriages and procreations, managed a way to “breed out” any concept of a sense of shame to go along with a total lack of empathy.
Here’s guessing that Citizens Counsels were the forerunner to a sociopathic online dating service.
bluefoot
@UncleEbeneezer:
I remember how reviled Hillary Clinton was for that at first – that she was somehow unpatriotic for going against what W’s administration said about how the air was safe, etc etc. The whole “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” mindset of the time.
smith
@RSA: Normally, I’d be inclined to be a bit understanding about the callow thoughts of a pretentious 20-year-old, but this is Tom Cotton. He’s still thinking the thoughts of a pretentious 20-yer-old.
Cameron
@bjacques: “Twasn’t the Garlands that killed him. No, ’twas Fani killed the beast.”
Chris T.
@Tony Jay:
Funny, I always thought that was the least believable of these ridiculous claims….
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
Does no one ever look at the linked items?! The Cotton quote is cited as something he wrote in the Harvard Crimson in 1997, when he was a smug Ivy League college puke.
ETA: What RSA said.
hueyplong
@Steeplejack: Guess you missed the post that says that very thing.
rikyrah
Utah Sen. Mike Lee calls for defunding the U.S. military amid abortion policy debate
Lee, without evidence, accused Pentagon officials of spreading misinformation about a U.S. senator.
By Bryan Schott
| Sep. 8, 2023, 3:36 p.m.
| Updated: 5:52 p.m.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee — who has used his personal “BasedMikeLee” X account to claim the flooding that trapped thousands of people at the Burning Man festival was “God’s judgment” and to spread conspiracy theories about COVID-related lockdowns — is now taking aim at the Department of Defense.
In a Thursday night social media rampage, Utah’s senior senator called for cutting off funding to the U.S. military.
Lee has vigorously defended Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s month-long blockade of hundreds of military promotions to force the Biden administration to rescind a policy to provide leave and reimburse travel expenses for service members and their families to travel to other states for abortions. Service members cannot choose where they are stationed and may be stationed in a state that does not allow abortions after the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade last year.
Tuberville’s hold on promoting military leaders is now entering its eighth month.
rikyrah
@RSA:
And, his positions now are politically different from then?
No.
He is just as heinous.
hueyplong
@rikyrah: He’s just a poor, callow 46-year old. He might grow out of it when he’s Grassley’s age.
Or not.
Tony Jay
@Chris T.:
Goebbels might have been a low-down Clarence Boddicker looking motherf####r, but he knew what he was doing with his Big Lie.
Steeplejack
@hueyplong:
Oh, dear, sorry that I responded to something before diligently reading all of the subsequent comments—something I’m sure you have never done.
Alison Rose
@rikyrah: Why does he hate the troops?
MomSense
@trollhattan:
Fuck Trump.
hueyplong
@Steeplejack: What’s important is that you’re taking it well. So, bygones, as far as I’m concerned.
Doc Sardonic
Quick cable cut anecdote. A couple of years ago I left the house to run up to our local Mexican grocery/restaurant/butcher shop. On my way about a mile from my house they are doing the finishing touches on some major road construction, on one corner was the following tableaux. The Call Before You Dig guys with their cable locater, two construction guys with shovels and a dude on a backhoe. Oh quick mention this was a holiday weekend around 1600 on a Friday, think it was Memorial Day. I get my shopping done, head back home and the construction dudes and hoe operator are packing up and bugging out. When I get home my wife tells me the internet went down about 10 minutes ago. I told her to go ahead and call in and report the cable cut, we’ll hotspot till Tuesday or Wednesday.
wjca
Let’s see
The list goes on and on.
Old School
@rikyrah:
Tying this thread together, this post from the Trump History Twitter account made me laugh:
Subsole
@Alison Rose:
Damn.
Steve’s a real one, isn’t he?
RSA
You’re right, no argument.
cain
@UncleEbeneezer: and we turned around an elected the asshat who said his tower was bigger than everyone else.
cain
@Chris T.: Also Gore lied when he said he invented the Internet – Trump did!
Alison Rose
@Subsole: Yeah, it was pretty great. And he was super quiet about it, didn’t seek any kudos or anything.
nonrev
Looks like its from a Satire account.
https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-viral-pic-captures-160100797.html
Alison Rose
@nonrev: This has been noted multiple times.
Folks, is it really that difficult to just skim the comments?
Skepticat
That travesty is waaay beyond obscene.
Gary K
Sportswriter Rick Reilly said this in a YouTube video about TFG’s golf cheating:
Mike in Pasadena
@Alison Rose: R’s also mock President Biden for falling from a bicycle. Trump can’t even climb onto a bicycle.
Bobby Thomson
That was satire. Bad, unfunny satire in poor taste, but satire.
JaneE
It may be satire, but you really can’t tell the satirists from the MAGA’s at this point. Look for this to be gospel truth for them within 24 hours.
Ruckus
@Alison Rose:
Maybe he was also an actual 215 pounds in 2001.
I wouldn’t bet a penny of your money on that.
brantl
@Villago Delenda Est: Look at him, why are you sure he did?
Death Panel Truck
@Alison Rose: Some of us don’t have the time. We don’t live here 24/7 the way so many of you do.
EthylEster
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