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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.

Un-fucking-believable

Here’s a stamp-sized version of the image:

Un-fucking-believable 1

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.

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177Comments

  1. 1.

    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?

  2. 2.

    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 insane unsane.

  3. 3.

    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.

  7. 7.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @trollhattan: Everything. Everything is wrong with them. Quite an achievement, when you think about it.

    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.

  8. 8.

    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.

    Donald Trump invents the wheel – 4th millennium BC. Why does the media try so hard to hide this amazing accomplishment?

  10. 10.

    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.

  12. 12.

    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.”

  13. 13.

    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!

  15. 15.

    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

  18. 18.

    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:)

  20. 20.

    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.​
    ​
    ​

  24. 24.

    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.

  25. 25.

    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.

  30. 30.

    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.

  31. 31.

    Leto

    What the fuck is wrong with these people?

    I’ll echo what Trollhattan said: everything. Everything is wrong with these people.

  32. 32.

    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!”

  34. 34.

    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)

  35. 35.

    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.

  36. 36.

    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 image was originally published by the X account @Trump_History45, which in its profile description claimed to be “documenting the History of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” Moreover, the exact same photo with the same caption was published by the same account one month earlier, on Aug. 11, 2023

    . . .

    (X user @Trump_History45)

    The @Trump_History45 account frequently posts images generated by artificial intelligence, featuring Trump in absurd and improbable situations. “Donald Trump invents the wheel – 4th millennium BC,” another AI-generated image of Donald Trump from that account was captioned.

    The photos and their captions are fake. But is it satire or trolling?

    ETA: or maybe both.

  37. 37.

    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.

  38. 38.

    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.

  40. 40.

    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.

  41. 41.

    rikyrah

    UH HUH

    UH HUH

     

    Portia  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)

  42. 42.

    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.

  43. 43.

    Ramalama

    I mean on hold with Comcast? Enough for me to also lose my shitz at that satire account.

    Stay strong @watergirl!

  46. 46.

    luc

    … which demonstrates that the Donald is the most modest person in the world.

    Imagine how many more good deeds he is hiding.

  47. 47.

    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)

  57. 57.

    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?

  58. 58.

    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!

  59. 59.

    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.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    @Alison Rose:

    Yeah. C’mon, people—look at the account.

    Trump inspects the craftsmanship of the Titanic. He was invited as a first-class passenger, but after his inspection of the ship he declared that it could never withstand impact from an iceberg. He immediately left the ship and traveled back to the U.S. on his private jet.

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    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.

    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!

  62. 62.

    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:

    My fellow colleagues,

    Today we observe the solemn anniversary of a national tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001. It’s called Patriot Day.

    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.”

  63. 63.

    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.

  64. 64.

    rikyrah

    US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall

    By Lauran Neergaard

    Associated Press
    •
    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.

  65. 65.

    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.

  69. 69.

    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

    One of the most popular pro-Donald Trump Twitter accounts altered the audio in a viral tweet over the weekend to hide the storm of booing the former president received at a Iowa college football game.

    Guess which one the true believers believe to be true?

  70. 70.

    wjca

    @scav: 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!

    Sounds like a reinvention of the droit de seigneur.  Not that any of them would recognize the term.

  76. 76.

    mrmoshpotato

    @lowtechcyclist:

    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.”

    Well said! Slight edits on my part. Hope you don’t mind.

  77. 77.

    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.

  85. 85.

    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.

  86. 86.

    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:

    To our intensifying discussion about whether President Biden has grown mentally fuzzy and too old for a second term, I’d like to add this question: How would we even notice Donald Trump’s lapse into incoherence, when derangement is essentially his brand?

    Indeed.

  92. 92.

    mrmoshpotato

    @cain: “George Fucked Up Day”

    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.

  96. 96.

    Scout211

    @Baud: But how to prevent people from thinking their authentic.

    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.

  100. 100.

    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.

  101. 101.

    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:

    So, ignore the horseshit you’ll hear from media outlets hoping to score a ratings boost with talk about how the events of that day 10 years ago “united” us.  It didn’t unite us in any way that would do anyone any good.  If you want to see the event that tells the story of what America has really become, you have to look at early September 2005, when as thousands of our poorest and most helpless citizens were clinging to life in a flooded ruin of a city, our media spent the first few days – while grandmothers were still drowning in their attics – fretting about how some people were losing stuff to looters.  And that was before the “blame the victims” rightwing media swung into full gear and we were treated to endless blather about how pointing out the obvious, that federal relief was a fucking joke, was “playing the blame game.”

    If you want to see what this country REALLY is, look there.  In the absence of some foreign other to blame, we lost no time turning the victims into the villains.  That’s who we really are.  And that’s nothing to celebrate.

  102. 102.

    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.

  105. 105.

    Scout211

    @Baud:I don’t want the average voter to become blasé about actual outrageous behavior because libs are flooding the zone with mock outrageous behavior.

    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.

  106. 106.

    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.

  109. 109.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Never forget!:

    There’s something else I will never forget about that time. How our senator, Hillary Clinton, stood with us to ensure first responders, like me, got the funding and the health care we needed. I remember seeing her down at Ground Zero, reassuring us that she would do everything in her power to make sure we had the support we needed. Hillary kept her promise. She understands the sacrifices we made that terrible day and the months that followed, and she understands the sacrifices people who serve their communities make every day.

    And when we needed someone to speak for us, to stand with us, to fight on our behalf, Hillary Clinton was there, every step of the way. Within 48 hours of the towers falling, Hillary introduced a bill—signed into law—that helped first responders get the benefits they earned easier and faster. Then she pressured the [Environmental Protection Agency] to launch a new task force and led congressional hearings until the EPA admitted the air hadn’t been safe. A lot of people moved on; they thought everything was fine. But Hillary Clinton kept in touch and kept at it. Ten years later, Hillary Clinton was still our toughest champion, making sure we still got our health benefits.

  112. 112.

    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.

  114. 114.

    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.

  116. 116.

    frosty

    @Andrew Abshier: ​ 2) The current world’s biggest lie is “your call is very important to us.”

    Isn’t that the truth! I think exactly that every time the Hold music comes on.

  120. 120.

    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.”

  123. 123.

    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

  124. 124.

    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?

  126. 126.

    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?

  127. 127.

    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.

  130. 130.

    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.

  133. 133.

    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.

  135. 135.

    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.

  136. 136.

    lowtechcyclist

    @tobie:

    What the heck? I upchucked a little reading that truly nauseating statement from Cotton.

    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.

  138. 138.

    RSA

    @hueyplong: FWIW, the Cotton statement is the one about which my initial reaction was, “Is this fake?”

    It is real, most of it anyway. He wrote it for the Harvard Crimson as a 20-year-old student. It begins,

    Men are simple creatures. It doesn’t take much to please us. The problem is women. How does an utterly simple creature understand an infinitely complex one? Since this creature realizes he is even simpler than most men, I knew only women could help me understand, well, women.

    I have been asking women two questions. My first question was “What is your greatest fear in life?” Uniformity characterized the responses. (Yes, these are actual responses from Cliffies; I did not fabricate them.) “Watching my husband walk out on me.” “Losing my lover.” “Getting a divorce.”

    My second question was very similar: “What is your deepest hope in life?” Again, the responses were uniform. “Finding and holding onto the love of my life.” “Being a good wife and mother.” “Marrying a man who worships me and whom I worship.”

    Really?

    My sample is admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative.

    Soooo believable…

  140. 140.

    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.

  142. 142.

    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.

  143. 143.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    He can sit on it and spin.

    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.

  144. 144.

    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.

  145. 145.

    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.

  146. 146.

    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.

  148. 148.

    Chris T.

    @Tony Jay:

    Hell, they’re still pushing that “He’s a billionaire” shtick.

    Funny, I always thought that was the least believable of these ridiculous claims….

  149. 149.

    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.

  151. 151.

    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.

  152. 152.

    rikyrah

    @RSA:

    It is real, most of it anyway. He wrote it for the Harvard Crimson as a 20-year-old student. It begins,

     

    And, his positions now are politically different from then?

    No.

    He is just as heinous.

  155. 155.

    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.

  159. 159.

    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.

  160. 160.

    wjca

    @Alison Rose: Why does he hate the troops?

    Let’s see

    • A lot of them are black
    • Some of them are female
    • These days, some of them are (openly) gay

    The list goes on and on.

  161. 161.

    Old School

    @rikyrah:

    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”

    Tying this thread together, this post from the Trump History Twitter account made me laugh:

    Trump History
    @Trump_History45 ·Sep 3

     BREAKING NEWS  Donald Trump spotted performing an ancient rain dance at #BurningMan. Witnesses say the rain and flooding started immediately after Trump performed the ancient ritual; others remain skeptical.

  170. 170.

    Gary K

    Sportswriter Rick Reilly said this in a YouTube video about TFG’s golf cheating:

    I remember being in his Trump Tower apartment it’s just like coated with gold, gold toilets and gold everything right and in the corner I mean it’s incredible apartment 270 degree views and in the corner is a telescope and it’s gold and I and so I said kind of looked through it he said go ahead so I started looking through it he said “you know I saw the World Trade Center towers fall down through that telescope” and I go oh my god you know that’s horrible and he goes yeah “that’s pure gold” really that’s your takeaway from seeing all that.

  173. 173.

    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.

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