Yet another example of things even really bad Presidents were able to do as a matter of course but which were too high bar for Trump. Genuinely a factional warlord more than a president. And the key thing is he doesn’t even understand the difference. A true degenerate. https://t.co/yzQMjJCDU1
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2024
Actual warlords, of course, can forcibly prevent their supporters from leaving their speeches… Per the Washington Post, “The reasons people leave Donald Trump’s rallies early”:
Less than 25 minutes into Donald Trump’s remarks, Melissa Prescott walked out.
She arrived at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson at 8:30 a.m. on a hot September day, waited in line outside with her teen daughter for more than four hours, then waited another hour inside before Trump took the stage about 2:15 p.m. As Trump was complaining about 2016 exit polls and speaking about how he likes “the old people the best,” Prescott, along with dozens of others, started trickling out.
“I’m glad we got in. I wish I could stay to hear more,” said Prescott, 36, who explained that she needed to go pick up her disabled cousin.
The Republican presidential nominee consistently draws large, enthusiastic and rowdy crowds to his rallies and other campaign events, and at nearly all of them, another trend is clear: Scores of people leave early.
Most stay. But Trump often runs late and goes long, prompting many to bow out because of other responsibilities, priorities or, sometimes, waning patience and interest, according to Washington Post interviews and observations across dozens of events. Some said they wanted to beat traffic or had work the next day. Others complained about sound quality. One man wanted to go home to his French bulldog. Another needed to get home to his daughter. A third had a Yorkie with him that started acting out. A fourth man said his phone died.
The early rally departures have touched a nerve in Trump, who has long shown intense interest in attendance, ratings and other optics. He has mentioned the subject in a defensive tone lately after Vice President Kamala Harris needled him over it and suggested people leave out of “exhaustion and boredom.”…
Trump repeatedly has resisted entreaties from advisers and allies to cut down on his speeches. “They want a show. They want two hours,” Trump said this year to an ally who suggested shorter speeches. Like others, the ally spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
The former president has told advisers that after people stand for so long and wait for so long, he needs to give them something more than a “boring policy speech,” one person who has spoken to him said. The speechwriters craft remarks that are usually designed to go for 60 to 90 minutes, a campaign adviser said, but they know Trump will veer repeatedly off the script.
In Atlanta over the summer, crowds gathered for several blocks down a busy highway in the sweltering heat, waiting to get inside a Trump rally. But as he kept talking, slashing into Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and going off script, hundreds if not thousands of people left the arena.
More recently, in Indiana, Pa., attendees trickled out as Trump falsely claimed that “every legal expert” wanted abortion policy sent back to the states, over an hour into his speech. More left as he repeated his warning about “World War III.”
By 9:20 p.m., about 90 minutes after he began, the empty seats were noticeable at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, while Trump called the nation’s capital a “horror show.” He wrapped up his speech about five minutes later…
As I like to say, @realDonaldTrump is @KamalaHarris’s most effective surrogate …. https://t.co/CiTM49CccV
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 4, 2024
War for Ukraine Day 955: Russia Downs Its Own New Attack Drone Over Ukraine So the Ukrainians Can’t Get Their Hands On It
J. Arthur Crank
Christ, what an asshole!
Poe Larity
You need to give him credit where it’s due. He warned them long ago they would get tired of WINNING.
Gloria DryGarden
i had been needing some synonyms.
West of the Rockies
I don’t quite get the cartoon. The Vance shark ate (or likely will eat Trump if he gets a chance)?
Jay
mockpaperscissors.com/2024/10/05/scammers-find-rubes-on-truth-social-report/
Funny that, “Truth Social” is a great source for pig slaughterers.
Chet Murthy
@West of the Rockies: I interpreted it thus:
(1) Juicy is the shark; the red tie is to show he’s a trumper, he hasn’t changed. there’s blood in the water to show how bloodthirsty he is.
(2) but tim is above the ice, has hooked him, and they’re sitting there, in a deadlock.
(3) neither can win, but neither can lose.
(4) Oh, haha, maybe the tie is also a symbol of the fact that the debate is a …. TIE! Haha! But no, I don’t think so.
Jay
@West of the Rockies:
@Chet Murthy:
“We are gonna need a bigger hole!”
Gloria DryGarden
@West of the Rockies: I’m not sure entirely, either, but i take from the cartoon that Vance is a very big shark that we just don’t see. Underwater, means hidden from view, to me. As in stay tuned, this guy has danger written all over him, but he’s keeping it hidden.
Plus the idea that nice won’t work/ didn’t work with such a shark. And conceding it was a tie isn’t so great.
please note, ladies, this is a very unattractive shark.
Joey Maloney
Wait – Trump actually has a script for his blabfests? Someone writes the crap he spews? Someone with actual command of the English language puts down on paper those words, edits it, polishes it, and looks at it and calls it a job well done?
The fuck.
Chet Murthy
@Joey Maloney: Well, TCFG is famous for going off-script, so we can’t lay all the blame for the incoherence at his scriptwriter’s feet, eh? IIRC Stephen Miller has done a lot of his speechwriting.
wjca
Nobody mentioned the spelling error (there have been so many). What he meant to type was WHINING.
J. Arthur Crank
@Joey Maloney:
While I see your point, the quoted piece did say he goes off script often.
Perhaps those scripts are what ends up in most of the mainstream press’s reports about these rallies. Their work of sanewashing would be easier with the original source.
Chet Murthy
@J. Arthur Crank: [dark humor] His second inaugural speech is gonna be -lit-. I mean, -lit-.
Lily
The leaking toxic waste dumpster is called ‘defiant’ for having another rally in Butler PA . And allegedly refusing to stop golfing. What he is is sociopathically stone cold indifferent to the lives of secret service agents.
wjca
@West of the Rockies:
I took it that Walz wasn’t going to be able to successfully land the shark. On the other hand, shark isn’t going anywhere . . . and if a shark can’t swim around, its gills don’t work, and it dies.
So, short term tie. But long term…?
Chet Murthy
@wjca: I wonder what the orange can with “Walz 612-55” on it means? I see that 612 is the Minneapolis area code. So maybe that’s a flotation device that ice fishermen have to carry, with their deets just in case their body can’t be identified/found ? Something like that ?
Gloria DryGarden
@wjca:
brilliant. Most of the time, Tim walz’s nice is a great quality. It would be out of character for him to have “won” using any of the shark’s kind of tricks, or by being adversarial.
ive watched skilled teachers negotiate with tough intractable kids. Some never get into a power struggle, they build the relationship, find out what is needed, and them set firm boundaries. They create a Space of holding the bar higher, and believing the other person can improve their behavior.
i don’t expect that to work with eyeliner liar beard man.
its a bloody mess
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
Ice fishing license. Makes life easy when wardens are around
Buckets are a good way to carry your gear around.
Chet Murthy
@Jay: aaaha. thank you!
KatKapCC
Good summing up from my governor (referring to the CA wildfire aid)
Hungry Joe
There’s a line in a J.D. Salinger story (“Franny”) that describes a young man as having been talking to his date (Franny) continuously for several minutes, and reaching the point where he is convinced that his voice can do no wrong. (I didn’t use quote marks because it’s paraphrased; I didn’t feel like looking it up, but that’s close.)
I suspect that’s what happens to Trump at his rallies. He gets hypnotized by the sound of his own voice, and gets supplemental jolts of pleasure from knowing that thousands of people are listening to “me, Me, MEEEEEE!” Which is probably why his circuits went kablooey when Harris told the world that people walk out on his speeches: That’s when he’s most alive — when he can feel that he’s the true center of the universe.
schrodingers_cat
Am I the only one that is sick and tired of the rotting pumpkin🎃 and the 🥔 with eyes
I just want them to go away.
Chet Murthy
@schrodingers_cat: Dear sweet lord, yeah. When will he cease to blight us? When?
schrodingers_cat
I am posting from a small town in the Sahyadris. 👋
schrodingers_cat
@Chet Murthy: My feelings exactly. He has exposed the moral rot in our elite media, that even most normies cannot ignore.
Not just the media
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: And thanks to the internet you can’t escape the rotting pumpkin and the potato.
When we crossed into Canada last summer I was relieved that we wouldn’t see a Trump sign for ten days. So you’ve at least got that small grace.
schrodingers_cat
@frosty: I sought out Balloon Juice and WashPost so it is my fault really.
lgerard
Deep State strikes again!
wistv.com/2024/07/25/whole-parking-lot-is-gone-dozens-stranded-after-vehicles-towed-during-trump-cam…
Other MJS
I think this is one of the best (and saddest) pieces the Lincoln Project has done. The forbidding look of the Capitol grounds is heartbreaking.
Gloria DryGarden
@schrodingers_cat: there’s a quite lovely photo of a pumpkin carving of him going around Facebook. Jail bars carved into the front, orange man inside the pumpkin, behind bars, but grasping them. Looks unhappy.
yes, so very sick of him grabbing media attention, telling congress what to do., getting more attention tan our very effective actual president. It’s over the top.
HumboldtBlue
LOOK AT CAL!!! LEAD 38-18
JoyceH
Both CNN and MSNBC carried all or most of the Trump rally today, sigh. I didn’t watch, but saw on Twitter that Trump, speaking of the shooting at the last rally, said that the doctors were great, saved everybody, even him, when he ‘wasn’t supposed to make it’. Wondering – is Trump having a flashback to when he had COVID, or does he genuinely believe that you can bleed out from a nicked ear? Man, he’s really trying to make something heroic about that ear nick. Someone needs to tell him that Teddy Roosevelt was shot while campaigning, and insisted on finishing his speech with a bullet in his torso. (And TR lost the election, so you don’t get points for it.)
West of the Rockies
@schrodingers_cat:
I think that once Trump loses in November, the remainder of his life will be a carnival of disappointment, failure, physical and psychic misery, and humiliation.
And it will be entertaining as can be!
schrodingers_cat
@West of the Rockies: I am not entertained by him. I find him abhorrent.
Chet Murthy
@schrodingers_cat: The bogeyman is only entertaining when he’s harmless, when he can’t actually hurt you. When he -can- hurt you, he’s not entertaining, he’s terrifying.
schrodingers_cat
@Chet Murthy: He enrages me.
TS
@Lily: Obama listened – and followed what was asked – and no assassin got near him. He was at a much higher risk than the stupid old …
cain
@lgerard: lol that manager did not like Trump people.
cain
@lgerard: lol that manager did not like Trump people.
TS
@KatKapCC:
Has he got some trolls on his twitter feed – another reason to give up on Musk’s twitter
Poe Larity
@lgerard:
They’re not even hiding it.
Poe Larity
@lgerard:
They’re not even hiding it.
Poe Larity
derplicate
hitchhiker
I heard something from Tim Walz during his “debate” with Vance that I’m hoping to see highlighted a lot over the next month. He was talking about how Americans are genuinely kind and thoughtful people who don’t mind helping those in need and routinely welcome strangers … but that we’d like all of that to be orderly. We like the idea of systems that work (my language now, not his) and are fair. We should expect that from our government.
It was just this simple thing — implying that yeah, there are people who don’t approve of welfare or immigration, but not because they’re stingy assholes — they just want things to be orderly and predictable instead of seeming like a dangerous free-for-all.
I”m a geezer, and way old enough to remember Nixon’s “law and order” thing, and how appealing a lot of scared white people found that. When he used the word, “order,” you knew he was signaling a willingness to see hippies and uppity black people get beat up.
Tim’s using that same word, but in his mouth it just means knowing how to set up and manage processes that make sense and can be managed … and as a bonus it’s an appeal to people’s better angels. You’re not greedy and mean, neighbor — you just like the world to make sense, and that’s a good thing.
That kind of appeal would work with a lot of my non-political relatives. As Gretchen Whitmer put it, just fix the damn roads. Just get to work and sort shit out. This is connected to Harris’s repeated language about how “hard work is good work.” She’s signaling the same message: we see what needs to be fixed, and we’re up for the job, even if it seems hard and messy. We can bring order out of this clusterfuck.
West of the Rockies
@schrodingers_cat:
I am not entertained by Trump either. I will, however, enjoy watching his collapse and misery.
JCJ
@HumboldtBlue: But can they hang on?
Melancholy Jaques
@JCJ:
Apparently not.
They got robbed on the non-call on targeting.
But allowing the U’s #1 receiver to go uncovered was truly the bad play of the day.
JWR
@JoyceH:
In the brief TV news clip I heard, he said something like “I took a bullet for all of America”, or some such nonsense. As per usual, he’s so (over)full of himself.
HumboldtBlue
College football… man…
mrmoshpotato
@lgerard:
LMAO!
Viva BrisVegas
@JoyceH: Was there an ear nick? We only have Trump’s word for it and that’s worth its weight in manure.
If a bullet had even touched that ear, there would have been sutures required. As there wasn’t, it’s much more likely that he banged his ear slightly when he was pushed to the ground.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Has he? Other reports have said his rally attendance has been trailing off. If only the press could do their damn job.
Jay
@Viva BrisVegas:
Various photo’s show an ear nick, like a sloppy barber would give you.
Dr.Fmr Admiral Feel Good says the hole was the size of a penny.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
He says pretty much the same thing during his you tube adverts and it’s clear he is reading a script from both his expression and cadence. Maybe it’s an Evangelical thing, because it’s bizarre to listen to . Sort of like listening to an AI voice reading out a list of prompts.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Going by the reports that his inner circle is required to be in boot licking mode at all times it’s quite likely that outside a court room Harris was the first person to tell him he was wrong to his face since 2020.
Jay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
If Dump has a speech writer and stays to script, then his speechwriter is on ketamine, mushrooms or brown acid, or all three,
Tony Jay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Excuse me, Stewardess. I speak Infotainer.
Large means ‘in proportion to location’ since he’s downgraded from the kind of stadium Kamala routinely fills to basically standing in the back of a pick-up truck parked outside the local bingo hall. Tighten that shot and it all looks good.
Enthusiastic means those attending are a smeared palette of red and blue Trump-branded merch on a background of spoiled-milk whiteness. Squint a little and you too can believe that every $99.99 rhinestone-studded ‘Cowboys For Trump’ stetson is worth 1000 Woke votes.
Rowdy means every attendee they tried to interview screwed up their wrinkled little face into a purple glans of hate before venting a spittle-flecked approximation of human mouth noises about ‘Media Bias’, ‘Deep State Phonies’ and ‘Hang you all by your balls’.
Normalisation is a different country, words mean different things there.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Words spake by the attendees wearing Eunuchs For Trump shirts?
//
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: I did the same. But at least no signs!
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
One of Us! One of Us!
They’re letting Snowball front the outreach to that demographic. He’s got the clear, poreless skin they all long for.
Geminid
@Chet Murthy: Earlier this year a friend watched one of Trump’s rally speeches through and estimated that about 50% of content was scripted and read off the teleprompter, and 50% was Trump riffing off familier themes. My friend thought he recognized Steven Miller’s hand in the prepared portions.
Chris Johnson
@Viva BrisVegas: He goddamn bladed himself like a wrestler. I don’t think he expected there to be a real gun onsite, I think it was meant to be a work from start to finish but he is not in control of his own mob and certainly is not in control of his Russian friends, and so it spiraled.
Always frustrates the hell out of me which of his obvious lies get across. I’m content if this one flies and the Haitians etc. are protected by their own neighbors and employers, because some lies are more directly horrible than others. Trump’s ear lies are more indirect, about making people see him as a hero and martyr, which could be done without him siccing his terrorists on innocent people.
Chet Murthy
@Geminid: I could swear I’ve read reporting attributing at least some of speeches to Miller.
Chet Murthy
It’s the simplest explanation consistent with the facts, isn’t it?
Jay
I’ll cop him an accidental cut, nothing more.
Unless the whole shooting was staged, which is highly doubtful.
Baud
According to this reddit cross-post, GEICO won’t insure cyber trucks.
Tony Jay
The intense concentration that the corporate media have steered very well clear of lavishing on the events around Eargate are all the evidence I need to conclude that they’re well aware of how dubious the story is and don’t want the electorate taking a second look.
hueyplong
@Tony Jay: That is absolutely my take as well.
TBone
@Tony Jay: 🎯
eclare
@hitchhiker:
Interesting. I went to lunch with my 94 yo RWNJ aunt last Friday, and we were talking about conspiracy theories. We were talking about the one where so much money was diverted to immigrants there was none left for Helene survivors. She said she didn’t care that money was spent on immigrants, she just wanted Mayorkas gone.
I was so surprised that she was OK with money spent on immigrants I didn’t ask her about Mayorkas. Border? Who knows.
Baud
@eclare:
Republicans have been demonizing Mayorkas from Day 1. They tried to impeach him.
TBone
@eclare: Mayorkas was their only successful impeachment? For reasons…
Baud
@TBone:
That’s right. The Senate threw it into the trash can.
Princess
@TS: Campaigning for Harris is going to put Obama in more danger again but nevertheless he’s going to do it because that’s who he is.
Gvg
@wjca: Actually only about half of shark species have to swim or die. Some can rest on the bottom, hidden in the sand and do just fine. It depends on the species.
Baud
Reddit hopium thread.
TBone
Mood music at Casa TBone on this fog enshrouded, 45 degrees, damp and chill morning
youtu.be/-G3R7KbASZU
Rachel Bakes
As long as I don’t have to hear his voice!
@West of the Rockies:
TBone
@Baud: lovely 🌹
TBone
The memes from yesterday’s appearance of Skum in our beautiful Commonwealth are fierce and funny. Cutting through this morning fog. I am not, however, lifting any because I’d rather not remember it in the future (I use my meme stash as a history reminder sometimes). Fuck those guys.
eclare
Awesome. Kamala will be on Howard Stern on Tuesday. Hillary said afterwards that it was a mistake not to do his show.
Baud
@eclare:
Still not the NYT. 👍
God, I hope we win for that reason alone.
Ken
The excuses for leaving early aren’t very innovative. I do like the contrast between the person who had a dog at home and the person who brought a dog to the event.
lowtechcyclist
@schrodingers_cat:
Had to Google that one! Looks like a beautiful region.
NotMax
@wjca
Perhaps it was … an electric shark.
//
Princess
Apparently right wing pollsters are starting to flood the zone again with swing state polls. Hold firm. Back away from the polls. Step away from the polling averages. Our flailing “we’re doomed” reactions to polls help their “we were ahead — the election has been stolen” narratives. I believe that we can and will win.
NotMax
@TBone
Nothin’ says lovin’ like somethin’ from the coven.
;)
Tony G
These people wait on line for hours in the hot sun and then leave before the Great Man is finished talking. That fact in itself indicates how intolerable Trump’s speeches must be. Usually if a person puts a lot of time and effort into something, they’re reluctant to decide that it’s worthless.
TBone
@NotMax: 🖤
zhena gogolia
@West of the Rockies: I think it’s making fun of Walz for being nice. I’m sure this cartoonist also was deeply offended by Biden being old.
ETA: But bottom line, it’s a bad cartoon.
Geminid
@TBone: I saw a picture from the rally posted on Clash Report. It showed Trump at the podium introducing Musk and Musk leaping in the air behind him. Well, it was kind of a leap. Anyway, Clash Report included closeups of the two men’s faces; they looked weird.
Baud
@Princess:
They’re all right wing pollsters.
TBone
One of the memes from yesterday’s rally in Butler, PA is a photo of Donold at podium with a particularly foul scowl on his face while fElon jumps for joy near him, arms/fists raised, and an orgasmic look of hubris plastered across his. fElon’s shirt raised up in his effort, exposing his white belly. Then someone photoshopped that pic as a gaudy, gold-framed portrait hanging behind Pooty, who sits on his golden throne in the foreground. This one is a keeper.
TBone
@Geminid: just described above! Added to meme stash because points for creativity.
Baud
TS
@Princess:
Probably less than before – given he has no direct political power now, and cannot be President again (well unless the old f… wins and changes the rules)
TBone
@Baud: 🤩👍
TS
@Baud:
trump will start wanting Johnny Carson back again
Funny how the media never discusses which shows trump will not appear on. Their “rules” as to democrats vs GOP are really eating into me.
Shalimar
@Lily: I saw a true crime documentary on Sholam Weiss a few hours ago. He and friends stole $450 million from the insurance company he ran, and he used his wealth to gamble heavily in casinos and the stock market, and also pay a lot of high-class hookers. He fled before he was sentenced to 845 years in prison and then lived the same lifestyle in Europe and Brazil that he had lived before getting caught, only under aliases. After they tracked him down in Austria through his favorite prostitute, he had a chance to accept Belgian citizenship and avoid extradition to the US, but turned it down because Belgium is too boring a country to live in. Instead he rolled the dice, got extradited, and began serving his massive prison sentence in 2002.
Donald Trump commuted Weiss’s sentence the day before he left office because of course he saw a kindred spirit in the jet-set conman. Continuing to golf and going back to the same hard-to-defend site that got him shot at remind me a lot of Weiss.
K-Mo
@hitchhiker: agree
TBone
Mood music update 🎶
youtu.be/UFR3XrWdT4I
Good for smokin up while sitting in the master bathroom Jacuzzi tub. Ahhhh
Geminid
@TBone: I think Clash Report is Turkiye-based, and they mainly cover the war in Ukraine to the north and now the Middle East war to the south. But Musk is big news over there, and it was a striking photo.
TBone
@Geminid: it certainly is a photo for the aegis.
I saw it plastered all over the place this morning.
prostratedragon
@JWR:
Paralyzingly idiotic souvenir item
artem1s
@hitchhiker:
I agree wholeheartedly. And this is what will ensure that those who voted for Biden who may have been unsure about Harris or turned off about the ‘brokered convention’ bullshit can be confident that Harris intends to be faithful to Biden’s commitment to doing the hard things.
Think about how many times there seemed to be some insurmountable obstacle and yet Biden’s team figured out a way to get it done and start fixing it: Student loans, multiple union strikes, natural disasters, inflation, supply chain problems, Afghanistan, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Hamas. He didn’t let anyone use the dysfunctional GOP House or any other roadblock as a excuse to not try. Even if they couldn’t resolve a whole problem, they figured out a way to do one piece at a time.
Multiple agencies had been rendered effectively inoperable by TCG and his political hacks but yet those agencies are accomplishing things that were assumed too hard to do during booming economies, let alone during a recession.
Biden’s team proved not only that government could be effective, he proved good government was essential. Harris is picking up the theme and moving it forward and voters obviously don’t want to go back to appeasing an insane party that prefers entropy and chaos.
Kathleen
@Chet Murthy: I thought the “bait” on the end of Walz’s reel was a donut for whatever that’s worth. ETA Or maybe that just means I’m craving a donut this morning.
TBone
Hahaha DougJ has the Butler rally photo in a contest to name the hip hop duo! 😆
Honorable mention:
Assault and Prepper
Winners:
2 Live Coup
Nazi by Nature
Betty Cracker
I sincerely hope the Biden admin and its successor the Harris admin (please FSM) have a plan to disentangle the government’s domestic and foreign security operations from companies controlled by Musk. He is still meddling in foreign affairs to screw Ukraine via Starlink and is pumping out dangerous and defamatory disinformation about the hurricane relief efforts via ex-Twitter. I believe in free speech, but that doesn’t extend to allowing malevolent, unelected oligarchs to dabble in policy and propaganda on MY fucking dime. The government needs to shut off the money spigot.
Nukular Biskits
@Tony Jay:
Love reading your posts!
Kathleen
@JoyceH: My local NBC propaganda outlet included morning anchor breathlessly announcing Trump’s trip to the site of the “assassination attempt” so I guess it’s a big deal? Although in fairness Hearst, the owner of the outlet, did an investigative report on the truth of “voter fraud” which was excellent and something I wish a news outlet would have done years ago.
sdhays
@Chet Murthy: I cannot, simply cannot, believe Donald Trump was walking around with a razor blade in his pocket, waiting to be shot at, and then had the wherewithal to use it in the moment.
Nope. Maybe his ear got snagged on an agent’s belt or he got nicked by some shattered teleprompter glass, but he’s not capable of staging that unless it was ALL staged, and if it was, man they did a shitty job.
Geminid
@Kathleen: Trump did not seem to draw much sympathy or concern back when the incident occurred, and I wonder how much this trip resonated among the broader public. But they will be reminded that Trump is a strife magnet and chaos agent.
Baud
Acccording to reddit, this is an NYT headline.
I did not click through and I leave it to the reader to speculate about what it signifies.
Kathleen
@artem1s: In a sane media environment and country he would have been lauded, appreciated and not forced off the campaign. The culture’s disdain for process, competence, smarts and hard work is toxic. (Though I am still glad Kamala Harris is our candidate).
lowtechcyclist
Looking at the projections for Milton, all I can say is:
We Democrats believe global warming is real and dangerous.
Maybe it’s time Republicans got past their “that’s what libs believe, so we have to believe the opposite” bullshit for just this one thing.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Peter Baker is involved, so I’m not sure I want to get out of the boat.
Geminid
@Baud: Maybe Trump knows he’s losing. A friend says Trump has the affect of “a beaten man.”
Kathleen
@Geminid: I hope you’re right!
Kathleen
@zhena gogolia: You had me chuckling. I love you zhena!!!
Baud
@Geminid:
I wish I had his confidence (not to be confused with pessimism).
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Oh, really, Mr. Baker? Is that the reason? F—K YOU!
zhena gogolia
@Kathleen: I love you too!
Tony Jay
@Nukular Biskits:
I feel that I understand these people and their strange drives.
Yes, this worries me.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
If Baker is writing negative stories about Trump, that does give me hope.
lowtechcyclist
@artem1s:
This was so good and so true, I just wanted to see it one more time.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Nukular Biskits
@Tony Jay:
LOL! As well it should!
Baud
@Tony Jay:
The abyss always stares back.
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
Which reminds me:
Berkley Mews – Comics – The Abyss
Baud
@Nukular Biskits: Apt.
TBone
@Geminid: his scowl in one of yesterday’s famous photos does depict the affect of a beaten man IMO.
Someone commented that it appears that Elno is being raptured 😆
Geminid
@Kathleen: Trump still has a narrow path to victory. I expect his campaign team emphasizes that to their headstrong candidate. Trump still may sense the fading enthusiasm at his rallies and among Republican elites.
But it’s too late for Trump to change his messaging. He has to commit to a divisive and hateful path because he is incapable of any other.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
The abyss has all the best mocks.
Plus, y’know, the Tories made me lazy, and your Infotainers serve self-owns like white-powder canapés at a Miami Vice wrap party. I cannae resist.
Another Scott
@Chet Murthy: I think that it’s just part of the generic phone number 622-555-1212. The bin is to hold the catch (and the beer?).
I think that it’s a decent cartoon. The good, normal guy caught the monster. Didn’t deliver the final blow yet, but the monster is doomed.
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
The popularity of the Butler rally photo today is resulting in calls to completely divest from fElon – no X, no Starlink, sell your Tesla, etc.
I’m good on all of that, marked myself “safe”
satby
@Baud: correct
Also, Baker continually confuses a drugged up psychopath ranting as “energetic” instead of “maniacal”.
TBone
@Another Scott: I like your interpretation and would subscribe to your newsletter.
Geminid
@TBone: More like Elmo was being Craptured.
TBone
@Geminid: 😆
Quiltingfool
I just read an interesting story at WaPo (in the editorial section) “The Cyber Sleuth” about Jarod Koopman, an IRS agent. His unit specializes in cybercrime and bitcoin crimes.
Talk about your tax dollars at work! Very impressive group of people.
artem1s
@Ken:
That’s because they are probably paid attendees. They have been fleeing the moment their payment comes thru and everyone knows it. It was just less obviously when there were more people attending. And of course the MSM now feels they have to sanewash the fact that TCF can’t draw a crowd anymore.
wjca
@Gvg: I’m not an expert, but it didn’t look to me like one of those hid-in-the-sand sharks.
artem1s
@Kathleen:
The problem wasn’t the media. It was the members of his own party who continue to fall for a good hairdo (as long as there is a penis attached). How many fucking months in 2016 did the Democratic party waste arguing over rally attendance, shrillness, and canckles. The Dems have repeatedly shot themselves in the foot because they get sidetracked by some huckster who they think is more fuckable than someone who actually has experience and demonstrated competence. The MSM only had repeat what the leaders in the Democratic Party were saying to keep the email story alive. The usual Dem suspects were completely willing to let the WH go to that Conman just to keep her from showing them all up. And if she had managed to eek out a win, they already had destroyed any chance she could have an effective first term. They were planning on primarying her in 2020 and decided to run the game plan on Biden since they already had it in their back pocket on the off chance they could sneak some goodhair celebrity performance artist of their own into the WH. Assholes couldn’t imagine that a competent Black woman could possibly do what she did less than a month from the convention.
Msb
@Geminid: he’s been a good conman for so long, he can likely tell when the current con is starting to fail. And don’t forget that he spends every waking hour trying to silence the internal voices that tell him he’s worthless.