Trump

[Harlequin]

Trump can spell 'provocateur'???

I suspect he had someone type it in for him.

[KlaxonCow]

Trump can spell 'provocateur'???

He copied and pasted the spelling from the right-wing conspiracy website - the "One America News Network" - where he half-inched this implausible narrative:

Trump tagged One America News Network, a far-right conservative news network, in the tweet. Shortly before Trump’s post, OANN ran a segment which made near identical claims to Trump.

OANN, which has spread multiple conspiracy theories, cited the Conservative Treehouse, a conspiracy theory website, as its source.

The Conservative Treehouse, which is among the news sites listed in FactCheck.org’s “misinformation directory”, claimed over the weekend that Gugino “was attempting to capture the radio communications signature” when he was shoved to the ground by the police.

This is the even more alarming thing about Trump's tweets, besides the fact that they exist at all.

He just watches Fox News and browses "alt right" websites, then tweets about them as being 100% fact five minutes later.

He is incapable of original thought.

Well, besides "covfefe". Whatever the hell that means.

[merman]

Oh, and this was hilarious. Saturday Trump put out over 200 Tweets or retweets, including one that said Joe Biden wanted to "defund the police". Trump's grasp of the facts is so poor that he failed to notice Biden as VP put forward a Bill that would have increased police funding by $300 million.

That is a pity. I was hoping you were going to portray Trump's mistake as not noticing that police defunding (at least in the sense of reversing the huge funding growth of recent decades and reinvesting in underfunded public services) is increasingly being considered a Good Idea by people beyond party divisions. Biden's bill could therefore be perceived as part of the problem.

That would require Trump to understand context.
Twitter has been flooded with posts along the lines of:

"Look how much the police get to buy shiny toys, while teachers/museums/public hospitals get less and less".

And a lot to of people seem to be mistaking "defund the police" for "abolish the police completely". That's not and never has been the idea.

[F-ZeroOne]

The Trump campaign demanded CNN remove a poll that showed Biden had a significant lead. Their reply has been essentially "F**k you", and apparently written by someone whose career path was set early in life, possibly after falling into a cave full of bats:


https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1270802155201576962

[Mat]

"David C. Vigilante"? That's a REAL name?!
Explains the badass DGAF attitude

[KlaxonCow]

"David C. Vigilante"? That's a REAL name?!

Yeah, that seemed mad to me too.

But I looked it up and, yes, it's an Italian surname - meaning "guard" or "watchman", where obviously the word "vigilante" also originally derives too.

So it's kind of like "Smith" or "Baker", in that it's a surname derived from an occupation - being the town guard back in old Italy - that's lived through as a genuine Italian surname.

But due to the edge of "nominative determinism" here, it does totally look like it's a completely made up name and had me double-taking too.

[Mat]

Not quite the most badd-ass name I've come across, but pretty close. That honour goes to a guy who was working at BBC London when we were installing their production asset management system.
Rostrum Kilgore.
He wasn't as big as his name would imply, but who could be?!

[merman]

Trump backed down on holding a rally in Tulsa on June the 19th.

A city where one of the worst acts of white supremacy violence happened, on the anniversary of a key moment in the abolition of slavery.

Oh, and apparently if you want to attend one of his rallies you have to sign a disclaimer saying you won't sue Trump or his organisation for resultant injury or illness...

[gilesgoat]

I can't wait for the next USA election and see who they are going to vote ...

.. if Trump gets re-elected .. then there's really NO HOPE ..

[Harlequin]

I can't wait for the next USA election and see who they are going to vote ...
.. if Trump gets re-elected .. then there's really NO HOPE ..

Perhaps not until all the states are forced to enable all persons legally permitted to vote to easily do so.

[tufty]

Perhaps not until all the states are forced to enable all persons legally permitted to vote to easily do so.

And that would benefit the orange shitgoblin how, exactly?

If Trump gets in for a second term, and he probably will, lord knows what will happen. It almost certainly won't involve cutting out voter suppression, though.
There's speculation about forcing through constitutional changes enabling a third term, but that'd mean him standing at 78. Still, Biden's 77 now, so... It's more likely, I think, that "Trump" becomes the new "Kennedy"*, with him being succeeded by either Ivanka, Donald Jr, or Jared. But not Eric.

* Not in the good-for-the-planet, "book depository", way, though.

[Harlequin]

Perhaps not until all the states are forced to enable all persons legally permitted to vote to easily do so.

And that would benefit the orange shitgoblin how, exactly?

I meant in terms of the possibility of hope for those who do not support him.

There's speculation about forcing through constitutional changes enabling a third term, but that'd mean him standing at 78. Still, Biden's 77 now, so... It's more likely, I think, that "Trump" becomes the new "Kennedy"* …

"Bush", shurely. I see even less similarity to Kennedy than I do to Lincoln.

* Not in the good-for-the-planet, "book depository", way, though.

The book depository solution would, perhaps regrettably, probably make his legacy much worse.

[tufty]

Meanwhile, in Fox News land...

What's wrong with this picture?



How about this one?



Or this one?



When they got called on it, they pulled the pictures. Hahah twats.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/13/medi ... index.html

[KlaxonCow]

Yeah, Fox News doesn't know its Monty Python, it seems, or they wouldn't have fallen for a Reddit joke:

Watch up to 0:29 here:



And then from 1:28 onwards:

[F-ZeroOne]

Trump administration is bad at legal technicalities, who would ever have guessed?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53096887