Trump

[Harlequin]

Trump administration is bad at legal technicalities, who would ever have guessed?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53096887

From Agent Orange's perspective, I suspect the failure laid more in the chief justice yet again not being as properly partisan as his colleagues. In response, he has hinted that he will replace some of the justices with ones loyal to himself if people "Vote Trump 2020" (along with that repetitious reminder that people have guns that could be taken away from them).

[F-ZeroOne]

I didn't think Trump's narcissism could get much worse but his recent comment that some people are wearing masks to "show their opposition to him" has yet again proven me wrong.

[F-ZeroOne]

According to the BBC, things Trump said at his rally:

"On the coronavirus response, Mr Trump said he had encouraged officials to slow down testing because it led to more cases being discovered. He described testing as a "double-edged sword"."

" The coronavirus, Mr Trump said, had many names, including "Kung Flu", a xenophobic term that appears to be a reference to China, where Covid-19 originated."

" 'The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalise our history, desecrate our monuments - our beautiful monuments - tear down our statues and punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control. We're not conforming,' he told the crowd."

According to his staff, he was "only joking" about slowing testing down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53121488

[PFVA]

[quote="F-ZeroOne"
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53121488[/quote]

I liked this portion of the news best:

But the 19,000-seat arena was far from full and plans for him to address an outside "overflow" area were abandoned.

[skab]

Nah, the best part is that a huge mass of kids on TikTok and Twitter reserved tickets and then, of course, didn't show up. The idea came from a video suggesting exactly that that went viral and boom, Trump camp is celebrating a million people wanting to see Trump (that's the downside), but then they got Trump campaining to empty seats.

Apparently Trump wasn't amused. Apparently he's getting more and more irritable because he's missing his daily dose of brown-nosing by those sycophants at the rallies.

Oh, and remember Trump's drinking problem a while back? Where, at a press conference, he had to use both hands, aiming carefully, to lift a bottle to his mouth? In Tulsa, he talked about a quarter of an hour just about that and that he's fine and whatnot. That's the same guy who mocked Marco Rubio back in 2016 for his water break incident.

And then you got a guy who takes ages to step down a ramp at West Point with teeny little steps and is apparently pissed off by everybody talking about it and speculating about his health, so what is he doing about it? He's talking about it at every opportunity, defending himself with weak explanations.

Ever heard about the Streisand effect? He's clearly a moron, who would be ridiculed his whole life for his stupidity if he wouldn't had daddy's money to buy him affirmation and affection.

[PFVA]

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Oh, and remember Trump's drinking problem a while back? Where, at a press conference, he had to use both hands, aiming carefully, to lift a bottle to his mouth? In Tulsa, he talked about a quarter of an hour just about that and that he's fine and whatnot. That's the same guy who mocked Marco Rubio back in 2016 for his water break incident.

And then you got a guy who takes ages to step down a ramp at West Point with teeny little steps and is apparently pissed off by everybody talking about it and speculating about his health, so what is he doing about it? He's talking about it at every opportunity, defending himself with weak explanations.

...

Parkinson disease?

[Foozwah]

...

Oh, and remember Trump's drinking problem a while back? Where, at a press conference, he had to use both hands, aiming carefully, to lift a bottle to his mouth? In Tulsa, he talked about a quarter of an hour just about that and that he's fine and whatnot. That's the same guy who mocked Marco Rubio back in 2016 for his water break incident.

And then you got a guy who takes ages to step down a ramp at West Point with teeny little steps and is apparently pissed off by everybody talking about it and speculating about his health, so what is he doing about it? He's talking about it at every opportunity, defending himself with weak explanations.

...

Parkinson disease?

That and/or syphilis.

[merman]

Nah, the best part is that a huge mass of kids on TikTok and Twitter reserved tickets and then, of course, didn't show up. The idea came from a video suggesting exactly that that went viral and boom, Trump camp is celebrating a million people wanting to see Trump (that's the downside), but then they got Trump campaining to empty seats.

Apparently Trump wasn't amused. Apparently he's getting more and more irritable because he's missing his daily dose of brown-nosing by those sycophants at the rallies.

Oh, and remember Trump's drinking problem a while back? Where, at a press conference, he had to use both hands, aiming carefully, to lift a bottle to his mouth? In Tulsa, he talked about a quarter of an hour just about that and that he's fine and whatnot. That's the same guy who mocked Marco Rubio back in 2016 for his water break incident.

And then you got a guy who takes ages to step down a ramp at West Point with teeny little steps and is apparently pissed off by everybody talking about it and speculating about his health, so what is he doing about it? He's talking about it at every opportunity, defending himself with weak explanations.

Ever heard about the Streisand effect? He's clearly a moron, who would be ridiculed his whole life for his stupidity if he wouldn't had daddy's money to buy him affirmation and affection.

There was a brilliant video from Henry Winkler (the Fonz!) showing Trump how to drink a glass of water from one hand.

What is even more interesting about the KPop stans bombing the reservations, is that it totally messes up the Republican database of voter intentions. So every mail shot and email campaign they run now goes to useless addresses, meaning reduced fundraising potential - unless they spend ages weeding out the bad data.

[gilesgoat]

Nah, the best part is that a huge mass of kids on TikTok and Twitter reserved tickets and then, of course, didn't show up. The idea came from a video suggesting exactly that that went viral and boom, Trump camp is celebrating a million people wanting to see Trump (that's the downside), but then they got Trump campaining to empty seats.

Apparently Trump wasn't amused. Apparently he's getting more and more irritable because he's missing his daily dose of brown-nosing by those sycophants at the rallies.

Oh, and remember Trump's drinking problem a while back? Where, at a press conference, he had to use both hands, aiming carefully, to lift a bottle to his mouth? In Tulsa, he talked about a quarter of an hour just about that and that he's fine and whatnot. That's the same guy who mocked Marco Rubio back in 2016 for his water break incident.

And then you got a guy who takes ages to step down a ramp at West Point with teeny little steps and is apparently pissed off by everybody talking about it and speculating about his health, so what is he doing about it? He's talking about it at every opportunity, defending himself with weak explanations.

Ever heard about the Streisand effect? He's clearly a moron, who would be ridiculed his whole life for his stupidity if he wouldn't had daddy's money to buy him affirmation and affection.

There was a brilliant video from Henry Winkler (the Fonz!) showing Trump how to drink a glass of water from one hand.

What is even more interesting about the KPop stans bombing the reservations, is that it totally messes up the Republican database of voter intentions. So every mail shot and email campaign they run now goes to useless addresses, meaning reduced fundraising potential - unless they spend ages weeding out the bad data.

.. meanwhile in Britain ...

"That's how you properly drink a pint of beer with ONE HAND" ...

[F-ZeroOne]

So Trump has made some utterances. He’s decided to found a garden full of statues of “American Heroes”, because of course abuse of statues is the really most important issue in the US right now.

The BBC has quoted him as saying that Coronavirus is “99% harmless”. A reminder, then, that 1% of a lot is still a lot.

And Neil Young has asked the Trump campaign to stop using “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” at Trump events. Clearly, rather like Reagan with “Born in the USA” they haven’t listened to the lyrics much beyond the chorus line.

[merman]

A 42-minute speech that failed to address a major talking point this week - that Russia was paying a bounty for US troops killed in Afghanistan.

[KlaxonCow]

.. meanwhile in Britain ...

I know that this is the kind of thing you expect to be happening in Britain, but their accents are clearly Irish and the video description makes clear that this happened in Amsterdam:

Some Irish guy in an Amsterdam pub attempts to drink his pint of beer standing on his head.

[gilesgoat]

.. meanwhile in Britain ...

I know that this is the kind of thing you expect to be happening in Britain, but their accents are clearly Irish and the video description makes clear that this happened in Amsterdam:

Some Irish guy in an Amsterdam pub attempts to drink his pint of beer standing on his head.

Yes ok but that's "the kind of British thing about properly handling a pint" .. I can't find that pic of "some years ago" that was like that painting with the golden ratio and the guy on the floor still clinging to his pint

[merman]

Well, turns out Kanye West announced he was running for President and didn't even bother to file any of the necessary paperwork. Trump was bad enough, but a self-serving, self-promoting rapper would make an even worse President...

[gilesgoat]

Well, turns out Kanye West announced he was running for President and didn't even bother to file any of the necessary paperwork. Trump was bad enough, but a self-serving, self-promoting rapper would make an even worse President...

What puzzles me "clearly both of them know nothing about politics" .. even less of international politics .. so who's actually telling them what to do and what to say ?

Who's really "the president" ???