I can now turn all of my attention to promoting even more division and conflict within my own country.

I see. That's how you want to play it.

MeidasTouch has a response to that.

I'm not surprised, on the other hand. Remember, Trump projects and accuses others of his sins like crazy.

To poke at a couple not quite random other things -

Here's a nice short comic to demonstrate what Defund the Police is supposed to mean.

WaPo Publishes Gaslighting Op-Ed by AEI Snowflake Terrified of Competent Government

Short summary?

:rolleyes:

That though, reminded me of a couple amusing Republican paradoxes. To poke at a couple there...


Moving on...

Trump confirms Woodward report he decried as 'fiction' in 2018

And? What was true in 2018 isn't necessarily true today.

I'm sure Putin told Trump it was now okay to say he wanted to kill Assad so that Trump can look like a tough guy instead of the pathetic, whining mess we've been seeing so clearly the last few months.

Also, who could possibly believe the current account? That he would accept advice from one of his cabinet officials is ******* preposterous.

From Trump's greatest hits, but today's situation is different than last fall - NBA players have an extremely compelling reason to protest, almost a duty at this point. If Trump is dissing LeBron James he can get stuffed. IMO the leadership athletes can provide would be the sincerest form of patriotism. There's the virus response; there's attacks on voting rights; and of course the is the ongoing issue of police violence. This isn't the time for widespread street protests, IMO. It should be direct marketing to increase turnout, addressing every single impediment to voting possible. And the politicians should be getting literally tons of postcards etc. so they understand their constituents' concerns. The registration deadline is Oct. 5 in many states. Don't let a single voter go uncontacted. This needs to be a full-court press.

This needs to be happening with Latinos, too. IMO Jeb Bush or similar would be a good choice. With the dropping of the DACA protections, Trump told another massive lie. Where is the legislative solution? Legislators need to be called out on this. There are probably a dozen issues that could help motivate would-be voters.

Please tell me this is happening already - in person, by mail, on TV, on *billboards*, and all over social media. Get granular: I'm talking about reaching individuals, not a top-down media strategy to push the whole Democratic agenda. Focus on some down-ticket races. Lawmakers need to be getting mail from constituents concerned about public health, access to health care (not the same thing), the Dream Act, local and global pollution, police training, reproductive rights, universal background checks on gun purchases, gay and trangender rights, voting by mail and voter suppression. Don't target everyone on all issues, just pivotal ones for their demographic. Use big data as necessary.

This comes down to a lot of individuals believing they can affect the outcome. I don't think it can happen any other way.

OK. Is that a retweet? Usually you say. "Conservative Girl" and "PedoBiden" totally sounds like a real person and not a sock puppet.

He's trolling either way.

BTW: I don't think he does this for his fans. It's part of a strategy to keep the left triggered and complaining amongst themselves. Piss off, Donald.

Kinda late for policy planning, isn't it? Maybe he's so good he can produce what the GOP has been promising for over a decade.

I got a case of whiplash upon seeing that Trump was relying on the FAKE NEWS for his information.

The kind with sticky floors? (I've heard.)

He said a week or so ago that he was going to get much nastier. But really, at this point, who is he tweeting at? I don't think it's his base, because how much more bonded could they be? IMO, it's a distraction. It's always a distraction.

The deplorables don't care that a sitting president is behaving this way.

White women, too.

It was a handy way to get rid of pesky young relatives who let themselves get knocked up and accused daddy or uncle Bill of raping them. Get a cooperative doctor to certify that the kid was nutso, have the baby put out for adoption, and send the kid to the funny farm, where hysterectomies for immorality were not an unusual prescription.

I don't think it's any sort of a strategy at all. Trump doesn't do strategy. He doesn't need to. Strategy implies forethought, and that's one thing Trump has never been accused of by anyone. Some of the people around him may try, but only to a small extent. If they try too hard they won't be around him anymore.

I think that these twits from Trump used to come in smaller bursts because his handlers would get his phone away from him from time to time. But they have since realized that it really didn't matter what he posted,because his cult members loved all of it, and nobody else could do anything about it.

So why bother trying to stop him?

Or even a Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. Live. In real time. Unedited. In front of a person, woman, man, camera, and TV.

America First! Vote Biden!

Hillary Clinton said "you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables." At this point, anyone still supporting Trump belongs in that basket. Anyone.

In case you missed the Trump town hall, here's a 2 minutes recap by CNN's amazing fact checker Daniel Dale: https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/st...68705634287622

Unfortunately anyone who actually cares about any of that is already vehemently anti-President Trump - maybe 40% of the electorate.

Another 40% will support President Trump regardless of what he says.

20% or so are lower information voters who won't fact-check or listen to the fact check but will get the soundbites from President Trump's speech so might believe him :(

Actually, that's wrong, although the two are conflated. It was the Miss America pageants that he boasted of going into the changing rooms of. The Miss Teen contestants called him creepy and dehumanising.

Trump denies downplaying severity of virus

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54172311

Trump retweeted

thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
President Trump had a historic event for world peace today, and the only thing the media reported on was who was wearing masks.

Trump isn't running against Biden.
He's running against the media.
And he's still going to win.

I'll buy that. Thanks.
Gawd knows he needs every thing he can get that'll raise my opinion of him. Even that little bit. [emoji53]

Many here on the forum (myself included) find Biden a less than perfect candidate, and hoped for someone else to be the Democratic nominee.

But the way Trumpworld tweets and campaigns, they really would like to run against anyone but Biden.

The "real" candidate is Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, the Squad, BLM, Antifa, the evil media, etc ..
The last days I also saw a new theme emerging, where Biden is just a placeholder, and if elected will soon resign (or die), and then the new "real" candidate, Harris, will take power and both defund the police (hear that, suburban "housewives") and imprison Black men as she's also a bad cop (hear that, POC).

I still feel that they expected that Burisma would bury Biden in the primaries, and that Sanders or Warren would be the candidate.

Who you gonna believe, President Trump or your own lyin' eyes ?

'I up-played it': Donald Trump disputes own admission he downplayed Covid pandemic


“Herd mentality”. That what his supporters have, right?

Typical blue-staters. Treat me badly, very badly, worse than anyone thought possible, then expect me to help them.

Trump threatens to retaliate with '1,000 times greater' force against any Iran attack

That Nobel Peace Prize must be in the bag now.

Herd mentality. A new term for living in Trump's post-fact world.

Ahh, right. I think that this whopper is one of the new champions in the up is down and down is up, black is white and white is black style of GOP propaganda. After all, he's literally saying that down is up now.

Your quite wrong.
They are happy that he is behaving this way.

Some are happy because they think it is true.
Some are happy because they say to themselves and others, “maybe this is the straw that will break the camel’s back. Maybe this is the thing that will finally show rank and file liberals how evil the Democratic leadership is.”

Trump saying he up-played it is the perfect move.

The right wing talking heads will say, “It’s obvious the MSM doesn’t know what they are doing - first they say he downplayed it, then they say he up-played it. Message to fake media: “make up your mind.’”

Scientific American endorses Biden: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-to-back-biden

I especially liked Don Lemon's reaction -- "Whew! Do you need a drink of water after all that?"

I saw bits of the Town Hall -- this may be the first time that Trump faced a truly diverse crowd and questions rather than supporters (or reporters). He seemed a bit put out that he wasn't getting applause and cheers for his regular spew.

It's less than two weeks until the debate with Biden. I'm increasingly thinking there will suddenly be a reason for Trump not to show up.

NewsThump: Presidential motorcade to be replaced with clown car

From 2017, but just as relevant today.
Except today, I'm leaning less towards clown car and more towards some mafioso/banana republic outfit.

A convoy of Toyota pickups with machine gunners on the back for escort vehicles would better fit his current image as wannabe-Banana Republic dictator. This motorcade would escort the President's vehicle, a vintage black vehicle reminiscent of 40's mafia godfathers. Something like this.

The contrast might be somewhat jarring, so maybe paint it white or spray paint some logo onto it so as to better match the pickups.

Sports, but...
 

I know it's sports, but my reason for sharing is that I'm curious how Trump will play this. He insisted the Big Ten play football, and I'm ready to watch him take credit for this. WOnder whether it will impact swing-states, like MN, MI, WI, OH...

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...october-return

No college football is a religion in parts of the country and if you put a gun to my head and asked how sarcastic I'm being I'm not 100% sure I'd have an answer.

Israelis have been holidaying in Egypt for decades.

I could totally see The PDJT suggesting to meteorologists -- "Why don't we just take all the extra water from the hurricane in the Gulf Coast and use it to put out the fires in California?" Why, I'm sure he could even draw out how to do it in Sharpie on a map!

President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Here's the target area.
Gerou : That's Minnesota, sir.
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Damn it, man, that's the genius of my plan. Why go over there to fight? We can do it right here at home, and get in some good fishing while we're at it.
Gerou : Sir, the enemy is over there.
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Then we'll fly them over here. Their families too. We'll teach them to skate... Do I have to think of everything?

He is literally claiming that down is up.

Laura Ingrahm on Fox News called it an "ambush."

Now, aside from the idiocy of being "ambushed" by questions from people (as someone on Twitter responded, there weren't even any questions from any family members!), it does reflect the fact that he even she recognizes that it was a disaster. The "ambush" is an excuse for bad performance.

Trump voluntarily agreed to answer questions at a televised event, and the attendees ambushed him with questions!?! The nerve!!! Totally unexpected!

Trump Tweets

Thank you for the great reviews of the @ABC News show last night!

Trump Tweets

Jim, you didn’t make a mistake. It’s true, and that’s why you said it. No pandering!
Quote Tweet

The Recount
@therecount
Jim Cramer apologizes to Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "I made a very stupid comment."

Trump Tweets

Great News: BIG TEN FOOTBALL IS BACK. All teams to participate. Thank you to the players, coaches, parents, and all school representatives. Have a FANTASTIC SEASON! It is my great honor to have helped!!!

Democrats are “heartless”. They don’t want to give STIMULUS PAYMENTS to people who desperately need the money, and whose fault it was NOT that the plague came in from China. Go for the much higher numbers, Republicans, it all comes back to the USA anyway (one way or another!).

Vaccines are moving along fast and safely!

Setting aside that there's no rule against ambushing presidents with questions, if he and his staff didn't expect those questions, they are even dumber than I thought they were. My only disappointment was that the people in the town hall didn't ask him an unexpected questions.

President dumb **** is going to find out that the only review that matters happens in November.

Trump Retweeted

The Recount
@therecount
Jim Cramer: “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy? I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reverence for the office. I would never use that term ...”
Pelosi: “But you just did. But you just did.”

:D
This is so good that I may steal it and use it on other boards.

He's probably trying to talk about spontaneous combustion, at least as best as his scatterbrained mentality can cobble together. The bits and pieces are there, or alluded to, decomposition and material piling up but mashed together in a cargo cult kind of way, making it devoid of any substance. So spontaneous combustion becomes a kind of spontaneous exploding, in his feeble minded misunderstanding.

Called it!

(Yeah it was an easy call - really stuck my neck out, eh? And it's possible he tweeted before I posted, but I hadn't seen it yet.)