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tsf is absolutly blowing (Original Post) Codifer Aug 2024 OP
this is Trump dancing as fast as he can to regain the Trump 24/7 news loop... agingdem Aug 2024 #1
Won't work malaise Aug 2024 #92
"I had 20 times, 30 times the crowd size." dchill Aug 2024 #2
He sounds like Hitler just before shooting him self and loosing the war. Moving armies that did not exist..nt mitch96 Aug 2024 #48
"Mein Fueher, Joe Biden..." "Joe Biden has dropped out and given his candidacy to Kamala Harris" ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #61
Why in the world does the Press even allow this!!! geojazz Aug 2024 #3
Horse race. dchill Aug 2024 #4
Time for glue factory SomedayKindaLove Aug 2024 #9
Yes!!!! katmondoo Aug 2024 #14
Yas, lawd! IrishAfricanAmerican Aug 2024 #53
THIS!!👆🏿👆🏿 uponit7771 Aug 2024 #65
Because it's fun to watch him spiral into the abyss tinrobot Aug 2024 #11
Why Would They Not? RobinA Aug 2024 #22
Because they're complicit with the destruction of our country. They answer to their corporate masters. mucholderthandirt Aug 2024 #28
Isn't it a good thing? Trump off the rails should be prime time. dem4decades Aug 2024 #29
Because he is a major party candidate for president of the US and he has a chance of winning onenote Aug 2024 #34
And that, one note, is the saddest thing I've heard in my 59 years. Ray Bruns Aug 2024 #40
Yeah. Unfortunately he is still "news." Hoping that ends sooner rather than later. dameatball Aug 2024 #43
ENOUGH! Gaytano70 Aug 2024 #38
ratings Skittles Aug 2024 #50
I'm not complaining. The more people see of Trump the more his approval ratings go down. meadowlander Aug 2024 #72
It isn't still 2016. AwkWeird Festivus isn't normalizing him anymore TheKentuckian Aug 2024 #93
Allow what? Rebl2 Aug 2024 #89
We had so many Captain Zero Aug 2024 #5
Now blabbering that Captain Zero Aug 2024 #8
That's not going to go over well in Georgia. yardwork Aug 2024 #17
There are more people in Metro Atlanta than the entire population of AL or SC Cattledog Aug 2024 #59
If He Was President, Napoleon Would Have Won at Waterloo NonPC Aug 2024 #49
Don't forget the Battle of Hastings! Turbineguy Aug 2024 #52
And Lance Aemstrong landing on the Moon to lead the charge on the British Spaceports ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #68
He MIGHT have won at Waterloo....but... AZ8theist Aug 2024 #66
I had to turn it off BonnieJW Aug 2024 #6
My BP would not appreciate me watching him birdographer Aug 2024 #12
The projection is hilarious. ShazzieB Aug 2024 #47
Kinda like what Yogi Berra supposedly said, Wednesdays Aug 2024 #84
No Orange menace MustLoveBeagles Aug 2024 #76
He wants to be talked about. ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2024 #7
He just said he had a meeting with Xi Captain Zero Aug 2024 #15
He mentioned a couch?!! yardwork Aug 2024 #18
Of course he did!!! johnnyfins Aug 2024 #46
Sensual music begins playing as he goes "Why didn't I think of that?" ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #71
Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Theodore Roosevelt - GoneOffShore Aug 2024 #41
I had never heard that one. dameatball Aug 2024 #44
The corpse part goes last. Much funnier that way. marybourg Aug 2024 #80
he says he is ahead by 35, 40, 50 points MissB Aug 2024 #10
It's not possible to be ahead by 50 points. yardwork Aug 2024 #19
Well, I doubt math was ever his strong point MissB Aug 2024 #20
Wait! His uncle went to MIT hibbing Aug 2024 #57
And his father had Alzheimer's. multigraincracker Aug 2024 #74
Wouldn't a candidate with a 75 - 25 lead be ahead by 50 points? Admittedly, math isn't my strong suit. onenote Aug 2024 #30
I guess you're right. I was thinking of 100 points. yardwork Aug 2024 #32
well many people told him the other person was in negative numbers, so ........... dem4decades Aug 2024 #31
Well ... Metaphorical Aug 2024 #78
Wrong. A at 25 and B at 75 is ahead by 50 points. But A has to be at or less than 25 for it to be possible. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2024 #86
Believe the reason he sprouts lies like that all the time KS Toronado Aug 2024 #85
A lot of them abandoned Fox because they called Arizona for Biden first. . . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2024 #87
Think most went back after they cooled off KS Toronado Aug 2024 #88
TV Be Gone maxsolomon Aug 2024 #90
At one point in time I almost ordered one of these KS Toronado Aug 2024 #91
At least he's "letting their convention go through." dchill Aug 2024 #13
This could be used in a psychiatry class Captain Zero Aug 2024 #23
...down by the river. dchill Aug 2024 #24
As a lover of the Chevrolet G10 vans gay texan Aug 2024 #36
Next, he'll say he got better gymnastics scores than Simone Biles. tinrobot Aug 2024 #16
...and the Supreme Court will agree. dchill Aug 2024 #25
Trump/Vance SomedayKindaLove Aug 2024 #21
agree- except he is same as he ever was consider_this Aug 2024 #26
What did he say about people in Afghanistan falling from 3 times the height of the WTC? AZSkiffyGeek Aug 2024 #27
Trump's own words will be his downfall... ultralite001 Aug 2024 #33
If I put a babblefish in one of my ears..... MrWowWow Aug 2024 #35
Stick with the weed jayschool2013 Aug 2024 #45
Stay with the weed and watch Bob Ross painting ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #63
What you Codifer Aug 2024 #64
That would be the buzz from Hell ...nt ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #70
Has he mentioned Vance at all? nolabear Aug 2024 #37
He should do this everyday. rubbersole Aug 2024 #39
Anyone who thinks this helps him didn't watch Johnny2X2X Aug 2024 #42
that's exactly the problem, people listen to the media coverage, maybe a brief clip unblock Aug 2024 #62
Which TV channel aired it? Thanks KS Toronado Aug 2024 #83
I tuned in late but... lame54 Aug 2024 #51
Tweeking from meth rockbluff botanist Aug 2024 #54
Everyday is "opposite day"with trump. Omnipresent Aug 2024 #55
As I mentioned before... Mossfern Aug 2024 #56
Just be prepared for it. calimary Aug 2024 #95
That scene in "Downfall" where Hitler realizes he's lost the war? Ocelot II Aug 2024 #58
(aide to Eva Braun) "I won't tell him you voted for RFK" ...nt ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #73
Feeble Akakoji Aug 2024 #60
He isn't as doped up as usual and he comes across as weak and whiny. I'm sure the doped up Donald will be back though. jalan48 Aug 2024 #67
I can confirm the weak and whiny description. ShazzieB Aug 2024 #77
I agree. Harris has so much more energy, it's turning into a great election. jalan48 Aug 2024 #81
Income opportunity - Bingo game based on Trump's biggest hits. yellowcanine Aug 2024 #69
DOW up almost 700 today Johnny2X2X Aug 2024 #75
That must have been in anticipation of his great speech. Chakaconcarne Aug 2024 #82
From the Harris Walz Campaign-Here is a compilation of all the lies Trump told & fact checks LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2024 #79
Nice to have it presented that way. calimary Aug 2024 #94

dchill

(42,660 posts)
2. "I had 20 times, 30 times the crowd size."
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:26 PM
Aug 2024

Baldly he goes, where no mind has gone before!

mitch96

(15,799 posts)
48. He sounds like Hitler just before shooting him self and loosing the war. Moving armies that did not exist..nt
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:33 PM
Aug 2024

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
61. "Mein Fueher, Joe Biden..." "Joe Biden has dropped out and given his candidacy to Kamala Harris"
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:51 PM
Aug 2024

"Everyone who voted for Nikki Haley will now leave"

Remember all those Downfall parodies?

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
22. Why Would They Not?
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:44 PM
Aug 2024

Shouldn't we have a chance to see him live? That's the press's job. He's a candidate for President of an influential part of the globe, and the result is in no way in the bag at this point. If they DIDN'T show it people would complain they were hiding his inability to speak in complete sentences, and the complainers would be right.

mucholderthandirt

(1,783 posts)
28. Because they're complicit with the destruction of our country. They answer to their corporate masters.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:53 PM
Aug 2024

onenote

(46,135 posts)
34. Because he is a major party candidate for president of the US and he has a chance of winning
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:56 PM
Aug 2024

It's absurd to complain that the press covers him.

meadowlander

(5,130 posts)
72. I'm not complaining. The more people see of Trump the more his approval ratings go down.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:18 PM
Aug 2024

People need reminding of exactly what an incompetent boring know-nothing blowhard he really is.

 

TheKentuckian

(26,314 posts)
93. It isn't still 2016. AwkWeird Festivus isn't normalizing him anymore
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 09:08 PM
Aug 2024

He mostly seems like he should be institutionalized while somehow also being boring as can be.

Captain Zero

(8,896 posts)
5. We had so many
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:27 PM
Aug 2024

Nobody ever mentions that.

If I were president you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine. You wouldn't have inflation.

(He's spouting endlessly, the fallacy of the untestable hypothesis.)

Captain Zero

(8,896 posts)
8. Now blabbering that
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:32 PM
Aug 2024

He won South Carolina and Alabama by huge margins so it's not possible he lost Georgia. He says.

yardwork

(69,347 posts)
17. That's not going to go over well in Georgia.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:37 PM
Aug 2024

Georgia does not compare itself to Alabama.

NonPC

(405 posts)
49. If He Was President, Napoleon Would Have Won at Waterloo
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:34 PM
Aug 2024

Why stop with the future -- might as well go back in time.

AZ8theist

(7,337 posts)
66. He MIGHT have won at Waterloo....but...
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:03 PM
Aug 2024

...only if he secured the Paris airport first!!!!!!

BonnieJW

(3,121 posts)
6. I had to turn it off
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:29 PM
Aug 2024

He's nuts. He says all the latest polls show him way ahead. Making up all kinds of lies. Said Walz is dangerous and everyone hates Josh Shapiro.

birdographer

(2,937 posts)
12. My BP would not appreciate me watching him
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:34 PM
Aug 2024

It would be through the roof. Does anyone still believe his lies? Are his cult members still onboard, even when they see the images of Kamala's rallies? I know they won't leave him, but do they comprehend the level of the lies? Even if they don't care?

ShazzieB

(22,565 posts)
47. The projection is hilarious.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:31 PM
Aug 2024

No, Donald, "everyone" doesn't hate Josh Shapiro. YOU hate Josh Shapiro.

He's so narcissistic that he ascribes his own emotions to "everyone." What a weirdo!

Wednesdays

(22,550 posts)
84. Kinda like what Yogi Berra supposedly said,
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:54 PM
Aug 2024

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,879 posts)
7. He wants to be talked about.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:32 PM
Aug 2024

Oscar Wilde said it best.

"What is worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."

Insecure narcissist wants to be talked about.

Captain Zero

(8,896 posts)
15. He just said he had a meeting with Xi
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:36 PM
Aug 2024

Right where the press is now.

He said when he had the meeting there was a beautiful COUCH RIGHT THERE, motioning, but you are there now. 🤣🤣

johnnyfins

(3,750 posts)
46. Of course he did!!!
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:28 PM
Aug 2024

They will use anything. Even negative stuff. And his base will eat it up. Ear patches, grab this pu*** Tshirts, diapers. He has no clue that most of america thinks all this shit IS weird and creepy.

I just heard his statement. It was all fearmongering and america bashing.

Fing child.

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
71. Sensual music begins playing as he goes "Why didn't I think of that?"
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:15 PM
Aug 2024

Diddle and the couch fucker, coming to you this Fall from The CW

GoneOffShore

(18,018 posts)
41. Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Theodore Roosevelt -
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:22 PM
Aug 2024

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

marybourg

(13,632 posts)
80. The corpse part goes last. Much funnier that way.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:38 PM
Aug 2024

The bride part goes first. Was said about Teddy stealing the show at Franklin and Eleanor’s wedding.

MissB

(16,344 posts)
10. he says he is ahead by 35, 40, 50 points
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:33 PM
Aug 2024

Obviously numbers pulled out of his birds nest of a hairdo.

yardwork

(69,347 posts)
19. It's not possible to be ahead by 50 points.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:40 PM
Aug 2024

Unless the other candidate is at 0 points.

onenote

(46,135 posts)
30. Wouldn't a candidate with a 75 - 25 lead be ahead by 50 points? Admittedly, math isn't my strong suit.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:55 PM
Aug 2024

Metaphorical

(2,634 posts)
78. Well ...
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:35 PM
Aug 2024

If he was ahead 75 to 25, then yes, it could be 50 points. However, I don't think that he's broken 50 points himself in any poll taken in the last decade, so it's just wishful thinking.

Admittedly, this keeps coming to mind:

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
86. Wrong. A at 25 and B at 75 is ahead by 50 points. But A has to be at or less than 25 for it to be possible. . . . . nt
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 05:13 PM
Aug 2024

KS Toronado

(23,727 posts)
85. Believe the reason he sprouts lies like that all the time
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 05:11 PM
Aug 2024

is to keep reminding his MAGA loyalists who only watch FQX noise to hide the truth from them so on
election night he can scream "I was always ahead in the polls, those damn Democrats done it again
stealing elections." And then he'll give them their marching orders, remember he's said bloodbath
more than once.

On election night FQX better be telling the truth to their viewers and reminding them Thou shall not kill..

KS Toronado

(23,727 posts)
88. Think most went back after they cooled off
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 05:34 PM
Aug 2024

Every restaurant with a TV on in my deep red town is always on FQX.

KS Toronado

(23,727 posts)
91. At one point in time I almost ordered one of these
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 06:48 PM
Aug 2024

but my brother and I thought it was more fun to listen and then laugh and make fun of "How
brainwashed and stupid people must be to believe all these lies" during a crowded lunch hour.

Got some dirty looks alright but was worth it when someone would want to ask a question to
educate themselves or to join us in making fun of FQX.

Captain Zero

(8,896 posts)
23. This could be used in a psychiatry class
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:47 PM
Aug 2024

If he owned a van, it would be one of those schizophrenia vans.

gay texan

(3,211 posts)
36. As a lover of the Chevrolet G10 vans
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:00 PM
Aug 2024

I find that offensive to be lumped in with trumps mental illness

SomedayKindaLove

(1,178 posts)
21. Trump/Vance
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:42 PM
Aug 2024

Quite a “Dueling Banjos” act of idiocy they’ve got going. And they’re only just warming up, folks!

consider_this

(2,847 posts)
26. agree- except he is same as he ever was
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:52 PM
Aug 2024

I think we are just so sick of hearing it, it is no longer shocking babble, just more of the same ad infinitum

ultralite001

(2,543 posts)
33. Trump's own words will be his downfall...
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:56 PM
Aug 2024

The convicted felon is slowly circling the drain...
Please don't let the plumbing back up...

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
35. If I put a babblefish in one of my ears.....
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:57 PM
Aug 2024

and light up a dooobee, will turd burfle's droolings make sense?

jayschool2013

(2,611 posts)
45. Stick with the weed
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:27 PM
Aug 2024

Like the Lard of Mierda Loco, babblefish is overrated, and it smells bad.

Codifer

(1,205 posts)
64. What you
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:02 PM
Aug 2024

would need would be oxycontin or meth or both...... and mebbe a quart of everclear.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
37. Has he mentioned Vance at all?
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:02 PM
Aug 2024

Other than saying there used to be a nice sofa in the room, I mean.

rubbersole

(11,209 posts)
39. He should do this everyday.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:20 PM
Aug 2024

And try sock puppets for his opponents. With accents that he's noted for. Pay-per-view. I'd pay.

Johnny2X2X

(24,174 posts)
42. Anyone who thinks this helps him didn't watch
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:24 PM
Aug 2024

I watched enough to see and hear that he is spiraling badly and desperate. This was a reminder of how deranged he is. He lost voters with this patheitc attempt to save his floundering campaign.

unblock

(56,188 posts)
62. that's exactly the problem, people listen to the media coverage, maybe a brief clip
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:57 PM
Aug 2024

relatively few people listen to an entire speech or press conference.

and how the media decides to spin it matters.


the coverage since harris became the de facto nominee has been much more fair than it has been in ages, but they continue to normalize donnie.

it remains astonishing how completely batshit crazy they went over the mere theoretical possibility of a hillary indictment over her emails, when these days donnie's 34 convictions, numerous pending indictments in multiple jurisdictions, including a far more overt and provable version of the crimes hillary was investigated for, all that is just a minor footnote and they continue to cover donnie as a viable candidate.

they'll disqualify a democrat at the drop of a hat, but there seems to be nothing a republican can do to get disqualified in the eyes of the media.

ok, santos somehow crossed that line, but probably only because he even worse at lying than donnie.

Mossfern

(4,713 posts)
56. As I mentioned before...
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:45 PM
Aug 2024

I napped through it.
When I came downstairs, I asked Mr. Mossfern how it went- he said same as usual.
He put on MSNBC for a minute and it appeared that they were talking about this seriously.
I think Katie Tur was speaking, but I still had leftover sleepwebs in my brain.

on edit: How in the world can anyone take this seriously. Honestly I was hoping for some
sort of announcement. In no way was this "news." It was just a cheap ploy to get coverage.
The news networks should just block him. No fact checking either...

calimary

(89,951 posts)
95. Just be prepared for it.
Sat Aug 10, 2024, 09:52 PM
Aug 2024

As you so aptly put it:

“It was just a cheap ploy to get coverage.”

And unfortunately, he’s become the attention whore of all attention whores. Maybe by the time he finally passes, somebody can bury him with a microphone and camera. Disconnected, of course.

Ocelot II

(130,465 posts)
58. That scene in "Downfall" where Hitler realizes he's lost the war?
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 03:46 PM
Aug 2024

The one that's the subject of all those parodies? Hitler looks sane and calm compared to TFG these days. His "press conference" footage should be saved for the "Downfall II" parodies that will be all over the internets before much longer...

jalan48

(14,914 posts)
67. He isn't as doped up as usual and he comes across as weak and whiny. I'm sure the doped up Donald will be back though.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:04 PM
Aug 2024

ShazzieB

(22,565 posts)
77. I can confirm the weak and whiny description.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:26 PM
Aug 2024

Weak, whiny, and very, very low energy, at least at the beginning. I didn't get very far, because unbeknownst to me, my tablet was in the process of running out of juice, and it died about a third of the way in. It's charging up again, but I don't know if I'll bother to go back and watch the rest.

The part I've seen so far was pretty boring. He looked and sounded old and tired, and there was no oomph to his delivery at all. He wasn't even an old man yelling at the clouds, just an old man mumbling at them.

He'd rather die than admit that he's worried or scared, but I'm sure he is both. And all the things that are going on are obviously draining his energy. Let's hope that process continues.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,571 posts)
79. From the Harris Walz Campaign-Here is a compilation of all the lies Trump told & fact checks
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 04:37 PM
Aug 2024

The Harris Walz Campaign is fast





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