Huge breaking news out of Minnesota!

[Bleacher Creature]

Minneapolis is apparently no more.

Link to tweet

[AllaN01Bear]

1. hem.

[Coexist]

2. so many lies, so often. And his surrogates still have the nerve to say, "he said he won't XXX."

we can't take his word for anything FFS.

[Docreed2003]

3. The fact that anyone takes this dude seriously is astounding.

Trump is clearly out of his mind and it's largely just written off as "Trump Being Trump"

[yellowcanine]

4. "They said to me with tears in their eyes, Sir, Minnesota is all burned down."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. I mean...there are people in the state of Minnesota who believe this

[dchill]

34. Including Minneapolis.

Denial of obvious reality is now just a tic.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Weird thing to say.

https://wxyzwebcams.com/en/united_states/minnesota/minneapolis/

[quaint]

79. Tch, clearly AI generated. 😁

[Attilatheblond]

7. It's been said by some who know him well, that when he does 'accordian hands' it's a big tell

that he is lying and knows he is lying.

[dchill]

35. So is everything else!

[Codifer]

45. Breathing.

[wnylib]

58. Michael Cohen said that in an interview. Sorry that

I don't remember who the interviewer was. I saw it at the Cable News Forum just yesterday.

[Attilatheblond]

86. Thinking Noel Casler has mentioned it too.

I seldom venture into the cesspool that Elon has made of twitter, but when I do, I usually check Casler's feed to see what he's saying about Trump from back in his TV show days. Always worth a look.

[MagickMuffin]

59. I think his air accordion is a trance inducing technique

He lulls everyone into believing whatever spews outta his mouth!

Apparently it works.

[NJCher]

68. the only problem with that explanation

is that he's always lying.

What he's doing is "framing" something for you. He's trying to get you to buy into his view of the situation.

[10 Turtle Day]

78. Anthony Scaramuchi said it...

On Nicole Wallace’s Deadline Whirehouse show last week. Maybe it’s been a few weeks now, I don’t remember exactly when. But he said accordion hands = lying.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. Sweet fancy Moses...

So untethered to reality. That one idiotic statement will undoubtedly spawn thousands of rebuttals in the form of tweets, twits, fleeps, fwoops, tic tac toes, what have you.

[Zambero]

9. According to the late, great Hannibal Lechter

The spreading inferno burned clear to the shores of Lake Wobegon.

[Prairie Gates]

22. All the Trumpies are below average

[erronis]

39. I guess that's how all the rest of us got "above average".

[Dan]

31. Yes, those of us in Washington State can see the smoke.

[redstatebluegirl]

10. The closer he gets to losing the more nuts he will become.

[Sky Jewels]

11. Same with Portland!

We’ve been living in the smoldering ruins of tree stumps.

[RandiFan1290]

18. RIP Portland

[Sable302b]

81. You wouldn't believe

The smouldering ruins I had to navigate just to get to work this morning.

[CanonRay]

12. It suddenly dawned on me what all that gilded shit reminds me of

The Kremlin.

[Ocelot II]

25. It has been described as Versailles as redecorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp.

I believe the style is generally referred to as Dictator Chic.

[DinahMoeHum]

76. "Early Whatever-Reminds-You-He's-Rich". . .

. . .is how golf/sports writer Rick Reilly puts it.

[dalton99a]

13. People who listen to this asshole are stupid assholes.

[Ocelot II]

14. I was wondering why my home is surrounded by burned-out shells of buildings

(apparently BLM missed my house), charred stumps of trees, bomb craters in the street and decaying corpses picked at by vultures. It's strange that the coffee shop down the street is open and I'm getting mail. I suppose I'll have to dodge those packs of starving feral dogs to go out to the front walk and pick up my newspaper, which is also delivered every morning despite the fact that Minneapolis has become Fallujah...Oh wait, isn't TFG on record complimenting Walz on his handling of the riot?

(The only thing that hasn't been built back is the 3rd Precinct police station, and that's only because the City Council has got its ass in a crack trying to decide whether and where to relocate it.)

[Swede]

15. Must be those well fed school kids destroying Minnesota.

[ColinC]

16. Chicago too. The DNC was entirely AI generated

[sarisataka]

17. For being burned down

there is a lot of traffic headed that way every morning. Must be tourists

[Ocelot II]

20. They're coming to gawk at the ruins.

I'm thinking of setting up a lemonade stand in my front yard.

[LakeVermilion]

24. Lake Vermilion is bubbling hot...

from the intense heat of the burn. Lord have mercy.

[sarisataka]

26. Hinkley just said

[msfiddlestix]

19. Click Bait Headline

[edhopper]

21. It was humor.

[msfiddlestix]

33. Only if one finds TSF's psychotic delusions and rants as humorous

I might find it humorous if spewed while locked up in a padded cell for life.
That he's actually being allowed to freely campaign for presidency once again, hmm.. not so much.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. The whole "sir" thing is weird.

I hardly EVER call anyone sir. The one exception is that since I do a lot of work for the DoD, I sometimes meet with high-ranking officers who are my customers. I will call them "sir," because it feels correct in context. And NEVER that obseqiously.

And I 100% would NEVER call that sack of shit "sir." Ever.

[Sky Jewels]

27. I don't like it when people train their kids to say

“Yes, Sir” and “Yes, Ma’am.” I know it’s common in the south. It strikes me as authoritarian programming and gives me the creeps.

[Happy Hoosier]

50. I knew a few folks like that growing up....

... but I think I was at the tail end of the generations that did that. Ironically, the kids I knew who did that were the absolute worst people.

[quaint]

83. Wow! I'm maybe a worst people! Dad was USAF Major, first-gen American. Old country values.

[Happy Hoosier]

97. I grew up in a military town....

So I am familiar with that. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. It was that those specific guys.... they were all "jocks" and tended to torture band nerds such as myself.

[Iggo]

29. He's lying.

[Happy Hoosier]

49. Yes, of course....

... and it's a weird lie, because no one actually talks like that.

[mahina]

72. Surely not

[patphil]

28. I have the definition of a term I recently coined....Trump Truth.

Trump Truth: An idea or statement that Donald Trump created by reaching around, ripping it out of his butt hole, and casually tossing it out to the world as a self-declared "truth according to Trump", when it's actually grade "A" 100% pure Trumpian bullshit.

[cynical_idealist]

66. except he doesn't need to reach around

it's face first into the muck

[ProudMNDemocrat]

30. Gee! Then the Sci-fi Convention I attended Jult 4th was FAKE?

In downtown Minneapolis on Nicolette Avenue? Target Field destroyed? Ist Avenue torn down?

Really Donnie?

[oldsoftie]

32. Just like your vote will be called fake. nt

[sarisataka]

37. Duh!

why else would they call it a science- FICTION convention

[OldBaldy1701E]

42. Yup. We both died that day.

(These people are complete morons. The CON was awesome!)

[ProudMNDemocrat]

53. I was the Madame of Tortuga on the Saturday of CON.

Of course, I have been attending CONvergence since 2004.

It is sn awesome Con. My people.

[OldBaldy1701E]

56. On Saturday, I was Syndrome.

I started ten years ago on their 20th Anniversary. Always an amazing time!

[IronLionZion]

95. It's all AI

what you saw there wasn't real.

[Ohioboy]

36. Trump lies the same way a kid does

He never considers how dumb his lies are.

[erronis]

44. And has to double-down on the lies because the kids/trump can't think ahead

A lie is very easy to spout and very hard to support.

Donne - go to your room now. And no budgers for you tonight, old man.

[Vinca]

38. Walz is a totally evil man . . . he even had the nerve to feed school children. Imagine!

[Ray Bruns]

60. That bastard!

https://m.

[lindysalsagal]

40. The ads just make themselves.

[PatSeg]

41. Are his suits getting bigger?

Or is Trump shrinking? Looks like he's wearing a tent.

[ffr]

47. 🤣

That's what caught my eye too. WTH?

[PatSeg]

108. If he wasn't such an asshole,

I'd feel embarrassed for him.

[birdographer]

90. I had a thought about those suits

There was a big deal maybe a year ago or more, someone noticed that his pants don't have zippers. At first there was an assumption that he had them on backwards, but that obviously was not the case. It turns out, supposedly, that he has pull-down pants because of the diapers (easier to change if you just pull the pants down). They add some girth to him, hence the poor fit, and of course no well-tailored men's pants have no zipper but just an elastic waist. (Maybe some are custom made, don't know.) I think his ill-fitting suits are because they are all that is available with elastic to accommodate diapers--so the pants are oversized, making the jacket oversized as well.

[PatSeg]

109. Oh yuck, the visuals are really disturbing

But that does make sense. Also the pants legs are really long, like a toddler who hasn't grown into his clothes yet. I especially noticed it in the photo at the cemetery. Looked like an extra foot of fabric at the bottom.

Okay, I'm going to go take a shower now.

[MoseShrute]

43. Wow

Look at the size of the puffy ass spilling out of that chair. Looks like a double-Depends sort of thing. Just imagine his comments if, say, one of donOld’s opponents looked like that.

[ffr]

46. Who makes TSF's suit? It looks like a man-moomoo.

[geardaddy]

77. ...

[debm55]

48. Oh no we have to change the number of stars on the flags that tRump humps. We only have 49 states. What an ass.

[maxsolomon]

51. He's referring to the police station that was burned during the Floyd protests.

Sorry to "sane-wash", but that's got to be it. Conflating one building burned down to the whole city.

https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-sentenced-to-4-years-for-minneapolis-police-station-fire-nKd5RboPPFKRy53f/

100% expected line of attack on Walz, but his brain is so disordered he can't control his hyperbolizing.

[Bongo Prophet]

98. One of the accomplices was a "Boogaloo Boy"

Or should I say "at least one", as they and other accelerationist groups were mingling in the Floyd protests for their own nefarious reasons.

A member of the Boogaloo Bois, a right-wing group intent on capitalizing on chaos and starting the next American civil war, has also been charged with assisting in the damage to the precinct that night. Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old from Boerne, Texas, is accused of shooting 13 rounds from an AK-47-style rifle into the precinct while people were inside the building.

Hunter bragged on Facebook that “I helped the community burn down that police station” and “I didn’t’ (sic) protest peacefully,” according to the charges.

[maxsolomon]

101. Low-Info Voters don't do nuance.

MFer knows that all too well.

[Bongo Prophet]

105. That's true. I only mention it because it's not often mentioned. By now, it's just a reflex to do so, lol

Lies, conflation, misdirection. All the best techniques. Some say he's the best in history at that.

[maxsolomon]

106. People come up to him with tears in their eyes and say

"Sir, you're the best at lying. You lie at a rate no one's ever seen before".

[Bongo Prophet]

107. He's been clocked at over 100 LPM

[irisblue]

52. 1,972 people from Minnesota moved to Ohio in 2022. 156,000+ left Minnesota

Source-https://247wallst.com/special-report/2024/03/21/where-people-from-minnesota-are-moving-to-the-most/#:~:text=An%20estimated%20156%2C845%20Americans%20left,District%20of%20Columbia%2C%20in%202022.

snip-"While reasons for moving vary from person to person, the recent uptick in interstate mobility may be tied to recent changes in the labor market — specifically, the sweeping adoption of remote work policies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Census data shows that more than 24 million Americans worked from home in 2022, compared to fewer than 9 million in 2019, the year before the pandemic."

snip-"The historic number of moves across state lines in 2022 was driven in part by moves out of Minnesota. An estimated 156,845 Americans left Minnesota in 2022 for a different part of the country.

People from Minnesota relocated to every state, as well as the District of Columbia, in 2022. Across these places, the influx of former-Minnesota residents in 2022 ranged from less than 20 to over 19,300. The places bringing in the most people from Minnesota include some of the most populous states in the country, as well as several states that share a border with Minnesota.

[niyad]

54. Interesting. I just got a package that was postmarked "Minneapolis". I did

not know that ghost towns had postal service.

[Tanuki]

55. And yet Minneapolis was named the "Happiest City in the U.S."

earier this year!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/minneapolis-named-happiest-city-in-us/

"Minneapolis has been named the happiest city in the United States, according to a new ranking that considers metropolitan areas worldwide.

It's the only U.S. city ranked "gold" among a list of 250 cities, picked and rated by London-based research firm the Institute for Quality of Life. "Gold" cities make up the top 37 cities on the list, as the institute decided not to give the title of "happiest in the world" to one single city.

The ranking takes into account five major categories: citizens, governance, economy, environment, and mobility.

Among its "citizens" category, it measures the quality of the education system and social inclusion, and in its "governance" category, it looked at the transparency of action, involvement of residents in decision-making processes and existence of strategies for the future.

The list also weighed the city's Gross Domestic Product, management of natural resources and the accessibility of public transportation for its "economy," "environment" and "mobility" areas."...(more)

[MineralMan]

57. Wow! And I was just there this past weekend!

Yikes!

[Probatim]

63. Sounds like you're lucky to be alive.

[MineralMan]

65. I guess so! But, all those burnt-out buildings and displace people.

I'm surprised it wasn't in the news, you know...

[Ocelot II]

67. You might have seen me crawling through the wreckage,

searching desperately for a latte and a chocolate croissant.

[MineralMan]

69. Too many tears were running down my face.

The horror!

Really, as usual, I rushed through Mpls as quickly as possible. I try to avoid the city whenever possible.

[Ocelot II]

73. Is that because of the bomb craters and smoldering ruins or

the annoying traffic delays caused by the ongoing road construction needed to support a thriving, prosperous city and funded by the socialist Biden administration?

[MineralMan]

75. Well, I was coming back from Eagan, after picking up our new kitties,

and the Google Lady tried to route me back to my suburban oasis on 94, right through the tunnel.

I declined, and got on 62 to 169. I'm not stupid. I do not like the traffic around the city. Not one bit.

The whole freeway system there is permanently on my "do not drive" list.

Everyone, including our new kittens, made it home without incident. Maybe 3 minutes later, but maybe not, too.

[Ocelot II]

80. Got kitten photos?

I'm glad you spared your kitties the dystopian hell of the Minneapolis freeways.

[MineralMan]

82. I do, but not stored where I can display them on DU.

They're a couple of white and black harlequin shorthairs, just four months old. Boy and girl littermates. A handful and a half right now.

[spanone]

61. FUCK THIS LYING PIECE OF SHIT.

[agingdem]

62. so according to flatulent psychotic pig Trump

Minnesota now joins the "we hardly knew ya" list with New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC...Milwaukee was close but survived..

[fargone]

64. I look east across the Red River...

At the smoldering ruins with tears streaming down my face and cry "Sir, how did this happen?" I am a big guy.

[Rorey]

70. I've spent a lot of time in the Twin Cities....I'm so sad

I mean, is St. Paul still there, or is it burned down too?

[OMGWTF]

71. Well, shitballs! I was going to visit Minneapolis next month. /s/

[geardaddy]

74. Weird, somehow my house and neighborhood is still here

untouched by fire or vandalism.

[ailsagirl]

84. He's slipping more and more

[dflprincess]

85. Let me tell you, it was very dicey driving through the ruins to get to a Twins game at Target Field

which somehow was spared - along with the parking ramps around it.

[rubbersole]

87. Damn.

And I was going to a Twins game this week...

[The Revolution]

88. I was in Burnsville, Bloomington, and Apple Valley

Last week and that seemed ok. We didn't go into Minneapolis proper though, so I can't confirm if it is a smoking wasteland or not.

[IronLionZion]

94. Minneapolis burned down so badly they named a nearby town Burnsville

In memoriam

[TommieMommy]

89. What is he talking about 😯

His head is totally empty

[VGuerra276]

91. Fact checking

And the journalist does nothing to fact check frump.

[notKeith]

92. This calls for a haiku

Trump's brain does not work
the city has not burned down
oops, he shit himself.

[IronLionZion]

93. RIP Minneapolis

kind of like the Bowling Green Massacre and the No Go Zones in Europe and whatever horrible things he claimed happened only in his own demented mind.

There were RWers also claiming that my city, DC, was burned down by BLM in 2020. People who live here are like wtf? Jan 6 was way worse.

[wryter2000]

96. Do Trumpers who live in Minneapolis believe this?

[bif]

99. What drugs is he on?

[edisdead]

100. actually we keep it burning

to keep warm in the winter.

[JustAnotherGen]

102. 45 is rapidly sundowning

This is beyond just the maniacal evil stuff 45 said starting before 2016. . .

This is how my mom wrapped her head around SOME topics in early May. She died suddenly the first week of June.

45 is in diminished capacity - it's not even funny. It's elder abuse.

[Maru Kitteh]

103. He's venturing into lies so dumb, even some of his stupid followers will feel insulted.

Keep it going, Bedbug Bob.

[captain queeg]

104. Man, Portland, Minneapolis gone. Other cities are just shitholes on their way down; Philadelphia, Atlanta, I can't

remember all of them.