Tom Nichols - Trump Needs Help: Last night he simulated oral sex in public.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-pantomimes-oral-sex-at-rally/680511/

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I do not know how to put this gently or tastefully, so I will factually describe what happened last night in Milwaukee: A former president of the United States held a rally, during which he used a microphone holder on his podium to pantomime the act of giving fellatio.

I could have put it differently. I might have said that “a cognitively impaired man, who has long been showing signs of serious emotional instability and has a history of sexism and racism, engaged in crude behavior in front of a large audience.” But that wouldn’t capture an important reality:

This deeply impaired man is tied in the race to become the next president and could be holding the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in less than three months.

I don’t know if this bizarre display will move votes away from Donald Trump. Nothing seems to dent the loyalty of his base. Trump voters are resolute in their determination to minimize his ghastly antics, or even to scrub them from their minds. (As one commenter said on social media today, Trump’s new mantra might be: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and blow somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”)

Besides, it’s always difficult to single out one terrible moment at a Trump rally when there are so many from which to choose. Last night, for example, he insisted that he won Wisconsin twice. (He didn’t.) He also took a veiled racist shot at the Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is Black. “Your team is very good,” Trump told the crowd. “I would say the Greek is a seriously good player. Do you agree? And tell me, who has more Greek in him, the Greek or me? I think we have about the same, right?” Antetokounmpo is of Greek and Nigerian parentage, and was born in Athens. I am a half-Greek myself (my mother was Irish American), and the Bucks star is as Greek as I am, but we all get the joke: A Black Greek! Get it? He’s Greek …and Black!

*snip*

[Wingus Dingus]

1. On Reddit, there's a few conservative and fake-Dem trolls saying it was out of context

or he wasn't really doing THAT (gaslighting), or the classic troll maneuver, the "I'm a dem, but there's so much that's awful about him, we don't need to talk about this unimportant stuff!" But Tom Nichols knows that this is FUCKING CRAZY. And no one is talking about it.

[Faux pas]

5. Yah sure ya betcha

[NickB79]

10. There's no way you can put this in context that makes it OK

[Wingus Dingus]

11. Yep, the long format shows shocked laughter too, when they realize what he's doing.

[Biophilic]

2. Trump himself is past help, but those actively working to make him president are worse.

They have most if not all their faculties and yet still see the trump/vance ticket as good for America. They aren’t ill or cognitively impaired. They are jus evil.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Face the truth

Trump voters - MAGA - believe Trump is normal.

Which says a lot about them.

[Cha]

4. he Needs The Hook!

[Faux pas]

8. Lol in the form of

good friend's Hannibal's leather maniac mask.

[intheflow]

6. "He just became black! I never knew he was black..."

🙄 🙄

[Coexist]

7. I just subscribed to The Atlantic - this is what we need. The truth

[Kid Berwyn]

9. In your guts, you know Trump's nuts.

And so are his supporters.