I have never witnessed so much deflection, evasion, and dishonesty…and I’ve debated creationists. I had to run to the bathroom twice during this video!*
I was surprised to see his line of criticism of Kamala Harris was to accuse her of not actually being black. That degree of racism was…novel? It’ll be interesting to see how that works for him in a debate.
*Admittedly, there were other circumstances.
JD Vance says Simone Biles shouldn’t be praised for quitting Tokyo Olympics in poorly-aged resurfaced clip
He just seems to love telling other people, mostly women, how they should be running their lives.
Creep
The prefect running mate for the narcissist Trump.
Sorry, I cannot listen to FatNixon’s lies, deflections, racist farts.
I watched Trump embarrass himself at the NABJ. This will do for trump what Biden’s poor debate showing did for Biden. His repeate lies about late term abortion were beyond mere lying. According to Pew Research, 63% of Americans support abortion rights. Lying like this is going to get him some unwanted attention when Harris starts campaigning seriously. This will be an opposition quote mining mother lode. The Lincoln Project is going to have a lot of jolly fun with this one.
It continues to amaze and baffle me that even one single person can believe this waddling, twaddling lunatic should hold any public office whatsoever.
‘Is she black or Indian?’: Trump attacks Harris’ racial identity
Is Trump stupid or evil?
Why not both?
What’s particularly scary about the situation is the buzz going around about Republican controlled states, or a Republican controlled House and Senate, just throwing out the vote if Trump and Republican candidates loose. Harris and Democratic candidates might have to win by a lot to overwhelm the resistance of the Republican machine. That’s not looking too promising. And then, should she and the Democrats win, there’s a non-zero possibility that Harris will face violent opposition to her taking office similar or worse than January 6.
#3. What elected Republicans are pushing for Trump to resign?
The parties are asymmetrical. There will be little effect on his support. This election will be a grind.
Fred Trump III in New Interview: ‘My Uncle Donald Is Atomic Crazy’
Trump Gets Awkward Reminder as He Vows to Pardon January 6 Rioters
Innocent people don’t need to be pardoned.
Trump: I have a very good brain
The important thing is that liberal media got a chance to stress that we’re divided by race and gender, so we can all still get together to support Wall Street.
Asked about cognitive ability, Trump brings up Harris’ bar-exam results: What to know
What a bizarre avenue of attack. Harris has passed the bar exam more times than Trump.
@5. Reginald Selkirk : Definitley both.
To both questions actually.
LOL!
As part of a study I’m participating in to test the usefullness of prophylactic radiation to keep small-cell cancer out of the brain, I periodically take a test of cognitive decline that seems to be similar to the one that Trump misremembered. It’s definitely nothing to brag about. 8-)
The fat bastard has absolutely no idea how to deal with Kamala. He is simply throwing whatever comes up in his disease-riddled brain on the spur of the moment. He doesn’t remember what he said 10 minutes before so he’ll completely contradict himself and not be phased by it at all. His magat cult don’t care either way because logic, comprehension, and rational thinking skills in them are severely lacking.
Trump is trying to get back in the news cycle. Offensive, rude, whatever. Me, me, me!
My suspicion is that the reason for Trump’s whole spiel about Kamala not being black is that he had her confused in his head with Nikki Haley.
Trump loves black people so much that he tried to have the state murder five of them for a crime they didn’t commit.
@17 For anyone unfamiliar with the case
https://time.com/5597843/central-park-five-trump-history/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/exonerated-central-park-five-member-mocks-trump-ad-indictment-rcna78389
JD Vance, judging people from his couch (from the article cited @1):
“And I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”
Okay, I think this guy just won the Dumbest Senator award. First, “we” (whoever he’s referring to, it’s not really clear) do indeed praise people for their moments of strength and heroism. Anyone who watches any TV news, sports or non-sports, can see this. (“A local mom is being called a hero after running into a burning house to rescue a neighbor’s baby,” that sort of thing.) Do he and his fellow Republicans routinely fail or refuse to do so? Do they ignore news of other people’s praiseworthy actions?
And second, what the fuck’s wrong with cheering and encouraging people when they try but fail to do something important? What’s wrong with praising someone’s serious efforts and saying they can try again and maybe do better next time? Republicans seem to think we’ll turn people into losers if we say nice things to them when they’re not 100% successful. Guess what, assholes — that black chick just proved you’re wrong. Again.
These Republicans sound like nothing but hateful vindictive idiots who think it’s beneath them to say anything positive about anyone else. Maybe they hate hearing others praised for doing things they themselves will never be able or willing to do?
drew #10
Are you a Yankee?
If this were a normal election with a normal politician, he’d be deep fried and done.
@whywhywhy #7
True. The people still supporting Trump simply don’t care about such petty things like debate performances or blatant lying.
Even for you that’s a breathtakingly silly remark. If the liberal media stress that “we’re divided by race and gender” (seems to me it’s Trump and Vance who are making that obvious fact the centre of their campaign), how does that help them to promote the idea that “we can all still get together to support Wall Street”? It would actually seem to make that more difficult, if that’s what they wanted to do. Which, by and large, they don’t – Wall Street, and capitalism in general, are mostly just treated as if they are as inevitable and unquestionable as gravity, and so in no need of support.
Or about his obvious cognitive decline.
Trump is apparently turning into a Zombie.
His base and the GOP leadership don’t care.
If he goes Zombie, they will just cart him into the White House on a stretcher and prop him up in a chair.
And, then use him as a puppet.
The Heritage foundation, the ultra rich oligarchy, the fundie xian nationalists, Turning Point USA, etc. will be the ones ruling the USA. Or more likely destroying the USA.
This could even be their preferred outcome.
A US president they can use as a ventriloquist’s dummy.
This isn’t all that unusual.
We’ve been here before.
Reagan was in the early stages of Alzheimers during his second term.
Trump was in the early stages (or maybe late stages) of Trump dementia during his first term.
It’s not that unusual in authoritarian systems for the Supreme Leader to end up with age related cognitive impairment in their later years.
In a system with a dictator for life, it’s going to happen often.
Then the ruling class just rules in their name, and does what they want.
Examples.
.1. In the old USSR, their leader Brezhnev ended up very weak and frail towards the end of his regime.
.2. In China, in his later days, Chairman Mao never seemed to do much or say much.
The rulers were the Gang of Four who lost out in the power struggle after Mao died.
.3. Franco of Spain, didn’t seem to be all there in his later days.
.4. Reagan in the USA, second term.
.5. Trump in the USA, second term (hypothetical and only with the help of Cthulhu)
@11: It was also the California bar, which has around a 42% pass rate. It is notoriously difficult.
Chuck Schumer rolls out ‘No Kings Act’ to eliminate presidential immunity
I don’t see how they would get it passed in the House.
Why Calling Trump and Vance “Weird” Works
Umm – because it’s true.
Raging Bee @19
I don’t suppose he has praised the Women’s Gymnastic Team for winning gold at the Olympics, lead by the GOAT, Simone Biles and her multiple Olympic wins?
The fact that Simone is a black woman is the only thing that Hillbilly can see. Weakness? I doubt his tubby self could touch his toes, and gets winded by going up a flight of stairs.
I’m sure it hasn’t occurred to him that a gymnast who routinely launches herself ten feet in the air (more than 2x her height) while flipping backwards three times (a world record) might be severely injured if they aren’t absolutely precise in knowing their spatial orientation.
I’m pretty sure that Trump straight up confused Kamala with Elizabeth Warren when he was ranting about her being “Indian and not black.” He’s done that a lot, especially lately, and I don’t think he understands the difference between Native Americans and people from the Indian subcontinent. Like how his talk of Hannibal Lector in regards to people trying to cross the southern border was probably due to his not understanding the difference between political asylum and insane asylums.
VP Candidate J.D. Vance, With Biracial Kids, Calls Trump Race Slur ‘Hysterical’
Creepy weirdo.
Trump loses appeal of gag order in hush money criminal case
What a bad week he is having.
A quote from “Letter from a Region in My Mind” by James Baldwin (November, 1962)
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
By James Baldwin
@rabbitbrush #2, @Larry #14:
What have fat people done to you to be lumped together with a fascist?
I don’t think so. He started to raise his suspicions of Harris’s racial identity during Ingram’s interview (I think — could have been a different venue, but it was just the other day) using a very similar formulation. He didn’t get the chance to spell it out so explicitly that time, but it’s clear he believes it’s a legit attack on Harris’s record.
Cognitive Decline? Trump Makes Major Slipup in Attacking Ilhan Omar
new song for trumps campaign:
Where is my Mind?
tacitus @35: He might think it’s a legitimate attack, but he’s had a lot of incidents of mistaking one person for some other person lately and every time he screws up he doubles down and insists that he’s correct- that’s something he’s done for years.
Vance: Prisoners coming home ‘a testament to Trump’s strength’
couch-fucking hillbilly idiot
Trump lashes out at Biden over historic prisoner exchange that freed Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich
“Ignore the strings. I control the puppeteer!”
Raging Bee@19:
And again. Earlier today, on floor, almost hit the damn ceiling. She has more jump in her than the entire NBA. Also, four tumbling passes, and did you see her on beam?! I think exactly two people did jumps on floor with a triple twist, Biles and one of the Canadian athletes.
Vance will be qualified to criticize and second guess her gymnastics decisions no sooner than the day he can do one single one of the moves she performed without breaking his own damn neck trying.
Reginald Selkirk@27:
That might be for the best. It’s a band-aid fix at best, routing around the SC rather than, y’know, fixing it. The Repugs would just switch tactics to gaining control of the DC federal court. And it has a “nuclear” clause in it that tries to block the SC from being able to declare it unconstitutional. If that results in a ruling that a US bill can contain such a clause enforceably, then they will have created a version of Canada’s “notwithstanding clause” that lets the legislature ignore the constitution in any bill just by adding a bit of extra language to it. That might be tolerable in a parliamentary system that by design elevates the legislative branch to supremacy, but in the US it’s a gross departure from the traditional separation of powers and the checks and balances that keep the three branches there co-equal. Responding to Trump’s attempt to make the executive branch dominant by making the legislative branch dominant smacks of fighting fire with fire. I doubt that would end well.
Larry@14:
What’s the basis for your rather outré speculation here? Okay, it’s not as out there as faster than light neutrinos or the Pyramids being landing pads for saucers, but there is not a shred of evidence that Trump is secretly harboring a brain he’s been carefully concealing from everybody …
… and one very strong piece of evidence that he isn’t. I mean, if Trump says he has one, then he can’t possibly, surely?
And what the fuck is causing all of these logouts lately? Now it won’t stay logged in for even ten bloody minutes at a time!!
@19, 29, 41 Simone Biles (aside)
I notice that this Olympics she is doing historically difficult maneuvers, at the expense of perfection. For example, doing a Yurchenko double pike on the vault, but taking a big hop on the landing; stepping out of bounds on the floor routine. The increased difficulty factor is enough to compensate for the penalty points so that she is still able to win.
Simone Biles: I love my ‘black job’
Here’s a surprise. Trump was complaining about a 35 minute delay due to, he claimed, the incompetence of the conference organizers. Would you believe the real problem was that he refused to go on because there would be fact-checkers?
Jealous Trump Fumes as Kamala’s Momentum Gets a Valuable Boost
trump is pathetic
Kyle Rittenhouse says he will not vote for Trump
Ron Paul? I haven’t heard that name in quite a while. He was part of the original movement to make the word libertarian a synonym for asshole.
#WhenITurnedBlack trends after Trump attacked Harris’s racial identity. It’s Black Twitter’s way of ‘dealing with pain through humor.’
Federal investigators suspected that Egypt may have bribed Trump with $10 million in cash