The depths to which the mainstream media will go to sane-wash Trump are simply mind boggling. First, less than two months ago the media latched onto Trump's own invention of "the weave" to try to rationalize his often-babbling rhetoric and incoherence - most glaringly revealed in his monologue about sharks, boats and electric batteries, i.e.
Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. …
“We can’t get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and, you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude.
“I said, ‘Well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you’re on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not?’ In other words, the boat is going down and you’re on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out?
“And let’s say there’s a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon, or could I ride the electric down? And he said, ‘Sir, nobody’s ever asked us that question. But sir, I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Well, I want to know, because I guarantee you one thing, I don’t care what happens. I’m staying with the electric, I’m not getting over with it.’
“So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, ‘he told this crazy story with electric.’ It’s actually not crazy. It’s sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it’s like the snake, it’s a smart when you, you figure what you’re leaving in, right? You’re bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing.”
Seriously, can any one of my blog readers make sense out of this verbal monkey feces? I know I can't. Or will people be duped by Trump apologists who insist he's doing a novel form of communication called "the weave"?
But as both Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes have noted, trying to dress up bunkum and balderdash doesn't change its nature. Plus, the fact Trump continues to go off the rails rather confirms he's lost most of his marbles. Think of it! If Biden was still running for president and babbling like Trump, every nattering nabob would be calling for him to resign or be removed under the 25th amendment. But not Trump! He is simply engaging in a newfangled form of discursive discourse called the "weave". It's up to you lunkheads in the press to figure out the meaning.
The most recent sign of Trump's unhinged nature and wacko brain - apart from him babbling about Arnold Palmer's 'schlong' in the shower (on Saturday - e.g.
Trump makes vulgar comments about Arnold Palmer at Pennsylvania rally - CBS News
Was last week's Town Hall in Pennsylvania when he stopped answering questions and had his handlers turn on his playlist over a loudspeaker whereupon he swayed like a looneytune for the better part of 39 minutes,
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode - The Washington Post
No one who watched this pathetic scene could be fooled. I certainly wasn't and neither was Janice. He looked like an Alzheimer's patient who had lost track of time and place - as well as why he was there in the first place. Are we being disingenuous, cruel, unreasonable? I present here some of the comments which followed the WaPo piece for the link above:
But lo and behold there is Jemima Kelly of The Financial Times who in her Sunday column ('The Power and Peril of Trump's Flow State') is prepared to confer the benediction of sanity on the orange Turd, According to Jemima, who claims she "lost her father" to dementia some years ago, nothing Trump did at the Town Hall seemed out of place, demented or odd. Making me wonder what parallel Earth she inhabits. In her words:
"The Truth is Trump was utterly in the zone. He was displaying how comfortable, relaxed and confident he was feeling. This was, after all, a town hall that felt more like a rally for the Republican candidate. He wasn't being 'senile' he was just in his flow state."
Wowser, Jemima! I really wish Janice and I could have employed that one to spare her cousin Desmond from being institutionalized back in 2010 when he was found doing a limbo by himself naked on a Bim beach.
But neither he or we were able to invoke the "self-referential activity which occurs when our alpha brain waves are increased as in a meditative state."
And who invented this hooey? Well, according to our esteemed FT columnist, none other than Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who discovered that "in a state of flow activity reduces in the prefrontal cortex of the brain" and a person can be so involved in an activity that "nothing else seems to matter." Well, yeah, guess that could have applied to Desmond doing a limbo underneath an invisible tree on Accra Beach.
Jemima, aware (as she should be) of readers' potential reaction to her psycho-babble, advises that "if you have the patience you ought to watch the town hall in its entirety."
If we do that, she assures us:
"You will get a very different impression from many of the news reports."
Pardon me, Jemima, but I will pass. After Saturday's riffing on Arnold Palmer's 'johnson' and tearing into Kamala, I maintain he's an unhinged fruitcake who has no business being near any missile codes. Or near the Resolute Desk where Executive orders are signed!
But she insists that claiming Trump is suffering from dementia is "either disingenuous or wishful thinking."
Nope, she informs us.
" Trump is a bizarre politician but that is a huge part of his appeal."
Adding:
"The idea that he is losing the plot doesn't seem to be persuading undecided voters."
Well, if they are still undecided after all Trump has said and done the past week then perhaps they themselves are also trapped in his psychotic fever dream. And if so they have no business going near a polling place, period.
What is Jemima's advice to Dems:
"For Democrats trying to beat Trump the best advice is to work on their own still unpolished flow states."
In other words, don't call out his insanity any more, including his references to Arnie Palmer's dong and calling Kamala a "shit vice president". Instead develop your "vibes" thereby to also appear as looney as Dotard.
And so, by 'leveling the landscape of the sane', assist more voters in the process of normalizing Trump's aberrational behavior. Sorry, I will pass as I trust Kamala and the Democrats will as well.
To quote one WaPo commenter: "Lunatics will always see another lunatic as normal".
Makes sense to me!
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by Maya Boddie | October 14, 2024 - 5:58am | permalink
Donald Trump, during a Sunday interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, floated the idea that the National Guard will take control of polling sites on Election Day.
"Let's remember you've got 50,000 Chinese nationals in the last couple of years. There are people on the terrorist watch list — 350 in the last couple of years. Like you said, 13,000 murderers, and 15,000 rapists," Bartiromo said, asking the former president, "What are you expecting? Joe Biden said he doesn't think it's going to be a peaceful Election Day."
Trump replied, "He doesn't know what's happening. I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within ... sick people, radical left lunatics. And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military."
A slew of political experts and journalist immediately sounded the alarm.
And:
by Robert Reich | October 21, 2024 - 5:57am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
On Saturday, Trump opened his speech at the airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with 12 minutes of reminiscences about the golfer Arnold Palmer, who grew up in Latrobe and for whom its airport is named.
As The New York Times reported, “His monologue culminated in lewd remarks about the size of Mr. Palmer’s penis.”
What historians may term Trump’s “penis speech” — the climax, as it were, of his final days seeking the votes of Americans to put him back in the Oval Office — was actually far more revealing about Trump than were his “lewd remarks.”
Trump began his 12-minute encomium by extolling Palmer’s talent and physical prowess. “He had no money, just had a lot of talent and a lot of muscle — he was a strong guy.”
And:
Brane Space: Does Donald Trump Have Alzheimer's Disease? It's Very Likely
And:
by Harvey Wasserman | October 23, 2024 - 5:12am | permalink
J.D. Vance once called Donald Trump “America’s Hitler.” Now it’s become a MAGA/Nazi call to arms.
Vance’s billionaire tech bros have made him their digital messiah, ready to run the world for Musk, Thiel and Gates…with Trump as their stooge.
But even they can’t hide der would-be Fuhrer’s festering dementia.
So here are three ways you can help stop the Trump/Vance fascist takeover:
1. Go to Center for Common Ground and sign up to make phone calls to potential voters in crucial swing states;
And:
by Robert Becker | October 21, 2024 - 5:11am | permalink
For a convicted criminal and violence-pushing fascist to escape disqualification — that is the elevation of the wrong “enemy within.”
Ponder all that no longer matter to the MAGA crowd – law, order, fair elections, election fraud, respect for others, civility, empathy,procreative rights, peaceful transfer of power, double impeachments, Congressional authority, bipartisanship, blackmail of top state voter counters, blackmail of the Ukrainian president, endorsing enemy tyrants and dictatorship, backing white supremacists, rank incompetence during a once-a-century health emergency, malicious demonization of opponents, and even the glimmer of truth-telling. Whew! Oh yeah, personally inciting an armed, violent crowd to attack the Capitol and overturn a legitimate election. Oh yeah II: overtly threatening the life of the dutiful, sitting VP. Oh yeah III, threatening the illegal outrage of ordering the U.S. military to quell dissent or punish political opposition.
Even after Trump loses, the contagion of Trumpism represents multiple, malignant cancers that must be excoriated and amputated if our body politic wants to restore civic health. It’s not only the perverse inversion of rock-bottom American values but pulling morality inside out, then reveling in cruelty that demands ultimate power (thanks. Supreme Court). Say what? Say what? By what moral legacy can we justify elevating a true "enemy within" to the national CEO role – whose first and last task is to enforce obedience to law?
And:
Lewis Black Has a Message For Undecided Voters in the 2024 Election | The Daily Show - YouTube
And:
My eldest daughter is a Libra. People born under that astrological sign are said to have a very hard time making up their minds. I’ve seen that tendency in play when I’ve gone shopping with her. It could be excruciating watching her try to make up her mind at places that sold gelato, pastry, or identical blouses or tops that came in an array of colors. She seems to like the process of deciding, but to her dad, it looks like self-torture. It can require patience, but I love her, so it’s easy.
Being with her is the point. It's good to be with her; I made up my mind about that the first time I laid eyes on her. It wasn't even impulsive. It was damn near instantaneous, and it proved to be very good judgment on my part. Despite being a Libra, that woman I so often found myself shopping with made up her mind about Donald Trump a long time ago, nor did it did take any persuasion from me for her to know what should have been plain for most anyone who had even a mini-mind that needed making up. When it comes to important things, my daughter has almost unerringly good judgment. The fact that she's smart helps, but she also has good instincts.
So, though I can be patient with her in a boutique or an ice cream parlor, I have not an ort or a morsel of patience for the ninnies who remain undecided in this upcoming election, people who apparently can’t tell their asses from a hole in the ground, shit from shinola, up from down, wet from dry, right from wrong, stupid from smart, haute cuisine from Mickey D's, good from bad, blue from red, or the devil they know from the guy with love and hate tattoos on opposite hands and a prominent gold tooth in the center of his smirking face.
And, quite frankly, these people who haven’t been able to make up their minds since Trump boasted about grabbing the crotches of women to whom he hadn’t been introduced or being powerless to resist kissing ladies he found attractive at first glance are seriously lacking in basic discriminatory skills.
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