That is one of their two types of jokes. The second (which is strongly related) is fighting straw men.
Mother: Bobby why are you home from school so early.
Bobby: They got a phone call that someone had planted a bible in the school and so they sent us all home.
On Monday in Pennsylvania, he struggled to clarify a previous comment that he believed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, was “much better” than the Medal of Honor given to military members. On Tuesday in Michigan, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the Democratic nomination after a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president" and called Chicago, which hosted the Democratic convention, “a war zone that’s worse than Afghanistan.”
I bet y’all who live in Chicagoland are surprised to hear that your city is worse than one of those ‘shithole’ countries, huh? And while I’ve been out of the US the last couple weeks, I’m pretty sure I still would have heard about that ‘violent overthrow of a president’ if in fact that had actually happened.
He openly rejected advice from allies to limit his personal attacks on Ms. Harris and other Democrats during a speech on Wednesday in North Carolina. He called the nation’s first Black vice president “lazy” during a stop in Arizona on Thursday afternoon
Um. I just can’t even.
And on Friday, Mr. Trump concluded his week by embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in exchange for his endorsement, a move with an uncertain impact on tilting the race in his favor.
Go on, dump Vance and make him your running mate. I can’t think of a more perfect choice! ::snert::
Before another gift link goes to waste, here is a nicely written opinion/analisys of the One That Shall Not Be Named and his modus operandi. A little schadenfreude is there too.
This one is actually Trump happening to one of his enablers. That has to some kind of meta for this thread. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Former President Donald Trump interrupted the head of a police union to tell him to bring his endorsement speech to a close during a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona on Friday.
And the union head’s response?
“Folks, let me finish up here, please,” said Harris as Trump continued to stand behind him.
The article has a great screen grab of a xit showing the shit behind the union shithead.
I mean, I did see about a dozen teenagers loitering and smoking dope in front of a 7-Eleven in the Loop when I was there in April. It could have escalated to creating a public nuisance at any second!
I always thought that was something the judge ordered as part of the sentencing. In this case these cases, the judges have already sentenced a lot of those criminals so even if it’s not applicaple at the moment to the melon felon, it does apply to his select group of honorees.
During his remarks to reporters, Trump said, “California, you can’t go into San Francisco. It’s not livable. Fifteen years ago, it was the best city in the country, one of the best cities in the world, and now you can’t do anything. Look at what she’s done, and now she’s going to be president. And she’s going to do the exact same thing.”
That’s some pretty damning stuff. Wait just a moment, though. Enquiring minds want to know. *Exactly who was the DA in San Francisco fifteen years ago? Same link tells me…
Fifteen years ago, however, Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney