My phone is on silent most of the time so I get a few missed calls with no voicemails each week. An interesting thing is that every call lasts exactly 19 or 20 seconds before disconnecting.
I get that on my work number (it’s a back number that no one has, and only gets calls by mistake or that are spam). 19 second voice mails with no voice.
Maybe that’s the default time-out in the software all those spammers use.
Excuse me for interrupting the discussions of polls, malls and phone answering habits with some schadenfreude, but I thought it was worth mentioning how sad and unpopulated trump’s ‘American State Fair’ turned out to be.
In addition to the pitiful size of the crowd, I’ve heard reports of not much to see or do other than tacky looking neo-classical structures hastily assembled; booths with half-hearted boring displays from the states, with not even all the states represented; a scale (but still pretty big) model of trump’s Fourth Reich arch; the smelly green reflecting swamp on full display (I read that someone posted somewhere “trump is the only President to have been outwitted by a single-celled adversary”); trump giving a speech with the same old stupid stories and lies that he’s told a thousand times before, with crowds walking away in droves while he droned on; and much, much less. A real “Willy’s Chocolate Experience”-esque event. The top attraction was the big ferris wheel, and it was down for a couple hours because of problems with the generator.
Why do I (start to) read those articles? Trump makes me want to vomit.
Arguably WH Harrison (pneumonia or typhoid) and Zachary Taylor (possibly cholera) were too, but not quite in the same way.
Or whatever bug gave Garfield sepsis.
YET.
(But we have another thread on that topic.)
On full display? Maybe from behind a beautiful chainlink fence.
I never made the connection until now, but this is the same pool in Forrest Gump, right? Where Forrest made his speech in front of the protesters and Jenn-aye waded in it to get closer to Forrest?
It’s amazing what an on-the-nose apt metaphor for trump’s entire Presidency the reflecting pool fiasco has become.
Of course, I’m far from the first to make that observation. I believe @ThelmaLou said it better in another of these threads.
Yep, same pool.
I just listened to The Opinions podcast which had Thomas Friedman (love Friedman) discussing the Iran “deal”. It’s a great episode and he discusses how Trump loves “no-bid” deals, and how they end up being shit-shows. Reflecting Pool no-bid - shit-show. Iran war no-bid - shit-show. I recommend you give it a listen. If you don’t like listening, here is the transcript (gift link).
And on part of the chain link fence, a sign reads: “Danger: Explosives”
Has Trump actually ordered anti-personnel mines around the pool?
At least Mr. Potato Head is making the algae pay for it.
Hey, remember that Burisma “bribery” story?
Funny; I’ll bet Faux “News” never reports on this.
No bet.
I’m frankly surprised the the FBI wasn’t instructed to drop the case, or at the very least plead down to a $5.00 fine and 30 minutes of community service.
The Atlantic has written a nice article about the same thought (hope the gift link works):
The author identifies 13 steps in President Ineptstein modus operandi, of which three are about to happen. For documentation, here is the future, let’s see how accurate the prediction is:
This leaves three steps to come in the future. If patterns hold, we should expect 11. More blaming (one contractor told Politico the repairs to the lining will take weeks), followed by 12. Losing interest. And then, of course, the most important one of all. The foundation upon which every Trump debacle is built. The perpetual-motion device of a petulant president:
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing.
It did, and thank you!