A regular straw works fine as long as I can route it away from the dribble point.
Considering how the police are acting like slavering maniacs, an accusation of the guard acting the same isn’t as likely to be taken as sarcasm as it might otherwise be.
I’m on a Kindle Fire and can’t Google you a cite, but I’m pretty sure Mr. Godwin himself has said his law isn’t applicable to this maladministration.
Some guy started a “What The Fuck Just Happened Today?” blog shortly after That Thing took power and not very long after it got rolling he had to quit his day job to manage the website it turned into full time.
Just Googled it and it is still running.
So yes I find I can Google on a Kindle Fire after all but it is a clumsy slow interface, so please don’t hurt me, I promise to turn off my sig this time
Post 8901, my friend.
Yes, I saw that after I had replied. I really need to read the Dope on a full screen computer, not this half assed hybrid of a tablet and a mere reader.
Yeah, the video shows Trump is lying through his veneered teeth.
Other videos show the exact same ramp being negotiated with no drama by both Obama and Biden:
Obama: User Clip: Obama ramp down | C-SPAN.org
…and https://www.c-span.org/video/?319610-1/us-military-academy-commencement
Biden: https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1272234840432263169
I haven’t yet seen a clip with a straight-on comparison (same side of the ramp, going down) with anyone else, but no doubt in the next couple of days some will appear.

After Trump’s minimally embarrassing video of him gingerly walking down a ramp after his West Point Address - which most people would have forgotten about by later this afternoon - he decided he needed to clear the air. This is an actual Tweet from the president of our country. I literally checked three times to make sure I wasn’t responding to a parody account.
I just wanted to point out, for those who don’t use twitter, that this is trending as #WaterGait which is a pun worthy of wide distribution.

I figured with the tears in their eyes and sir parts I wouldn’t need a sarcasm tag.
I see I was wrong.
I keep telling people sarcasm doesn’t come across well in text and you have to be very clear about it.
This is situation is yet another example.
I was hoping it was sarcasm but I had no way to know for sure. Because I know people in real life for whom that sort of sentiment is sincere and not sarcastic.

Considering how the police are acting like slavering maniacs, an accusation of the guard acting the same isn’t as likely to be taken as sarcasm as it might otherwise be.
Oh, yeah. Here’s the Guard joining the cops in Atlanta beating in heads. /s
He retweeted his “THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!” tweet and replied to it, “So true!”. I’m not sure which is stranger, when he does that, or when he thanks himself in the second person (thank you, Donald Trump!) in his tweets. Is his malignant narcissism warping into Dissociative identity disorder?

He retweeted his “THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!” tweet and replied to it, “So true!”. I’m not sure which is stranger, when he does that, or when he thanks himself in the second person (thank you, Donald Trump!) in his tweets. Is his malignant narcissism warping into Dissociative identity disorder?
What, you don’t talk to yourself?
well, Trump seems to be the first person who Tweets to himself.
we’ll know he’s really gone off the deep end when he starts Tweet-arguing with himself.

What, you don’t talk to yourself?
OK, maybe trump is on to something. Perhaps it’s therapeutic.
Good point solost! You are very insightful. Thanks solost!
Trump talks to himself because he believes he’s always the smartest person in the room.

Trump talks to himself because he believes he’s always the smartest person in the room.
He’s not the smartest person in the room even when he’s alone.
I have a girl friend who thinks that Trump looks like he’s walking with heels as he’s coming down the ramp. Trump is pretty vain and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that he uses lifts to give himself a few extra inches, especially around tough military leaders. If he’s already standing at steep angle then that slope would be even more amplified for making him feel like it’s slick. The lift idea also help explain some of his weird stance when it looks like he’s bending forward. On the other hand, it doesn’t do anything to explain his drinking problem…

He’s not the smartest person in the room even when he’s alone.
The anti-Jefferson, relative to this John F. Kennedy quote welcoming a group of Nobel Prize winners to a dinner in their honor at The White House.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

What, you don’t talk to yourself?
Well, of course I do. Sometimes, though, it gets embarrassing. Oh, no, it’s not the talking to myself in public that’s the problem. It’s not even the arguing with myself that’s an issue. It’s the occasional knock-down drag-out fist-fight.
Come to think of it, I’d dearly love to see Trump stand in front of his (unknown size, but certainly smaller than he claims it is) crowd, open his mouth, say some BS, then slap himself hard across the face while yelling, “Liar!” It’d be like a cross between All of Me and Liar Liar.