Just when you think he can’t get any crazier. What’s next on the fun time roller coaster? I’m thinking sex tape. Not one of the “good ones”. One supporting one of the accusers.
I could support this. Unfortunately it lends itself to reality tv. I would totally watch this show. hangs head
Amazing, simply amazing. How far this country has fallen.
Mystery? I thought they figured that out a month ago.
Jason Chaffetz is under the delusion that he has a shot at becoming the Speaker if Ryan gets booted or doesn’t run again.
He’s right wing enough that he doesn’t have to worry about a primary upstart next year, so I think it must be because he’s trying for Speaker again.
We have a professional civil service, full of nonpartisan bureaucrats whose jobs don’t depend on this election. You probably think “bureaucrat” is a snarl term, which only proves my point about how much you take for granted.
We have a process which makes voter fraud unheard-of, and voter intimidation a national scandal, instead of, you know, how every single election works, especially in certain parts of the country.
We’ve fallen from a pinnacle we never occupied, a product of a mix of rose-colored glasses about the past and an insufferably cynical view of the present. If this is falling, bucko, long may we fall!
He’s harking back to the days when he was the best baseball player in New York.
Rachel Maddow played an absolutely hilarious tape of a Trump interview from a few years ago. Trump is talking about how in high school (actually a military academy, but that grade level) he was the best baseball player in New York. He then expanded that to say that he had always been the best in every sport. The interviewer asked if he meant as far back as first grade, and Trump said “before that.”
He said he could easily have been a professional baseball player, but explained that back then, baseball wasn’t a big deal, and you couldn’t make any money playing it. Maddow noted that he’s talking about the early 60’s, when baseball was the national pastime (and had been for decades), and stars like Mays, Mantle, and Musial were paid over $100K per year, about 20 times what the average family earned at the time.
Ivana, in contrast, has been telling the story about the time Loser Donald threw a public hissy-fit because she was a better skier than him;
Very shameful to lose bigly to a girl, Donald. Sad!
Please tell me there’s a wider context that makes that sound less insane.
Is there a term for “the reverse of the Fundamental Attribution Error”?
(Fundamental Attribution Error: You act a certain way because you are a certain way, I act a certain way because of complex emotions and circumstances.
That guy who cut you off in traffic? He’s a jerk. He made a jerk move, so he’s a big, fat jerk-face jerkwad with a jerk wife and a jerk dog and two and a half jerk kids. You cut someone off? You had a doctor’s appointment where you got told it might not be the literal end of the world, but he wants to biopsy and oh God your wife just got moved to a worse-paying position and your dog has diarrhea and two of your kids are wondering where the other half of their youngest sibling is.)
Well, in this case, you’re trying to find the complex internal state of Mr Grab Them By The Pussy, Mr I Just Can’t Stop Kissing, Mr I Know ISIS-Fu, Mr The Election Is Rigged, Mr I’ll Keep You In Suspense. I’m sure he has some, but I’m equally sure it’s equal parts towering entitlement and gnawing insecurity.
Trump’s been saying insane shit the whole time cameras have been focused on him. You think this bit of insanity has a perfectly logical explanation?
Well, I internally refer to it as the “everyone is just as sane and reasonable as me” error.
Yeah, it’s clunky, but it’s how I approach the world until I am proven otherwise.
ETA: Yes, I am proven otherwise with a startling regularity. It still seems to be a useful way to go about life. Though, Trump proved himself not as sane and reasonable as myself decades ago.
Ha! Nothing to do with Trump…but In’n’Out should totally use this for their next commercial. “So good, if you’re hungry, you can’t just drive by our restaurant…just one taste of our burger is worth five to ten in the slammer!”
I tend to do the same thing, to be honest; I do get surprised, but I like to think I treat others better than I otherwise would.
Of course, some people apparently keep it up well past the point of reasonableness, like all the people who were apparently convinced Trump had an actual plan for this election and that all of his failures and reversals were a carefully-organized plot to propel him into the Oval Office and/or post-loss fame and fortune. I don’t hear as much of that anymore, now that his blatant idiocy has become so obviously self-damaging it’s hard to maintain the pretense without serious denial of reality.
I’m perfectly willing to accept that he said something insane, but I’m also aware that even the more reasonable side of this contest may have no qualms in engaging in some selective editing of remarks. And since the linked article was rather low on details, I clung to the vain hope that we could chalk this one up to misrepresentation rather than “Crazy Man Has Gotten Even Crazier”.
This is what passes for “optimism” at this point in the campaign season.
Donald will teach former dean of the Army War College a thing or two in an interview on ABC:
Makes perfect sense: Trump can’t handle losing so he’d rather just cancel the election. It reminds me of when I was a kid, when some trash talking punk in the neighborhood would challenge others to games of one-on-one and then quit in the middle of the game and take the ball so that nobody could play anymore, and say “You guys cheated, I win. Bye.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if he half-ass quits the race on November 7th with a “boycott” in “protest” of the “rigged” election. That way he can say he never really lost the race.
I think the American public deserve to watch Donald Trump sitting down with Colonel McCausland to discuss who is better at military strategy. I’m sure it would be most edifying for everyone.
Someone please make that happen.
Depends. How does the general feel about getting tough on the cyber?
Trump’s kids haven’t contributed a single dime to the campaign.
Interesting…
"According to a review of Federal Election Commission filings by The Daily Beast, only one of Trump’s children showed up on a list of itemized receipts for the campaign: Eric. On Sept. 7, 2016, Eric Trump appears to have contributed $376.20 listed only as “meeting expense: meals.” It appears that money was later refunded. Eric Trump did not respond to a request for comment about the transaction.
Ivanka Trump, who previously contributed to Hillary Clinton and John McCain in 2007 and 2008 respectively, does not appear to have given to her father."
Not to Godwinize this thread, but this was exactly what happened with you-know-who in WWII. Early victories made Adolf overly confident, and he continued to interfer with the generals, even when things were getting worse and worse. OTOH, Stalin interfered a lot at first and learned that he needed to trust his military leaders.