So, where’s that guy who was posting all over these threads yesterday that Trump was a mastermind playing fourth-dimensional chess, whose brilliant moves were far too cerebral for us mortals to understand?
They all have their own hands but they come from different moms.
On the campaign trail, has Trump ever joked about anything? Have we ever seen him chuckle, the way normal people chuckle when they joke? Has he ever had that little crinkling at the corner of his eye that tells you he’s pulling your leg? Watch Obama’s performances at the White House Correspondents’ Dinners. He’s joking there. You see him smiling and laughing. Has anyone seen Trump acting that way? Have we ever seen him smile a genuine smile, not some smirk?
Not only was he not joking today, I’m not sure he knows how to joke.
That’s over at the Scott Adams blog.
To provide some context, Adams blogged today that the DNC is a disaster because it’s reducing testosterone levels in men. No, I’m not making that up.
As a political pundit, he’s a helluva cartoonist.
Poor Adams. Jeez, testosterone levels, really? Poor guy.
But we did have a poster making the rounds here, yesterday, trying to peddle the Trump Is a Mastermind “explanation” for why Trump so frequently says and does things that make no kind of freaking sense. (Could have been Adams himself for all we know, I suppose.)
You can see how Trump apologists would have to come up with something to explain the man’s increasingly long roster of bizarre claims, blunders, and failures to take advantage of obvious opportunities–in just the campaign alone, never mind in his life as a whole. “It just seems stupid; in reality it’s too sophisticated and advanced for our minds to comprehend” probably actually is the best they can do, absurd though it may be.
Where does the 1988 date come from?
From the random tweeter he linked, who apparently can’t read his own posting. From the actual article and screen cap on the twitter feed:
Does anyone watch these conventions that isn’t already pretty much decided? Any stats on that?
I would bet almost no one. I’m sure some undecideds watch the selected sound bites fed to them on the nightly news.
They can get people fired up, however. And budge people on the fence, or move people who heretofore haven’t paid a lick of attention to the campaigns.
I suppose. I assume it helps fire up the volunteers and party workers anyway. But really, the people who start paying a lick of attention post-convention might be doing so because the general election is then officially on.
Vox has a piece out on how absolutely fucking loonytunes that guy is getting (and he was already pretty nuts before!).
I followed their link within that one to the transcript of the press conference from the day after his big RNC speech. I had heard parts of it before, but the last little bit had me literally LOLing. This is better than anything on *Veep *for chrissakes:
I also love how Trump (that #whinylittlebitch) has almost a tic, where he always insists he actually likes someone, or at least doesn’t care one way or another, before he goes on a manic tirade against them.
Its not personal, Sonny, its just business.
Brutus is an honorable man.
– Marc Antony
For yuks, figured some of you would get a kick out of this:
Calvin and Hobbes, Trump replaces Calvin (the dialogue is completely unchanged).
I like the one where he tries to explain the Constitution in his own words.
I suppose it would be too much to hope that this could net Trump a treason charge.
There’s inevitably a post-convention bounce in the polls. Trump got one and now I suppose Clinton will get one so it’s probably a wash.
Yeah, the conventions are the first time a non insignificant number of the population starts paying attention.
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