At first blush it looks really horrible - like either they forgot to bring another sheet for him to read, or he is illiterate and couldn’t read the team names. In retrospect, perhaps he just didn’t know enough about the town names to be able to pronounce them. These days, he would have tried to bluff his way through it and announce things like Nor witch.
They always just read the numbers out - even today. The guy in the middle has the job of interpreting what the numbers are.
I’m not seeing anything embarrassing about Trump’s performance there. I think that the person drawing the numbers is never told which number means which team. That prevents anyone from deliberately selecting a particular team.
I don’t follow sport. Greavsie laughed and said “You don’t know what you’ve done there.” Neither do I. What HAS he done?
Replace “pro-Brexit” with “Nationalism” = all the Americans who voted for him.
I suspect that he just didn’t want to wear a mask.
With Trump, I don’t think there had to be anything more to it.
– to the extent that there was anything more to it, I think it was probably ‘they’re saying something bad is happening during my administration. I don’t want that to be true, so I’m going to deny that any such thing is happening.’
We’ve said before that he just doesn’t take direction. He doesn’t do what anyone else wants him to do or tells him to do. If you want him to do something, forbid it, and then he probably will. The CDC should have said from the beginning, “No one is allowed to wear a mask. It is against the law!” and then Donnie would have started wearing one 24/7. Okay, not really. He is contrary for the sake of being contrary. No one can tell him anything.
He will be a study in the human condition and in poly-sci courses so that maybe we can eventually figure out exactly how this happened, but I agree he captured lightning in a bottle and I’m not 100% sure how they will be able to do that again. My buddy and I debate this endlessly–he thinks Tramp’s the “kingmaker” now and whoever he annoints, his MAGA cult will eat with a spoon. I think we just witnessed some kind of perfect storm of hate and ignorance, coupled with political fatigue+ a historically unlikable DEM candidate…
It’ll be interesting to see how much clout he keeps carrying after Jan 20th…I predicted he’d be dropped like a hot rock when he’s not politically useful, but that remains to be seen. TBH I didn’t expect him to maintain this strong of a stranglehold on the party this long after the election.
I don’t follow sport. Greavsie laughed and said “You don’t know what you’ve done there.” Neither do I. What HAS he done?
Likely referring to this.
Weird. This is showing up as a reply to me.
I believe this. And Trump will consider this a testament to his genius. But what is really going to be analyzed by future historians is how it came to be that so many voters were so unbelievably fucking stupid – so childishly gullible, so easily conned – that they elected a totally unqualified self-serving and dangerously moronic demagogue.
"Politicians know better than scientists. " That explains many GOP stances, sure as pollution, global warming and yes, this Pandemic.
But if course, in the long term science always wins. Some Republicans know this, but they figure they will just blame it on the Democrats.
I believe that was an error on my part: I had started a reply about how I have no idea where I picked up the term “offling” but I discarded the post, however my next reply had to be edited to remove that portion (I’m not use to this auto-draft save format).
My bad.
No worries.
And Biden has won more times than FDR.
trump and his supporters are a shame. They are a stain on human decency and on the concept of good.
Agreed. Trump loves their money., and they love emptying their dumb pockets…
“The battle is lost. The supreme court and electoral college have spoken. Even the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, so adept at remaking the rules for political advantage, has acknowledged that Donald Trump will not be the next president.
But the money flowing into Trump’s political coffers suggests that defeat will not drive the soon-to-be-former president into the political shadows.
Trump has been on a fundraising drive since the election, rapidly bringing in an astonishing $200m or more on the back of his false claims that the vote was rigged.”
Trump’s marks will make an actual billionaire out of him yet!
When Joe Arpaio was sheriff in Maricopa there were an awful lot of people outside the state who were enthusiastic supporters. To the ones who’d say, “I wish he’d run here!” I’d reply, “You can have him. And take the $50-million plus he’s cost the county taxpayers in lawsuits while you’re at it.”
"During the campaign, many of the large expenditures, like television and digital ad buys, were routed through a secretive LLC called American Made Media Consultants. That allowed the Trump campaign and its joint committee with the national party to effectively shield many details of its spending, including who was being paid and how much. More than $700 million has gone through the LLC since the beginning of 2019.
What no one knew was that the LLC represented yet another intermingling of Trump’s political, financial and familial interests. New documents reviewed by The New York Times show that Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser, served on the board — and was named on drafts of the incorporation papers. So was John Pence, the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence and a senior Trump adviser."