High winds > $30 billion wall.
NB: that’s from June and those panels had yet to be properly anchored. No telling what will happen when stronger winds hit it.
As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I used to work in prisons before retiring. And one of the things I did was manage prison medical units. Which meant I sat in on patient evaluation meetings.
I was at one meeting where the subject of the evaluation was an elderly prisoner. He had essentially been shutting down for months and the doctors were giving him some new medications that would make him more alert. But as he became more alert, he also became belligerent. He would yell and swear at people, make threats, and throw things.
So at the meeting, the doctors and nurses and pharmacists (and me) were discussing his behavior. And the medical people were debating whether his angry behavior was a side effect of the medications (in which case they might have to change his prescription) or a side effect of dementia (in which case the medications wouldn’t be an issue). One line of argument was that older patients with dementia can become angry and threatening but these personality changes are usually connected with other signs and the patient wasn’t showing any of these other signs. So they were arguing that this personality change was probably caused by the medications.
I pointed out that they were missing a third possibility; maybe we weren’t seeing a personality change. I said that if your grandfather gets old and suddenly starts threatening to punch you, you can attribute it to dementia. But this patient was somebody who had been sentenced to life in prison; he was not a typical person. Yelling threats at people and trying to hurt them might not be a side effect of something. It might be his normal personality and we were just seeing it now because the medications were making him more alert.
Putting aside this long story and getting back to your post; I don’t absolve Trump of the things he’s saying and doing because he’s showing signs of mental deterioration. His mental deterioration hasn’t made him a terrible person; he was a terrible person decades ago.
I hope you’re giving one of the 555 numbers that are actually fictitious numbers.:
Only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now specifically reserved for fictional use; the other numbers have been reserved for actual assignment.
Wow, thanks, ignorance fought! I thought all 555- numbers were always, and entirely, fictional.
Not quite - the contractor didn’t realize it needed better anchoring until the winds blew it down the first time.
Per spokesperson quoted at Snopes: “…high winds caused several border wall panels that were pending additional anchoring…”
Sounds like they knew better anchoring was needed but not exactly how much.
So, Trump isn’t a fan of John Lewis
“I find a lot of people impressive. I find many people not impressive,” he continued. “He didn’t come – he didn’t come to my inauguration. He didn’t come to my state of the union speeches. And that’s OK. That’s his right.”
What a petty, small-minded, narcissistic douchebag.
Oh, wait. We knew that already…
I was out and about yesterday, listening to Trump’s ‘press conference’ live on the radio. Just a couple minutes in, I could feel my blood pressure rising. I then started saying, out loud, ‘That’s a lie’ after just about every sentence (however fractured) he uttered. I stopped myself from doing that after a couple more minutes, as it was doing nothing except agitating me.
I also noticed that he seemed to be providing his own commentary. He seemed to have prepared remarks, or maybe he was reading off a teleprompter, but he kept ad-libbing. He’d say a sentence, maybe two, then make some kinda comment on what he’d just said (so, often, it was two versions of the same lie). I know this is nothing new, but I hardly ever actually listen to him speak at length, and this just struck me as bizarre. Like, he was speaking the words intended to be his and coming from him, and then he’d comment like he was reading someone else’s speech out loud. I’m still shaking my head today over the mindset that regularly hears this shite from Trump and still looks on adoringly.
Followed by: "And, again, nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have. He should’ve come. I think he made a big mistake.”
I’ll just 
at the first assertion, but I would really like to know what that big mistake was.
I literally cannot stand listening to his voice for any any more than a few seconds at a time, now. Even watching a Sarah cooper video makes me itch.
The big mistake was: “He didn’t come to my inauguration? I’ll show him. I won’t go to his funeral. He’ll be sorry!! He’ll wish he had!!!”
He keeps trotting out that “I’ve done more for black Americans” line at every opportunity. As far as I can tell, what it means is: he happened to be in office during a period of good economic activity that began well before his presidency. During that period, Black unemployment fell, accidentally (rising tide, all boats, etc). That’s it. In his mind that’s better than the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Come to think of it, that reporter should have asked him what that big mistake was. Trump is always allowed to slide after moronic farts like that.
It was pretty obvious that the ‘mistake’ was not attending of the SOTU. Big of Trump to admit that Lewis had the right to do that, though.
One thing I’ve noticed about Mr. Trump, is that when he speaks from prepared notes or what’s on the teleprompter, he speaks in a monotone, with all words running together, though slowly enough that they are understandable. Only when he goes off-script, does he modulate his voice: “TheUnitedStatesisleadingtheworldintestingforcovid-19becausewehavetheresources-- No, no, wait a minute. Really, we do; we have the resources. We have the resources, like I said. What resources, you’re asking yourself. “What resources?” Seriously, isn’t that what you’re asking yourself right now? Isn’t it? Well, I can assure you that we have the best doctors, the best labs, the best research. Check it out; nobody beats us. (Ahem.) Andwearemarshallingthoseresourcestogetthisthingundercontrol…”
It’s a fictional example, and I’m not sure if it comes through well in written form, but I hope that it serves to illustrate how one can tell when he’s reading from a script, and when he ad-libs.
You left out, “You’ll find out in two weeks. Everybody will see it then.”
Has Trump ever, EVER, said ‘Here is X, just like I promised 2 weeks ago (or promised ever, really).’
“We are proving that we can protect [our] treasured environment without bludgeoning our workers and crushing our businesses.”
“Treasured environment”? Really? Then why have you been rolling back EPA policies?
Well there’s “treasured environment” and there’s “environmental treasure”, of course.
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