When I have a weird dream, it’s more coherent than a trump “speech”.
Hot dog! We have a weiner!
“I have a certainly senator named Lindsey Graham … he loves the country, even though he’s a progressive.”
“McKinley was actually a great president. He was assassinated. Do you know why he was assassinated? Because he was charging all these countries money, probably.”
“We helped Korea come back from the Korean war … it’s time we stop. They are money machine. It’s time we stop … on trade its an enemy.”
“Japan is an ally, right? I made a deal there with Abe, who was a great man who got executed.”
Someone’s been watching “Shogun.”
Not that it’s particularly relevant to anything, but I would love to have seen Graham’s face when Trump decreed him “a progressive.”
Of course that unpleasant surprise would have been balanced by Graham’s delight in hearing Trump say that he “has” him…
“I don’t know anything about [the post I made on my own account a couple of hours ago]”
It wouldn’t have been a look of surprise.
April 2023: Trump rally crowd boos at mention of ‘progressive’ Lindsey Graham
I agree, but like @needscoffee I have noted where the “selective elision” produces a distortion. That kind of “let’s make Trump sound even worse than he is by snipping and stringing his word salad” effort is what is not worth anyone’s time. Just quote him EXACTLY as he spoke. He still sounds like an idiot and no one is open to the charge of twisting his words.
I know @Smapti is not doing any of the snipping and stringing. But at least one Xitter poster is.
I also wish some of the clips were longer. Gawd knows I sound like an idiot myself if you just listen to a tiny snippet. Today I heard myself say, “I know it was just a rhetorical device” only it came out, “I know it was just, just a, r-r-rhetorical device.” I don’t know why it took me a few tries to get the words out - I was eating lunch, maybe thinking about a couple of other things simultaneously, distracted by a cat jumping on the table, having a little senior moment brain fart, whatever.
But if someone played just those three seconds of me speaking, I’m sure I’d sound like a moron. The best way to be sure whether or not I am, in fact, moronic, would be to share a longer clip that included what was said on either side of that one stumble.
I believe that slightly longer audio clips and 100% accurate transcriptions would be just as effective, in fact MORE effective, at showing Trump’s failings. No need to bother searching for tiny little bits of weird gurgling, or editing in ellipses.
Fair enough. But unless you produce a dozen such potential clips within the space of 30-60 minutes, you’re not matching Trump.
That was news to me (I’d figured that calling LG ‘progressive’ was a new sign of Donald’s mental deterioration.)
Still, whether 2023 was the first time or not, it must be fairly recent. There would have been a first time, with a corresponding chance to see Graham hearing it for the first time!
Anybody watch his speech in Butler? They have to be paid actors. A women was crying as Trump described his attempted assassination in minute detail. They also only showed about 50 people although Trump claimed they were farther than you could see (in the opposite direction the cameras were pointing).
Maybe Trump thinks progressive is the new euphemism for light in the loafer, or a friend of Dorothy, or batting for the other team.
the quotes are coming!! I think Elon may have spoken as well. CNN and MSNBC supposedly carried it live, for which they are taking heat. (I got this news from Political Wire, I refuse to watch or listen to “that stupid guy”)
edit:yes Elon was there, Smapti posted clip in other thread. jeez elmo…what now?
I’m not seeing any particularly notable snippets from today’s rally. He seems to be lucid enough when he’s rhapsodizing about how God personally killed that firefighter and spared him so he could save America from the existence of brown people.
There’s this, which tells me he’s DEFINITELY hiding something to do with his health;
Beat me to it! I was going to say “zesty” (the current term of art, according to my 13-year-old child).
As in, “The Knicks just got zestier when they traded for Karl-Anthony Townes.” (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
Ok, now he’s getting loopy;
“But we are going to move our education back to the states… they are going to run their own education. And you know what’s going to come out of that. Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Maybe, I don’t even know, China”
“And if you look at weightlifting contests… For years and years, they put an eighth of an inc— an eighth of a pound on one side of the barbell”
“We will lead the world in space exploration. Thank you Elon. And we will reach Mars before the end of my term. Elon promised me he was going to do that. Can we do that?”
I could probably manage that! I’m not great at extemporizing these days; I always say, “My brain works better when my mouth is closed.”
But then, I’m not running for office, so not a big deal. I would like a president who can think on their feet, mouth open or closed.
Given the two choices this time around, I’m voting for the one who can think at all.
“I don’t like flies. Get out of here fly. This is a very aggressive sucker. Like I’m going to be aggressive for our county”
“Every Wisconsin town and mid worsten”
“Why didn’t you do it again four years ago? Why didn’t you do it again? My theme with her is why didn’t you do it again?”
“They wanted Starlink, whatever that is, I said let’s sell, I called Elon, I said Elon, and you can’t get it, it’s very popular, it’s very hard to get, but they need big doses of it and they need it fast, and I’m calling Elon, and I say Elon, and North Carolina, and parts of Georgia, the governor is doing a very good job I have to say, a very good job, but in parts of Georgia and very big parts of North Carolina they need something called Starlink, I don’t know what the hell it is and you don’t have to tell me.”
“A man named Barack Hussein Obama. Remember Rush Limbaugh?”
“And the new thing is hydrogen cars. It’s got one problem. Ah, it’s very violent. If it blows up, you are not recognizable. ‘Please come down an identify your husband. There’s a blood stain on the tree.’”"
Heh, love the ad at the bottom of your first xit: 80% off at Mike Lindell My Pillow! Such a deal.
It’s hard to tell where “confused” ends and “moron” begins.