Turns out that the McDonald’s Trump did his PR stunt at was cited in their most recent health inspection for not following proper handwashing practices or using gloves or hairnets properly.
Does Trump not realize that all gasoline is refined from oil? Does he think the US has a large number of “gasoline wells” that just produce natural gasoline? Now I’m wondering, is that what he thinks “natural gas” actually is?!?
It’s the look of someone reconsidering their life choices. We even got to see Gov. Puppy Killer do it a couple times last week (but then she gave in and joined the dancing).
Years ago I recall a bond issue to extend the existing light rail from the urban / old suburban core out into the adjacent new construction white flight suburbia.
The No campaign ran local TV ads showing swarthy folks wearing hoodies pulled down over their faces carrying big new TVs onto the train. Back when televisions had CRTs and were huge heavy cubical things. 26 inches!!1! Woot!!!
The clear implication being that Those People would ride the train out to your nice safe whitebread suburbia, steal TVs from your living rooms or appliance stores, then get back on the train to carry their loot back to the 'hood. Of course without a train they could never get to where you are; you’d be safe. I guess folks in the 'hood don’t have access to cars.
The bond issue did not pass, being overwhelmingly voted down by the wealthy suburban county, despite passing in the adjacent poorer urban county.
The fear of people of the wrong color stealing big stuff seems pretty ingrained. Or at least is well-fertilized by the RW bastards.
This reminded me of an episode, “The Farnsworth Stratagem”, of The Rockford Files where Jim runs a con to get his friend’s money back after he’s been scammed.
It involves convincing the original conmen that there is oil on the property used in their scam and that the mineral rights are actually valuable.
IIRC, the clincher is when their drilling strikes “natural gas” and starts blowing. The conmen buy back the property from their victims.
When asked what they struck by his buddy, Rockford says: “Just what we were aiming for–the water main.”
I could see Trump being conned into thinking there are “gasoline wells”. Trump: “I know more about drilling for gasoline than anyone! We’ll have the cheapest gasoline coming right out of the ground!”
(Linda Evans is the main guest star in the episode, and she looks uncannily like her replacement, Bo Derek, as John Derek’s wife. I guess he had a type.)
Ah, the 2012 election…a saner, more innocent time.
October 16, 2012: Mitt Romney mentions having “binders full of women”, a phrase that’s widely mocked as insensitive, and is probably the final nail in the coffin to losing the election.
October 19, 2024: trump blathers on for 10 minutes about the size of Arnold Palmer’s penis, which is met with a collective shrug from the voting public
I’d really like to know where Trump’s usage of ‘amorphous’ came from and how many times he practiced saying it in front of a mirror. Trump has a tiny vocabulary…the last uncommon term he came up with was ‘hydroxychloroquine.’
“I’ve done cognitive tests – I’ve done them twice – and I aced both of them,” Trump said to cheers from the crowd. “The doctor in one case said ‘I’ve never seen anybody ace them, they’ve never seen anybody ace them.’”
As I’ve said before, my elderly aunt “aced” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which meant that she could stay in her room in the facility, and not be moved to the special dementia ward with the locked doors.
This is the test that Trump is referring to that he “aced”.
Following Trump’s unhinged and cringe-worthy remarks about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia, CNN summarized the situation well, I think:
Trump seemed to validate Harris’ message that he is an “unserious man” who poses “extremely serious” consequences if he is returned to the White House as both campaigns chase the last undecided voters in an agonizingly close race that could be decided by tens of thousands of votes in a few swing states.
Yet Trump’s years of trashing expectations of presidential behavior have seemed to offer him a kind of immunity from the ramifications of what would be career-ending actions for most other politicians. The twice-impeached, once-convicted ex-president’s outlandish displays only underscore his anti-establishment authenticity for millions of Americans who adore him.
You see? He’s not senile. He’s not batty as hell. He’s merely authentic! At least, that’s how his followers see him.