Well, TBF nobody slings bullshit as much as he does.
I mean, the sheer number of times he’s told a women she’s beautiful only for her to turn around and say “Get the hell out of the women’s changing room!”…
The risk, as everyone who’s had their face eaten has learned, is misunderstanding, or misundersestimating, how the future will unfold. You believe you can control the situation. And you succeed. Until suddenly you don’t.
The only way to win for sure is not to play. But it sure looks like you can win for a long time, maybe indefinitely while playing with fire. That logic applies to everyone from SCOTUS down to most ordinary schmucks who are trumpies. FAFO applies, and the whole country may be about to learn that irresponsible actions have unpredictable and often disastrous consequences.
@DrDeth: for the record, and ref your earlier quote of me …
I don’t now believe that the SCOTUS is simply a traditional R or trump / MAGA rubberstamp. I do believe some of them lean sympathetic that way. And I also think that plenty of election-related cases will need to be heard, appealed, certed, and decided by SCOTUS in a big hurry in the next ~3 months. Which necessary haste may bring low quality decision-making based on low quality evidence.
To paraphrase Lecter: “Clarice, doesn’t this random scattering of sentences seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar?”
Just touching on this, as yet another example of Trump needlessly inflating crap.
Yes, his uncle John Trump was a renowned professor at MIT. “So many degrees, he didn’t know what the hell to do with them all” apparently means “three degrees” (BS, MS, DSc).
And…
He’s projecting (again).
The more disturbing thing about his reference to his uncle the MIT professor is how it reveals, yet again, Trump’s completely bigoted view of the world, in which some people are born genetically superior to others, and in which character traits are immutable.
Between wanting to return to tariffs for revenue, a spoils system for filling government jobs, and now this Social Darwinism, it is truly striking how much Trump has a 19th century mindset
(As an aside, I think the concept of Eugenics was particularly absurd, when you had somebody like Teddy Roosevelt promoting a belief in a racial hierarchy: Teddy, who was blind as a bat, afflicted with asthma as a kid, and had a brother who drank himself to death. But, yes, go on about your inherent genetic superiority).
There’s also the sheer number of times Trump has said that he can’t say what he just said.
Not even to mention how delusional it is for someone to repeatedly claim, “I am a scientific expert because my uncle accomplished X, Y, and Z.”
If they even get to SCOTUS. But Courts have been very reluctant to go against the will of the voters.
Heh. I don’t think you’d find anyone willing to bet against your theory being true.
The entire point of the various RW shenanigans will be to make “the will of the voters” honestly indeterminable.
Then it comes down to which legal narrative is persuasive enough for the court(s) wherever at each level to buy.
“Like we’re on the four yard line not the five yard line. All we have to do is carry the ball over that… thing”
“During the debates she said your debates don’t really draw, and everybody leaves early. My debates never have an empty seat”
“The Amish community. Where are they? They’re at church”
“[Polls showing me losing] is called suppression. They suppress. And it actually should be illegal.”
“I’m a pretty smart guy. I have genetics”
“They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing. Look at what’s going on. Look at what’s going on in your state. Every day they’re talking about extending hours”
"[Harris did] “the worst job ever on hurricane salvage and removal”
“Those licenses should be bid out”
Clearly she should have thrown paper towel rolls at them.
“Witch hunt!”
Trump literally doesn’t know what state he’s in right now.
Well, it’s not like Trump has ever slapped his name on something or claimed credit for things he didn’t create or achieve or even have anything to do with. In this case, he does have the same name as his uncle. I’m waiting for Trump to claim he knows more about physics than anyone except his uncle and then maybe even more than him.
For those trying to make the case that Trump is perfectly fine mentally (such as John McWhorter, who produced the theory that Trump is simply bored, in a NYT piece discussed in the 3270s, above)----this is the kind of thing that provides extremely strong evidence that Trump is NOT okay mentally.
If you are trying to say that ‘genetics’ is a thing that makes you The Best Candidate and someone people should vote for, then you say that fast race horses produce fast race horses. Not that they ‘produce race horses.’ Because: yeah, horses produce horses, not termites.
But Trump’s brain can’t come up with clear communication. It just can’t. He’s got ideas floating around up there but he can’t make them come out in, you know, language.
I know it makes virtually no difference at this point. His fans would vote for him if his brain fell completely out of his ears. And the vaunted “low-information voters” aren’t going to know about Trump’s inability to communicate clearly because they aren’t willing to give five seconds of their attention to these matters.
Still.
Lord knows I’ve gone slightly crazy with this election, but IMO “Trump as dictator” is kind of irrelevant. The Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Project 2025, etc know that Trump is a blithering idiot. His only utility to them is to get elected because he commands a slavish militant mob. If he is elected, I predict he’ll be forced to resign within 6 months, and Vance, who is better organized and more cunning, will step in (a la Joe & Kamala’s tag team) with the full support of the fascists, including SCOTUS.
I realize how paranoid this sounds. I fervently hope the US doesn’t have to test this speculation.
Only someone with dementia would bring up genetics considering Fred Trump had dementia.