I’m remembering the scene in The Manchurian Candidate where despite being the mastermind behind the plot, Angela Lansbury is cooking breakfast for James Gregory, her senator husband, and chiding him for getting mixed up on how many “known communists are in the Defense Department.” He complains about how hard it is to remember, she sets a plate of scrambled eggs in front of him, and he upends a bottle of Heinz catsup on it.
Smash cut to him speaking on the Senate floor, “There are fifty-seven known communists in the Defense Department!”
Yeah, I think those of us here routinely underestimate how batshit crazy a lot of his supporters are.
I mean, my cousin is a big Trumper and QAnon lunatic, and she’s still going on about “plandemic”, how the Madonna (?) concert was actually satanic, and all sorts of other really insane nonsense. Nothing anyone points out is going to be anything other than slander against Trump, and left-wing plots and treachery, no matter how sane and logical it actually is.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump does end up with some sort of diagnosed dementia, that there’ll be conspiracy theories about how it’s a Democrat poisoning plot of some kind, and that they poisoned him when he was in the hospital with COVID.
Very much like an acquaintance of mine who believes that Trump is the only thing standing between us and the liberals’ “plandemics,” “fifteen-minute communities,” and forced EV usage.
Preidents get huge brownie points for responding well to a crisis. If the COVID pandemic was planned, all Trump had to do was put reasonable measures in place, advocate for medicines and protocols that would limit the spread, brag about the vaccine, save hundreds of thousands of lives, and he’d have waltzed into a second term.
Interesting, we see the rapids of Cognitive Cliff waterfall approaching.
I don’t think this is the same as Mitch McConnell though. With Mitch, it was more like “Mitch.exe has stopped responding and needs to be restarted” as he gripped the podium for literal dear life. In the video of the second incident you can see an aide try to move him and he absolutely will not budge. With Trump, he’s still there but he’s just lost the plot. There doesn’t seem to be any panic or distress. He just zones out but it never occurs to him that there is anything wrong.
The other crucial difference between McConnell and Trump of course is that I have no problem believing that Mitch got himself checked out immediately by an actual doctor. We the public might not know what was actually said there but Mitch knows and since he is still alive today, he is obviously heeding the medical advice he receives. Trump won’t be getting any medical advice because Trump will never admit that he has any faults.
Lastly, this definitely wasn’t a teleprompter problem. Trump would have no problem bitching for two minutes straight if that happened.
Could’ve been a little of both. He was clearly trying to freestyle when he kept repeating “come and take it” over and over again as if it was a slogan the Founding Fathers would have used instead of a paraphrase from a probably fictional ancient Greek history that the chuds in the NRA have only heard of because of an action movie about buff oily men in speedos that they’re obsessed with in a totally not gay way.
That was a lot less than two minutes - the entire clip is only 44 seconds! It was still bizarre. But the Xitter poster who labeled that as “two minutes” isn’t doing anti-Trumpers any favors by making that claim, as it is obviously a far shorter time period.
At first it looked like he was taking a dramatic pause to acknowledge the music or something. My screen is all ferkakte; was his mouth doing weirder things than usual? I hate to say it but it appears more like a technical issue than his smooth brain issue.
I thought so too. He was waiting for the music to catch up. The only weird thing about it is that it was a very long pause from the audience point of view, but he wasn’t worried about it.
I assume there is a cut in the footage at about 0:35 so that we are not burdened with the full two minutes of Trump standing there with his thumb up his ass.
Can’t wait to see the Dr. Gartner video on this that is sure to follow.
Most news reports about the incident that I am seeing say he froze for 30 or 35 seconds, so I think those that claim two-minutes are probably exaggerating. If he really froze for two minutes then I think that they would show the full two minutes for emphasis.
Trump himself is blaming Biden and claiming the pause is entirely normal.
Truth Social[:]
“The Biden Campaign… put out a Fake Story that I ‘froze’ for 30 seconds, going into the ‘Musical Interlude’ section, when in actuality, the 30 to 60 second period of silence is standard in every one of my Speeches where we use the Music,” he said, with a typical sporadic use of capital letters.
