I love the analysis in the comments. We’re using technology that, decades ago, was supposed to revolutionize communication and the sharing of information, and here it’s being used to discuss whether the thing that was ejected by the occupant of the White House was a crack rock, an uncrushed bit of pill, or a tonsil stone.
President Trump on Monday expressed openness toward an investigation of Louis DeJoy, his postmaster general, who is facing scrutiny after former employees of his previous private company said they felt pressured to make donations to Republican candidates for which they were later reimbursed.
In a Labor Day news conference at the White House, when asked whether he was open to a campaign finance investigation of DeJoy, Trump said, “Sure, sure, let the investigations go.” He also said DeJoy should lose his job “if something can be proven that he did something wrong.”…
I forced myself to watch that. Are we sure that projectile came out of his nose? It looked to me like it was out of his mouth, but I bow to the superior eyesight and analytical skills of my betters.
Now off to gouge out my eyes with spoons and rinse the sockets with bleach.
Okay, here’s something-- nose AND mouth (he doesn’t do things halfway):
Today, during Trump’s Press Conference/Campaign event at the White House, at least five times, he ejected large, white debris from his mouth and possibly his nose.
Dr. Jack Brown @DrGJackBrown
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15/ With high probability, Donald Trump has a prosthesis device on the roof of his mouth in an effort to treat/block perforation(s) of his hard palate. Today, this prosthesis probably became dislodged, allowing debris from his nasal cavity to pass through to his mouth.
To summarize Don’s thesis: the military hates him because he refuses to start unnecessary wars that would allow them to reap the usual huge financial rewards.
First, it’s unclear if he’s referring to the uniformed military, which doesn’t get any financial rewards from war; or the civilians in the DoD, whom he appointed; or the military-industrial-complex. But regardless, he’s jacked up the military budget so much that we don’t need a war for everyone to cash in. It’s a win-win! (For everyone except the taxpayer.)
I’d like to know what he’s basing that conclusion on. There’s an awful lot of “probablys” in use, and while I have no problem with the idea that $45 is high as a kite on a regular basis, I’d like some actual evidence that those are solid substances and not extra firm mucus globs. That video is just not crisp enough to say more than “something large and white came out of either his nose or mouth or both, five times.”
To be less than delicate, I’ve ejected some pretty damned firm boogers and loogies in my time that held their shape or stuck on something for however long it took me to clean them up. Granted, most haven’t been that large, but it’s not implausible that’s what happened here.
[I hate $45. I really do. But I want evidence, not speculation. We’ve been bit that way too often because we want to believe all the horrible things.]