The first color map of election night used Union Blue for Ford and commie Red for Carter. But it was not standardized, and it seems networks chose their colors at will, until 19 years ago, when everyone settled on Red for R and Blue for D.
A strange bag of goods is Trump. Probably suffering from dementia, and a moron (the term has fell out of use clinically) but refers to someone with a mental age in adulthood of between 8 and 12.
Throw in narcissism and you get a stupid 6th grade bully that thinks very highly of himself.
Not “at will.” They alternated colors for a bit before settling on the current scheme.
That might be about right:
Trump speaks at level of 8-year-old, new analysis finds
*Mr Trump scores the lowest of any of the past 15 presidents
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From an older article where Trump assesses himself:
Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump
On its own merits, it was a fine post. It just made me look so wrong.
From dasmoocher’s post above -
Interesting, but I think fair that they did not include social media in the analysis. No way to do a comparison since social media has only been available to Trump and Obama.
We all have seen his social media posts though. I don’t ‘tweet’ myself but have read plenty of his tweets and have seen the responses to his words. It’s VERY easy to pick out the tweets that where not written by Trump (see the tweet regarding the New Zealand shootings).
There are no comparisons. But we don’t need them. Trump’s tweets, even compared to the fodder of the rest of the community, show that he is a simpleton.
That he doesn’t understand that Twitter is not a proper medium for Presidential decree is example #1 that individual #1 is a moron. The context (or lack of) his tweets is simply supporting evidence.
I agree with this 100%. And what does it say about those who accept his tweets as “presidential decree,” hmmm? At first it shocked and outraged us. Now we’re used to it and accept it.
If those MASA hatters get their way, there’ll be a tamale cart on every corner.
Yep. You have to address the issue at hand. To worry that something worse may come along defeats the concept of law and order.
Not arresting the bank robber because the next guy may blow up the bank is not the way to address crime.
The best way, in Trumps case in particular, is to dole out proper punishment so future criminals will think twice. This is doubly true for elected positions. Yep, you are going to be put under a microscope. If you’re a crook and career criminal, it’s best to stay out of the limelight.
While it is… um… good that Trumps crimes are coming to light, these crimes need to be prosecuted and pursued to the fullest extent of the law. Showing the world that the US elected a criminal moron and didn’t do a dam thing about it puts our country in high jeopardy for many reasons.
Yeah, I’m not falling for that again. In 2016 I was promised that if I voted for Hillary Clinton, there would be a taco stand on every corner. Well, I did, and there’s no fucking taco stand on my corner, so you can just piss off with your blue-sky promises.
Most agreed, but for this:
Trump has, if nothing else, used more unique words than most past presidents that I’ve seen.
Obama couldn’t have come up with covfefe, Lincoln never had a hamberder, and even Washington never called the nation he represents “The Unite Shaates.”
There were a couple of tweets from the Obama admin, but whether they were tapped out by Obama or a staffer, they were not done extemporaneously while on the shitter.
I see social media as a useful way to reach the public. But, it, like most forms of reaching the public, should actually be mostly handled by the public relations division.
Think it’ll be here soon? I’m getting hungry.
I’m bothered by his use of Twitter, not only because he says reckless and careless things, but because it’s an indirect endorsement of a particular private enterprise. A proper president would make a press release like they always did, having been run by staff and checked for accuracy and potential impact before being released. Sitting on the can and regurgitating talking points from Fox is not presidential.
True. But are they in the dictionary? Imagine playing Scrabble with Trump. He would probably cheat worse than he does at golf. And he has the best brane and werds. It would bee no kontest.
I watched the Dirty Money episode about Trump (The Confidence Man)
and it’s pretty interesting.
Trump’s love/hate relationship with the press goes way back and so does his obtuseness.
Back in clips from the '90s when Trump is going bankrupt, he states that “When people say something false [about me], I attack those people”.
Of course, anything not pro-Trump is false.
In a 1990 interview that he eventually walks out of, Trump accuses the reporter of being “inaccurate”. When the interviewer asks for a specific example of his inaccuracy, Trump says that the interviewer’s “demeanor was inaccurate” and the questions he was asking of the Trump Organization were “inaccurate, false, and unfair”.
Maybe Lindsey Graham or Jim Jordan can explain how demeanor can be inaccurate and questions can be false. And, this is Trump supposedly in his prime before any onset of dementia.
I guess a false, inaccurate question could be something like: “Mr. Trump, how does it feel to be a self-made billionaire?”
Here’s the full quote in context:
“So here’s the thing—it’s so terrible what’s happening,” Trump said when asked by Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about how the left is fighting hard. “You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. But the left plays it cuter and tougher. Like with all the nonsense that they do in Congress … with all this invest[igations]—that’s all they want to do is –you know, they do things that are nasty. Republicans never played this.”
That’s a fucking threat.
dammit, now I have the Gipsy Kings singing in my head, “Tamale, oh oh, frijoles, oh oh oh oh”
Dickshonhairys are for losers.
“It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”– Andrew Jackson (CFSG’s faverite Presidnet)
It’s a threat that he expects other people to act on. He thinks that it is threatening, and it may actually be, but he is asking his followers to follow up on his words.
Don’t forget the corollary: