When I heard TRump’s story about his MIT professor uncle and The Unabomber, I simply said “Yeah, right!”
Stephen Colbert pointed out in last night’s monologue that most of the story was just lies. So did Jordan Kleppner on Th Daily Show, apparently. Trump did have an uncle who was a professor at MIT. That much is true. None of the rest of it was.
CNN debunks it here:
It’s what plants morons crave!
Indeed; Trump regularly trots out his uncle in his stories, almost undoubtedly to imply “hey, I have a brilliant professor in my family, and intelligence runs in families, so I’m clearly very intelligent, too.”
But he is the subject of one of the more entertaining footnotes to be found in a math paper:
What’s next?
trump in talks to have the auto industry bring back steam-powered cars:
“They’ll use clean coal to make the steam, which is great stuff, really terrific, and will bring back so many coal mining jobs”.
trump to luminescent industrial paints industry: bring back radium!
“It was so shiny, such a terrific shade of green. Stayed glowy a lot longer than modern glow-in-the-dark stuff, which sucks”.
trump admin to reconsider ban on asbestos
Wait, that one almost happened for real…
Hey, it worked on Gavin Newsom!
You know, I hesitate to bring it up because some people have deep feelings about cola rivalries, but you can right now buy Pepsi Made With Real Sugar. It used to be called Pepsi Throwback, then Pepsi Made with Real Sugar, and now sometime Soda Shop Pepsi.
I prefer Pepsi to Coke, myself, so it’s not a problem. And, of course, if you really want it (and maybe can wait) you can get Mexican Coke or Kosher Coke, both made with sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. There are sores around me that carry this as a standard item. But it’s not available in as large a quantity, or from fountains.
Um…no thank you…
You know, Donnie, you can already buy Coke with sugar. It’s the one that says Hecho en Mexico. Still comes in a glass bottle, just like god intended!
Oh and it costs $3 a bottle.
“Sorry, MEXICAN Coke is out of the question, unacceptable, no can do! It has to be made in America with American sugar cane planted and harvested by American White people! Or Black people. But no illegal Brown people.”
A 4-pack at HEB is $7.50.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/coca-cola-mexican-coke-12-oz-glass-bottles/2199644
See? He’s using the inflation to make Americans healthier! Such a genius, 3.5D chess!
To be fair, I meant $3 if you buy it in a restaurant.
I can get a sixer of God’s Own American Coke with American grown HFCS in harmful and wasteful American plastic bottles for like $3 on sale.
I’m having one right now.
Every family has a black sheep. And you know what is worse than a black sheep? An orange one.
Sorrrrry, Señorrr, but México IS in America.
One of the things that most astonishes me about Trump is how he has managed to take a party that was once dedicated to laissez-faire capitalism, and get that party to go all in on high tariffs, and on the government determining what products individual corporations should and should not manufacture.
Some Americans will tell you that México is not in America but in “North America”, there is no continent called “America”.
Unless they want to invoke the Monroe Doctrine…
If “Mexico” is in “North” American, why do you have to go south of America to get to it?!? Checkmate!
This is why I edited my post from “Trumpy Americans” to “Some Americans”, the average MAGAt would react like that and also doesn’t have a chance in hell of knowing what the Monroe Doctrine is.
I have always wondered about the difference between white, demerara and muskovado.
Clearly there must be a correlation here?
Shows what you know! That’s the Doctrine who treated Marilyn Monroe!
And you know how badly that worked out.
Of course, it was the fault of the Kennedys.