Trump is dying

The BBQ Pit
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I suspect that is a deliberate intimidation tactic. He likes to “loom” over people; he’s not nearly as tall as he pretends to be, but he’s still relatively tall, especially compared to women. He really loves the idea of being a “tough guy”; he pretends that all the time. This seems like me to be part of it. I’m sure it’s not good for his back/neck/joints to do that for long though.

I also don’t see his slight struggle to stand and leave significant in any way. It confirms that he’s 80 years old and a mortal human. Sure, it shows how much of a lie the “vital, youthful” propaganda about him is, but we see that all the time as he struggles with stairs or just getting around in general. It’s about as significant as catching a North Korean leader taking a shit.

I think people were extra sensitive to seeing anything after the false story about him “vanishing” for a week.

2943

You’ve seen the video? How is being bent over as you shuffle off camera supposed to be intimidating to Welker (who is behind him)?

I think you’re reaching, here. Nothing about his movements in those seconds reads like “intimidation” or “tough guy.”

2944

I meant about the way he was sitting before he got up. His leaving was 100% “old man struggling”. His hunching over while sitting may have contributed to being in pain later. He strikes me as the kind of guy to literally injure himself in order to put on a tough guy act.

That’s my mistake for not being clear before.

2945

Oh, I see. Yeah, when he’s in a chair he does often lean over (no matter who’s opposite him).

2946

She deserves some kind of whatever award newspeople get for making baby cry and run-a-way!

2947

Peebody?

2948

Looks like the NBA finals weren’t exciting enough for Trump to stay awake for.

2949

God, give him a cell phone and his pants around his ankles and he might just be tweeting out his nightly psycho-drivel.

2950

Just popping in to remind everyone that in a week, Mr. Potato Head will enter his NINTH decade. I wonder how that makes him feel?

2951

“That’s a stupid question. You are a nasty, low IQ person, and the failing SDMB should fire you.”

2952

I didn’t care who won the game, but I was really cheering on a blood clot tonight.

2953

I had no idea Greg Abbott uses a wheel chair. That’s obviously not politically relevant.

2954

I didn’t know for quite a while either. i think I saw him in it on TV a few years back and it caught me off guard. Personally, I think that says quite a bit for the left. If he was a Democrat, I feel confident saying that between the RW media and the RW politicians it would have been something he’d be mocked about. Maybe not a lot, but I could certainly imagine the RW saying things like “How can people vote for him? How can people think someone in a wheelchair can lead the country?” or some other BS like that.

2955

As a perfect example, I just ran across this picture on my local news’ front page:

I do not, for a second, believe that if it was a democrat governor sitting at that desk, that Trump wouldn’t have made fun of him. Abbot probably ran more miles on the day he was injured than Trump did in all of his twenties. Frankly, I’m sure he ran more that day than I (or most of us that aren’t runners) did in all my twenties.

2956

Background FYI (Gemini summary):

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been paralyzed from the waist down since July 1984. The accident happened when he was 26 years old and jogging in Houston. A massive 75-foot oak tree snapped and fell on his back, crushing his vertebrae, splintering his spinal cord, and fracturing several ribs. [1, 2, 3]

Following extensive surgeries and months of rehabilitation, two steel rods were inserted into his spine, and he has relied on a wheelchair ever since.

Very gutsy! If only he were using his powers for good instead of evil.

BTW:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s wife, Cecilia Abbott, is Hispanic. She made history in 2015 as the first Hispanic First Lady of Texas. Raised in San Antonio, she is the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants.

2957

Evidently Mrs Abbott is “one of the good ones”.

2958

Another friendly reminder that Ted Cruz was born in Canada. And his father was a Cuban.

Basically all the things they accused Obama of, but worse. And actually true.

2959

(Looking at the photo) Texas cattlemen, of course, are waging this War on Screwworm all by themselves, not depending one little bit on the e-e-e-vil federal government for any aid – that would be socialism.

The USDA sign on the podium is for throwing tomatoes at.

2960

And by “good one” that probably means “she favors her Irish dad”.

2961

If you look closely, there seems to be a lighting fixture just out of frame above Welker’s seat that he (and she) have to duck under. I think that accounts for some of the crouching as he stands up. (I HATE having to appear to make excuses for him!)