I’ll read it in WaPo. 
Honestly, that’s why you should never trust any sort of photo or clip of any politician (or anyone else) in isolation. And never should have. Heinlein, I think, has a description of a bit of a dirty trick from like 80 years ago in one of his stories about taking two photographs back to back with two different cameras and only using the second, where reacting to the flash makes the subject look bad.
So my 2-cents is Trump’s sudden turn towards military aggression aboard, is driven by his health. At some level his health downturn has made him realize his own mortality and wants to be remembered as great military leader. Whether that’s a conscious realization on his part or something more subconscious (taken advantage of by whatever fascist lackey he’s been talking to recently, who is more invested in fascism abroad than fascism at home) I don’t know.
“A Bathroom of Her Own”.
It’s even easier these days as pols have video cameras trained on them literally every public second of the day. Just go through the vid frame-by-frame and select the one that looks the weirdest. Or find a few candidate frames and do a focus group to select one.
Sure beats talking about the issues.
… and FB. Cesspit of modern society.
This was the same meeting where Trump got up and walked away from the table and looked out the window. According to Colbert, “100%: he had to fart”
When I first watched the short clip without any context, I assumed it was the ‘trans weightlifting bit’ he often performs at these types of appearances, which is also extremely deranged.
His adult nappies handle more than just a fart.
I have two young children who are out of nappies, thank god, but any parent can tell the different facial and behavioral activity between a mere fart and a genuine nappy-filler.
Although the Trump Toddler may have forgotten toilet training.
He shouldn’t quit his day job.
Oh, wait: he should. We must flood the Internet with praise of his astonishing powers of impersonation!!!
Heck, just taking a picture of someone in mid-speech can get some really awful facial expressions.
I’m pretty skeptical of still photos for that very reason; by definition they’re just a fraction of a second of a larger event, and if the photographer times it right, they can portray things differently than they happened, or emphasize aspects that were more minor than they look.
I just think of all the times I’m watching a TV show on a streaming service or something on DVR, and have to pause it, and how hilariously misleading that frozen screen image might randomly be. Like, if someone were to walk by and see it, they might think I’m watching a completely different show than it is.
Don’t they just hold the shutter down and take hundreds of photos in a few seconds, then they can pick out the best or worst one at leisure.
Probably depends on the photographer. But yeah, modern digital cameras make it easier to catch the perfect moment for the story the photographer is trying to tell.
Every time I see the title of this thread:
I always think of the Monty Python clip I posted upthread a ways. ‘GET ON WITH IT!’
I see this like the “scott adams is dying” thread. I read it and ask “finally?”
(hey the same morning I wrote that there, Adams died. Maybe…?)
Every morning, same thing. I let the dogs out, scoop the cat litter, let the dogs in, check to see if he’s dead yet…
The Holy Grail one for me rather. “He’ll be stone cold dead in a moment!”
I have a bottle of champagne in my fridge that we didn’t open on NYE. I’m gonna stop whatever I’m doing whenever it happens and suck on that sumbitch like a newborn calf on its mama’s teat.
I’m thinking Kool & the Gang will be my soundtrack.
Oh shit, I just got chills thinking about it!