I’m sure you’re cleaning up.
Dust aggravates breathing difficulties. This POTUS whines that the White House is a dump. Are the presidential mansion’s Deep State housekeepers deliberately infecting him? What’s in that dust? If certain spores are found, call in the stormtroopers! Er I mean get a cleaning crew of illegals from a Tramp resort. They’ll mop it up, cheap.
The day of that speech I was in my car and heard it on the radio. His shortness of breath was so obvious and I found it alarming. First and only time I’ve ever heard him sound that way. Hope it’s the last, too!
Not only does Trump look and sound awful, WTF is up with Pence looking adoring on like the Simpson’s Smithers’ character?
This was my first thought also. Waiting for that good news.
with the Dems luck Trump lives to 100 and Don Jr and Ivanka each serve 8 years as president.
Whose luck do we need for Trump to live to 100 fighting extradition in Peru, and for Date Rape and Feckless to serve 8 years in prison?
luck of the Irish? I’m Irish.
Are we talking about the Davis speech? He sounded very bad on the radio.
Are the words “profit” and “prophet” pronounced the same? I swear it sounded like he was saying the former and not the latter.
They sound the same to my ear.
If he ended up quitting he would certainly say his doctors told him to quit and Melania agreed he should quit to avoid stress. He is not going to quit any other way.
They come up with the same phonetic spelling in the dictionary.
If a foreigner asked me and I was trying to be very careful, I’d save “profit” ended just like “it” while prophet ended like the beginning of “etc.” But were I just speaking, it would be hard to tell the difference absent context.
I have given this a bit of thought. Maybe I simply got it in my head he was saying the wrong word and then I could not unhear it.
That being said, if seems to “Prophet” has more of an “o” sound while “profit” has more of an “a” sound. If there is any difference at all it is very subtle.
How was it not clear that Johnson should take over?
That said, yes, of course the famous photo of Johnson being sworn in with Mrs. Kennedy by his side was staged – it was intended to show the nation and the entire world that the government would continue, that the transition to a new president was smooth and uncontroversial, and that there should be no worries about the stability of the United States.
I didn’t know that the picture was staged.
That having been said, I doubt it makes any difference, for the reasons you mention. Reassuring the public that the transition was in place, we have a President, and everyone, including the widow, was on board, is a perfectly valid message, and one that needed to be communicated.
Regards,
Shodan
“Staged” was my word. That picture was taken at Johnson’s actual swearing in. That was real. But I’ve read, in more than one source, that Johnson insisted that Mrs. Kennedy be included in the picture, for the purpose of reassuring the American people, and the world, that everything was transitioning as smoothly as possible.