First, let me send love, prayers and well-wishes to everyone in the Bahamas and everyone on the Southeast coast of America. South Carolina and Georgia are currently being hit by Hurricane Dorian, an absolute monster of a hurricane. Bahamians lived through something like 48 hours of hell as Dorian, then a Cat-5, moved at a snail’s pace across the islands. While Dorian is slightly weaker now that it’s hitting mainland America, thousands of people have still needed to evacuate, and there will be millions of dollars worth of water and wind damage and probably some loss of life too.
Granted, I’m no expert about hurricanes. All I know is that the European hurricane models usually have the predicted path of destruction MORE right than any other model, including NOAA’s models. That’s the only expertise I have. Which is a lot more expertise than Donald Trump, who repeatedly claimed for days that Alabama was going to get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian. Like, four days ago, the models predicted that northeastern Florida would get hit hard. But Alabama? No. Alabama generally only gets hit by hurricanes that come up through the Gulf Coast (so I guess I am an expert after all). Trump kept on repeating the lie and trying to justify until NOAA and other government f–king agencies were like “WE REPEAT, Alabama is no danger.”
All of that would have been pathetic enough. But then in a briefing in the Oval Office yesterday, Trump was given a prop – a NOAA map of the predicted path of Dorian, literally hours before Dorian began to make landfall. And it looked like Trump had taken a Sharpie and drawn a little bubble to include Alabama in the predicted path. You truly cannot make this sh-t up. He is literally making HURRICANE PROPAGANDA because he can’t admit that he’s a liar, a fantasist and a moron.
As a hurricane moves along the eastern United States and residents are told to heed all warnings from government officials, the President appears to have publicly displayed an altered map of the hurricane's trajectory with portions of Alabama circled with a Sharpie pic.twitter.com/0UJmJnDKYA
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 4, 2019
He personally altered it? Himself?
"After facing ridicule for suggesting over the weekend that Hurricane Dorian might strike Alabama, Donald Trump showed reporters a map on Wednesday that he personally altered to help prove his point."https://t.co/NQmyVsw173
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 4, 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
OH MY GOD. I can’t. I’m torn between insulting the fascist turd that he is and feeling restrained because you’re not supposed to mock the mentally disabled, of which he certainly is. Oof.
he’s not mentally disabled.
well, he might be, but that’s not why he did this.
his pathology is such that it’s psychologically painful for him to admit he’s wrong. he CANNOT do it.
so, that’s why he doubles down on everything when proven wrong. especially when he’s been mocked so thoroughly and consistently.
the best part was when a reporter asked outright why it looked like it had been altered with a Sharpie, 45 said “I don’t know….I don’t know.”
PS – it’s a federal crime to alter a weather forecast from NOAA, or to provide a fake one.
Come on. He’s not mentally disabled. He *might* have a learning disability but it’s just as likely that he’s simply a stupid moron. Occam’s razor.
(sorry WW meant as a reply to Jen)
He’s not mentally disabled. He’s a raging narcissist. Anyone who knows me around here knows that I rarely, if ever, weigh in on potential psychiatric diagnoses because I don’t diagnose unless I treat, but this man is all over the place, showing his pathology at every turn. He is a walking textbook example of a personality disorder.
I looked up Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the medical dictionary. His picture was there.
I am not surprised.
@paranormalgirl
That’s horrifying for me, both as a liberal and as the daughter of a woman with NPD.
To be fair, I’d have to admit that they also share similar skin tones. (We’ve long made Oompa-Loompa jokes in my family. Somehow I doubt his family does the same.)
I don’t think he’s mentally disabled, just a lunatic. His insistence that the hurricane is going for Alabama is a weird hill to die on though.
I disagree. I think he is ABSOLUTELY in cognitive decline. I think he has dementia, as his father did before him. He displays all of the physical symptoms of someone in mid scate cognitive decline – particularly his word-finding difficulty and shuffling gait. Hell, he nearly did a header down the stairs at G7 – sadly f**king BORIS JOHNSON saved him. That French staircase could have saved us all a lof of grief. But seriously, notice how lately especially after G7, his public appearances in total have only been about an hour or two, cumulatively. He has cancelled trips. He’s sending Pence out. Ivanka…anything to distract. He appeared in public to make a very brief statement with a stupid USA hat on, and there was very marked bruising on his forehead visible under the hat….he’s probably falling. He’s forgetting things. Slurring. “oranges” instead of “origins” . I think that the “Alabama” thing perhaps actually supposed to be “Atlanta”, but his addled brain misfired. Aides are reporting that he’s lashing-out. And this is only gonna get worse. I see dementia in my patients on the regular, and let me tell you ,this is not gonna end well.
He’s not mentally disabled, he has dementia. And that’s on top of his NPD and god knows what else is wrong with him.
Someone brought up Denmark’s Prince Henrik on another thread. The press wrote about the outrageous, illogical things he said until his family finally announced he had dementia. He immediately retired from public life, and the press completely backed off. Sadly for the Danish RF, he passed within the year. If only we could do an immediate retirement based on mental decline for the US President! Oh wait, we can! It’s called the 25th Amendment, but the Cabinet would have to be on board. Dayam!
the cabinet would also have to be made up of Senate-confirmed members.
right now, too many of them are “acting” or temporary replacements, so they can’t do sh*t even if they wanted to.
it’s by design.
Whether or not they’re prepared to do anything about this president’s decline, it’s coming. They won’t be able to squirrel it away any more when the incontinence starts or the fits of uncontrollable rage. Trump strikes me as a dementia patient who ABSOLUTELY will be aggressive – he was aggressive in his life before now. It’s not like they can just follow him around with syringes of lorazepam and haloperidol and step in when he gets out of hand….
I’m so confused by this… why did they give him the track from the 29th of August? It has changed so much since then.
I think Chump made the stuipd statement then his staffers went overboard trying to find some evidence that what Chump said had some truth.
I think I heard on some news program the map with the black Sharpie markup came from the Southwest Florida Water Management District. SWFWMD uses this type of map to try to predict and mitigate potential flooding of rivers, streams, creeks and water retention ponds if the hurricane cut across Central Florida. The mark-up map DID NOT come from an official government weather agency.
But this is the NHC’s official track from August 29? See the tweet from the NHC here: https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1167087670847139842
It did come from an official agency, it’s just way out of date.
This whole story is just so odd…
Yeah, it did. It’s the standard NOAA map you find online from the National Hurricane Center.
Doesn’t it seem more likely he thought Virginia was Alabama? He said: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama, but it was Virginia that was in the storm’s path.
He didn’t want a more recent one showing the Storm was nowhere near the Gulf and would only hit Alabama if it somehow went backwards in a southern direction and then a sharp left.
Exactly. He clearly asked for the only map that showed a single track that could hit Alabama. He always thinks that Americans are as dumb if not dumber than he is so he figured we wouldn’t notice. He was partially right in that his base either wouldn’t notice or care.
Exactly. I live in hurricane country, and those models get updated throughout the day & for days thereafter. We live in bizarro-land with this chump.
#sharpiegate on twitter is HILARIOUS
The level of narcissism is astounding. Trump can’t admit he made a mistake, or even pivot to say that the weather system altered course. Rather, he double downs on his Alabama hurricane prediction and even falsifies a prop to support “his truth”. I hope newscasters reach out to psychologists to analyze this display of narcissistic personality disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
He is so, so weak. Pathetically so.
If he admits to even one lie, his entire facade will come crashing down.
It’s amazing (but not surprising) that this little tiny matter has become such an important issue for him. That he would take the time, effort, resources to try and correct something that is so irrelevant is so PETTY. He’s such an insecure fool. I can’t believe voters gave him such power.
Thank you, Elisabeth… I needed that!
God I hate him. There are no words for me to articulate how much I loathe him and for those who support him. He’s a piece of shit.
Me, too. 🙁 And no word about this stupidity on Fox or any Fox adjacent news outlets. They are literally covering up his mental health issues.
Every time I feel depressed
about the Orange Weenie,
I cheer up after I recall
the fate of Mussolini.
I sometimes worry over the depth of my hatred for the Orange Idiot. A good friend made up a game where we try to out-do the other in designing unusual methods to torture or embarrass Mr. Tiny Hands. Like stake him naked and covered with chocolate syrup on an ant hill while goats with halitosis eat his hair. It honestly helps us with our anger.
Same here.
I want to laugh at the ridiculousness of this, but I’m still so angry at everything and this just adds to it. How weak and pathetic a person he is, to never admit to a mistake? It’s infuriating.
Also, there’s no way he drew it himself, I’m sure he screamed at some lowly intern to “make the map do what I said”.
I find myself not hating him so much as I hate the GOP, the idiot voters who have voted for all those along the Donald Trump continuum, the GOP who enables him, the media who is complicit in not being truthful or accurate and keeps pushing the both sides-ism. Donald Trump is the funny looking pimple, but the whole body is infected with GOP sepsis. I hate that more.
Mitch McConnell as majority leader of the Senate is the target of my wrath as he actually has the power of impeachment or at least resistance, but is completely supporting Trump
Yes! Never hated someone so much in all my life.
I can’t decide which is the most outrageous story of the Trump presidency this week:
The Alabama Hurricane
Pence’s Ireland fiasco
Nagini’s White Savior Tour of South America complete with modeling of her Halloween fashion line (Slutty Nurse, Audrey the Venus Flytrap, blond Frida Kahlo, complete with detachable messy hair bun)
Meanwhile money is being diverted from hurricane relief and programs for military families to pay for that damn wall.
It’s truly mind boggling and exhausting on a daily basis. I read a really good piece the other week about the fatigue that we are all experiencing from the news because of him. The only way to avoid it is to stop reading/watching but you can’t because it too important to not stay informed so we can get him out. I told my husband last night after showing him #sharpiegate that I feel like we are in a Simpson’s episode. How do his supporters think this is NORMAL!
Reagan was clearly slipping during his last term, but efforts were made to keep it relatively hidden. This aging-mega-narcissist nonsense is several times a day, every day, in plain view of the public.
I saw the last two ensembles modeled by dear daughter. Now off to see the nurse outfit…
The slutty nurse Halloween costume was what she wore to arrive in Colombia. A white wrap dress that was so tight her nipples protruded from the fabric and the bottom of it didn’t fully close when she was standing.
She’s now making political statements about Venezuela while in Colombia. Pompeo needs to explain why she is doing his job
Lol! I just did the same thing and it looks cheap. Naughty nurse status for sure. God she’s dumb.
@Lightpurple actually IMO I’d rather have Ivanka doing Pompeo’s job than Pompeo doing it. Pompeo is ultra awful.
Wish there was more coverage on the funds being diverted. A big problem there. Meanwhile, my grandson, who is in the Navy was suppose to be deployed yesterday to the Bahamas. Haven’t heard from him yet.
I take particular petty delight in going on her twitter and posting ugly pictures of her DaddyHusband with accompanying articles about his latest outrageous stupidity.
Did she just take out her extensions or what? What’s going on with that bob?
The funds being diverted away from people who need it for a useless wall makes me want to scream. This administration is just a bottomless well of cruelty.
Her hair was longer so this is a completely new cut for her but it is very badly done. And why spend the time in the stylist chair getting the cut and not freshen up the color? Her roots are laughable. The best part for me though is that she debuts this “new bob” but brings along a messy bun attachment.
And she’s making policy speeches about Venezuela while in Colombia. She has no legal authority to speak on behalf of the US. Pompeo needs to put her in her place or resign.
LP your description of her clothing gave me a good laugh. That was hilarious and it’s the second good laugh I’ve had over this administration in 3 years. The other was a story about a shyster lawyer that Samantha Bee told, who convinced a bunch of small townships they could legally fire their black employees, which they proceeded to do. The lawyer moved from town to town, collecting a 100K fee from each township and then skipped. Each township was successfully sued by the ex-employees, and had to cover the employee’s legal bills. I’m paraphrasing here, the story was awhile ago, but it made me laugh hard. Not that I laughed a long time, it was more a hard laugh than genuine mirth. It was great to hear all those asswipes lost an expensive one.
I haven’t even caught up with the Pence stuff. 🙁
Right? There’s just so much. I’m off to google what Pence did, although my stomach clenched when I typed that.
According to the Guardian, he ‘shat on the carpet’ by staying at the Trump golf course and made some stupid remarks about Brexit. Check out the Guardian’s article, though; it’s a good read.
Pence was greeted in Iceland with thousands of gay pride rainbow flags EVERYWHERE! And their president Guðni Jóhannesson, wore a rainbow bracelet when he shook hands with Pence. I’m sure he rushed to the closest fundamentalist church afterwards to have his hand bleached with holy water to flush out the demons.
On DCUM, we have collectively decided that her fashion style is a blend of sassy grandmother, pageant toddler and Russian stripper. It really answers a lot of stylistic questions about her.
Of course it doesn’t answer why she is doing a job she isn’t in, but at least we know why she looks so hideous doing it.
“Meanwhile money is being diverted from hurricane relief and programs for military families to pay for that damn wall.”
Funds for CYBER SECURITY were diverted, as well as upgrades to storage warehouses for hazardous materials, etc.
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia are all laughing we we divert money away from our high security risks to build a prop.
The Dems need to make the entire GOP own this move.
Fun Fact: Altering a NWS map is a federal offense. But nothing matters anymore, so this is nothing but a trivia fact. Sigh.
Yep, that is nothing for him. He probably uses copies of the declaration of independence as toilet paper.
That is an interesting fact and it makes sense. Thank you for teaching me something today and you’re right, it doesn’t matter. gaddamnit
Why the insistence that Alabama would be affected? Was Alabama even in the equation from the get-go when we didn’t really know how Dorian would hit Florida? Was he plotting to send FEMA money there that wouldn’t actually go to disaster recovery?
He said several days ago that Alabama would be affected. The experts said no, nuh uh, nope, because they don’t want to freak out the Alabamians on something that isn’t happening. But, because he’d already declared it (“I didn’t say it, I declared it” #unexpectedoffice), he won’t back down. He can’t just admit that he misspoke and Alabama isn’t in the path.
No, we were NEVER in the equation. Actual professionals told us that.
The Alabama thing is so stupid. He could have easily said “this was my error, I apologize, I’ve seen a lot of maps over the past week, and I thought of the wrong one dated Aug.28 when I made that statement. I sincerely regret if I caused any alarm.” The end.
But Nooooooooo, now we have the Daily Donaldo Dingbat Show to prove he’s “right” when he’s obviously wrong.
They couldn’t even use a white Sharpie? And make the bubble match somewhat? The stupidity is just INFURIATING.
He has, and obviously continues to, alter facts to fit his constant stream of mistakes/lies/stupidity. Everything is always about him.
And he is at it again this morning!
He just can’t let it go. What a sorry sack of shit he is.
This is… I mean. It’s not… like. Wow.
Exactly. What more is there to say at this point? We’re just screaming into the void.
I know, I feel so Jennifer Aniston…. screaming at the ocean and all.
@ Sarah. S A M E
Words escape me.
This is the level the GOP is at. As long as you’re white and keep taxes low for the wealthy, you can pretty much do (or not do) anything.
I am focused on his giant eye bags. No amount of makeup can disguise the unwell/exhausted look.
How is he exhausted? I look at his daily schedule every day and he has little or nothing scheduled each day. He doesn’t even get an intelligence briefing every day. He has no reason to be exhausted.
Not from actual work, but watching nonstop TV and fighting imaginary battles in his mind.
His type of combative personality wears everyone else out, but he could be at a point where he realizes people are sick of it as the economy wobbles and his poll numbers are not good.
Between eating , sleeping, twooping (tweeting while pooping), golfing, and watching the TV, he has no time left over for anything else,
“twooping”
I’m coming up with a new acronym for the ‘net. It shall be known as LWG, or laughing while gagging.
He looks exhausted because he knows he is a fraud. It is an everyday battle to lie to yourself. We already know he is not a secure person and he likes projecting. This creeps up on you.
One day…
Karma…I shall wait.
Join me in hoping for …
Every single day.
Torn. I want him to pay but as they say, perfect is the enemy of good.
We’re headed down to the Bahamas over the weekend to help out where we can. Any Celebitches near the Abacos? My husband’s family’s old place there was decimated. His brother was living there and evacuated safely. We were spared but for some nasty rip currents, higher than normal tidal surges, and a few wind and rain bands.
That’s so awesome that you’re able to contribute to relief efforts, Paranormal Girl. My husband and I are trying to figure out how best to help his family that is down there.
Where are they? We’re in the Exuma Cays. There are some really decent direct relief efforts. I can get the information and post it here. My friend’s husband is a chef and he’s going to be hooking up with Jose Andres who is heading there to cook for the people and the responders. We’re bringing some water purifiers, portable solar arrays, food, tents, and clothing.
Here are some organizations where 90% or more of the money donated goes directly to the Bahamas:
https://www.allhandsandhearts.org/
https://www.caringforthebahamas.com/
https://www.coreresponse.org/
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/hurricane-dorian-relief-fund/#menu
https://wck.org/chef-relief-team
Thanks for posting the links! Glad to hear Jose Andres is at it again and that there are other good teams helping.
https://wck.org/chef-relief-team is Jose’s site. You can totally donate there to help fund the food efforts.
Thanks so much – And José Andres is awesome.
@paranormal girl
So sorry to hear your family was directly affected. Hugs to you and amazing of you to go there to bring relief to the evacuees.
Those in the Abacos and Grand Bahama (not to mention New Providence, which got a glancing, but substantial blow) are truly suffering and in need. The utter destruction is heartbreaking and overwhelming. I’m going to do some post trauma counseling. We all can do what we all can do. I am blessed in all that I have now and to not remember where I come from and to not use it for some good would be unacceptable. It’s just not how the nuns raised me (Gawd, I sound like a Hallmark movie).
Oh no. That’s heart-breaking, paranormalgirl. 🙁
I’m happy your family is safe and good for you for helping. <3
Thanks. Yep, we’re all fine and family and friends are safe. Things can be replaced, people cannot.
My husband is originally from the Bahamas and his father and all extended family are still there. They are all safe. They live on islands which have had flooding and winds, obviously, but not the brunt of the storm.
They are however, all heartbroken, exhausted, and just battered. A lot of them are still waiting for news of friends that live on Abaco or Grand Bahama. One of my husband’s cousins texted me that their friends were fighting off sharks in their kitchen from the flooding ocean waters. Parents were trapped in attics with their babies. I think the sheer length of the hurricane just broke everyone. Can you imagine living through 2 straight days of the apocalypse, with no opportunity to feel safe or relaxed? No rest, just exhausting, crushing fear and heartbreak.
Then one of my husband’s sisters tweeted “Thank you Trump!” because Coast Guard was sent in to help rescue, not realizing Trump is an idiot who has absolutely zero interest in helping ANYONE.
Trump is an absolute moron. The #sharpiegate thread on Twitter is giving my life today.
It’s horrible and I hope all the friends and family are safe and secure.
@Mel M-
Hi supporters think it’s normal because they don’t care. I had a very disheartening conversation with my Trump-supporting mother the other night. I usually avoid political conversations with her but she asked who I like for the 2020 election. Then she started on about how Trump is trying to bring back jobs, the border crisis can’t be handled any other way, etc. I let myself get into an argument with her about it, which I shouldn’t have.
My mother considers herself a Christian and confirmed over the phone that she doesn’t like Trump as a person at all. She knows he’s racist, misogynist, narcissistic and a complete failure as a businessman. She believes he’s going to Hell when he dies and she doesn’t care. She doesn’t care about his salvation. All she cares about are his policies. I asked her what she thought Jesus would say about her attitude. She response was “Jesus said to pay your taxes and obey your government.”
So there you have it.
Didn’t Jesus say, “Suffer the little children …” Maybe that’s the reason for the cages:
uff da fee da, that’s a rough one and I’m forever grateful to my Republican, Christian parents (mostly my mom) for swallowing their pride and dislike of Hillary to vote for her over Trump. I genuinely don’t know how the rest of you do it. I wouldn’t be able to speak to them so bless you for even trying
JFC. Forgive me for saying this but your mother sounds…confused.
O_O
@Kitten. Her and my father have been brainwashed by right-wing media. In top of that, she’s always been simple-minded. Some of the things she’s said have turned into inside jokes between me and my sisters. I often joke that she’s a real-life Rose Nylund. My parents live in an alternate reality where the leftist communists want to take away everything they’ve earned and give it to people who want freebies. They believe the GOP are the party of hard-working people and are trying to maintain our democracy. Trump is a loose cannon but he’s try to right this ship. That’s what they believe and it breaks my heart. They’re not a part of the class that will benefit from this administration’s policies. Not even close
My dad is 69 and retiring next month. Not because he wants to (he does, actually) but because his position is being eliminated. He’s going to have a very difficult time finding work in his field at his age that will pay what he’s making now. He’s tired of working and wants to enjoy his golden years but my parents aren’t sure they’ll be okay. They only have one retirement account, my dad’s 401K that wasn’t opened until they were in their 40s. They’ve taken money out of it over the years to pay for a down payment on a retirement home and other life events. My dad has been wanting to retire for several years but had to keep pushing back the date because they didn’t have sufficient funds saved up. They’ve spent the last two years trying to dump enough money into the 401K because they knew his job would be terminated sooner or later. It doesn’t occur to them that the GOP they support would see them as poor capitalists a d not care about their predicament.
Oh man. That’s awful, Sean. As someone who’s bonus and raise is entirely contigent on the success of the stock market (I work with retirement plans specifically), I would love to sit them down and explain how awful Republicanism is for our economy but I also have a feeling that it would fall on deaf ears.
I just wish people like your parents could understand that it doesn’t *have* to be this way. Americans shouldn’t have to work in their seventies, just to get by. And there are candidates on the left that want to do everything they can to change that and candidates on the right who want to further exacerbate the economic wealth gap.
Sigh.
Wow, just wow. My parents are the same and I’m that same as you, avoid political talk at all costs. His policies are not “Christian” policies though. They are what the so called evangelicals want you to think are Christian policies, those people aren’t really Christians either. They are just self righteous racists. If all you do is go to church with a leader that spouts off their own interpretation of certain Bible versus then yeah you will believe this sh$t but if you actually read the Bible you know none of this is what Jesus would consider “Christian”.
Funny story though. My parents were up for the weekend. It was excruciating and things were said that I had to just ignore (like how Obama can buy another mansion when he wasn’t making hardly anything before he became president) which KILLS me but there was one bright spot. I came down one morning and they had just finished that Netflix documentary “American factory”. They stopped it when the Obama’s came on because of course. They were making comments about how it was really good and interesting but they didn’t understand why they were talking to Obama and what makes him an expert on American favorites. It gave me the greatest pleasure to inform them that the entire documentary was produced by them. Hahahahaha.
He also said,“Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Also, following a man who shows absolutely no Christian values is not what Jesus wants us to do. And we actually get to vote and choose who we want to support now and back then you really couldn’t.
@Mel M-
Well said, unfortunately my parents saw Trump as the lesser of two evils. To them, the Clintons are the worst thing ever to happen to American politics. Despite that fact that Bill left office with a $20 billion dollar surplus.
@Mel M, that was one of the readings at mass this week and as I listened, I couldn’t help but think of the Muslim ban and the children he has locked in cages.
F×ck!ng moron. I though I was actually going to see him circle Alabama on the map….only that would’ve required grey matter upstairs.
Omg I have family and friends waiting for the hurricane to hit them and he is coloring with sharpies. I don’t have words.
I’m on the Alabama Gulf Coast and even though all the local forecasters keep shouting NO DORIAN HERE, who am I gonna believe-a bunch of lyin’ professionals or Our Glorious Leader! I’m prepared-got a jug of water, a box of Saltines and a jar of peanut butter. Bring it on!
But seriously, time for the rubber room. His insanity has gone into overdrive. He needs to be removed ASAP.
We did get some glorious memes. Check out #sharpiegate
https://twitter.com/francismmaxwell/status/1169427713230159872?s=21
Wow, there are some HILARIOUS ones out there.
Wonderful!
I think he’s seriously ill and won’t be able to hold his wobbly orange jello body together much longer. I think he knows he’s sinking and will resign soon, so that he doesn’t have to “lose” the game.
I swear. I’ve said it before, the truth is what he makes it (think Cersei Lannister). He’s not disabled, he’s a megalomaniac. Everything he says and does is a grandiose performance. But what’s throwing a wrench in our existence is the sheer stupidity that’s being supported by politicians and voters. It’s, quite simply, unfathomable that such idiocy has not only a stage, but a very important presidential stage. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and all our collective hair-pulling makes his base happy.
There were a lot of stories about this yesterday. It seemed odd to me because obviously this is such a stupid thing to do but it’s rather innocuous for trumpy. So many articles about how he isn’t mentally fit for office because of a sharpie. He has never been fit for office. Oh well. This is illegal so maybe it will be Sharpiegate that saves us all.
Instilling false fear on people and worrying about crises that aren’t critical at all has been his motto from the beggining. If anything, I’m surprised he limited himself just to Alabama and didn’t say the hurricane would find it’s way up to Oregon.
People voted for this idiot and now it’s like watching a car crash EVERY DAY. Please vote next year!!
How is this really the world we are living in? This feels like a real life SNL skit. However, #sharpiegate on twitter has me in tears at my desk. Hardest I’ve laughed in a long time!
Yup, that’s what he calls power politics. And truth. Now they’ll all believe it.
Looks like a urethra, enlarged prostate and mushroom, uh, mushroom…. (yes, I know that is not physiologically or anatomically correct, but the imagery made me giggle.)
He now got a rear admiral to justify his Alabama mistake. This is unreal.
OK, so, this is petty, but I’ve been wanting to say it for a while. I’m Italian and while at university, which was during the Obama presidency, I used to work as an interpreter for overpriviledged American students which came to Italy to “immerse in the culture”. They used to make such scathing, mocking comments about our political situation, as if we (as a population) were dumb villagers who’d voted for a charismatic criminal. I remember feeling so ashamed, and belittled by their attitude.
Well, I wonder what they’re thinking now.
Trump needs to be drug tested ASAP.