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kmblue187's avatar

I gotta another one for ya:

On 9/11, Trump called in to a radio show and this was his comment:

“40 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest. And then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest."

“And now it’s the tallest.”

And MAGAs don't believe he's a malignant narcissistic sociopath.

He was even lying about 40 Wall Street being the second tallest building in lower Manhattan, simply put it wasn't.

Thousands are dying before his eyes and that's what he said.

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kmblue187's avatar

Remember when Trump got out of the hospital and dramatically tore off his mask?

We were spared something even worse, Trump wanted to put a Superman t-shirt under his white shirt and jacket and tear them off at the appropriate moment. His staff wrestled him to the ground and talked him out of it.

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kmblue187's avatar

500 thousand to one million Americans dead because Trump didn't want to jeopardize his reelection by sounding the alarm. Then he took over the podium at those daily press conferences and suggesting injecting disinfectant, using horse wormer, and eating products for fish tanks.

Worst person to be in charge ever.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Oh, yes, let's go back to the days of "policy via Twitter." If he gets enough sycophants into the bureaucracy this time around, they might actually ignore any silly "rules" or "laws" and actually implement whatever madness his brain worms have whispered to him next time.

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ZorPern's avatar

Thanks Dok. It hasn't miraculously disappeared (yet).

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beb's avatar

Even four years ago the Orange One had trouble speaking in complete sentences. Since then it has gotten so much worse.

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

To really bring that point home, go find a campaign trail speech from 2015. He was still firing on all cylinders then - an asshole, but a coherent one. Then compare to his rambling present day output. In a normal human being, the obvious decline would be really sad.

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

The brain damage has gotten too obvious.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. I worked through it all. For a couple of weeks, we worked four days a week from home and one day a week in the office, then we returned to full time. I started out with one antiviral Curad mask (I'd bought them to visit the FQHC near home) under a painting mask, the entirety wrapped in a pashmina. I had a letter in my bag from the medical director of our clinics, stating that I was an essential worker. I never had to show it to anyone; no one but essential workers was taking the train.

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Bored nuke's avatar

taking flights out of LAX where the entire street was empty was one of the eeriest things I have ever seen. even stranger than the full size plane with like 5 passengers. and yeah the little essential worker permission slips that nobody ever looked at. Work travel agency still attaches it to my tickets lol.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

Per SER's recent brilliant article, Republicans shouldn't claim they were better off 4 years ago either, even though their God King was squatting in the WH: https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/republicans-were-against-2020-before

"No one was all that happy during 2020, but it’s impossible to understate how unhappy right-wingers were. Conservative philosophy is big on flag pins and other hollow displays of patriotism, but it tends to balk at any real shared sacrifice. The U.S. was on lockdown for barely a month before conservatives were revolting."

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Remember when they were ready to take Gretchen Whitmer out behind the chemical shed because she wouldn't let them hang out at Home Depot, and it was spring, goddammit!

They needed their mulch and grass seed.

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Cock Blockula's avatar

I found conservatives revolting even before the lockdown... (ba-dum, sissss!)

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

I for one don’t miss the days when we were using coffee filters for toilet paper.

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Sister Artemis's avatar

even worse: using toilet paper for coffee filters.... all that linty stuff floating to the top of the cup! (yes, tried this when in my early 20s, not successful and yet somehow memorable)

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Bruce's avatar

Or the days I spent making cloth masks because real ones simply couldn't be had for love nor money, knowing that they were better than nothing, while our goddamn medical establishment were blithely telling us that 'You don't need masks'. My (at the time) 35 year old Microbiology degree informed me that they were fucking damned liars; and I was wondering why they were willingly condemning a lot of us to an agonizing, gasping death.

Turned out they were ordered to say that by the fat fuck's administration.

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Sister Artemis's avatar

I made dozens and dozens, sent them to family, friends, and I think a couple of wonkers like WomanComingHome, who were working in grocery stores. I still have instructions up on my languishing blog, sort of as a marker in time.

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John_atx's avatar

I guess Joe Lieberman just died. 82.

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Free beach's avatar

See?? Even Lieberman was alive 4 years ago!! Jeez!! Libs.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Was he vaxxed?

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Free beach's avatar

Clearly

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John_atx's avatar

Yeah. In 2020, my kid was in his second year of his residency, working in hospitals in the northeast. One mask per person. It had to last, because of no additional ones (thanks, Jared). No vaccine yet. Everyone in his residency year eventually caught COVID. So, yes , things are better now than 4 years ago.

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Barney Rubble's avatar

GM should have dropped $2bn into Jared's account. The DPA would have been invoked that afternoon.

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jeffocaster's avatar

Trump:

Christ, you know it ain't easy

You know how hard it can be

The way things are going

They're gonna crucify me

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

I certainly am better off now than four years ago. I am...

...not so worried I am going to die.

...cooking better food with new skills learned at a helpful mommy blog.

...much more satisfied with the White House occupant and his support staff.

...just LOVING all these new crime and legal dramas dogging the man now known as the 'predecessor'.

There are so many ways to say "Yes I am better off than four years ago because..."

But an exhaustive list will take up time better spent with my sweetheart who I did not know four years ago.

For all this and more all I can say is "THANK YOU PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN! THANK YOU FIRST LADY DOCTOR JILL BIDEN!"

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arensb's avatar

On the plus side, four years ago is when I learned that I _do_ like working from home, actually, and that putting on pants was overrated.

Narrator: He already knew that pants were overrated.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Just by having these absolutely sadistic people he cuddled up with and hired, President Klan Robe will have now doomed us to defenselessness to the next pandemic. When all is said and done he'll have a death toll of millions.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

Yes. This whole "Who needs gubmint for anything?" was a Reagan Rhetorical Special, but it snowballed via the Tea Party and the Trump idiots into what we're looking at now: a pack of deliberately, gleefully incompetent jokers who just want to take control so they can pilfer and ransack everybody else's stuff. Americans are lurching mindlessly towards a form of government in which only one person matters, only one person is free.

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