I just saw the two videos posted on Twitter by MeidasTouch. One shows Trump mocking Joe Biden’s stutter. The second, Joe Biden meeting a boy with a stutter and telling him he’s smart and capable and “don’t let it define you…I know about bullies.” He even hugs him and calls him “honey.” That’s empathy. That’s human decency. MAGA hate it, and they will mock him for it. A recent post by someone here on the Substack might have summed it up best. Responding to a MAGA comment about getting ready for 4 more years of Trump, the person replied, “get ready to experience a true silent majority.” The polls may or may not be of value. But I’m certain these contrasting videos alone serve as accurate, poignant campaign messages. Vote for human decency, for however long we can keep it. I believe decent people overwhelmingly will. When they do, it should serve as uplifting proof that we aren’t beyond hope.
The GQP has been frothing to raid SSI coffers ever since I can remember. It has remained a single segment of federally controlled $$$ they've not yet been able to rob blind.
But gawdz 'elp them, they're not going to stop trying.
"Gimme one moment, just hold on [muffled shouting across the room] Callista? Callista?! Did you get that lump checked? Yeah? What was the verdict? Oh! I mean, great!" [call ended]
I keep thinking back to Marcie Jones' post this morning on Orban/Finklestein's 'winning strategy.':
What is that winning strategy? Pick an enemy, and be mean. “Vicious and mean,” Finkelstein told a college audience in Prague in 2011. “Negative, negative, negative — ′cause you can’t possibly win otherwise.” On Finkelstein’s advice, Orbán chose George Soros to demonize, and also repetitively screamed about dirty criminal immigrants coming to replace all the nice white people of Hungary.
And lie, lie, lie. “The most overwhelming fact of politics is what people do not know. In politics, it’s what you perceive to be true that’s true, not truth. If I tell you one thing is true, you will believe the second thing is true. A good politician will tell you a few things that are true before he will tell you a few things that are untrue, because you will then believe all the things he has said, true and untrue.”
The difference between Biden and the rumpled sack of mildew encrusted diapers running against him
Is Biden sometimes garbles his words. That was true 40 years ago. He’s not forgetting who he’s running against, or who is president, or who is Nancy Pelosi, or who is his wife.
That clip went on beyond the three seconds that were needed. 0 out of 7 stars, would not listen again (and maybe can't, unless I can get my ears to stop bleeding from the first listen).
Because the base, belligerent cruelties of a 5th grade playground bully is the fiercest fight that this foul fascist fuckwit is capable of mustering at this moment in time.
Your observation should form the core of our messaging as November approaches. Get people to ask themselves if they really want to vote for Scut Farkas.
"And who can forget what happened to good ol' Honest Abe? That's a name I invented, by the way, hope you like it- I call him that because you know "I cannot tell a lie", maybe he should, who knows? But you see him, out one night in the theater, and that terrible- it was a terrible thing that happened, and I blame, honestly, I blame the golden ticket. Not a good idea! Terrible! Horrible idea! Whoever made that, only bad things! You see it, and it was OK when it was just for chocolate factories, but then they started with the movies too, so Abe is there and he's enjoying, bing bing bong, he's enjoying you see the teenagers and they're running around the lake, but there's someone who's not so good and he's not so he's a bad hombre, a real piece of work, you see him- it's Jason Voorhees. And lemme tell you, you do not want to get on his bad side! And people say "oh no, it was his mom!" but lemme tell you, that's not all the time. But he came to life, he came right outta that screen, [mimes either chopping or trying to feed paper into a shredder, it's unclear which] that's. That's the last you see of Lincoln. And he was a Republican. Now the Democrats with their green new dumb want to - it's dumb, isn't it? That's why I call- but they wanna protect the lake! Can you believe that! They wanna protect the lake that killed Lincoln!"
sorry for the OT but I need tech help for my internet. Randomly throughout the day the connection will drop. My husband still sees the wifi icon but it says no internet available. I see no icon at all. I just did a speed test and do not understand any of it.
Also, look for a third-party downtime site, as providers like Optimum often like to pretend everything is hunky dory when they have entire counties disconnected.
That's not a bad ping time, and getting an upload speed that high is pretty good as well. Looks like you have approximately 100Mbps service. However, if you're seeing "no internet available," either there is a problem on the WAN side (everything heading into your modem or router), or your router/modem/whatever device needs to be restarted. First step would be to unplug whatever you use to connect to the Internet, wait 30-45 seconds, then plug it in and wait for everything to come back online. If you have both a cable modem and a separate router/WiFi device, I'd also unplug and plug it back in when you do the same to your modem.
You have a 100/100 megabit per second internet service. Those are nice stats. I would bet that the WiFi router (yours? ISP's?) is booting/rebooting due to some other set of issues.
Just as conservaturds are onerously inclined to shoot themselves in the foot with their own firearms they're similarly prone to ratcheting themselves up one side and then back down the other with their own rhetorical rapid fire.
What is it with this guy and speeches? If he's not talking about something he he's accomplished, he's talking about plans to accomplish something. It just comes off as needy.
I miss having a president who is secure enough to bring in a bunch of people to sit around a table and tell him how great he is.
Trump today said he wants cuts to Social Security and Medicare today. I'm a life-long Democrat, but I'll probably have to vote for Trump since Biden's making so many speeches.
The mendacious mitts of Rethuglicons have been aching to to pilfer into oblivion the coffers of both programs ever since I started paying attention around 1974.
I just saw the two videos posted on Twitter by MeidasTouch. One shows Trump mocking Joe Biden’s stutter. The second, Joe Biden meeting a boy with a stutter and telling him he’s smart and capable and “don’t let it define you…I know about bullies.” He even hugs him and calls him “honey.” That’s empathy. That’s human decency. MAGA hate it, and they will mock him for it. A recent post by someone here on the Substack might have summed it up best. Responding to a MAGA comment about getting ready for 4 more years of Trump, the person replied, “get ready to experience a true silent majority.” The polls may or may not be of value. But I’m certain these contrasting videos alone serve as accurate, poignant campaign messages. Vote for human decency, for however long we can keep it. I believe decent people overwhelmingly will. When they do, it should serve as uplifting proof that we aren’t beyond hope.
I realize the writers don't write the headlines, but seriously? "Trump’s freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/trump-campaign-speech-anatomy/
How about "Trump batshit speeches..."?
Truth has a liberal "bias" you know.
The WP and NYT adjective police will be busy this election season
earlier today Gabe Sanchez on Meidas Touch called Stephen Miller the "MAGA Nosferatu" and I LOLed.
OT: It's OUR money, asshole.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲: ‘𝗔 𝗟𝗼𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼’
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/03/trump-a-lot-you-can-do-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare/
He doesn't have a fucking clue how any of this works!
All he's required to do is what his owner$ tell him to do.
"look what Joe Biden made me do to your money!"
Classic abuser syndrome. "Look at what you made me do!"
The GQP has been frothing to raid SSI coffers ever since I can remember. It has remained a single segment of federally controlled $$$ they've not yet been able to rob blind.
But gawdz 'elp them, they're not going to stop trying.
Republicans are certainly working as hard as they can it loot the programs' funding.
Don't overdo it Joe!
OT: Vicious, porcine has-been throws tantrum.
𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘁 𝗚𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗨𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁 — 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗣 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗢𝗧𝗨
https://www.mediaite.com/news/newt-gingrich-hangs-up-on-reporter-asking-about-katie-britt-after-hyping-her-as-trumps-potential-vp-prior-to-sotu/
poor little salamander
These wussies really don't like getting push back, do they.
Cowardly snowflakes, every one.
It's part of the regretting electing Loser thing you talked about.
awwww! look who wants to be relevant!
(I thought he was dead. For real.)
He's got that "bloated corpse" look down pat!
Mostly.
it's been getting harder and harder to tell
"Gimme one moment, just hold on [muffled shouting across the room] Callista? Callista?! Did you get that lump checked? Yeah? What was the verdict? Oh! I mean, great!" [call ended]
Assumes Callista has enough tissue clinging to those bones to form a lump. I’m skeptical
Cmon, Vanky was always slated to be his VP pick.
To establish the dynasty.
Remember that MAGA Meme that had all the Trumps being president one after another? Good times ...
Speaking o' which...
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗥𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 — 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿
https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-trump-stumbles-and-slurs-through-rally-where-he-mocked-bidens-stutter/
I keep thinking back to Marcie Jones' post this morning on Orban/Finklestein's 'winning strategy.':
What is that winning strategy? Pick an enemy, and be mean. “Vicious and mean,” Finkelstein told a college audience in Prague in 2011. “Negative, negative, negative — ′cause you can’t possibly win otherwise.” On Finkelstein’s advice, Orbán chose George Soros to demonize, and also repetitively screamed about dirty criminal immigrants coming to replace all the nice white people of Hungary.
And lie, lie, lie. “The most overwhelming fact of politics is what people do not know. In politics, it’s what you perceive to be true that’s true, not truth. If I tell you one thing is true, you will believe the second thing is true. A good politician will tell you a few things that are true before he will tell you a few things that are untrue, because you will then believe all the things he has said, true and untrue.”
Dang, he's also sweating like it's August, not March.
In Australia, March is August.
I just thought he'd been dipped in pig fat.
The difference between Biden and the rumpled sack of mildew encrusted diapers running against him
Is Biden sometimes garbles his words. That was true 40 years ago. He’s not forgetting who he’s running against, or who is president, or who is Nancy Pelosi, or who is his wife.
The message comes through. Biden believes in public service. Trump doesn't know what that means.
It doesn't mean money for donnie so he doesn't care.
No, he knows exactly what it means. Members of the armed services, in his eyes, are "suckers and losers." They're in public service.
In his eyes everybody is a sucker and loser.
Joe's actually gotten better. Now he says "But anyways..." Back in 1988, who knows what would have come out of his mouth!
Nor has Biden betrayed America to its enemies.
aside from the slurring and glitching out, he's sloppy even with his gaslighting.
That clip went on beyond the three seconds that were needed. 0 out of 7 stars, would not listen again (and maybe can't, unless I can get my ears to stop bleeding from the first listen).
Because the base, belligerent cruelties of a 5th grade playground bully is the fiercest fight that this foul fascist fuckwit is capable of mustering at this moment in time.
the clips of his speeches let you know how dependent he is on a cult following.
outside of the carefully crafted bubble, none of this works.
Supported by the "liberal" media of cuorse.
helping craft and maintain the bubble makes them a lot of money
Your observation should form the core of our messaging as November approaches. Get people to ask themselves if they really want to vote for Scut Farkas.
Every confession, is a projection.
NOBODY would buy it.
NOBODY.
Future historians: "Wtf?!"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/us/politics/trump-biden-georgia-rally.html
Pay walled.
Thenx!
surprised Trumpty hasn't gone after Jill Biden yet for some imagined slight
Which reminds me, what's the latest on Melania? Kinda scarce, lately.
Wouldn't it be bonkers if he did? She's like Glinda the Good Witch. How do you go after that?
He's prolly afraid of her.
It demonstrates that there are some people who do not understand the concept of empathy. "I never thought the leopard would eat MY face?!!??!?1"
A Rethug would only support gun control if one of their kids was shot---even then that's iffy
I mean, you have Steve Scalise who is so stupid that he pimps for the NRA even though he almost got murderized by gun violence himself.
Trump: "All of the best cuts. The most luxurious cuts that probably, except for Abraham Lincoln, anyone has ever seen"
"And who can forget what happened to good ol' Honest Abe? That's a name I invented, by the way, hope you like it- I call him that because you know "I cannot tell a lie", maybe he should, who knows? But you see him, out one night in the theater, and that terrible- it was a terrible thing that happened, and I blame, honestly, I blame the golden ticket. Not a good idea! Terrible! Horrible idea! Whoever made that, only bad things! You see it, and it was OK when it was just for chocolate factories, but then they started with the movies too, so Abe is there and he's enjoying, bing bing bong, he's enjoying you see the teenagers and they're running around the lake, but there's someone who's not so good and he's not so he's a bad hombre, a real piece of work, you see him- it's Jason Voorhees. And lemme tell you, you do not want to get on his bad side! And people say "oh no, it was his mom!" but lemme tell you, that's not all the time. But he came to life, he came right outta that screen, [mimes either chopping or trying to feed paper into a shredder, it's unclear which] that's. That's the last you see of Lincoln. And he was a Republican. Now the Democrats with their green new dumb want to - it's dumb, isn't it? That's why I call- but they wanna protect the lake! Can you believe that! They wanna protect the lake that killed Lincoln!"
All we're missing is a Muholland Drive reference.
"John Wilkes Booth? Who? Never heard of him."
"They came to me in tears. Begging. Begging for cuts..."
They said "Sir?"
"He’s just doing a lot of things right now!"
Instead of posting hate-filled gibberish on some busted-ass social-media site at 3AM...
How dare he buck the status quo...
"... up past your jail time ..."
BHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
< -- was amused
sorry for the OT but I need tech help for my internet. Randomly throughout the day the connection will drop. My husband still sees the wifi icon but it says no internet available. I see no icon at all. I just did a speed test and do not understand any of it.
download 92.8mbps
upload 94.8 mbps
jitter 1ms
ping 4ms
Please Help
Switch to 4G on your device. It penetrates walls better and is less subject to interference than 5G, but it's slightly slower.
1. Did you turn modem/ router/ wifi all off and back on again.
2. Check your Internet service provider for an outage map to see if there are problems in your area.
Also, look for a third-party downtime site, as providers like Optimum often like to pretend everything is hunky dory when they have entire counties disconnected.
That's not a bad ping time, and getting an upload speed that high is pretty good as well. Looks like you have approximately 100Mbps service. However, if you're seeing "no internet available," either there is a problem on the WAN side (everything heading into your modem or router), or your router/modem/whatever device needs to be restarted. First step would be to unplug whatever you use to connect to the Internet, wait 30-45 seconds, then plug it in and wait for everything to come back online. If you have both a cable modem and a separate router/WiFi device, I'd also unplug and plug it back in when you do the same to your modem.
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I have Optimum (used to be Suddenlink), and whenever the dynamic IP is that they assign me changes, I usually have to reboot my cable modem.
You have a 100/100 megabit per second internet service. Those are nice stats. I would bet that the WiFi router (yours? ISP's?) is booting/rebooting due to some other set of issues.
That old guy is doing a lot of things lately! Maybe he's not so weak, feeble and incoherent as the media and republicans have been saying.
After all, he just stole all these elections.
He's also unencumbered by lawsuits. UNFAIR!!!11!
He's still on the loose after murdering Katie Britt with all those illegal borders? Can no one cage this monster?!?
"Round up the posse, Jack!"
We’re gonna need a shitload of dimes!
Just grab any . . . wait, wrong President.
Kitties are *not* good in a posse. They tend to need rounding up themselves.
Ehhh, she murdered herself with that fundie baby voice.
https://medium.com/@amber_wardell/katie-britts-phony-fundie-baby-voice-what-that-whole-performance-was-supposed-to-tell-us-c312950a3d54
Just as conservaturds are onerously inclined to shoot themselves in the foot with their own firearms they're similarly prone to ratcheting themselves up one side and then back down the other with their own rhetorical rapid fire.
What is it with this guy and speeches? If he's not talking about something he he's accomplished, he's talking about plans to accomplish something. It just comes off as needy.
I miss having a president who is secure enough to bring in a bunch of people to sit around a table and tell him how great he is.
A real President has a fake blonde show binders full of blank pages to inform the people.
Binders full of blondes?
Kinky
HIT 'EM WITH THE CHAIR, JOE!
So is the White House still hiding Joe Biden from the public? I’m so confused.
Because "old" and "senile"
Trump today said he wants cuts to Social Security and Medicare today. I'm a life-long Democrat, but I'll probably have to vote for Trump since Biden's making so many speeches.
Entitlement - An entitlement is the right to a particular privilege or benefit, granted by law or custom
So gtfooh
Wiping away Social Security is a Republican religious kink from 90 years ago. Bush II was about to try but the recession scared them off.
Suffering and working until our deaths will bring us closer to God. Nothing matters. Existence is pain. Embrace your misery.
Evangelical Christian affirmation or opening of hot leather/sm short story? You decide.
The mendacious mitts of Rethuglicons have been aching to to pilfer into oblivion the coffers of both programs ever since I started paying attention around 1974.
It is important to remember that IT IS OUR MONEY DAMMIT..
sorry, got a little excited there.
You've absolutely NOTHING to apologize for.
Rethuglicons must be remined of that irrevocable fact at every opportunity.
They know the "cutting" is total bullshit. It does rile up the oldes, though.