I think that's accurate. He's a man so thoroughly false and fake that all his utterances and gestures can only be understood as parts of a big con, a "patriotic" dumb show of bilkery, a living version of Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man, wherein a mysterious stranger boards a Mississippi steamboat and manipulates the passengers by exploiting their trust, vanity, greed, and prejudices [A.I. assist for the summary].
Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani "and the rest of the half-baked half-wits who filed lawsuits challenging the election results in 2020" (Truscott) introduced affidavits ("statements" not taken under oath) alleging (for example) that somebody saw an election worker in Georgia hand a flash drive to another worker. No followup, because, for example in the Georgia instance when someone bothered to ask more questions, the alleged flash drive turned out to be a breath mint. "Somebody heard." "Somebody saw." Mere statements without substance or proof, yet perfect for the Fox News hounds of our Republic who, abandoning all hope, believe what the con man says because all other gods have failed to deliver.
Trump spent much of his 25 minutes telling the folks that he has ordered declassified all the long-hidden secrets about the stuff that happened in 2018 and some stuff that happened in 2019 and then all came to a head in 2020 when all the conspirators succeeded in rigging the election -- for all those years, 2018, 2019, and 2020 -- Trump was president. All the relevant agencies he now wants to finger were under his control, appointed by him. But what do the Fox News hounds know? They peer into those now muddy waters and figger it must have been Biden who done it.
He's so clearly desperate to protect his own ass that he's willing to sic the January Sixth Types, or ICE, or the National Guard on whole communities that are known to detest him and his policies. Everyone expects the worst, come November. While I don't think he's going to discourage a single Democrat or left-leaning Independent -- they'll get themselves to the polls over hot coals, if that's what it takes, through barbed wire barricades and fields of open gunfire, and they'll vote against every Republican on any and every ballot in every county, district, and state. Some Republicans will stay home, either embarrassed past the breaking point by this president or newly uninspired or completely turned off by the Iran War (or any dozen other possible motives for disaffection in trumpland).
He's a mess. Flailing his arms maybe to scatter the odor of his own mortality. But falling asleep, dozing off, checking out when anyone else but him has something to report. How can this great over-inflated Hindenburg not crash and burn?
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You're correct that had his methane output could have been ignited by the tiniest spark causing him to combust and completely immolate. But enough
of wishful thinking. I can see the Secret Service heroically urinating on the
embers. McConnell, Graham and Pantwad; relief arriving in 3s. This speech was a threat to cancel or negate elections whenever they don't go his way.
Somebody is restraining this basket case, because he didn't threaten Warnock and Ossoff by name. Tom Tillis says he can't support Blanche. Wonder about Susan Collins. When Trump demands the Save Act disenfranchisement, that Iran surrender, that prices be lowered, that Canada stop sending smoke, that
Ice guard polling places and chase Antifa and Communists most people can see his condition is grandiose delusional . So, back to Congress: When will they terminate this shameful/existential insanity?
Also notice the long interval after you posted your review after lunch today until
I responded. We must conclude that many of his authoritarian and racist/classist/mysogynist fans are confused and bewildered. They are
wondering why their Fuhrer broadcast an address equivalent to a
cyanide capsule or a headshot by pistol.
"Trump spent much of his 25 minutes telling the folks that he has ordered declassified all the long-hidden secrets about the stuff that happened in 2018 and some stuff that happened in 2019 and then all came to a head in 2020 when all the conspirators succeeded in rigging the election -- for all those years, 2018, 2019, and 2020 -- Trump was president. All the relevant agencies he now wants to finger were under his control, appointed by him."
I don't think all of them were, but Trump didn't know because his intelligence people were running a coup against him.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2078212189605998958
Took Old HoundDog quote time to bark in defense of Ole Massa.
Maybe he has a full diaper, swollen limbs and babbling dementia holding back his feeble response. The declasse' documents were still heavily redacted and
proved nothing about voter fraud. Very much resembled Rudy Giuliani @
4 Seasons Landscaping except for the diarrhea ears trick. Demented Don clung to the lectern, read haltingly, huffed and puffed out a gravelly rasp and conveyed nothing but lies and incompetence. Russian sabotage of Biden ,
though ineffectual, was likely the strongest foreign interference. From the
Dog's howling we can see he is ready to be put down.
I remember libs on this blog wailing and gnashing their teeth over the raid of John Bolton's house.
Now he is a convicted felon, having done exactly what Trump alleged.
So it will be with these traitors.
As our country bankrupts, loses another war, becomes a Global rogue shame,
can't afford gas or food, sinks into Depression, is dwarfed by China, and is being busted out by grift we begin to understand that a Smarrit Bidness
Maun was the fatal choice. Meanwhile Hound Dog howls for a Civil War.
Who's he gonna bite first? (John Bolton built his own coffin.)
Red Hornet is no lib.
Compared to me, you're to the left of Mao Zedong.
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