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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's such a weird complaint, too. How hard can it be for a billionaire to find a decent shower head? When you have that kind of money, there are plenty of overpriced options to turn your shower into a deluge of torrential water. Hell, you even have waterfall showers, which produce a literal mini-waterfall in your shower (don't buy those, though, they are crappy showers, as my parents found out a bit too late).
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He maybe got a problem due to not actually being a "billionaire" (I trust him for zero cents until his taxes has been published and established his true worth) and can't actually afford a new shower head due to thinking that he looks "weak" by doing something mere "commoners" would do while trying to push the cost on the white house instead to cover up how bankrupt he really is?
As evil a bastard as Trump is, I think it's also become clear that he IS failing mentally.
Recently he said the Democrats want to outlaw animals and the Empire State Building.
Mike Pence is the President as far as I can tell now. We're in full Mad King mode now.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 13th 2020 at 9:31:50 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Making outlandish claims doesn't mean Trump's mental faculties have declined. Republicans always make outlandish claims and Trump's always been terrible at it because he's an idiot.
Republicans thrive on fear-mongering. They say easily disprovable things and then win elections in places where nobody bothers fact-checking them on it. Trump's been doing exactly that for years, but his disprovable things are often ridiculous because he isn't a politician and has no idea what he's doing.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.An interviewer asked a question he could not reasonably answer without looking bad, and Trump proceeded to waffle about making statements about his favorite soapboxes rather than answer the question.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think it's an overestimation to always assume that a reply is intentionally calculated, and always assume that the incoherent stream of pet peeves is actually clever dissemination.
It was a question intentionally framed by a friendly reviewer to give him an easy line of attack on either Biden or Harris, and he took neither. This is Trump; he doesn't care about making controversial statements.
The difference between a standard Chewbacca Defence and what Trump does is in the industrial-sized tub of Nair, the beach ball, the tutu and the hotdog stand.
I don't think it means Trump has declining mental faculties, he is just... weird. Like how he thinks you need ID to go to the supermarket, or his oddly specific instructions for his cleaning staff. The man is just extremely eccentric.
And while he may have exaggerated his wealth, he is still very, very rich. Let's not pretend the man is anything close to poor.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesSo, regarding Trump and mail-in voting... he votes by mail, he did a 180 and started telling people to vote by mail... and yet, he basically wants to destroy the USPS. M84 mentioned that mail-in voting doesn't really favor any party in particular. Do y'all think he doesn't even trust his own base?
Edited by AngrokVa on Aug 13th 2020 at 1:08:21 PM
I actually looked up the question just now. This is what Hannity asks Trump.
I know that you get attacked pretty much, as I've said and I'll say it with the mob and the media watching because they lied about Russia. We now know that the FBI knew from the sub source of Christopher Steele that that dossier was phony. We know that Hillary Clinton's, even the New York Times now recognizes that her bought-and-paid-for Russian dossier was likely Russian disinformation from the beginning.
But my question's more about her attack on Biden on the issue of race and, y'know, the reality is he did praise the guy that filibustered the Civil Rights Act. Imagine if you'd done that! Biden did support the Anti-Busing Amendment of Robert Byrd. And by the way he did say that he worried that his children would grow up in a 'racial jungle', referring to school and immigration.
And he did use the comment recently that black and poor kids are just as smart as white kids and in a previous campaign, "They're going to put you all in chains" and "You can't go to a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-11 unless you have a slight Indian accent" and what he said about even Barack Obama: "Clean, bright, and articulate." That's storybook, man! He likes to say the words, "Come on, man! Come on, man!" Your reactions to her attacks on him on the issue of race?
Trump gave an incoherent, rambling, train-of-thought response to an incoherent, rambling, train-of-thought question.
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X3 Historically it hasn’t favoured Democrats, but voter-enfranchisement does favour Democrats, so with mail-in voting moving from being a thing that enfranchised a niche group of voters, to being a thing that enfranchises all voters, it’s probably crossed the line into helping Democrats.
This is far from clear, he certainly lives a wealthy lifestyle, but we have no idea how much of that stuff is actually his or how much debt he has.
Edited by Silasw on Aug 13th 2020 at 5:21:52 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAnd while he may have exaggerated his wealth, he is still very, very rich. Let's not pretend the man is anything close to poor.
Pretty much this, yes. He's not declining; he's always been like this. Trump is a dim-witted rich white man so privileged as to have never needed to develop social filters or anything remotely resembling actual skills, suddenly handed the keys to the kingdom. He's an old rich guy screaming at kids to get off his lawn, except he's doing it from a position where he can make whatever bug he has up his butt today into formal government policy.
He doesn't have policies, he has beefs. He hates clean energy because he thinks windmills are ugly and ruin his golf courses. He literally became President because he was pissy that Barack Obama made fun of him once for creating Birtherism. And now he's beefing with showerheads.
He's just. Like. Also a kleptocratic white supremacist conspiracy theorist. So sometimes his beefs are "Government regulations ruined my morning shower!" and other times they're "Why do we allow brown people to exist?"
This is who Trump is and has been for his entire political career.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 13th 2020 at 10:26:33 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.With Trump and defunding the USPS primarily because of mail-in voting, CNN has an article about it
.
"They want three and a half billion dollars for something that'll turn out to be fraudulent, that's election money basically. They want three and a half billion dollars for the mail-in votes. Universal mail-in ballots. They want $25 billion, billion, for the Post Office. Now they need that money in order to make the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump said, repeating his false claims that mail-in voting would be "fraudulent."
"But if they don't get those two items that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because you they're not equipped to have it," Trump added.
A Cluster F-Bomb is the only response I have to this misbegotten, selfish, petulant little fucking man-baby. The Department of Defense is currently requesting $705.4 billion
, yet he doesn't see fit to give the Postal Service roughly 3% of that? And for this petty a fucking reason? FUCK him. Fuck him in his orange goddamned asshole with his own Toad-like dick.
Edited by ironballs16 on Aug 13th 2020 at 1:35:20 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Can't he just be arrested now?
He is admitting in the open that he is doing everything in his power to undermine american rights to vote for all of its citizens by doing this.
He is taking away the rights of the american people!
If that isn't a crime then what is!?
Edited by TitanJump on Aug 13th 2020 at 7:42:24 PM
Well, there is no specific law for sabotaging critical services. And even if there was laws have no power if they're not enforced, and who would do that? The Congress which is controlled by Republicans in the upper chamber?
No, the only thing that will stop Trump is people organizing and doing what we can to get him out of office.
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Hence my pointing out that it's for a petty reason. Also, he's cited what happened in "Patterson" (actually Paterson) New Jersey as to why mail-in ballots are fraudulent
. Except, as the linked article points out, it was postal inspectors who rang the alarm about it, and Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson, Councilman-elect Alex Mendez, and two others were charged with fraud - none of whom were affiliated with the USPS.
In a case in which a Postal employee did commit such a crime, the crime was swiftly found out about
, the employee fired, and he pleaded guilty to one count of “Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election” and one count of “Injury to the Mail”, which was caught by the County Clerk who knew the voters in question. Because of that, he faces eight years in jail. Sanctity of the mail is Serious Business for the postal service, though Trump wouldn't know that because he's never worked an honest day in his life.
Edited by ironballs16 on Aug 13th 2020 at 1:43:34 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Federal guidelines on prosecuting people for election tampering say not to arrest anyone until after the election is done. I’m not sure how recent that bit of the guidance is, but I’m sure nobody will be surprised that the guidelines were reissued under Trump.
That’s the problem, the federal government work for Trump, they won’t arrest him as long as he’s president. I’m not sure what would happen if a state government issued a warrant, on this instance they’d be better of issuing one for Trump’s new head of the postal service.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

The ideal is that Trump was snoring in the rec room while they reached this deal.
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