US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in in voting,” he said. “It should be, you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself.”

gross

“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in in voting,” he said, purely based not on evidence or facts, but out his abundant ignorance.

“It should be, you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself.”

Strongly reminding me of the Longmont Potion Castle bit where he called people and asked them if they were willing to vote on stilts, thirty feet high, loud and proud.

I mean, that's the party line though, just translated into Trump talk

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Like 160,000 other Palm Beach County voters, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have requested vote-by-mail ballots for Florida’s presidential primary.

The ballots were picked up for Trump on Monday, and as of Wednesday had not been submitted, according to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website.

During his visit to Palm Beach last weekend, Trump apparently chose to forgo an opportunity to go to an early voting site to cast a ballot in the Republican primary, for which he is a huge favorite to win.

people he's really serious about these public health measures, do you not see that?

The mail-in voting cheats are mostly Republican men forcing their cowed wives to vote for Trump afaik

"I don't think I'm going to be doing it," he said, going on to suggest it was hard to envision such a thing in the Oval Office: "Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — I just don't see it."

First of all, nice job setting an example for your devoted followers. Now at least 40% of Americans will refuse to wear them, even as you half-heartedly roll out your new guidance recommending them.

Second of all, I love that dictators are way up there on his list of heads of state that he greets on the regular.

"where's my favorite little dictator?"

"I don't see what's so bad about dictatorships. I mean Charlie Chaplin even made a movie about, uh, how great dictators are!"

I feel like "kings, queens" is even more telling in its unreality

He won't wear a mask because it'll smudge his makeup.

He won't wear a mask because it'll efface his grandiose self-image.

that trumo mask in full

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/f/f4/Immortan_Joe.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20150517025325

*reads approval ratings*

MEDIOCRE!

“You’re trying to jam in your preexisting support for Medicare for All & social democracy into the covid crisis” yes correct, the crisis violently & horrifically amplifying long-existing inequities can be solved w/ ideas that seek to mitigate those inequities. genius observation!

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 3, 2020

every POTUS regularly greets dictators, just another example of the Potato's accidental honesty

Re masks: Trump even makes for a terrible germaphobe. May as well have elected David Puddy.

I agree with Morbius

(although the way Trump plays up his enjoyment of hanging out with authoritarian heads of state is pretty exceptional)

Feel like this belongs here instead of being dumped in the insane-cartoons thread where fewer people will see it:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUOTAOrXgAAHEjo.png

Can't wait til they inject me with that devil juice

#7: PROFIT

You got a preview of the upcoming campaign--whatever form that takes--today (paraphrase): "Joe isn't watching right now--and if he is, he doesn't understand what he's seeing."

“Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die... The professionals did the models. I was never involved in a model. At least not this kind of model."
He really did say that!

pic.twitter.com/UswZxWSCPe

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ (@g_gosden) April 4, 2020

wtf

I am totally shocked by this dude, I don’t think he has the right temperament to be president, tbh!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/i-think-president-struck-different-tone-today-then-again-i-am-goldfish/

honestly the sub-Borscht belt tangents are the only times he seems like an actual human being. a bad one obv, but

"Take my wife, I've just purchased a younger one"

It just galls me to no end that the president is such a selfish, self-centered fuck that he wouldn’t lift a finger to help a fellow human being without first asking if they were going to vote for him. Except when his handlers/advisors are making him do something “presidential”, in which case he always makes it clear that he is doing it unwillingly.

After a couple of days last week where he looked as mortified as he's capable of looking, based on yesterday I think he's found his comfort zone with this. Expect more stand-up and more fighting with reporters this week.

Good morning!

jesus christ: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals

Happened in buffalo too, with a shipment that arrived in Pittsburgh, iirc

not sure where to put this, but great thread here re: private equity in general and specifically w/r/t current mess and Trump admin

During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of pressed vegetable matter, I stumbled on Simon Lovell's HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING at the St Mark's Bookshop.https://t.co/yYGznIkWwp

1/ pic.twitter.com/jOaq4oJUMi

— Bernie Beats Trump (@doctorow) April 4, 2020

Read that thread and ordered the book. (I read a lot of books about cons, hoaxes, scams, etc. anyway.)

You might like this then--nonstop cons, hoaxes, and scams.

http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OvZyNcbJL.jpg

(Roger Lowenstein's Origins of the Crash.)

whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals

What, states just think they can BUY things? How cute. Don't they know that the right way to get things is to beg Trump for them in flattering tones?

everyone in private equity should be jailed

Here's a twist: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-crozier-positive-coronavirus.html

Knowing what we know about the virus, I'd imagine that everyone on the ship has contracted it? Especially after his send-off...

Captain Crozier Is a Hero
Theodore Roosevelt, my great-grandfather, would agree.

By Tweed Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt is a great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the chairman of the Theodore Roosevelt Institute at Long Island University.

are you serious with that name

have u met his brother Seersucker

Willing to bet Tweed is a middle name.

Blue Suede Roosevelt

Henry has his uses but his great talent is taking the shape demanded by whoever is in charge. pic.twitter.com/UWY6dCP2VQ

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 4, 2020

hahaha I just read that

and dear lord I don't want George W. Bush trending