MeDotOrg wrote: And who in their right mind would believe that the sharpie half circle was really part of the map?
Well, there’s a dilemma for anyone in The Base. Either admit that Trump is a dumbarse for adding the sharpie line, or admit that they are the dumbarse for claiming that Team Trump did not add it.
That’s why subs can’t answer this question. There’s no face-saving option for him or his pride, here.
Why is Trump keeping this story alive? It's like one of those SNL sketches that was funny at first but goes on for too long. In reality, if this Trump-Alabama-hurricane-forecast fiasco was pitched at an SNL writers meeting, it would be rejected because it's too stupid, even for a Trump sketch.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
MeDotOrg wrote:I don't think we are there yet, but the 25th Amendment is becoming an increasingly real possibility.
When you say, "I don't think we are there yet" I assume you mean "there isn't the political will yet." You couldn't possibly mean, "He's not deserving yet."
The dude deserved to be removed for incompetence in early 2017.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
So, it occurs to me that because Trump is an improviser, he lives his life by the kooky rules of improvisation, which are that once a suggestion is made (by Trump or Fox News), everyone has to accept it as reality and incorporate it into their act. They have to help justify the suggestion, no matter how outrageous. That's improv.
This administration is a horrible improvisational troupe where their awful, nonsensical routines have real world consequences.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
DarkHelmet wrote:Why is Trump keeping this story alive? It's like one of those SNL sketches that was funny at first but goes on for too long. In reality, if this Trump-Alabama-hurricane-forecast fiasco was pitched at an SNL writers meeting, it would be rejected because it's too stupid, even for a Trump sketch.
It’s a compulsion. He can’t control himself.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
It's like a destructive runaway feedback loop. The longer he keeps this up, the more foolish he reveals himself to be, thus the more desperate he becomes to avoid seeming that foolish for having kept it up so long.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
subgenius wrote:oh, is it that time in the hair-fire circle again? already?
You always confuse comedy gold with 'hair fire'. There's no need to project your comprehension difficulties on to the functional portion of the population.
On a related note, maybe this is a common enough characteristic amongst conservatives and Trumpkins to explain why there are so few successful conservative-oriented comedians.
The only funny is how in times like this you guys still haven't learned to pay attention to the other hand.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
"Released six days after Trump’s first tweet on the matter, the NOAA statement was unsigned, neither from the acting head of the agency nor any particular spokesman. It also came a day after the president’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser released a statement justifying Trump’s claims of the Alabama threat.
The NOAA statement Friday makes no reference to the fact that when Trump tweeted that Alabama was at risk, it was not in the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty,” which is where forecasters determine the storm is most likely to track. Alabama also had not appeared in the cone in days earlier, and no Hurricane Center text product ever mentioned the state."
From your own link....
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. - O'Sensei
subgenius wrote:The only funny is how in times like this you guys still haven't learned to pay attention to the other hand.
I get you. While we are paying attention to Trump's compulsive lying, we are not watching how Trump is picking the pockets of the American people through paying for American servicemen to stay at Trump's resorts when they were supposed to be staying at military bases.
You are right, we should pay attention to both his pathological lying and enriching himself.
It's like one of those SNL sketches that was funny at first but goes on for too long. In reality, if this Trump-Alabama-hurricane-forecast fiasco was pitched at an SNL writers meeting, it would be rejected because it's too stupid, even for a Trump sketch.