President Trump piled onto his ongoing tear against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday morning by baselessly claiming that Americans will be forced to learn Chinese if the former VP wins the election.
As a teacher of Chinese, I can only hope this is the random-association attack of the day that comes true. Welcome to class, comrades.
Sounds intellectually stimulating. Will there be a trip to the Hidden City, the Great Wall, and the Terracotta Army? Are Xi and Biden outsourcing to the “Great Courses” and Viking Cruise Lines (after the vaccine.)?
Some proverbial wisdom for Mr. Trump:
Shouldn’t be a problem for Melania
“Look, China will own the United States if this election is lost by Donald Trump,” Trump said. “If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States.”
Says the guy owned by the Russians.
Too subtle, Mr. Trump.
Samuel Clemens said “Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.”
Meanwhile people in China: “Yeah our system has problems, but I trust my classmates who took the civil service exam to make those decisions a lot more than I trust the billionaires who run the US—sucks to be you! Gotta go, headed out to a birthday party in Wuhan!”
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The Trump campaign is on course
…for the ground.
(As an aside, one of my all-time favorite statements from a government official is the NTSB accident investigator many years ago, who said “controlled flight into terrain is usually an error on somebody’s part” … usually??!?)
One of the ways you know he’s both stupid and cognitively impaired is that he says the most outrageous things in the most sycophantic interviews: you can tell that he just babbles word-salad, and the more positive the fawning response, the more insane the babbling.
I’m quite certain that he’s always been this way.
Stupidity and cupidity play on long after lucidity has left the building.
He’s a hair’s breadth away from claiming that Covid-19 is an intentional, direct attack on the USA by China.
He’s hinted at it in pressers, saying they want to “get to the bottom of it” and find out how it started. But he hasn’t made the direct claim yet. I think he’ll go there before the campaign is over. Probably soon, because nothing else is working for him.
So we should learn Russian if he gets re-elected?
When I was in college, the watchword was: Optimists learn Russian; Pessimists learn Chinese.
I’m sure the intelligence agencies could use more Chinese linguists to investigate the Trump empire.
The President then audaciously claimed, without evidence,
TPM, please do better. “Claimed, without evidence…”? Really? Where’s “completely made shit up”, or “invented in his addled mind”, or “lied through his teeth”…
Comrades is mostly associated with Russian whcih Trump is in full support.
If you could transliterate that phonetically, I promise to commit it to memory.