He was so excited anticipating the spectacle of all the flyovers his brain just jumped to airplanes. That’s how his thought process usually works.
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So he was still reciting the speech when he said airports? Poor Donnie, somebody’s been sabotaging him since childhood. Problem is, that somebody was himself.
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Alas, my education has been neglected: I don’t remember aircraft being used in wartime until the first half of the 20th century.
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Did anyone corroborate that the teleprompter went down? He lies about everything so I don’t believe him. I would have no problem thinking he lost his place while reading and just made shite up.
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I’m being completely rhetorical right now …
It really does just get worse. How did we get here?
He is worthless piece of human shit.
And his “Commander Bone Spurs” parade?
And the forcing of federal employees to relocate to DC?
He is intentionally destroying and compromising every aspect of everything he possibly can.
He has to be working for Putin. I can’t even believe I’m writing this. It’s insane.
And his, I don’t like what SCOTUS did vis-avis the Census, so he juat says. “fuck it, I’ll do what I want.”
Anyway, I have a family event this weekend so I’ll have more than enough dysfunction coming way, no need to watch the news.
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I find that hard to believe. He tweeted during the campaign he’d be too busy presidenting to play golf like that slacker who was currently occupying the Oval.
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I’m curious who wrote the speech. He mentioned the Coast Guard’s “matchbox fleet” in D-Day and I (and I think quite a few other people, judging from the crowd reaction) assumed that was another teleprompter fuckup, but it turns out it was a real thing. Not exactly a well-know thing to just throw out there without context (and surely one Trump himself didn’t know about).
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I will note that if we ignore what she wears, will we notice her at all? On the other hand, is not noticing her at all a bad thing?
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Maybe it was Intentex: http://intentex.com/speech-writing-software/ and they forgot that they needed to set the options properly. (My first thought was that it was a modified 8-Ball toy, or slips of paper drawn from a hat.)
On the other hand, the idea that he just started making absurd and disconnected statements because the teleprompter went out is eminently plausible. Trump is a terrible speaker in most circumstances, and when he isn’t just mindlessly repeating his stump speech, he reveals the lack of coherence in his thinking processes.
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We’re all very nice, very forgiving and compassionate people here to understand why trumPP is not hitting on all cylinders. Doesn’t make him less unfit to be president. But it makes us better humans.
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Trump has badly damaged cylinders.
Being a less fit president than Trump would be a challenge, one that I hope is never accepted or attempted. Being a better human than Trump is as easy as breathing.
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I don’t doubt he started rambling about “airports” and mixed up the Revolution and the War of 1812 because of the teleprompter. But he pulled out a somewhat obscure reference, and that must have been in the written speech. There’s no way someone as thoroughly ignorant as Trump would spontaneously mention the matchbox fleet.
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Children pick up the most surprising tidbits when the adults are speaking. (Of course, most of the time it is just the profanities.)
Ram the ramparts!!
Take over the airports!!
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I think it’s fine to snarg on how she dresses, Trump and the rest “opened the door” as they say in court, overruling the objection. After all, she married him. I’m betting she makes a lot of money from her tell-all book though, hitting the stands the day after he’s no longer president and the divorce is final.
To forgive a person assumes that there is something about that person one sees as salvageable. With trump I have looked … but when he ripped kids from their parents and did it willfully and with malice and to cause pain so that it would be a deterrent to others and he continues to do it under the guise of a different program than “zero tolerance”… No …NO! I could but I will not forgive. Not until he says he was wrong and asks for forgiveness. And we all are keenly aware of how he is with that point. He will never ever say he was wrong. He will never ask for forgiveness. So we are at a conundrum.
May his cylinders rust.
But if he asks then I would happily provide a bunch of WD-40.
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Air-to-air refueling had to await the development of liquid fuels. Transferring wood (or even coal) from one sailplane to another was just impossible.
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Compassion, forgiveness, penance, all those admirable qualities, never have entered his consciousness. Whether we forgive him or overlook his failings matters not to him. He’s gone through life, making it all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. by whining about being treated unfairly. We can, however, demonstrate as voters that we disapprove of everything he’s done and that everything he’s touched has died (h/t Rick Wilson). That’ll hit him where he lives.
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