I used to work with a klutzy woman who would knock stuff over, drop stuff and generally make a ruckus most days.
People would come running to make sure she was OK and not crushed underneath her filing cabinets.
After a while, we had her trained to yell “EverythingIsFINE” anytime there was an ‘incident’.
Ergo…
Trump says he is doing well, after chief of staff says next 48 hours ‘critical’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/03/trump-covid-live-updates/
Have a great Sunday!
…is pallid still the right word to describe a man whose lack of excessive orange fake tan explains most of his lack of color?
…& if he’s laid up in a suite of rooms at Walter Reed so he can continue to get things done he seemed to claim he would somehow not have been able to do from the White House…which is hard to wrap one’s head around…but which includes a TV that still gets Fox News…& apparently still has access to twitter & presumably no less “executive time” on his hands than ever
…what are we to make of the fact that between his two “look how healthy I am” video clips he’s produced three tweets & seems to have forgotten how to re-tweet the usual dross that account likes to point credulous idiots towards?
…one exhorting the necessity of the stimulus shit getting done in (nearly) ALL CAPS…uncharacteristically ending with thanks…one even more uncharacteristically ending with “LOVE!!!”…& one in between with a shout out to the staff at Walter Reed
…even if the one in the middle did use the word plague…does that really sound like the torrent of gibbering lack-of-syntax we’re used to seeing spew forth from that account?
…enquiring minds want to know & all that
I guess since he was never really truly running the country in the first place, it’s easy for the powers that be(McTurtle and other Federalists Society yahoos) to continue with the charade.
Like everything else in his life, Trump’s mouth/staff if lying while his (in)action tells the truth.
His “tweets” are clearly being written by someone else, as you point out. There are clear differences in grammar and tone.
That’s what convinced me he’s actually sick. If he was lying (my original assumption) he’d be tweeting and “isolating” on a golf course. He’s far too stupid and arrogant to successfully pull off any sort of deception for any length of time. That’s why he surrounds himself with enablers. It’s why he pays for “fixers.” He’s too inept to clean up his own messes.
The question is, how bad is he? It’s clear that it’s a LOT worse than his gaggle of bootlickers wants to admit. And I’m not sure his top-flight health care will save him. Presumably Herman Cain had access to similarly stellar care, and look where he is now.
Another good question is whether or not he managed to infect enough of the GOP to derail the SCOTUS hearings.
I saw one of the tweets and the first thing I thought was it was written by someone else.
Covid is literally the only thing that can stop Barrett from getting confirmed.
…you know, on reflection I liked it better when irony was funny
…& the highest court of the land wasn’t approaching the antithesis of justice
…also…yeah…that seems to be about the size of it
Today’s NY Times has a miserable both sides are dividing the country article, front page, above the fold. I won’t bother to link.
It is, of course, out of their national political mood desk, those brainless narrative humpers who parachute into dinerville harvesting quotes to fluff out a story they already wrote in NYC.
The byline includes Trip Gabriel, who wrote this notoriously stupid piece a year ago (as critiqued by Tom Scocca):
Gabriel idiotically tried to capture the mood in Youngstown Ohio by hightailing it out to a diner in an all-white suburb instead. It’s all the same in Hicksburg to these reporters and editors.
The NY Times investigations team is responsible for the Trump tax reporting. They do fantastic research and analysis. But the patronizing fabulists who push this idiocy always have the upper hand on the news pages. Good reporters have to research and analyze and that can take a year or more. The hacks like Trip just recycle their own waste stream.
welp if he dies i hope he does so on monday morning….mondays need all the help they can get to be good
anyhoo..in much more important news..today is national animal day in the netherlands so i bought my cats some meat sticks as a treat (they’re like..cat pepperamis)
its fucking adorable watching them trot around with their little sticks like little doggies having growl offs with eachother when they get too close to eachothers meaty snacks for comfort..lol
I remember loathing the Brady Bunch as a child, back when it first ran. They were a bunch of richy-rich goodie two shoes, I tell ya! I was more a Partridge Family kind of gal.
Too right. Those Partridges were out working for a living and hustling for that dollar, not lying around in a mansion with a maid.
i have never seen either of those shows lol
i grew up with flipper and skippy
Flipper the dolphin? Flipper was good.
yep..flipper the dolphin and skippy the bush kangaroo
same show different animal really….still know both theme tunes by heart lol
oooo
and lassie
cant forget lassie
…what about this one?
didnt have that one
i pretty much had flipper skippy and lassie and slightly later in the evening it’d be the a-team mash and tour of duty
also midsummer murders and murder she wrote
eventually sometime in the 90s i think we also got a touch of frost
now that was a good show
…David Jason was great in a bunch of stuff
…including as the OG voice of Dangermouse…which I definitely watched a bunch back in the day
But if you remember the house:
On the first floor there was a large living room, a good-size kitchen, and off the kitchen a seldom-seen suite where Alice lived. Presumably a bedroom and a bathroom.
Down below Mike had his office, and there was another family room somewhere, also maybe downstairs. Plenty of room to spread out.
Then upstairs, Mike and Carol had a good-size bedroom. The kids? Three boys crammed into one bedroom, three girls in another, AND THEY ALL SHARED ONE BATHROOM THAT COULD BE ACCESSED BY BOTH BEDROOMS FROM EITHER SIDE. Six kids, one bathroom. And famously, although that was just for ease of filming and general prudishness, the bathroom had no toilet. And Mike Brady was supposed to be an architect.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11222-Dilling-St-North-Hollywood-CA-91602/20025974_zpid/
I hated all those perfect family shows. All those shows did was piss me off as a kid because my family was essentially the polar opposite of those shows.
But in real life a dysfunctional family is not so funny.
I hated that fucking show, too.
I didn’t relate to those shows either, my upbringing was more like this….
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079239/
That’s some flowers in the attic shit right there
apropos of nothing
me likey 🙂
the locals seem to have a hard on for keyboards all of a sudden
im okay with this…lol