So Trump spoke at a farmer roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin today. I watched so you wouldn't have to. You're welcome.
It's kind of remarkable that any farmers are here at this event considering how he's screwed them over. It's a very small crowd though.
BTW, he was seated for the entire speech and roundtable. He looked very weak today.
Trump started out explaining how he spells Dumocrat and how people don't know there's a B at the end of dumb. (He just can't let that one go.)
"Your fertilizer is way down. Your energy prices are way down. Your oil is way down. Your gas is way down. It's all coming way down."
(Amazingly, the small crowd cheered this nonsense. They know none of that is true, yet they cheer for him.)
He promised these Wisconsin farmers that everything in this country would be perfect in 90 days.
"How about this? African American unemployment is now the lowest that it's ever been in history. I don't know where the hell that stat came from, but I'll take it." (that's not even close to being true, it was lower under Biden for starters.)
"2 years ago we were a dead country. We were a laughing stock all around the world. And now thanks to me we're the hottest country in the world. It's true. We're the hottest thing." (<eye roll>)
He brought along his little pictures of the reflecting pond, showing in a cartoon graphic that it's bigger than different skyscrapers. He showed these same pics to the press a couple times this week. He's very proud of his drawings.
Trump kept saying "Barack Hussein Obama" over and over today and the crowd booed every time he did it. (He's so damn petty.)
"I cleaned up Washington DC. Under Barack Hussein Obama little kids would go visit the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Memorial and they would never come back. I stopped all that." (What??)
"The Biden administration had the worst inflation in the history of the world. Can you believe that?" (No, because it's bullshit)
After saying 10 minutes earlier that he had the prices of fertilizer & energy way down, he then said "fertilizer and gas prices have gone up a little bit, but I'm going to get them way down, down below where they've ever been. If I don't do it I'll just say 'I was just kidding.'"
He's slurring his speech again and slurping his spit. His right hand is also swollen and covered in spackle again. And his right eye is barely open. He does not look well.
He told the farmers, "You have a much better life than my life. Believe me you don't want my life. My ear got pierced. My life is terrible. Believe me you don't want my life. Your life it much better."
"As president I've done more for farmers than anyone in history. Like I'm up here today. I don't need this. What the hell do I have to be here for? I already got elected. But I'm here. Obviously that means I love the farmers. I could be home in the White House watching TV."
(he does watch a lot of TV, especially Fox News, state TV)
"Do you know that the Dumocrats actually have a law that if you get caught fixing your own car they throw you in jail? Did you know that? I pardoned a man last week who got sentenced to 7 yrs in jail because he got caught fixing his own car." (what the fuck is he talking about??)
"With the help of the farmers here today we're rapidly bringing grocery prices way down. Remember I inherited these prices. I didn't start- my prices were great- they rigged the election. When I turned- the election was totally rigged- it was a rigged election. Just like CA"
(he can't keep his head on one thought, he's reading most of this and he still can't stay on message.)
He closed with, "We've already made American great again. Now we're making it greater than it's ever been before. And thank you. I won Wisconsin in a landslide."
After he spoke he stood up & clapped along with his "gay national anthem" for a minute and then he turned around and had to step down a couple steps to get off the stage. He literally had to have help with 2 steps. Someone grabbed his arm and helped him down. This man is not well
He did an interview right before this event with NBC that is airing on Sunday morning, and he told the farmers today that he was very angry at the interview because it was raining so he took out all of his anger on the "fake news" interviewer.
And speaking of psycho, just about every crazy thing he said today he read out of his notebook. Someone wrote this crazy shit for him to say. That's as disturbing as him saying it.
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Okay, so just a few takeaways from the debt limit deal.
One....Biden never should've had to negotiate with hostage takers but at the end of the day, Biden negotiated a deal that kept us from an economic disaster and he didn't give the GOP anywhere near what they were demanding.
Two....Biden protected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, the Inflation Reduction Act, climate provisions, and student debt relief. The Republicans didn't get their way on any of those.
1 thing Trump's somehow successfully managed to do is to convince 30% of the country that facts& reality don't matter. Reality goes against what they WANT to believe so they just choose not to. They really buy into the make-believe bullshit he tells them. It's the damnedest thing
Fox News does it too. When reality doesn't jive with their hateful agenda, they just tell their viewers outright lies. And remarkably they believe it.
We all witnessed Trump being dragged into court& arrested yesterday. We all saw his face walking into that courtroom. He was clearly miserable. We witnessed the heavy weight of the justice system coming down on his head. It was profound & historical. The MAGAs saw all of that too
Trump's speech tonight, which was only shown on CNN for 20 minutes before they broke away, and not shown at all on MSNBC, was a rambling pile of bullshit. He sounded and looked scared shitless but he didn't say one new thing.
It was all the same garbage that he says at all of his hate rallies. The only notable thing was that he again went after all of the prosecutors who are building cases against him and he again went after the judge in the NY case, including attacking the judge's wife and daughter.
It really feels like he's doing everything he can to antagonize the judge. I think he's begging for a gag order so that he can play the victim even more.
He sounded scared and defeated tonight. He seemed very small. It would almost be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
It's really rich that Republicans are completely losing their shit over Trump's indictment.
First of all, Republicans have already established that they believe it's a grave offense to lie about an affair. Remember what they did to Bill Clinton?
Second, Trump didn't just cheat on his wife (who had just given birth) with a porn star. He committed a crime- one that Michael Cohen already went to prison for.
Third, that crime would've most certainly altered the outcome of the 2016 election had the country known about it.
Fourth, it's a joke that Republicans are complaining that Trump can't get a fair trial in NYC. He's from there for God's sake. It's his home terrain.
(Vent thread...)
Okay Garland. I really am trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but come on man. Please tell me that you're on this shit. Tell me that Jack Smith's got this.
Like what about the secret meeting that took place in the Willard war room?
and what's up with the DC pipe bomber?
and how about those secret illegal Capitol tours the week of the insurrection?
and what's up with the Raffensperger call?
and what about Trump's Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller disarming the DC Guard?
and why did Miller wait over 3 hours to send the Guard in after he knew the Capitol was breached?
and what about "stand back and stand by"?
and "be there, will be wild"?
This week the Columbia Journalism Review published a piece attacking the media for their coverage of "the Russiagate hoax." While there are certainly things we can criticize about the press coverage during the 2016 election, calling Trump's dealings with Russia a "hoax" is wrong.
Trump did in fact collude with Russia. He asked for and accepted Putin's help to steal an election.
The article which is being presented by Fox News and several Republicans as proof that there was no collusion leaves out or glosses over several key facts.....