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That's just cruel... and funny AF.
Elixir
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Nobody forced him to throw his hat into the ring.
I don’t know what was going through his mind.
Oh, wait …
southernhybrid
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I always enjoy Dana Milbank's editorials, but I have to share the one I read today. If it weren't for the fact that the MAGA nuts really believe t his shit, it would be hilarious. Actually it is hilarious, but I want some of that drug that Biden is taking too! /s
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/gop-magical-dementia-cure-biden/
It's not behind a paywall, so read the entire thing, as another example of how totally insane the Republican Party, now MAGA party has become. Plus there is some more humor in the piece and we all need a good laugh these days. And, please can we all have this drug before we all end up with dementia! /s
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/gop-magical-dementia-cure-biden/
Rep. Byron Donalds’s medical education consists of a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University. But the Florida Republican played a doctor on TV over the weekend, telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that, after examining President Biden, he suspects the president is receiving a secret medication that makes him appear to be sharp-witted and totally on the ball.
“The American people need to understand if they’re giving him some injection so that he can actually look like he’s coherent,” Donalds said.
Dr. Donalds seemed not to have considered the obvious possibility that Biden looks like he’s cogent and clear because he is cogent and clear. Still, the good doctor’s diagnosis raises some key questions that must be considered:
There is a shot that cures incoherence in one dose? How can I get some? Why has nobody thought to give it to Kevin McCarthy all these years? And why, for that matter, doesn’t Dr. Donalds, who seems to think he should be Donald Trump’s running mate, inject his prospective boss with the stuff? Just last week, Trump’s attempt at saying “carried out by radical Democrats” came out as “carried owby rgbgb tdai.”
Donalds was obviously trying to please Trump, who had just announced he would “demand a drug test” of Biden before going on the debate stage. (Another VP aspirant on Bartiromo’s show Sunday morning, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, also loyally endorsed the demand for a drug test.) “He’s going to be so jacked up for those debates, you watch,” Trump predicted. Apparently, Trump realized he had set expectations for Biden a bit too low when he said the incumbent “can’t talk” and “can’t put two sentences together,” so he was attempting to come up with an alternative explanation for when Biden proves to be thoroughly compos mentis. That’s how Trump explained Biden’s energetic delivery of his State of the Union address in March: “He was high as a kite.”
It's not behind a paywall, so read the entire thing, as another example of how totally insane the Republican Party, now MAGA party has become. Plus there is some more humor in the piece and we all need a good laugh these days. And, please can we all have this drug before we all end up with dementia! /s
lpetrich
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In Maryland, at 93% of the Republican Presidential votes counted, Nikki Haley has 21.8% of the vote.
At 88% of the Democratic Presidential votes counted, it is uncommitted 9.6%, Marianne Williamson 1.9%, Dean Phillips 1.2%.
While Donald Trump was uncontested in Oregon, Marianne Williamson got 7.0% of the vote there, and other write-in candidates 4.9%.
At 88% of the Democratic Presidential votes counted, it is uncommitted 9.6%, Marianne Williamson 1.9%, Dean Phillips 1.2%.
While Donald Trump was uncontested in Oregon, Marianne Williamson got 7.0% of the vote there, and other write-in candidates 4.9%.
lpetrich
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After backlash, Trump pulls social media post with reference to 'unified Reich' | Reuters
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Trump posts video referencing ‘unified Reich’ if reelected | CNN Politics
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Reuters: Joe Biden:
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Trump posts video referencing ‘unified Reich’ if reelected | CNN Politics
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Unfortunately, many English speakers associated "Reich" with the Third Reich, Nazi Germany. But "Reich" is a normal word in German; France is Frankreich and Austria is Österreich in German.
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That was the Second Reich, the late 19th cy. German Empire. The first one was the Holy Roman Empire.
Reuters: Joe Biden:
lpetrich
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German Reichs:
- 0 - Proto-Germanic speakers, around 500 BCE in N Germany, S Denmark (Jastorf culture).
- 0.5 - Germanic tribes who defeated the Roman Empire in the Teutoberg Forest and who later overran that empire.
- 1 - the Holy Roman Empire, from Charlemagne in 800 CE to the Napoleonic Wars in 1812.
- 1.5 - the Zollverein or Customs Union of western Germany in the early 19th cy.
- 2 - the German Empire, from the late 19th cy. to 1918
- 2.5 - the Weimar Republic, from 1918 to 1933
- 3 - Nazi Germany, from 1933 to 1945
- 3.5 - West Germany, from 1945 to 1991
- 4 - present-day Germany, from 1991 onward
T.G.G. Moogly
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Call me slow but I thought you meant the bird, the one with feathers.
southernhybrid
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WTF man! Now Trump is claiming that Biden was planning to assassinate him! I'm sharing another article, so anyone can read it, at least for the next couple of weeks.
https://wapo.st/4bscOHV
OF course, MTG and some of the other cult members believe this is true. Nothing like this has ever happened before and I don't understand how anyone can take this maniacal psychopathic liar seriously.
https://wapo.st/4bscOHV
OF course, MTG and some of the other cult members believe this is true. Nothing like this has ever happened before and I don't understand how anyone can take this maniacal psychopathic liar seriously.
Shadowy Man
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I wouldn’t say that was “unfortunate”, unless the post was in German. Was it?
Jimmy Higgins
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Yeah, the plagiarized text was harmless by the original writer. But we can't be certain regarding who put the fascist thing together.
T.G.G. Moogly
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When Orange or Moscow Marge do something intelligent you can call me.
lpetrich
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Das Dritte Reich - "The Third Reich" - 1923 - by Arthur Moeller van den BruckFascism:
- One-party state
- Often a personality cult of its leader
- Belligerent nationalism
- Wanting to restore past glory
- The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, from 800 (Charlemagne) or 962 (Otto the Great) to 1806.
- The Second Reich was the German Empire (Deutsches Reich), from 1871 to 1918
Friedrich Nietzsche admired aristocratic and military heroes, and Ayn Rand depicted capitalists as Nietzschean heroes. However, FN wasn't very nationalistic; he admired Napoleon.
AMvdB tried to distance himself from projection of his ideology onto current events: "The Third Reich is but a philosophical idea and not for this world, but for the hereafter. Germany could well perish dreaming the Third Reich dream"
About the Beer Hall Putsch, he said this about Adolf Hitler: "There are many things that can be said against Hitler, and I have sometimes said them. But one thing you have to give him credit for: he is a fanatic in his devotion to Germany. He is undone, though, by his proletarian primitive ways. He does not know how to give an intellectual basis to his Nazi party. Hitler is all passion but lacks sense or proportion. A heroic tenor, not a hero. (Meaning, in an operatic sense, an aspiring but ultimately comical figure full of pathos rather than an actual protagonist)". Not long afterward, AMvdB committed suicide.
But AH succeeded in creating a version of AMvdB's Third Reich, but it was destroyed by the enemies that it made.
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It was destroyed by the enemies that he made.
The Third Reich defeated France, and contained Britain. At that point, it was poised to become a global power for the indefinite future, and had no enemies with the ability to prevent this. The USA was determinedly neutral; The USSR was an ally with whom the intervening lands had been carved up, and with whom there was a non-aggression pact in place.
Hitler had no need, reason, nor excuse to invade the USSR, and even less to declare war on the USA.
I do wonder what the world would look like if Hitler had decided, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to declare war on Japan. The doctrine of the "Yellow Peril" would have fitted well with his other racial policies.
Even just remaining neutral with regards to the USA, would have likely led to the Third Reich lasting for a lot more than a further four years.
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Lacking a pair of solid ovaries, Nikki Haley bends down to kiss Trump's ass. This leaves the GOP with just Liz Cheney as an ovary totin' woman.
Nikki Haley also joins the GOP members in the Senate and has no balls.
southernhybrid
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I know! Morning Joe has been screaming about this during most of his show, showing clips of how she criticized Trump and said he was unfit to be president. Sadly, Joe is preaching to the choir since very few members of the Trump cult watch anything other than Fox Noise or worse yet, Newsmax. Haley is a lying hypocrite, just like many of the other Republicans who once criticized Trump and now bow to their orange master. She keeps saying that Biden's presidency has been a disaster but she can't say a single reason why. We are doomed if Trump wins in November and if he loses, be prepared to another violent denial the election results.
Colonel Sanders
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They, meaning spork foots like MTG don't take it seriously. It's the now well known strategy of breathing a lie to Trumpites, who will believe it, take it in as an undisputed fact, and then before the lie can even be properly refuted, a new set of lies is shat into the public sphere.
There is currently no solution to this. It's unprecedented and therefore there are no legal remedies. But what is the solution? Will the horrible irony of nearly unrestricted free speech be America's downfall? It sure as hell looks like it.
southernhybrid
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I agree that most likely know they are lying, although it's hard to tell about MTG since she's dumber than dirt, but the voting members of the cult most likely believe the lies. I know one personally who told me she was voting for Trump because Biden is allowing criminal to freely enter the country. We are fucked!
Elixir
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Probably. There is no cure for stupid.
But I wonder how stupid the people are who control RW media. What are their interests? Letting Trump become King Donald the 1st might not be in the instruction set, even if keeping Biden from winning again is top priority. They probably don’t want to be “Nationalized” like Russian business.
southernhybrid
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Good point. I wonder what's happening to our always less than great democracy. Sometimes it's seemed as if we were making a bit of progress and then we slide back, but what's currently happening is so depressing that it's hard to understand. Trump lies constantly and his cult followers believe every word he says. I guess they are all drunk on his Kool Aide and there seems to be no cure.
I was reading an article this morning about his long history of saying things were rigged whenever he lost. He did the same thing when his stupid tv show didn't win any awards. I've never known such a psychopathic narcissist although I imagine more exist, just not one that has the power to do so much damage to the country and other parts of the world. Everyday, he's screaming if he loses the election is rigged.
And then there are those who say they won't vote because Biden is supporting Israel, despite more than half of the country supports Israel. I don't like what's going on over there and I wish we'd remove our support, but Biden has also accomplished a lot and people don't even realize it. I heard yesterday that more then half of the country think we are in a recession. I wish economics was a requirement in public schools so people understand terms like GDP and supply and demand among other things. You're right, there is no cure for stupid, but there is a cure for ignorance. Right wing media prefers people to remain ignorant so they tout the lies and misinformation put out by the Trump cult.