Not that I’ll watch Trump’s speech today, but I’m curious how much it will be teleprompter boring low energy patriotism and how much whining, bragging, self-justification with a side of derogatory lying about Biden, Bolton and BLM. You can pack a lot of logorrhea into two hours.
If it's 2 hours, it's all stream-of-unconsciousness. Trump will get up and just start riffing like he always does. And his MAGA acolytes will love it, cheering lustily at every pause, breathing deeply of the aura and corona of a Trump rally.
I never watch more than clips of his rants, but I think 2 hours of rambling would be a record for him. Probably he’ll do his regular rally word-vomit along with fireworks, bands, all the trappings to fill out the time. Leni Riefenstahl might have been able to shape something out of it but since she's not available I'm expecting the usual trash explosion.
Depending on how they set it up, I think a teleprompter might be a little difficult at the amphitheater, so I'm expecting word salad. I also expect selfies with Trump picking Washington's nose
I would not be surprised if his campaign staff tipped over a few occupied Porta-Potties. Just to make sure his followers got enough of the effluent they crave.
Looks like they went with teleprompter Stephen Miller nonsense. Good thing Trump in these moments is sort of the opposite of Yeats' "full of passionate intensity". More like "Yoolishicious Grant"
I decided that I needed to fold socks, so I missed the whole thing. However, from the reviews I'm reading it seems like Trump is dispirited.
And I'm loving it! From here on out, his days are nothing but constant humiliation--all of it self-inflicted. And there is nothing--absolutely nothing--that tortures his soul more than the idea that people are laughing at him. It sears him. Just look at his face the night Obama hung him out to dry at the White House Correspondents Dinner. That's the face of a man who is experiencing existential anguish.
And THAT is what he will be experiencing every. fucking. day. from now until the day he dies.
You really have the Donster pegged. When it comes to history, he'd have trouble remembering what year the War of 1812 happened, but "they never had a Miss America from South Dakota" is something right up his alley.
In her quest for Fox fame and grifting fortune, South Dakota’s dimestore Sarah Palin, Governor Kristi Noem, raided the state’s economic development fund to pay for her fireworks party with Donald.
well, it's good we aren't putting those funds to a poor use, like schools or roads. Also, no masks are required. Hopefully superspreader Donnie will infect Kristi more than she already is
I can’t decide if Kristi/Palin 2.0 is doing a better or worse job than the original model. It’s hard to get a read on her actual smarts and skills when she’s only interested in grifting (and to be fair, she does very well with her target audience of Fox News addicts).
I did not know that Meredith Auld Brokaw was a former Miss South Dakota. She was the speaker at my HS graduation. Her father was the team Doctor for my HS sports teams until he died during my sophomore year. Brokaw's parents and my grandparents were friends from at least WW2 when both families were living in Igloo, SD supplying/doctoring the people mining uranium for the atomic bombs, they attended the 50th anniversary party my parents hosted for my grandparents
Friends of ours (an older couple) have been friends with the Brokaws since high school and have vacationed with them out in Montana. The bike trail in Yankton (ravaged by last year’s flood) is the Auld-Brokaw Trail in honor of their funding it.
Five'll get ya ten Trump says, of the likenesses on Mt. Rushmore, "all of them were Republicans. A lot of people don't know that." Meanwhile, I'd love to hear Trump take a real word-association test. Since he doesn't read, all his associations would come from the sewer that is his life.
I'm sure Roosevelt would totally be down with destroying the environment, selling off the national parks, handing tax cuts and tax money to the overseers of the New Gilded Age, and just generally being a dick. 'Cause he was absolutely about those things back then, right?
Same with Lincoln who, as we all know, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.
It seems likely that SD will have a super-spreader event along with a raging forest fire caused by the fireworks in parched conditions. Who needs metaphors when the shot just writes itself?
"[TRUMP snorts two long, fat lines, sits back, pinches and wipes his nose, gasps.]
KUSHNER: Okay. Now. America.
TRUMP: Great country, the greatest, the greatest country in all of history, ever, America. And that’s not just me saying it, plenty of people, all through history, everybody really, people of every race and creed —"
Not that I’ll watch Trump’s speech today, but I’m curious how much it will be teleprompter boring low energy patriotism and how much whining, bragging, self-justification with a side of derogatory lying about Biden, Bolton and BLM. You can pack a lot of logorrhea into two hours.
If it's 2 hours, it's all stream-of-unconsciousness. Trump will get up and just start riffing like he always does. And his MAGA acolytes will love it, cheering lustily at every pause, breathing deeply of the aura and corona of a Trump rally.
You know things are going downhill at a brisk velocity when even Jared gets a little sassy.
Real question: So a two-hour "speech" is not at all typical for a candidate appearance is it? Neither are Nuremberg rallies, yet here we are...
I never watch more than clips of his rants, but I think 2 hours of rambling would be a record for him. Probably he’ll do his regular rally word-vomit along with fireworks, bands, all the trappings to fill out the time. Leni Riefenstahl might have been able to shape something out of it but since she's not available I'm expecting the usual trash explosion.
Depending on how they set it up, I think a teleprompter might be a little difficult at the amphitheater, so I'm expecting word salad. I also expect selfies with Trump picking Washington's nose
I would not be surprised if his campaign staff tipped over a few occupied Porta-Potties. Just to make sure his followers got enough of the effluent they crave.
They lap it up.
Looks like they went with teleprompter Stephen Miller nonsense. Good thing Trump in these moments is sort of the opposite of Yeats' "full of passionate intensity". More like "Yoolishicious Grant"
I decided that I needed to fold socks, so I missed the whole thing. However, from the reviews I'm reading it seems like Trump is dispirited.
And I'm loving it! From here on out, his days are nothing but constant humiliation--all of it self-inflicted. And there is nothing--absolutely nothing--that tortures his soul more than the idea that people are laughing at him. It sears him. Just look at his face the night Obama hung him out to dry at the White House Correspondents Dinner. That's the face of a man who is experiencing existential anguish.
And THAT is what he will be experiencing every. fucking. day. from now until the day he dies.
I only listen to as much as Sarah Cooper lip syncs.
One of these days, Miller is gonna show Trump his wallet photo of Speer's Lichtdom, and Donnie will suddenly love outdoor rallies.
You really have the Donster pegged. When it comes to history, he'd have trouble remembering what year the War of 1812 happened, but "they never had a Miss America from South Dakota" is something right up his alley.
I'm surprised that he wouldn't have gone with Cheryl Ladd or Barbara Bach, two beauties from South Dakota from the 70s and 80s
Catherine Bach?
yeah, it was Daisy Duke, not Ringo's spouse. My bad
No worries. You could’ve said CPE Bach.
PDQ Bach was just as likely
"My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth"
“ his version of dramatic, i.e. high, whispery voice with halting delivery“
Every time I hear him talk like this, I think of Martin Short’s Jiminy Glick character.
It’s true: no hookers. The last Deadwood brothels closed in 1980.
https://www.blackhillsknowledgenetwork.org/home/in-history-deadwood-brothels-shut-down-may-21-1980.html
"Cocksuckers!"
Al Swearingen
Pam's Purple Door is no more. It is available as an event rental though, http://deadwoodhistoricbrothel.com/
18 years after I was born there. At the hospital, not in a brothel
In her quest for Fox fame and grifting fortune, South Dakota’s dimestore Sarah Palin, Governor Kristi Noem, raided the state’s economic development fund to pay for her fireworks party with Donald.
http://dakotafreepress.com/2020/07/02/noem-casts-trump-visit-as-economic-development-lights-fireworks-with-350k-from-future-fund/
well, it's good we aren't putting those funds to a poor use, like schools or roads. Also, no masks are required. Hopefully superspreader Donnie will infect Kristi more than she already is
I can’t decide if Kristi/Palin 2.0 is doing a better or worse job than the original model. It’s hard to get a read on her actual smarts and skills when she’s only interested in grifting (and to be fair, she does very well with her target audience of Fox News addicts).
Yes. All of this. You could get this man to attend the opening of an envelope; all you have to do is surround him with "adoring fans".
"Melania cocktails" is what makes it art; a lot in that word combo.
I did not know that Meredith Auld Brokaw was a former Miss South Dakota. She was the speaker at my HS graduation. Her father was the team Doctor for my HS sports teams until he died during my sophomore year. Brokaw's parents and my grandparents were friends from at least WW2 when both families were living in Igloo, SD supplying/doctoring the people mining uranium for the atomic bombs, they attended the 50th anniversary party my parents hosted for my grandparents
wow
Friends of ours (an older couple) have been friends with the Brokaws since high school and have vacationed with them out in Montana. The bike trail in Yankton (ravaged by last year’s flood) is the Auld-Brokaw Trail in honor of their funding it.
KUSHNER: Let’s focus, sir. Okay, new word: Patriotism.
TRUMP: Suckers.
KUSHNER: Patriotism.
TRUMP: Army. Soldiers. They, they shoot, kill the enemy.
KUSHNER: And why do they kill the enemy?
TRUMP: Feels good.
I'll bet Biden wishes he had that on tape.
Tom Cotton: “I wish I’d said that.”
Oscar Wilde: “You will, Tom. You will.”
Every recording of Trump is the Whitey Tape.
Five'll get ya ten Trump says, of the likenesses on Mt. Rushmore, "all of them were Republicans. A lot of people don't know that." Meanwhile, I'd love to hear Trump take a real word-association test. Since he doesn't read, all his associations would come from the sewer that is his life.
well 2 were Republicans, although they possibly would not be today.
I'm sure Roosevelt would totally be down with destroying the environment, selling off the national parks, handing tax cuts and tax money to the overseers of the New Gilded Age, and just generally being a dick. 'Cause he was absolutely about those things back then, right?
Same with Lincoln who, as we all know, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.
I was just out in Rapid City. There was a line over half a mile long of cars leaving, going east/west. Mt. Rushmore is south
What, no historically large crowd to see the Noem-skull giggling with The Donald while they shoot fireworks into the forest?
I didn't go to that part of town
They said they gave away 7500 tickets but only around 1200 showed up
It seems likely that SD will have a super-spreader event along with a raging forest fire caused by the fireworks in parched conditions. Who needs metaphors when the shot just writes itself?
"[TRUMP snorts two long, fat lines, sits back, pinches and wipes his nose, gasps.]
KUSHNER: Okay. Now. America.
TRUMP: Great country, the greatest, the greatest country in all of history, ever, America. And that’s not just me saying it, plenty of people, all through history, everybody really, people of every race and creed —"
So you have a tape recorder in the Oval Office?
LOL...
"The songs of the wars are as old as the hills
They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills
They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks
In a patriotic manner with the cold steel on their backs"
'The patriot's dream is as old as the sky
It lives in the lust of a cold callous lie
Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill"
Of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills