Photos, vids, etc ....

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Possibly inspired by the recent impromptu Trump dance-athon.
Shiftless2 said:
"I had an MIT at uncle!" #1,401
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Worth a smirk, if the ridicule caricatures. Caricature means deliberate exaggeration. BUT !!
Trump's dysfunction is so extreme, it exceeds the caricature against him.

What elevates it far beyond smirk:
- Trump is running for president
- Trump may win the election
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there [in Springfield, Ohio]" presidential candidate Trump debating VP Harris 24/09/10
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Orwell wouldn't believe it.
Kafka wouldn't believe it.
I can't believe it.

So ... how about this?

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Trump did brag about having an uncle who was a prof at MIT - his logic was that he (Donnie) was brilliant because he had very good genes.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Trump did brag about having an uncle who was a prof at MIT" S2 #1,403
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I vaguely recall.
Trump may not have an uncle that's a felon. But candidate Trump is. Not sure his uncle's résumé overshadows the Donold's record of felony convictions.

Shiftless2 said:
" - his logic was that he (Donnie) was brilliant because he had very good genes." S2 #1,403
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Those with impressive résumé needn't embellish, & if they did, would raise doubt.
Trump's got nuttin'. He's a fraud, a charlatan.
"You should buy stock in a business that's so good that even an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will." Warren Buffett, CEO Berkshire Hathaway
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- spiffy -
Got a political corollary?

We should only live in a country where an idiot can run it, and Trump is a big fat poopy head ?
 
Shiftless2 said:
Re #1,404

"The government you elect is the government you deserve." Thomas Jefferson
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Over the generations I've seen young, idealistic candidates campaign for congress, only to win election, take office but soon to become disillusioned by the inextricably entrenched seniority hierarchy, political power of special interest lobbyists, etc.
Any status quo has its constituency. Those with seniority power in congress are unlikely to forfeit it to their juniors, subordinates. And the institutional dysfunctions persist.

Can we quantify this systemic failure?
Here Jefferson, de Tocqueville & others lay collective blame on the whole People. The cyberverse provides us quantified clarity.
Innovations such as fiber-optic cable enable communication "band-width", measured in Mbps.

This post, #1,406 may consume more Mbps than the average U.S. voter expresses in a lifetime.

Thus it's not practical for a voter to send a coherent message to shape government to practical political performance standards. The choice is nearly binary:
- vote Democrat, or
- vote Republican.

Morse code would be an improvement.

So here we are. And T.J. says I deserve this.
No I don't.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"UNFRIENDLY REMINDER: if you only support abortion in instances of rape or incest, you're reinforcing the idea that in order for a woman to have a right to her body, someone else has to violate it first." #1,407
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Not the most persuasive argument for not usurping women's right of Liberty, but enough.

Shiftless2 said:
"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding." #1,408
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The empire State of New York may look "blue" on the electoral college political map. BUT !!
Geographically, acre for acre, the State of New York is mostly red, Republican. BUT !!

NYC tilts the otherwise "red" State of NY "blue". BUT !!
Driving across the New York rural countryside reveals

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upState NY is MAGA country.
What compounds the alarm of this, "Trump" lawn signs appear at the residence of former government officials, including a law judge or two.

Why such citizen / voters presumably with a fundamental grasp of governance believe they are a better judge of Trump's suitability as CEO of the USA
than Trump administration officials, ...
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Former Trump official agrees with John Kelly: Trump ‘does not operate by the rule of law’

Donald Trump, long prone to violent and inflammatory rhetoric, has become more extreme in his third presidential bid. | Alex Brandon/AP
By Lisa Kashinsky, Daniel Lippman, Myah Ward and Irie Sentner / 10/23/2024 07:20 PM EDT / Updated: 10/23/2024 07:32 PM EDT

A former senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration said Wednesday that the former president has “authoritarian tendencies” and “does not operate by the rule of law” — echoing a denunciation by his former chief of staff and other senior figures.
Elizabeth Neumann, who served as deputy chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security and assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy, said she agreed with former Marine Gen. John Kelly’s explosive assessment that Donald Trump is not fit for the office.

“Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Neumann, who has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, said in a brief interview with POLITICO. “Is he kind of leaning towards that ultra-nationalism component? Absolutely. That is kind of his brand, right? He’s made nationalism the new definition of the Republican Party.”

Her remarks, coupled with Kelly’s bombshell warnings that Trump meets the “definition of a fascist” and would govern as a dictator if reelected, injected new urgency into the closing argument Harris and her allies have been pushing in recent days: that Trump is not just “unfit” to serve a second term but is increasingly power hungry and “unhinged.”


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