Gunderson's nuts!
Charleston chew!
If anyone hasn't noticed, his job now is to sign things and shill for whoever pays him the most at the moment. He doesn't need votes anymore because he's either unable to run again or will simply refuse to leave or have a hamburger speed things up. He doesn't care.. He just says anything to anyone for his sponsors.
I didn't say he wouldn't get votes, he doesn't need elections anymore to keep his ass in the chair. It's done, he is in his 2nd term. Americans aren't of any concern to him as long as a line of millionaires and billionaires keep kissing his ring. Nothing he passes will be for anyone, just against stuff his donors don't agree with.
But what about his 3rd term? He's going to need to put the work in to make that happen. Not in gathering many votes granted, but to ensure the election falls in his favour when the time comes.
Thankfully for him, as you say, he has a close symbiotic partnership with the rich, and they along with the government staff he is putting into position (and purging those who aren't loyal to him) are the ones who control the voting process. So, with a little hard work, mostly done by other people, he'll win the next election.
There will not be an election for his 3rd term. If he's still alive, he will stay without an election and no one will get rid of him.
If JD becomes president, he also will NOT go anywhere at the end of the term. If you think this isn't true... just wait.
It's called religion. The cognitive dissonance to ignore reality and evidence; to just "have faith".
Assuming standard sheet size, his prepared text is in 20pt font size.
Just pointing that out to anyone curious about his eye sight and/or literacy.
Edit: Didn't mean to insinuate anything specific, just thought it looked strange and tried it in Writer. I honestly expected it to be >30pt, but figured I'ld mention it anyway.
Yeah it's been known for years he can't see shit. But he is too vain to wear glasses in public. He does wear them in private, there are some pics out there. Which is pretty normal for someone his age.
This is part of why his speeches are always so weird and fucked up. He misreads because he needs his glasses and then makes shit up to try and cover for it. The speech prepared is usually evil and fucked up in different ways, but at least coherent. Then when Trump tries to read them a lot of nonsense comes out.
That’s smaller than I print for notes and I can see just well enough to legally drive without issues (plus unlike trump, I actually know how to)
The ability to read does not necessarily mean literate.
Anyone at that age will need giant font if they want to avoid the appearance of reading glasses. Even the comparatively younger Kamala Harris is old enough to need either that or reading glasses.
Once you get to mid-40s, unless you were pretty nearsighted to begin with, you are pretty much in the same boat.
It absolutely does, but every single Republican is guilty and complicit.
And if you’re trying some “ummmm ackchtually that’s not impeachment it’s conviction” you can fuck right off because you’re part of the problem.
100k? For more than half those cars? Bro just get an EV from Hyundai or literally anyone fucking else lmaooo.
Even Rivian is a better option if you still want "luxury". Priced slightly lower and the quality is much better.
Honestly, Tesla’s quality is far less than most vehicles.
Apple has a lot of fair criticisms leveled against it, but their products are at least built as well as their competition. Unless I’m woefully out of the loop. That’s also possible.
I can't speak for Apple quality. But they aren't environmentally friendly. Batteries can't be swapped out in newer laptops, and they tend to try and force their customers to always be upgrading. Their updates that intentionally slowed older devices for example.
I’ve had my current iPhone for 4 years, not bought a single replacement cord or anything for it. Apple hasn’t done anything on my device to make me want to upgrade, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
Of my buddies with comparably priced android devices I think they’ve all gone through 2 or 3 phones in that time frame. Multiple Pixel devices.
The updates that “slowed” the older devices was for battery performance and was made toggleable. Android devices do similar things.
The iPhone XR, from 2018, still receives iOS updates and older phones still get security updates.
My son is using my iPhone 11 Pro, from 2019. The batter is still fine and I can get it easily replaced if I need to. The phone works, gets updates and nothing is pushing him to upgrade.
You’re not actually right with your criticism here, you’re just biased.
No laptop is environmentally friendly. Old statistics, but last time I checked, the carbon footprint for a laptop has basically a train car full of coal. I think Apple was a pretty early adopter of RoHS though. As for updates that slow down the device... Their main competitor is guilty of this too. In October, basically every windows device made before 2016 is going to need to be replaced, disconnected from the internet, or upgraded to Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_2tPJYauc
The great taste of Charleston Chew! (I wish all of this was a joke)
Make some more witty comeback comments on X instead of going out onto the streets. That will surely show them and puts an end to this.
do you, uh, see any irony about what you wrote there at all?
So now he's turning his back on the oil and gas industry, also the gas/diesel vehicle industry so that he can shill for crybaby Musk. You have to laugh to keep from crying at all the insanity going on in Washington right now
They are just rubbing our noses in the corruption now. Problem is, Republicans like it, the like the smell of it, they like trumps hand on their neck as he smears the corruption across their faces. "Yes daddy trump, pwease wub more of uncle ewons shit on our faces"
Dude, were so fucked, the wh press sec talks to journalists like a mad dominatrix. We used to run the world, now the world wants our head, personally I say we it to em
It's an image.
The source of the image is Getty: https://www.gettyimages.com/...
Because motioning broadly with your large-font speech notes is a really bad idea when in front of an unfriendly press pool :)
It does look weirdly ai though. I’m not saying it’s fake, because frankly, I don’t think there’s an ai yet that can create that much sensible text, and the details on his hand and arm are true to life (based on that thumbnail, he should probably take a multivitamin).
Anyone know what’s so off-looking about the handwriting though? I figure it’s a weird angle and that’s why the text fades towards the right side of the page, but it’s a very strange picture all around. Maybe things just get funky when you take pictures at that level of zoom.
it looks like they adjusted the light levels so the hand written note is easier to read
doing so made the right side fade because of glare?
It's light exposure. The right side of the page is overexposed because it's getting hit with (and reflecting, because it's white) the majority of the direct light in the environment in which the photo was taken.
It likely wasn't corrected because the focus of the actual image for the photographer was presumably Trump himself.
Here is an example of different types of exposure.
Man needs to moisturize.
That yellowed thumbnail.
From WebMD - "Yellow Nails: One of the most common causes of yellow nails is a fungal infection. As the infection worsens, the nail bed may retract, and nails may thicken and crumble. In rare cases, yellow nails can indicate a more serious condition such as severe thyroid disease, lung disease, diabetes or psoriasis."
diabetes would make sense, and if he developed that in recent years...... maybe he isn't talking it seriously and we get to see him really fall apart
Uncontrolled diabetes (presumably type 2) might also at least partially explain his rapid cognitive decline. It's systemic so it hits you everywhere.
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
He also manually applies that fucking bronze concealer. Maybe he doesn't wash properly... Which, given his reported smell, we already know.
Trump is such a whore, he'll do anything for a dollar
All that's happening is that Trump is outwardly doing what the US government does in a more subtle way. All US presidents have cared about since LBJ are the interests of the donor class.
Thank you. I'm definitely not one of the popular lemmings. 🤣
M-m-muh both sides!
This is a both sides issue, and easy to research. Why do you think it costs $500,000+ for a meeting with either presumptive presidential candidate?
Not the person you responded to, but my actual answer is that’s because all of the national political parties in the U.S. are corporations whose business is politics.
They’re basically glorified staffing agencies that invest a lot of money into marketing. Instead of stocks, the wealthy buy ownership with donations or other arrangements coordinated via PACs.
This has been the approximate state of affairs for decades and became the de facto standard with Citizens United.
Re: The reception of your comments - I think people hate to see that reality. Facing it feels inescapably hopeless. Polite fictions are far easier to maintain. But in a brief skim of your comments, your positions align with me — even if now I’m angry and sad for the reminders of how dog shit this is.
Nobody TOLD Orange Garbage man this isn't a Business but it's the government he is destroying duh
Put a $100 bill inside and when he goes to snatch it close the door. Dude is a whore.
The man sold beans in the oval office in his last term. How are we shocked at this?
This is a real screenshot? Any source on this to confirm that it's not some AI thing?
Not claiming it's fake, just saying that if this is real then yeah, the Whitehouse has fallen to the level of car dealer showroom and... Just holy shit.
Either way, it won't matter. Redneck's and right wing won't want to drive "pussy mobiles" as they like to call them and anyone not a Nazi won't want to drive a nazi dumpster. Telsa won't sell much anymore in Europe, not that it could sell the turd that is cyber truck anyway since it's so unsafe it's not considered road worthy there, and in Canada, buying musk right now is social suicide.
Fuck you Elmo, and fuck you too, Cheeto.
I also thought this was edited for laughs at first! I joked about it in another comment, but I think we actually might be in the 'hand jobs at Starbucks' timeline.
Get ready for your 'Full Body' Latte.
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Remember the running joke in Futurama where whenever President Nixon of Earth does a speech he does an advertisement?
That was supposed to be a joke, not a manual.
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