Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP

I guess Judge Merchan gave him permission to travel :)

Bang on

Will we get Artificial Intelligence regulating Immense Stupidity? (with a struggle between competing groups to sit at the "top" of both)

We will get different brands of AI corresponding to different geo-political zones of influence,I think.

Can you explain what that tweet is about? I don't have the patience to make sense of it all.

Anyone else understand all that?

Thanks. Does anyone know the extent and character of this kind of thing?

Do they just flood the zone (sounds Bannonesque,now) with anodyne comments to give the appearance that the online consensus is other than it really is?

Or do they have a master (a bit like a drone pilot) who monitors the reaction and maybe try to discredit posters in real time with ,perhaps teams of posters backed up with computers for quick access to information (or suggested dis/misinformation)?

Do the propaganda services of different countries all employ similar techniques now and have there been studies fleshing this out with real examples like this one apparently?

Are some social media companies able to combat this or are we just into slippery eel territory?

Should we all be avoiding social media that is not properly moderated?

Does anyone else see this as him comparing himself to Christ??

Cultism. Self-sacrificing to own de libs. Very xtian of them

The irony, suggesting violence against immigrants at a 'Faith and Freedom' conference. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/22/trump-ufc-migrant-league-00164570

And remember he said, "I never joke." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-kid-aides-argue-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing/story?id=71404943

NB: Love how in this instance it was future convicted felon Peter Navarro defending him.

Seems like that. Coincidentally I had a dream last night where I bit into an apple and it was completely filled with slugs on the inside.A bit like Trump's brain?

Bone spurs are no joke. That man knows real suffering.

Speaking of stupid things Trump says … I've noticed a trend amongst some anti-Trump YouTubers to ridicule his many fluffed lines when he's reading teleprompter speeches. They're frequently attributing it to "cognitive decline" but I think it's simpler than that: I reckon his eyesight is getting a bit iffy, and he's literally not able to read the words on the screen from time to time. Could be cataracts, could be diabetic retinopathy, could just be age-related short/longsightedness and he's too vain to wear glasses … but the more I see of these episodes in context, the more I'm convinced he's got problems in that respect.

Doesn't stop me laughing at him making an eejit of himself, though.

What's he going on about in this one from today?

(How can I get the Tweet to display like the one in post #1362?) 🤔

He has an entirely different style of behaviour and blather when he's riffing on his own initiative. That shows up something else, which I'd attribute to him being unable to remember stuff once he's "moved on". He'll get all hyped up about a random topic - like the batteries, like the volume of a toilet flush, like the corrupt judge - and can recycle his spiel for days/weeks/months on end. But if ever he's challenged about comments made or policy announced more than a couple of weeks/months ago he goes blank, then flips into "safe mode" and says something along the lines of "wait and see, we have a plan, you'll find out about it in two weeks".

I wouldn't be sure either of the two candidates are going to make it through to the end of their term - but hey, they're who the 'Merican people want as their leader so …

(not a peep out of anyone either, Dem or GOP, about reforming their electoral system).

Oh, he'd been railing against low-water appliances for awhile, he's also said he gets into the shower with his very expensive shampoos and soaps, and gets no water out of it.

And he'll get tens of millions of votes in a few months.

On a different note, Beau mentioned something called the 'black jacket' revolt where a bunch of ultra-pure-blood-true-MAGATS in AZ made noises about recruiting others of their ilk to back Michael Flynn, because CFTrump is actually not really conservative, just playing them all for fools. Plus these black jackets were worried that CFTrump might, like, be in jail at the time of the convention. One can hope. Anyway, looks like the black jackets have been put back under their rock for now.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/23/2248188/-AZ-Republican-Operatives-Suppress-Plot-to-Oust-Trump?utm_campaign=recent

You said he can't read it because his eyesight is iffy. Now he has a "black cloud". Which is it?

The two things are not mutually exclusive. Most people in their late 70s would need glasses or a cataract operation at some stage. Not that we are likely to see Trump in glasses, it would distract from his gorgeous hair.

They can just increase the font size. Besides reading glasses dont work so well when the text you are reading is 10 feet away

Opinions tended towards Trump backing out of the debates.

Do ye still think he will?

Ego and bravado made him agree without properly reviewing or discussing the rules. His excuse for pulling out will be that they were all colluding against him, making the debate biased and unfair, no audience which isn't fair, and really Trump is so intelligent and super brave for having the strength to pull out of the debate. He'll then try set the rules for a different debate and when that's not agreed to; "See? Biden is afraid to debate me!"

And his supporters will lap it all up.

Remember the last one when a load of his team knew infected with covid but said nothing

Kasey Hunt on CNN This Morning, just now, cut the interview with Trump's campaign secretary Karoline Leavitt just now. She was on for an interview on Trump and his prep for the Thursday debate. She instead started railing about Jake Tapper & Dana Bash being biased, leftist and that they will be unfair to Don the con™

The strategy of laying out the media as being "elite" & biased towards her Gorg trash heap overlord.

Apparently.... He is so great at everything that unlike Joe, he doesn't need to lock himself away to prepare for the debate🤦‍♀️

Straight from Bannon/Miller's playbook.

No, you can't "just increase the font size". Someone with mature cataracts or diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration loses part of their field of vision - they have a literal blind spot in their eye, or eyes. They can adapt to this and make use of the receptors that remain, but that means they need a smaller font size to be able to see the whole word, otherwise they have to move their head from side to side to scan the line of text. Now that's fine if you're reading words on a page and have glasses to help sort out concurrent problems, but there's a conflict of interest when it comes to a teleprompter.

From what I've seen, Trump is getting increasingly agitated at having to use teleprompters (he's still perfectly happy to talk off the cuff to anyone who'll listen) and I'm inclined to think that it's a stark reminder to him - when he's in front of a crowd - that seriously failing eyesight is yet another thing that's out of his control. Cue going off on a tangent to his "happy place" where he can riff about sharks and showers and toilets and whatnot.

It must be a bit of a nightmare for whoever's feeding the teleprompter to figure out at what point in the text he'll pick up the script again.