Bring back the good old days!
C’mon! Your voters are already all over it! Don’t be a pussy, Don!
[W]here once 56 percent [of Americans] believed the former president could stay alert in the middle of a nuclear emergency, [now] it is 49 percent.
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Then again, how many of US would be able to stay alert in the middle of a nuclear emergency? I think most of us would be nodding off.
One of the bootlickingest Trumpists out there just called Arizona Republicans who have decided to vote for Harris whores.
Strange… I thought prostitution was illegal in Arizona. Ignore these whores.
Well… but… YOU didn’t ignore them, Jake. You emblazoned them on X, and now outlets like NPR are reporting on your astonishingly unChristian use of language.
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And then there’s the Trump campaign. In response to my Rep. Jamie Raskin’s perfectly reasonable, well-meant, warning to JD Vance to watch himself, given that Trump and his enthusiasts almost hanged his predecessor, the Trump campaign issued an official statement: “Jamie Raskin is a disgusting piece of trash.”
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Or, in the original German, one of America’s highest-profile Jews is Dreckjude.
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Whores. Disgusting trash. This, mes petites, is how you talk when you are very, very desperate.
The Florida Republican Party said polling suggesting former president Donald Trump could lose Florida in 2024 was “extremely alarming.”
Evan Power, the chairman of the Florida GOP, sent out a fundraising email in response to Newsweek’s August 13 report on a poll that suggested Florida was not a guarantee for Trump with the headline: “Donald Trump at Risk of Losing Florida, Poll Suggests.”
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Jan. 8, 2024:
The Republican Party of Florida ousted its chairman on Monday, more than a month after the police in Sarasota confirmed that he was under criminal investigation for sexual assault.
UD first encountered “tumescent” in a poem written by the sister of her high school boyfriend, and EKS used the word in its most common sense to mean an erect penis.
In this excerpt, Michael Tomasky, whose writing I admire, mixes things up a bit too much, offers too generous a helping of figurative language. He uses tumefied correctly, to mean narcissistically swelled up about one’s own greatness. But those of us familiar with this fancy adjective’s provenance are likely to venture toward swollen phallus territory.
Yet just after we start venturing, we’re hit with flaccid, a word, like tumescent, rarely employed non-phallically.
So is Donald Trump impressively tumescent/tumefied, or is he, like at least sixty percent of men his age, tumescent-challenged?
Ain’t none of my business; the point here is that Tomasky’s writing has me thinking about flaccid v. tumescent, and that’s not where he wants my thinking to go.
There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs in Pennsylvania
As DT drones on and on…
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From the podium before them
They can see our land reborn
Yet they rise to go home early
They would rather download porn
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... The very words that he is speaking
Become 'slur-filled delusions'
On this lonely barricade
At dawn
Strange dear, but true dear,
The shit you say about Jews, dear,
It makes me scared! cuz I…
Am a Jew about to die!
I must flee to Valencia
[Unless you have dementia]
Oh Don darling why
Do you say I’m gonna die?
New jobs went to migrants a hundred million percent.’
You can read many UD entries exploring Trump-as-Ubu.
But with Trump’s latest comment about the Medal of Honor (“Everyone [who] gets the congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”), it occurs to UD that Trump is perhaps better understood through the character of Sir Walter Elliot, in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.
An appearances-obsessed snob, Elliot doesn’t like the idea of a naval officer renting his house (Elliot’s idiocy and greed have ruined him financially, so he must rent out his house and find someplace cheaper to live), because “it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once…”
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Update: ‘Asinine’ is good.
Admittedly, that has not happened. But we are getting headlines like this one in Newsweek:
Donald Trump Committing ‘Political Suicide,’ Republican Pollster Says
And this one in Daily Mail:
Vance might be a little creepy, and he certainly draws attention to Trump’s bad judgment, old age, and general extremism, but voters already know that Trump is old, extreme, and more than a little crazy… Donald Trump has slowed down considerably over the last four years. He is very old. He struggles to hold his thoughts together, even by his own standards. And he has considerably less energy than he did even a few years ago. He can’t campaign vigorously. Which means he will have to rely on his running mate—whom everyone seems to hate… He is a liability on several fronts: an inexperienced and off-putting politician with views that are far outside the mainstream… He’s uninspiring and goofy. His political program is wildly at odds even with that of many Republicans. As a stand-in, he emphasizes all of Trump’s most unappealing qualities. He can’t help but disparage people without children or make off-putting remarks… There are plenty of hangers-on and people who will happily say insane shit as warm-up acts. But there aren’t actual stand-ins. Vance is going to become that as Trump stays off the trail. And it will likely be a disaster.
… self-indulgent, and enraged.’
“He’s in his Fat Elvis phase now.”
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The X Spaces interview delivered Donald Trump without makeup or dress-up, talking unselfconsciously: manic, boastful, untruthful, aggrieved, abusive, obsessive, random, ignorant, tedious, bitchy—and ultimately, formless and endless.
The lists of adjectives keep coming.
