Realm of the Truly Bizarre
In the realm of the truly bizarre Trump says “Maybe I’ll sign an executive order, you can’t have him as your president.”
Forbes has Key Points from Trump’s Speech.
- “He is the worst candidate. The dumbest of all candidates,” Trump said of former Vice President Biden. “He is the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics.”
- Trump also expanded on his unproven claim that Biden is on drugs, stating, “they gave him a big fat shot in the ass… and for two hours, he is better than ever before. Problem is, what happens after that?”
- The first debate between the two candidates is scheduled for September 29th, with moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News, and Trump said Saturday, “we’re going to ask for a drug test. We are. I’d like to have a drug test.”
- At one point in the speech, Trump seemingly threatened to attempt to ban Biden from being elected President of the United States. “You can’t have this guy as your president,” Trump argued. “You can’t have — maybe I’ll sign an executive order, you cannot have him as your president.”
In contrast to his US dollar intervention request, the above video shows this proclamation appears to be a joke.
However, many people will take him seriously. Other will consider this a trial balloon.
Regardless, this was a very reckless thing for Trump to threaten.
Trump Supporters Block Entrance to Early Polling Place in Virginia
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1307453197070499841
That is an illegal Intimidation of Voters action. It may look trivial or a joke to some. But it isn’t.
Unacceptable?
Illegal is the correct word. Those partaking in illegal actions should be arrested and prosecuted.
For discussion of Trump’s bizarre US dollar request, please see Wow, Trump Didn’t Know That the Dollar Floats
These totally bizarre Tweets and speeches may gather applause from his rabid supporters but they they are guaranteed to cost him votes of independents and swing voters.
Trump’ ego requires him to do and say counterproductive things for the sake of instant adulation and cheers.
Mish
LOL this is too funny, why doesn’t he just pass a law today declaring himself winner of the election right now?
Re-reading Mish’s headline, it seems even he is deliberately mis-interpreting it as serious.
And he has the gall to accuse others of TDS. Fucking LOL!
Language does matter. Maybe you find Trump’s bizarre speech as not serious, but a lot of us don’t. We want a leader who ever now again tries to remind us we are all Americans not a bunch of blue and red heads. Maybe such an effort would lead to some real solutions.
Fair enough, I agree that divisiveness is not good. But most (not all) of the divisiveness is coming from the left, including now when people are trying to frame Trump’s joke as an actual threat.
Remember when Obama (and many others on the left) were saying ‘This man (Trump) will never be president’ (which unlike this was case was not said in jest).
Remember when we had a 2 year into unfounded election hacking.
Remember all the people who’ve called Trump ‘literally Hiter’, who is going to ‘literally going to start WW3’, we need to ‘punch a nazi’, etc etc.
Mish should at minimum change the post title, as he is guilty of the divisiveness you find to be a problem.
How are those people blocking anything? It looks to me like they are just standing there with HEAPS of room to walk around (or am I missing something). It don’t want to go down the whataboutism route, but we’ve had months of riots and violence and people are getting upset about this?
On the joke – Trump made a joke, some people didn’t get it – probably deliberately. Who cares. Lets have some actual news instead of this non-issue.
Wow. I don’t see anyway to get past this defensive line up!
Especially the dude with the American flag T-Shirt, he just exudes the threat of white male supremacist violence.
He should immediately be cuffed for hate crimes.
Indeed looks like rowdy bunch. I’m betting there was at least one piece of litter.
Trump supporters are an angry mob. Hard to see it otherwise
All Biden supporters support rioters. Hard to see it otherwise.
Wow, making idiotic, all encompassing comments really IS easy. And I didn’t even have to think!
Next I think I’ll do a countdown of the number of days until the election!
Up till now it seems the Biden supporters are filled with hate & anger, while the Trump supporters seem kind of upbeat and get-along. Dems seem far more confrontational. [And I’m just a distant observer.]
“[And I’m just a distant observer.]”
Ahh. That explains much.
How is Mars?
I don’t normally get upset with Trump because he’s a reflection of the national psyche. It seems like people know deep down that global finances are unsalvageable, so all that’s left is to troll each other at every opportunity.
It’s understandable of people want to thumb their noses at each other, but that leads to my big criticism of many Trump supporters, that it’s idiotic to pretend that all will be well with this much debt and animosity. Trolling is not 4D chess!
That’s the comment of the day.
I understand that this is a photo of Trump supporters blocking access to the polling place in question. Note the source is msn.com. It remains to be seen if this qualifies under 18 U.S. Code § 594. Intimidation of voters :
I don’t see anyway to get past this defensive line up!
Especially the dude with the American flag T-Shirt, he just exudes the threat of white male supremacist violence.
Respect the flag–wipe your armpits with it!!
Campaigning can be done 30′ from polling place entry.
Seems to me that this sort of thing has a reverse effect.
The people on the right are in line to vote. Do no appear to be blocked from entering the polling place. Social distancing while reading texts from the Biden campaign
This old song is perfect for Trump (maybe Biden also):
Your Mind Is on Vacation
Mose Allison
Album I Don’t Worry About a Thing
You sittin here and yakkin right in my face
You comin’ on exactly like you own the place
You know if silence was golden
You couldn’t raise a dime
Because your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime
You quotin’ figures and droppin’ names
You tellin’ stories and playing games
You’re overlaughin’ when things ain’t funny
You tryin’ to sound like the big money
You know if talk was criminal
You’d lead a life of crime
Because your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime
You know that life is short
Talk is cheap
Don’t be makin’ promises that you can’t keep
You don’t like this little song I’m singin’
Just grin and bear it
All I can say is if the shoe fits wear it
If you must keep talkin
Please try to make it rhyme
Because your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime
https://genius.com/Mose-allison-your-mind-is-on-vacation-lyrics
Had Obama made such a joke, the trumplings would be waddling down Main Street in 50 lbs of tactical armor, toting Rambo guns and cardboard signs with mis-spelled grievances on them.
They haven’t been already, but “protecting us,” instead?
Actually, the Dems have been saying this for more than 4 years, and have recently reiterated an absolute prohibition to the Harris ticket on conceding defeat. So far the MAGA crowd has not reacted in the way you predict to all this illegitimacy sedition. And they probably will not, insouciant little freedom believers that they are.
Not sure what I’m reading here. Conservative Mish moves from liberal Illinois, to conservative Utah, and becomes liberal?
Hard to figure out these days what a conservative is when Trump is heading up the movement and shows no fiscal constraint and has pushed more gun control through than Obama.
Wasn’t Trump a registered Democrat somewhere in the past?
Trump has always belonged to the Party of Trump.
It’s like The Producers. Everyone: Heil, Trump! Trump: Heil, myself!
Yes, and a member of the Reform Party too. When Trump ran as the Reform Party candidate, he ran on a platform that was a 180 degree turn from what he promotes today. Pat Buchanan who ran against him sounded like Trump that year with the nationalism banter, and Trump viciously attacked him for it.
Trump is an opportunist who embraces whatever gets him and his brand ahead.
Haven’t you been reading this blog long enough to know Mish is generally libertarian? That is, if one were to try to label him, which I’m not. I like that he appropriately hammers stupidity when he sees it.
Trump is just trolling the MSM!
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t want a president who is a troll. I don’t want a president who is consistently a liar. I don’t want a president who believes “strong statements” from Putin over the findings of our intelligence agencies. I don’t want a president who attacks the free press.
It is not just you, SoCaliforniaStan, the Lincoln Project is conservative Republicans that have had enough of tRump also. They put their money in ads they are using to get tRump out of office.
4D chess… LMAO
You cannot discount the fact that Trump has managed to convince his followers that they must destroy democracy to save “their” country.
The Soviet Union had a constitution full of grand promises and rights. But as for exercising them…
Even worse, the Democrats have the same plan. Once in power, they plan to tear up the Constitution, pack the Court, and essentially eliminate the Judiciary as a separate Branch of Government. They also used to be a party that stood strongly for free speech, but that is no longer true. The time of the US as a free country is drawing rapidly to a close. Neither of the major parties is in favor of freedom, so how can we expect it to last much longer?
Vote Jo, and make your feelings known. Libertarians are the only party in favor of Freedom. The choice has never been more clear.
Yeah sure, vote Kanye!!
Look, I’m not under any illusion that Jorgensen can win, yet the only way that the Republic can be saved is to diverge from the two corrupt parties, both willing to destroy the Constitution and freedom to stay in power. I recognize that since Libertarians can’t win, that leads to the obvious conclusion that our Republic only has a few years left.
For many years I have predicted the late 2030s as the end, but I have to admit that I’m wondering if it will live that long. There is too much anger, greed, selfishness, and divisiveness, and too little respect for free speech. Once upon a time, people from different parties could disagree and discuss it civilly. Today if you disagree, you are more apt to be personally attacked than to have a civil discussion. Still, fifteen years is not a long time. There is a chance, I suppose, we can last that long.
Typical comment by a Dem mistaking a mirror for a window…
If anybody has threatened democracy it’s the professional class in the intelligence “community” (for whom trashing the constitution has always been fair game, but even more so this millenium) and the media spin choir
Glad you can remember middle school comments (I’m rubber and you’re glue–another goodie)–it must have been a high point for you.
Not sure if you’ve forgotten the intelligence community developed by the Bush admin after 9/11, though.
If you think Trump has your back with respect to rights and freedom, you have a very distorted view of the world.
I don’t take the executive order seriously but what i do take seriously is trump and barr seekign to invalidte countless ballots in an effort to steal the election. Biden is right to lawyer up. This election will be won in the courts as much as the polls. If you think Gore v Bush was something you ain’t seen nothing yet.
So. Just hold an election like any other OECD country where none of these issues play any role.
Trump does love the poorly educated. He said so.
Just a joke…..a little campaign trail humor? How many of these do you have to hear before you finally get scared.
That Trump…he’s so irreverent and….edgy….that’s it…..he’s a real edgy dude.
On the edge of taking this country down a bad road that only goes one way…..no coming back.
I got some good jokes.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken said that in 1920, and he was dead on right, just a little ahead of his time.
We’re there.
He also said democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it…….good and hard.
Ambrose Bierce said democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Trump voters are lambs who think they’re wolves. Bon appetit!
Largest sheep movement ever–#MAGA.
H.L. Mencken, pride of Ballmer, Mareland.
Great analogy, I’ve been saying trump acts like Michael but he’s really just Fredo.
Trump was obviously joking about signing an executive order. I don’t condone blocking a polling site, but those who state it’s wrong to intimidate, how do you feel about protesters attacking those wearing a MAGA hat? Do you not count that as intimidation?
Wear a BLM tshirt to a Trump rally—what do you think will happen?
Wear what you want, but wearing something that makes a statement for you WILL attract attention and perhaps attacks, especially in an aroused adversarial gathering.
Is that really too hard a concept to understand?
“…how do you feel about protesters attacking those wearing a MAGA hat? Do you not count that as intimidation?”
Of course we do. Which is why both should be called out as unacceptable.
One other thing – Trump said himself that he doesn’t joke, so I don’t think you should be so sure that he was ‘kidding’ about that executive order.
Struck a nerve with a bunch of those afflicted with TDS Type II.
It appears they have reading issues as well.
“It appears they have {add – ‘willful’} reading issues as well.”
There is some truth to it; the USA has a chance to have decent and maybe even wise presidential candidates in 2024, but no sooner.
Kamala wise? Nope. Now maybe Willie Brown is wise. He can “advise” her.
Newsom May well be the Dem nom in ‘24. maybe vs Hawley.
Trump “jokes” about things that ought not be joked about. After Xi made himself ruler for life, Trump complimented him and “joked” maybe he should try that. Trump said he “joked” about injecting disinfectant.
Someone who loves the Constitution does not “joke” about 12 more years. In a context where he has challenged the legitimacy of the election already, and last time said he would not accept it if he lost, a “joke” about an executive order prohibiting his rival’s election is chilling. It is not funny. Not from someone who seemingly has not met an authoritarian leader he doesn’t like, if not “fall in love with.”
Coronavirus: Trump disinfectant claims cause 100 hospital admissions
The US president suggested disinfectants could prevent Covid-19 infections during his Friday briefing, leading to dozens of hospitalizations across the country.
That was a headline from April; my only regret is he does not really get behind this and push it hard, because of course only a total retard would actually do it, and that means fewer red votes while leaving Biden’s voters alive, laughing, but alive.
Is there a list of names with those 100 patients?
How about statistics for annual poisonings with bleach and such to compare the April “spike” to a baseline?
Really.
You’re arguing that it didn’t take place?
It literally took a couple seconds to look up the stories referred to above and they are quoted across almost every news outlet – from NPR to Fox News. I’m sure you’ll respond with some bs regarding “MSM fake news” or whatever, but your current tact is not very convincing.
Are you looking for a handout of knowledge? Someone else to do all the work for you? You must not be a conservative.
Who said Trump loved the Constitution? Or was that something else that spewed out of his mouth during the last 4 years?
Well said socalstan
Policy must intervene, arrest and prosecute anyone who impedes the voting process. No voter should feel threatened by anybody else.
Here in Florida DeSantis has asked for “enhanced sentences” for anyone who commits a crime during a protest. My reply is fine as long as that applies to the republicans and police equally. Arrest these people and see to it they enjoy a criminal record for life.
Haha. Mish is getting more ridiculous with each passing day. What happened to this guy? He used to be quite intelligent with his analysis but not any longer. Sad.
What is ridiculous about the commentary? Be specific, because – as many of the subsequent comments show – many people are not finding the humor that you are apparently finding.
Da comrade Troll, how is weather in Moscow? How is Natasha and kids? Answer is simple, put polonium in sleepy Joe’s tea problem solved.
America would be such a harmonious society, and Americans would bring so much human goodness if they controlled the world in their annointed ‘good guy’ role, if only it weren’t for the damn Russians. If we could just genocide them, everything would be so awesome. It’s just in their DNA to make Americans be racist.
The OP is the very definition of the ignorance and wickedness infesting this country. That or they are a troll ^^^ trying to sew the seeds of discord and chaos. Go sit your fat butt down in your easy chair OP, and wave your gun at the TV and GTFO of here.
До свидания, толстый русский тролль
tRump will likely incite a civil war if he loses the election, or if he really feels he is going to lose.
I have been saying that ATG; people never listen. The other option is to resign so president Pence can pardon him aand then flee the country so NY and other states cannot arrest him, someplace with no US extradition treaty, like for example russia. A nice dacha on the cape in Sochi for instance. But, after looking at military vids and posts, and following troop movements as I have done since I left the service, I say it is now a lot more likely he will start WWIII with China, and use his new conservative majority to end elections here, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, institute rationing, nothing keeps people in line like cancelling their ration book when they misbehave. And of course a curfew. Might even use Covid as an excuse to arrest anyone not going to, from, or at work. At this point there is absolutely nothing I would put past him and his boss Tsar Vladimir.
God help up. You’re way more pessimistic than me. I gotta believe that the top brass won’t let him do anything too extreme.
Resigning before Jan 20, is possible, but I’m starting to think that he’ll just pardon himself as he walks out the door and fight out the legality in court. There’s a slight possibility that he’ll convert his assets to rubles or francs and flee, but that’s not in his nature. He tends to hire attack dog lawyers and fight things out in the courts.
More importantly, what are the libtards going to do when he wins handily?
But “tRump said this with tongue in cheek”, according to the White House Press Secretary.