Trump's Second Term

alfaniner said:
or while he's falling asleep. Remember "covfefe"? Also remember when that was the silliest thing he'd done that we'd heard at the time?
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...Define silly? IIRC, the covfefe was never really the silliest thing that I had heard about, just being another little bit of the constant barrage of evil absurdity that is Trump. It's distinction is that it was among the most innocuous things that Trump is remembered for, in fair part because of how Trump's team purposely blew it up and confused things. That's ignoring how disgraceful and unpresidential the tweet was shaping up to be, of course - the kind of thing that Republicans would happily latch onto to call a Democrat unfit for the position. They would have a point in that case, of course, much as they happily overlook such when it's the people actually working to screw them over doing it. Even the two scoops thing was perhaps less innocuous - it was petty and bad for diplomacy.
 
newyorkguy said:
It's real and Kyle Langford is running for the Republican nomination for governor of California. Yahoo News reports,


He also suggested requiring undocumented immigrant women to "marry incels" in order to avoid deportation.

The Onion announced they're shutting down. They feel they can no longer compete with reality.
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It's also the day Tom Lehrer's death was announced.
 
newyorkguy said:
It's hard for me to believe trump sits down and cuts-and-pastes some of the memes that appear on his Truth Social account, for one thing I'd be surprised if he even knew how to do it. But at the same time, I don't believe the president of the United States is letting people post on his personal account -- on a social media site he owns -- and has no idea or even interest in what's being posted. Here's what the Independent UK recently reported:
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I do believe he dictates and maybe occasionally vets what goes out through that channel. But that he doesn't personally type all the content. We already know he cannot read or stay on track when speaking for more than a few seconds, swaying wildly off course like you would expect from the demented old fool he is. So it is very difficult to believe he can concentrate long enough to accurately two-thumbs type those long and complicated messages that do appear. They have all the outward appearance of being "cleaned up" before release, perhaps even concatenated into one.
newyorkguy said:
Independent also reports, trump has been filmed dictating posts to both Scavino and Harp. But according to the anonymous White House official, many of the posts written late at night or early in the morning are written by trump himself while he watches TV.
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Nah, probably not true now in 2025. I don't think they would let any of his garbled content go out unedited, at least for swearing and staying on current political message.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump on Wind: It’s driving the whales loco. It’s not going to happen in the United States.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949504799080419491
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Unsurprisingly, Trump is just making up crap.

Driving whales crazy.' Mixed reactions as Trump links wind energy to whale deaths​

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Scientists and environmental organizations emphasized that there is no current evidence linking wind farms to whale deaths, while some activists welcomed Trump's support for halting offshore wind development amid ongoing concerns about its impact on marine life.
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Whale and Dolphin Conservation, based in Plymouth, called the strandings “unprecedented” and worrisome, but also stressed no evidence exists connecting them to offshore wind activities. Organization spokesperson Caroline Mowdy noted that no seismic surveys or wind construction have occurred within the group's stranding response area, which spans 200 miles of coastline, "yet we are seeing a dramatic increase in large whale strandings."

Gib Brogan, campaign director at Oceana, also rejected Trump’s claims. Necropsy results are pending for some of the recently dead whales, but the known causes of death for most whales are "still coming from entanglements, and vessel strikes, he said.
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Stacyhs said:
Agreed. The other thing that puts me off are photos of their "shocked" faces:

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They're trying to maintain their livelihood in an environment where The Algorithm tells them this thumbnail is the current meta for getting attention.

Even the most sober and reasonable content creators have to make obeisance to this. Don't judge the book by the only cover that works for writers right now.
 
alfaniner said:
or while he's falling asleep. Remember "covfefe"? Also remember when that was the silliest thing he'd done that we'd heard at the time?
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And remember his random use of uppercase was because he sent a tweet out that got made fun of because he’d mistyped some capital letters.
 
theprestige said:
They're trying to maintain their livelihood in an environment where The Algorithm tells them this thumbnail is the current meta for getting attention.

Even the most sober and reasonable content creators have to make obeisance to this. Don't judge the book by the only cover that works for writers right now.
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Rubbish. The majority of creators don't resort to the 'shocked faces' nonsense.
 
Come on guys. Give the fat clown a break.

If he's getting us these great deals, deporting all these coloured people, and saving the whales to boot, shouldn't we be applauding him? /SARCASM
 
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Stacyhs said:
Rubbish. The majority of creators don't resort to the 'shocked faces' nonsense.
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Yeah, funnily enough I've got plenty of quality content while also dodging stupid shocked faces and clickbait headlines. Heck, they even have their own yellow font now. "Hey, if we use yellow capital letters, this font, and CAPITAL LETTERS, we apparently get more traffic!'
Just as dumb as those red arrows and circles that were everywhere for a long time before. I used to shun those like the plague, too.
 
AmyStrange said:
Come on guys. Give the fat clown a break.

If he's getting us these great deals, deporting all these coloured people, and saving the whales to boot, shouldn't we be applauding him? /SARCASM
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He is living up to his own usual best. The deals are not real or are worse than before, fewer black people are being deported than before, and more whales are washing up dead. Everything Trump touches turns to crap.
 
That Langford dude is an odd one. He is apparently an Uber Catholic who wants to turn California into a Catholic state. I wonder if he is aware of the Nazis views on Catholicism...
 
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