This is what he said. This is what the man said, verbatim, in Detroit last week:

William Lindsey :toad:

"It’s so simple, you know. It isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land on the moon within 12 inches of where they want to land or he gets the engines back. That was the first, I really...I said 'who the hell did that.' I saw engines about three, four years ago."

~ Donald Trump

#Trump #MentalDecline #age #dementia
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62579071/trump-rambling-circles-grocery/

William Lindsey :toad:

"These things were coming, cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom! Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? [Gesticulates with right hand in an oddly circular motion.] He’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill them up. And then I heard that he beat us in the popular vote. But that...I don’t know, I don’t know."

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Couldn’t fill up the eight circles [Again, gesticulates with right hand in an oddly circular motion.] Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person who did that, that was the best thing about his...the level of that circle was great. But they couldn’t get people, so they used to have the press stand in those circles, because they couldn’t get the people. Then I heard we lost. Oh, we lost."

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William Lindsey :toad:

"But we’re never going to let that happen again. We’ve been abused by other countries but we’ve been abused by our own politicians, really, more than other countries."

And:

"I have more complaints on grocery. The word grocery. You know, it’s a sorta simple word, but it sorta means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does. And, uh, I have more complaints about that. Bacon and things going up. Double. Triple. Quadruple."

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MylesRyden

@wdlindsy

Never has an American politician hated the United States more than Trump.

If you think about it most Republicans hate the idea of America. All that freedom. All that diversity. They HATE it.

Pat

@wdlindsy to anyone who witnesses the depth of DT's derangement--as in this example--, all I can say it "may god have mercy on your soul."

William Lindsey :toad:

"It is a horrifying irony that Donald, one of the most damaged, weak, and inferior people who has ever walked the planet, promotes the inferiority of non-whites. But he’s, after all, merely a symptom of a disease that, thanks to the opportunism of the Republican Party and the fascists, white supremacist, and Christian nationalists they represent, continues to metastasize."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #fascism #Republicans
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Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

@wdlindsy is he seeing his events as Dante’s Inferno.
Wound he know Dante’s Inferno from Dante’s Pasta and NYC Pizza slice ?

William Lindsey :toad:

@MishaVanMollusq I doubt he'd have a clue about who Dante was, but an interesting question as to whether he's somehow echoing The Inferno. I understand from commentary he's referencing circles Biden had drawn on the floor — at the White House? — to keep people at safe distances from each other in the pandemic. Bottom line for me is, this is plumb crazy talk.

William Lindsey :toad:

@patrascan I echo that prayer along with you.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MylesRyden You're right. The interesting thing is, Trump's followers continue to pretend that they and they alone own patriotism. In my very Democrat-voting liberal neighborhood, I am seeing one single Trump sign — a row of them, in fact. The house that has put them into its hard has on its porch not one but two honking big American flags waving in the background.

MylesRyden

@wdlindsy

Of course there is an America they do love, but it is hard for them to admit that they do. The America they love is genocidal, slave owning, militaristic and white male dominated.

Jonathan Kamens

@wdlindsy What I would love to see is for someone to pay for full-page ads in every newspaper in the country the Sunday before the election, just quoting Trump's words from his rallies, just as you've done here.
Just quoting them. No editing, no commentary, no explanations. Just Donald Trump's words in quotation marks.
Can you imagine?
The newspapers should have been doing this themselves, of course, every single day.
But if they're not going to, then someone else should.

Jonathan Kamens

@wdlindsy I will give the #WashingtonPost a bit of credit for at least trying. But note that this is in their editorial section, not their news section.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/482NcAs

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@wdlindsy @MylesRyden
My neighbor was out in his yard (doing major work on siding that it despertely needs) with his almost billboard sized "Trump 2024 No More Bullshit" flag and an American flag.
I imagine most of the day he's tuned and focused to those channels that feed the idea that they are the warriors for "good."
At least NPR just played a big chunk of that babble, BUT now they're just chatting about false allegations of election fraud.
Perhaps at least mentioning that he's babbling incoherently?

William Lindsey :toad:

@geonz @MylesRyden Isn't it telling that they chose those billboard-sized signs and flags? Almost as if they're over-compensating for something that's very small….

William Lindsey :toad:

@jik Thank you so much for the link. It doesn't open for me, unfortunately, and I've found that happens when I myself share gift links to WaPo here. I will see if I can open and read using the Archive.Today site.

P.S. Yes — it opened for me there and I'll read it now!

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@wdlindsy @MylesRyden I wish noting that worked better but I also think that it's simply threatening violence.

William Lindsey :toad:

@jik W wonderful suggestion.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MylesRyden Yes, the American they love is "their" America, which can be crafted only by spinning fantasies and denying the actual history of the nation they claim to love, just as you say.