DuncanGoose22Jul 22, 2024
Anne Applebaum
"Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK30QMG1fywUquOuGp_YU0tp4
Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged

Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence.

The Atlantic
Jul 22, 2024 at 4:58pmWeb
Show threadBuckJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum Surely the media will start fixating on how old and "no longer as sharp" Trump is, right? ..... **right!?**
Show threadJargogglesJul 22, 2024
@buck @anneapplebaum
It's especially noteworthy since he was never all that sharp to begin with - like a crayon clumsily smashed against the wall by a toddler.
Show threadBuckJul 22, 2024
@jargoggles @anneapplebaum "especially" and "clumsily" .. Those are awfully big words for Don 😬
Show threadLocksmithJul 22, 2024
@buck @jargoggles @anneapplebaum
The biggest word the orange one can say is "tremendous".
Show threadBuckJul 22, 2024
@locksmithprime @jargoggles @anneapplebaum TraMENdiss -- So bigly good
Show threadJargogglesJul 22, 2024
@buck @anneapplebaum
He doesn't seem to have a firm grasp on similes, for that matter.
Show thread🏳️‍🌈🜏Technomancer🜏🏳️‍🌈Jul 22, 2024
@jargoggles @buck @anneapplebaum , the average buttplug is sharper than Trump.
Show threadCaptain Jack SparrowJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum

Exactly!!

Show threadspinbackwardsJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum This: “The cadres of people organized by the Heritage Foundation and a dozen offshoots, all quietly preparing to dismantle the rights of American women, to replace civil servants with loyalists, to take apart pollution controls, and to transfer more money into the hands of Trump-friendly billionaires—they are no longer marching inexorably toward the halls of power”.
Show threadklausfiend has movedJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum "are the only ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence".

FTFTA. It's not like Trump wasn't already a demented weirdo and we've only noticed just now ... which is a point that should have been made regularly by the Times and the Post, if they had been doing their jobs as watchdogs.

Show threadmickymorseJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum The fat orange fuck has always been deranged. Thats what appeals to the gop base. No morals, lawfulness, integrity, or ethics.
Show threadMarcus JenkinsJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum I believe the Democrats have played a fantastic trick on Trump. Get Trump all about how old Joe is and, tag!, in comes Kamala.

Republicans have an empty hand without Trump - it's all about the cult of Trump.

Democrats have policies.

And they can find candidates who aren't senile, felon, pedo, rapist, lying fraudsters with incestuous, dictatorial aspirations.

Show threadGondorJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum As If watching a Game of chess.🤔
Now which side has a better set up now?
Yes, the side with the Queen (and the King saved)
Show threadPhil Thane ✅Jul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum
And an idiot running mate.
@RejoinEU
Show threadBob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱Jul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum It was always like that, though....the media just doesn't care.
Show threadPeachMcDJul 22, 2024

@rjblaskiewicz @anneapplebaum #CorporateMedia wants a neck & neck race as long as possible bc #Advertising $$ but in the end it wants what every corporation wants : dividends for shareholders

Which are maximized by #TaxBreaks & #Anarchy
"If it bleeds, it leads"

Show threadNazaniJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum
Neither of those describe Biden's language problems, which are linked to his stuttering. He's mentally astute & will continue to churn out great legislation for us through the election. Bashing him is unwarranted.
Show thread66gardenersJul 22, 2024
@Nazani @anneapplebaum
Indeed. Implying they are the same is inappropriate.
Show threadJ.elgatoJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum

Trying to appear cogent and functional?

Well, the performative ear bandage was maybe not the best strategy...

Show threadCarsten Schridde Jul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum word
Show threadZorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷Jul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum Uh huh ... and the Democrats are saddled with a candidate that God did not miraculously save from a bullet.
Show threadDave NearyJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum That's been the case for 9 years...
Show threadJohn MastodonJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum He has looked pretty deranged to me all the time, honestly
Show threadxs4me2Jul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum

Out of something bad some good will come…

#votebluetosavedemocracy

Show threadLyricismistJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/election-trump-harris?
As Biden departs, Trump set to face questions over his age and acuity

With a younger rival to emerge, the focus is likely to turn to ex-president, 78, and his often rambling, confused speeches

The Guardian
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Jul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum Which supports the assumption, that Trump is principally just a willing bribable puppet of the subversive shadow network working to fundamentally change the constitutional design of the United States.
Names like Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, the Koch-, Mercer-, Murdoch- circles & other subverters may come to mind...
Show threadKen KemperJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum they are used to it.
Show threadenoch_exe_incJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum Wait, “suddenly”? You mean to say that he didn’t come across as old and deranged eight years ago?
Show threadMark WedelJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum “Suddenly?”
Show threadJoris MeysJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum I find it especially amazing that a shockwave like Biden making place for Harris was needed before people realized the emperor without clothes is a dementing crook. I mean, it was kind of obvious...
Show threadGBJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum more like this please https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK30QMG1fywUquOuGp_YU0tp4

and Less like https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/kamala-harris-democrat-mini-primary/679187/

Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged

Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence.

The Atlantic
Show threadPyperkubJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum "Suddenly?" 🤣 🤣 🤣
Show threadKevin RussellJul 22, 2024

@anneapplebaum

Is trump going to wear a pad till november?

Show threadJonChevreau 🇨🇦Jul 22, 2024
@kevinrns @anneapplebaum ideally over his mouth
Show threadLocksmithJul 22, 2024
@JonChevreau @kevinrns @anneapplebaum
He has to, so he can keep reminding people "I should be dead. I should be dead. A bullet scratched my ear. Pity me."
Show threadbluerootsradioJul 22, 2024
@locksmithprime @JonChevreau @kevinrns @anneapplebaum
"something" scratched his ear. We don't know yet what it was. Everyone around hime was hit by a shattered teleprompter is what I read.
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteJul 22, 2024
@bluerootsradio I’m telling you his fright wig couldn’t take it anymore, and it just bit him. #tRump @locksmithprime @JonChevreau @kevinrns @anneapplebaum
Show threadLocksmithJul 22, 2024
@Pineywoozle @bluerootsradio @JonChevreau @kevinrns @anneapplebaum
A teleprompter falling on him would probably cause more damage than that scratched ear.
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteJul 22, 2024
@locksmithprime LOL We live in hope…😉 @bluerootsradio @JonChevreau @anneapplebaum
Show threadMatthewJul 22, 2024

@bluerootsradio
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/

@locksmithprime @JonChevreau @kevinrns @anneapplebaum

Rumor That Shards of Glass, Not Bullet, Injured Trump in Assassination Attempt Is False

Did broken glass from a teleprompter cause Trump's wound, as online posts have claimed?

Snopes
Show threadbluerootsradioJul 22, 2024
@kevinrns @anneapplebaum He has to double up on his diapers for sure.
Show threadGraceCJul 22, 2024
@anneapplebaum Trump should step down, he is nuts.
Show threadideaPDishJul 23, 2024
@anneapplebaum
considering all of those convictions and exceptions, they don't even know how to start a sentence.
Show threadKyle Memoir 🍉🐧Jul 23, 2024

@anneapplebaum

Why is he wearing a tampon on his ear?

Show threadMᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢJul 23, 2024
@anneapplebaum FFS. He's looked old and deranged for years.
Show threadFusselwurmJul 23, 2024

@anneapplebaum
One thing is sure.
*He* won't step down.

🍿

Show threadwbpeckhamJul 23, 2024
@anneapplebaum But the GOP was ALWAYS the one saddled with the candidate who could not form a complete sentence, coherently answer a single question, or even stay awake in court! I don't see much difference now.
Show threadAdrian | אדריאןJul 25, 2024
@anneapplebaum This is a great point. Trump can't go on using his spritely youth as an argument in his own favour.