For three weeks, I was locked out of Twitter because of a snafu that’s not worth recounting. Every time I tried to log on, I received a notice saying I was underage and not allowed to engage on Twitter. I have been on Twitter since 2009. So, even though I have been an active participant on Twitter for 15 years, Twitter concluded I had not yet passed my 13th birthday!
Anyway, I didn’t watch or listen when Elon Musk held a conversation with Trump last night. I did notice, however, that the topic “slurring” was trending, and I discovered hundreds of comments about Trump slurring his language in the conversation, which led to comments about weird things Trump said: congratulating Musk for firing workers who dared to strike; brushing off climate change and rising seas, instead saying that he would get “more oceanfront property” and that our real worry should be “nuclear warming.” Many more non sequiturs.
Rex Huppke of USA Today wrote about the Musk-Trump show and summed it up well: it was a disaster. Worse, it was boring.
It started 40-45 minutes late, due to technical problems.
It was downhill from there.
For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.
Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, Trump’s reelection campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.
So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum….
Forget the glitches, Trump’s X interview got worse when he started talking
Of course, things didn’t get better for Trump once the interview was able to proceed. …
He was rambling, babbling on about crowd sizes and immigration and President Joe Biden and whatever else seemed to pass through his mind. He was also badly slurring his words, raising questions about his health, and doing nothing to knock down rising concerns about his age and well-being.
He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck…
I’m not going to quote anything Trump said in the interview because it was either too stupid to merit transcription or a mere repetition of the nonsense he spouts at every rally he holds.
A big part of Trump’s problem right now is he has become almost unbearably boring. Build a wall. Drill, baby, drill. Marxist, socialist something-something. Harris only recently became Black. Blah, blah, blah.
So for Trump, sitting down with a rich weirdo few people like and slurring his way through an interview that failed to launch was, in the words of one Donald J. Trump, “a DISASTER!”
Musk, with his social-media ineptness and unmerited sense of self-importance, made DeSantis look like a fool. And now he’s done the same to Trump.
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Trump always makes a fool of himself because he is too lazy to have well-informed positions, and he is hopelessly narcisstic. Everything eventually has to be about him.
But give him credit for at least putting himself out in public, unlike Kamala Harris who is trying to ride the media’s bootlicking all the way to the White House. Does Diane Ravitch believe that Harris owes it to the public to give interviews to other than sycophantic reporters and to tell us what she really believes?
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Harris will give many interviews, I promise you.
The more compelling question is, why has Trump stopped campaigning. He went to Bozeman, Montana, to oppose the re/election of Senator Jon Tester, one of the best members of the Senate and a great friend to education.
Why is Trump not traveling? Afraid to speak in public? Too tired? Too old? Campaign staff hiding him?
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Right, Harris will give many interviews. To MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NYT, NBC, PBS, NPR, etc. – all very liberal slanted, total creampuff questions. No interviews on Fox (like Gavin Newsome and Bernie Sanders have done) or anywhere else where the reporters won’t merely be cheerleaders.
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He’s got PTSD from being shot at! He’s scared to be out and about but won’t admit it.
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Jeff Jarvis, City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism:
“What “press”? The broken and vindictive Times? The newly Murdochian [Washington] Post? Hedge-fund newspaper husks? Rudderless CNN or NPR? Murdoch’s fascist media? No. She can choose many ways to communicate her stands with others outside the old press and with the public directly. The old press can and should be bypassed.
Look at the press’ behavior. When given a chance to ask questions, they sound like they’re in a lockerroom, seeking quotes, not policy. This does nothing to inform the electorate. I know the argument about testing a candidate: but the press as currently configured aims for game & gotcha.
Job 1 is to inform the electorate about policy & stakes. That is up to the candidate to communicate and voters to judge. The press is unnecessary in that process. It can still analyze all it wants. But its questions will do nothing more to inform….”
As Jarvis correctly points out, even in today’s newspaper, the NYT gives Kamala Harris its usual backhanded compliment in which it presents a false right wing narrative in a passive voice that implies that it is a widely accepted “truth” – and not right wing propaganda – that Biden is a cognitive vegetable and Harris was long considered a total lightweight unprepared for the presidency.
“…The vice president LONG HAD A REPUTATION as an uneven political messenger prone to missteps…”
(A long reputation?? With whom?? What the NYT means is that among the journalists at that newspaper and their so-called liberal journalist pals, presenting Kamala Harris as an inexperienced lightweight is a truth they are obligated to report, and they are absolutely furious and spitting nails that they can’t pepper her with gotcha questions so they can mischaracterize her that way.)
Meanwhile, the NYT normalized Trump’s horrendous interview with his pal Elon.
I hope Kamala spurns the media for the rest of the campaign, as Jeff Jarvis suggests.
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Harris is HIDING 😊 If she wasn’t an idiot she would be doing interviews as much as possible. She’s running the anti-democratic basement campaign. The funniest part is that she is trying to run like a Republican, its amazing, she suddenly loves conservative policies. She’s VP, why didn’t she act on the border, she’s the Border Czar after all and was given that responsibility by Old Joe Biden himself. She’s a scammer and always has been.
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Three-word slogans with easy to remember acronyms like MAGA work well for Traitor Trump. Does anyone know what those slogans and acronyms actually mean? Some Never Trumpers have guessed but are we right?
Still, the Traitor’s been using his usual short slogans for about 8 years now and they are worn out. The Traitor needs new material.
Even many of his loyal fascist MAGA cult must be bored with the same old, same old all the time.
And did I say “OLD”?
Biden’s exit makes Traitor Trump the oldest nominee in U.S. history.
— Sources: Axios, People.com, and Business insider, et al.
The Traitor’s faithful MAGA cult may not care if he is the oldest geezer in US history, since they think he is the second coming of Jesus Christ and God is supposed to be immortal, to run for president and he doesn’t make sense and slurs his words, but undecided voters, who are not MAGA cult members, are noticing.
Geezer also means an odd eccentric, or unreasonable person usually a man.
According to Geezer Guff, those who are age 60 to 75 are geezers.
Wait a minute. What are we called after 75?
Anyway, being a troll, a bully, a misogynist, and racist doesn’t matter to his MAGA cult since they are all probably the same, even though some will not admit it.
I think Harris and Walz have a fresh slogan. Sure, it a little longer than MAGA by two words, but I think it works and it’s easy to remember and understand.
We Are Not Going Back!
Or
WANGB (Hmm, I’m not sure this acronym works as well as MAGA did for the traitor. I’ll stick to “We Are Not Going Back!”
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I’d say that you probably didn’t miss anything of importance. Lot’s of better things to do with one’s time than listening to two incoherent Homo Supposedly Sapiens attempting to communicate.
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Just read a transcript of the “chat” between the two bosom buddies. I stand with my first sentence above.
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Don’t know where my other response went. It’s not worth the effort or time to read that “chat” of the two bosom buddies.
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”One thing I know: Social Security is so firmly embedded in the American psychology today that no politician, no political party, no political group could possibly destroy this Act and still maintain our democratic system.”
—from Heather Cox Richardson, August 14 post on the anniversary of Social Security quoting Francis Perkins
Musk and Trump join most Republicans in believing that a democratic system must be destroyed. That they schmooz together in public is a testament to their little worlds. Most of their followers, like the hardscrabble supporters of southern aristocratic politicians who led us into a civil war, will be impaled upon a spear of their own making.
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It’s funny that no one in the media is mentioning the obvious Botox or plastic surgery that Trump got on his eyes in preparation for this election season. Biden as well.
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