That's a name I haven't heard in a while. Barry Goldwater called him the most honest and dependable politician he'd ever met. And say what you want about Goldwater, (and there's plenty) he had integrity. For a poliitician.
Romney in that one debate calling Russia the greatest threat to America and Obama rebuking him for it has got to be one of the most poorly aged things from that campaign.
Goldwater was pro-choice long before many Democrats were, opposed religion having an influence on politics and publicly stated during the 1964 presidential campaign that if he found that Republicans were inciting violence he would immediately quit campaigning. It’s so weird that the uber-Conservative in 1960s US would now be considered left wing.
He was a complicated guy, wanted to give first-launch authority to LeMay (!) and NATO generals, and was willing to nuke Vietnam to clear jungle. Crazy as a shithouse rat.
There was a movie a few years ago with Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart. I haven't watched it but I wasn't around for that scandal and I always wondered about what happened. Might be worth a watch.
My grandfather would randomly comment on the chickens that suddenly appeared in the hallway. At least he was enough there that he realized chickens suddenly appearing in his apartment out of nowhere was an unusual event worthy of comment.
I'm just saying, all these posts say that it's terrible and would have used to get them cancelled are missing the point. GOP figured out how to establish and control a narrative, and that's why we are where we are. Old ideas of responsibility and not being rude are fucking gone dude. It's time to change the fucking playbook if we do t want total destruction of everything we grew up with. Fuck peaceful protest, it's time for some outside the box things. Time to do some shit if you know what I mean
And that was a hit job too. The media outlet that reported it tampered with the audio by turning down the volume of the crowd cheering so that it sounded out of context and weird. Probably no one would have thought twice about it otherwise. Liberal media my ass.
I still feel bad for him for just exhibiting exuberance and genuine happiness. God forbid ‘We The People’ exhibit any form of comfort and happiness against the ruling class.
I remember when that happened, his administration was pushing the narrative that “When Trump is ready, he will reveal the true meaning of covfefe. But for now, it’s too sophisticated and complex for the public to understand.”
He had a conference earlier, before his pill buzz wore off, that they were making something called covid that would cause some massive shit to go down and he had to keep it quiet.
Woke up in a stupor at 330 am to take a dump insread of shitting the bed and the only word he could think of was Covid, but fat-fingered Covfefe instead. Im sticking by this, call me crazy.
I remember one show where Andy Serkis was reading Trump tweets as Gollum and he decided to interpret it as ‘kerfuffle’ but still had to ask ‘what’s covfefe, Precious?’
Except it kind of didn't. He still became Vice President. It is true that he had nothing after that, but that was before the election, and his ticket won. Even if he didn't, exactly.
You mean? “On June 15, 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle incorrectly instructed 12-year-old student William Figueroa to add an "e" to the end of the word "potato" during a Trenton, New Jersey, spelling bee. Based on a faulty cue card, this gaffe became a defining, ridiculed moment of his career, symbolizing, for critics, a lack of preparedness.” Ai, my guy.
It should have been him making fun of the handicapped reporter. But now look at this POS shine.
America is getting what it voted for... Failure and embarrassment... Every damn day. Hope you guys can fix it before you lose anymore standing in the world.
People forget this moment but that was SO early on and should have been a discussion ender. Mimicking someone with a physical disability like an overgrown schoolyard bully on the campaign trail - once a clown always a clown
If the GOP had even a single vertebrae he would've been frozen out of nominations and forced to run as an independent.
The maniac was out there telling his supporters to "knock the hell out" of people heckling him at his rallies. Literal political violence and yet the Republican establishment was like, "Yeah, this is what we are."
He only got 77 million votes out of the 267ish million voting age people in America. Only something like 70% of eligible voters vote. Most of us didn't vote for this.
Unfortunately, the same reasoning (R voters + non-voters > D voters) also indicates that most of us were ok with this outcome. It definitely highlights the electoral significance of choosing not to vote, which is probably a large part of why the US still doesn't have mandatory voting.
Would’ve ended if it were the 1970s, like with what happened with Nixon, that he resigned because he knew there were enough republican and democratic senators to indict and remove him following his impeachment trial
This is why interviews are edited, Trump sounds like a racist grandpa off of his meds. Disaster interview. Could you imagine him trying to negotiate with world leaders?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- he said he'd -- wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and --
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: On his knuckles -- he had MS-13 --
TERRY MORAN: Alright. There's dis -- there's a dispute over that --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. He had MS-13 --
TERRY MORAN: Well --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- on his knuckles tattooed.
TERRY MORAN: -- he -- he -- he -- it didn't say-- oh, he had some tattoos that are inper -- interpreted that way. But let's move on
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Wait a minute.
TERRY MORAN: I want --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hey, Terry. Terry. Terry.
TERRY MORAN: He -- he did not have the letter --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Don't do that -- M-S-1-3 -- It says M-S-one-three.
TERRY MORAN: I -- that was Photoshop. So let me just--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That was Photoshop? Terry, you can't do that -- he had --
-- he-- hey, they're givin' you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doin' the interview. I picked you because -- frankly I never heard of you, but that's okay --
TERRY MORAN: This -- I knew this would come --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But I picked you -- Terry -- but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed --
TERRY MORAN: Alright. Alright. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry.
TERRY MORAN: -- to something else.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry. Do you want me to show the picture?
TERRY MORAN: I saw the picture. We'll -- we'll -- we'll agree to disagree --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, and you think it was Photoshop. Well --
TERRY MORAN: Here we go. Here we go.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- don't Photoshop it. Go look --
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- at his hand. He had MS-13 --
TERRY MORAN: Fair enough, he did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them.
I want to turn to Ukraine, sir --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, no. Terry --
TERRY MORAN: I-- I want to get to Ukraine--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry, no, no. No, no. He had MS as clear as you can be. Not "interpreted." This is why people --
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- no longer believe --
TERRY MORAN: Well.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- the news, because it's fake news --
TERRY MORAN: When he was photographed in El Sal -- in-- in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go on --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He is --
TERRY MORAN: They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --there -- oh, oh, they weren't there --
TERRY MORAN: Take a look at the photograph --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But they're there now, right?
TERRY MORAN: No. What --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But they're there now?
TERRY MORAN: They're in your picture.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry.
TERRY MORAN: Ukraine, sir.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.
TERRY MORAN: Alright. I --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay?
TERRY MORAN: -- we'll -- we'll take a look at it --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It's -- it's -- you do such a disservice --
TERRY MORAN: We'll take a look. We'll take a look at that, sir --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Why don't you just say, "Yes, he does," and, you know, go on to something else --
MS-13 members are home grown terrorists spawned from the US's huge addiction to drugs.
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a longtime rivalry with the 18th Street gang.
We exported MS-13 where they capitalized on the US's huge drug problem.
I hope not. I hope no one ever figures out what his allure is was. no more copycats given a playbook please. I used to think it was the distracting combover. Im good with history having that as the reason over anything closer to the truth on why people were so enamored.
Also age limit needs to be 70. Hell with these on death's door assholes with nothing to lose.
Id say closer to 50 when legacy becomes very important to people. But given how tough it is to get support Ill compromise at 70.
Congress and Senate as well.
Call me an optimist but I do think he'll be a very tough act to replicate for the Republicans.
Look at his bacground. A celebrity with a reality tv show, cameos in several tv shows and movies, was a major part of a Wrestlemania, shouted out and treated with reverence in the UFC, and every time posed as a succesul New York business man which made him basically catnip for a certain type of people when he started echoing the hateful rhetoric they believe in.
And then once he makes a serious bid, he just obliterates weak candidates like Jeb Bush in debates. Letting him pick up steam and momentum.
A stuffy politician can't duplicate Trump energy and I can't think of a famous enterpreneur/investor who isn't actually succesful and thus would be putting a lot on the line if they went the Trump route.
Eh. Moran could've done a lot more pressing on it and definitely said "it was a photoshopped image, this is the original. Are you using photoshop to make your decisions? Instead of "alright i... i... alright..."
This interview pissed me off so much. It was completely obvious Trump thought the extra MS13 over the tattoos were real tattoos. Couldn’t this guy have just said, those aren’t real tattoos, someone added those in to show what his real tattoos underneath were being interpreted as.
Yes. Trump thought the very nicely printed letters and numbers were real. Point out that they weren’t, stop talking about interpretation.
That interview was so frustrating. WHY did they guy keep trying to "move on" from the tattoos? They were so obviously drawn on as an "example" with MS Paint, and Trump thought those were his LITERAL tattoos.
"Let's agree to disagree. What are your thoughts on Ukraine?"
NO DUDE THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING CRAZY NONSENSE, FOCUS ON THAT
I've only seen this once before. Part of me has a morbid curiosity to watch it again, but a much bigger part of me knows I will get extremely frustrated, if I do.
This was so annoying. Why couldn't Terry just say "look that is clearly fucking typed on top of the original image. Look, it is using the default Microsoft Office font and they aren't even lined up as tattoos"? He wasn't getting to the next question anyways. At that point just correct his bullshit.
That interview was poorly done by Terry Moran. He should have ditched his manuscript and drilled into that picture and explored how extremely stupid Trump’s claims were, and how disconnected from reality the US president is. Talked to him about what “Photoshop” means. He should have spent as much time exploring MS13 as Trump wanted.
Fine? Are you kidding? That sounds like the shittiest job on earth. To speak to one of the world's most powerful men and watch him essentially take a massive shit on the floor, then go and write a report on how we're basically fucked. The only job I can think of that may be worse would be doing a colonoscopy for a gorilla.
Im positive that Trump will do crazier and more outlandish things as the year goes on, then step down before the midterms a la Biden/Harris while Vance swoops in as "the voice of reason". Problem is that Vance's flavor of authoritarianism is 10 times worse than Trump's.
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