Trump 100 Thread and We're Way Down the Rabbit Hole.

[lionheart]

It is Easter, after all.

Old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3820737-Acquitted-but-still-impeached-Trump-thread-99?pg=10

The Biblical Onan was killed by God for refusing 'obey the commandment' and impregnate his brother's wife.

Trump refuses to obey the commandments, so.......I'm waiting.....

(Onan is Old Testament and the commandment it refers to is regarding a 'Levirate marriage' so I know it's not applicable to the NT commandments)

Still wish that God would smite him, though.

MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing
Maybe not everyone gets the biblical reference.
But there was someone who called their budgie Onan, 'Because he spills his seed on the ground'

Was that in Sayers?

Could well be. No idea.

Regards Trumpy, I think The Big J was clear enough on the rich man and the Kingdom of Heaven.

....clear enough on the rich man and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Yup! But it's all good. He's said he "doesn't need to repent, why should he repent?" so I'm sure he thinks the has a 'mainline to the Main Man'. After all Scrotus has referred to himself as 'the Chosen One'.

No asshole, that's Harry Potter!

He is angry even with Fox
he's going to more and more angry, paranoid and estranged from normal humans

Calling someone an onanist is a nicer way of calling them a wanker.

Sometimes a religious education comes in useful.

I always associated onanist more with coitus interruptus. But I digress.

Nice of Melania, but no PPE.

www.aol.com/article/news/2020/04/27/first-lady-melania-trump-sends-care-packages-to-hospitals-in-10-states/24123598/

I see he's already changed his mind and will be doing press conference this evening.
He just can't bear not being on tv

Sorry, so far behind but my God - 100 threads!!

Placemarking by tipping my hat to Asking for the Vorkosigan toast on p1... absolutely amazing books!!

He needs an election rally, @BruceAndNosh, that's what it is, and a so-called press conference on Coronavirus is the nearest he can get to it.
Was it on here I saw a suggestion that Biden and Democrats should do a daily helpful, properly scientific briefing, on Coronavirus, in place of Trump's barely disguised rallies?
Onanists are wankers. (Just saying.)
I thought this article on "The Pandemic Protocol" in the New Yorker, comparing Seattle's and New York's differing approaches to the spread of the virus (putting party politics aside for the common good/squabbling over party politics to the detriment of the public) was very interesting: tinyurl.com/New-Yorker-Pandemic-Protocol

The sheer amount of politicking he does during these briefings is shameful

I didn't see his shit show today. I flipped the channel and saw some CEO (Walgreens? CVS?) in the Rose Garden talking about getting supplies out to people (or some such shit) and then saw Scrotus standing off to the side with his arse pushed out and his arms hanging forward (his 'usual' pose) and flipped to another channel.

Why does he stand like that? He looks like a baboon in a suit who is trying to push out a fart. Which probably isn't very far from the truth. (With apologies to all baboons.)

With friends like this ...

Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
26 Apr

'Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China?

Such grants were prohibited in 2014.

Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?'

Funny, you don't hear much about Rudy these days, do you?

Now we know why.

He does vanish every now and then but always comes back to outshine Trump.

I saw some of the briefing, it was pathetic. Rich white CEO, one after the other, about 8 of them going up, sounding off how wonderful their Companies were.
I actually found it totally bizarre. If we had one CEO roll up at our Press Briefings, there would be an outcry.

Trump then started taking questions but was getting visibly irritated and Pence had to take over.

When I see him stood to the side in that peculiar stance, I always think... 'yes his hands are really small' But he is looking quite rotund lately so just looks very odd. Also he's gone a bit more ashen on his hair and it's not the normal tobacco yellow.

Sunday: Not doing any more press conferences ever!
Monday: .....Doing a press conference.

Attention-span of a seed-spilling budgie.

The only thing BBC website mentioned this morning was Trump washing his hands (ho ho) of responsibility over the disinfectant debacle

"He went on to script a political attack ad against himself: “There has been so much unnecessary death in this country. It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way. And the whole world is suffering because of it. 184 countries, at least."

Excelent New Yorker article.
Thank you Jaichangecentfoisdenom

It's interesting that here in Portugal, the PM has also spoken little. The Health Minister more, but she has a PhD in Public Health. Then more the Director of Health, a doctor, or her sub-directors. Always with various experts.
Notice both main faces are women.

And universities announced closures well ahead of school closures.

I thought he was supposed to pivot... to the economy. Did he?

The BBC World Service reported today that yesterday in his presser Trump went into a rant against China in which he said the USA would be claiming compensation from China for failing to halt the spread of the virus.

The only place I can find it reported is in The Sun: www.thesun.co.uk/news/11495546/coronavirus-donald-trump-china-substantial-figure/

I can't help feeling that he really ought to keep a bit quiet about compensation for failing to halt the spread of the virus, in case people start thinking that he ought to compensate them for his government's failure to prevent it from spreading the the USA.