And by the way
Some unfortunate on the staff had to transcribe Trump’s words-vomit yesterday so that we could see the full horror without having to watch and listen to the sniffing gasping sneering poltroon.
Let’s have a sample or two.
And we did win. It was one of the greatest wins of all time. And they said, “Okay, he won.” And, you know, I wrote this down because that was where a thing called the “insurance policy” — to me, when I saw the insurance policy — and that was done long before the election. That was done when they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win.
And, by the way, Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for millions — millions of dollars — the fake dossier. And now Christopher Steele admits that it’s a fake because he got sued by rich people. I should have sued him too. But when you’re President, people don’t like suing.
That’s some joined-up thinking right there.
Fortunately, for all of us here today and for our country, we had transcripts. We had transcribers — professional transcribers. Then they said, “Oh, well, maybe the transcription is not correct.” But Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and his twin brother — right? — we had some people that — really amazing.
But we did everything. We said, “What’s wrong with it?” “Well, they didn’t add this word or that one.” It didn’t matter. I said, “Add it. They’re probably wrong, but add it.”
O…kay?
But in normal times — decades, you would call it; that was a little unusual time; it was for a very short period — the Republicans [sic] Party — Party’s poll numbers and Donald Trump’s poll numbers are the highest I’ve ever had them. So maybe they were. It’s no way to get your poll numbers up. It’s not worth it — because from my family’s standpoint, it’s been very unfair for my family. It’s been very unfair to the country.
Translated from the Venusian?
We get a shout-out to Lincoln.
And a lot of — actually, a lot of my guys went there. They went to Iowa. And a lot of friends went there, and we had tremendous — they say the spirit — the spirit for the Republican Party right now is stronger, I think, than it’s ever been in the history of our country. I think it’s stronger than it’s ever been. (Applause.)
And that includes Honest Abe Lincoln. You know, a lot of people forget Abe Lincoln. I wish he were here. I’d give him one hell of an introduction. Right? (Laughter.) But he was — he was a Republican. Abe Lincoln. Honest Abe.
Applause applause applause.
“Ah, but the strawberries, that’s, that’s where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I’ve had produced that key if they hadn’t pulled the Caine out of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer”
Naw, it couldn’t really be a Trump Tweet – too many big words and too logical.
The republican party was very different 150 odd years ago, and Lincoln was a *moderate* republican at that. I wish he were here too, he would have won the 2016 primary.
Lincoln would be branded a RINO and drummed out of the party.
For about the first 20 years of its existence the Republican party was the only decent choice in the US. For the following 90 or so years (after they abandoned Reconstruction), it was more or less a coin flip (or a matter of geography) as to which party was preferable.
But since 1964 it’s become increasingly difficult to be both moral and Republican. These days it’s virtually impossible.
My grandmother had dementia. Before she went into long term care, this is how she sounded. Random thoughts, losing the point halfway through a sentence, assertions that weren’t only wrong but made no sense.
Trump’s never been a nice person, and he certainly was never especially smart but he used to make sense if you accepted his worldview. This… I don’t know what else I can call it.
The only other person I’ve ever known who talked like this was a friend of a friend who spouted reams of word salad. But he was on a whole bunch of illicit substances.
I was going to say that I do know someone who talked like this but then I remembered he now has dementia so…
I know quite a few people who talk like this – and write like this. They are all college students. I don’t know how that possibly happens. (I try to tell myself maybe they have Mad Cow, but there is no other evidence of that). I do think we are going through something that twitter and instagram are causing, or contributing to – a lot of people who cannot think, speak, or write in coherent sentences.
Trump has Twitter brain, but whether that’s from too much Twitter or from dementia I’ll leave to the experts.
Oddly (or not), I think Twitter pulls in the other direction too. I see a lot of people who are very good at being funny and sharp in that small space. It’s certainly possible and easy to talk incoherent nonsense there, but skills can flourish.
Trump is exceptionally bad at it. It’s worked for him, but he’s bad at it.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the President of Gibber, who will be speaking in his native tongue; so please have your translators ready.”
Everyone dons their MAGA hats.