What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[BlanketAddict]

Looks like he has pissed off the first lady.

I was shocked by how much his son has grown. He's massive!

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trump calls out New Zealand’s 'terrible' Covid surge, on day it records nine new cases

US president’s discordant comments fail to reflect that 22 people have died from coronavirus in New Zealand, versus 170,000 in US

www.theguardian.com

NZ's terrible surge?

On Monday Auckland recorded nine new cases of the virus, and 13 on Tuesday, while the US’s Monday figure was just under 42,000.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Trump, not for the first time, accidentally/on purpose speaking the quiet bit out loud “Jerusalem was for the Evangelicals”

 

[Streathamite]

Although, there have been situations where various boundary changes - and other policies / activities at a more local level - in the UK appear to have disadvantaged the less right wing parties (my late father told me about some in the Leeds area, many decades ago, from his late teenage/early twenties years).
The process has been termed "Gerrymandering" ...
Gerrymandering - Wikipedia - contains a worldwide list of examples.

absolutely, and Northern Ireland was notorious for all sorts of really dodgy electoral practices, during the original stormont period of 1921-73. Also, the coalition tried a fairly dodgy stunt under Cameron

 

[chandlerp]

I was shocked by how much his son has grown. He's massive!

No doubt he's the son of the bodyguard Melania was supposedly shagging years back.

 

[prunus]

I know what you mean - I feel the same way. I can't even imagine the UK reaching that point

Give it 4 years

 

[tim]

absolutely, and Northern Ireland was notorious for all sorts of really dodgy electoral practices, during the original stormont period of 1921-73. Also, the coalition tried a fairly dodgy stunt under Cameron

This is how things used to work in Derry

 

[Streathamite]

This is how things used to work in Derry

yep, absolutely outrageous, one of the (many) reasons why they eventually had to shut Stormont down. Home rule NI was a disgrac to democracy and good governance

 

[Pickman's model]

yep, absolutely outrageous, one of the (many) reasons why they eventually had to shut Stormont down. Home rule NI was a disgrac to democracy and good governance

to be honest, direct rule ni wasn't really an improvement in terms of democracy and good governance, it's not like rule from whitehall removed the anti-democratic basis of the six-county statelet

 

[Streathamite]

to be honest, direct rule ni wasn't really an improvement in terms of democracy and good governance, it's not like rule from whitehall removed the anti-democratic basis of the six-county statelet

yes, true, marginally less corrupt and less gerrymandering, just as shitty for catholics and Nationalists

 

[Pickman's model]

yes, true, marginally less corrupt and less gerrymandering, just as shitty for catholics and Nationalists

oh i like to think that british democracy is world-beating in its corruption

 

[Streathamite]

oh i like to think that british democracy is world-beating in its corruption

 

[spring-peeper]

Trump relates conversation with God about his 'great job' on the economy

With millions unemployed without additional relief from White House, president says economic fallout following coronavirus pandemic is 'God testing me'

www.independent.co.uk

He said: "You know what that is? That's right. That's God testing me.

He said, You know, you did it once.

And I said, 'Did I do a great job, God? I'm the only one who could do it.' He said that you shouldn't say. Now we're going to have you do it again.

I said, 'OK. I agree. You got me.' But I did it once. And now I'm doing it again. And you see the kind of numbers that we're putting up. They're unbelievable. Best job numbers ever. Three months, more jobs in the last three months than ever before."

 

[MickiQ]

I was shocked by how much his son has grown. He's massive!

TBH, She's 24 years younger than he is, Whilst he doesn't drink or smoke, he also has a very unhealthy diet and doesn't exercise. She was probably expecting she would be a rich widow by now but the cunt has just refused to die on her.

 

[Wilf]

So, we're likely to be back in a hanging chads scenario, with multiple state level challenges to the result in November (from trump if he loses, but Biden similarly)? This time centred on postal votes rather than erm... chads.

 

[Raheem]

Trump doing what he can to maximise the number of invalid votes, then suing because there were so many invalid votes.

 

[Wilf]

Trump doing what he can to maximise the number of invalid votes, then suing because there were so many invalid votes.

Reminds me of Stewart Lee's take on Brexit: 'it's like shitting the bed as a protest and then realising you have to sleep in a shitted bed'.

 

[Yossarian]

So, we're likely to be back in a hanging chads scenario, with multiple state level challenges to the result in November (from trump if he loses, but Biden similarly)? This time centred on postal votes rather than erm... chads.

Hopefully won't be that close - the three Rust Belt states that narrowly swung it for Trump last time, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all have Democratic governors and sizable pro-Biden majorities in the polls, I think Trump will most definitely challenge the election results, but possibly as a face-saving move in states like Arizona.

If it does end up in court, maybe the judges will note that the claimant has a history of alleging election fraud with no proof, and also claimed that had been massive voter fraud following a pre-pandemic election that he won.

 

[stavros]

Mind you, I don't think the good ol' US of A has anything like the "Electoral Reform Society" that 'moderates' postal elections in the UK.

Jeb Bush used to have the job.

 

[existentialist]

Jeb Bush used to have the job.

Enough said.

 

[Cloo]

Trump, not for the first time, accidentally/on purpose speaking the quiet bit out loud “Jerusalem was for the Evangelicals”

He literally understands nothing about how the world works.

 

[Streathamite]

I think Trump will most definitely challenge the election results, but possibly as a face-saving move in states like Arizona.

yep, likewise if he loses Texas, georgia or North carolina - all of which are, quite amazingly, in the balance

 

[tim]

If it does end up in court, maybe the judges will note that the claimant has a history of alleging election fraud with no proof, and also claimed that had been massive voter fraud following a pre-pandemic election that he won.

Or maybe the judges will note/remember that they were appointed by the claimant because of their political inclinations.

How Trump compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges

 

[Streathamite]

Or maybe the judges will note/remember that they were appointed by the claimant because of their political inclinations.

How Trump compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges

possibly - but judhes can be cussedly contrary - witness how pissed off Republicans are with John Roberts.
also, they tend to be very strict, pedantic constiturionalists, and they tend to be adverse to the courts being 'dragged into politics' to change election results. This worled against Gore in 2000, but if Trump loses and goes to the courts for review, it may work against him for the same reason

 

[DaveCinzano]

He literally understands nothing about how the world works.

I'm pretty sure he has trouble understanding how shoelaces or door handles work.

 

[spring-peeper]

I'm pretty sure he has trouble understanding how shoelaces or door handles work.

I'm fairly certain that he has no experience with either object.
He has "people" that do it for him.

 

[tim]

He's attacked Michelle Obama for undercounting the number of people in the USA killed by C19 in her speech at the Democrat Convention. She said it was over 150,000 he points out it is now 170,000. He is clearly proud of his achievement.

 

[spring-peeper]

Fox News Hosts Gush Over Michelle Obama: She ‘Flayed’ Trump

Even the most conservative commentators on Fox’s post-convention panel had to give Michelle Obama credit for delivering such an “effective” speech.

www.thedailybeast.com

According to Juan Williams, Michelle Obama “outperformed” her famous “when they go low, we go high” speech from the 2016 convention.

“I heard it like a son,” he said. “I thought she spoke like a mother, like a stern mother, like a tiger mom saying to you, this is important.
This is something that is important to our family.
This is who we are in this family.
This is our identity.
We have empathy.
We understand compassion.”

“I am surprised at how penetrating I felt it to be,” Williams continued. “I really thought there was a great speech.”

 

[gosub]

Looks like he has pissed off the first lady.

Na, her other hand,.. She's more worried about going down some steps in high heels.... He might have upset Murdoch might be an alternative viewpoint

 

[Cloo]

He's attacked Michelle Obama for undercounting the number of people in the USA killed by C19 in her speech at the Democrat Convention. She said it was over 150,000 he points out it is now 170,000. He is clearly proud of his achievement.

Well his numbers are the biggest. The best, biggingist numbers. In everything.