He makes me want to blow groceries.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump unleashes a deeply bizarre rant during his trip to Qatar and rambles about lumberjacks, digging ditches, his MAGA Transportation Secretary climbing “up and down” trees, and Pete Buttigieg riding a bicycle.
The cognitive decline has never been more apparent. This man belongs in a psychiatric facility not the White House…
“When you look at what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people,” Trump said during a press conference in Doha, Qatar. “You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don’t have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way.”
“It’s so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like…” he continued. “Like they’re being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like… Like… You know who? Sean… Duffy.”
“Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who’s working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn’t do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work,” said Trump.
“He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He’s head— He’s running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he’s going to run for president, I don’t see it.” Trump went on. “Who knows right? But I don’t see it.”
“But, uh, when I look at what they’ve done uh, it’s so horrible what they’ve done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars,” Trump went on. “They tried to hook up air systems to… To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn’t work with the copper and…”
“Uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn’t even come close to working and we’re going to be giving out a brand new system,” said Trump.
“It’s very important. We’ll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding,” he went on.
“But we want one check,” he continued. “We want a unified system. We don’t have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We’re going to be giving that out pretty soon.”
“But what people don’t know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn’t know this that uh — I’m not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not… This is a different Sean,” Trump said.
“Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He’s a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion!” Trump said, struggling to string together his thoughts. “So that’s what you call a serious a lumberjack.”
“And he’s doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody’s the champion — he’s the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid… He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You… You miss… You miss a shot and you’re coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he’s doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip.”
Imagine for a second if President Biden had delivered a speech as confused, nonsensical, and downright strange as this during a trip to a foreign country. Every news outlet would be questioning his mental health. Donald Trump is clearly in a state of profound psychological deterioration and Congress should take immediate action to remove him from office.
Source: Occupy Democrats
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of course even if we boil the orange tumor’s statement down to its most charitable interpretation: “groceries are down” → ‘the cost of foodstuffs are dropping’ then we find that’s wrong.
this is for the world food price index, but there’s little variance in trends there with trends inside the states
The FAO Food Price Index rose 1.0% to 128.3 points in April 2025, marking the third consecutive monthly increase, driven by higher prices for cereals, dairy, and meat. Cereal prices climbed 1.2%, with gains across all major types, including wheat and maize. Dairy prices rose 2.4%, led by a third straight monthly surge in butter prices, which reached a new all-time high. Meat prices saw the largest jump, up 3.2%, with pig meat registering the sharpest increase. In contrast, sugar and vegetable oil prices fell by 3.5% and 2.3%, respectively. source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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One small thing that this era has ruined for me are all those scenes in stories where a politician is caught on a live microphone insulting the population they’re supposed to serve, taking bribes, or otherwise being nefarious. It’s a lot closer to …
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Please tell me this transcript was an Onion article or other satire. Please?
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I wonder who could have given him that idea?
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He thinks groceries are old fashioned because he thinks everyone gets all their food from their local McDonaldsmobile.
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OMG; he lost me at the copper and the glass.
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copper has the same coefficient of expansion (COE) as glass.
yeah, no. i got nothin’. he makes no sense whatsoever.
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He’s getting a used plane that they couldn’t sell. It’s a 2012 and we’re going to have to pay for maintenance.
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I can’t get over the “grocery” thing. The framing of Trump as some sort of hero of the everyman always struck me as deeply, deeply perverse, but the perversity is never more apparent than when Trump makes it obvious he has no familiarity with how normal people live on the most basic levels, and can’t even imagine it (hell, he can’t even imagine imagining it).
It’s at moments like these, where Trump is saying something nonsensical that has very clear imagery, that I figure someone showed him a video to try to explain something to him, and this is his weird, child-like interpretation of that video, and this weird interpretation of this one video also makes up his entire understanding of the subject. (I forget what other subjects he’s done this with, but it’s a familiar pattern.)
We have a demented, sociopath toddler as a president.
He’s always thrown out numbers that were wrong, but these days I notice that it’s pretty much a given that even the broadest outlines of what he’s claiming are completely wrong. And gods know where the numbers he’s using came from. There’s usually no way to make them make any sort of sense. (But often, when he’s using specific numbers, they’re constantly changing, so you never know what the numbers started as, and whether they were correct in some - completely different - context.)
I constantly think of politicians whose careers were derailed by acts similar to, but smaller than, things Trump does a dozen times a month week day press conference. And what really blows my mind is that it is still true for other politicians. For a variety of reasons, Trump gets away with the inexcusable, constantly.
There’s no difference anymore. Trump really did destroy satire.
Well, it’s not like he goes to the McDonaldsmobile, even. Food is something that just appears when he’s hungry, presented by a servant in a ready-to-eat state, period. He’s never given a moment’s though to the processes that occur before that because he’s incurious to a degree that’s probably indicative of a personality disorder all on its own.
I suspect it’s a reference to copper telecommunications lines and fiber optics (apparently one of the issues with Newark airport is that some of the air traffic controllers are in Philadelphia and their link to the Newark radar systems is iffy), but he doesn’t understand what he’s talking about, so it’s really a mug’s game trying to make sense of it. It’s ultimately gibberish that includes (what he thinks were) words other people mentioned in conversations that Trump didn’t understand.
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Nope, Occupy Democrats.
No video, though.
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Weird
Smith, the wealthy owner of Broadway establishments including Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge and Rippy’s, has been a public conservative presence in Nashville, notably mounting local opposition to COVID-related restrictions on public gatherings. He’s also a Trump supporter and donor. Recent panic at his restaurants indicates that his own Broadway empire — and the wealth it has generated — relies directly on employing immigrants not authorized to work in the United States.
At the instruction of managers, restaurant employees without legal citizenship status left the premises at The Diner, Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse during a primetime rush on Saturday night to avoid detention by ICE agents. Locations, already struggling to provide full service, suffered through at least Sunday due to fears from employees who did not want to risk arrest by returning to work.
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Ah, Handel’s Water Bear Music.
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And Pachelwaterbear’s Canon
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It never ceases to amaze me how Trump’s defenders can go on with a straight face about how Joe Biden was too mentally incompetent to be president because he wasn’t a great orator and could jumble or slur words. Meanwhile Trump confidently spouts meaningless word salad day in and day out to the point where people have to try to interpret his statements because they are often so incomprehensible. This somehow never manages to be an issue for these people who insist Trump is the most genius person ever.
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