Ask Mister Babble
Another exciting one of whatever these are, where reporters ask questions and Trump just says whatever pops into his head for a minute or two.
Football! Medals! Central casting! Gerbil, ski pole, lima bean, choo choo train.
Russia…North Korea! China! Hillary! Football!
McCain! Disagree! Time! Extent!
Then he says John Kelly fell apart and couldn’t do his job.
I’m sure China is doing their part to ensure his reelection as well… All of America’s enemies and rivals have everything to gain. So his point is?
He has the mind of a four-year-old (who does not want it back, thanks), so whatever he is thinking about drops out of his mouth. If he says China is doing more election interference than Russia, then we should probably take notice. After all, people are still briefing him, even though it is evident at this stage that he doesn’t understand what he hears and only a fraction of what they say remains in his brain to be regurgitated later as irrelevant soundbites.
The “China is doing it more” claim is their current talking point for the purpose of redirecting our attention away from Russia. They’re claiming that China wants Biden and thus that Biden will be Weak on China. It’s not the product of his briefings (which he ignores) but of his scheming and dishonesty. Barr parroted it when he talked to CNN the other day.
Trump is the shit Midas. Remember when the Medal of Freedom was an honor?
Thank you for the explanation, Ophelia. But I wonder why on Earth anyone would believe that China wants Trump to be replaced by someone competent. I can understand why they wouldn’t be happy with a Russian puppet in office, but Trump is so easy to manipulate I can see them finding a way to get him to do something in China’s best interest.
There is at least one potential reason China (and Russia now for that matter) might want a competent leader in the White House. While it’s true that a weaker USA is in the best interests of China and Russia, an unstable USA is not. The last thing anyone wants is a politically unstable nuclear superpower. And at this point, Greg Stillson from Stephen King’s ‘Dead Zone’ looks more stable than Trump.
That’s the reason I saw somewhere a day or two ago – that China considers Trump too unstable. So the question becomes why doesn’t that worry Putin, but I guess the answer is that Putin, like Trump, doesn’t care.
Trump’s base believed Trump is competent, and tough. They don’t understand that he is neither. So they believe Russia and China would want him gone.
By the same token, every Trumpista Republican I know (which is too goddamn many) believes that Democrats are incompetent, weak, and want to destroy America. Many of them have believed this for 50+ years (the older ones; the 20 somethings I know, most of whom are Trumpistas, have not believed it this long, obviously, and I don’t want to join the ridiculous chorus that sings the verse that no millennial anywhere can stand anything but the leftest of the left). So they are primed to believe that Russia would want Joe Biden, who is obviously a Marxist because Democrat, and of course, they have no idea Russia now is any different than under Stalin…unless Trump praise Putin, in which case they think it’s a bloody perfect democracy.
They are capable of believing so many contradictory things, it makes my head spin.
iknklast, that must be so enraging, I wonder how you manage to stay so sane.