Different strokes

Trump says nuh uh he DID NOT EITHER have a stroke or a bunch of mini-strokes. We must accept that because he is famous for never lying.

Sadly, #Strokeahontas is trending on Twitter.

Both.

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20 responses to “Different strokes”

  1. Holms Avatar

    Ah yes, cans of soup are famous for their potential as a weapon.

  2. Sackbut Avatar

    Ah yes, cans of soup are famous for their potential as a weapon.

    Absolutely; I look at a can of tomato soup, and I think “war haul”.

  3. iknklast Avatar

    Absolutely; I look at a can of tomato soup, and I think “war haul”.

    Groan.

    But I do think soup can be a weapon. My cupboard attacked me with a can of soup this morning. It hurt.

  4. Omar Avatar

    In 1991, Donald Trump’s mother, Mary, was mugged on a New York street. As Trump’s niece recounts in her new book, the young assailant slammed Mary’s head into her Rolls Royce so hard, her brain haemorrhaged.

    This firsthand experience with violent crime informed Trump’s hardline views on criminal justice and could serve him well now as he crafts a law-and-order election strategy to try to defeat Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.

    A president cruising to an almost certain defeat – with the deaths of 175,000 Americans (and rising), urban unrest, a tanking economy and an impeachment trial all on his watch – has hit upon a key issue that will make him competitive in November.

    If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, what is said LauraNorder?

    https://theconversation.com/republicans-have-used-a-law-and-order-message-to-win-elections-before-this-is-why-trump-could-do-it-again-145306

  5. twiliter Avatar

    Not sure mocking Pocahontas is a Trump behavior worth emulating.

  6. Sackbut Avatar

    Mocking Pocahontas?

  7. Sackbut Avatar

    Ah, I see it now. The “Strokeahontas” hashtag. Yeah, not good form.

  8. latsot Avatar

    FYI:

    I can throw a brick.

    It is not too heavy.

  9. Catwhisperer Avatar
    Catwhisperer

    latsot, he says bricks are too heavy to throw but what he really means is “I cannot hold a brick in my teeny tiny hands so I assume nobody else can either”

    Now, do tell us who or what you have thrown bricks at…

  10. latsot Avatar

    “I cannot hold a brick in my teeny tiny hands so I assume nobody else can either”

    And he was talking about lego bricks.

    Now, do tell us who or what you have thrown bricks at…

    Well, if you have enough bricks, sooner or later everything starts to look as though it has a target painted on it.

  11. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    So many bricks, so little time…

  12. Sackbut Avatar

    I was searching for information about brick throwing, and I learned of this delightful international brick throwing competition involving four towns named Stroud: Gloucestershire, England; Oklahoma, US; Ontario, Canada; and New South Wales, Australia.

    http://stroudbrickthrowing.com.au/about/

    It says their current record throw is 142’6″. That’s a long way to throw anything.

  13. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Sackbut, I am intrigued. What is the name of the fourth town? The one in New South Wales, Australia?

  14. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Never mind, I need to wake up properly before posting. All named Stroud, duh.

  15. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    I can throw a brick. In fact, despite the EDS (and arthritis in both hands), I can still pick up and throw a concrete building block. Not very far, of course. But there you are…

  16. iknklast Avatar

    Wow, Stroud Oklahoma. I’ve been through there many times (though didn’t know about the brick throwing competition). The town was nearly destroyed by the 1997 tornado outbreak.

  17. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Very true that mocking Pocahontas is not a Trump behavior worth emulating, and that’s not what I’m doing, and it’s not what whoever came up with the hashtag is doing. The hashtag mocks Trump for mocking Pocahontas and Elizabeth Warren.

  18. guest Avatar

    Heather Cox Richardson points out that the breaking story didn’t mention ‘mini-strokes’ at all; it was Trump who had to open his huge metaphorical mouth and tweet ‘I did NOT have to go to the hospital for mini-strokes!’ Reminds me of when Columbo says ‘hm, I told you she was killed, I didn’t say she was stabbed’….

  19. Mike Kuebler Avatar

    Hmmm they say “the 4 townships…” but there’s also a Stroud Township in PA (plus a Stroudsburg where I worked for 11 years), so not a complete list of townships.

  20. Sackbut Avatar

    Wikipedia lists four places named “Stroud” in the UK, two places named “Stroud” (including Stroud Township) and three named “Strouds” in the US, Stroud ON, and Stroud NSW. That’s not guaranteed to be exhaustive. The article overreached in referring to “the four townships of Stroud in the world”; the word “the” should have been left out.