“So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called “Trending”, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!”
—Donald Trump tweet, July 27, 2020, 5:41 p.m. [Illegal? Seriously? They repealed the First Amendment?]
“So disgusting to watch Trump’s so-called full page ad in the NYT where he falsely accused the Central Park 5 of rape and publicly called for their brutal executions. Some were only 14-years-old, the same age as Emmett Till when he was falsely accused and brutally lynched too.”
—Tweet by Eugene Gu, MD, July 27, 2020, 5:44 p.m.
“Twitter’s trending topics aren’t done by human beings or editors but by an AI algorithm that detects what people are talking about the most. Looks like most people are talking about how much Trump sucks and how he is destroying our country. Deal with it snowflake. It’s the truth.”
—Tweet by Eugene Gu, MD, 5:45 p.m. July 27. [Uh, I wouldn’t waste too much time trying to explain technology to Trump, especially where intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is involved.]
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?
—A portion of Trump’s “nuclear” speech, July 2016. [No, Dr. Gu, let’s let him explain technology to us. It’s much more fun that way.]
“I comprehend extraordinarily well, probably better than anyone you’ve interviewed in a long time”
—Trump, in his usual modest demeanor during interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swan.
“No, that was a call to discuss other things.”
—Trump, telling Swan that he didn’t bring up Russian bounties on American troops in a recent telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin.
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I wonder if the Putin call touched on:
1. How to better crack down on dissenters
2. How to remain in office another 16 years
3. How Trump’s Russian businesses are doing there and Putin’s business ventures are doing here
4. The benefits of a G2 (just Russia and the U. S.) summit at Mar-a-Lago to discuss worldwide domination and how the U. S. might be able to help Russia conquer the rest of Europe as a first step.
5. What to do about China (they may have talked about this, but since it has substance, probably not)
6. What a great job they are each doing
“I spent decades working to elect Republicans, including Mr. Romney and four other presidential candidates, and I am here to bear reluctant witness that Mr. Trump didn’t hijack the Republican Party. He is the logical conclusion of what the party became over the past 50 or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race-baiting, self-deception and anger that now dominate it. Hold Donald Trump up to a mirror and that bulging, scowling orange face is today’s Republican Party.” Essay by Stuart Stevens in New York Times July 29, 2020.
Stuart Stevens is a Republican political consultant and the author of the forthcoming book “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.”
I think most of us hate to admit this is true just like we didn’t want to admit that many of his voters did not vote for him just as a middle finger to the system/protest vote only to have buyer’s remorse after the election. Most of them loved his message then, now, as insane as it often is, and always will. He’s a symptom of a very large minority of delusional and bigoted (and often pro-fascism and pro-violence) people in this country.
I agree and, as I said way back, the only thing he accomplished that needed to be accomplished was bringing out into the open how what now appears to be 40% of our population is really like – the question becomes, “Is that a good thing?” At first I thought so, but it now appears the hatred it brought out is allowing haters to reinforce each others’ hate.