Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Great Pumpkin fails to appear

I have been pointing out here for at least four or five years that Orange Julius, never intelligent, always ignorant, never capable of a thought for anything but himself, was mentally deteriorating. I got a lot of idiotic comments to the effect that the APA doesn't allow public armchair diagnoses. Fortunately I'm a) not a member and b) not presuming to say exactly what the diagnosis is. It looks more like a form of frontotemporal dementia than Alzheimer's disease, but it could be both.

 

The scandal is that the corporate media conspired to cover up this fact, while simultaneously relentlessly hounding Joe Biden about what appears to be essentially normal cognitive aging. But it's becoming impossible for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other plutocrat-owned media to keep up the charade. Jeff Tiedrich compiles the straight dope on this:

 

imagine you’re a campaign manager. you send your candidate out to do a softball town hall, where he’ll answer easy questions gently lobbed at him by adoring cultists — but instead of smacking those softball questions out of the park, he decides instead to make it into a music,” confusing the shit out of his audience for 39 excruciating minutes, as he wobbles unsteadily like an animatronic dildo.

then your guy appears in front of a room full of women who are angry about the loss of their reproductive rights, and brags about being the hombré who ended Roe.

and then he gets up in front of skeptical Latino voters, and tells a guy who is speaking through an interpreter that people who need interpreters are destroying America.

your worst nightmare is coming true, right before your very eyes. you had hoped to keep evidence of your candidate’s rapidly-increasing dementia under wraps — but now it’s advanced to the point where it can no longer be hidden. for fuck’s sake, even the normally-compliant lapdog press is pointing it out.

 

He chickened out of a 60 minutes interview, then he refused the offer from CNN of a town hall and left the stage to Kamala Harris to pummel him in prime time -- twice. He even canceled an appearance at an NRA convention. That's how bad it's gotten. All he does any more are the 90 Minute Hates where his brain dead cultists cheer for his gibberish -- but even they can't take it any more and they're leaving early, if they're allowed to escape.  

 

I offer for your delectation and delight his explanation of what he's going to do about grocery prices (in which he urges everyone to vote on January 5):

 

So, you know, it’s such a great question in the sense that people don’t think of grocery. You know, it sounds like not such an important word when you talk about homes and everything else, right? But more people tell me about grocery bills, where the price of bacon, the price of lettuce, the price of tomatoes, they tell me. And we’re going to do a lot of things.

You know, our farmers aren’t being treated properly. And we had a deal with China, and it was a great deal — I never mentioned it because once covid came in, I said, that was a bridge too far because I had a great relationship with President Xi [Jinping]. And he’s a fierce man and he’s a man that likes China and I understand that. But we had a deal and he was perfect on that deal, $50 billion he was going to buy. We were doing numbers like you wouldn’t believe, for the farmer. But the farmers are very badly hurt. The farmers in this country, we’re going to get them straightened out. We’re going to get your prices down.

But you asked another question about safety and also about Black population jobs and Hispanic population in particular those two. So when millions of people pour into our country, they’re having a devastating effect on Black families and Hispanic families more than any others. I think it’s going to spread to a lot of other places.

I think it’s going to spread to unions. I think unions are going to have a big problem because, you know, employers are just not going to pay the price. They’re going to—and it’s going to be—it’s a very bad thing that’s happening.

So they’re coming in. Many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums. That’s like, you know, step above, right? Insane asylum. And whenever I go, Hannibal Lecter, you know what I’m talking about. They always go—the fake news. That’s a lot of fake news back there, too.

They always mention—you know, it’s a way of demeaning, they say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention?’ Well, you know why, because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country. I figured that’s a lot—that’s better than wasting a lot of words. You just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter. We don’t want him.’ But. But they always sort of say, ‘Why would he say that?’ I do it for a lot of reasons.

But I do it because we are allowing some very bad people into our country. And they’re coming as terrorists. You know, you saw the other day, last month they had the record number of terrorists. I had a month — and I love Border Patrol.

Did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago? Border Patrol.

The Border Patrol. And they’re great. And, you know, they want to do their job. They don’t want to let these people come in. They look at them. They can tell. They can look at somebody, say good, bad. They say what’s coming into our country now, it’s having a huge negative impact on Black families and on Hispanic families and ultimately on everybody.

And we’re going to close that border so tight. It’s going to be closed. And I said the two things I’m going to do, first, we’re going to close that border—and people are going to come in. You want people to come in. We need people to come in. People are going to come into our country legally.

You know, it’s so unfair. You have people that are waiting on a system, in a line and they’ve been waiting in this line. You know how long? For years, 10 years, 12 years and they study and they take tests. And then people come. I actually say, ‘Why don’t you just go and just come on across?’ I tell people that it’s terrible, right? I said, ‘Go out. You’re incredible.’ They say, ‘What can I do to speed up the process?’ I say, ‘You know what, go to the southern border. I’ll see you on the other side.’ It’s so unfair.

But we’re going to have them come in legally. You have to see what they have to do. They take tests on, you know, who was the first one here? What date was this? What does 1776 mean? All this stuff.

And these other people are coming in and they’re affecting the school systems and they’re affecting the hospital system. I mean, if you take a look at what’s going on in Springfield, Ohio, a town of 50,000 people, they’ve just added 32,000 people. Illegal immigrants. And we’re not going to put up with it.

And we’re going to take care of your costs are going to come down, and you’re not going to have a problem with — because the biggest problem, and I’m hearing it from Black people and to a lesser extent right now, but it’ll be the same, Hispanic people.

And I’ll tell you what, our poll numbers have gone through the roof. With Black and Hispanic, have gone through the roof. And I like that. I like that. I like that. So we’re going to take care of it. You will be — I’ll tell you, if everything works out, if everybody gets out and votes on January 5th.Or before.

You know, it used to be, you’d have a date. Today, you can vote two months before, probably three months after. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing. But we’re going to straighten it all out. We’re going to straighten that out. We’re going to straighten our election process out, too. That’s going to be important, also.

So thank you very much, darling. We’re going to get it straight.

 

 

But keep in mind that a vote for Ronald T. Dump is a vote for J.D. Vance.



 

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