• dariusj18@lemmy.world
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    Remember: the presidency ages people. How long would he be president?

    Oddly, this is something that didn’t seem to happen to Trump. We all know why of course, he didn’t actually do the job of being President.

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      Because he doesn’t actually do any work, and only worries about himself.

      In contrast, presidents like Obama and Biden age quickly because they’re actually working nonstop, and stressing out about world events.

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        That’s why he’s aging so fast right now… he’s working really hard to try and stay out of prison!

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      Donald did no work. He only watched TV, golfed, held rallies. He spent more time on the toilet producing whatever it was that took so many flushes than he did on the job.

      Donald aged quickly afterwards and especially after the start of his court cases for the numerous crimes.

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    According to Trump, Weinstein got “schlonged. … He got hit as hard as you can get hit."

    I uhh… don’t think that’s what that word means…

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      I’ve never heard that word used like this, but I think he’s trying to say “boned” which equates to wronged. He (Trump) is wrong though. Weinstein got what he deserved.

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      When Trump was running the first time for the 2016 election he got a lot of attention for using that word. I remember an NPR host saying how he’d used it before in a similar context that Trump did (a political loss), but at the same time he was regretful about it. I don’t remember the details but actually let me search…

      Neal Conan. I’m fairly certain I remember him talking about it on the radio, was why this rang a bell for me. But apparently he even wrote an op Ed about it: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1223-conan-schlonged-20151223-story.html

      Conan used it literally once in a political context and regretted it as you can read above. And he seems to have vaguely meant it in a way you might say “wow, they got fucked” as you might say about someone being cheated, or “fucked up” for beaten up. Like ruined in some way, not with a literal sexual meaning, just a vague association because of the word itself.

      Not that this makes it any more couth or anything; feel how you want to feel about it. Clearly saying “they got fucked” still has that same vulgar sound, so we avoid it in polite conversation, so I imagined a word that sounds so vulgar would probably be avoided by a high profile politician, as given people feel weird about it. And it happened twice.

      I just think it’s interesting that it’s come up again. Language is weird.

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    “Among the bizarre topics Trump discussed was his empathy for former producer Harvey Weinstein, saying that he was treated badly after being found guilty on one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault in New York.”

    From the clip it’s hard to get context, but it sounds more like he was saying things that were too crazy for his handlers.

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      Article says “‘They’re going crazy,’ Trump said, pointing off camera.” Which I think further strengthens your argument.

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      This is a narcissistic and delusional old man who has never really participated in society as a normal human being. When he says “they”, he literally thinks there is a shadow group of people doing this. The fact that someone rich got caught committing crimes and was found guilty by “normies” is all just a part of the shadow group’s plan to allow such things to happen. He literally believes “they” could have stopped that from happening IF they wanted to, but decided not to.

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    I feel like the Democrats ought to be pivoting towards attacking Vance at this point. The possibility of Trump kicking the bucket from natural causes and the GOP getting a sympathy (/conspiracy-theorist) bounce in the votes this late would be devastating, so they ought to be pulling out all the stops to anticipate and mitigate that before it happens.

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    Dude has been campaigning for over a year straight. This is the least of his issues.