August 9, 2024
Thanks to Stormy Daniels Super Mario Kart mushroom character Toad haunts the deep recesses of Trump's mind, by Hal Brown, MSW
August 7, 2024
The "Battle of the Dolls" which could have predicted who the next president would be probably won't happen, by Hal Brown, MSW
I noticed yesterday that a Trump with an injured ear bobblehead doll was being offered for sale. They didn't show how the actual doll would look so two cheezy mockups were published.
As I was planning to write about the injured ear bobblehead this story came up:
It was reported back in 2017 here:
I went to the website (here) and it looked like you couldn't order a new one of these. Clicking on the "shop now" link didn't go anywhere.
I tried to see if any were made and whether they might be available of ebay. Looking deeper into the situation it appears that the dolls were never made (read why):
Considering that the bobblehead looks like a cardboard Trump face pasted on a body that doesn't look like it belongs to Trump I have my doubts whether many of these will sell if any are ever made.
The Trump doll will be offered by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame which actually exists (see Wikipedia) so it actually may come onto the market, as may competing versions from other companies.
Thus, hoping to be able to write a "Battle of the Dolls" blog about this, I have ended up with a non-story.
Oh well....
August 5, 2024
When your opponent suggests you will be another Hitler what's left but to say besides that they will start World War III? By Hal Brown. MSW
Why this AI image? Scoll down to find out.
As regular readers know one of the first websites in look at in the morning is RawStory. Articles there often give me the idea for my blog.
By the time you look at it the top articles will have changed as RawStory updates in real time as news breaks. Here are some from right now. (Clicking will enlarge image.)
This is about this Trump's Truth Social post:
"STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT 'LEADERS' IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!"
Then as I was about to publish this blog RawStory published this article:
This is about a following Truth Social post:
"VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE"
"REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!"
In the first post Trump starts with warning about a stock market crash and terrible job numbers and seques without missing a beat into saying we are heading into World War III. In the next post about a world war he's gone from saying that we are heading to World War III to saying World War III is probable if Kamala Harris is elected.
Oddly, or I should say "weirdly" since this is the word we use now, he concludes with "this is not good" followed by three exclamation marks. If the end of civilization is just "not good" what is something most people would call the ultimate horror?
I can smell the pungent stink of Trump's flop sweat in this message. Here's a definition of what this is from this website:
You auditioned for -- and landed -- the lead role in a musical. You've practiced, rehearsed, learned your lines as if you'd written them, and the staging now seems like second nature. It's opening night, and in a minute, you'll walk across the stage and deliver your first lines. But as you think about it, you realize just how many lines there are. Now, rivers of sweat are now pouring off your face, and your clothes are soaked. What's going on here? And what on Earth is your cue?
The term "flop sweat" has its origins in the theater and refers to the sudden, heavy perspiration experienced when confronted with anxiety and fear of embarrassment. Though identified with the stage, flop sweat is a very real phenomenon that we'll all experience at some point in our lives.
I can see him standing in a puddle of his own sweat and with the aid of AI so can you.
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August 4, 2024
Trump congratulates Vladimir Putin for Prisoner Exchange Biden Arranged. So far beyond Chutzpa there's no Yiddish word for it. By Hal Brown, MSW
Of all the photos from the Helsinki Summit meeting (some of them are here) Trump, if he was the democracy loving patriot he wants people to believe he is, it would be one like the photo on top rather than the photo on the bottom he'd have wanted to have seen in the media.
That photo was used in many articles about the summit. Click the image below to enlarge it.
It could be on a Valentine.
It was used in the article from yesterday, below:
Donald Trump Congratulates Vladimir Putin for Prisoner Exchange Biden Arranged That Freed Evan Gershkovich | Video
You can also just watch the video here.
This is from the article in The Washington Post (subscription):
Former president Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin over a prisoner swap that took place this week, saying the Russian strongman had outsmarted U.S. officials as part of the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War.
At a rally here on Saturday, Trump did not mention any of the American prisoners who were released in the deal — including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned for more than a year on charges the U.S. government has denounced as fabricated. In his previous comments on the deal, he did not mention any of the prisoners by name either, only criticizing the U.S. government.
“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. … We have 59 hostages, I never paid anything. … Boy, we make some horrible, horrible deals. It’s nice to say we got ‘em back, but does that set a bad precedent,” Trump said.
He did not mention any of the U.S. officials who worked on the deal for months.
How many times have we said "you can't make this stuff up" about Trump? Here's another article:
This is the HUFFPOST article about what Trump said:
Love, indeed! Trump is many things but here he demonstrates that he has a characteristic that is so beyond chutzpa that there isn't even a Yiddish word for it. One might think he's addressing the Federal Assembly of Russia, not an audience of Americans.
Ronald Reagan would be rolling over in his grave and so would George H.W. Bush and Richard Nixon. I can't imagine what George W. Bush thinks about this.
Instead of just letting the news cycle when this was a dominant story pass, he couldn't let it go. Now he's injected himself into the news, but in a way that should boggle the mind of any sane person.
If only some members of his cult would wake up and see how he is playing them for gullible fools. I suppose we might excuse them, but members of Congress should be confronted and asked for their reaction to what he said. When questioned by reporters they shouldn't be allowed to feign their usual ignorance saying they don't know about something beyond the pale that Trump said.
Addendum:
The Helsinki photo wasn't the only one showing Putin love. This one is from the G20 meeting in 2019 and was used to illustrate this Mar. 18, 2024 article in The Guardian. It is worth reading in light of this recent Putin praise.
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