35 thoughts on “Is Trump Losing It?”

  1. also on the subject of joe losing it hair-wise. you guys who were grieving, grousing, gloating – whatever about his coiffeur – a little compassion, please.  it’s a wonder he has hair at all. given the state of things,  i’d be tearing my hair out.   here’s a little background on his unusual hairdo from a 2013 story by CBSnews:

    (CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the White House National Conference on Mental Health on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden told a sometimes serious and sometimes jocular story about the two brain surgeries he needed in 1988 to deal with cranial aneurysms.
    Biden told the White House audience “they take a saw and they cut your head off” and “they literally had to take the top of my head off.” He also recounted that as he was being wheeled into surgery he asked the neurosurgeon, “What are my chances of getting off this table completely normal?” The surgeon told Biden he had a better chance of living—and that that chance was in the 35 to 50 percent range.
    “The only totally un-chartered portion of the universe is the brain,” Biden said in his White House speech. “You know, as we used to say in the Senate, excuse the point of personal privilege here: I had two cranial aneurysms, and they literally had to take the top of my head off. I mean, they take a saw and they cut your head off, and go in to find the artery that is–one was leaking, the other that hadn’t, before it burst.
    “Those of you who are docs know every profession has their sick jokes,” said Biden. “The joke among docs is: How do you know someone’s had a cranial aneurysm? On the autopsy table. Only 20 percent of the people have it even get to the table.
    “Well, one of the fascinating things is, that the second operation, after the first one, which was a bleed, and they gave me a relatively low chance of surviving,” said Biden. “I remember going down, and asking the doc, and, you know, you’re counting the ceiling tiles and you’re heading into the operating room–a lot of you’ve been there. I said, ‘Doc, what are my chances?’ I had two great neurosurgeons. And I’ll never forget–I will not mention his name, but he’s one of the leading neurosurgeons in the world–he said: ‘Senator, for mortality or morbidity?’
    “And I’m thinking,” said Biden. “No, swear to God, I mean, you know, jeez. Well, I said, ‘Let me put it to you this way.’ It was a long road to the operating room. I said–this is absolutely a true story–I said: ‘What are my chances of getting off this table and being completely normal?’ He said: ‘Well, your chances of living are a lot better.’
    And I said, ‘OK. What are they?’ He said, ‘Well, they’re in the 35 to 50 percent range.’ And I thought, well–seriously, I was a born optimist–I said, well, hell, that means 35 out of 100, 50 out of 100 make it. I might as well be the one,” said Biden.
    “I said: ‘What’s the most likely thing that will happen if I live?’ He said, ‘Well, the side of the brain that the first aneurysm is on controls your ability to speak.’ And I thought: ‘Why in the hell didn’t they tell me this before the ’88 campaign?’ It could have saved us all a lot of trouble, you know what I mean?”

     

    so i imagine that operation/s required flipping a flap of scalp back if not permanent removal of follicles, post op lumps and scars.  could be that accounts more for the plugs and combover than usual aging male vanity. 

  2. noted during campaign in 2019

    Neurosurgeon: I’ve Seen Joe Biden’s Brain and It’s Perfectly Fine | Vanity Fair

    It might be considered ageist, as Rep. Eric Swalwell learned to his detriment, but the truth is that Joe Biden is 76 years old, with two brain aneurysms under his belt, and so voters will naturally have some questions about his overall health. So far, his brain seems to be working just fine, producing a steady, regular stream of verbal blunders and gaffes as it’s done for the majority of his career. (Years ago, Biden jokingly blamed his first aneurysm for his frequent foot-in-mouthing: “It could’ve saved us all a lot of trouble [had I known], you know what I mean?”) But given the occasional mental hiccup during the debates, and ongoing, specious attacks from his more dotardly counterpart, Donald Trump, pundits cannot help but offer armchair diagnoses. “I would look at his résumé for maybe 30 seconds and reach one obvious conclusion: remarkable qualifications, too old,” Kurtis Meyer, the Democratic chairman of Mitchell County, Iowa, delicately suggested to the Times earlier this month. “He’s pressing against Father Time, who is a very tough competitor.”

    So of course, Politico consulted the ultimate authority on Biden’s brain: the neurosurgeon who popped his skull open, examined it, and operated following his two aneurysms in 1988. “He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven’t seen any change,” said Dr. Neal Kassell, now teaching neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. “I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations that he had. There was no damage whatsoever.”

    For everyone else who hasn’t seen Biden’s brain, speculating on his mental acuity would be “inappropriate,” warned Emily Rogalski, a Northwestern University neuroscientist who specializes in aging. “It’s difficult to comment specifically on any one individual’s cognitive status without knowing more deeply about their medical history.”

    [continues]

  3. Stephen recaps the weekend’s big football news, including the retirement rumors swirling around Tom Brady, and looks at some self-incriminating comments made by the former president at a rally in Texas.

  4. Let’s hope so. Looking forward to the dog pile.

    Early voting here starts on V Day. My voter ID arrived yesterday.

  6. query:

    is a pocket pardon lurking out there which will let former loser guy once more slip the surly bonds of earthly accountability?

  7. “Query”.      A favorite device in Today’s  (Bump Bomp BOP)
    Budder-RUMP !

    “Book of the Week eek eek ek k”

    THE LAST TYCOON by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.  
    (Pretty sure it was the tycoon…..but it may also have been a feature of the Pat Hobbes stories.)
    Those Hobbes stories……Right up there with Ring Lardner. Great movie stuff if I remember erectly.

  8. “Losing it”  Seems like that would require a precise definition of what, in this case, “it” exactly is.

    And did he ever actually have it or was he merely an imposter of his own ideal?

    I mean….that hair.

  9. Usually  things like “losing it” take a long slow time to actually show up……….it could have been lost months ago.  Even years.   I like to think it was lost when his niece hit the airwaves.   

  10. I always thought that, well surely he’ll be able to pull up and stop himself before he hits Full Drooling Marius but it begins to appear that he’s now going to go for the full monte. This is going to be extra popcorn.

  11. Yeah… breaking news…  Tom Brady makes it official… he is retiring.  He just got pissed off that someone close to him jumped the gun before he could surprise us.
     
    Yup…  the governor of NH, Chris Sununu has come out as against trumpty last week.  He’s been trying to bring NH back to some sanity.   But last week some dumb ass state legislator put a bill before our state house to secede from the US.  Chriiiiiiist…. some of these people are as dumb as cow patties!

  13. Cow patties also contribute to the weird mushrooms of expanded consciousness…….so they say.

  14. before they caught on, the people who had cattle and pastureland down here (there used to be a lot) were mighty confused about why all the kids were wanting to take walks in the muddy pastureland on a summer’s day after a good hefty rain the day before.

  15. Jack…. Ha!  You’re right… cow patties make good fertilizer.
     
    The best fertilizer I’ve ever used was rabbit poop… back when I used to raise Angora rabbits.  That was many moons ago.  My last rabbit died New Year’s Eve night 2000.

  16. He may have lost support from some Repug governors, but in the immortal words and song of Muddy Waters, “You can’t lose what you ain’t never had.” That could apply to all sorts of things and qualities the MAGAts seem to think Dumbass had.

  17. losing?  he’s already lost it according to this ditty produced last december

     This is a PARODY of The Beatles song “I’m A Loser” about the worst president in history!

  20. I have been wondering why some of the media “news” has been sounding young.  Yes, I do know they are young, but there was always a slight overlay of someone my age.  I finally figured it out.  The old Boomers are retiring and now the young are on their own.  When they see a common object, say a Princess phone, they talk about it like it is an antique, something mysterious because they cannot figure out how to make it work.
     
    What is happening is the buffer is melting away as the Boomers retire.  For so long my cohort has kept the young from taking jobs and advancing in their jobs.  The Great Resignation is now letting the following generations (about four of them) move into new positions.  In the media the Gen Z need to use a search program to find information instead of an old ink stained colleague.
     
    Accepting that i am no longer young enough to understand the news is okay.  It is time to let loose.  It is time to step back and be the nuisance to the young. The crank to send letters to the editor, handwritten too.  But, it is also time to observe and learn what our new world is.  Perhaps we have viewed it from an angle that was skewed.

  21. The best fertilizer I’ve ever used was rabbit poop…

    It’s #2 right behind chicken , on the “hot scale” , and yes I found it to be the best as well. 
    I called em’ “smart pills”
    They make a compost pile really get up , and cookin’.
     

  22. As for “45” ‘s  mental state , he knows he’s in deep doo-doo. 
    But he’s grifted $124 Million off his suckers.  Never the less he’s in a place he’s where he’s never been before several black women are about to grab him by the balls. 
    Hence that dangerous line in that speech in Conroe Saturday night.  

  24. The echo of that last Virginia Governor’s  race –
    Our primary season has landed. 
    The whole school issue has exploded here, banning books , painting school boards as hiding what’s going on in schools , peeing in restrooms, who can run in track meets. 
     
    That race in Virginia gave them a wedge issue the size of a Grey Hound Bus. 
     
    Last year the Katy school  district banned  1 book, this year 75 books. 
    They are after librarians as villains now.  

  26.  

    Elections

    Oz spends his own cash, Fetterman laps the Democrats, and more from Pa. Senate fund-raising reports

    We breakdown the latest snapshot of the candidates’ financial strength in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races.

    Candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, clockwise from top left: State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D., Philadelphia), Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, and Republicans Mehmet Oz and David McCormick.Staff and AP

    byJonathan TamariandJulia Terruso
    Updated 
    5 hours ago

    Mehmet Oz is reaching deep into his well-tailored pockets to fund his Republican Senate campaign in Pennsylvania. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is still running laps around his Democratic opponents when it comes to campaign cash. And some other high-profile candidates are struggling to collect the dough needed to run in a state as vast as Pennsylvania.
    Those details emerged in the latest round of federal fund-raising reports, released late Monday and covering the final three months of 2021. They provided a snapshot of the candidates’ financial strength in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races, and our first detailed look at how the celebrity “Dr. Oz” is throwing his immense personal wealth into his first run for public office.
    Here’s just some of what the reports reveal:

    https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pa-2022-senate-race-fundraising-oz-fetterman-20220201.html

  27. Blink –
    When a frozen 30 lb. iguana  falls out of a tree at Mar-a- Yoyo , and breaks Trump’s neck  is a better yardstick , or Putin gets heatstroke on a trip to Siberia. 

  28. That Penn. race  is eye opening .

    The report underscores just how much money is sloshing into this election extraordinarily early. Political veterans say they’ve never seen spending like this so far out from a primary that doesn’t arrive until May 17.
    This initial report shows Oz is willing to shoulder much of that spending himself — and that means it’s unlikely to slow down between now and the primary. It reflects just how much personal wealth can shape campaigns.

     

    In the Democratic primary, Fetterman is still vastly outpacing his rivals, showcasing a small-donor operation that helped him raise $12 million in 2021, including $2.7 million in the final quarter. The sheer volume of giving, from more than 170,000 people overall, shows the vast network of support Fetterman has built, even as Democratic insiders in Pennsylvania make it increasingly clear they’d prefer an alternative.
    He finished a distant second at the state party’s endorsement meeting Saturday, and some of the biggest liberal players, including major labor unions, have backed Fetterman’s rivals — choosing them over a front-runner who already holds public office. (He hammered the point home Tuesday, releasing an internal poll that showed Fetterman with 46% support, with his closest Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, at 16%.)

     
    Now why are are the “insiders”  in Penn . doing this  to Fetterman ?
     

  30. Here’s another proof of Einstein’s thinking about gravity –
    As Greenland and Antarctica  melt , they lose mass . Their pull on the oceans weakens, the sea level around them goes down.
     This means that sea level  is higher around them, because of their mass.  As that melts away that force let’s more water  away into the ocean at large. 
    It’s a twofer at work on these huge scales .  And that gravity thing will raise water at places  like Key West , Norfolk, and Venice, on top of the melt. 
     

  32. Map of the northern Pacific Ocean for May 2015, with red, pink and yellow colours indicating sea surface temperatures up to 3°C higher than average
    NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
    Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306423-extreme-marine-heatwaves-are-now-normal-for-the-worlds-oceans/#ixzz7JhMrMnsB
     
    This event is still ringing in the food web in the North Pacific .
    Millions of sea creatures  are dead now because this domino fell. 

  33. I followed this event closely  it trigger the mass die of of sea stars  all along the coast. 
    Like blowing out a candle . Poof they all died. 

  34. You have to  “Shelter In Place”  in a house on fire , with Mercury in your water pipes,  in freezing cold, with no heat , in the dark.  As flood waters rise around your house. 
    And Ramen Noodles are $ 25.00 .
    This whole shock  of the last 2 years, has the finger prints our limits  to “growth”. 
     
    Moving from California  to Texas is that classic frying pan to fire story. 
    How to fuck-up Austin ?  Move from San Jose.  

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