Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.
Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.
In a sane world, a draft dodger saying he ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ would have been enough.
The people who vote for him know what he is, they just don’t care.
I think in a sane world, after the “grab 'em by the pussy” tape came out we’d have never heard from him again.
I’ve posted this story many times.
After the ‘pussy grabber’ tape came out, a conservative woman went on the TV show The View to defend Donald.
One of the other panelists kept repeating the word ‘pussy’ over and over. The Trump defender asked her to stop using that offensive word.
Cognitive dissonance does not exist for conservatives.
A reminder that there was a candidate who got too excited and yelled in a weird way then got erased because of it. Now we have Robert “brainworm” Kennedy still on people’s radar sounding like he’s gargled gravel everyday since he was 12.
Poor Howard Dean, we could use that enthusiasm now.
Not to mention someone misspelled potato once, and his political career got torched from it.
His son is an ex-Congressman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Quayle
Little swine was about 25 in 2001, and somehow decided he didn’t need to join the military. Later he talked about saving the country from Obama
Apples and trees…
Iirc he didn’t even get ‘too excited’ he just had the mic too close to his mouth.
That was after losing Iowa, it likely wasn’t the deciding factor on its own.
In a sane world, yes.
In the real world, the people who support him are the ones who identify with him, and the ones who identify with him think that sexual assault is the pinnacle of masculinity.
As god as my witness I don’t know why this wasn’t the end of it
Upvoted before I clicked it because I knew exactly what you were talking about. Only clicked to verify.
I appreciate your thoroughness
For sure
Why is everyone talking about a hypothetical sane world? It’s not. Maybe it never was. It’s a mad mad mad mad world.
(No conscious reference to the movie, it’s just a title that seems apt.)
I didn’t get the reference. All I could think of was mad mad mad mad mad Madam Mim from Sword in the Stone.
https://youtu.be/i415QwSj0Og
One scene from a great movie
Now I have another movie on my list. That pilot is a man after my own heart.
The actor or the stuntman, or both?
FYI, it’s a 1960s movie and runs long. You might want to break it into chunks.
Both, but mostly Thurston Howell III. I’d also like an old fashioned.
A man ahead of his time!
The thing that makes this somewhat relevant is how close the election is. If those tapes exist, and you can get them to the right social media accounts, it might make 0.5 percent of his voters reconsider (and that might be sufficient).
A Trump voter quote that always live rent free in my head is “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting”.
It tells you everything they need to know about them. They have a shit life, and they want to make damn sure everyone else has a shit life too.
Before Trump I could pretend I lived in a world where the great majority of people were reasonably intelligent and kind.
Everyone stopped masking post 2016.
Figuratively and literally.
There’s an internet joke that the Mayans were right about the world ending in 2012; we just didn’t realize that the collapse would be gradual.
It’s still true. It’s not that the majority of these people are actually thinking, “How can I make the world worse and make the greatest number of people’s lives bad?” Rather, they’re under the impression that others (probably you) are saying that, and worse, that Trump is somehow their best defense against it.
It’s a bully mentality. I don’t want to make things better for anyone, I want to make things worse for them. Literal playground bully.
Donald Trump taught the worst of us that it not only is okay to be a bigoted racist, but that it is okay to be that in public.
Only because they have a misguided sense of revenge and want to blame the libs for their truncated life expectations when in fact they’ve been supporting and voting for the very politicians most likely to keep pushing their heads under water.
They want to hurt their opponents. They don’t care what the price is.
A lot of them care, they just like that he does it. It legitimizes their own shittiness.
No, they do care. They think the same way.
I think they care that he’s relatable to them.
They relate to the hatred.
Every single time he opens his mouth would be enough.