Tuesday, August 13, 2024

This Space Could Have Been an Email

 

The return of Trump to Twitter started with technical difficulties (and probably not a DDOS attack) and revealed a rambling, slurring candidate who could not be nudged to stay on topic. Is it possible the delay was due to a Trump malfunction, not a mechanical one? Because he sounded like either his teeth were left soaking in a jar--or he was. 

Anyhow, for me the funniest bit was Trump comparing Kamala Harris to Melania. On the Trump scale of weirdness, it's mostly only weird because he usually compares women to Ivanka. But of course, Harris isn't blonde. But it's not really that offensive for him to compare her to another attractive woman he isn't sleeping with either, is it? I mean, relatively speaking.

Also, he said that if he didn't win the election, he'd probably flee to Venezuela. I don't know how many people out on bail are that frank in public interviews.

Otherwise, the somewhat over 1.1 million listeners were treated to the kind of insights one might get from the average Trump rally, such as sea level rise meaning more waterfront property, and the need for an Iron Dome for the US, because you never know when Canada is gonna start lobbing short-range missiles at you, I guess. 

So, was it worth torching some Truth Social stock value over? Probably. People are talking about Trump, and he was always going to get paid, anyway. 

Did it help his campaign any? 

Honey, if this was pressing the Life Alert button, his ass is staying down. He seemed unstable and infirm and as has been noted more often of late, weird as heck. 


2 comments:

Grung_e_Gene said...

A one point Trump claimed 60 millions people viewed his Lie Stream with Elon Muck, and Roger Stone went on to claim 1,000,000,000 views... When reality comes crashing down on them in November they aren't going to do well.

Vixen Strangely said...

They badly want "views" to = "giving a shit about Trump the candidate". The total of views isn't unique viewers, it includes a LARGE population of people refreshing or kicked out and signed back on. Also, they have no idea how much of the attention is hate-watching, and even that is pretty limited considering.

Trump's strategy as a narcissist (if we want to call it that) is that any attention is good attention. I don't think people have ever been able to explain "unfavorables" in polling to him.

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