Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.
Yes, Trump, let the hate flow through you. Unleash your racism in a flood of glorious hate for all the world to watch on the television, and show the world who you truly are.
What do you mean “show who he truly is”? How is this different from the last 8 years?
It’s more explicit, on TV, in sound-bite chunks.
In a world where everything revolves around pushing the most information inside a short attention span, this can matter a lot. A clip can go viral, become a meme, become repeated and played again and again, it doesn’t matter what someone did over a few months if everything they hear about that person is what they did in a couple of seconds.
Having trump calling someone the N-word, on video, would become a lightning rod of confirmation that people can shove into others’ faces, and show them that “do you want to vote for this man”? It doesn’t take 1 hour of explanation, it takes 10 seconds of a sideline TikTok video.
Outbursts of uncontrolled anger are a common symptom of alzheimer’s/dementia beginning to degrade the prefrontal cortex and the brain’s emotional regulation.
Yep. I have an acquaintance with early-onset Alzheimer’s, and he has posted a lot about how emotionally disregulated he is. He’s fine in writing but he has warned his friends that if they visit him in person, he won’t be like they remember him.
I’m imagining that frustrating feeling of having the imprint of a thought but forgetting what it was, except all the freaking time. Must be hell.
It is hell, and I’ve watched my grandpa slowly slip into it. Not bad, yet, but enough that you can see the awful frustration.
If my mind starts slipping away like that when I’m old, I’ll probably just shoot myself honestly. It would be a preferrable way to go than gradually losing all my faculty until I don’t know who I even am.
Yeah, Trump’s too old and senile to be President. Weird too. Much too weird to be President.
“I think it’s a very nasty question,” Trump said. “For you to start off a question and answer period especially when you’re 35 minutes late … in such a hostile manner, I think it’s a disgrace.”
It’s just his way of saying, “I’d rather not answer that.”
How is it that not a single journalist asked him to name one thing he’s done for black people?
This was also my take-away from a similar article I read earlier. Why not simple ask, “such as?” or, “yes, please remind the voters what you’ve done for Black Americans.”?
From 2020 - https://www.vox.com/21524499/what-trump-has-done-for-black-people
•Trump passed a significant criminal justice reform measure, but his administration has worked to undo it
• Black employment gains before the pandemic were real — but not the result of Trump’s presidential term
• Trump’s claims on poverty don’t tell the full story of racial disparity
• The mechanism for funding HBCUs has very little to do with Trump
Trump does indeed deserve some credit with criminal justice reform. It’s arguably the only good thing he did in four years. It’s certainly nothing to give any credence to “best since Lincoln”.
The First Step Act, which passed with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, takes modest steps to alter the federal criminal justice system and ease very punitive prison sentences at the federal level. It affects only the federal system — which, with about 181,000 imprisoned people, holds a small but significant fraction of the US jail and prison population of 2.1 million.
Essentially, the law allows thousands of people to earn an earlier release from prison and could cut many more prison sentences in the future.
Aww… did Twumpy-wumpy miss his nap-time?
