A man you can bait with a Tweet

[Red Five]

[zoogs]

Julian Assange, Eclipse Truther: https://gizmodo.com/julian-assange-eclipse-truther-1798293240

 

Truly bizarre. Someone was a little set off by the Twitter frenzy over his disruptive hero. Assange went so far as to quote authority (NASA) on the topic, despite emphasizing that he hates to do it. He of course misrepresented what they were saying. 

 

It's hard to tell if this behavior from Assange (and Wikileaks, by extension) is bumbling or carefully concocted. From the Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/next-steps-for-the-presidents-eyes/537528/), 

 

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As many children are warned, there is indeed no “safe” amount of time to stare directly at the sun. Note that no ophthalmologists recommend any amount of glancing or squinting at the eclipse. Against the energy of the sun, human eyelids are like a dam built of tissue paper.

Most sun-related visual injury is gradual and cumulative over the course of years, leading to cataracts and macular degeneration

 

[Enhance]

My favorite Trump-eclipse related tweet from yesterday.

 

 

[schriznoeder]

23 hours ago, dudeguyy said:

Trump retweets another pro-Trump bot.

 

 

I don't know about the rest of you, but whenever I'm having a bad day I set up a few bot accounts to shower me with binary accolades. #OnlyTheBestCompliments

[zoogs]

Someday we'll look back in horror at this chapter of our history and wonder how it was that just fifty years ago the U.S. was gripped by such a madness. The same thing past generations wondered about Jim Crow, segregation, etc, I suppose.

 

 

[zoogs]

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It is not quite fair to say that Donald Trump lacks core beliefs, but to the extent that we can take apart these beliefs they amount to Give Donald Trump Your Money and Donald Trump Should Really Be on Television More. The only comprehensible throughline to his politics is that everything Trump says is something he’s said previously, with additional very’s and more-and-more’s appended over time; his worldview amounts to the sum of the dumb sh#t he saw on the cover of the New York Post in 1985, subjected to a few decades of rancid compounding interest and deteriorating mental aptitude. He watches a lot of cable news, but he struggles to follow even stories that have been custom built for people like him—old, uninformed, amorphously if deeply aggrieved. 

There’s a reason for this. Trump doesn’t know anything or really believe anything about any topic beyond himself, because he has no interest in any topic beyond himself; his evident cognitive decline and hyperactive laziness and towering monomania ensure that he will never again learn a new thing in his life. He has no friends and no real allies; his inner circle is divided between ostensibly scandalized cynics and theatrically shameless ones, all of whom hold him in low regard and see him as a potential means to their individuated ends. There is no help on the way; his outer orbit is a rotation of replacement-level rage-grandpas and defective, perpetually clammy operators.

 

 

That second paragraph though. So incisive.
The source article is drolly entitled The President of Blank Sucking Nullity: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-president-of-blank-sucking-nullity-roth

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, zoogs said:

Someday we'll look back in horror at this chapter of our history and wonder how it was that just fifty years ago the U.S. was gripped by such a madness. The same thing past generations wondered about Jim Crow, segregation, etc, I suppose.

 

 

Wow....I read it before I read the tweet.  

To think that was all just in one week.

 

[zoogs]

To be in this Administration, you have to want to lie because its ugly goals are just that important to you:

 

 

[NM11046]

 

[BigRedBuster]

7 minutes ago, NM11046 said:

 

 

 

So, in other words, you're proud that you are a complete fraud.

[Red Five]

This was retweeted by our great president this morning

 

 

[TGHusker]

http://www.newsmax.com/US/trump-retweets-meme-eclipsing/2017/08/24/id/809524/

 

Egomaniac

[NM11046]

On top of it just being dumb did anyone else pick up the "subtle" racial element?  Wondering if I'm just on edge this week.

[zoogs]

It's not that subtle.

[TGHusker]

Good story about this tweet here.     

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-just-retweeted-world-141127381.html

 

Donald Trump has proven to have absolutely zero restraint or common sense when it comes to his social media posts, but today he took the his Twitter habit to a whole new level.

On Thursday morning, the U.S. president retweeted an eclipse meme of himself, as a white president, "eclipsing" Barack Obama, the nation's first black president.

It's a retweet so dumb that it may just beat the time he retweeted someone calling him a fascist.

 

The meme, posted by a user in response to a Trump tweet about Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, shows a smiling Trump gradually moving in front of a black and white photograph of Obama.

In the last of the four photos, Trump is completely covering Obama, and the words "THE BEST ECLIPSE EVER!" caption the meme.

 

Here it is, screenshotted on his profile, just in case Trump deletes it and has a White House official say the image was "inadvertently posted" again. You know, like he did that time he tweeted a meme of a Trump Train driving into a CNN reporter.

Image: screengrab/twitter

Since this retweet shows Trump doesn't have any understanding of how an eclipse works, furious Twitter users were eager to compare Obama to the bright sun, while also pointing out that the meme is straight-up racist.

Kurt Gessler

 

✔ @kurtgessler

So Obama is the sun — the bright center of our galaxy — and Trump is the moon, a dead rock that briefly obscures it? That's your metaphor? https://twitter.com/JerryTravone/status/900694348257517568 …