Trump Abruptly Cancels Another Mainstream TV Interview
CNBC co-host Joe Kernen announced on air that the previously unknown interview had been canceled.
I'm a lifelong fan of political dramas. I watched the BBC version of House of Cards and adored The Manchurian Candidate.
There's stuff going on in this election that makes everything I ever read seem placid and tame.
Republicans would vote for the corpse of Trump before even considering not making a terrible decision. I cannot believe that this election is this close. It’s mind boggling that the outcome is currently a toss up between Nazi spray tan confused grandpa and middle road politician.
The point isn't to get Trump into the Whitehouse; it's to get Vance into the whitehouse.
Trump will legitimately kick the bucket within the next four years, guaranteed. And Vance will be the one to take his place. Vance will be the one who is suddenly an "incumbant" backed by the heritage foundation who is actually reasonably well spoken, able to debate, far smarter than Trump, and younger.
Vance wasn't "chosen" by Trump, he came as a part of the deal with the Heritage Foundation to get him elected.
It’s infuriating that the election is this close. People were complaining that Biden was too old. A smart qualified candidate took his place, Trump now is having mental breakdowns in public, and somehow, the election is still a toss-up.
If he died tomorrow Republicans would be Black-Friday-75%-off-smart-tvs trampling each other to be the one to skin him and wear him so they could continue the coup.
If you wrote this election into a political drama ten years ago, it'd get rejected as not believable.
True story I have told so many times....
Right after the 2016 election the NY Times assembled a panel of all the creators of the top TV political dramas. House of Cards, West Wing, Scandal, Veep...
Every creator said the same thing. If they'd had a character say that they "liked soldiers who didn't get captured" the networks and advertisers would have demanded that character be shown as hated by all Americans and voted out by the next episode.
Meanwhile you have MAGooswho also fly the black POW/MIA flag next to their Trump flag
Reality has the bad habit of often being unrealistic.
I was against Biden stepping down because I figured there'd be a stampede of Dems fighting for the nomination.
I never dreamed they'd all line up behind the Black woman who didn't win any primaries.
Like you said, reality does what it wants and pays no attention to the script.
Have you read Neal Stephenson's novel, Interface?
lol! Yes, yes I have.
I'll see and raise you. "The Porkchoppers" and "The Fools In Town Are On Our Side," both by Ross Thomas.
Thomas was a Washington reporter turned crime novelist. The first book is about a Union election and the second is about an attempt to clean up a small Southern city by making the corruption so bad that even the pimps will vote for reform.
It’s more ‘I, Claudius’ in my view
Really good breakdown of how the show used camera movement to tell the story.
Didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did.
Let me know what you think, okay?
FPTP-voting was created by wealthy romans to benefit wealthy romans, that anyone uses this system today is just bonkers to me and probably why this comparison of yours is not so far removed at all.
you may also like Interface
Read it and liked it.
After his 40 minute solo dance party, he’s probably exhausted.
Very low energy. Sad!
The evening began to take a different trajectory when a man appeared to faint in the crowd. Trump paused his remarks. Attendees fanned the man and began to sing “God Bless America.” As the man waited for medical help, Trump mused: “While we’re waiting. So we had a beautiful evening. And I don’t know if they could get this song up quickly, but if they could work really quickly backstage while we’re waiting. ‘Ave Maria.’” The song began to play.
Brother what in the fuck is going on anymore.
That's honestly tame compared to the rest of the town hall
At the end, he made it sound like he was done and going to wrap up, said thank you and then he... just stood there for 39 minutes noding to music
Oh also he said "does anyone else want to faint too" after someone fainted
He also told people to vote on January 5th instead of election day (Nov 5th)
lmao if he dies of old age 3 weeks before the election I'm gonna shit my pants
I would rather have that than him win and JD Vance become president.
Me too. I’ll go get some depends undergarments just in case.
Hey he already has so might as well
damn you! made me look (and need to change my pants)
Weekend at Donny’s 3.
I will shit my pants on purpose
Pussy
Think his team is more so afraid of making his mental decline even more obvious after his town hall yesterday. He cut if off early, said "who wants to listen to questions" and "let's listen to music" followed by an early wrapping up. Sounded like he was going to leave, but he just didn't. He stood on stage for 39 minutes of him nodding on stage to music
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/
His team is doing a Weekend at Bernie's hide-the-dementia dance until the election
Zombie Trump
NSFL
Why? Can't you just play music and sway back and forth during the interview?
They could just play music to fill the time.
Dementia is kinda like that. Its there and causes problems that can be masked til one day the problems are not something that can be kept hidden.
Somebody should tell him the last debate aired with "new smell-o-vision technology" and see if it's possible for his face to lose any more color.
Crash and burn! Crash and burn!
hasn't changed his diaper since the last one.
Because the only time he below 48% in the polling is when people outside his cult see him. Hiding may well win him the rust belt.
Leave the poor guy alone! He probably just wants to spend some time by himself swaying creepily to his favorite music.
He seems as desperate to lose as Harris