*Exhale* and take a moment to read this from Trump's WV rally last night

[underpants]

DonViejo's post
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11032084

Ready?
Here we go

You know what bothers me? I have people coming to me, some people in Congress ‘sir, can you get this deal done immediately?'”

He then said that the deal wouldn’t be any good if he did that because “it’s gotta gestate. The word ‘gestate.'”

The president continued on, “Like when you are cooking a chicken. Time…Time… Turkey for Thanksgiving.”

Then Trump said this: “My mother would say 8 hours. I said ‘8 hours?’… She made the greatest turkey I ever had. It takes time. It takes time. So when they run and say can you do NATO right now, can you sign it next week? I say, wait a minute…I like Mexico. I like the new leader. I think he’s gonna be terrific. A little different than us. I think I am doing better with him than with the capitalist. But he knows Mexico needs the United States.”


NATO...Mexico?
Obrador isn't even in office yet in Mexico
"The capitalist"
Gestate?

[ScratchCat]

1. Dude has lost it

Its incoherent rambling, worse than we have seen before.

THIS is what a breakdown looks like, folks.

[underpants]

2. Blame it on the altitude

You're right. Welcome to DU

[Javaman]

24. yes, altitude. anything at or above sea level. LOL nt

[erpowers]

25. He May Never Have Had It

It is likely that he never had it. Was there ever a time when he spoke in coherent sentences?

[Sneederbunk]

26. Dude never had it.

[MoonRiver]

3. Maybe he's finally angling for the diminished capacity defense.

Or, more likely, he is already senile.

[underpants]

4. Yeah. The other thing was when does he ever say "Wait a minute"?

and specifically he's always ACTION NOW RESULTS

now he wants some time to reflect and discuss things?

[leanforward]

6. Yes

What he said makes no sense. He has lost it. Surely, that quote was not on the teleprompter.

[world wide wally]

5. I'm sure the crowd cheered wildly

[peekaloo]

7. I think it's what precedes that gestation period that's buggin' him.

The intercourse with Paulie and Mikey has impregnated his mind grapes and melted his thoughtcicles.

I'm gonna try that chicken to turkey recipe for Thanksgiving. A magical 8 hours!

[underpants]

12. Great catch. I missed that part.

Maybe soon the stable genius will give us insight into his knowledge of alchemy.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. New cellphone, please!

I done spewed my breakfast on this one.

[Docreed2003]

8. The dude is coo coo for cocoa puffs

[Hortensis]

9. Don't forget to start breathing again. Wow!

Not that rambling isn't normal, but people around him say he's worse all around than before.

This may be the most rational thing he's said in months. Who wouldn't agree?

Link to tweet

[underpants]

11. Only took HIM 11 years

Yes that must have a moment of clarity....nah someone swiped his phone.

[Hortensis]

14. Lol! "a moment of clarity..."

Wiping my eyes and trying to get serious, I also cannot believe he even begins to understand why he shouldn't have.

[underpants]

16. Deep Russian Mafia ties

Cohen grew up surrounded by Russians in Brighton Beach. His nickname is "Tom" as in Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) in "The Godfather". Cohen was the link to Russian money that saved Trump.

[Hortensis]

22. You did it again. But how'd HE get involved with Trump?

Oh, dear. I'm sober again. These incompetent grifters would still be looking for opportunities to launder money for more competent criminals, including the Russian mafia, if it weren't for the terrifying rise of social conservatives and fascistic authoritarianism on the right.

[Caliman73]

36. I would suggest back to him...

If you don't want to be in trouble, stop breaking the damn law everyday!! Then you won't need lawyers so much.

[Hortensis]

39. Where's the superiority in that?

[lagomorph777]

10. Word salad. The crowd must have been very confused by all that dementia.

But, as most of them are suffering severe dementia themselves, maybe they didn't notice.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Remember, Rumpie loves the poorly educated (with good reason)...

[Lindsay]

28. Word salad

with Russian dressing.

(I wish I could credit whoever I stole that from. )

[lagomorph777]

40. Ah! Nice!

[nolabear]

15. He seems to be stuck on "8" for some reason. Wonder why...

[frazzled]

17. 8 hours for a turkey?

Glad I didn't go to his mother's for Thanksgiving. Granted, she was making turkey before convection ovens and before other methods for roasting a turkey (beginning on a high heat and then reducing). But even at the lowest temperature you would roast a turkey, eight hours is way beyond the max you could roast the largest turkey available without turning it to shoe leather. Here's the official USDA chart:

https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-favorites/seasonal/how-long-to-cook-a-turkey

Okay, this may have been the least egregious misstep in his cuckoo, meandering diatribe. But it's just one more indication of how he blows things out of his turkey hole.

[underpants]

18. His mother's turkeys were THE BIGGEST, THE BEST

At least 40 pounds


As smene else pointed out he started talking about chicken and then turkeys. So apparently his mother could turn chickens into turkeys in ONLY 8 hours

[haele]

19. Four hours to brine first.

Mom told me her mother taught her to brine a market turkey at Thanksgiving to make sure there's no worms or other nasty things in the meat before you roasted it. Of course, with a bird of any size, you brined it for at least 12 hours, so there was typically another four hours or so left if you started it on an overnight brine. Same with a market chicken, though one only brines those for between four and six hours.

Back before flash freezing in the packing houses, a reliable butcher who got you clean meat was often difficult to find, especially in cities.
If you got your meat fresh from the farm or a neighbor (Mom grew up in South-West L.A. with victory gardens and neighbors who raised chickens and rabbits during WWII), you could depend on your meat being pretty much just what you expect.
I still brine my chicken and turkey before roasting or pan-frying.

On edit - I doubt his mother ever slaved over the Thanksgiving meal; the cook did all the work while maybe Madame Trump "oversaw" the meal preparation. And turning a chicken into a turkey? Methinks he's spewing out a stream of consciousness babble similar to a five year old that wants to keep Grammy's attention on them.


Haele

[ginnyinWI]

27. Oh nevermind. I can guarantee you that his mom never cooked any turkey.

That's for the cook, right?

[klook]

29. I'm more interested in knowing how long it takes to cook someone's goose.

Just a few more months in this case, I hope!

Self-basting geese get cooked more thoroughly, so I hope the Orange Goose keeps tweeting... and (to continue this labored metaphor) that Mueller's little helpers continue their outstanding work in the kitchen!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. a l'Orange

[klook]

38. L'ol! (nt)

[eleny]

32. Mabe it was frozen when she put it in the oven

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Don't have to cook at 325. Can slow cook at lower temperatures. Slow cooking often better. . . . nt

[GeorgeGist]

20. But he made a Deal with Kim in one day.

[BSdetect]

23. Sheer babbling.

[saidsimplesimon]

30. Not your garden

variety wackadoole, the genuine article, stark raving insane.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. They Do Compress The Cabin On Air Force One, Right?

Sounds like hypoxia.

[Frustratedlady]

33. Thanks for posting that. I thought I had heard wrong and even had closed caption on.

He was whipping from subject to subject so much that I had trouble keeping up. I finally took a snooze and probably missed the worst of it. His body was there, but not his mind.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. Trump is the turkey she gestated. . . . nt