Why Alabama??

[kentuck]

Why did El Presidente insist on putting Alabama in the path of Hurricane Dorian?

His pattern has been to create lies to supplement lies he plans on telling in the near future. He likes people to think of him as a seer, who can predict the future.

Most of all, at this specific time, he is more concerned about his next election than anything else in the world. He is desperate about it.

Alabama just happens to be one of his chosen targets, along with Florida and Ohio and Pennsylvania. So when he goes to Alabama in a few days, or a few weeks, he can tell them that he was prepared to protect them if the Hurricane came into their state. He will do anything to curry favor with the voters.

[underpants]

1. A. He's a moron. B. Al Abama is a DEEP red state 😉 C. Who freaking knows

[kentuck]

2. Can someone put "OH Susanna" on the Victrola?

[GoCubsGo]

23. It's A and D.

D. It just popped into his head, so he blurted it out, without thinking. Blurting out random shit is not unusual behavior for him.

And, yes. He is a moron, although I think that's actually being generous.

[Sherman A1]

3. There are some questions

better left unasked......

[kentuck]

5. :-)

[moondust]

4. Yes, politics.

Flattering them with attention at a critical time to curry favor. Flattery politics.

[kentuck]

6. Yep.

100%

[genxlib]

7. Don't read too much into this

Alabama already will vote for him regardless of any smoke blown up their ass. Any scenario where he loses that state would be an enormous landslide anyway.

There was no grand plan. He looked idiotic and ill informed at a briefing. All the rest is him trying to reinvent reality to save his ego.

I think the likelihood is that he mixed up Georgia ( in the path) with Alabama (dry as a bone). The fact that an American president can’t identity a state on a map was too embarrassing to let stand. But in the end, he has only brought more attention to it as he has insisted he was correct.

[kentuck]

9. Well, he is a might ignorant...

So that could be the case?

Why is this "lie" getting more attention than his other lies?

[genxlib]

13. I can think of a few reasons

The main one is that people pay attention to the pending critical weather in a way that they do not pay attention to politics. After paying attention to the Weather Channels nonstop for a week, virtually everyone immediately knew he was wrong.

Besides that, I think it would have passed as well, but his insistence on repeating it multiple times just kept it in the news.

Then finally, his clownish attempt to prove himself right became a perfect storm for meme worthy ridicule.

Bottom line... he is stupid and he is a liar. This was both and blatantly obvious to boot

[onenote]

11. except his tweet mentioned both Georgia and Alabama

So its not likely that he "mixed up" the two states. What is most likely is that someone showed him the early spaghetti maps and neither that person nor he understood what those maps meant and he ignored the later information he was given that showed that Alabama was well outside the storm's track.

[genxlib]

15. Didn't the comment in the meeting come first?

I think he was already trying to save face in the tweet.

[onenote]

22. He first mentioned Alabama in a tweet last Sunday that also mentioned Georgia.

[jcgoldie]

8. I think its because he simply fucked up and doesn't know Alabama from Georgia on a map

Then of course he couldn't let it go like any asshole who makes a mistake.

[kentuck]

10. Or say something like:

"Well, geography was never my strong subject in school", smile, and walk away.

It made him appear as if he had not looked at a recent map of the Hurricane in 3 or 4 days? On vacation as a national disaster was ready to strike? Golfing?

[malaise]

20. You can't do that when you have already declared that you know more than

everyone else on every subject.
One lie led to several others and yet again exposed him as the King of Cons.

[Takket]

14. Probably the only state he'll win in 2020

[Hortensis]

16. :) Maybe a disordered muddle of all the above. He's appallingly

popular in Alabama, but who knows? Maybe that "They love me in Alabama" is why that state popped into his head and then out his mouth in his usual train of consciousness babble. In 2016 he kept wanting to go back again and again to campaign where "they love me," instead of where he needed to.

Overall, though, I think it's fair to assume that Trump just hadn't been paying enough attention to know Cat-5 Dorian was headed up the Atlantic coast, or care one way or the other.

[kentuck]

17. :-)

It does appear that way.

[CatWoman]

18. Personally I think he confused Alabama with the Bahamas

after all, both have a lot of "a" 's

[kentuck]

19. He's about ready for the O-ba-ma-la-ma show.

[Hortensis]

21. A natural for a disordered muddle. All too credible.

[Skraxx]

26. Correct "Abaco Bahama" equals Alabama

[Wounded Bear]

29. What are the oranges of that confusion?

[CatWoman]

31. bwahahahahaha

[Botany]

24. tertiary syphilis

Tertiary (Late)


This stage begins when symptoms from the secondary stage disappear. Syphilis isn’t contagious at this point, but the infection has started to affect your organs. This can lead to death. Symptoms of tertiary syphilis may include:

Problems controlling muscle movements
Numbness
Vision problems (you may start going blind)
Dementia

https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/types-stages-syphilis

[WhiteTara]

30. wouldn't that be karmic

if he should die of syphilis?

[Botany]

32. Something is going on w/him of that their can be no doubt.

His tongue seems "thick" when he tries to talk, a large % of his vocabulary is collapsing into
few words or phrases... terrific, great, tremendous, I have spoken to people (with out saying
which people), biggest, and so on... he is unsteady on his feet and it looks like he has taken
a fall, and he drew a line on a National Weather Service Map thinking that it would fool people
about a Hurricane's projected path.

Why's it so hard for us to say out loud that Trump has lost his mind?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/115419803/whys-it-so-hard-for-us-to-say-out-loud-that-trump-has-lost-his-mind?fbclid=IwAR1G8MR6_IWRd7RPeLD7k-7nnqiK-TrCBuG9UA0ZpwAQjUmCIvPDPy6r1-k

A short but a good read from a New Zealand Newspaper.

[lark]

25. I have been wondering the exact same thing.

Everything he says is self-serving, and you may be right. He had plans for this lie and he's too stupid to just drop the lie, no, he double and triples down on it, showing himself to be an utter fool with his 1st grade sharpie map.

[mainstreetonce]

27. Yes he wanted piictures

Hugging the Alabama governor.

[Phentex]

28. I think your last paragraph is spot on...

He wants to act like he knows where Alabama is and then he can mention it.