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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe President Who Forgot Who The President Is -- JoJoFromJerz
https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-president-who-forgot-who-theDonald Trump sat in the Oval Office today and confidently referred to the governor of California as the President of the United States.
Y'all need to read JoJo's column. No way I can excerpt it to 4 paragraphs. It is hilarious and sobering. The fawning press comes in for some well-deserved face slaps.
Let's just start with the baseline reality here, because I feel like we are all being slowly marinated in such a thick brine of daily insanity that the national brain has begun to treat things that should set off every alarm bell from Bangor to Bakersfield as if they're just another Tuesday in the clown-car constitutional collapse.
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Because we have reached the stage of American politics where the president can say something so profoundly brain-scrambled bonkers that ten years ago it would have triggered an immediate national meltdown and instead the reaction is just a shrug and a panel discussion.
Meanwhile the rest of us are sitting here watching this unfold like passengers on a bus where the driver just announced the steering wheel might actually be a waffle iron.
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Because we have reached the stage of American politics where the president can say something so profoundly brain-scrambled bonkers that ten years ago it would have triggered an immediate national meltdown and instead the reaction is just a shrug and a panel discussion.
Meanwhile the rest of us are sitting here watching this unfold like passengers on a bus where the driver just announced the steering wheel might actually be a waffle iron.
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The President Who Forgot Who The President Is -- JoJoFromJerz (Original Post)
erronis
3 hrs ago
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Goonch
(4,882 posts)1. ;-{) Mirror Mirror

Rebl2
(17,656 posts)2. I don't
want a president who forgets hes the president or calls the microwave the television. Read the article and you will understand.
Kid Berwyn
(24,196 posts)3. Clear Clown Car Constitutional Collapse
From JoJo from Jersey OP:
And then I would lovetruly, sincerely, from the bottom of my exhausted American soulfor every MAGA diehard, every Biden was too old, every hes not mentally fit keyboard neurologist to explain to the rest of us what the hell they think theyre looking at.
And then I would lovetruly, sincerely, from the bottom of my exhausted American soulfor every MAGA diehard, every Biden was too old, every hes not mentally fit keyboard neurologist to explain to the rest of us what the hell they think theyre looking at.
crud
(1,251 posts)4. Call for his resignation
Make it Dem talking point number one!
UpInArms
(54,865 posts)5. Mother of gawd
And the media sits on its face and spins out shit, while we watch the farcical movement of stupidity consume our world
ColoringFool
(615 posts)6. I Hope He Also Forgets The Power He Has.
MustLoveBeagles
(16,021 posts)7. Thank you JoJo !!
Huh. So no media meltdown then? No Republican leadership & rank & file pubs running to said media with their hair on fire predicting disaster? No NY Times editorial from the RW equivalent of George Clooney? (Is there such a thing?). No backstabbing Repugs publicly demanding he resign? No?
Huh. I wonder what the difference is? Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller?
I'll tell you this: I never, want hear about Joe Bidens supposed cognitive decline EVER AGAIN when we have a mad man in the Oval Office RIGHT NOW with a war going on FFS.