If you have time – a lot of time – this weekend, you might head on over to that YouTube contraption and listen to the latest installment of the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan is one of the guiltiest of my precious few pleasures. And I”m truly guilty, so when Donald Trump appeared yesterday I actually listened. The doors are over there. –> But if you listened to it, you would at least hear what Donald Trump sounds like when he’s just talking to someone face to face. Yes, instead of angrily yelling about something incomprehensible, he quietly sits down and then talks incomprehensibly about things that anger him. It’s fascinating. (See podcast below).
But the people waiting in an airplane hanger three hours away in Wisconsin were not there to see the reflective, dispassionate Trump – they wanted their rally. Some of them got it, the ones that waited a long time while given updates on why Trump was still hundreds of miles and 30,000 feet away.
LMAO — a very red Trump just played a video for his fans at his rally in Michigan explaining that he's going to be AT LEAST THREE HOURS LATE for his speech tonight (he's already an hour late) pic.twitter.com/DHow2lKPuU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2024
If only the technology existed whereas Trump could appear on Rogan’s show while simultaneously, meaning at the exact same time, have him magically appear at the rally, on some kind of screen. It is worth a try.
Except they didn’t – at least, well, maybe they did. But it wasn’t nearly as cool:
By the time Trump announced a three-hour-delay on Twitter, hundreds of supporters were already headed for the exits. ‘Where’s Trump?’ yelled one on the way out the door. ‘That was a waste of a day,’ said another disappointed attendee on the way to the door.
That will happen. And Trump cannot even blame the airline. It should be noted that the fans believed the day to be wasted only after not seeing Trump. So there’s that. No one appears to have asked those who did stay and did see him whether that day and a half was wasted.
Check in on what was said on the actual podcast. Trump is apparently conversant on all things surgery, noting that some surgeries are particularly bad – probably worse on Mondays. The aneurysm thing came up in a discussion about aging and Joe Biden.
Rogan commented, “Two major brain surgeries. He had aneurysms.”
Trump replied, “He did. Those are not good operations.”
Smart. I always say go with the gall bladder. He’s right though, Joe Biden has overcome two major neurosurgeries, no word on Trump’s excuse.
To give Rogan some credit, he did press Trump on why he couldn’t present evidence as to the notoriously not stolen 2020 election and… Trump couldn’t get any further this time, giving this argument:
“Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier. All this different things By law, they had to get legislative approvals. You don’t have to go any further than that. If you take a look at Wisconsin, they virtually admitted that the election was rigged, robbed, and stolen. They wouldn’t give access in certain areas to the ballots because the ballots weren’t signed. They weren’t originals. They were– we could go into this stuff. We could go into the ballots, or we could go into the overall. I’ll give you another way.
Well then, for the love of God, man – DO go into this stuff. This “could” thing has never been less compelling, being just 10 days away from the next election. At least he wasn’t yelling. It sounds infinitely smarter when spoken into a podcast mic and not yelled at a festival, rally – whatever. In the end it remains spectacularly stupid.
There was one exchange on the Rogan show worth going over. A particularly fascinating topic centered on how it was that Trump got so much attention:
DONALD TRUMP: “I always got more publicity than other people, and it wasn’t like I was trying. In fact, I don’t know exactly why, maybe you can tell me.”
Hang on. Actually – he was trying, hard, to get any and all attention. This guy lived in a gold-gilded condo, he had a gold toilet! And yet he almost shyly says he needs someone else to tell him why he got so much coverage? Rogan had a positively brilliant answer:
JOE ROGAN: “Oh, I can definitely tell you. You said a lot of wild shit.”
TRUMP (laughing): “Maybe.”
Maybe?
ROGAN: “You said a lot of wild shit and then CNN, in their brilliance, by highlighting your wild shit made you much more popular. And they boost you in the polls because people were tired of someone talking in this bullshit, prepared politician lingo and even if they didn’t agree with you, they at least knew, whoever that guy is, that’s him. That’s really him.
To be sure, one thing is never confused – when you see Donald Trump, that is really him and that really is the problem. For those who believe he is the answer, he will forever remain more than three hours away. And only if they stay.
What a wasted day.
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What they see in their idol Trump they will immediately transfer to themselves, since, they take their basics to be identical to that of their idol Trump. There is a weird Pavlovian union between Trump and his salivating idols. However, they can easily get confused, let down, pissed and abandon their idol, upon realising Trump is no Schrödinger’s Cat – he cannot be at two places at once – as you allude to, above. Trump just feeds lies to get the Pavlovian response he lusts after, from his adorers, and breaks all promises to be at all places at once, like some cat of salvation, for his salivating adorers. He is nothing but an evil dangerous fake, that profits off his brand of snake oil.
I fail to see why the magats are so angry about time wasted. 3 hours? Hell people you’ve wasted years supporting an idiot who only has contempt for you. Have you finally figured out where you are on his scale of importance? Hmmmm? I’ll give you loons a hint-it is in the negative number territory.
Fools being led by a moron. F*cking pathetic.