The best part was the doctor saying that Trump would be the most healthy person ever elected president. So many whores, and enough money for all of them!
Someone should ask Trump to let himself be filmed running a mile.
Trump's brother Fred died from alcoholism in 1981, which he has long cited for his own avoidance of alcohol. On the other hand, Donald Trump introduced his own line of vodka in 2006, so make of that what you will.
O.K. Do you have some tonic and lime?
Christ, what an asshole.
Not you, Moby. Trump.
1,2: surely Dubya was a lot healthier than Trump is. Trump is 69 and was medically unfit for the draft. Dubya was, what, early fifties when he was elected? And went running all the time?
I think maybe Dubya drank when he was younger.
That's how he got so healthy and smart.
I was under the impression dubya was taking antidepressants, and some of his frenetic exercising was aimed at the same purpose. Does that ring a bell or did I misinterpret it?
4 - however, his plan for an exclusive beer got a bit derailed.
Sometimes, you get a mental picture of somebody by reading something they wrote and then that picture turns out to be wrong. Trump's doctor isn't like that.
He has flowing locks or a very good wig.
I suspect (and boy are there pictures) that Bush's "not drinking" when he was the president looked at a lot like what I'm doing with alcohol when I'm drinking it. So if that was a problem earlier on for him I suspect it still was healthwise. But yeah, the Presidency does tend to end up in the hands of pretty active people generally, for obvious reasons, and pretty healthy ones too.
But yeah, the Presidency does tend to end up in the hands of pretty active people generally, for obvious reasons, and pretty healthy ones too.
I dunno. Of the last few presidents there's Reagan (Alzheimer's), Eisenhower (strokes and heart attacks), Kennedy (Addison's and all sorts of other stuff), and Johnson (who didn't run in 1968 in part for health reasons, and in fact died not long afterwards). They don't come across as unusually healthy.
But I'm guessing Reagan (and probably the others with the exception of JFK) were relatively healthy when they ran for office. Once they're there the Presidency is awful enough to people (see, before and after photos of US presidents - even Bush who famously spent about a third of his presidency on vacation) that any existing potential health problems tend to come out something fierce.
"Healthy" might be misleading. Especially these days, you have to be very vigorous to run; it's just incredibly grueling.
FDR seems a pretty obvious exception to the "rule".
William Henry Harrison - there's a President who had some health problems.
He really wasn't sick for very long.
"Healthy" might be misleading.
I count on that.
How TH can any 69-year-old say he's more healthy than all of the people 20 years younger than him who won presidential elections? Even this has turned into a laughable spectacle.
Even this has turned into a laughable spectacle.
Ezra Klein: Why Trump's ridiculous doctor's note actually matters
It's in light of this argument that things like this doctor's note are worrying. If Trump has seriously entrusted his health to a clown who would write a note like this, what does that say about the kinds of people he surrounds himself with? What does it say about his willingness to have people in his inner circle who tell him things he doesn't want to hear, and who modulate his worst impulses?
Trump's campaign is an embarrassment. His policy proposals are a joke. The saving grace of his candidacy has been the suspicion that he's playing a deeper game -- that the offensiveness is calculated, that the proposals aren't serious, that the Donald is more than he appears. But maybe he's not.
Was there ever any actual evidence that there is more to Trump than there appears, or was it always just wishful thinking?
Are we still talking about his hairpiece?
The doctor is Trump in a Halloween glasses-and-mustache set.
OT: Does svchhost.exe do anything important in Windows? It was using 75% of my CPU so I killed it. Now the screen looks funny.
If Trump starts winning elections, I'm considering approaching my boss with my concern that his identical pronunciation of "huge" is going to be perceived in a new way.
25 is probably true given everything I've read about Trump but I don't know how far this supports it: it's at least as true (certainly given his career) that he's very willing to have people in his inner circle who tell other people what he wants them to hear.
But yeah, the idea that Trump is running some kind of double reverse campaign was a little sketchy a few months ago (since he was blatantly racist beforehand), and isn't something I find remotely compelling now. Also, calling back to an earlier discussion, we're now seeing "regular protester disruptions followed by Trump-encouraged violence" stuff at his rallies, which isn't really very encouraging.
26: Not that I could tell. I think it was just another wishful thinking line, along with "he'll say something offensive and then everyone will stop supporting him and he'll disappear" and "he looks impressive in polling but what actually matters is ground game and he's too ignorant/arrogant/unserious to realize that and doesn't have anything set up so he'll just disappear when the actual voting starts".
OT: Does svchhost.exe do anything important in Windows? It was using 75% of my CPU so I killed it. Now the screen looks funny.
It depends. Lots of legitimate services use svchost.exe. It can also be malware trying to disguise itself. Restart and see what happens.
Did Ezra suspect Trump was playing a deeper game? Does he know anyone who did? I find this inconceivable.
34: It went away. I think SAS 9.4 is giving me problems so I switched back to 9.2. Which I liked better anyway.
Can someone fill me in on the "huge" jokes going around in this context? Did I miss something?
Trump often boasts by saying that something of his is huge, I think, and pronounces it funny?
I think it predates his campaign generally, though, and when he started out people immediately started using it. (Maybe it was in The Apprentice or something?)
37 was me. Ah like "yooge" or "yooj"?
And thanks.
I'm not sure if he repeats it as much as some things though.
I love this video.