#old man trump yells at clouds

[isawthismeme]

Always the same story with him, if he doesn’t win, it was rigged against him, as opposed to Republicans rigging everything for him! No neutral playing field in his mind.

[clothedinblack]

not even saying this in an individuality complex sort of way but mainstream culture in the US is so poison right now. pop culture has been shoving hyperfemininity down everyone's throats for a year or so which i'm finding more and more alienating as a woman who has decided i don't want to actively perform femininity most of the time. the political climate is increasingly dysfunctional. the leading presidential candidate has a laundry list of positions and statements that should have made him unelectable in the eyes of voters, yet an enormous chunk of the electorate doesn't seem to mind. meanwhile, for the first time in history, a woc has a real shot at winning the presidency, and her supporters and campaign team have memeified her and turned her into a caricature. even the people on her side don't seem to take her seriously as a politician, which is disheartening to me as a woc myself. people are polarized. the middle class is shrinking. fast fashion is ubiquitous. every single book and youtube video seems to be about productivity and self improvement, which are valuable pursuits, but entertainment media feels completely oversaturated with content from the self-help genre. the death of third spaces. the manosphere and the popularity of misogynistic male podcasters. the death of subcultures, and the resulting tendency for young people to seek community by defining themselves with identity stereotypes. and it's hard not to notice how advertising is getting more invasive on every social media platform. and how a lot of our celebrities have a similar look, establishing features that are uncommon without cosmetic procedures as the beauty standard. i feel like i'm swimming against the tide just by existing as myself and not subscribing to the parts of the political and social climate that i don't fw. it's exhausting.

[skywastherobot]

Rich white men, beware – Twitter is coming to get you!

DOUGLAS IS CANCELLED is a new four-part miniseries written by Steven Moffat for ITV. The show follows Douglas Bellows (Hugh Bonneville), a widely respected news anchor who is ‘cancelled’ after making an inappropriate joke at a wedding. Douglas attempts to reassemble the tattered remnants of his life with the help of co-anchor Madeline (Karen Gillian), his wife Shelia (Alex Kingston) and his producer Toby (Ben Miles).

Sam and Natalia watch and review DOUGLAS IS CANCELLED. Topics of conversation include cancel culture, ‘73 Yards’, disgraced celebrities, Eamonn Holmes, Donald Trump’s obsession with Kristen Stewart, “Old Man Yells at Cloud”, Jeremy Hunt, the definition of ‘woke’, and Steven Moffat’s writing career, from PRESS GANG to JEKYLL; SHERLOCK to DOCTOR WHO; COUPLING to THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE.

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(Disclaimer: Given the nature of the programme we’re reviewing, this episode of the MY GIRLFRIEND AND DOCTOR WHO podcast features potentially distressing themes.)

[firedragon1321]

I Think If These Two Memes Returned, the World Would be a Better Place

[gyoza-man]

[traggalicious]

HELP the guy on ABC news literally compared trump to “old man yells at cloud”

[mariacallous]

I think on the Harris/Walz surge, I think people were ready to turn the page in 2020, or rather 2019, which is why so much interest in new faces in that primary, but I think Covid (in part) derailed that, and it became "please god, some stability!" Biden was stable and also boring. Harris feels like a new thing, and of course as a woman, and a woman of color running for President she is a new thing on that alone

plus the no facts only vibes culture has often painted the problem as "two old men fighting about stuff that doesn't matter" which is stupid and wrong but also the zeitgeist for many people, she's clearly not an old man, leaving Trump as the only "old man yelling at cloud" in the national imagination

yeah

[tonyglowheart]

WALZ CALLED TRUMP OLD MAN YELLING AT CLOUDS LMAO. A man for the people

[thegreatobsesso]

American friends:

Please go out and vote tomorrow! Think of it as a sacred duty, or think of it as a silly obligation. Whatever gets you to the polls.

If we all get out and vote, Donald Trump will fade away into the grandpa Simpson "old man yells at cloud" meme. Doesn't that sound exquisite? Don't you just want to be able to turn on the news and taste his salty loser tears?

I've made my sincere, grave, issues-related post already. This post is asking you if you want to send him a message telling him he is rancid, inflated, useless and inconsequential.

Tell him he's a fucking loser.

Doesn't that appeal? Doesn't it sound so, so sweet?

If the answer is yes, get out and vote blue. 🇺🇸 🤘

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Markos Moulitsas (kos) at Daily Kos:

Feels like a lifetime but it was just last week when I last checked in on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and it was a bit of a mess.  Thankfully, things don’t look any better for them now.  President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid on July 21, and even though two and half weeks have passed, Donald Trump refuses to accept the reality that he will now face Vice President Kamala Harris in November. Instead, Trump’s clinging to bizarre fantasies like this one:  “What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden … CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE,” he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

While everyone else has moved on, Trump can’t let go, whining to everyone who’ll listen. “It’s unfair that I beat [Biden] and now I have to beat her, too,” Trump groused in a phone call to an ally last weekend, according to The Washington Post.  Every day that he’s mentally battling Biden is a day he’s not focused on running against the real Democratic nominee. And it shows in his most recent efforts to attack Harris, including calling her “Kamabla” for some reason. “Kamabla” is—what? Is it supposed to sound foreign and scary, like the way he writes “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”? The last thing Trump should want to do is remind a major swing demographic—suburban college-educated white women—of his racism and sexism, and yet he’s going all-in on both. 

But really, everything about Trump now seems old and tired. He looks old and tired, and he sounds old and tired. He’s basically just an old man yelling at a cloud now. His insults, once effective, lack punch. He can’t even manage to hit the campaign trail much these days. In the six weeks since his infamous June 27 debate with Biden, Trump has held just eight campaign rallies, not including the Republican National Convention, according to The Washington Post. Those rallies include ones held in Florida, Minnesota, and Virginia—none of the most important battleground states. At best, he’s held just five electorally significant rallies in six weeks. And he’s got only one rally scheduled for the week ahead—in Montana, which he won in 2020 by 16 percentage points. So, not a battleground.

[...]

Over the past several cycles, Democrats have refined their get-out-the-vote game. And while there is always room to grow—young voters don’t turn out at high enough rates, for one—Democrats have a well-oiled machine, a collaboration between the party and key advocacy groups to maximize effectiveness.  Republicans, on the other hand … it’s always been a bit of a mess. Some of you may remember Project ORCA from 2012, and how this tech-heavy GOTV effort collapsed on Election Day. Still, they haven’t needed GOTV programs as much. They largely rely on older, whiter voters, who are among the most likely to turn out. And Republican voter-suppression efforts have always made it much harder to vote in urban areas, with nefarious officials doing things like closing polling places and limiting ballot drop boxes. But Trump takes Republicans’ GOTV dysfunction to new levels. For instance, after he installed his preferred leaders at the Republican National Committee earlier this year, they slashed staffers … including much of their planned GOTV operation. 

Trump is still angry that he’s no longer facing Biden, and has had a hard time adjusting to that fact.

[l2bbocsstuff]

From: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2024

Donald Trump is going to the Super Bowl. Not because he cares about football, or even understands it beyond “big men smash into each other,” but because he simply cannot bear to be left out of something important. This is a man who would crash a child’s birthday party just to cut the cake himself and then complain that the kid didn’t thank him enough.

And this Super Bowl? Oh, it’s extra personal.

The Kansas City Chiefs are playing against the Philadelphia Eagles—a team Trump has loathed ever since they collectively shrugged at his White House invitation after their 2018 Super Bowl win. To make matters worse, Taylor Swift will be there too, shining like the goddamn North Star in a stadium full of people who actually like her. Which is more than can be said for Trump, whose biggest fans show up either under court order or because they got lost looking for the Monster Truck rally.

Trump hates Taylor Swift. Not just because she endorsed Kamala Harris, but because she is everything he wants to be: beloved, wildly successful, and actually good at what she does. She has the power to sway elections just by existing—whereas Trump has to scream into a golden toilet at 3 a.m. to even get Fox News to notice him anymore.

And now, he has to sit there, rotting in his own bitterness, while the cameras pan to Taylor every time Travis Kelce does something cool on the field. He’ll be trapped in his luxury suite like a bloated orange Dracula, forced to watch as America showers attention on someone who didn’t have to pay hush money to get there.

Let’s talk about the Eagles.

Philadelphia is the one city in America that hates Trump more than New York. They booed Santa Claus. They threw batteries at a guy dressed as the Easter Bunny. If Trump so much as steps within city limits, the Liberty Bell itself will crack even further out of sheer disgust. He disinvited the Eagles from the White House in 2018, pretending it was his choice, but the reality was clear: they were never going to show up to begin with. That level of rejection still haunts him. And now, if the Eagles win, he’ll have to sit through another moment of their triumph, looking like a guy who just got his golf course repossessed.

But if the Chiefs win? Oh, buddy. That means Swift—his sworn mortal enemy, the woman who has everything he desperately wants—will be front and center in the biggest celebration of the year. And Trump will be left watching, powerless, as she hugs Kelce, laughs, and reminds America why she’s an actual icon while he’s just some old man yelling at clouds.

There is no outcome where Trump walks away from this night happy. If the Eagles win, he’ll melt down about how the NFL is rigged against him, as if Roger Goodell personally kneecapped Patrick Mahomes. If the Chiefs win, he’ll have to pretend Taylor Swift doesn’t exist, while America collectively watches her dance in the skybox like the deity she is. Either way, he will spend the night drowning in his own irrelevance.

By the time he’s back on Truth Social, the meltdown will be historic. He’ll claim the refs were in on it. He’ll accuse Swift of being a deep-state plant. He’ll insist the cheers were actually for him, and that the “fake news” just edited the footage.

But none of it will matter.

Because when the confetti falls, the cameras will be on Taylor. On the Eagles. On Mahomes. On literally anyone but him.

And that, more than anything else, is Trump’s worst nightmare: a world that moves on without him.

[clothedinblack]

It is INSANE to me how yall (referring to the media and a large swath of mainstream public opinion, not my beautiful mutuals) are blaming Jill Biden for Joe's disastrous debate last week and his ongoing candidacy. First of all, for all we know, she could be urging him to drop out behind closed doors, but of course they have to put up a united front publicly even if they're having those conversations in private. Secondly, when has the media ever given a First Lady credit when the President does something good? Or is acknowledging the First Lady's relevance only reserved for when something goes wrong? It's amazing how many people are putting this all on her rather than Joe himself and his entire campaign team.

[thedadsmad]

The Strategic Crypto Reserve: A Future Without Limits

I’ve seen a lot in my lifetime. Wars, recessions, moon landings, the internet, dot-com bubbles, collapses, rebuilds, booms, busts. I’ve seen men go from arguing in the town square to screaming into tiny glass screens about the same damn things.

I remember when people scoffed at the internet. Said it was a fad, said it would never replace newspapers, never replace stores, never replace money. But now we’ve got entire lives lived through a phone, fortunes made and lost in milliseconds, and nobody even carries cash anymore.

And now? Now I’m seeing something new.

This Strategic Crypto Reserve—whether you like it or not—marks the start of something different. Governments don’t make moves like this unless they know what’s coming. And what’s coming is bigger than they can control.

It reminds me of when the gold standard got the axe. Suddenly, the world opened up, and fiat money ruled everything.For a while, people thought it was fine. The US dollar became the world’s currency, and everyone went along with it. But underneath it all, inflation chipped away at everything. The money didn’t mean what it used to.

And now we’re watching something just as big. The moment traditional finance realizes it’s already lost.

Because if a country is hoarding Bitcoin and altcoins, that’s not a sign that crypto is going away—it’s a sign that the guardrails are off. Governments don’t stockpile something they think is worthless. They don’t build reserves of an asset they expect to disappear. This isn’t a passing trend, it’s the first real admission that the system we’ve all been living under is shifting.

Now, here’s the part that gets me.

This isn’t just about Bitcoin. If it was, we’d be having a different conversation. But the fact that altcoins are in the mix? The fact that they’re making a Strategic Crypto Reserve instead of just a Bitcoin Reserve? That means the game isn’t just changing—it means the rules are being rewritten.

When Trump launched coins on Solana, people laughed. They said it was a joke, just a gimmick. But I don’t think he was joking at all. I think he was testing something. I think he was running a live experiment in front of our eyes. He wanted to see how quickly people would jump in, how fast the money would move, how deep the pockets really were. And he got his answer: Crypto moves faster than anything the financial world has ever seen.

Now he’s setting up a reserve, and suddenly everyone’s paying attention.

The future holds no limits, no bounds.

I’ve lived long enough to know that when change comes, it doesn’t come slow. It happens all at once. One day, it’s something people laugh at. The next, it’s something they can’t live without.

And this? This is one of those moments.

Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at the clouds, but mark my words: We are headed for a world where code replaces kings, and consensus replaces control. The ones who see it now will be the ones who shape it later.

DadsMad is already ahead of the curve. Keep up.

[gcmyers]

Old Man Yells at Cloud

I was going to put this out there without any context.  You most likely will not need it if you watched last night’s debate. Wow. From the opening seconds when she marched across the stage into trump’s space to shake his hand, Kamala Harris was in control, making the ex-president*** look old, weak, stupid, bitterly angry, rattled, and out of control. Certainly not presidential. To me, he seemed…

[elizaisthetruehero]

And Tim Walz just called Trump an unhinged old man yelling at clouds!

[x-queen-of-disaster-x]

Donald Trump's Twitter summed up in one nifty image: