#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.

[actualrealnews]

"Now we have to start all over again. Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe," he said in a post Sunday night

Trump is whining about the difficulties of pivoting to attacking a new candidate

[skywastherobot]

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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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[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.

[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…

[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.

[elizaisthetruehero]

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

[mintmidi]

Dear, wanna be joker, no shit liberals are complicit in everything but at least Democrats have a brain cell to be open about changing ideas. This type of thinking is the reason why we can’t get anything done, and the internet is so big that it makes it seem like it’s okay.

Trump is a senile old man that yells at clouds, but his friends? His team that sit in every cabinet, chair, and Supreme Court? They don’t yell at clouds, and friends tend to think alike

is it naive to think maybe a Trump second term won't be so bad? like is there any vision of the next four years and beyond where maybe things are okay

I do think that a lot of what he says is transparently fleeting bullshit he's not going to follow through on, doesn't believe in, and is only saying to get praise from his base, and that's been demonstrated many many times over the years. Like, he never started throwing people into prisons for burning the American flag or whatever. I don't want to minimize the horrors of what he has done in this country and what he could very well do, but I think the mainstream liberal narrative on Trump is to amplify the hell out of every out of pocket thing he says and does and to mine it for as much outrage and fear as possible while downplaying the numerous terrifying things that have already been happening all around the country under state-level Republican leadership, and ignoring just how much Dems are complicit in all of it. Like, will libs start complaining about kids in cages at the border again?? even though the cages never left, and Biden deported more people than Trump did??

The take away for me isn't necessarily that "things under Trump won't be *that bad*" but that things have already been exactly as bad as the Democratic Party has framed life under Trump to be. A lot of liberals exist in a permanent state of willful denial about the evils of this empire and Trump forces them out of pretending things aren't happening that already are, but they focus all the blame for it on him.

[vsthepomegranate]

Okay, Bobcat doesn’t name check him here but this this is obviously about Chappelle. And he’s 100% right.

But “80′s shock jock” isn’t the obvious analogy, Trump is.

Chappelle is 1) attacking a vulnerable community out of nowhere 2) acting like he’s the one under attack when people object 3) rallying his base around his “victimization” 4) getting paid.

I’m not queer, gay or trans, so I’ll leave describing the real world impact of his words to folks in those communities, but as a person of color I fully acknowledge the provable link between speech targeting minorities and actual violence against us. I’ve seen the violence against my own community and experienced it first hand. But even if you haven’t, it should be obvious if you’ve watched the news as Trump’s rhetoric feeds a sharp rise in hate crimes across minority communities. And yes, that is exactly what Chappelle is doing. I don’t need the jokes explained to me-- it’s perfectly obvious what he’s saying and why. It’s stand-up comedy, not Heidegger.

Besides, Chappelle has always tried to blame audiences for not understanding his comedy. Like at the peak of his influence when he figured out that his repertoire of dusty crackheads et al. earned him an audience of white guys laughing at him, not with him. He literally ran away when he realized the huge disconnect between what he thought he was doing and what he was actually doing... But he kept that $, though. :) How’s he gonna react in a couple years when he looks up and realizes that the people cheering for him are fucking awful... again? What country will he flee to then?

Man, listen. I literally laughed when I read that Chappelle refuses to be “cancelled” because, uh, the calendar already took care of that. Nobody was checking for Dave Chappelle except in a nostalgic, “i loved that t-shirt, I wish I still had it!” way. The fact that he got all that $ from Netflix is proof that he’s a legacy act now--  like the Rolling Stones, who sell out arenas while they do a youth-drag version of their hits. Crowds cheer, but they aren’t important anymore. So Chappelle’s barbershop Trump act bought him a couple headlines when he was well past relevant. Okay then, I just hope he doesn’t get anybody killed. (But you know “I’M TEAM TERF, BITCH!” is gonna be weaponized against anyone whose gender isn’t immediately understandable to the crowd. if it isn’t already.) Meanwhile, Chappelle will stay getting paid while dummies defend him on the internet. It’s cringe as hell and waaay too many of you are falling for it.

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