Mike Luckovich for November 10, 2019

“The Art of the Bluff.”

“Only dang ol’ ee-lee-tists know how t’ read! Ignorance is strength!!”

Are the people behind Trump, as seen in news clips of his rallies, specially chosen? Is there an image of his supporters that his staff want to project by selecting appealing faces? Forgive me if I’m wrong, but non-White faces are almost always there, and I wonder if those are statistically representative of ones in the crowd as a whole.

The crowd that turned up at the 5th game of the World Series and chanted “lock him up” when his image flashed across the TV screen was the best cross-section of America one could find.

Read?

“I don’t know. They just promised me $50 if I stood here and kept quiet.”

And we haven’t seen a real “transcript” yet.

What’s “Read?”

Not a transcript. Funny thing is, even with all the details they left out of it, they still managed to turn it into a confession.

Yeah, telling his followers to read. funny.

The orange buffoon doesn’t understand that what he refers to as “a perfect phone call” CLEARLY shows him to be guilty! The density of his little brain is astounding!

Considering on how his track record is for not paying for stuff after he leaves the town where the rally was, do you think he asks for the shirts back to use for the next rally?

Good representation of the Republican member of the U.S. Senate behind the president.

Maybe the creepy orange liar in the White House will release the real transcripts from the secret server. He made these deals with other countries, not just Ukraine. Don’t count on Trump ever showing any real evidence of his lying claims.

Mike, if you draw those hands any smaller, they’ll be pencil points.

Conservative icon George Will said the following (I’m paraphrasing a bit) about Trump himself, yet it applies even better to the victims of his con artistry: “The problem with Trump voters is not that they don’t know things. Nor even that they don’t know what they don’t know. The problem is that they do not know what it is to know things.”

From page one of what Donald calls a “transcript.”

CAUTION: A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation.· (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. The text in this document records the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty "Officers and-NSC policy staff assigned to listen.and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place. A number of factors can affect ’the accuracy of the record, including poor telecommunications connections and variations in accent and/or interpretation. The word “inaudible” is used to indicate portions of a conversation that the notetaker was unable to hear.

… I don’t know which rally specifically, but I remember seeing a young women, behind Trump, shaking her head in disagreement, and within minuets, she was replaced….

It’s a hysterical record!

Read the Mueller Report!!

Many have Tried, but there Is No Transcript.

One out of three Trump supporters are just as stupid as the other two.

Obviously the people who wore those shirts hadn’t.

Release the transcript instead of the memo. Note the memo says " not a verbatim transcript of a discussion."

Don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but all the “stand behinders” are chosen for that job. I’ve worked in Democratic campaigns, and when you show up, you tell the guy in the vest that you are one of the people who got an email asking you to stand behind the candidate, and he checks you off the list. It’s considered an honor, and the other volunteers are usually a bit jealous of the person who gets to do it. When Obama was inaugurated, I got a ticket that allowed me to be in that position. I wasn’t able to go to DC, so I gave it to another volunteer. He drove all the way to DC from Saint Louis, only to be told that the number on the ticket was registered in my name and unless he had ID that proved that he was me, it was worthless. A rally is a show- designed to encourage people to vote for the candidate. Having people behind the candidate is part of the show, and organizers do their best to make sure the show is achieving its’ purpose by choosing those who they believe will best contribute to that objective.

His rural Mississippi rally!

The question that “base supporter” just asked is typical of their mentality.

Shouldn’t the ones with the Pig Noses also be wearing Lipstick?

Or was having all of them wearing Rouge on their cheeks enough?