Trump about to speak at Virginia Beach. I think I saw a teleprompter.

[Gabi Hayes]

Does that mean he won't be as fun as he was in Cincinnati?

[Gabi Hayes]

1. that third clip is a classic example of pre-senile dementia in action: total free-association,

some slurred speech, non-sequitur upon non-sequitur, delusional ravings (''fox news is tough on me!'')

Please, Donald, step aWAY from the teleprompter!

[Gabi Hayes]

2. CNN discussing the prelude to the speech right now.

Karl Rove dance partner David Gregory just praised his brief statement on the Dallas situation of a few days ago.

now on to the other bobbleheads discussing potential Veep choices.

[Zambero]

3. A Teleprompter ?!?

Does Sean Hannity know about this?

[liberalmuse]

4. The teleprompter is useless...

without a shock collar.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. heeaaaaghhhh! I just googled trump shock collar, but nothing there yet.

one can always hope

there is this, though:

[Gabi Hayes]

5. He's ON! starting out with, to police: ''we thank you, from the bottom of our heart,

and we will always, always, always, be with you."

even when they slaughter innocent people?

applause is much dying down, after initial sustained wave at beginning

he seems to have taken his thorazine today....much more reserved. hope he starts jazzing it up

very small room. you can tell by the sparse sound of the applause

[riversedge]

6. Trump: I am the Law and Order candidate. Then hits on Hillary with his usual vile adjectives

[Gabi Hayes]

8. doesn't he look sedated?

and what about those pink eyes?, with the distended lids?

what's up with that? it must be showing up on your TV, or am I hallucinating?

[riversedge]

20. Sorry, but I had to leave and just now tuned in again. I had not noticed

any pink eyes though. He was much more subdued.

[Gabi Hayes]

23. I saw it on fox, msnbc, cnn and, especially cspan 3, or whatever it was. that had a closer-in shot.

it was very obvious to me. and the lids were distended, or crumpled, or something. never seen anything like it.

maybe the neurosyphilis stage from his Vietnam war VD phase is starting to set in, just as it did on poor Charlie Chaplin's mom.

he reminds me of the way she was portrayed in a recent PBS documentary

[Gabi Hayes]

7. I am...the law and order candidate!

Hillary is either a LIAR, or grossly incompetent.

he really does looked seriously downed out. something VERY weird going on with his eyelids! looks like very light pink rouge or something going on.

turning off the sound and watching his eyelids now. wait and see if anybody else comments on them

[malaise]

9. I love the way his goons ignored his comments

on the two African-Americans murdered by cops last week.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. actually, one of the bobble heads did bring that up. gregory himself dinged him for

his absolutism in defense of all cops, all the time.

yeah, that bastard Amadou Diallo should have WATCHED his STEP; maybe they'd only have had to shoot him twenty or thirty times, instead of 41.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. CNN cuts away, while the rambling goes on at MSNBC

Nia-Malika Henderson brings back the image of Nixon (law and order candidate)

Gregory says Obama and Hillary agree with him on the Dallas killings.....
DUH! he's actually nailing Trump for his lack of nuance, for his absolute support of police under any circumstances. good for you, Stretch. wonder what your dance partner thinks of your apostasy.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. On fox now, both cnn and msnbc are gone. talking about mental health/VA issues.

HAAAAAA, when will he talk about his own need of acute anti-psychotic intervention

and, again, the EYES! what the hell is going on there?

I hope somebody takes note.

now, even Fox is cutting away

I'm surprised all three are ditching him. is it because he's not as much fun as he was in Cincinnati, or they're starting to realize he's not very relevant anymore, and what he says is vapidity to the x, leavened only by serial mendacity?

[Gabi Hayes]

14. yay!!!! he's on Cspan 2.

''Hillary Clinton will never be able to do it (clean up VA health care)''....to sparse applause.

he's starting to slowly rev up. you GO, Donald!

''she (hillary) helped to create the....(skip, unaccountable) last week.''

now he's raving about the email scandal, totally mischaracterizing the situation

''her conduct was willfull, intentional, and unlawful''....."she was probably the most surprised person that she was able to get away with it"

claims she wasn't under oath during FBI interrogation. hey, idiot, it doesn't MATTER whether she was under oath. ask Martha Stewart, you idiot

[Gabi Hayes]

15. hahahaha....the applause is very paltry

and the cspan picture is much larger

the EYES are amazingly pink and the lids are scrabbly

finally some applause when he says she's NOT above the law

[Gabi Hayes]

16. he's Done! about 25 seconds of very unenthusiastic applause, dying out to nothing

as he made his way out, not acknowledging anyone

then the Cspan voice guy cites a recent RASSUMUSSEN poll showing him ahead in VA by 2 points, then mentioning that other polls have him ahead, not mentioning margins

[Gabi Hayes]

17. VERY disappointing. no ranting, no raving. he really did seem to be under the

influence of some sort of downer. wonder if he still has some of his Sopors from the 70s. bet he still has a cache of those, or has his own manufacturer

this sad display doesn't hold a candle to Cincinnati. that, for me, was the gold standard, but I haven't watched much of his fulminations. I'll just go back to stuff like this, after the fact:

dems need to find the clips this vine comp came from and use a whole bunch of them in expanded context. some great bits showing how completely unstable this maniac is.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. the EYES! what's going on with the eyes? not this bad, but.....

?1386651393

Trump's pink lids look like some leaf cutter bug was working on them

please, bobbleheads, somebody mention his EYES.

[madokie]

19. More like a grunt and a fart

both ends are busy spewing shit

[spanone]

21. he sounds like a third grade student reading when he 'telepromts'

[Gabi Hayes]

22. I only saw one, which was off to his left. he didn't seem to be reading from it.

I could be wrong on that, but he didn't look over to the left very much at all, from what I noticed, and I was paying attention to that.

what did seem pretty noticeable was his overmodulated speech, slower than normal, with occasional hesitation/slurring. very little animation, almost no fire. I really think he was nodding a bit. lord knows what anti-crazy cocktail they have him on. they must've upped the dose today. watch for titration effects over the next few days, while they try to get it right.

and, those eyes...did you notice them, and the pink LIDS?

[Gabi Hayes]

24. this isn't funny anymore. msnbc, way more than CNN, is playing clips of this to nail Hillary.

I started a thread on Kornacki's touting a new poll that shows her tanking in the distrust numbers, and emphasizing how BAD they are.

not a word about the specious nature of the investigations, or the BS manner in which Comey presented his inaccurate findings

what liberal media?

ask Eric Alterman. is he dead, or something?

[womanofthehills]

25. He actually looked depressed to me

drugged and depressed - probably angry because they made him use a teleprompter. Seems like he read every word he said - even the last sentence.

[Gabi Hayes]

26. too much lithium, perhaps. I mentioned titration problems earlier

my mom had bi polar....while I don't think he has that, he clearly looked strange today, definitely his eyes....pink, puffy, and ragged at the lids

not one mention of this by anybody on tv

DEMS, are you listening? put it out there NOW. is he being over/undermedicated? make him aDDRESS his psychopharmalogical difficulties. time for an Eagleton on the other side of the aisle

has any candidate since Nixon ever been so obviously mental?

start HITTING that nail HARD, Hillary and company

hire ME!