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Just watching Biden

Aug 7, 2019 11:57AM PDT

He is way better at speechifying than DJT.

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You might be right for a change
Aug 7, 2019 2:36PM PDT

speechifying

NOUN
derogatory
the making of speeches, especially in a tedious or pompous way.
"the after-dinner speechifying begins"

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Biden is
Aug 7, 2019 6:19PM PDT
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Craziness?
Aug 7, 2019 6:47PM PDT

Like "hair sniffing" and "shoulder squeezing people"? Or as "Handy Joe" as the women call him, LOL.

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BUT, did Joe call it Craziness
Aug 7, 2019 7:19PM PDT

when someone else did it?

Of course DJT did declare himself a stable genius AND great looking.

Post was last edited on August 7, 2019 8:31 PM PDT

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I don't care if it's PC or not.
Aug 8, 2019 2:36AM PDT

The guy is ORANGE.
Noticed it during campaigning, when no one was as yet authorized to mock him.

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RE:The guy is ORANGE
Aug 8, 2019 3:46AM PDT

It is kinda' strange that he has white rings around his eyes.

That leads me to believe that, he or someone else, is putting "the colour" in his face.

I've never met anyone that wanted an "orange face"....I have heard of children that were known affectionately as "Pumpkin". I wonder if DJT could have been one of them.

IF a person with an orange face went back to where they came from....where would they go?

Let me do some diagnosing.....

Carotenosis is due to an excess of dietary carotenoids and results in orange discoloration of the outermost skin layer. This is a benign and reversible condition – which is most easily observed in light-skinned people and may be mistaken for jaundice. ... Carotenemia most commonly occurs in vegetarians and young children.

Too many carrots? I'm fairly certain he's not a vegetarian

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The original tanning products used the same
Aug 8, 2019 6:53AM PDT

chemical that makes a cut apple turn brown when exposed to air. Orangeness and other colorness has always been a risk for some. The white rings are of course a tipoff.
"Vanity, thy name is celebrity."
What is she, 30 years younger? And a natural beauty. Hard to keep up with.

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The white rings under eyes....there's an app for that
Aug 8, 2019 7:26AM PDT

a Lone Ranger mask?

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It may be he uses a tanning bed -
Aug 8, 2019 1:25PM PDT

the white or untanned skin around his eyes is (perhaps) from the goggles worn to protect eyes from UV light.

Shrug. The man is vain, I suppose, and may want the appearance of a "healthy tan" people used to equate with youth and robustness. Nowadays as in times past an alabaster-like tone is vaunted for movie stars ( at least white females! ). Trump could improve his image by going on a diet, but maybe that's "too much to ask for" from our glorious leader...

Rick " Fat shamer, yessiree! " Jones { I'm pudgy too, so I can do it, right? :^) }

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Diet....yup
Aug 8, 2019 3:13PM PDT

Shrink his fat head so he did not think he was right all the time.

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Tanning bed is also a good guess.
Aug 8, 2019 3:16PM PDT

Not at all a mocking comment: I've been told by bipolar types that the meds can add weight, so you're excused. Happy Take 'em anyway.
That bears on my 'miserable' posts. Remember the proverbial phrase? You can never be too thin or too rich. And celebs are mostly convinced they aren't there yet.
Dickens' character in Pickwick Papers had a good philosophy. 'Income £100, expenses £99, the result is happiness. Income £100, expenses £101 the result is misery.'
Also, the Russian tale that asks and answers the question, How much land does a man need?
Answer next episode. Keep those cards and letters coming, folks.

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Yes they do -
Aug 8, 2019 4:32PM PDT

The stuff I take messes with the "circuitry" in the brain that controls satiety. So while I take it before bedtime, and it generally makes me sleepy, if I happen to be awake when it "kicks in" and am already a little hungry - I have to watch myself on snacks as it tends to make me eat more. I sometimes take a half-pill "booster" during the day if I feel a spike coming on, and even though it's a half-dose have to again watch my portions. End result is it's hard to _not_ be a little (or more!) overweight. I'm 6' 1''
tall and according to the BMI scale should be around 200 or so. In the past I got close to 260 - that was when I first started my med regimen. But I was already overweight from beer drinking (and bingeing on weekends). Now that I drink infrequently ( and hardly ever actually get drunk ) and exercise more, I'm at 230 - still overweight but getting closer to a healthy weight. I'm shooting for 210 or 200.

Celebrities - yes, I'm often shocked at how thin some female ( and male ) actors will get when they get older, say their forties or fifties. Holly Hunter is an example - she used to be small, thinnish but curvy, and now is perhaps more muscular and scrawny ( to my eyes) than I think is, well, feminine. She looks almost starved, to me, but I suppose she feels it necessary. Even gymnasts have more flesh! Anyway, none of my business, really, just making an observation...

Rick

If

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She was in The Piano, an excellent film.
Aug 8, 2019 7:02PM PDT

She and the girl won Oscars.

I just searched, and the first pic up shows what you said. The upper arms are the key. Too bad.

Q. How much land?
A. Six feet, from his head to his heels.
Leo Tolstoy

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Like St Paul?
Aug 8, 2019 3:20PM PDT

2Cor 10:10.
Don't let Orangeman see this. He'll go off and sulk.