Althouse: "I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said: 'Is he crazy or is that just the way he acts?'... Study it. I'm sure you'll agree."

March 14, 2019

"I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said: 'Is he crazy or is that just the way he acts?'... Study it. I'm sure you'll agree."

Said Trump, apparently trying to get us to see crazy when we look at Beto O'Rourke.

Here you are:

Study it.

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Inga...Allie Oop said...: It’s pretty crazy to be calling someone crazy who uses his hands as much as you do. And he doesn’t look effeminate doing it. When he does that thing where he puts his thumb to his forefinger, very delicate.; 3/14/19, 9:02 PM
jussendavis said...: I guess the subject was the hands, not the content, but there were many many words and not a thought that stood out. I wondered what a President, any President, could possibly do about all those things he talked about.; 3/14/19, 9:02 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "When he does that thing where he puts his thumb to his forefinger, very delicate."

Teetotalers do that.

Drunk drivers have choppy, spasmatic hand motions.

Just sayin'; 3/14/19, 9:05 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Democrats could run a dog against Trump and win. Trump has done himself in, no one harmed him worse than he harmed himself. In the House not one Republican voted against making Mueller report public, not one. Plus in the Senate his fake Emergency fell flat.; 3/14/19, 9:06 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Trump has made some crazy looking hand motions, I’m pretty sure someone will put together a compilation.; 3/14/19, 9:09 PM
Known Unknown said...: "Trump has made some crazy looking hand motions, I’m pretty sure someone will put together a compilation."

You've never seen Life Accordion to Trump? .

Funny stuff.; 3/14/19, 9:15 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SIR:This is a link.; 3/14/19, 9:16 PM
Browndog said...: Somebody needs attention.; 3/14/19, 9:18 PM
mccullough said...: Trump will be a formidable opponent again. It’s good the GOP Congress is taking sides against him about the border. Trump ran against the GOP last time and won. Mitt Romney makes a useful punching bag for Trump. Mitt has signed up for that role again.

Beto needs to up his game. Out of that lackluster field he has the best chance against Trump. He’s young, married, and has multiple kids.

He’s also a white guy.; 3/14/19, 9:18 PM
Wince said...: That smile Beto's wife has for about the first 10 seconds reminds me of a ventriloquist's smile.; 3/14/19, 9:19 PM
Known Unknown said...: A lot of guys outkick their coverage. Robert settled for money.; 3/14/19, 9:22 PM
mccullough said...: Beto is the only one who has kicked off his campaign with his spouse. That was a smart move.

I have no idea who Warren, Kamala, Gillibrand, or Klobuchar’s hen-pecked husbands are. They must be total liabilities.

Bernie Sanders wife is a crackpot hippie like him.

Booker is a gay bachelor.

Beto has a nice-looking wife and three younger kids.; 3/14/19, 9:22 PM
rcocean said...: "Beto isn't right for the role of President, but maybe as the President's best friend and comic sidekick."

Jack for President. Beto for AG and little brother.; 3/14/19, 9:27 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Don't forget the other side.

Pence is a chubby chaser.; 3/14/19, 9:28 PM
Drago said...: adSs: "I prefer to study how regulars here fall for bait re gettin' ta call a lib mentally ill."

Kurt Eichenwald-Tentacle Porn fan sez wut?; 3/14/19, 9:28 PM
Drago said...: Inga: "Democrats could run a dog against Trump and win."

Alex, I'll take "Things said by hoax dossier believers in 2016" for $100!; 3/14/19, 9:30 PM
Paul said...: Beto the Frito! Fake Mexican (as he tried to portray himself in his failed senate bid.. a bid he could not win even against an unpopular senator), is gonna try again. Now he is a 'capitalist'.... Hahahahaha.. what a joke.

He is just a rich boy who has done nothing. His one little internet foray, Stanton Street Technology Group, is a piddling little thing. Other than that he as been a, get this, live-in caretaker and art mover!!! Whoa... them is big credentials for a liberal.... better than Bernie has!

Now he is for suspending the death penalty at federal level!
Strange... Beto the Frito never said that when running for Gov. of Texas.... But when he was in Congress.....

"O’Rourke also broke ranks from his party in supporting GOP legislation that, according to GovTrack, would “add the killing or attempted killing [of] a law enforcement officer to the list of aggravating factors in federal death penalty cases”.

You got that? He was FOR IT before he was against it. Where have we heard that before?; 3/14/19, 9:31 PM
Browndog said...: It's still going to come down to Biden, Kamala, or Hillary.

Yes, Hillary. Mark my words.; 3/14/19, 9:37 PM
WaitingToBuy said...: I am really tired of the same old platitudes that bad politicians recycle every election. That anyone falls for this bullshit is truly sad.; 3/14/19, 9:55 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: Lotsa hand gestures? Is Beto trying to pick up the Italian vote?; 3/14/19, 10:02 PM
Drago said...: Hand jive.; 3/14/19, 10:03 PM
mccullough said...: Waiting,

I thought “Maximum Peril” wasn’t bad. Kinda fresh.

To Beto, Trump is Maximum Peril. To me, 10-20 million Illegwl Aliens with an Invitation for all to come is Maximum Peril.

I have no problem with next years election being a referdum on Open Borders or The Wall.

I know where Beto stands. I know where Jared Kushner stands. I know where Mitch McConnell stands.

Let’s vote. We are either a country or a gas station restroom,; 3/14/19, 10:04 PM
Unknown said...: He's a gaffe master like zero discipline Biden

If he was black he'd run behind No IAmNot Gay booker; 3/14/19, 10:10 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I won't do your work for you, but think of ol' Don Rumsfeld.

He would stand at the dais and raise one hand up to eye level, then form a semi-circle with his index finger and thumb. As he emphasized his points, the finger and thumb would close in and come together making a circle.; 3/14/19, 10:24 PM
mtrobertslaw said...: He is simply suffering from the Rachael Maddow syndrome. It afflicts progressive leftists all across the country.; 3/14/19, 10:32 PM
Amadeus 48 said...: It's not the gestures that seem crazy, it's the ideas.

Remember, this guy raised $40 million and lost to Ted Cruz.; 3/14/19, 10:33 PM
LA_Bob said...: Trump basically tried to make a joke of Beto, something he did very effectively to some of his Republican rivals in 2016. Time will tell if this works.

I think Beto does a fine job of making a joke of himself all by himself.; 3/14/19, 11:27 PM
nbks said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/15/19, 12:06 AM
nbks said...: Those teeth, those gleaming, menacing teeth, crunching and chomping, chomping and crunching, breaking down and macerating all it surveys...and that arm, just chop-chop-chopping away at everything in its space. It's all too much. I'm going to need to lay down for awhile.; 3/15/19, 12:07 AM
Trumpit said...: In some cultures, hand gestures are more common, and expressive. Beto's hand movements aren't attractive to me. He should work on toning them down. He took on Dracula and lost. Now, he wants to take on the feral hog in the White House. Texas should be given back to Mexico, who it was stolen from, and the rednecks driven out. They are a destructive invasive species, and don't belong there.; 3/15/19, 12:14 AM
mccullough said...: Texas wasn’t stolen. There were hardly any Mexicans there. It was like the Yukon to the government in Mexico City.

The United States beat Mexico in the war and graciously bought the land that’s now California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas as part of the peace.

There’s a reason the Spanish Empire was so short and the English Empire lasted so long.

England’s former colonies the US and Canada are decent countries.

Spain’s former colonies Mexico, Central America, and most of South America are shit holes.

Cuba is a shithole.

Spain was terrible at Empire building.; 3/15/19, 12:31 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: "Straight women thinks he hot."

Hot politicians don't exist. At least no one's managed to photograph one. Maybe there's a hot politician hiding out in the wilderness somewhere like a Sasquatch.; 3/15/19, 12:37 AM
Crazy World said...: I have not laughed OUT LOUD!! At comments in a long time.
I would vote for his rich Stepford Wife before him, even the sad dog.
MAGA; 3/15/19, 1:57 AM
Trumpit said...: Racist rednecks, such as the troll "mccullough" shouldn't be giving gratuitous history lessons to anyone. Your mind is a "shithole," and most of Texas is no better. Were it not for Texas oil, Texas would be known for cotton, cattle and rodeos, and not much else.; 3/15/19, 2:02 AM
mccullough said...: You forgot to mention that Texas is where your Dad, that Left Wing Communist Scum Lee Harvey Oswald, killed JFK.; 3/15/19, 2:14 AM
Rusty said...: Blogger Trumpit said...
"In some cultures, hand gestures are more common, and expressive."
In some cultures you'd have been lert out on the ice.; 3/15/19, 5:33 AM
MayBee said...: The best description I just saw on Twitter was he looks like Mr Rogers doing a rap battle. That is it exactly!; 3/15/19, 6:34 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: If Beto had an R after his name instead of a D, you’d hear he was boarding-school-attending judge’s son who dodged serious charges for the DUI & burglary, used eminent domain to gentrify poor Latino neighborhoods & married into a billionaire’s family.

Jim Gerahty; 3/15/19, 8:43 AM
JAORE said...: Watch him on the Iowa lunch counter if you want to see flying hands. (Miss can you wipe this down, some jack leg has stood where I'm about to eat).

I don't find it crazy, but it's sure distracting. And that's even before Trump put it out there.

The guy has no programs just slogans and things we need to have discussions about.

He made his bones by taking on Cruz. His money gathering chops come from running against Cruz. His status in the left hierarchy comes from coming close (but no cigar) to beating Cruz.; 3/15/19, 9:59 AM
BrianE said...: I thought he was signing how committed he is. He means what he says-- and he's got the hands to prove it!; 3/15/19, 10:20 AM
Sam L. said...: Not gonna watch "Beto".; 3/15/19, 11:26 AM
Bilwick said...: Here's an early Saint Patrick's Day for Mr. O'Rourke:

Hey, "Beto," do you know what was most precious and longed-for by your Irish ancestors? I mean, even more than potatoes and poteen? Liberty. I know that's a word that you or your followers are familiar with, but you should look it up sometime.; 3/15/19, 2:46 PM
Jim at said...: Democrats could run a dog against Trump and win.

You already did.
And lost.; 3/15/19, 3:19 PM
hombre said...: Beto O’Bama: Same old bullshit. Tried and true for Democrat dupes.; 3/15/19, 4:30 PM
hombre said...: Blogger Inga...Allie Oop said...
“Democrats could run a dog against Trump and win.”

Clearly, Democrats will run a dog against Trump. It’s not so clear that the dog will win.; 3/15/19, 4:33 PM