thanks, Dan,,,and thanks Paul Simon, too...

Hasn't he earned the right to interrupt Donald Trump?

I just saw where the national anxiety is up to 79 percent. I don't know what we're going to do if this country finds itself in a very real and deep crisis requiring swift presidential action and leadership. Has anybody else wondered this? So far we've just "resisted" the best we could and rolled our eyes at the carnival occupying the White House. What happens when this country needs to immediately respond wisely to, heaven forbid, a nuclear attack or another Pearl Harbor (knock wood)?

...or an economic collapse?

I'd love to believe that a national hero would ridicule Trump's oratory, literally behind his back. However, it kinda looks like Colonel Aldrin's just struggling with really uncomfortable dentures.

@2:

Interrupt? I'm surprised he didn't pull one of IL DOUCHE'S preferred moves and smack him to the ground. Buzz Aldrin doesn't suffer fools gladly.

@5,

I was sort of thinking the same thing. I know little of Aldrin's politics, but sort of thought he learned conservative and so maybe this was largely just the facial expressions of an aging gentleman, probably wearing some heavy makeup and standing under some intense lighting, etc.

That said, listening to Cheeto attempt to sound inspirational and motivating is entertaining as hell in it's own right. And there wasn't really even anything particularly embarrassing or ignorant in any part of that speech; it's just seeing/hearing such a painstakingly obviously scripted piece coming from a moronic gasbag who had the gall to criticize Barack for reading from a teleprompter that makes it so delightful.

@6: Hey, thanks for the cool link! I didn't know that happened. What I really want to see is someone do that to Alex Jones, though.

I cannot listen to the cheeto talk, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. But good lord, just watching Buzz's facial expressions damn near had me peeing my pants. Good on ya, Buzz. Knock him one for me.

President Asshole is reading that text for the first time, and ad libbing like Melania forced him to read a bedtime story to Barron. He's insufferable.

Aldrin wins.

@7: Conservatives are probably the first ones to roll their eyes when Trump speaks. There's nothing conservative about Donald Trump. Dictators-to-be are not conservatives. Please make note of it.

@12 yeah, wasn't that the standard refrain of buyer's remorse for G.W. Bush voters too?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_…

@13: Of course. Politicians rarely maintain ideological purity. The point being here is that authoritarianism is blatantly anti-conservative.

@15: Indeed. In Trump's case, his authoritarianism evolved by hijacking the Republican party, beating out 12 contenders. In other societies, authoritarianism came from the left (e.g. China and Mao Tse-tung).

The takeaway is that both ends of the political spectrum tend to ferment into depravity.

Buzz is a hero, but he is also a Republican and has been a GOP donor and supporter in the past. I don't know how he feels about Trump, but I'm reluctant to agree that he was intentionally making these faces to mock him. If that's true, awesome, maybe he'll reconsider his support for a party that led to this. But I wouldn't be surprised if he just had indigestion or made weird faces because he was thinking about something elsee. The man is nearly 90.

As someone of advanced age, I contend his expressions are most genuine and should be taken at face value.

That's Buzz Aldrin? When did he get old and I didn't?

Two important recent incidents: The NRA's commercial, which literally called anyone to the right of Mussolini a traitor; and the reaction to NPR's tweeting of the Declaration of Independence, which conservatives saw as a call to revolution that should be immediately and violently suppressed.

We are close to the violence that is the precursor to civil war. It won't be long before the incompetence, idiocy, and greed of the Trump Administration becomes too much for the country, and conservatives will see any interference with him as a direct threat to the country. Things really aren't looking good right now.