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Mrs. Betty Bowers @BettyBowers
When the aging gorilla is confronted with the much more virile, new alpha-male, he shows submissiveness by grooming the alpha-male, but the gesture is actually a vain attempt by the old gorilla to humiliate his much younger rival.
Link to tweet
Ilsa
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(38,687 posts)FSogol
(45,555 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)S.E. TN Liberal
(508 posts)backtoblue
(11,346 posts)Gothmog
(145,667 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Ill not see a more brilliant tweet this week!! BRAVO!!
niyad
(113,628 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)He is already playing Trump like a cheap violin!
certainot
(9,090 posts)what a dipshit
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You can take the man out of the hood
but you can't take the hood out of the man.
Trump uses a repertoire of phrases and gestures to deliberately insult people, he gives it away by too fast, smooth delivery, which just broadcasts what he is doing., Then he laughs it off, forcing the guy to laugh too.
Don't care how deep his fake gold is, the man is no more than a smug bully.
certainot
(9,090 posts)then picked his own version
calimary
(81,527 posts)Explains a whole lot.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I was expecting a link to National Geographic! Funny!
wryter2000
(46,099 posts)What an asshole.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)sandensea
(21,688 posts)That made Dubya look like Bush sr. as far as professionalism and outright social skills.
Macron, of course, handled it great.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Dubya did give Angela a shoulder rub.
sandensea
(21,688 posts)Before doing the same to the U.S. economy of course.
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/281813.html
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)sandensea
(21,688 posts)Thanks for pointing that out; with Bush (like with Cheeto), you never know.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Google found 2 relevant hits: The original source and... FreeRepublic getting all butthurt about it besmirching Il Dunce.
I'm part of the generation that got royally screwed by Bush the Lesser's economic chicanery. Was on-track for becoming an architect, economy imploded 2008 and that future completely ended for me. Career path took a less rewarding and economically unstable detour that I'm not likely to ever dig out of.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)How many watched the destruction of their lives during the Bush Recession?
Loss of homes,life savings, yet every where we turn we see complaints about how Obama did not move fast enough.
Now we are seeing the same thing coming.,Stock Market up and down like a yo-yo. Experts are predicting a Recession by the end of the year.
Hang on to your 🎩, Another Recession is coming. We may not recover from this one.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)A first rate low life
cp
(6,670 posts)and Germany and Spain and Great Britain and All Over the World.
StarryNite
(9,461 posts)Orange Foolieous is such an embarrassment.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)If an alpha wolf is too tough on the other wolves, he will be deposed as pack leader and becomes a beta. Wolves have more sense than humans.
misanthrope
(7,432 posts)Chimps can be nasty pieces of work.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,467 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Betty strikes again
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)tavernier
(12,410 posts)Who did the editing? It almost looks real!
Im still ROFLMAO!! This is sure to piss off Rump because it makes him look like one of those old pissed off gorillas trying to groom the younger and stronger one so he wont be sent off to die in the jungle.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)That is HYSTERICAL!
I am hoping so hard that he sees it.
Oneironaut
(5,530 posts)He tries to dominate other humans through absurd acts (like hovering over them, or humiliating them). Not to mention how physically disgusting he is as well - he looks like an overfed primate at the zoo. He also has the impulse control of an animal - my dog has more self control. If someone left a piece of cake out, I would fully expect him to run up to it and start snarfing it down his disgustingly round pie-hole.
His cringe-worthy, nauseating behavior is more like the missing link than an actual human. He acts like an ape that is barely intelligent enough to function in our world, but still has the behaviors of an ape.
Diremoon
(86 posts)I hardly ever post, but I despise Trump to such an extent that I hate to see any other creature denigrated by comparing them to him. And certainly not a gorilla. I view them as very noble, an attribute that doesn't even apply to him.
misanthrope
(7,432 posts)Dian Fossey was the one who studied gorillas.