Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

i suppose 'classic' in that he's all a lot of people can think about or talk about and his brain dmamage is so powerful it's infected the world

p bad president and person tho

takes balls to rock that combover day in and out

I can see the blood from the man-flesh on his teeth!

What you lookin' at?
You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be?
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say,
"That's the bad guy.
" So... what that make you? Good? You're not good.
You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy!
Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is - you're fired. The bad news is - you've got, all of you've got just one week to regain your jobs starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh? Have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money, get their names to sell them; you can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit. You ARE shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT!

Search: "move on her like a bitch"

Destroy: everything else

"Trump never said he had tapes, he just inferred that he did. And it is not intimidating a witness since Comey is telling the truth and knew that any tapes would prove his version of events."

everyone is classic but not everyone should be president

President Don once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine

Trump lingered last in line for brains
And the one he got was sorta rotten and insane
Small hands (so sad!), a rust-hued clown
Is Trump fast asleep or rockin' out with Three Doors Down?

Murricuns electing Donald Trump: Classic or dud?

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/55918b77ecad04a3465a0a63/nbc-fires-donald-trump-after-he-calls-mexicans-rapists-and-drug-runners.jpg

haven't thought about this guy for a while. i think he was popular in the 80s?

Overrated

I think he'd make really great hog slurry. You can really tell a lot about a man by the way his pureed corpus fills a trough.

red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'
. . .
shelter me from the putin and the banker
i bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?

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#daddy

#dilfsinjocks

wasting his finite reserves of energy there

Cronenbergian

Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/James_Brown_Take_a_Look_at_Those_Cakes.jpg

“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

you suggest Panama?

the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

libs/"centrists" for sure

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

*not adjusted for population inflation

indicative of a deep flaw in our universe

truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers

i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame

Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records

contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.

Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!

Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running

probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...

mao would be the world champ though.

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

this is a ridiculous statement

Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...

well he's certainly fatter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDBB4IMWAAAO6sN.jpg:large

stahp posting this I cant handle it

The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.

My god, it's made of scrote.

I feel badly for his clothes.

trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse

If you blow the image up to its full size (not that I'm recommending you do so) the swollen, boiled-looking bullfrog neck is almost Lovecraftian.

I gotta say, I don't think his pity, as expressed, is 100% sincere.

Paul Begala came up from the catacombs?

Has this person always been deranged? I thought people viewed her as a reliable source on trump legal stuff and now she’s melting down over another left-liberal blogger criticizing Merrick Garland - https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3ktqlnhtx242x

She's a mix of interesting insight and an absolutely fragile shell.

also I'm curious what this means for his biggest fans

The people whose hearts beat with MAGA Kool-Aid are just ratcheting up their attacks and tired conspiracy theories about Biden.

I was surprised at how upset some GOPers got about this, then someone pointed out that psychologically for them, it's important to control what type of person gets labeled a criminal, so this matters to them in a way to Carroll case didn't.

how upset some GOPers got about this

theatrics are required with that bunch

that emptywheel person is a nightmare

this seems like a winning message

https://i.imgur.com/JZF0Ah8.png

2coups once again accordion waves away rules for the poors. lock her up!

I guess one of the smoking guns that really swayed the jury was Cohen's 'invoice' with an accountant's handwritten note instructing to round up the payment because he would be taxed on legal services provide (income tax) while he was just seeking reimbursement for the Stormy payment

Trump's team never even attempted to question its veracity

theatrics are required with that bunch

sure but they're making a much bigger deal about this than prior verdicts

Well it IS a criminal case rather than a civil one, so.

that emptywheel person is a nightmare

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, May 31, 2024 5:33 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

saw her melting down last night and my god its still ongoing

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many replies later

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yeesh

We don't need another asshole

my god

https://i.imgur.com/AQo7QVm.png

Haha

I wasn't paying attention because other, funnier stuff was going on, but apparently Truth Social lost 20% of its value when the verdict came down?

Great!

well look at that

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), trading under the moniker DJT, plunged on Friday, a day after the company's majority shareholder former president Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records.

The company's share price declined 5.30 percent by close of trading on Friday which amounted to a $314 million loss in value for Trump's shares

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damn, emptywheel as in Marcy Wheeler? She used to be good on nat'l security matters.

this is a goldmine for him

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/trump-fundraising-verdict.html

which he's going to spend on legal fees, as he has been doing all along, because he can legally due to loopholes.

hence why between Biden and him, he's the one that's been too chickenshit to report 'cash in hand'

When the unlikable sports boor podcast crowd are landing haymakers like this you’re in trouble

https://bsky.app/profile/noelmu.bsky.social/post/3ktueo6mmok2m

Black voters, especially Black men, have slipped away from Mr. Biden over the last four years, but 27 percent of Black voters who backed Mr. Trump told pollsters from The New York Times and Siena College before the verdict that a conviction would flip them to Mr. Biden, compared with just 5 percent of white respondents who said that.

Daryl Jones, 49, who is Black, made it clear that he remained a fan of Mr. Trump’s as he cut hair at the busy Universal Barber Shop in Des Moines on Thursday evening. Yet when it came to the former president’s convictions, Mr. Jones was resolute.

“Well, you do the crime, you’ve got to do the time,” he said. “So, at the same time, if he’s wrong, he’s wrong. And he was wrong.”

Kourtney Thomas, 31, a coordinator at a Racine homeless shelter, was conflicted. In a lengthy conversation in the city’s downtown, she was visibly torn. She favors abortion rights, she said, and did not like how Mr. Trump had approached L.G.B.T.Q. issues in his term in office. She liked the former president’s much tougher policies at the border, however, an issue she said the current president had badly fumbled.

As the conversation swung back to Mr. Trump’s convictions, Ms. Thomas showed she understood chapter and verse what the former president had been convicted of, and she expressed anger at the way that the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., Fani T. Willis, a Black woman like her, had been treated by Mr. Trump and his allies as she pursued her efforts to prosecute the former president for subverting the 2020 election. She is leaning toward Mr. Biden.

“No one is above the law,” Ms. Thomas concluded. “He should go to jail.”

We really need some sort of documentary or movie or something - a public thing - exploring the life experiences that lead minorities to support someone like Trump.

Do you think that for some people there’s just an assumption that powerful white guys are all racist anyway, so that Trump’s more overt racism isn’t as disqualifying as it seems like it should be?

In the same way some people write off his legal issues because “eh, they’re all crooks”?

there are tons people of color who hold generally conservative views, republicans just wont allow them in the tent due to racism, trump might hold more appeal by being not your typical establishment republican

Tipsy, I think those points are probably part of it.

There’s also, maybe, a sort of - if we think about family/community/nation/world, people are way more family and MAYBE community. Like “how does my life change either way” in strictly economic terms, not thinking about or paying attention to the dictator shit.

I do want to find and read the article Alfred quoted from.

That’s a fair point, L. But why are the percentages shifting?

The bootstraps myth exerts a powerful pull. I live this shit. "I work hard, these illegals are leeching off the system, Donald Trump is strong," etc.

cause biden sucks prob xp

I've been steeped in Cuban butthurtness for decades.

I grew up with two black parents who were exceptionally politically aware, and left leaning, but there’s always been a bit of bootstraps built in. Maybe the bootstraps aspect is bigger for others.

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but if he doesnt, theyll vote for him, right

A lot of people seem to have the “surely Trump will step aside as things get worse” perspective, which makes me laugh. That won’t happen unless he dies or has a stroke or something. This is his Republican Party, and his ego may be bigger than that - which will (fingers crossed) crater the GOP in November.

Hopefully this is the last time I paste this into an ILE politics thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDH3MX4MYI

Trump won't even drop out of he dies

I've been asked in my dad's hometown why I vote Democratic when it's against my interests as a white guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuqr22c990s