Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

How they probably see themselves:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTSPkXrW4AEiuZW.jpg

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

Right, so why are you asking whether it's a legal requirement?

he'll share them with investigators when he's forced to do so. he may have already done that. the public will see them later on. he's not going to release them unilaterally

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i think it's classic that he's on that website with those other public figures. go trump!

Does he need to share returns? Can't Mueller (or wouldn't he have already) get warrant to take them directly from IRS? Not sure how that works

he promised he'd release his tax returns. maybe we don't deserve to see them? or he's just waiting till the time is right during the case, to prove to everyone what a big strong billionaire he is, who doesn't need any help from the kremlin?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-opening-argument-in-the-trial-of-donald-j-trump

you know i do lampreyface in every single photo that's ever taken of me

this is also why i avoid being photographed

mr. trump is a civil rights activist, bringing porn stars to network television, when before the *fake news* shunned the poor stormy danielses of the world. #WWFWCWMRGA nikolai volkoff the iron shiek

mr. trump is a genius, banging a porn star and then rubbing christian evangelicals' noses in it. MAGA!

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/stormy-danielss-60-minutes-interview-was-actually-brilliant.html

[ The conversation] started off all about him just talking about himself: And he’s like, ‘Have you seen my new magazine?’ … And so I was like, “Does this normally work for you? … does just … talking about yourself normally work? … Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it. … And I’ll never forget the look on his face … I was like, ‘turn around, drop ‘em.’ … I just gave him a couple swats. and from that moment on, he was a completely different person. He quit talking about himself and he asked me things … it just became … more appropriate.

According to this, Daniels was able to achieve the impossible: she broke through Trump’s delusional solipsism, literally slapping him into awareness of another person. And she did it by refusing to play along with his self-vaunting monologue. By questioning the effectiveness of Trump’s boasting, she stopped it. We can all learn from this.

We can all learn from this.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

Me, too, but with a pool ball in a sock, or a lock on a chain.

god how is this motherfucker the president of anything let alone of AMERICA

I mean where else

j and flappy win, lol. (but everyone else...sorrrrry).

Trump has like four Kuatos growing out of his midsection and they all look like Lou Dobbs. pic.twitter.com/O8kvZcX2An

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 9, 2018

Cohen: Boy, I now wish Trump had not won the election.

Flynn: My life would be a lot better if Trump actually lost the election.

Manafort: I know I wanted Trump to win the election, but now I truly wish that he hadn't.

Ivanka: Gosh, maybe daddy winning the election was not a good thing after all.

Jared: My F-I-L winning the election has been a 666 type of hell for me.

Don Jr: I hate the fact that my dad won the election. This sucks ass.

Eric: I'm Eric.

Melania: My life would have sucked with him either winning or losing the election, so I don't give a fuck.

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Trump: I'm so glad I won the election. Best thing ever. GOP! GOP!!

Eric: I'm Eric.

LOL

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Beyond the torrent of heels taking early retirement, do we think this is the GOP's take on Trump?

Trump sucks!

which pink floyd album is this pic.twitter.com/a0uQx6rsNp

— Hunter Lurie (@hunterlurie) April 23, 2018

Dud

total dud

this was circumscribed in one of the many other threads but I'm putting here regardless

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/shania-twain-and-the-crisis-of-american-democracy-really.html
http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/journals/feb18asrfeature.pdf

When the political system is widely seen as doing its job, somebody like Trump, who violates its basic norms, is seen as illegitimate. A politician who blatantly lies doesn’t stand a chance. But this changes when more and more people come to believe that the system is rigged and that most politicians don’t have their best interests in mind. Amid such a “crisis of legitimacy,” voters don’t particularly care whether a politician plays by the rules of the game. Instead, they long for somebody who bluntly states how rotten the system really is.

some other bullshit follows, and mostly it boils down to humans are pack animals, and never forget it or you'll pay. but there is a situation where we aren't quite so bad: when we work together. which is the other thing pack animals do well.

The argument that Trump won because enough people believe that the system is rigged falls down on one point: Everyone hated Hillary Clinton for doing the exact same thing. So, what, Democratic voters don't think the system is rigged?

The thing is, of course, that Trump voters do think the system is rigged, but in a very specific way: It helps black people, which is not what it is supposed to do. That is the way in which it isn't doing it's job.

Read the article, Fred

my man with a combover so notorious it'll be the "benedict arnold" to julius' "caesar cut" . . . joked about the president of france having dandruff. go 2scoops!

lmao that picture definitely has a "late period hipgnosis" look

the most and the best court-appointed Special Masters to sift through a president's personal attorney's seized documents for client privilege in american history, folks. electoral college. #MAGA

presiding over the end of the korean war: classic?

i mean it seems like it's all theater and the north will invade the south in 3 months or something but this will still be perceived as classic rather than dud by trump supporters and ken bone types

if the peace lasts long enough for a nobel prize to be handed out, the next trump narrative will be how unfairly he was treated by not being given the prize. 'obama got the nobel prize for nothing and i was treated so unfairly wah wah wah', etc

mega dud

well if north korea reunites with south korea then south korea will no longer be the cosmetic surgery capital of the world. #MAGA

WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, "What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it's a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could." pic.twitter.com/geYUUu9vmg

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 27, 2018

I bet he thinks that's empathetic.

I think he's just saying that it's difficult for him to spend an extended period of time focused on people who aren't named Donald Trump or at least talking about Donald Trump. The Paralympians are inspiring, but I think they'd be even moreso if they wore t-shirts with Donald Trump's face on them and chanted 'Donald Trump! Donald Trump!' while they're engaged in whatever non-Donald Trump-related activity they're engaging in.

^ gets it

This guy is a real dud

at least he was honest there.

i'm beginning to regret voting for him

OTM. I suspect that it was a bad choice, and I'm very nearly sorry that I made it. Although I'll probably do it again, because reasons.

lots of people are saying mr. trump hired as the heavy to go threaten stephanie clifford and her daughter . . . none other than michael avanetti in a frightwig . . . which instead lead to some stormy love

Frank Rich on how the same NYC "elites" empowered Roy Cohn and Trump:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html

(Incidentally a reminder to spit on Baba Wawa's grave when she finally croaks.)

that's a great article notwithstanding the fact that Frank Rich is 100% NYC elite.

Not the kind that can arrange sweetheart real estate deals.

When I posted that on Facebroke, it asked, "Does this post contain hate speech?"

I got the same question when I posted that awesome Talmud excerpt from the Masculinity thread

I saw the hate speech question all over my kid's elementary school pta Facebook page anout an hour ago. I think it's just something they're doing today.

Please tell me this is the extent of Facebook's efforts to monitor for hate speech. It's like a manager who just stays home and emails their employees every day with a 'are you working, y/n'.