Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

It its intersting to speculate whether folx in another reality would have turned out in sufficient numbers to elect a dude who, in our reality, they wanted to see dead less than two months later.

honestly don't think a "sane" Romney or McCain type Republican is ever gonna win again in my lifetime. I think Pence would've gotten crushed.

xp never forget

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/missouri-elects-dead-man-as-senator-623222.html

THIS time, Charlie Brown

The moment has finally arrived when Lindell is going to change the world by presenting 12 hours of “evidence” on Sat and 12 more on Sunday to hundreds of millions of viewers on Lindell TV: “I’m telling you everybody, it’s over for them!” pic.twitter.com/CLmRfaJIkm

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 18, 2022

get your pillows ready

Who knew Mike Lindell would be the next slow cinema titan?

Is it Pay per View? Should be. Vince McMahon needs some work.

Re: voters, I think we all tend to overestimate the level of engagement of the general public. I saw an interview with one of the Alex Jones jurors, and she's from Texas, identifies as liberal, and yet had never heard of Alex Jones. I suspect that just as there are millions of people that think horribly of immigrants or gays or Jews or whatever without having met a single person in any of those categories, there are probably plenty of people (on, er, both sides) that vote for the idea of a candidate without actually knowing much or anything about them or their policies beyond "not Trump" or "not Biden" or whatever.

Fleece or be fleeced

Too many people vote on the basis of "I'd have a beer with that guy" or "I like that guy, he's taller than the other guy."

Or "He hates the people I hate, fuck yeah"

pic.twitter.com/kr5BuENl92

— 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸 Monty Boa 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 (@MontyBoa99) August 18, 2022

How many lefty podcasters are planning to watch the entire Lindell stream-- ON ACID!

pic.twitter.com/tq24Y0BwVl

— AVΞNGΞR RΞSISTΞR (@AvengerResister) July 24, 2022

NEW: Unsealed Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant application cover sheet offers the DOJ’s description of potential crimes:

— Wilful retention of national defense information
— Concealment or removal of govt records
— Obstruction of federal investigationhttps://t.co/tA1vsQz2T7

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 18, 2022

(Unrelated, the first is just a funny Lindell moment from a few days ago. The latter is Trump's cage rattling resulting in making things worse.)

The 'evidence of a crime' box checked off is also nice to see so starkly. pic.twitter.com/OZkxV84oKl

— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) August 18, 2022

yeah but guys he hasn't been convicted yet so he's innocent

We will all owe him a great big apology.

If you need to look for "evidence" to "prove" that someone "committed a crime" then you must suck at investigating

cant believe they raided a former president for contraband fruits seems excessive

so like, lychees or

the manchurian fruit

Pretty sure all fruits are considered contraband at Mar a Lago. And vegetables, too.

French Fries are vegetables

gummy worms as well

French Fries are were vegetables. French fries are vegetables that have become their final, perfect form.

wonder where he kept the jelly beans.

cant believe they raided a former president for contraband fruits seems excessive

Evidence of a lime

Orange you glad they did, though?

Yes, berry glad.

Uh, "pro se" means, Trump's going it alone. https://t.co/YLRiFHNpDe

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 22, 2022

I would assume that is a glitch.

probably bc none of his dummy lawyers/“officers” want to be on the hook for filing dumbly

this trial is going to be in front of an NBA referee

Does he really have a lawyer named Jim Trusty?

if anyone has a lawyer called Jim Trusty, it's this guy

"890 other statutory actions"

it’s like turning in your homework on a napkin and the meeting with the teacher isn’t so much “these answers are wrong and let’s discuss why” but more “son, do you understand the concept of PAPER?”

heh

Two former White House officials, who had been designated as among Mr. Trump’s representatives with the archives, received calls and tried to facilitate the documents’ return.

Mr. Trump resisted those calls, describing the boxes of documents as “mine,” according to three advisers familiar with his comments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html

That is funny. Dude fucked around and found out.

i still hold that he may be made up of two five-year olds, one standing on top of the other inside a large suit, bojack horseman style

Explains the weird posture.

*dark thoughts*

you all seem so convinced of his stupidity. I don’t think he’s stupid at all. he's going to finesse everything.

delays are his intended effect, there will be more and more delays, and maybe the court cases wont be resolved before he is elected president again, when he will be literally free from consequences

I would like Merrick Garland to come through but I don't think he will

you realize the reason he succeeded at obstruction prior to 2021 was because he had the power of the Presidency at his disposal, right?

dude hasn't even been able to get reinstated on Twitter, and he's going to mastermind a rise from the ashes?

entirely possible he doesn't do time or get indicted/etc but you're overestimating his abilities since he left office.

I guess

He might mastermind a rise from the ashes given that he has more control over the federal judiciary than obvious criminals usually do

People chuckling about the amateurishness of Trump's filing are going to be disappointed when he wins anyway because the judge is a far-right hack. https://t.co/aLRNBhbKDE

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) August 22, 2022

if we're just talking about this one case only, ok

i think reading any certainty into this latest filing is a fool's errand though

so trump filed a … motion? petition? … to exclude evidence from a proceeding that doesn’t exist?

— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) August 22, 2022

the "he's representing himself" though was definitely bullshit and once again people just believing shit because it's funny

how do experienced lawyers not know how ECF works. nearly 30k likes on a tweet that’s plainly false. https://t.co/t2O8L1uqy5

— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) August 22, 2022

(it was a temporary clerical error)

unless theres evidence he was engaged in actual espionage kinda doubt hell be charged for just trying to keep the documents, could have worse luck in some of the other cases floating around out there tho