Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

That was supposed to say many xp, stupid phone.

It's not an easy thing to do, especially running as he did the first time with no real infrastructure or even any real clue about how to go about it.

Who needs campaign infrastructure when you can just tweet out dumb shit 24/7 and have the media run your campaign for you?? If you can attack CNN nonstop and have them reward you by broadcasting footage of an empty podium you’re set to speak at while your opponent is giving policy speeches why do you need to know how to do anything at all?

^^^

i wish a hacker org could somehow mute all text and vid from trump it’d make it better and make him nuts.

Trump is not uniquely gifted either, just gripped with enough survivor sense, carved out of three decades of getting away with shit, to delay prosecution, etc. And emough sense to realize the GOP base didn't give a shit about "policy" -- they wanted grievances.

WILL YOU SHUT UP MAN?

I still think this was the moment Biden won the election

I doubt anyone had ever told Trump to shut up before.

both otm

imagine if he'd said "up your nose with a rubber hose", he'd have the Horshack vote

Would have to take it back from Romney:

In the current New Republic, the editors have this to say about Mitt Romney: "He's unbearably unctuous - the Arnold Horseshack of the race, furiously waving his hand to grab the teacher's attention."

trump is very funny when is not in power and very unfunny when he is in power

^^^ this is otm, urgent & key

Civilian Trump commenting on Kristen Stewart cheating--funny

President Trump complaining about Jimmy Kimmel jokes--not funny

I mean laugh-at funny, tbc.

NEWS: Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account in January.

A delay in compliance by the company prompted a federal judge to hold Twitter in contempt and fine the company $350,000.

Details TK

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 9, 2023

Good luck getting this info from Musk, but still.

Aw it was nice of Elongated to buy Twitter to help further try and (badly) protect his best bud.

Oh, wait, delay in compliance means they got what they wanted, right? Apparently the delay was because Twitter was prohibited from telling Trump they even got the warrant.

I hold Twitter in contempt myself.

Yeah they have what they wanted. So Smith has Trump's DMs, which are likely very moist.

Do you think Trump was much of a DM guy? I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underling. (His Truth Social posts might actually come from his own fat fingers, because they're demonstrably more insane/aggrieved.) He was always a guy who called people, and took calls from basically anyone who had his number.

he's a BM guy

Back in 2005 a pal who at the time covered government for the Palm Beach Post was reporting on how neighbors near the airport were irritated by increasing air traffic. His editor asked him to call Trump at Mar-a-Lago. To my friend's amazement, Trump's secretary or whatever said, "He'll call you right back. Is this the number he can reach you?" And voila Trump himself called two minutes later, talked his ear off for 15-20 minutes. Then Trump called him back two days later to compliment him on the story ("You need anything? Let me know").

I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underling

No, you could famously tell which were written by staffers and which were blasted out on the can by his own thumbs from the “sent from iphone” labels

Trump is funny in the same way Vince McMahon is, except Vince has the self-awareness to *know* he's playing a heel, and that therefore the audience actually wants to see him get his ass kicked or leave in a huff after getting shown up, whereas Trump is famously prickly anytime he thinks something makes him "look bad".

also, as crut says, being a horrible asshole is only funny when they don't actually have any power. I think the dudes on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are hilarious but I probably wouldn't want to know them in real life

Yeah, you can what Vince is like from what Trump does, and vice versa.

Both dudes had similar backgrounds in coming from abusive households with rich & successful fathers who had to make their own name starting in the mid-70s in the NY metro and becoming media creatures thru the 80s trying to get acceptance by the Manhattanite establishment. They’ve worked together since at least Wrestlemania IV, which was at Trump Casino iirc.

Again, recommending "Ringmaster," a new bio of Vince. The connections between the two are myriad and very close, going back to Vince Sr. prompting wrestling events in Queens.

Again, recommending "Ringmaster," a new bio of Vince. The connections between the two are myriad and very close, going back to Vince Sr. prompting wrestling events in Queens.

Yup, just got this book from the library

https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-freak-donald-trump-very-likely-our-next-president-opinion-1818694

oh cool -- more Newsweek clickbait

Newsweek's calling it! Damn. OK, so who do we have in '28?

I'll sum it up: No Labels, Cornel West, Joe Biden old.

he didn't even mention hunter. or the biden documents case.

Or that Woody Harrelson is campaigning for RFK Jr!

i can't believe Trump is President again. oh well, back to Frisky Dingo

before Trump, the only two incumbent presidents to lose reelection in the last 50 years have had a strong third-party bid to deal with—Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992,

impeccable logic and punctuation

Newsweek still polling dead Republicans, I see

NEW: we now have two of the four stand-by witnesses reporting they’ve been given their 48-hour notice to appear Tuesday. GET YOUR TOWELS READY IT’S ABOUT TO GO DOWN! Turn on notifications for @indictmentsonly! https://t.co/OO79PN6RZC

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 12, 2023

We've got him this time.

Another day, another legal team to assemble. But, hey, what else can you expect when you go on a multi-state crime spree?

Please don’t quote Mueller she wrote please

can we fast-forward to the bit where he dies please?

xpost Rather.

Is there something wrong with that Mueller person? I don't know who she is, I just picked that one because it summed up the situation.

Is this guy better?

Confirmed: https://t.co/Dh82ef2f1a

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 12, 2023

Said Mueller person is one of those very Resistance types. Big Avenatti fan when that was a thing IIRC. So no it's not the news itself, it's that ALL CAPS OMG HERE WE GO vibe.

Yeah it’s the style not the substance.

Gotcha. Persona aside, otherwise she's a legit source, right? A lot of these figures, from public health people to legal people, have online personas that irk me - I think I've unfollowed, say, Popehat as many times as I've bought and sold Jeff Buckley's album - but I try to look beyond that to whatever information and context they can provide.

she got a lot of flak for taking a PPP loan for her podcast

the thread exposing her BS appears to be suspended: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/140wrbh/i_figured_something_was_off_about_the_person/

but she lied about a lot of stuff!

she lied about the lies she was lying about