Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Hard to gag a black hole.

I keep taking in information here, like that one of his incompetent joke lawyers fucked up the paperwork and now he won't get a jury trial and then I forget which of the cases it happened in.

To be (temporarily) fair to his lawyers, it's really hard to adequately represent someone who you know is not ever going to pay you.

I am not a lawyer but I can't imagine putting much effort in for a client who has a reputation for not paying.

no they always paid, after they've had to resort to sewing him for the money!

*get*

A client who doesn't pay, doesn't take your advice and ruins your professional reputation and/or puts your license in jeopardy? Sign me up!

you can become the next Michael Cohen

A lawyer has to eat, but it's very hard to have any sympathy for the long suffering ones that represent Trump. I imagine they must have book deals on their mind or something because it must be a nightmare.

great gig when you're in need of a financial boost, represent the guy who is known for not paying people

err guys it’s called pro bono?

Let’s leave U2 out of this mess

keep that shit to ilm

Lmao

Also Lol his lawyers aren't pro bono.

He has an entire fund burning cash and getting close to insolvent just to pay his team of lawyers rn per latest news.

i'm waiting for him to sell Trump Tower AND sell Barron and Melania to the Saudis to pay for his lawyers.

he recalled $60m of super pac money because he's burning through that much, in the legal fees that he does actually pay [citation needed]

Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of creative accounting there.

In the civil fraud case his attitude still seems to be incredulity that he's in the shit for the type of overvaluation fraud he's probably been committing and getting away with for decades.

I'd imagine that type of real estate overvaluation is so common and probably just in general rarely prosecuted unless you have done something else to pi$$ off the man, get busted in taxes or the insurance industry in a claim.

yeah or you settle get some fine and move on

The hilarious thing is that these rich creeps play it both ways, for their total value and for borrowing money etc. they want it overvalued but when it comes to paying taxes and it's assessment it's not worth sh!t. The streets should be painted in their blood really.

I just love the fact that, because there's a form to these things that must apparently always be followed, the tweet includes "if the Fake News reporting is correct" - your position is that it isn't!

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord don't they help themselves
But when the taxman come to the door
The house looks like a rummage sale

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611

Trump 51
Biden 42

“Among voters under age 35, Trump leads Biden in the new Post-ABC poll by 20 points” https://t.co/CTTCaM3bmt

— Bill Scher (@billscher) September 24, 2023

Ok

Yeah, voters under 35 <with landlines>

all five of em

Yeah, seriously, I know a lot of these stupid polls are intended to instill panic, but this one pretty much just earns giggles.

panic giggles is also a thing fwiw

I think polls are going to be pretty useless for the next year. Everybody ought to be acting like it's going to be a close election.

yea i'm curious if polls from this far out are actually predictive of anything

once election season actually starts the downsides of both candidates are gonna be talked about a ton and Trump not only has way way more his are also a lot more serious, also he has been acting like an absolute lunatic lately, think this'll once again be a referendum on if people really want more Trump in their lives

polls this far out usually give no more than a blurry picture of the mostly amorphous feelings of an electorate that's not particularly engaged. but in this case the odds of a rematch of 2020 are unusually high, so the trick right now is figuring out which polls to trust. sadly, that's nearly impossible. (shrugs)

eh that's close enuf for me

Complete outlier of a poll, not approximating any of the others in the last week.

Also some of this is Hunter Biden news influenced and will fade

the trick right now is figuring out which polls to trust

None of them. Not even the ones that tell you what you want to hear. It's all fiction.

What are you talking about, they're totally rooted in data based on (checks notes) unverifiable opinions strangers report to the poll. In *this* house, we *believe* in science!

I thought they were based on boat parades?

Or general lack thereof?

They take into account all sorts of data. Boat parades, those pain-level smiley faces, rolling D&D dice ...

THE WINDMILLS ARE DRIVING THE WHALES BATTY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DLzpB8e84

I think we have underestimated the comedic genius of Donald Trump.

Trump's beef with windmills is personal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_Scotland_Ltd_v_The_Scottish_Ministers

Of course. For him, everything is about his personal grudges.

at the the Trump rallies, in between rants about ripping up the constitution and destroying the free press and executing generals etc... He keeps telling his followers that the deep state is coming for them. But luckily he's the human shield protecting them! I don't why I find that so funny, but there is just something so ridiculous and unreal about the whole spectacle that cracks me up.

It's of a piece with his saying in 2016 that "I alone can fix it." He is playing into his followers' need for a savior, and I think on some level he really believes he is some kind of superhero.

it's a handy way for him to deflect all the ongoing legal cases against him

Muad'Dumb.

one of his former staffers, who I think has flipped, has said he used classified documents as post-it notes. He was writing to-do lists on the other side of them! I don't think anyone in his position would do something so dumb out of carelessness. I think that was his way of demonstrating to staff that he's a real president and he can do what he likes with classified docs. Because that is the kind of prick he is.

Muad'Dumb.

Q: What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

DT: Windmills