Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Don’t let’s be beastly to the guy who led a mob to try to violently overthrow the government.

Who are you directing that to?

I believe it's a riff on the tweet Josh linked to above

Just heard some law professor talk about Trump & Sons' hopes for a successful appeal in the property valuation ruling: not very good at all

They have to make the point that something was amiss in the actual trial process, rather than just repeating their already debunked legal arguments... I know he's the Teflon Don, but it's looking increasingly likely that he'll have to sell off everything: golf courses, privates jet, the works

In the meantime, he's technically out of business

I wonder at what point his disciples will get tired of the grift machine once it grinds into motion to pay for it all. Maybe never!

One thing is unclear: whether they can transfer assets to a different holding company outside of NY.. I'm sure they will try

I believe it's a riff on the tweet Josh linked to above

I'm honestly wondering how he is going to have an actual campaign if all his funds are going to legal bills

The only solution is to send him more donations.

Yeah wait til you see the new round of NFT's, here's a couple for free

https://e3.365dm.com/23/04/2048x1152/skynews-trump-nfts_6126860.jpg

One thing I will never underestimate about Trump is his ability to bleed his marks completely dry. They will shove that cash into his teensy little hands if they have to sell their kids to get it.

If they ain't broke they must be woke.

The fact that they can seriously buy NFTs of Trump as a superhero or a rock star with no irony astounds me. If Obama would have marketed himself in that way the right wing blogoshere would have flamed him to death.

iirc the last set of Trump-sponsored NFTs sold as fast as dead armadillos

presumably by dormant shell companies

The fact that they can seriously buy NFTs of Trump as a superhero or a rock star with no irony astounds me.

it's fascism. it has little truck with irony at its own expense.

Now camp, on the other hand…

it's kind of amazing just how camp the GOP has swung.. besides Boebert, Santos & Trump, DeSantis sounds just like Paul Lynde on Holiday Squares with his kooky, forced laugh

Curious to see where this trend goes

“Ensconced in campaign slacker mode, Trump would like to pretend that nothing of substance will change over the next 14 months, so he should get his second term now. It doesn’t take a zoologist to appreciate that the world doesn’t stop when a bear hibernates. Trump might want to pretend the rest of the campaign is a meaningless charade, but a lot of history is about to go down between today and November 2024.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/27/trump-presidential-election-2023-00118204

I don't think this strategy is really that risky. Why would he burn a bunch of cash campaigning against a field that can't be bothered to attack him on anything? None of the other Republicans are acting like they actually want to win this.

yeah he needs that cash for the lawsuits ;)

If Obama would have marketed himself in that way the right wing blogoshere would have flamed him to death.

tbf there was an industrious market of bootleggers doing this sort of stuff and I think it sold well, I'd point you to the thread where we documented this (Obamasploitation or something it was called?) but sadly I'm sure 90% of images from it are broken now.

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7FUMLRa4AEBUgl?format=jpg&name=medium

Haha but of course

The Detroit News reported: “One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said ‘union members for Trump’ acknowledged that she wasn’t a union member when approached by a reporter after the event.

“Another person with a sign that read ‘auto workers for Trump’ said he wasn’t an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn’t provide their names.”

On the other hand the man holding the "Handsome Guys For Trump" sign confirmed that he was indeed handsome

NEW YORK (AP) — Appeals court rejects Donald Trump's request to delay civil trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens business empire.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 28, 2023

FINISH HIM!

i'm thinking he should get the man without a country treatment. revoke his passport and citizenship and banish him to a far off land. that would make me happy. and if he ever comes here again for any reason: immediate detention in gitmo.

works for me

it wouldn't be constitutional, but it definitely would be poetic justice, after he publicly said he doesn't believe in following the requirements of the US constitution

... overheard someone mindbogglingly keep finding ways to see him as some kind of Robin Hood type hero/martyr: "He defrauded banks and investors? Good. They're scum."

that person probably has trouble with object permanence, huh

(I acted like it was something on my phone that made me laugh when they said that)

“I’m sorry for eavesdropping but you are very very dumb”

Sweep the leg, stevie

Reportedly he's scheduled to be deposed in the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page thing, which is ironic on so many levels. He talked shit about them and interfered in their firing, so they filed a civil suit, which draws him in for a deposition where he will no doubt (given his track record) open himself up to further legal action.

Remember when he did an impression of those two having sex? Those were the days.

seems apt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of your hair

(lyrics ever so slightly adjusted by court order)

haha they are saying a gov shutdown could delay his deposition

lololol has the judge's Chico Marx quote been posted yet?

"who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes"

literally part of the ruling

i remember it as "your lyin' eyes"

Well, yeah.

Libs over here are panicky as well

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/unless-joe-biden-stands-aside-the-world-must-prepare-for-president-trump-20

Trump has similar factors to Biden too...be funny if both of them died on the campaign.

that guardian commentator particularly embodying the serious monkey journalist headshot

The Biden issue is one of them "well I wouldn't start from here" questions. Can't see that there's any younger pol who has the necessary profile + popularity to be a better bet. He has experience of campaigning and winning against Trump. And if Biden can take a big slice out of the coot vote as in 2020, that outweighs younger people thinking he's too doddery, because old people votes seem to count double.

(I am very much a fuck centrists into the sun guy)

Same here re: centrists, but there has been no prep from Democrats to prepare for a leadership change. Despise Garton Ash but the sleep is deep with that lot.