Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

doin good not a care in the world

Someone’s been tinkering with the dosages I see

wonder if this kind of shit is gonna play well in the general

I thought his supporters liked shit in the capitol!

Muslim-bashing is cool again obv.

Big applause line there

Elsewhere, per the NYT, strange things are afoot:

Steven C. Lee, an Illinois pastor charged in the Georgia election interference case against Donald J. Trump and his allies, is hoping to fund his legal defense, at least in part, with sales of “MAGA honey” bottles shaped like the former president.

a wide selection then

This is delightful, BTW:

One of Mr. Chesebro’s lawyers, Manubir S. Arora, set up a GiveSendGo page for his client that says Mr. Chesebro is being buried “under a mountain of legal bills.” Mr. Chesebro is shown smiling on a beach, hands outstretched. As of Wednesday afternoon, the campaign had raised $20.

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Chesebros gonna chesebro

this new line of thinking will take him far:

Speaking in Florida on Wednesday, Trump, the Republican frontrunner to take on Biden next year, called Hezbollah – a Lebanese group also backed by Iran and supportive of Hamas – “very smart” and the Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, “a jerk”.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had been “hurt very badly”, Trump said, adding: “He was not prepared. He was not prepared and Israel was not prepared. And under Trump, they wouldn’t have had to be prepared. You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart.”

"if the election wasn't rigged there would be nobody thinking about going into Israel"

"All the time, I have these militants, these Islamic militants, you know these guys? Right? with the beards and the rifles... And they come up to me, they come up and say 'sir, sir'..."

This is delightful, BTW:

One of Mr. Chesebro’s lawyers, Manubir S. Arora, set up a GiveSendGo page for his client that says Mr. Chesebro is being buried “under a mountain of legal bills.” Mr. Chesebro is shown smiling on a beach, hands outstretched. As of Wednesday afternoon, the campaign had raised $20.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:42 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

That’s enough for coffee for his lawyer and lawyer’s assistant, so that’s something, right

tbh Manubir S. Arora sounds like the name on one of those "Nigerian prince" emails I'm always getting.

wonder how many people will end up incarcerated over jan 6/election conspiracy they really got carried away just started doing crimes right out in the open

xxp if anyone can order a coffee that costs more than $10, it's a lawyer, not sure $20 is gonna cover the two of them unless they don't tip ;)

Cheesebro

say cheese, bro

Stay fresh, cheesebags

I’m not a Chesebro/I stack cheeeeeese, bro

lol

those names sound even les real than these: https://i.imgur.com/yC4qdm6.png

less

Les Real should be one of those names

Tag yourself, I think I'm Bobson Dugnutt.

Dwight Rortugal

Say it in a Scooby Doo voice.

can't believe I misspelled my own natural-born name of four decades

Jeromy Gride

Gride: to scrape, graze, or rub against something so as to produce a harsh rasping sound

We named our robot vacuum Todd Bonzalez — he's our clean-up man.

Got a few altered 90s hockey surnames amongst that list

Glenallen Mixon sounds like a journeyman utility infielder who never got past AA in the farm system during the Reagan administration.

I thought he sounded like a Civil War general.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj43x/trumps-secret-documents-case-just-got-worse-for-him

feel like the odds of serious consequences are gonna go way up if they can actually figure out why exactly he wanted those documents

I'm less optimistic about the documents case because I think the judge will probably delay as much as possible and ultimately throw it out

"Robin........ itturnsoutthat...the documents he got indicted for retaining and concealing are......the documents he retained to prevent himself FROM BEING PUNISHED FOR STEALING!" "GREAT SMOKES BATMAN IT IS INGENIOUS!"

JUST IN: Judge Howell orders that the jury in Rudy Giuliani’s upcoming civil defamation damages trial be instructed that Giuliani intentionally tried to hide information about his financial condition. pic.twitter.com/WshWWygWWj

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 13, 2023

Judge Chutkan issued a partial gag order in the Jan 6 case restricting Trump from making or reposting comments that attack the prosecutors, the court, or any witnesses.

I'm sure that'll hold for approximately 15 minutes

ok?

You might be surprised -- the official statement is, notably and hilariously, venting in terms that absolutely fit the contours of the order as Chutkan specified:

“Today’s decision is an absolute abomination and another partisan knife stuck in the heart of our Democracy by Crooked Joe Biden, who was granted the right to muzzle his political opponent, the leading candidate for the Presidency in 2024, and the most popular political leader in America, President Donald J. Trump. President Trump will continue to fight for our Constitution, the American people’s right to support him, and to keep our country free of the chains of weaponized and targeted law enforcement.”

No mention of Smith, the court, etc. but as Chutkan specifically allowed for, venting re Biden and the general situation perfectly fine. (Again, how long this lasts, who knows.)

trump has plenty of practice at making his thoughts perfectly visible even though they're swaddled inside a cocoon of vagueness and apparent ambiguity.

Oh sure! And one suspects that all sides understand this.

He may continue to stick to the order, he may not. If he doesn't, it's not as if the judge will just throw up her hands in frustration and let it happen. We need to drop this self-defeatist fantasy that he is absolutely invulnerable to any consequences when he's been on a losing streak since 2020.

We need to drop this self-defeatist fantasy that he is absolutely invulnerable to any consequences

I think you're reading much more into the past few posts than what they said.

Not necessarily a response to anything specific on here, just the general vibe that the Judge's actions and various other things aren't punitive enough or that nothing will ever change or there's never any consequences. It wasn't aimed at anything you or Ned said.

The speech is rapidly deteriorating as the show goes on. pic.twitter.com/5fQylo4VmD

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2023

last time I saw something like this it was a news anchor having a stroke on live TV