Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Dude got on national television and said “stand down and STAND BY”

IIRC, he said "stand back," not "stand down," which of course means something different.

Trump repeating himself? Never thought I’d see the day.

As I understand it, Trump is petitioning the SC to not just decide if the 14th amendment applies, but whether or not he committed insurrection, which puts the SC in a bit of an awkward position in terms of how they can approach this.

There is no way the Court can decide that at this stage.

and yet the argument his lawyers seem to be making is that even if the Colorado law could be applied to Trump, it wasn't valid because he didn't do an insurrection. There isn't any reason why they had to choose that particular line of argument, yet they did.

At this stage in his mental decline, I'm only surprised he hasn't requested SCOTUS to rule on whether he was the best president of all time

It's official folks, scrotum has named me this years best president of all time. That's right you heard it hear first and it's what everyone's been saying.

the "god made trump" thing trump posted on truth social has me fucking dying

"come home hungry, have to wait until the first lady is done with lunch with friends, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it"

SCOTUS has agreed to hear the disqualification appeal

Surely that will turn out well.

Not a whole of case law to draw on

No worries. They'll just make something up and wrap an argument around it.

Surely not!

they're gonna argue that he's not an 'officer,' even though the Constitution calls the president an officer like 25 times

man that seems too actually stupid to work to me still.

nah it'll be like the constitution allows "time place and manner" this aint that, and it's illogical to have different candidates for president, so unless there is a federal conviction or finding that disqualifies, he's in.

man it's like the founders/amenders made all these rules and shit so that a treacherous tyrant don't have to be stabbed like julius caesar, but it's like, donnie's destiny is to croak "et tu, nancy?" while she holds a dripping dagger. i dunno who the octavian will be, but pelosi getting to stab trump still seems worth it to me right now.

i guess it should a senator not a house rep.

Lindsey Graham should do the honors.

No, Graham's role is to throw himself weeping on top of the coffin.

Good point. I would say Ted Cruz, who certainly has reason to want to stab Trump in the back, but he wouldn't have the nerve.

https://crabdiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ted-cruz-humiliation.jpg

It’s gonna be Christie or LCheney

It'll be Robot DeSantis, nothing will stand in the way of his prime directive.

Caesar Trump would a thousand Mark Anthonys

And Baron would slay them all

Trump: All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets pic.twitter.com/TopK4BRsOq

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 6, 2024

When Jefferson Davis was on trial for treason, his lawyer used the Fourteenth Amendment to argue that since he's already banned from office he shouldn't face any further punishment. He didn't need to have been found guilty of insurrection for the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to him.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/what-happened-when-the-us-failed-to-prosecute-an-ex-president

Davis walked out a free man, released on bail. And not too many months after that the federal government’s case against him fell apart. There’s no real consensus about why. The explanation that Davis’s lawyer Charles O’Conor liked best had to do with Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, known as the disqualification clause, which bars from federal office anyone who has ever taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” O’Conor argued that Section 3’s ban on holding office was a form of punishment and that to try Davis for treason would therefore amount to double jeopardy. It’s a different kind of jeopardy lately.

I just saw the vid of a party at Mar-a-Lago: Trump looking like the saddest rich geriatric freak in the world. The daylong pissed Giuliani, slow dancing and looking like he's probably grotesquely putting his hands all over an unfortunate woman on the dancefloor, while fiftysomething Vanilla Ice is on the stage with a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Not feeling so fomo about not attending any Christmas parties last year, now.

When Real Life is weirder than A.I.

blood meridian is less disturbing than calzino's description. rudy is dancing dancing, tho maybe it's trump claiming immortality

When Real Life is weirder than A.L.

he is a great favourite

https://www.wbez.org/stories/trump-did-not-sign-illinois-candidate-loyalty-oath/1d1fbaf4-261f-4c15-b466-8fb749d404e1

a peek into how things work out well for trump:

if he would have signed it, it would have been news

since he did not sign it, it is news

nobody should sign it tbh, but his likely reason for not signing it still emblematic of his douchery

He signed it in 2020 lol

icrime at the time but the laws we changed em

he posted a video yesterday that strongly implied george bush sr. killed kennedy lmao

this election is going to be absolutely insane.

this is brutal, pretty much how all interviews with these lunatics should go

BORIS SANCHEZ: What would be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri?

JAY ASHCROFT: There have been allegations that he's engaged in insurrection

SANCHEZ: How so?

ASHCROFT: Um, I've seen allegations from the lieutenant governor of Texas pic.twitter.com/687uqKyCUw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 8, 2024

show me staters demand you show the evidence that joe biden did not engage in insurrection, allegedly, is what we heard

"Boris Sanchez" is a comic book character name.

seems to have some interviewing skills tho...

Treeship: as opposed to all those really civilized and sober ones that we've gotten for the last, uh, 44 years?

Lemme guess: this Jay cat's related to our beloved John Ashcroft.

his son!

looks like he might have been conceived by a minute droplet of aftercum

Trump the Comforter:

As a close-knit community in Iowa grapples with a school shooting that killed a sixth grader and left seven others injured, former President Donald Trump had this advice: “Have to get over it.”

“We’re really with you as much as anybody can be. It’s a very terrible thing that happened,” he said Friday during a speech in Sioux City, Iowa. “And it’s just horrible to see that happening, it’s just horrible. So surprising to see it here. But, uh, have to get over it. We have to move forward, we have to move forward.”

posts consist of so many things, so many ideas; really almost any combination of words can form a post, this is the magic of ilx

Hardly getting over it, he's hardly getting used to getting by ...