Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

lol I don't know what millennial-core is, but I regretted posting it as soon as I posted it.

it's bad and you should feel bad

Make me feel bad enough about myself and I'll have no choice but to vote for Trump.

the spiral into the alt-right begins when someone calls you cringe

everything will be all better if you just watch this. still the greatest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuC3t-d0Zao

I have a friend who used to be a record store guy and who (like nearly all record store guys) would add his own editorial stickers to new releases, comparing whoever it was to other bands, some of which were made up. My favorite of such made-up bands was Ernest Borgnine Jr.

nothing beats Ernest in BASEketball, when he appears in a recorded video at his funeral and asks everybody but Coop to leave the room, nobody does, and then he starts dancing/singing "I'm Too Sexy"

https://i.imgur.com/uhfLB7P.png

WTF

lucian truscott iii otm

"Donald Trump, for all his carefully curated reputation as a billionaire, which we now know is about as solid as a pile of melting snow along a random roadside, was one of those free-floating-money guys, out there in business-world-land, grabbing $5 million here and a few hundred thousand there and making his own private decisions about how, or whether, he would report the money as income. And then, in 2015, he decided to run for president and what do you know, he was elected and had to start filling out stuff like FEC forms, where it’s not so easy to attribute or even hide money.

"While in office, Donald Trump became addicted to perks like Air Force One, on which he repeatedly flew down to Mar-a-Lago or over to Bedminster to play a round of golf and then flew back. So, he decided after losing the White House to Joe Biden in 2020 that he would like to go back to flying around on Air Force One and decided to run for election again. To this end, he enlisted a gaggle of half-wits in the House of Representatives to engender an impeachment of his rival, President Biden, and they began casting about for 'evidence' that 'the Biden crime family' had committed the same sort of crimes the Trump crime family had committed."

https://factkeepers.com/the-sneaky-snakey-world-of-donald-trumps-america/

man, nothing says "successful Manhattan real estate titan" like Jared's sweet new deals:

"One of the proposed projects would be the development of an island off the coast of Albania into a luxury tourist destination.

A second — with a planned luxury hotel and 1,500 residential units and a museum — is in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, at the site of the long-vacant former headquarters of the Yugoslav Army destroyed in 1999 by the NATO bombings, according to a member of Parliament in Serbia and Mr. Kushner’s company.

These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with foreign governments."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/jared-kushner-pursuing-development-deals-in-albania-and-serbia.html

its almost like he's preparing Putin's future retirement digs.

but what do i know. maybe vacations to Serbia and Albania are all the rage these days for wealthy eco-tourists.

i would actually like to hang out in Romania. i watched a doc about the forests and mountains there and it looked like heaven.

Albania supposedly has some of the best unclimbed rocks and boulders in the world, would absolutely go to Albania.

I've been to Albania, it's a little like Greece and parts of Italy. I'd heard it'd been rising the tourist ranks, so I guess ... true.

This reminds me of Trump's big 2:00 AM speech from North Korea where his main point was about their miles of beautiful beaches awaiting resorts from American developers.

I've been to Albania, it's a little like Greece and parts of Italy.

I've been here
I've been there
I've been every fucking where

good morning1

I've never been to Italy, but I've seen pictures!

"Corruption is still considered one of the most problematic factors for establishing business in Albania.[6] Even though anti-corruption legal framework of Albania is moderate, its enforcement is weak and corruption conviction rates are still very low."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Albania

sounds like a good fit for jared. it all makes sense now.

i looked it up. serbia is much the same. my point being: if you were a bigshot real estate guy wouldn't you be buying a hotel in los angeles or miami or tokyo or somewhere fancy? my conspiracy spidey senses are tingling. you pretty much have to deal with heavy mobsters if you do business in serbia. maybe nobody else wants him around.

I think that's pretty OTM. These assholes aren't subtle.

This kind of thing predates his presidency. I'm reminded of this article from shortly after he took office:

"The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

I've been to Albania but I've never been to me

That story about the tower in Azerbaijan illustrated so many big bright glaring red flags and alarm signals, but the fact that afaict literally nothing came of it pretty definitely put to rest any hope that any of these people would ever face any real consequences, as much as I'd love to see it happen.

man, reading some article about the horrible conditions in jared's apartment complexes down south was so gross. just the worst kind of slumlord stuff.

is this the same Jared who brought peace to the Middle East?

Yes, and he fixed the prison system.

I heard on the news that Steven Mnuchin is gonna buy Tiktok for Trump. Trumptok. Truhthtik.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

This is how they reach the yutes, you see.

his wife's new movie was a really good investment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dESyA8IgA_M

oh no!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453

to fair, this country DOES need a bath. have you smelled it lately?

“This is who Donald Trump is: a loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience doubles down on his threats of political violence,” Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said in a statement.

i mean, this is inarguable. and it's terrifying anyone, let alone such a large minority, would vote for Trump. I know that's naive and obvious but it should be said more often.

And similarly naive and obvious, if a brown-skinned politico threatened a bloodbath if they didn't win a vote, there'd be a bullet between their eyes before anyone could pontificate.

Sleeve OTM

Wouldn't have thought it possible for him to get significantly worse in the last few weeks, but here we are I guess, openly threatening "a bloodbath" and referring to immigrants as non-humans.

chatgpt make a picture of djt dying like frank pentangeli

How a sleuth defense attorney and a disgruntled law partner damaged the Trump Georgia case

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/16/fani-willis-misconduct-accusations-ashleigh-merchant/
gift link: https://wapo.st/4cbf3jE

i just want to kindly remind everyone who was trying to shut discussion down about this, at the beginning, because it was so obvious that it was dumb and would have no effect on the case, that you all don't know everything that is going to happen

that came off way more whiny than i intended, sorry. i agree that it seemed ridiculous at the beginning, and that it should not have affected the case whatsoever. alas

none of this makes Trump innocent but it was bigly stupid

NY Times called his speech in Dayton, Ohio yesterday "freewheeling" where he called migrants "animals" and said there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected

The speech was "Dylanesque"

Very nice of this country to move Heaven and Earth to ensure this man stays on the ballot

lol the reporting on the “bloodbath” thing is dumb as fuck

The chapter on him in the new Village Voice book is interesting--in the very first piece dating back to the mid-'70s, the writer (Wayne Barrett, I think) is accusing him of overvaluing and undervaluing properties according to the situation.

NY Times called his speech in Dayton, Ohio yesterday "freewheeling" where he called migrants "animals" and said there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected

Donald learned tax evasion and cooking the books at his daddy's knee.

And Wayne Barrett for the Voice did a great job for years of covering Trump financial slimy criminal tactics, and the mainstream press largely just ignored Barrett's writing as left wing ranting