Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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Our tax dollars at work

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:12 (two weeks ago) link

There are damning things about Haberman but that text isn’t necessarily one. On the surface it sounds like a normal response to a request for comment. The “please start writing” part is likely in reference to her having given him a deadline to respond.

No commitment. Wearing gold boxers to own the libs? C’mon you’ve got to get some MAGA Depends and walk around in your own filth for a day.

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:12 (two weeks ago) link

ew

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:40 (two weeks ago) link

a bunch of House GOP members at the trial today (it's the usual idiots), which kinda undermines the idea that the hush money wasn't for political reasons

frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:41 (two weeks ago) link

This courtroom is doing a service by putting Trump under a harsh light. It's like Steve Albini producing a trial.

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link

Spraytan Suitcase

Lol

well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 May 2024 15:00 (two weeks ago) link

man if i needed that shit to feel right and was him, i have like the world most deluxe carwax for a totally buff outcome everytime. I’m talking robotic german wintersteiger stonegrind shit

well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 May 2024 15:06 (two weeks ago) link

maybe he should settle with the NY district attorney, like any decent person would caught red-handed breaking laws his own erstwhile attorney and corporate accountant serve(d) time in prison for

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:02 (two weeks ago) link

sounds like the cross on Cohen is taking forever but not really going anywhere, wonder if they're just going in circles because the defense has nothing but doesn't want to reveal if Trump will actually testify or not

frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:26 (two weeks ago) link

Please let him testify, please.

tobo73, Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:27 (two weeks ago) link

I'm like 95% sure he's gonna say he wants to testify but can't because of the gag order, which is such an obvious lie, but his base have no standards for this sort of thing so they'll just lap it up anyway

if he does testify it would be such an utter disaster, one would think even a man of Trump's legal instincts knows it's a bad idea, but on the other hand he's been falling asleep in court every day so maybe his brains have completely turned to mush

frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:33 (two weeks ago) link

if he does testify it would be such an utter disaster, one would think even a man of Trump's legal instincts knows it's a bad idea

Funniest possible outcome: he demands to testify, his lawyers say "Are you fucking kidding us right now," he fires them all and says, "I'm acting as my own lawyer from now on, and will take my own testimony," clambering out of the witness box to ask a question then climbing back in to answer it, judge saying "I'll allow it" through tears of helpless laughter.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:36 (two weeks ago) link

it would be deeply unfair to make him testify when he hasn't yet been informed what the crime is

People are heckling Boebert, yelling Beetlejuice at her pic.twitter.com/SQxsPq4bKk

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 16, 2024

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:37 (two weeks ago) link

i saw someone point out that she was not present for her own minor son's court date recently but of course she is in NYC for this shit show

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:41 (two weeks ago) link

The son showed up to court without a lawyer.

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:47 (two weeks ago) link

Don’t these people have legislating to do?

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:10 (two weeks ago) link

yeah, Biden probably needs impeaching or something

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:27 (two weeks ago) link

in this display of subservient fealty, nobody wants to be seen not making the trek up to NY - he's keeping track

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:32 (two weeks ago) link

otm

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:53 (two weeks ago) link

I actually approve of GOP legislators not showing up for work, the more the merrier

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:55 (two weeks ago) link

Perfect time to vote for a new Speaker

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:22 (two weeks ago) link

do these folks actually ever get anything passed? I remember reading something about how a lot of these famous bootlickers never even write any bills. at least MTG is good at wasting people's time.

frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:25 (two weeks ago) link

For some reason Mike Johnson going to NYC stands out as particularly pathetic. I guess you have to shed any ability to feel shame to reach such heights as he has.

tobo73, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:40 (two weeks ago) link

Chip Roy to thread

“One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did,” Roy said. “One!”

“Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides well, ‘I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats,’” Roy lamented.

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:44 (two weeks ago) link

Chip Roy somehow OTM

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:48 (two weeks ago) link

Of course, Chip Roy is in a gerrymandered, Hard R District In Central Texas, so he doesn't really need to run on anything.

Boebert says Trump isn’t sleeping, he’s praying but if he is sleeping, he looks pretty while he sleeps. pic.twitter.com/PHIxDOIm7b

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024

it's not the brazenness of this that gets me it's the fact that anyone who actually believed this would basically be an insane person. its tough to see anyone debase themselves this hard even if it is Boebert

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 03:30 (two weeks ago) link

sounded like that was a good committee meeting

👀 At tonight’s House Oversight hearing, Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Jasmine Crockett and “false eyelashes.” Then the committee erupted. AOC trashed MTG, demanded an apology (MTG refused); then demands for clarifications on whether personal attacks are… pic.twitter.com/o90T36DkBV

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 17, 2024

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 May 2024 03:36 (two weeks ago) link

lol MTG probably knows nothing about her but she's one of the last members of Congress you'd want to mess with

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 03:39 (two weeks ago) link

holy shit

.@RepMTG: Are your feelings hurt?@AOC: Oh baby girl…don’t even play.

How it’s going in the House Oversight Committee pic.twitter.com/73RYvGhMVK

— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) May 17, 2024

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 03:42 (two weeks ago) link

"Oh Baby Girl... Don't Even Play" for June Thread Title.

Full exchange

This video lays out what happened in tonight’s heated exchange in the oversight hearing pic.twitter.com/7QTmpsa1eA

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 17 May 2024 04:13 (two weeks ago) link

this might just be wishful thinking but I feel that acting like total psychos in order to appease a convicted felon (probably) who's also been found liable for sexual assault is gonna hurt them in the end. like having a bunch of them fly to NY just to "support" Trump so Dems can yell AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DOING YOUR TAXPAYER FUNDED JOBS in a Congressional session is such a bad look. I genuinely think most Republican voters don't actually like this shit and vote Trump mostly because he's mean/racist and they hate the idea of people "getting free stuff". they aren't exactly pisspigs for Donald Trump, they'll be glad when he's out of the picture (as a lot of us will be for Biden). this stuff is embarrassing and I think it does turn a lot of not-particularly-engaged people off. don't forget most of the Trumpiest candidates lost in 2022, hell Lauren Boebert nearly lost an R+30 district to some guy nobody's ever heard of. the sexpest stuff cost them a Senate seat in ALABAMA a while back. every time Trump appears on the national stage his numbers go down. people aren't really going to his rallies and they sure as hell aren't showing up to support him in court. they really really need to find a way to keep MTG out of the news but they have no actual ideas whatsoever so good luck with that

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 04:25 (two weeks ago) link

Cohen did not do well on cross yesterday. I have no idea whether this is just a blip, but they are relying on him to tie all the other evidence together and he may have just untied it.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 17 May 2024 11:40 (two weeks ago) link

A befuddled Comer replied: “What now?”

He’s a massive piece of shit and deserves every moment of this.

Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 May 2024 12:15 (two weeks ago) link

Someone please re-share the video of the guy doing an angry impression of his Porky Pig ass voice when he was being cross-examined by Comer.

a based robot like Bender (stevie), Friday, 17 May 2024 12:24 (two weeks ago) link

idk from what I've read Cohen didn't exactly bust open any part of the case, the defense just spent hours running in circles to call him a sleazy liar who's out to get Trump (just like everybody else), not sure how great a strategy that is when Trump is the one who hired him and was paying him lots of money

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 12:36 (two weeks ago) link

it sounded like Blanche was doing a poor job, like bringing up insults Cohen had posted about him doesn't do anything productive. It has already been established that Cohen is a dickhead. Apparently his best moment was to cast doubt over Cohen's memory of a phone call with Trump or something, which doesn't seem much when there are the calls Cohen recorded in evidence backing up his version of events.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 17 May 2024 13:07 (two weeks ago) link

Cohen is an awful person, but I can't see how the jury could ever come to the conclusion that Trump didn't know about the Stormy Daniels payoff and wasn't across how Cohen was being reimbursed.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 17 May 2024 13:26 (two weeks ago) link

I mean I don't think the prosecutions case rests solely on Cohen's memory of a phone call he had 8 years ago

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 13:33 (two weeks ago) link

Why couldn’t they get an honest and upstanding guy on the stand to testify about his years of doing crimes for Trump?

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 17 May 2024 13:55 (two weeks ago) link

what is he doing

https://i.imgur.com/1IhCDBu.png

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 21:31 (two weeks ago) link

like Biden didn't accept a debate on Fox, in fact I kinda doubt Fox accepted it either, I feel like he just made this all up

frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 21:32 (two weeks ago) link

Cohen is an awful person, but I can't see how the jury could ever come to the conclusion that Trump didn't know about the Stormy Daniels payoff and wasn't across how Cohen was being reimbursed.

I think the challenge for the prosecution is that they have to satisfy the jury that, not only did Trump know about it, but that he authorized it with the intent to keep it from the voting public in order not to hurt his chances at getting elected.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 May 2024 22:01 (two weeks ago) link

I agree that Biden’s 4 album run of Crippling Inflation, High Gas Prices, Crime in our Streets, and Border Chaos were devastatingly heavy

brimstead, Friday, 17 May 2024 22:11 (two weeks ago) link


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