Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link

good luck donald trump

imago, Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link

https://plus.google.com/104275426491742090609

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link

Ten-year-old nabisco offTM:

Here's something funny: when I was ten years old I had a vague admiration for Donald Trump and Lee Iacocca (both very feted at the time) and a downright intense love of Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties, who I didn't understand to be something of a joke. As such, despite having really liked Mondale -- having a woman as a running mate impressed me, probably because of the mother/father dynamic of it -- I was convinced that I wanted to be a Republican and a businessman or lawyer of some sort. In fact, I started a "company" with my friends Brian and Jeff -- we made board games, and hired Tony, the best breakdancer I have ever known, to do the art -- and I was constantly attempting to read the law and economics books in my father's library. Everyone seemed to think this was "cute," though I sort of wish someone had just explained politics to me. In either case, I got over it quickly and went back to wanting to be a writer.

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― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:28 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link

i suppose 'classic' in that he's all a lot of people can think about or talk about and his brain dmamage is so powerful it's infected the world

p bad president and person tho

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link

takes balls to rock that combover day in and out

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link

I can see the blood from the man-flesh on his teeth!

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link

What you lookin' at?
You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be?
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say,
"That's the bad guy.
" So... what that make you? Good? You're not good.
You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy!
Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

sleepingbag, Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link

You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is - you're fired. The bad news is - you've got, all of you've got just one week to regain your jobs starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh? Have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money, get their names to sell them; you can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit. You ARE shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT!

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link

Search: "move on her like a bitch"

Destroy: everything else

flappy bird, Thursday, 22 June 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link

"Trump never said he had tapes, he just inferred that he did. And it is not intimidating a witness since Comey is telling the truth and knew that any tapes would prove his version of events."

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link

everyone is classic but not everyone should be president

Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link

President Don once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link

Trump lingered last in line for brains
And the one he got was sorta rotten and insane
Small hands (so sad!), a rust-hued clown
Is Trump fast asleep or rockin' out with Three Doors Down?

you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link

haven't thought about this guy for a while. i think he was popular in the 80s?

Treeship, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link

Overrated

jmm, Thursday, 22 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link

I think he'd make really great hog slurry. You can really tell a lot about a man by the way his pureed corpus fills a trough.

you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 June 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link

red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'
. . .
shelter me from the putin and the banker
i bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link

#daddy

korla pundit (crüt), Friday, 23 June 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link

#dilfsinjocks

The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 23 June 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link

wasting his finite reserves of energy there

El Tomboto, Friday, 23 June 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link

Cronenbergian

Treeship, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link

Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.

you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 June 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link

“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 June 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link

He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever

Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link

you suggest Panama?

Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link

the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017

BlackIronPrison, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

libs/"centrists" for sure

a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link

*not adjusted for population inflation

flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link

indicative of a deep flaw in our universe

global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link

truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link

i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame

ciderpress, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link

Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records

frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link

contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.

flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link

Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!

President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link

Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running

Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link

probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...

mao would be the world champ though.

scott seward, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

this is a ridiculous statement

Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link

Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link

well he's certainly fatter

Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link

staring right at the illustrator: "how dare you, you filthy peon?"

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:09 (one month ago) link

serious question: who is that supposed to be?

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:28 (one month ago) link

ivanka

lag∞n, Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:30 (one month ago) link

giger has really hit hard times. sad.

wait— he’s dead?

digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:42 (one month ago) link

I think Barron drew that

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:46 (one month ago) link

Judge is really giving somebody the business in that sketch!

henry s, Thursday, 9 November 2023 23:17 (one month ago) link

alina habba: "another Trump child was dragged into court today..." - not even appending ‘adult’ to one of the Trump children suggests to me some kind of fucked up psychological dynamic

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 00:40 (four weeks ago) link

think of the children!

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 November 2023 00:42 (four weeks ago) link

I don’t want to think of these children anymore (I never wanted to)

The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 November 2023 00:50 (four weeks ago) link

Is she calling a special advisor to the White House (or whatever Ivanka’s ridic title was) a child?

tobo73, Friday, 10 November 2023 01:04 (four weeks ago) link

Today in Trump NYC trial:

Per Adam Klasfeld's reports on Twitter, Judge Engoron is basically overruling every AG objection to whatever evidence Trump wants to admit, which has to be very heartwarming for the AG and terrifying for Trump's lawyers

When the judge is being very, very nice to you, they are either in the tank for your side, or you are absolutely fucked and the judge wants to make sure you have no space for appeal. Guess which is more likely here.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 November 2023 22:42 (three weeks ago) link

Meantime...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/boss-leave-proffer-videos-show-trump-lawyers-telling/story?id=104831939

As part of a plea deal, one of former President Donald Trump's attorneys has told prosecutors in Georgia that she was informed in the wake of the 2020 election that Donald Trump was "not going to leave" the White House -- despite the fact that he had already lost the election and most of his subsequent challenges.

The revelation, along with others, came during a confidential interview the attorney, Jenna Ellis, had with Fulton County investigators. ABC News has obtained portions of videos of the proffer sessions of both Ellis and Sidney Powell, two attorneys who aided Trump's efforts to overturn the election.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 November 2023 22:52 (three weeks ago) link

NYT covering Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark vs NYT covering Donald Trump’s “vermin” remark. pic.twitter.com/SR2gLIlEvb

— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) November 12, 2023

stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:55 (three weeks ago) link

can't he just die already? DIE DIE DIE DUD

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:08 (three weeks ago) link

All sounds promising but (presses snooze button) wake me when this guy faces actual muthaflippin consequences.

Honestly? Hearing about how _close_ Trump is to legal jeopardy is approximately as interesting as the year-plus when Sidney Powell was going to release the Kraken.

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:27 (three weeks ago) link

Break: Former president Trump's Truth Social has lost $73M since launching last year, and has brought in only $3.7M in net sales. https://t.co/RndlL2Gtme

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) November 13, 2023

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:51 (three weeks ago) link

Owning the Libs, or Actually Just Saying Things We Know Would Absolutely Own the Libs If Any Were On This Platform, For Only $110k Per Day.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:59 (three weeks ago) link

I was in an eaterie a few months ago (in Wall Drug in fact), and the two TVs on the wall were respectively tuned to Fox News and Truth Social. Both seemed to be talking about Hunter Biden's laptop a lot, in fact endlessly. Possibly the target market for this new addition to the media landscape don't, in fact, give a flying one about 'the laptop', but that seems to be what they get.

I don't want to catastrophise but there's a catastrophe looming (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 02:15 (three weeks ago) link

i don't think the times is biased toward trump in any way, or that they ever minimized his danger. people who get their news from the times are aware of how horrific he is. the issue is that the people who support him do not get their news from the new york times. they live in a completely different media ecosystem and are exposed to a completely different set of facts. the new york times going harder on him would not effect anything at all -- he would still have his supporters. xp

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:10 (three weeks ago) link

the "normalization" discourse was always dumb. it was clear to anyone who wanted to see who he was, and this was always reported in the mainstream press as far as i can see. perhaps sometimes they were softer on him that i would have been, or something, but the point is this is not why he has the base he does. his supporters watch things like newsmax.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:11 (three weeks ago) link

I’m maybe in the minority here, but as a subscriber, I say the NYT goes pretty hard against Trump

Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:12 (three weeks ago) link

i think they did in 2016 too. the reason hillary's "depolorables" remark stuck and this much worse "vermin" one won't is because the latter is drowned out by a million other horrific things he says or does. it's nothing to do with unbalanced coverage the way that tweet up there implied.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:16 (three weeks ago) link

Yeah, he floods the zone with newsworthy shittiness.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:28 (three weeks ago) link

the NYT is shitty for a number of reasons but going easy on Trump is not one of them. I hate to 'both sides' this but the left and right do the same media grievance shit when the reality is what treesh said, if everything Trump did was covered the way emails and "deplorables" was there would have to be like 15x more news

frogbs, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 03:47 (three weeks ago) link

The NYT, yes, opposes Trump, but like many liberals and lib types it has no idea how to deal with a pathogen that doesn't acknowledge the paper's hegemony and mores, thus they way too often minimize the threat.

stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 10:40 (three weeks ago) link

^^^^^^^^^^^

a (waterface), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:29 (three weeks ago) link

EXCLUSIVE: ABC News has obtained video from Georgia prosecutors' interview with ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, in which Ellis tells them she was personally informed by a top Trump adviser that Trump was "not going to leave" the White House — despite losing the 2020 election.… pic.twitter.com/J9c4bm9cbZ

— ABC News (@ABC) November 13, 2023

And yet ... she kept banging the drum for them.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:43 (three weeks ago) link

I’m not sure they are in a position to do anything different from what they have been doing. His base does not recognize them as legitimate. And there are no people left who consume both the new york times and fox news and try to decide which one they agree with. Completely separate audiences.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:43 (three weeks ago) link

Xp lol, these “flippers” hope they will be rehabilitated like michael cohen sort of was. Alas they will not.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:44 (three weeks ago) link

People at least pity cohen. He has a wounded basset hound quality.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:44 (three weeks ago) link

the NYT is shitty for a number of reasons but going easy on Trump is not one of them. I hate to 'both sides' this but the left and right do the same media grievance shit when the reality is what treesh said, if everything Trump did was covered the way emails and "deplorables" was there would have to be like 15x more news

― frogbs, Tuesday, November 14, 2023 3:47 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

vs

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/upshot/trump-abortion-republicans-2024-election.html

vs

🚨🚨 LISTEN >> Donald Trump BRAGS that “nobody has ever done more” to ban abortion across the country by “[putting] 3 Supreme Court justices who all voted” to overturn Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/Ek45N2WF51

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) January 17, 2023

a (waterface), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:47 (three weeks ago) link

They are just reporting on public perception. They are not saying he should be seen as a moderate on abortion, just that he is for some incomprehensible reason.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:49 (three weeks ago) link

In fact, that article cites examples of Trump taking full credit for banning abortion

Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:50 (three weeks ago) link

Cohen was a Trump henchman/legal thug/fixer though wasn't he? and he even said he'd take a bullet for him at the time. I feel quite sure he is a despicable person who has done lots of bad stuff to people on behalf of Trump, that he still hasn't properly atoned for. Great accent though!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:54 (three weeks ago) link

He would have taken a bullet for trump and did, going to jail because he did something trump told him to do. And then when he was in jail Trump insulted him nonstop.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:56 (three weeks ago) link

There is pathos there. He obviously is a bad guy.

treeship., Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:57 (three weeks ago) link

Michael Cohen did go to jail for a year, that's more than most of these morons have been punished. Steve Bannon is still walking free like he's King Turd.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:58 (three weeks ago) link

"like"

stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:58 (three weeks ago) link

Before he flipped I saw Michael Cohen standing around outside when I was coming back from lunch. I think he was at an event for his daughter. I almost said something nasty to him but he looked so sad and lost.

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:18 (three weeks ago) link

good

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:20 (three weeks ago) link

Classic Tweet:

cohen has this certain hangdog je ne sleaze quoi that ... idk id hit it, that’s all i’ll say

— . (@swordsjew) February 27, 2019

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:21 (three weeks ago) link

lol bring it

New filing: "U.S. v. Hunter Biden (gun charges)"
Doc #58: Motion for Miscellaneous Relief

PDF: https://t.co/G9JKr4duPn#CL67511701

— Big Cases Bot (@big_cases) November 15, 2023

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 15:21 (three weeks ago) link

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

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:05 (two weeks ago) link

More capital letters than Thomas Mann in the German.

ALL,
FLOURISH,
FLEE;
ME,
PROOF,
WEAPONIZ
HELL;
RINOS,
STROY OUR COUNTRY
WIN
MAKE ERICA GREAT AGAIN

donald trump is a new farm animal and the sound he makes is STAWNK!!

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:12 (two weeks ago) link

what's it gonna taaaaaaaaake

everybody knows how to dance, even with just one more-STAAAAAWNK! *airhorn*

i jest at all this even though it's kind of terrifying to think about the number of people who like this, who want this man back on their screens again with even more frequency, so that politics can be more like tv again

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:20 (two weeks ago) link

Who could've guessed that he'd repeatedly violate his gag order?

Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:22 (two weeks ago) link

in the Ruby Freeman/Shaye Moss defamation case, Giuliani's lawyer has filed a motion for a bench trial next month rather than face a jury to decide how much of whatever is left of his personal fortune he is going to lose. Lol, he is so fucked .. the arc of the moral universe is long ... etc

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:48 (two weeks ago) link

I can't tell whether that screed is more unhinged than the time he gave thanks for himself, or less.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 24 November 2023 19:29 (two weeks ago) link


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