Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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Cameo For Cucks. You Love To See It.

"what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link

i'm surprised there is no section for tweetlike missives from trump

treeship., Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link

like a "newsreel"

treeship., Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link

I’m imagining 45Office is just a shitty(er) version of Microsoft’s Office365.

In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link

Like you get a red squiggle under every line of text that's coherent or grammatically-correct or free of deeply racist subtext.

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link

lol 45office.com has to just be a wordpress template

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

cameo

Yes?

https://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/I/m/Cameo_2016.jpg

calzone layer (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link

Whoops

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/nyregion/trump-vance-investigation.html?smid=tw-share

State prosecutors in Manhattan investigating former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization have subpoenaed the personal bank records of the company’s chief financial officer and are questioning gifts he and his family received from Mr. Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/MdgqZ6F.png

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 April 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link

Where/in what form was that, uh, published?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 5 April 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link

yeah, i don't even know. it was a "written statement". he made issued some other blowhard statement the other day via the Save America PAC, so maybe them again

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 April 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link

echoes of his famous "even the haters and losers" tweet, but he's clearly not in top form anymore.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 5 April 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link

He’s hiding his Diet Coke bottle behind the phone a day after telling everyone to boycott Coca-Cola! https://t.co/K2is5hpl7o pic.twitter.com/idDtVtkBeM

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 5, 2021

StanM, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 05:43 (three years ago) link

OMG that plane's headed straight for Mount Rushmore

nashwan, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 10:09 (three years ago) link

hehe. also: glasses. plus, is that newspaper hiding something?

StanM, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 10:43 (three years ago) link

The newspaper is hiding 3 McRibs.

epistantophus, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link

Looks like right before the picture was taken Asshole told other Asshole "ok, take a step back. No, one more step. OK, just one more ..." And then at the last minute Miller creeped one step closer again, to stay in the frame.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link

I was just wondering:

Does Donald Trump, as of April 2021, have any political agenda, other than to protect and perhaps enrich himself?

He was considered, from say 2016-2021, as the leader of a populist far-right / proto-fascist turn in world politics. He enacted, I think, bad and dangerous policies. You would normally expect such a figure to be continually pushing a policy agenda by whatever means.

But is Trump? Or is he merely shoring himself up (what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?), or merely trying to make maximum cash -- with no real political agenda beyond that?

the pinefox, Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link

His only agenda is promoting himself, preferably enriching himself also in the process. That should be abundantly clear by now.

sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link

I
Don’t
Care

In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link

Aimless: wouldn't that, then, be good news? As it would mean that he doesn't have any particular interest in promoting far right policies?

the pinefox, Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link

(what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?)

yeah i‘ve been wondering about that myself

groovemaaan, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link

he's promoting the far right policies still to stoke up his followers to stave off repercussions from his presidency, to grift them and also because he's a racist and a fucking terrible human being

anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link

_ (what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?)_

yeah i‘ve been wondering about that myself


Very much in the works. Both Cyrus Vance’s office and the New York AG’s have been widely reported to have ratcheted up their staffing and document review, especially after the tax records question was finally put to bed. There’s been a variety of further reports that the Trump Org’s main financial guy, Weisselberg, has been repeatedly questioned and papers on his and his family’s end reviewed. Just the other day, prosecutors won the formal right to get access to a bunch of financial papers that Weisselberg’s son’s ex-wife had access to due to their 2018 divorce. (She’s been happily cooperating away, unsurprisingly, but these papers needed a formal sign-off to be accessed by that office.) So basically the work is happening, with the supposition being that if there’s enough clear evidence then Weisselberg will be under plenty of pressure to flip. We’ll see.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link

This in and of itself would be enough for headaches but there’s whatever the Fulton County DA in Georgia is considering, while the wider DOJ look into January 6 is a story of increasing focus on various superseding indictments on particular participants. And for all we know there’s other stuff being looked at quietly.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link

They're all going to pull a Mueller and indict a bunch of b-listers and goons but not the big guy.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link

It seems like Trump has the GOP tied up in knots right now. This feels like a good thing. They are in the “can’t live with him, can’t live without him” stage. Of course, this could all change at a moment’s notice. Or... he could be the wrench in McConnell’s works for the next several years. I, for one, hope the GOP finally is getting to the point where they regret, and really start paying for, having hitched their wagons to his cult of personality.

epistantophus, Sunday, 11 April 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link

There will be no regrets as long as the tax cuts and court packing are in effect.

Fetchboy, Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link

I hope all the members of the GOP die fiery deaths.

it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link

There will be no regrets as long as the tax cuts and court packing are in effect.

You forgot gerrymandering

It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link

New: Former President Trump attacked Mitch McConnell as a "dumb son of a bitch" in his speech at the RNC donor retreat tonight, per an attendee.

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 11, 2021

global tetrahedron, Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link

Already trying to thread the needle there

https://www.axios.com/trump-gop-party-asa-hutchinson-54217032-186b-426d-b50b-3635c0a0b205.html

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link

Dud.

pomenitul, Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/U3IDa8l.png

(at cpac on feb 28)

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

Welp, there went my breakfast

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link

that's just your old breakfast now

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link

look deeply into his eyes and remember your breakfast

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link

I know King Turd has his diehard fans, but seriously, is there really a significant group of even the GOP that wishes this guy were louder and more visible? It feels like such a relief to only have to deal with his shit by choice. Wanting things back the way things were just a few months ago would be like getting over a bad case of food poisoning but wishing you still had diarrhea.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link

🐦[New: Former President Trump attacked Mitch McConnell as a "dumb son of a bitch" in his speech at the RNC donor retreat tonight, per an attendee.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 11, 2021🕸]🐦


Inconsequential. The donor class Trump is talking to knows Mitch has gotten them everything they wanted.

In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link

Trump only has ever cared about himself. He wants the attention, he wants it to all be about him. When he was president, he of course helped the GOP reach some of their goals, but only in so far as it benefitted him to do so. But now what can he do for the GOP? Only make noise, distract, get involved where he’s not wanted, and actively backstab GOP leadership as they attempt to move on. But he’s losing his grip on at least a portion of his base, which means he’s losing his power over GOP leadership. He’s back to being all talk now, and frustrated over not being able to use his preferred channels and reach the same scale of audience. I can only see him continuing to lash out and attack any and all targets even if it won’t benefit himself beyond just saving a little face over being unwanted, a loser and a pariah.

epistantophus, Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link

Aimless: wouldn't that, then, be good news?

I take it as better than most of the alternatives. The critical thing so far has been the removal of his Twitter account. He has no method of amplifying his momentary thoughts and he's too lazy to find and learn a more difficult tool. How he rose to the presidency in face of his universal incompetence is an insoluble mystery.

sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link

I'm waiting for him to do an arena tour. I liked the recent David Roth tweet, too, where he predicted that a commercial starring Trump seems inevitable, and inevitably (even if very much in character) super tacky.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link

his being banned from twitter a few months ago instead of a decade ago does help explain at least some of his success

new display name (Left), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link

The internet's greatest researcher, Ashley Feinberg, has mapped out what the former guy's days look like when CPAC isn't on:

https://www.trashberg.com/p/what-exactly-is-trump-doing-at-mar

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAkZT_4vL_Y

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 April 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

if you don’t click we’ll blow up a hospital https://t.co/URDQGfsuPL

— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 26, 2021

blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link

Don't not click "yes" if you think we should kill this puppy.

Click "no" if you don't want us to not kill this puppy.

Are we clear?

Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link

My parents' neighbors STILL have their Trump/Pence sign up. But they used black electrical tape to block out Pence. Feels like they're not quite ready to abandon Trump just yet.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link

The one time leader of the free world who now lives alone in a hotel sharing buffets, common areas, and staff with strangers, yearns for attention and relevance so badly, he now stands on a patio step every night ranting to tens of people about a 6 month old election that he lost pic.twitter.com/xIuZ7jAkZD

— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) April 30, 2021

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 04:25 (two years ago) link

...and then he brought down the house with a killer rendition of "Kokomo".

blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 May 2021 05:15 (two years ago) link


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