I swear, we (and I dont just mean ILX I mean reddit and twitter and etc) need to stop giving these pissant media groups and social media platforms any oxygen. If we all stopped listening to/talking about him COMPLETELY, this would wither and dry up and die.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
It's been grimly, terrifyingly fascinating to me how, following the election and Jan 6, as Fox News has ever-so-slightly pivoted its lips away from Trump's asshole, channels like OAN, etc, have gained more visibility.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, 6 October 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link
when yr dependent you don't rly care who yr dealer is, u gotta get some more of that trump? kids w hustle always out there lol
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
is that… dirt https://t.co/Nq9IhGlHQa— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 10, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 October 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
"servant leadership" is one of those phrases that will turn you into a 2009 reddit atheist without you even realizing it
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 10 October 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
the carpet looks great but what about how antifa spraypainted blue all over the stripes of our blessed american flag?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 October 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
this is dirt with curtains on one side, a sparkling clean red rug, and a couple flags we got on discount because they had bright blue stains on them. sir we love you
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 October 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E21/KTiXD8RnSMQOueQArPyrydIJWlY=.gif
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 October 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
She should call four seasons landscaping they do great work
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
Isn't she gonna rake all those unsightly footprints in the sand? Slacker
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
Psycho ex-president Trump posts bizarre video vowing revenge. Put him in prison now, this motherfu*ker is dangerous. pic.twitter.com/u3iY4Q44eG— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 11, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
That can't be real.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's a Christopher Walken monologue from a movie, but Trump did post it
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-video-documentary-truth-social-b2199939.html
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
ha, thought it was Abel Ferrara
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
You are like a lion, sir, they all said, a lion who is being provoked my jackals in your midst, sir
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
Remember when a lion could eat everything in its path? Everything, it was beautiful. Then Obama started putting in the restrictions. Gluten-free, they call it. Hard to be a lion when you're gluten-free.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
when I think jackal, I think Devon Nunes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
He’s more a remora
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
This really is how Trump sees himself.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
It’s weird how we don’t remember who trump is and need him to remind us. With his fury.
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
His leonine nature.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
It's a weird parable for him to glom onto as a political message: his opponents, the jackals, saw his wife & kids disrepecting him, so they thought that they could mess with him too, so he's gotta eat everything in his path to show them who's boss... vote Trump 2024!
― BrianB, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
You're probably reading too much into it. His thought processes stop at "I'm a lion!"
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
it's kind of a bit of a burn on his own family, too. in the well-known parable - everybody has Poolhall Junkies memorized by this point, right? - the strong lion first revealed its weakness by letting his lion cubs nibble at his ear in the full view of others. the lion should have eaten his cubs as soon as they showed disobedience, sir
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
He has nice kids though
Love checking in on my boy pic.twitter.com/RBz3L55NIQ— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
They seriously are the “Best Value” Targaryens.— Cory vs The Evil Dead (@MrCoryPants) October 4, 2022
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
so gross
― treeship., Wednesday, 12 October 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/15/truth-social-trump-animosity-whistleblower/
Love to see the true believers get caught in the grift.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?
Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.
Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’ ”
Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show “The Apprentice,” was abruptly removed from the company’s board. Wilkerson said he believes it was payback for his refusal to turn over a small fortune to the former president’s wife. Litinsky thought so, too, according to an email Wilkerson and his attorneys shared with The Washington Post and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In that email, Litinsky complained that Trump was “retaliating against me” by threatening to “ ‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met.”
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
Something off about this Trump guy
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
just an update on bannon's sentencing for refusing to show up for the jan 6 committee subpoena, since it might provide a rough timeline of how long it would might possibly take for trump to face consequences for not showing up for his own subpoena. bannon is the only other guy to get charged with this in 50+ years. after the sentencing, he will appeal, and it'll take until next summer at the earliest. so, about a year and a half after refusing to show up?
Before I get into DOJ's Steve Bannon's sentencing memo, keep in mind that Bannon's sentence will be appealed. Bannon is HIGHLY unlikely to go to jail until next summer, at the earlier. And this is being written for Carl Nichols, who favors the appeal. https://t.co/bNpfHgjGAs— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 17, 2022
assuming trump refuses to show up this fall, the miracle that he is actually held accountable for this and is punished for the same thing any of us would be punished for, and that it is appealed and the appealing judge isn't corrupt, that puts trump's 30 day sentence in jail (lol, it seems so impossible that it would ever, ever happen as i type this) some time in late spring/early summer 2024? this sounds incredibly plausible, can't wait to see him go to jail in the middle of his campaign to openly steal the election
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 October 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
I feel like this timing would help his campaign. Mandela vibes.
― treeship., Monday, 17 October 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
a judge will probably rule that the subpoena is going to be dropped in January anyway
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
yeah. and even if the democrats keep the house, no one will ever give a fuck about this subpoena that he'll never show up to. the only way it will be remembered is if it stands as the last action of the jan 6 committee, if nothing else comes out of it. and then it will be remembered as a complete fucking joke
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Trump’s company charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ hotel rates to protect the first family, House committee report says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/trump-secret-service-hotel-rates/index.html
"One thing about us wise guys, the hustle never ends."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
"Muh tax dollars!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
"He sold us $350,000 screwdrivers because he's smart!"
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses
weren't they also forcing air force planes to refuel at some obscure base in Scotland so the crews would be forced to stay at one of his golf courses?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
That was in reference to Trump implying there was a secretive weapons system he controlled. “I have built a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before,” Trump said in an interview, before referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.”Trump’s long obsessions with strongmen leaders — and Kim in particular — comes through in the interviews. Throughout their conversations, Trump repeats the false claim that former president Barack Obama tried 11 times to reach Kim with no success.Woodward points out that Trump’s own military advisers have warned him that Kim “lies through his teeth to you,” and that Obama made no attempts to speak with Kim himself.“Kim Jong Un gave you bad information on that,” Woodward tells Trump at one point. “I don’t think that’s true.”But Trump is not persuaded, choosing to believe Kim over his own advisers.“Obama called 11 times,” Trump insists. “They showed me the records in Korea. I’m very close to this man. Very close.”In a later interview, Trump boasts that he averted a war with North Korea, again repeating his false claim about Obama and choosing to believe Kim over his own military team: “Obama wanted, 11 times he tried,” Trump says. “Kim Jong Un told me. Eleven times.”
Trump’s long obsessions with strongmen leaders — and Kim in particular — comes through in the interviews. Throughout their conversations, Trump repeats the false claim that former president Barack Obama tried 11 times to reach Kim with no success.
Woodward points out that Trump’s own military advisers have warned him that Kim “lies through his teeth to you,” and that Obama made no attempts to speak with Kim himself.
“Kim Jong Un gave you bad information on that,” Woodward tells Trump at one point. “I don’t think that’s true.”
But Trump is not persuaded, choosing to believe Kim over his own advisers.
“Obama called 11 times,” Trump insists. “They showed me the records in Korea. I’m very close to this man. Very close.”
In a later interview, Trump boasts that he averted a war with North Korea, again repeating his false claim about Obama and choosing to believe Kim over his own military team: “Obama wanted, 11 times he tried,” Trump says. “Kim Jong Un told me. Eleven times.”
11 times, kim jong un told him
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
1. Kim was washing his hair;2. Took his sister to brunch, couldn't take the call3. Busy with missile test4. Murdering uncle with anti-aircraft gun, try back later5: Playing Xbox, not a good time6. etc. etc.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Breaking:NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been deposed in defamation suit filed by rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, her lawyers say.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 19, 2022
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
it's crazy how many times people have mistakenly thought he did something horrible
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ca-judge-finds-trump-likely-lied-to-court-in-georgia-big-lie-case
President Trump knew that data supposedly showing voter fraud in the 2020 election was false, but signed a court document attesting to it regardless, a federal judge said on Wednesday.U.S. District Judge David Carter for the Central District of California found that Trump likely lied to a Georgia federal court in December 2020, when he claimed that Fulton County had counted the votes of the dead, convicted felons, and unregistered voters.Trump had already filed a lawsuit making the claims in Georgia state court.But when the former President’s legal team began to consider moving the state court case to federal court, Trump attorney John Eastman realized that the data was flawed, Carter found.“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate,” Eastman wrote in a Dec. 5, 2020 email cited by Carter. “For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”Trump and his lawyers ended up filing the federal lawsuit with the faulty information anyway, Carter said. The judge remarked that the federal lawsuit was filed “without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing” the incorrect data.
U.S. District Judge David Carter for the Central District of California found that Trump likely lied to a Georgia federal court in December 2020, when he claimed that Fulton County had counted the votes of the dead, convicted felons, and unregistered voters.
Trump had already filed a lawsuit making the claims in Georgia state court.
But when the former President’s legal team began to consider moving the state court case to federal court, Trump attorney John Eastman realized that the data was flawed, Carter found.
“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate,” Eastman wrote in a Dec. 5, 2020 email cited by Carter. “For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”
Trump and his lawyers ended up filing the federal lawsuit with the faulty information anyway, Carter said. The judge remarked that the federal lawsuit was filed “without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing” the incorrect data.
how does he keep getting blamed for this stuff? get a life, people!!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
"deposed" as in deposition... boring
I was hoping it was more deposed like Ceaușescu
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
disposed
― treeship., Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
I really think he made a deal with Morgoth that he can get away with anything an then when he dies his soul becomes a giant tarantula for eternity
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Trump's legendary sense of humorhttps://www.businessinsider.com/trump-joked-scotus-leaker-threat-be-bride-of-a-prisoner-2022-10
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
I didn't know they made glasses in this shade of rose-tinted:
https://www.newsweek.com/2022/11/04/sweet-revenge-what-trump-would-do-second-term-1754654.html
Bolton, too, can envision Trump trying to hang on past a second term. But he also suggests an alternative, far more benign vision of how Trump might cope with the hard stop that in principle awaits him at the end of that term. "In a second term, Trump will start thinking about his legacy," he says. "He doesn't want to go down in history as a loser. And because his supporters can't vote for him anymore, he won't care what they think."Liberated from having to play to his base, says Bolton, Trump may attempt to establish himself as someone who can restore balance to a deeply polarized America, putting behind him the fact that he himself is responsible for much of that polarization. "People think Trump is a conservative, but he's not," says Bolton. "Jared [Kushner, his son-in-law and former advisor] and Ivanka [Trump, his daughter and former advisor] are basically Manhattan liberals. If they said to him his next Supreme Court nomination should be a liberal, he might listen."The notion that Trump has been playing at being an arch-conservative to fire up his base isn't that fantastic; he was a registered Democrat for eight years until 2009. A Trump 47 who dropped his flamethrower to pick up a fire extinguisher might be a possibility. He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.Bolton is quick to hedge that bet. "In the Trump universe," he says, "you can't rule anything out."
Liberated from having to play to his base, says Bolton, Trump may attempt to establish himself as someone who can restore balance to a deeply polarized America, putting behind him the fact that he himself is responsible for much of that polarization. "People think Trump is a conservative, but he's not," says Bolton. "Jared [Kushner, his son-in-law and former advisor] and Ivanka [Trump, his daughter and former advisor] are basically Manhattan liberals. If they said to him his next Supreme Court nomination should be a liberal, he might listen."
The notion that Trump has been playing at being an arch-conservative to fire up his base isn't that fantastic; he was a registered Democrat for eight years until 2009. A Trump 47 who dropped his flamethrower to pick up a fire extinguisher might be a possibility. He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.
Bolton is quick to hedge that bet. "In the Trump universe," he says, "you can't rule anything out."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.
was that before or after the muslim ban
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
I think it's when he said the words "infrastructure week"
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link