Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

My dad was in the Air Force in the early '70s. He must have become a USAA member at some point, because USAA members can pass membership to their kids afaict in perpetuity. I have no other connections to the military, but my kids should be able to use USAA, too.

It took months and months but America finallly found someone worse than Morgan Wallen to top the singles charts

definitely verbatim conversation quotes:

Trump contended that DeSantis pleaded with him for an endorsement during his first run for governor, when polls showed him trailing his primary challenger, then-Florida agricultural commissioner Adam Putnam.

“I said ‘You are so dead right now you are not going, no endorsement is going to save you. George Washington won’t save you.’ He said, ‘I’m telling you, if you endorse me, I have a chance,’” Trump said.

he said, sir,

Tears in his eyes

but then, george washington unexpectedly saved ron desantis

george washington said, sir,

he really is at heart a man of many bits

"Does anybody in here not like their children" -- Trump in Davenport, Iowa pic.twitter.com/zk3PJRincU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2023

"Besides me, I mean ..."

someone else is to blame, part 258633784: Pence caused Jan. 6th. : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/13/trump-pence-january-6-violence

Pence tried to kill HIMSELF? damn now that is a twist

"Pence, a very strange man, kind of depressed. Maybe he just likes God so much he wants to go meet him."

you know what I just won?

THE WET T-SHIRT CONTEST, JESUS LOVERS

“We are learning that the Manhattan DA office has asked for a meeting with law enforcement ahead of a potential Trump indictment. The meeting is to discuss logistics for some time next week which would mean they are anticipating an indictment next week” pic.twitter.com/IkbM46Naoe

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 17, 2023

but this is meaningless too, right? he'll just go "nah", not show up for anything, and nothing will happen because law enforcement chuds don't want to look "political"

Kraken 2: Release the Crappin'

I mean, I don't know, the story says he'll need to be fingerprinted and processed like anyone else. I suppose he could blow it off, but I can't imagine the state being cool with him doing that.

In related wheels-of-justice news:

THREAD: What should we make of the Chief Judge's ruling that DOJ prosecutors have met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception for Trump attorney Evan Corcoran?

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 17, 2023

The stormy is coming...

I mean nothing came of it when this dude stole classified documents, extorted the president of Ukraine, and tried to overthrow the government, I can't imagine this being anything but a very minor convenience

he was impeached for the Ukraine thing!

yeah he got to spend 2 weeks chilling in the White House fundraising and crying witch hunt while everyone else in Congress had to work 12 hour days pretending there was actually a sliver of a chance he'd get removed from office

the sepublican senators showed tremendous integrity and courage during that second impeachment

sepublican

Maybe not coincidence this is the 30 year anniversary of Branch Davidian siege near Waco. https://t.co/HfSz2X8REG

— Patrick W. Watson (@PatrickW) March 17, 2023

Messiah complex? ✔️

Likes underage girls? ✔️

Pro-gun? ✔️

Doesn't play guitar, but Ivanka does ✔️

I mean nothing came of it when this dude stole classified documents

Isn't this Corcoran thing directly about the documents?

Yeah. Classified docs stuff still very much in play. There's a special prosecutor who is still actively special prosecuting!

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he seems fine

His rants scan like mistranslated North Korean propaganda.

Or maybe the opening scroll from a cheap straight to VHS post-apocalyptic movie.

Wait, "former" president?

Anarchists have stollen? Lucky anarchists.

https://www.daringgourmet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stollen-2-square-edited.jpg

Ok reading those truth social posts maybe something is gonna happen

Not if we take our nation back!

its kinda funny and pretty dicey that this is the thing hes going to get tried for cause paying someone to shut up isnt against the law its done all the time instead theyre making the argument that paying her was for the benefit of his campaign and therefor violated campaign laws which is not a particularly common way of thinking about things, youd think if you were going to arrest the ex pres youd want to do it for something rock solid

Most likely Trump's attorneys were told by the Manhattan DA's office that an indictment would likely issue early next week and that he would need to surrender on Tuesday and appear in court.

That would not be an "arrest" but Trump is trying to dramatize this for his supporters. https://t.co/DN4bYLhkCM

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 18, 2023

Anyway, this may just be the tip of the iceberg. There's little doubt he's committed numerous crimes in numerous ways in numerous states. That's never really been in question. The issue has been prosecution, which, go figure, only really ramped up once he was out of office. Though not least because several of his crimes (Georgia, January 6, classified docs) were committed on the way out.

His rants scan like mistranslated North Korean propaganda.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 March 2023 bookmarkflaglink

It's actually purely American in its levels of delusion about the best country in the world. With a bunch of racism.

its kinda funny and pretty dicey that this is the thing hes going to get tried for cause paying someone to shut up isnt against the law its done all the time instead theyre making the argument that paying her was for the benefit of his campaign and therefor violated campaign laws which is not a particularly common way of thinking about things, youd think if you were going to arrest the ex pres youd want to do it for something rock solid

― lag∞n, Saturday, March 18, 2023 10:57 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Cohen’s already gone to jail for this, so maybe that sets a precedent. But I agree—this seems dicier than the Georgia election fraud case but I am no lawyer.

They just want to get him in court and talking so he'll confess to 7 other things during one of his rants

I think that's probably right, and it's the area where in the past he might have been savvier, but I think he'll say all kinds of nonsense under oath now

He'll probably just keep pleading the fifth, which is one reason this stuff keeps getting dragged out. But the ongoing Stormy Daniels thing specifically seems to have been drawn out due to prosecutorial foot dragging; it was always weird that Cohen did time for a crime committed at the behest of the asshole that did not go to jail, but again, don't underestimate the dampening effect of Trump being president. The second he was out of office all this shit started ramping up. He's been in and will be in court for all sorts of stuff for the foreseeable future, even if he'll never see the inside of a jail cell, though he's such a POS there is ample potential for him to finally cross some red line and get himself in even more serious legal jeopardy. He's a perma-perp. He can't help it.

That Trump tweet (or whatever they're called on Truth Social) above very reminiscent of Wire's "Reuters": "This is your correspondent, running out of tape, gunfire's increasing, looting, burning, rape."

A good minithread from someone who keeps regular tabs on this stuff

For those asking, so far there's scattered anger but no concrete plan on Trump forums for his potential arrest on Tuesday.

So far it's:
1—Users urging DeSantis not to be like "Judas Pence" and hand him over
2—Random, rote calls for Civil War if it happens

I'll keep you updated.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 18, 2023

Judas Pence was more into leather

Hopefully this ugly link works ...

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I literally have no idea, why don't you tell me? I was just trying to find a way to embed my generated video.

My new band concept is heavy metal covers of songs about coins ("Penny Lane," "Three Coins in a Fountain," "Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares," "Brother, Can you Spare a Dime?,"and selections from the Threepenny Opera).

I am calling it Judas Pence

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Huh. What does that mean? That the link generates ad revenue?

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