Yeah they have what they wanted. So Smith has Trump's DMs, which are likely very moist.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:09 (eight months ago) link
Do you think Trump was much of a DM guy? I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underling. (His Truth Social posts might actually come from his own fat fingers, because they're demonstrably more insane/aggrieved.) He was always a guy who called people, and took calls from basically anyone who had his number.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:18 (eight months ago) link
he's a BM guy
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:22 (eight months ago) link
Back in 2005 a pal who at the time covered government for the Palm Beach Post was reporting on how neighbors near the airport were irritated by increasing air traffic. His editor asked him to call Trump at Mar-a-Lago. To my friend's amazement, Trump's secretary or whatever said, "He'll call you right back. Is this the number he can reach you?" And voila Trump himself called two minutes later, talked his ear off for 15-20 minutes. Then Trump called him back two days later to compliment him on the story ("You need anything? Let me know").
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:23 (eight months ago) link
I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underlingNo, you could famously tell which were written by staffers and which were blasted out on the can by his own thumbs from the “sent from iphone” labels
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 18:11 (eight months ago) link
Trump is funny in the same way Vince McMahon is, except Vince has the self-awareness to *know* he's playing a heel, and that therefore the audience actually wants to see him get his ass kicked or leave in a huff after getting shown up, whereas Trump is famously prickly anytime he thinks something makes him "look bad".
also, as crut says, being a horrible asshole is only funny when they don't actually have any power. I think the dudes on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are hilarious but I probably wouldn't want to know them in real life
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, you can what Vince is like from what Trump does, and vice versa.
Both dudes had similar backgrounds in coming from abusive households with rich & successful fathers who had to make their own name starting in the mid-70s in the NY metro and becoming media creatures thru the 80s trying to get acceptance by the Manhattanite establishment. They’ve worked together since at least Wrestlemania IV, which was at Trump Casino iirc.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:29 (eight months ago) link
Again, recommending "Ringmaster," a new bio of Vince. The connections between the two are myriad and very close, going back to Vince Sr. prompting wrestling events in Queens.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 21:07 (eight months ago) link
Yup, just got this book from the library
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 21:38 (eight months ago) link
https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-freak-donald-trump-very-likely-our-next-president-opinion-1818694
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:14 (eight months ago) link
oh cool -- more Newsweek clickbait
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:31 (eight months ago) link
Newsweek's calling it! Damn. OK, so who do we have in '28?
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:31 (eight months ago) link
I'll sum it up: No Labels, Cornel West, Joe Biden old.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
he didn't even mention hunter. or the biden documents case.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:40 (eight months ago) link
Or that Woody Harrelson is campaigning for RFK Jr!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 14:01 (eight months ago) link
i can't believe Trump is President again. oh well, back to Frisky Dingo
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 August 2023 14:03 (eight months ago) link
before Trump, the only two incumbent presidents to lose reelection in the last 50 years have had a strong third-party bid to deal with—Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992,
impeccable logic and punctuation
― symsymsym, Saturday, 12 August 2023 16:01 (eight months ago) link
Newsweek still polling dead Republicans, I see
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 12 August 2023 16:03 (eight months ago) link
NEW: we now have two of the four stand-by witnesses reporting they’ve been given their 48-hour notice to appear Tuesday. GET YOUR TOWELS READY IT’S ABOUT TO GO DOWN! Turn on notifications for @indictmentsonly! https://t.co/OO79PN6RZC— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 12, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:29 (eight months ago) link
We've got him this time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:31 (eight months ago) link
Another day, another legal team to assemble. But, hey, what else can you expect when you go on a multi-state crime spree?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:37 (eight months ago) link
Please don’t quote Mueller she wrote please
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:40 (eight months ago) link
can we fast-forward to the bit where he dies please?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:41 (eight months ago) link
xpost Rather.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:44 (eight months ago) link
Is there something wrong with that Mueller person? I don't know who she is, I just picked that one because it summed up the situation.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
Is this guy better?
Confirmed: https://t.co/Dh82ef2f1a— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 12, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:54 (eight months ago) link
Said Mueller person is one of those very Resistance types. Big Avenatti fan when that was a thing IIRC. So no it's not the news itself, it's that ALL CAPS OMG HERE WE GO vibe.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:05 (eight months ago) link
Yeah it’s the style not the substance.
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
Gotcha. Persona aside, otherwise she's a legit source, right? A lot of these figures, from public health people to legal people, have online personas that irk me - I think I've unfollowed, say, Popehat as many times as I've bought and sold Jeff Buckley's album - but I try to look beyond that to whatever information and context they can provide.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:51 (eight months ago) link
she got a lot of flak for taking a PPP loan for her podcast
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:58 (eight months ago) link
the thread exposing her BS appears to be suspended: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/140wrbh/i_figured_something_was_off_about_the_person/
but she lied about a lot of stuff!
― symsymsym, Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:20 (eight months ago) link
she lied about the lies she was lying about
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link
jk I have no idea who she is
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:29 (eight months ago) link
I hear she wrote "Mueller".
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:37 (eight months ago) link
MSW person grifted her underpaid staff and took out PPP loans when podcasts were one of the few pandemic-proof jobs. Then it came out she was stealing valor by misstating her record and also making up details about people she knew dying iirc
― mh, Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:52 (eight months ago) link
yeah like lots of other resistance types who got a lot of attention during impeachment and pandemic (i'd add Rebekah Jones to that list) who got addicted to attention and then turned it into grift
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 12 August 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
I guess some of that stuff is starting to ring a bell. Why is she followed by so many seemingly legit people then?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:54 (eight months ago) link
All those big resistance Twitter people thrived on creating a sense of SOMETHING BIG COMING that felt very cultlike.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:44 (eight months ago) link
Why is she followed by so many seemingly legit people then?
because people don't get around to unfollowing and also most people probably haven't dug into all of that.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:48 (eight months ago) link
Tbf something big *did* often arrive as promised, but those big things just keep piling up, and none of these turds have paid a legal price yet.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 02:52 (eight months ago) link
I heard a rumor that fani willis is planning to use that georgia rico law she is using against young thug in the trump case. So trump would be charged with racketeering.
― treeship., Sunday, 13 August 2023 03:51 (eight months ago) link
I heard a rumour that fani willis say you got a broken heart
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 13 August 2023 08:19 (eight months ago) link
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Saturday, August 12, 2023 9:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Everyone on Twitter with a following due to a focus on any specific subject is very likely going to do whatever they can to maintain and drive views/engagement. Always good to keep that in mind.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Sunday, 13 August 2023 11:44 (eight months ago) link
my sources say the death penalty, for espionage, being considered for trump. i am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 13 August 2023 12:21 (eight months ago) link
Lol Trump buried his ex-wife at his golf course and refuses to landscape her grave. pic.twitter.com/Zndbtbksa5— Justin Horwitz (@JustinAHorwitz) August 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:59 (eight months ago) link
couldn't ivanka like, work some filial magic, and get some cheep plastic mums on mum?
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:39 (eight months ago) link
Not looking to defend Trump or anything but I doubt he personally is specifically "refusing" to landscape her grave. I'm sure it's just that he doesn't give a shit and never visits or thinks about it and everyone between him and whoever it might be who actually is in charge of landscaping therefore doesn't have to give a shit either.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
ehh, he's never done one thing in his life to deserve the benefit of the doubt tho
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:51 (eight months ago) link
^^^
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:52 (eight months ago) link
its not even mowed, at a golf course!
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:59 (eight months ago) link