Are there any betting pools set up for people to wager on what he will actually say/do on Monday?
― henry s, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:15 (eight months ago) link
i bet $15 he will say something that will later be used as evidence in one of the four different cases
― i wanna post cool stuff, slick stuff, neat stuff (z_tbd), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:18 (eight months ago) link
uhhhh you'd have to give me massive odds on that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:19 (eight months ago) link
see, that's the part about betting that i hate
― i wanna post cool stuff, slick stuff, neat stuff (z_tbd), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:22 (eight months ago) link
he's gonna say something really dumb.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/a0a16a2b-c302-4101-9fd9-a77efaf2487e_text.gif
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
I am just curious about what excuse he uses for not making his exonerating report public.
― henry s, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:32 (eight months ago) link
Ran out of printer ink.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
The national Quinnipiac University poll showed 54 percent of Americans said Trump should be face federal criminal charges, while 42 percent said he should not be prosecuted for those alleged crimes.
Independent voters, notably, said they support prosecuting Trump for the alleged federal crimes in question by a margin of 20 points: 57 percent said they support and 37 percent said they do not.
this last bit is pretty notable, since it was Independents that really delivered him in 2016
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
That’s not you win an election
― tobo73, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
they don't make elections anymore like with Ronald Reagan in them
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:53 (eight months ago) link
when you got elections like ronald reagan in them, you can't lose
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:26 (eight months ago) link
frogbs at 11:53 16 Aug 23when that call came out with the Georgia Secretary of State I remember a number of Twitter legal guys going "this is really bad, you don't wanna do this anywhere but especially not in Georgia" for reasons I can't really recall right now
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:42 (eight months ago) link
Aw
BREAKING: Former Pres. Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA's Office is now very much in doubt, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell @ABC News. https://t.co/IlLLZYrqht— ABC News (@ABC) August 17, 2023
Anyway, these assholes are always so full of shit. I keep seeing clips of Republican dickweeds saying shit like "we have 10x the evidence of Biden's corruption than they have of even made-up Trump evidence," or "we are this close to getting rid of the Deep State" or exonerating Trump or whatever bullshit. But they never produce the evidence. Because of course there is none, or it's the same invented, refuted bullshit presented in a different order.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:30 (eight months ago) link
not enough monkeys to work the typewriters
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:32 (eight months ago) link
how dare they take this from us?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:39 (eight months ago) link
It's another version of Q, in a way — the promised revelation, always just out of reach.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link
the conspiracy theory fantasy sphere is wild stuff, kaleidoscopic amusement
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:47 (eight months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:30 (twenty-one minutes ago) link
Using the successful formula of social media clickbait (big juicy dramatic headlines based on something flimsy or misconstrued) to keep supporters hooked and confuse general consensus through the magic of relentless "well I thought I heard" surface level perception manipulation.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:22 (eight months ago) link
It's effective too, at least with sympathetic audiences. A whole lot of people who only get information from right-wing media now firmly believe that there is strong irrefutable proof of the Biden Crime Family's misdeeds, and that the lack of prosecution for it is entirely a function of the Deep State.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:26 (eight months ago) link
If you ask them what the evidence is, they'll just say things like, "It's everywhere! You can look it up!" And if you knock down any given talking point, they just cycle to another.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:28 (eight months ago) link
After all this time, all they really have is an email that mentions "the big guy."
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:31 (eight months ago) link
if someone told me they were gonna take down the biden crime family id just be like ok thats fine
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:43 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, that's what the GOP doesn't seem to understand about the left--we don't have a cult-like attachment to people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, etc.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
xpost Yeah, it's like, just show me the (dirty) money.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:47 (eight months ago) link
we don't have a cult-like attachment to people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, etc.
No, it's more like they have a remora-like attachment to us.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:57 (eight months ago) link
remember in his first year he made this big show of doing the "fake news awards" and it just turned out to be some badly formatted HTML page
i'd bet anything this is the same deal, Trump just said it and expected his folks to make it happen, except now all his folks are probably indicted too so they can't
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:01 (eight months ago) link
"We've incriminated ourselves enough!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:07 (eight months ago) link
xp lol i love this explanation the most
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:08 (eight months ago) link
“when we finally got indictments to defend, we could not because well… here we all are.”
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
This has always been his MO, from the USFL to his NFT "trading cards."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:17 (eight months ago) link
does Colton Moore saying he's gonna impeach Fani Willis amount to anything or nah
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:27 (eight months ago) link
as much as me saying "I declare Bankruptcy"
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
He wrote "We, the undersigned" and then signed it alone.
BTW, the Georgia legislature is not in session, and will not be until January.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:40 (eight months ago) link
i think a more fair $15 bet is whether or not trump will say "no, YOU'RE out of order" to a judge at some point
― i wanna post cool stuff, slick stuff, neat stuff (z_tbd), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:57 (eight months ago) link
expectations are the enemy of satisfaction TM
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:03 (eight months ago) link
Everything I've read is that he's not particularly bold in the courtroom - 'crumpled and dispirited' is more like it
he's only likes the courts when he's suing someone
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:05 (eight months ago) link
In the call, Ms Shry allegedly told the judge, who is overseeing an election conspiracy case against Mr Trump: "You are in our sights, we want to kill you."
Prosecutors say Ms Shry added: "If Trump doesn't get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you."
This woman is probably just a harmless crazy, but this last line probably rings true for many Trump stans - he'd BETTER win or else, democracy be damned
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
The specimen is mostly deflated but somehow even gassier than usual.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:09 (eight months ago) link
I dunno these choads can’t stop getting convicted for threatening judges and congressmen by phone there may not be anyone left to carry out the killing in 2024.
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:30 (eight months ago) link
You’d think, but our system is great at churning out choads to replenish the ranks
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:39 (eight months ago) link
I mean these folks have been shown plenty of times within the last 7 years that they're more than willing to act out their violent fantasies so good luck USA
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:11 (eight months ago) link
the promised revelation, always just out of reach.― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra)
The Crying of Don, 77
― the pinefox, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:16 (eight months ago) link
Not gonna recommend watching 40 minutes of Morning Joe, but polls are not looking good for our boy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMfqXbaMrk
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:21 (eight months ago) link
fake polls
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:31 (eight months ago) link
honestly no clue how this is gonna shake out, my cynical side says Republican voters are gonna rally around him anyway cuz that's what they always do but the amount of mental gymnastics these people are gonna have to do in 2024 is outright insane. not really sure how you come back from 95 felony charges
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
like idk maybe he gets a friendly judge and a couple of closet Trumpers on the jury that somehow allows him to skate and he can play the "witch hunt" card again like he did after Russia and both impeachments but its not like that really helped the GOP electorally either
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:56 (eight months ago) link
they simply don't do mental gymnastics, that's how. the charges are "fake" from the "deep state", so there is no disconnect to wrestle with.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:57 (eight months ago) link
Independent voters are what matter, and at this moment he's bleeding them.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:00 (eight months ago) link
that probably describes like 80% of the Republican party but there are a lot of center-right folks and moderates who don't think that way. he won independents 2:1 in 2016 and that's why he became President. he managed to turn off most of them in 2020 and I don't think getting arrested every month is gonna bring em back
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:01 (eight months ago) link