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
and sure enthusiasm for Biden is low but enthusiasm for keeping Trump out of office is really high and that's why Biden got the most votes in American history. the "he's literally gonna try to end democracy" pitch came off hyperbolic in 2020 but I'm guessing it'll play way better now
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:06 (eight months ago) link
the polls are mostly national right now and they have way too high an undecided % in them to be anything but noisey. the latest Fox News one, which still had Biden ahead, had like 15% undecided in it.
Independents in the poll don't really like either candidate, but you can be sure these indictments, as they progress further, are going to peel off a little bit of that number. Republicans showed less support for Trump than Dems for Biden (something I never thought I'd see). I would also wager there's a sliver of people in D/Ind camp who are non-decisive in the poll because they don't think Biden will be the nominee, which he didn't have to contend with during similar polls in 2019 as he was just one of many candidates in the D poll at that point of time, whereas he's the actual President now with a secondary candidate polling in the low double digits. not realistic, but undecided voters are usually stupid.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:06 (eight months ago) link
I feel like Biden might paradoxically have tougher sledding this time around despite being an incumbent, but at the same token, the idea that indictment proceedings are going to have no material effect on Independent voters (or even a tiny bit of movement on R voters) is kind of absurd.
tune back in one year from now basically
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:08 (eight months ago) link
midterms did a lot to quash those fears for me, inflation got really high and really was affecting a lot of shit, and naturally it seemed people were gonna blame Dems for it cuz that's what always happens. but it didn't really shake out that way.
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
Anyone who is still undecided at this point should be stripped of their right to vote IM(undemocratic)O. Regardless of how low-info a voter you are, how do you not have at least enough of an opinion about Donald Trump to have an idea of the general direction you're gonna go?
Welll, I dunno, maybe if he exceeds 100 indictments, I'll consider making a decision. Until then I'm just not sure. It's a toughie!
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:23 (eight months ago) link
kenbone.jpg
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:24 (eight months ago) link
The Dobbs Decision continues to have a massive influence
Trump's in a bind there - wanting to take credit for his SCOTUS appointments, but knowing that shit doesn't fly with the suburban moms
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:26 (eight months ago) link
fwiw, I wasn't talking about "undecideds", I was just responding to frogbs' comment about Republican voters doing mental gymnastics to keep voting for him. there's also those GOP voters who will vote Trump simply because, "suck it, woke libs" is their only thought process entering the voting booth.
also fwiw, I'm not arguing that there are enough of these voters to put him back in office, rather just addressing the "how can people keep voting for this guy" line.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
kenbone kenbone ken whiny bone
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:32 (eight months ago) link
lol don't worry jon I started writing my response long before you posted, by the time I submitted it was xpost city.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:33 (eight months ago) link
my cynical side says Republican voters are gonna rally around him anyway
He has gone up in the polls, so you are probably right. On the other hand, if--and this is a huge if--he gets convicted before November of next year, a lot of voters may opt out.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:47 (eight months ago) link
KEN TO THE BONE! DUH DUH DUH DUH fug
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:49 (eight months ago) link
he's gone up in the polls vs other Republicans but down otherwise IIRC
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
^^
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:54 (eight months ago) link
That was my first time watching Morning Joe.. ^^^^ wasn't as bad as I thought
One point they keep hammering home is how weak the other GOP candidates look when they won't confront Trump (Hutchinson & Christie aside)... they just keep trying to bring in some shit about Hunter's 7 million but never talk about Jared's 3 BILLION, most of which was foreign money
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:22 (eight months ago) link
The intelligent demon bastards like McConnell must be beside themselves that they are going to wind up with Trump again.
There is absolutely nothing Trump could do that would make his cult vote against him.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:44 (eight months ago) link
Usually at this point in the election cycle my CW is that "a lot can happen in the next 14½ months, so nothing is close to decided, yet." This time I'd have to say that the Republican nominee will be Trump again or the party becomes a de facto headless chicken.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 17 August 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
if he died and they put someone else on the ballot, we would hear about him having more write-ins than the official candidate, but never see the evidence.
― BrianB, Thursday, 17 August 2023 23:45 (eight months ago) link
Donald Trump, RIP, Republican candidate for president.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 23:55 (eight months ago) link
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/17/22/74451253-12418749-image-m-32_1692309119368.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:10 (eight months ago) link
doin good no a care in the world
Trump just posted this to Truth Social, and it’s alarming. He makes no sense at all. His words are garbled and slurred, his hair is mussed. He’s swaying, blinking excessively, and sweating. It’s actually frightening. Does he need medical help? pic.twitter.com/bVG6fs3k8D— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:41 (eight months ago) link
He's off his meds again.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:47 (eight months ago) link
that tweet got my hopes up. he made it sound like he was having a mental breakdown, but Mike Sington was just fantasizing. it was just standard Trump stuff. he just tried to cram in as many of his 'clever nicknames' as possible and it was like a traffic jam between his brain and his tongue. other than that, business as usual.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:15 (eight months ago) link
a shitty performance gets my shitty weak review i guesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV85E2S-Idw
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:22 (eight months ago) link
Jon
there's also those GOP voters who will vote Trump simply because, "suck it, woke libs" is their only thought process entering the voting booth
Fixed
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:23 (eight months ago) link
Yeah sounded like normal trump rhetoric and delivery. Here we go again with the “Trumps losing his mind” pictures and vids everyone oversells for attention and engagement just like any other clickbait. Not like I wouldn’t love to witness his mashed potato brain oozing out of his ears...
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:24 (eight months ago) link
xp He did seem a little more unhinged than usual. It was sort of reminiscent of the press conference he held, I think it was the Thursday after the election, where he just stood at the podium and rattled off all of this conspiracy nonsense. I really thought he had lost his mind then.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:24 (eight months ago) link
Yep, full on Scanners head explosion or nothing.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:25 (eight months ago) link