LOL suck it Trump
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 15:26 (eight months ago) link
A day before Super Tuesday
― jaymc, Monday, 28 August 2023 15:29 (eight months ago) link
maybe he could argue that the trial was going to distract from his campaign if he was bothering to even show up for debates and stuff
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 15:36 (eight months ago) link
"Muh rallies!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 August 2023 15:53 (eight months ago) link
what about the other 3 trials? I assume they'll be scheduled in 2024 as well? seems pretty bad for Donnie, I don't care what conservatives say having to spend a big chunk of your campaign on trial for trying to subvert the last election does not bode well for his chances
― frogbs, Monday, 28 August 2023 16:31 (eight months ago) link
His lawyers are going to dump as much chaff in the system as possible.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:33 (eight months ago) link
I don't know of many defendants who have so angered the judges before their trials even begin. (Excluding that weird judge on the Documents case.) Patience is going to be low for antics.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
Roger Stone needs to shot into the sun
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
I don't say this to join the doom and gloom brigade -- overall I think these trials are bad for him and good for us sane Americans -- but it is a bit of a bummer that they are going to provide a constant stream of dramatic inflammatory content in the lead up to the election. The chance was pretty slim anyway that the media would have learned any lessons about not feeding the beast, but with all this shit going on that chance drops to 0. And if 2016 taught us anything it's that there's not really such a thing as bad press for this guy. Ah well, nevertheless
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:22 (eight months ago) link
The thing is, the media matter less now; what happens is in the hands of the judges who must watch as Trump exhausts their patience.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
Also, swing voters will have had 9 years of being tired of Trump being injected into their veins 24/7
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:29 (eight months ago) link
And if 2016 taught us anything it's that there's not really such a thing as bad press for this guy.
Meanwhile, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 have taught you nothing. But thanks for piping up!
― read-only (unperson), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:33 (eight months ago) link
Hey now, like I said, I think these are good developments. I am just bracing myself for his nonstop visage to continue to be everywhere for the foreseeable future. I recognize that was gonna happen anyway, it’s just an unpleasant aspect of the reality we live in, allow me to vent about that unpleasantness
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:39 (eight months ago) link
think of it this way, if somebody came to me to sponsor their youth baseball league, and they already had a decent amount of cash from their other sponsors, but they needed just that last little piece to get them across the finish line to cover operations.
and all of the other sponsors were eager and believed in the brand, whereas I was opportunistic and self-serving - I thought all of the kids and parents in the league were shitty, garbage people, and figured "ehh, the league will probably fold mid-season, for me it's a tax write-off and and I'll build my brand and look like I care about youth, win-win, besides Pony League sucks" and then they preceded to be the worst little shits in the world and at the center of a number of terrible in-town controversies, hurting my brand, and then they somehow made it through the end of the season....
and they come back to me to re-up my sponsorship for the next year, and the other sponsors were still mega enthusiastic but I said "fuck no, not after what happened last time"....
that's basically Trump. he got the outside help he needed in 2016 from a lot of naive, stupid people who don't want any part of him again, and he can't win without them.
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link
We already know that Trump's most eager followers have a huge appetite for social destruction, so his crimes matter nothing to them. In this primary phase of the election the main question is whether the less nihilistic, more laissez-faire Republicans continue to wash Trump's feet and dry them with their hair.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:45 (eight months ago) link
appetite for social destruction
It's so easy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:59 (eight months ago) link
wash Trump's feet and dry them with their hair.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
Patience is going to be low for antics.
What about hijinks?
Shenanigans?
Tomfoolery?
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
What about Our Love to Admire?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:05 (eight months ago) link
Selecting any random set of days from Wikipedia's extensive timeline of the Trump presidency is a reminder that there were like 1,000 forgotten controversies for every one we collectively remember. pic.twitter.com/258CAqF60V— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 30, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
see also
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
LOL, lock 'em all up Donnie
(Glenn) Beck said: “Do you regret not locking (Clinton) up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?”
Trump said: “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.”
Trump has encouraged the “lock her up” chant against other opponents but he remains in considerable danger of being locked up himself.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:13 (eight months ago) link
that's a genuinely deranged question to ask
― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:54 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, I thought Beck had some kind of mea culpa a few years ago, but I guess he's still a kook
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:01 (eight months ago) link
"And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?”https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2017/12/macca-farleyv2.jpg?w=980&q=75
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:05 (eight months ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, August 30, 2023 8:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
he tried rebrand as reasonable but it didnt take, not sure what he was thinking
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:18 (eight months ago) link
I thought he was going blind. Did he rebrand as sighted?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:21 (eight months ago) link
He really tried to rebrand? As sensible? Guess I could look this up somewhere.
― tobo73, Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:27 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GMjnXrt.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:35 (eight months ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Clay, Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:54 (eight months ago) link
If only he had lost the power of speech.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:22 (eight months ago) link
NEW: Judge says court will allow livestreaming of proceedings in the Georgia election interference case against former Pres. Trump and others. https://t.co/YvoiRiRuxx— ABC News (@ABC) August 31, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2023 01:41 (eight months ago) link
No doubt in my mind that's the right decision, even though it will be escalate the level of media pundit bloviation, incessant public chatter, and general political tension to nearly unbearable levels.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 September 2023 01:47 (eight months ago) link
I think I will wait for the 12" club remix
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 September 2023 01:56 (eight months ago) link
Donnie Goes To Atlantawood
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 September 2023 01:57 (eight months ago) link
Fulton County hearing is now streaming live
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:54 (seven months ago) link
Donny NoCash live at Fulton
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:02 (seven months ago) link
looks like the result of the hearing is that Chesebro and Powell will be tried together starting Oct. 23, it has not been determined whether the other 17 defendants will also be a part of that trial, but the judge said he was skeptical that they should be.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:17 (seven months ago) link
That needs a snappy portmanteau like PoBro or Chesebrowell or CheeseBowel.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
still stunned at Tarrio getting 22 years, I mean no sympathy for that guy obviously but that's pretty harsh. and I think it then follows that Trump himself deserves 2222 years, though I suspect it's probably gonna be 3 months of house arrest at Mar-a-Lago or something. though I guess we've reached such a bizarre point in US History that it seems useless to speculate anything.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:32 (seven months ago) link
oath keeper guy got 18, same ballpark for the masterminds, if the mob had been antifa they wouldve tried to put terrorism charges on ever last person within a mile of the capitol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:35 (seven months ago) link
as theyre doing now with the anti cop city people in atlanta
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:36 (seven months ago) link
no time to go wobbly. in an ideal world tall members of right-wing street-fighting paramilitaires would be liquidated by the dictatorship of the proletariat
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:29 (seven months ago) link
short members, too
His whole 'I can't be a white nationalist, I'm Cuban!' thing never really gained much traction
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:41 (seven months ago) link
I'll admit that I haven't been following the details of who did what but didn't Tarrio plot and attempt a coup? How is 22 years harsh?
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
re: Trump not Tarrio, did this get missed?
Trump is liable in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge rules; January trial will determine damages
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:00 (seven months ago) link
in that trial-streaming image, Asshole is looking more like a gob of suet thrown at the backdrop than usual
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:03 (seven months ago) link
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, September 6, 2023 5:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm not really following the details either but was he really the main guy? did this shit really start with the Proud Boys? feel like if that was the case he wouldn't have been out on bail
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link
i dont think anyones saying they caused the whole thing but they did make a seditious plot and then carry it out
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:18 (seven months ago) link