“Ensconced in campaign slacker mode, Trump would like to pretend that nothing of substance will change over the next 14 months, so he should get his second term now. It doesn’t take a zoologist to appreciate that the world doesn’t stop when a bear hibernates. Trump might want to pretend the rest of the campaign is a meaningless charade, but a lot of history is about to go down between today and November 2024.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/27/trump-presidential-election-2023-00118204
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 September 2023 00:41 (seven months ago) link
I don't think this strategy is really that risky. Why would he burn a bunch of cash campaigning against a field that can't be bothered to attack him on anything? None of the other Republicans are acting like they actually want to win this.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 28 September 2023 01:05 (seven months ago) link
yeah he needs that cash for the lawsuits ;)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 01:08 (seven months ago) link
If Obama would have marketed himself in that way the right wing blogoshere would have flamed him to death.
tbf there was an industrious market of bootleggers doing this sort of stuff and I think it sold well, I'd point you to the thread where we documented this (Obamasploitation or something it was called?) but sadly I'm sure 90% of images from it are broken now.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 28 September 2023 09:42 (seven months ago) link
lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7FUMLRa4AEBUgl?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 13:30 (seven months ago) link
Haha but of course
The Detroit News reported: “One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said ‘union members for Trump’ acknowledged that she wasn’t a union member when approached by a reporter after the event.
“Another person with a sign that read ‘auto workers for Trump’ said he wasn’t an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn’t provide their names.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:43 (seven months ago) link
On the other hand the man holding the "Handsome Guys For Trump" sign confirmed that he was indeed handsome
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link
NEW YORK (AP) — Appeals court rejects Donald Trump's request to delay civil trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens business empire.— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 28, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 19:24 (seven months ago) link
FINISH HIM!
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
i'm thinking he should get the man without a country treatment. revoke his passport and citizenship and banish him to a far off land. that would make me happy. and if he ever comes here again for any reason: immediate detention in gitmo.
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:28 (seven months ago) link
works for me
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:33 (seven months ago) link
it wouldn't be constitutional, but it definitely would be poetic justice, after he publicly said he doesn't believe in following the requirements of the US constitution
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:39 (seven months ago) link
... overheard someone mindbogglingly keep finding ways to see him as some kind of Robin Hood type hero/martyr: "He defrauded banks and investors? Good. They're scum."
― StanM, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:46 (seven months ago) link
that person probably has trouble with object permanence, huh
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:52 (seven months ago) link
(I acted like it was something on my phone that made me laugh when they said that)
― StanM, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:53 (seven months ago) link
“I’m sorry for eavesdropping but you are very very dumb”
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:05 (seven months ago) link
Sweep the leg, stevie
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:14 (seven months ago) link
Reportedly he's scheduled to be deposed in the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page thing, which is ironic on so many levels. He talked shit about them and interfered in their firing, so they filed a civil suit, which draws him in for a deposition where he will no doubt (given his track record) open himself up to further legal action.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link
Remember when he did an impression of those two having sex? Those were the days.
seems apt:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjUWhen you knew that it was over you were suddenly awareThat the autumn leaves were turning to the color of your hair(lyrics ever so slightly adjusted by court order)
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:34 (seven months ago) link
haha they are saying a gov shutdown could delay his deposition
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:45 (seven months ago) link
lololol has the judge's Chico Marx quote been posted yet?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:48 (seven months ago) link
"who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes"
literally part of the ruling
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:49 (seven months ago) link
i remember it as "your lyin' eyes"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:21 (seven months ago) link
Well, yeah.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:42 (seven months ago) link
Libs over here are panicky as well
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/unless-joe-biden-stands-aside-the-world-must-prepare-for-president-trump-20
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 07:44 (seven months ago) link
Trump has similar factors to Biden too...be funny if both of them died on the campaign.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 07:46 (seven months ago) link
that guardian commentator particularly embodying the serious monkey journalist headshot
― imago, Friday, 29 September 2023 08:06 (seven months ago) link
The Biden issue is one of them "well I wouldn't start from here" questions. Can't see that there's any younger pol who has the necessary profile + popularity to be a better bet. He has experience of campaigning and winning against Trump. And if Biden can take a big slice out of the coot vote as in 2020, that outweighs younger people thinking he's too doddery, because old people votes seem to count double.
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 September 2023 09:39 (seven months ago) link
(I am very much a fuck centrists into the sun guy)
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 September 2023 09:41 (seven months ago) link
Same here re: centrists, but there has been no prep from Democrats to prepare for a leadership change. Despise Garton Ash but the sleep is deep with that lot.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 10:10 (seven months ago) link
If we judge Biden by actions and results instead of how creaky his voice sounds, the consensus among US Ilxors leans towards his having been v competent and effective, and perhaps even startlingly progressive - the appearance on the picket lines this week isn't nothing, and is unprecedented. That's not what gets a vast chunk of the electorate voting though, I guess. Am very much hoping Democrats are considering who will takes the reins next, though. Newsom is very good at taking the fight to the media, but I haven't really a clue on where he stands with the larger, or even smaller, issues. Again, in the media climate we have now, that might even be a strength.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 29 September 2023 10:51 (seven months ago) link
But I mean Biden could die, before the election even. But so could Trump. Welcome to the duality.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 29 September 2023 10:52 (seven months ago) link
Harris vs. Junior '24
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:30 (seven months ago) link
"The Californian Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein refusing to retire at 90. Really? Give us a break."
Well
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:12 (seven months ago) link
If we judge Biden by actions and results instead of how creaky his voice sounds, the consensus among US Ilxors leans towards his having been v competent and effective
― jaymc, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:29 (seven months ago) link
and harris could take over if need be. she knows how to do stuff. even if she is mostly invisible and people seem to hate her for some reason.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:36 (seven months ago) link
She's being exactly as competent and (in)visible as most other veep before Cheney. The only way the criticism makes sense is to remember what a racist society we still are.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2023 13:38 (seven months ago) link
Exactly. And I bet she knows how to spell "potato".
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 29 September 2023 13:39 (seven months ago) link
yeah well i kinda figure its race/sex-based hatred.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:39 (seven months ago) link
see, that's what's crazy to me. you can be VP of the US for 4 or even 8 years and nobody will remember a single thing you did unless you did something horrifying like spell a word wrong or get sworn in as president on an airplane next to a blood-stained widow. (that's my weird memory of johnson anyway...don't know if its true...)
― scott seward, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:41 (seven months ago) link
it might have been a dream. were they on an airplane?
― scott seward, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:42 (seven months ago) link
JFK is very much alive it must have been a dream
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 29 September 2023 13:50 (seven months ago) link
xxp or invent the internet!
The other thing I remember Dan Quayle for is also JFK related, but I'm aware that even remembering him for that makes me a political junkie.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:52 (seven months ago) link
I don't know, that moment moved beyond political junkie-dom and well into pop culture.
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:56 (seven months ago) link
Quayle was born in 1947, which makes him younger than four of the five presidents who came after him.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:02 (seven months ago) link
Dan Quayle showed up to the Fox News HQ for some on-air bit and nobody in the reception area recognized him
"you were vice president of what, exactly?"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 29 September 2023 14:04 (seven months ago) link
Didn't Quayle also tell a bunch of emaciated refugees that they all looked like happy campers?
― henry s, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:17 (seven months ago) link
I remember Bret Kimberlin claiming to have been Quayle's pot dealer in college.
― peace, man, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:23 (seven months ago) link
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. ... No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history."
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 29 September 2023 14:27 (seven months ago) link