Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

you know at some point he's asked his people to reach out to Nielsen about some kind of presidential ratings scale, it's important to know how you're doing against Always Sunny and Third Rock From the Sun

“I hear Trump’s entourage is almost as big as Bill The Cat’s.”

I mean at the end of Bloom County's first run Trump's brain was surgically inserted into Bill The Cat's body, so he's actually one and the same.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/21/trump-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi-deadly-force/

I mean I wish but

this is pretty fucked up even for him, makes it sound like he's the one taking him hostage

https://i.imgur.com/AnHpwKC.jpeg

Musta worked out a new deal with Putin to get some help fresh election interference this year.

Seems like something you might not want to make public, but who cares?

lol Reagan’s people kept their desk with Iran secret for 40 years and Trump just blurts it out.

DEAL with Iran

The deal was kept in a desk.

I mean am I misunderstanding this or is he basically holding a reporter hostage with a foreign nation in order to win an election

The reporter probably won't even be grateful.

The Dart of the Eel

sounds smart to me

first time i've seen this joke outside ilx.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ULP1ztety/

It's an updated version of the "Here's why that's good news for McCain" joke that was fairly widespread in '08.

ah okay.

it is amazing how many times i see it for real in the papers. op/ed stuff. like, daily almost.

lol Reagan’s people kept their desk with Iran secret for 40 years and Trump just blurts it out.

Also https://www.publicnotice.co/p/doug-balloon-new-york-times-pitchbot-interview

Sorry for spreading trash, but check out these tattoos

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448735/trump-south-bronx-rally-biden-nyc-voters.html

I try not to take the Lord’s name in vain, but Jesus Christ. I’ve never even worn a piece of branded political clothing. Tell me these morons are not in a cult.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/23/20/85264501-13448735-image-a-13_1716491225129.jpg

Nice tits

has this guy ever actually voted?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/23/22/85271311-13448735-image-a-21_1716499766013.jpg

the more I think about it the more fucked up this hostage journalist in Russia thing is, maybe someone can explain this to me but it sure sounds like he just admitted he has a quid pro quo with Putin going on right now

I know it makes me sound like a crank but I really do think something's happening here, I mean this classified docs case is still extremely weird and even by Trump's standards doesn't make any sense. Trump himself famously never paid attention to anything in his briefings. he's not even offering an explanation of why he's doing it besides "because I can" and now there's evidence of his people lying to the FBI and trying to move the documents from room to room to evade them, to the point where an ex-President's home had to be raided by the FBI. theres also the fact that Trump has always been very rigidly pro-Russia, like his viewpoints on everything are constantly bouncing all over the place except for the ones that directly relate to Russia. on all that he's very consistent. its just so at odds with everything else he does

Meaning the tweet regarding Gershkovich? Unless there's something more concrete than the tweet I don't know we can take that at face value or anything close to it

As to how pro-Russia he is, I don't think there's a particularly clear picture, its quite mixed. Trump provided more aid to Ukraine than Obama did, and while he seemed much more Putin friendly than Obama was, I don't really think that was particularly reflected in actions. I'd way overall the Obama administration was more Russia friendly than the Trump one

Russia also invaded Ukraine under Obama, and didn't upscale until after Trump was gone, so even if it were true, it didn't factor into Putin's calculations to take advantage of it

What Trump says and what Trump does do often overlap and not in consistent ways, but I think its a mistake to draw too close a link between the two, and should be analysed in isolation mostly (while acknowledging they're not entirely distinct)

He's tweaking on bootleg Sudafed and typing whatever shit comes into his head.

Thats not true, I haven't touched it since Tuesday

Meaning the tweet regarding Gershkovich? Unless there's something more concrete than the tweet I don't know we can take that at face value or anything close to it

― anvil, Friday, May 24, 2024 12:06 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats what I'm wondering, if anyone's yet done any research into what he's saying here, idk it seems pretty bad. always so hard to tell with this guy but it's like 100% clear that if Russia wants something in exchange for help during the election Trump is more than happy to deliver, if anything he's more willing to do so given how little consequences he's faced so far

actually doing stuff while in office is another thing though, especially since the heat was on this particular connection before he even took office, and even Republicans weren't really going along with what he was saying just yet.

just saying for all the weird and bonkers shit he says on a daily basis his support for certain specific Russian political goals has always raised a few eyebrows

I think you're reading too much into it. I get it, when MTG started going on about TransCarpathia that didn't come out of nowhere, so its far from impossible it has some significance, but this is more likely to be nothing. I'm not sure he has any particular interest in freeing Gershkovich either

again I don't think we ever got a satisfactory answer as to why Trump would take massive amounts of classified docs with him into his house and why he tried to hard to avoid giving them back, not saying it has anything to do with Russia, the most benign explanation is that he willingly compromised national security to make Biden's job harder, which is still the sort of thing that would land anyone else in prison for life

you know, if I were an investigative journalist I would still check the hostage claim out

He's getting loudly booed at the Libertarian convention.

what must it take to end up in such a hell

Its pretty weird the the Libertarian party conference had the candidate for a different party than their own as a speaker. I read something weird about the Libertarians recently in I think Colorado, where they purposefully neutered themselves in some say when they got too close to beating a Republican. and that a lot of people have left over the last (3?) years, maybe more maybe less

He's getting loudly booed at the Libertarian convention.

*insert “here’s how that’s bad for Biden” joke*

it’s like libertarians don’t like to win

“loser-tarians is more like it, very low energy”

I would think almost everybody would get booed at a libertarian convention, just seems like they kind of thing

that kind of thing

lol I've never seen him get treated like this

Trump: Combine with us in a partnership.

Crowd: booooooo pic.twitter.com/NO46Gsxv5w

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 26, 2024

wonder who thought this was a good idea, must be some internal data showing him losing a lot of support from crypto Republicans

They should book him for the Gathering of the Jugalos next.

Just the usual transactional stuff that is his whole approach with everything. “I hear you guys like x, y, and z. Support me and I’ll do x, y and z just for you, even though I’ve never given shit one about those things before.” What he didn’t realize is that Libertarians don’t like being told what to do, unless maybe it’s coming from a genuine Libertarian. They didn’t even want to support RFKJ, you’d think he would have done better than 2% of delegates in the first round of nominations.

xp also lol

libertarians are expert at building coalitions i think they got this

Why Libertarians would want to support the party that actively takes away liberties as their job number one escapes me

As long as it's other people's liberties it's cool.