lol Reagan’s people kept their desk with Iran secret for 40 years and Trump just blurts it out.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:41 (four weeks ago) link
DEAL with Iran
The deal was kept in a desk.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:44 (four weeks ago) link
I mean am I misunderstanding this or is he basically holding a reporter hostage with a foreign nation in order to win an election
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:44 (four weeks ago) link
The reporter probably won't even be grateful.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:46 (four weeks ago) link
The Dart of the Eel
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:46 (four weeks ago) link
sounds smart to me
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:46 (four weeks ago) link
first time i've seen this joke outside ilx.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ULP1ztety/
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:47 (four weeks ago) link
It's an updated version of the "Here's why that's good news for McCain" joke that was fairly widespread in '08.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:50 (four weeks ago) link
ah okay.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:56 (four weeks ago) link
it is amazing how many times i see it for real in the papers. op/ed stuff. like, daily almost.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:57 (four weeks ago) link
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:32 (four weeks ago) link
Also https://www.publicnotice.co/p/doug-balloon-new-york-times-pitchbot-interview
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:48 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:52 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:03 (four weeks ago) link
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/23/20/85264501-13448735-image-a-13_1716491225129.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:13 (four weeks ago) link
Nice tits
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:15 (four weeks ago) link
has this guy ever actually voted?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/23/22/85271311-13448735-image-a-21_1716499766013.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:16 (four weeks ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 04:23 (four weeks ago) link
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, 24 May 2024 05:06 (four weeks ago) link
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
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 05:16 (four weeks ago) link
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)
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 05:18 (four weeks ago) link
He's tweaking on bootleg Sudafed and typing whatever shit comes into his head.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 May 2024 05:21 (four weeks ago) link
Thats not true, I haven't touched it since Tuesday
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 05:29 (four weeks ago) link
― 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
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:19 (four weeks ago) link
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
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:24 (four weeks ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:41 (four weeks ago) link
you know, if I were an investigative journalist I would still check the hostage claim out
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 May 2024 14:42 (four weeks ago) link
He's getting loudly booed at the Libertarian convention.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 26 May 2024 01:56 (three weeks ago) link
what must it take to end up in such a hell
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 May 2024 02:37 (three weeks ago) link
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
― anvil, Sunday, 26 May 2024 06:29 (three weeks ago) link
*insert “here’s how that’s bad for Biden” joke*
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Sunday, 26 May 2024 12:17 (three weeks ago) link
it’s like libertarians don’t like to win
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 May 2024 14:16 (three weeks ago) link
“loser-tarians is more like it, very low energy”
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 May 2024 14:22 (three weeks ago) link
I would think almost everybody would get booed at a libertarian convention, just seems like they kind of thing
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 May 2024 14:52 (three weeks ago) link
that kind of thing
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 May 2024 14:53 (three weeks ago) link
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
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2024 15:29 (three weeks ago) link
wonder who thought this was a good idea, must be some internal data showing him losing a lot of support from crypto Republicans
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2024 15:39 (three weeks ago) link
They should book him for the Gathering of the Jugalos next.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 May 2024 16:43 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 26 May 2024 23:43 (three weeks ago) link
xp also lol
libertarians are expert at building coalitions i think they got this
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Monday, 27 May 2024 01:38 (three weeks ago) link
Why Libertarians would want to support the party that actively takes away liberties as their job number one escapes me
― epistantophus, Monday, 27 May 2024 02:17 (three weeks ago) link
As long as it's other people's liberties it's cool.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 27 May 2024 02:37 (three weeks ago) link
Someone once said Libertarians are just Republicans who smoke pot
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 27 May 2024 03:19 (three weeks ago) link
And now that pot's legal even in a bunch of red states, libertarians are just Republicans who are really, really, really interested in reforming age of consent laws.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 27 May 2024 03:24 (three weeks ago) link
A fair number of them have Ayn Rand brain worms and believe implicitly that laissez-faire capitalism is the zenith of human perfection and if only it were fully embraced humanity would attain dizzying heights and not incidentally, they would become the unfettered masters of this world. It's a sickness.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 27 May 2024 03:26 (three weeks ago) link
How much truth is there to the idea that there has been some kind of takeover or attempted takeover of the Libertarian party to bring them more explicitly under the umbrella of either Republican apparatus and/or Trump world? (thinking of CO and NH in particular but prresumably nationally). Heard there had been some kind of mini civil war over this and that membership has dropped a lot, but I'm not that au fait with subject matter and haven't looked into)
― anvil, Monday, 27 May 2024 03:43 (three weeks ago) link
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
Because they are status symbols that he can use to impress people. Like thousands of pricks who have a picture of themselves with him on their wall.
and why he tried to hard to avoid giving them back
Because he does not like being told what to do, ever, under any circumstances.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 27 May 2024 10:20 (three weeks ago) link
^^^
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 27 May 2024 12:45 (three weeks ago) link