this is largely, btw, the likely reason that any indictment has been 'delayed', because they're trying to bolster security for the grand jury and the buildings/etc
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
(though that was already happening before he opened his maw)
curious what exactly the risk is of something like that happening again. was 1/6 considered a huge dud in Trumpworld? it accomplished nothing, made them look like dumb violent thugs, got a few people killed, and several hundred arrested. are any of them still like "hell yeah I'd do it again"?
― frogbs, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
What else, exactly, do you think is on their social calendars?
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
well, it was Antifa so they don't like it
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.),
In January 2021? Catching COVID at the Perkins salad bar.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
A lot of people that showed up on 1/6 expected nothing to happen to them because they thought Trump's army/national guard/etc would protect them. Or swoop in and join them
A few of them were quoted in the press as being shocked when this didn't happen.
Your Proud Boys etc don't care about jail, but good luck getting the random families to show up again
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
yeah agreed knowing what they know now the average trump fan is not going to try another jan 6 but the hardcore militants could get up to stuff
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
across the various wingnut channels when people suggest showing up somewhere with guns or whatever half the responses are accusing it of being a fed honeypot, mostly theyre not really cut out for that sort of thing on jan 6 they just thought they were allowed to
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
I also suspect the authorities will be more aggressive in putting them down, and the wingnut warriors know that.
― nickn, Friday, 24 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
Will they though? I don't see nypd being eager to arrest their own.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
I do think the right wing militia groups are still scary and in FL the Three Percenters literally showed up to 'protect' the Flagler school board from a trans activist group that was protesting it and brought weapons and armor and intimidated and shouted hate invective at them and even tried to follow some of them home.
that's the shit that keeps me up at night. the activist group didn't buckle though.
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
The light dawns a bit:
Trump: You know, I always used to think that, uh, attorneys really had a very high status in life that when you had an attorney, the attorneys can't be subpoenaed. They can't be summoned to talk.. pic.twitter.com/cvi0NfUyBz— Acyn (@Acyn) March 25, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2023 13:36 (one year ago) link
https://dfjc3etzov2zz.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mad-Magazine-Alfred-Neuman-what-me-worry.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 March 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Wish the FBI would do one of those Mad Fold-Ins to his head
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
We are so fucking back it’s insane pic.twitter.com/uc4g6Wldb4— Movies Consigliere (@MuskTillDawn) March 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 March 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
That's quite a summation.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Saturday, 25 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
lol is he subtweeting his kids
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 25 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
You can tell that farm policy, the subject he was supposed to address, bores him to tears and he knows it bores most of his base, too, so he couldn't resist leaving the script and clowning on the whole subject like a naughty kid clowning for the class during a boring book report. His base loves that shit and why not.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 25 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
He’s definitely the best human cartoon character to ever do it. Too bad he set his sights on the presidency and not just more reality tv ventures.
― treeship., Saturday, 25 March 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
second time recently hes gone off script to talk about people not loving their children
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 March 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
much in the way Emeril would derail mundane conversations to talk about cooking, you gravitate towards what you have mastery of
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
"I Stopped Loving Them Today"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
It plays to his base of people whose children blocked them on Facebook by mid-2017.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
I imagine some of those people forgot they had children by 2020
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Surprised he hasn't actively encouraged his followers to write him into their wills. He could be picking up so many condos in the Villages over the next couple of years.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
lol i wonder how many people designated him as life insurance beneficiary
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
and then struggled to find out his SSN
trumpworld is so crooked lol
My story today, gift version. The exiled Chinese suspect in a billion-dollar series of frauds secretly controlled social network Gettr, which was fronted by Trump advisor Jason Miller. https://t.co/LoK0vrLHRU— Joseph Menn (@josephmenn) March 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
I mean I'm looking forward to his death for many reasons but I just realized thanks to that farm video that his will/estate etc is going to be a comedic soap opera of epic proportions, god that will be fun when he sticks the knife into Don Jr from the grave
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
It’s an odd time
WATCH: Trump lawyer @JosephTacopina asks what Trump was "supposed to put in his personal ledger? 'Payment for hush money to quiet an affair I claim I never had'?"@chucktodd: "How about the truth?""... You're being petty." pic.twitter.com/a3FMWykcnQ— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 26, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
Lol "his hands were tied, he had to lie!"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
As I said earlier, if Joe Tacopina is your lawyer, you might get off, but you did that shit and everybody knows it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
if you do hire joe tacopina as your lawyer maybe dont hire him as your going on tv guy too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
he looks like poached salmon with hair
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
He looks like one of those balloons from the Simpsons arcade game right before it explodes
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
lag∞n, start a poll!
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Lol Alfred
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
ooh ooh mister tacopina
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
I'm just waiting for Tacopina to join this list of over 30 -- 30! -- Trump lawyers who have been investigated, questioned, etc. about their work with him.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/03/24/happy-crime-fraud-exception-day-for-those-who-celebrate/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
Mister Tacopina Mister Bob Tacopina
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 26 March 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
win
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Monday, 27 March 2023 03:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/trump-grand-jury-in-new-york-expected-to-take-month-off-.html
The New York grand jury being used for a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump is not expected to hear evidence for the next month, according to multiple reports Wednesday.
love to see how our gullible-ass media fell for his dumb fuck truth post
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
welp.. love to see how he wriggles... etc etc
this is precisely why I remain firmly in the skeptical as fuck camp re: tangible consequences for this shitstain
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
if they can only push it a little further into primary season they'll be firmly in the "well gee we couldn't possibly do anything that would interfere with an election" zone
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
fwiw I did listen to an Ezra Klein podcast about this and his conclusion is that people shouldn't get their hopes up about the Stormy Daniels thing, in fact of the 20+ investigations Trump is currently under it's one of the least promising. the GA election interference and classified docs investigations are not only way stronger cases but obviously much more serious and damaging felonies. they're also cases which have won every mid-course court battle and the GA thing is about as open and shut as you can get. for political reasons you wouldn't really want *this* to be the thing he first gets indicted for anyway.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
i'm sure that's true, at the point just annoyed for how many outlets fell for his self-serving bullshit so easily (last I saw he'd pulled in $1.5 million since his "arrest" claim)
but i don't think he'll ever be indicted for any of those other investigations either, this is all just nearly* meaningless show.
(* - obviously i'm all for this shit getting aired out and documented, so thankful for the investigations to at least pull that weight)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Starting to think our justice system is overly populated with people who are legit terrified of his violent base, so they just keep punting on everything.
This is why he whips up the violent rhetoric, the intimidation works! Straight out of his old NYC mobster wannabe playbook.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
do grand juries usually take a month off before reaching a decision?
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
tbf media outlets are concerned first and foremost with audience engagement - trump's false claims about his arrest were a gift to them, and this delay is another gift
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link