Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

reach down, between my legs, ease the seat back

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-panama/u-s-lawmakers-question-trump-ties-to-panama-project-idUSKCN1GD5B4

pic.twitter.com/9ckFJNYWJv

— mark (@kept_simple) March 14, 2018

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYR9iowU0AEaqBV.jpg

wow

i feel so handsome rn

Who do we want to rule

Also there is a whole light setup reflected in the mirror so apparently the photographer gave up

Doctored according to Snopes, although the real photo isn't much better.

https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2017/07/spot-the-difference.jpg

Also there is a glass behind ivanka in the 4-shot

And a cable coming out of her head

Of course it's doctored. The only real surprise is how very little it's actually doctored.

Fake news!

this is how don, jr. and vanessa trump met https://t.co/6W2FfsVBQW pic.twitter.com/I0Mo2vveYu

— Kenzie Bryant (@kenzbry) February 8, 2018

that's love

Lol cuet

Trump is such a dad

speaking as a dad, them’s fightin’ words

so basically his dad hooked him up ...

"Hi I'm Donald Trump, I wanted to introduce you to my son, Donald Trump, Jr."

So Don Jr. met his wife basically because his dad kept homing in on her as an anonymous piece of ass. Something to share with the grandkids, I suppose. And absolutely the hallmark of a family one wants to marry into.

I know this is trivial and petty but Eric clearly can't NOT do lampreyface. Even in a situation where he knows he's being photographed and it might be advisable to look unlampreylike.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29800000/The-Master-the-master-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-29898313-400-300.jpg

eric always looks like he's cosplaying flukeman from the x-files

Yes, lamprey/Flukeman. That is exactly the apt comparison which was just eluding my grasp. I was only able to get this close on my own:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/b8/91/b4b891c897c17db610a91fbf6997268f.gif

Of course it's doctored. The only real surprise is how very little it's actually doctored.

Which one is the doctored one? That is, which is the before and which is the after?

also: nemesis from resident evil

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/b/b7/Nemesisrl.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100410001021

How they probably see themselves:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTSPkXrW4AEiuZW.jpg

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

Right, so why are you asking whether it's a legal requirement?

he'll share them with investigators when he's forced to do so. he may have already done that. the public will see them later on. he's not going to release them unilaterally

xpost

i think it's classic that he's on that website with those other public figures. go trump!

Does he need to share returns? Can't Mueller (or wouldn't he have already) get warrant to take them directly from IRS? Not sure how that works

he promised he'd release his tax returns. maybe we don't deserve to see them? or he's just waiting till the time is right during the case, to prove to everyone what a big strong billionaire he is, who doesn't need any help from the kremlin?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-opening-argument-in-the-trial-of-donald-j-trump

you know i do lampreyface in every single photo that's ever taken of me

this is also why i avoid being photographed

mr. trump is a civil rights activist, bringing porn stars to network television, when before the *fake news* shunned the poor stormy danielses of the world. #WWFWCWMRGA nikolai volkoff the iron shiek

mr. trump is a genius, banging a porn star and then rubbing christian evangelicals' noses in it. MAGA!

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/stormy-danielss-60-minutes-interview-was-actually-brilliant.html

[ The conversation] started off all about him just talking about himself: And he’s like, ‘Have you seen my new magazine?’ … And so I was like, “Does this normally work for you? … does just … talking about yourself normally work? … Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it. … And I’ll never forget the look on his face … I was like, ‘turn around, drop ‘em.’ … I just gave him a couple swats. and from that moment on, he was a completely different person. He quit talking about himself and he asked me things … it just became … more appropriate.

According to this, Daniels was able to achieve the impossible: she broke through Trump’s delusional solipsism, literally slapping him into awareness of another person. And she did it by refusing to play along with his self-vaunting monologue. By questioning the effectiveness of Trump’s boasting, she stopped it. We can all learn from this.

We can all learn from this.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

Me, too, but with a pool ball in a sock, or a lock on a chain.

god how is this motherfucker the president of anything let alone of AMERICA

I mean where else

j and flappy win, lol. (but everyone else...sorrrrry).

Trump has like four Kuatos growing out of his midsection and they all look like Lou Dobbs. pic.twitter.com/O8kvZcX2An

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 9, 2018

Cohen: Boy, I now wish Trump had not won the election.

Flynn: My life would be a lot better if Trump actually lost the election.

Manafort: I know I wanted Trump to win the election, but now I truly wish that he hadn't.

Ivanka: Gosh, maybe daddy winning the election was not a good thing after all.

Jared: My F-I-L winning the election has been a 666 type of hell for me.

Don Jr: I hate the fact that my dad won the election. This sucks ass.

Eric: I'm Eric.

Melania: My life would have sucked with him either winning or losing the election, so I don't give a fuck.

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Trump: I'm so glad I won the election. Best thing ever. GOP! GOP!!

Eric: I'm Eric.

LOL

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Beyond the torrent of heels taking early retirement, do we think this is the GOP's take on Trump?

Trump sucks!

which pink floyd album is this pic.twitter.com/a0uQx6rsNp

— Hunter Lurie (@hunterlurie) April 23, 2018

Dud

total dud

this was circumscribed in one of the many other threads but I'm putting here regardless

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/shania-twain-and-the-crisis-of-american-democracy-really.html
http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/journals/feb18asrfeature.pdf

When the political system is widely seen as doing its job, somebody like Trump, who violates its basic norms, is seen as illegitimate. A politician who blatantly lies doesn’t stand a chance. But this changes when more and more people come to believe that the system is rigged and that most politicians don’t have their best interests in mind. Amid such a “crisis of legitimacy,” voters don’t particularly care whether a politician plays by the rules of the game. Instead, they long for somebody who bluntly states how rotten the system really is.

some other bullshit follows, and mostly it boils down to humans are pack animals, and never forget it or you'll pay. but there is a situation where we aren't quite so bad: when we work together. which is the other thing pack animals do well.

The argument that Trump won because enough people believe that the system is rigged falls down on one point: Everyone hated Hillary Clinton for doing the exact same thing. So, what, Democratic voters don't think the system is rigged?

The thing is, of course, that Trump voters do think the system is rigged, but in a very specific way: It helps black people, which is not what it is supposed to do. That is the way in which it isn't doing it's job.