Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

They probably gave him a real football and wrote NUKLEEAR on it in magic marker

Wants to lock up Zuck and endorsed Stacey Abrams for GA governor.

when he’s right, he’s right

and here I thought milo was a one trick pony but now we’re boosting Trump

/pointless snark

gonna be hard to explain to future generations how impossibly weird this guy was

Trump’s handlers designated a White House official known as the “Music Man” to play him his favorite show tunes, including “Memory” from “Cats,” to pull him from the brink of rage, Grisham writes in her new memoir. @katierogers has the details. https://t.co/PQbuFMnFyB

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 28, 2021

he was only soothed by the all assholes version of Cats

Punch me
it's so easy to leave me
lying down on the pavement
bleeding out in the sun

If you punch me
you'll understand what happiness is
even though I
really won

https://t.co/4Fu6T1WdWP pic.twitter.com/CVMhX1Xpvk

— kilgore trout, ron desantis spokesperson (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 28, 2021

*sits future generations down to watch Dr. Strangelove*

“It was kind of like that, but terrifying in different ways”

Yeah, Strangelove was President.

Biden admin tell-all, circa 2029: "I saw it, we all saw it - he put Splenda on a half grapefruit."

To be added to the "sir" file:
He was there for like 40 years or something. He was a part of the furniture. But if you think about it, I really did pretty much the opposite of whatever he said," Trump said.

"I actually got along with him, you know? I actually found him–he was a character. He'd say, 'Just call me Tony. Just call me Tony, sir.' And, you know, he's a better promoter than he is a doctor."

is he going to force the Nobel Peace Prize committee to recount the votes?

Only thing that will come out is the Senate Judiciary Committee will ask Trump to return the VCR tape of Schoolhouse Rock's "The Constitution".

But they won't want to see what he's taped over it with.

"...there's a time for love and a time for living, you take a chance and face the wi..."

“…The facts of life, the facts of life!”

“We loved Mrs. Garrett, didn’t we folks?”

can we not revive this thread until he dies

That would be "Classic."

can we not revive Trump if he dies

can we not revive this thread until he dies

Trump's Blue Check FB page apparently was restored earlier this week. The last posts were on 1/6.

i think he has learned his lesson

I don't think he's allowed to post...also it's been back for a while, apparently?

I dunno, just saw some Trump stans/Q followers excitedly posting about it a few days ago.

The White House has agreed to turn over Trump's 1/6 records to the investigation committee.

it's just a bunch of tv guides with certain shows circled in sharpie

TV guides? Thought he was 24/7 glued to the Gorilla Channel.

CGM: What is a Blue Check Facebook page?

Verified Account, so it's authentic and not an imposter or fan page.

Damn. I was hoping it was a FB page where they had a special Blue Check Panel monitoring it intently 24/7.

Forgot this happened:

pic.twitter.com/PC86kKTMsw

— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) October 8, 2021

I forgot about gorilla channel!

That revived FB page is so weird. It still has a Trump/Pence banner up top, and the last posts are from Jan. 6.

With all the rigged election stuff, and all the FB disclaimers. Why would they restore all the posts that got him booted off in the first place?

Possibly as evidence?

The man never listened to Toots & The Maytals in his life. pic.twitter.com/vtFHpXkCrr

— Dan (@WarioArgento) October 8, 2021

Still out there on the Neverending Rally...

WE WILL BAN CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN A BOX.
WE WILL BAN IT WITH A FOX.
I DO NOT LIKE IT IN A HOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE IT WITH A MOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE THAT THEORY HERE OR THERE.
I DO NOT LIKE IT ANYWHERE.
I DO NOT LIKE CRITICAL RACE THEORY
I DO NOT LIKE IT WHERE-EVIE https://t.co/bqP0Z88fMo

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) October 10, 2021

This seems to me more important and dangerous than a lot of symbolic stuff he does, a thoroughgoing endorsement of the violent vanguard that nearly reached members of Congress, but it’s getting almost zero pickup in mainstream outlets and no condemnation from Republicans. https://t.co/lREDsPALZZ

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 11, 2021

he's been doing it for so long, though. it was more "brazen" today because he went ahead and said happy birthday to the fake martyr at the same time -- could be a potential holiday in the post 2024 red states -- but he and everyone around him have been building this up for months. remember when he was grifting people back on the obama birth certificate stuff? sometimes it would get covered, sometimes it wouldn't. it was in plain sight and everyone knew it was wrong and racist and just evil and self-serving, and then he ran for president and no one ever mentioned it.

god, it just brings me back to the 2016 debates, with hillary clinton, and of course everyone has an idea in their head of what _they'd_ say to donald trump to just really corner him and knock him out, i mean it must be so easy right? siiiiigh, deep sighhh at myself mainly. but a lot of people felt like that. and in my head, i'd be like "what about obama's birth certificate?! you promoted that racist conspiracy theory, you were the face of it for years! and it was based on total bullshit and everyone knew it! that was only 2 years ago! why should anyone believe you have better judgment now?!" and then the moderators stand up and applaud and the flag is raised on my side as donald's platform gets hydraulically lowered by 10 feet compared to my side

anyways, the point is, this shit happens in plain sight and it's just normal now because he normalized it on a broad scale

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is no longer allowed on Trump properties or at Trump parties after a high-profile donor accused him of sexual misconduct...

'Donor' being the key word here

when you drive down a highway in the middle of nowhere, any state, and a white person passes you in the car, they're probably a fucking asshole. those are just the percentages. if they're in a city, hey some white people, some of them are cool ok. but if you're in a rural area, any state pretty much, it's better than 50/50 odds that this person either votes for trump or nods along to all that shit.

to me that is terrifying, and i say that with the obvious benefit of not being an immediate target. but even with that, it's just terrifying to me, to be in rural areas and walk around places and just be in the midst of total hysteria, just the fuckenn worst ever

Karl I obviously understand your despair but I need to remind you that widespread, baldfaced lying and enshrinement of white supremacy by our presidents has been a thing for ...uh... a pretty long time. The number of times the US has put military boots to the ground in other countries under false pretenses is enough to convince anyone of this fact, and that's just one arena of untruth and misrepresentation.

What is different is that with widespread social media usage and increased class and racial stratification, the ability for people to either reject these lies outright or strongly get behind them *as lies* has become more vocal, and in the latter case, more unhinged.

It's like, we all knew W was lying. Everyone knew he was lying.

Same with Bush Sr. and Reagan.

And to be fucking honest, same with Obama and Clinton, too.

But that's obvious, all politicians are lying sacks of shit, this country is doomed, etc.

i think all of that is true, but there was a difference. you may have known. many people here probably knew. i'm talking about this:

It's like, we all knew W was lying. Everyone knew he was lying.

Same with Bush Sr. and Reagan.

And to be fucking honest, same with Obama and Clinton, too.

i truly believe that most people reading this knew, most of those times. maybe not, but i think of ilxors as people who tend to "know" things at a rate that is above average, and you know what? i'll take it. BUT

it was still coded, or hidden. there was still an attempt to at least cover it with a veneer of plausibility or at least a competently constructed chart or something. that, alone, was enough to create a whole subclass of george will / david brooks "respectable" centrists that could be the "intellectual" (ugh) face of the GOP and the punditry, etc.

i believe that what's happening now is categorically different than that. i understand that this all goes way back. it's not new, donald trump didn't invent it, i get all that. i'm saying that shit gets real when the veneer wears off, when suddenly it becomes very clear that if you stand with THIS, you are standing for a fascist autocrat. ----waitwaitwaitwaitwait i know, that was also very clear in 2016. in fact, everyone here is so smart that THEY knew that the fascist autocracy was coming in the mid-70s. but now, all the excuses are gone, it's not even debated, there's no other explanation for trump. it's just are you for the christian fascist party or not. it's different, not because it feels different to any of you (of course it doesn't -- you already knew it would happen) but because it feels different to other people

and so, to me at least, it is different now, and terrifying, to drive down rural highways and know that the person is not only likely a trump voter, but also that a "trump voter" is something kind of new, kind of like being a "wallace voter" in the 60s, only wallace is dominant