Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

"And ... look, the name of the tournament is called Kumite, but the name of the arena ... well, if it was up to me, in my opinion it should have been Trump Arena, we offered them a very good deal to call it Trump, but they didn't want Trump, which was a mistake, in my opinion, the tournament would have been a lot more successful, a lot less underground. Frankly, many, many more people would have heard of it. Instead, people are saying it was a failure, the Kumite tournament. Should have been Pay-per-view, they begged me to reconsider. But that's OK, it was their choice to turn down all that money. It's a freestyle fight, kumite, menaing almost anything goes. Well, a lot of people don't know this, but the word 'kumite' has its roots in Japanese, where it, where it translates roughly to mean 'grappling hands.' And frankly there is a lot of grappling in this movie, maybe too much grappling. But "kumite" ... Jean Claude Van Damme is a man of honor, so yes, he is literally grappling with his enemies, but he is also grappling metaphorically, to choose to do the right thing, to win - and this is important - to win with honor. The Kumite becomes not about the death touch, not about love - though the woman, the woman is very beautiful, the most beautiful - it is about grappling with the morality of vengeance and emerging victorious not by beating his enemy Chong Li - a cheater - but by finally turning himself in to Helmer and Rawlins and restoring his honor."

"By 2019, tensions between the two men and their worldviews burst into the open. After disputes between the two leaders over Iran, Syria, and NATO, Trump could be heard blasting Macron as a “pain in the ass” to a White House gathering of international ambassadors to the United Nations. Trump’s former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham also wrote in a memoir that Trump had privately called Macron a “a wuss guy” and “a hundred twenty pounds of fury.”"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-maralago-fbi-raid-1234582465/

"a wuss guy" said the hair-sprayed makeup wearer who's never carried anything heavier than a five iron in forty years

i noticed that too— lol like Macron could totally take you, Donnie. he’d use your sweat to glide away to victory

https://uproxx.com/viral/trump-truth-social-why-are-people-so-mean/

Kind of impressive his total lack of self-awareness or capacity for reflection.

Holy fuck

I mean I would be a nightmare of a person just like him, but it must be...something...to go through life like that. Liberating in a way.

He called Ted Cruz’s wife “ugly” and accused his dad of assassinating JFK.

And now said Cruz moistly grovels at trump's feet, hoping for a pat on the head

no Zodiac accusation, no credibility

Now that is a fucking thread title

haha

lmao

NEWS: DOJ's new filing includes. photo of the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. https://t.co/nm567c96bi pic.twitter.com/0U2hoSogxQ

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 31, 2022

All that’s missing from that tableau is some greasy fast food wrappers.

Or some greasy former President.

but her emails?

What's up with the framed Time magazine cover(s) in the box? Looks like the start of a "help me identify the crimes in this photo" thread.

I don't see any emails there=innocent!

Seriously, though, there are people that have gone to jail for a fraction of the infractions displayed here.

Trump's incompetence is legendary, and the fact that people again and again keep sacrificing themselves at his throne of stupidity boggles the mind. The body count of people tainted (or convicted) for covering up for him, for enabling him, is higher than that pile of burgers when he invited that sports team to the White House.

Some people are already mocking, saying, oh, Time magazine, soooo classified, but that's the whole point. He had all this important classified stuff mixed in with his personal shit. Reportedly he had highly classified stuff in his desk with his passports, which further underscores chain of custody. Reportedly the DOJ has evidence that Trump Inc. *moved* classified documents in response to the subpoena, no doubt because perpetually entitled, consequence-free Trump insisted on grabbing what he could and no one could or would stop him. It just blows the mind the extent to which Trump and his team just so brazenly blew off the DOJ. You'd think *someone* there would have recognized the extent of the criminality, and hey, maybe someone did, because clearly someone ultimately ratted him out.

A natural impulse:

After all, why not? pic.twitter.com/7LmD1QBECf

— Paul Sherman (@PaulMSherman) August 31, 2022

oh yes. Records Custodian Order #1348: "President Donald Trump sir is allowed to take what he needs from the Oval Office in the White House of America to the Mar-a-Lago toilets and other rooms there, and the second they leave the Oval Office they become declassified as well"

fukken loved that order, it became common knowledge overnight

that's why we voted a great businessman into the oval office, because he would have common sense

seems to me like his behaviour is an attempt to validate / legitimise his claim that he's still the president, i.e. of course I can take this to my residence

This is what the #TruthSocial office looked like in Sarasota, Fl. on Wed. afternoon. There was no one inside the social media company’s headquarters, no receptionist, no business sign, no sign of CEO Devin Nunes, nothing with Trump’s name anywhere in the building. @HeraldTribune pic.twitter.com/VnZ0bAuPFw

— Chris Anderson (@ChrisA0213) August 31, 2022

Folks from MySpace nodding grimly in agreement

If he's so goddamn rich, he could infuse a little cash and keep it going until Xmas... but why go down with the ship?

Once Musk controls Twitter, he's back in the spotlight

"Movant also agrees that it would be appropriate for the special master to possess a Top Secret/SCI security clearance." (Trump's 8/31 filing page 14)

No reason to ask for this if the documents were declassified.

— Civis Mundus (@CivisMundusSum) September 1, 2022

Trump's just trying to make sure Q is the special master

has anybody considered that q might be… trump?

nah, Q doesn't post enough

Saw some new Trump clip where he suggests the FBI raided Mar-a-lago looking for Hillary's emails, which is just dumbfounding in its ridiculousness.

Flooding the zone with shit

he's moved on from the auto-declassify thing, now it's turned to a "of course I have top secret docs, I'm the president" type thing

I'm going to guess that at least some of the papers are transcripts of phone calls between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page with Trump's cum stains on them.

sounds like the judge is ready to drown this case in the tub. oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

*wriggles*

I saw that story. Any order she gives will be immediately appealed.

i read the words "Trump's cum stains" earlier and it completely ruined my day

Sorry, on what grounds are they going to dismiss this case?

Not a dismissal, she is apparently considering granting Trump's motion for a special master (and thereby halting DOJ's review of the documents pending the special master's review). It's a grotesquerie.

How the fuck is a Trump appointed judge allowed to have anything to do with this case

ginni thomas said it would be fine

Reminder

Leaving aside how far Judge Cannon is going to accommodate Trump, it’s not like appointing a special master changes anything about Trump’s potential liability or the legitimacy of DOJ’s search. It’s about the possible return of *some* of the seized materials — and nothing more. https://t.co/MrWQdacvfi

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 27, 2022

It will slow things down, not stop them, and I am betting an appeal gets any ruling of hers tossed for lack of jurisdiction

Another of the “frequent” guests to the room where the FBI found highly classified materials? pic.twitter.com/zZK64EOliA

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) September 1, 2022

Big 'Cocaine Grandparents' Energy

what is that painting with the american-flagged face to their left?

Looks like a grinning skull.

Lots of grinning skulls up in there

This is fun:

Bill Barr said he did not believe Trump's claim that he had declassified everything before it was taken to his Florida resort, and he hit back at critics of the FBI search saying it was 'unprecedented' for such sensitive materials to be taken to a 'country club.'

Barr made his comments as Trump supporters continue to accuse the FBI and Department of Justice of conducted a witch hunt...

witch hunt is so season 2 of this show