Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I doubt Donald Trump has ever shared his coke.

OK, this is important. So let's go thread. And remember: I'm from New York; I volunteered in the recovery afterward; I wouldn't lie about this shit ... [1] https://t.co/NlkOnmIMy0

— Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) September 4, 2022

OK, this is not important

It's OK to remind everyone that Trump is a shameless liar who will say anything that he thinks will make him look like an admirable human instead of a worthless piece of shit. It ain't news but it is truth.

you are correct

and i guess i'm glad that you haven't become too disheartened to mention it yet again now when it meant nothing 10 years ago

the only solution to trumpism is to displatform trump completely from everything

appeals to hypocrisy are laughable

It's absolutely infuriating, is what it is.

forgive my being slow on the uptake but it recently crystallized for me that (one explanation for why) the core cult simps for him so hard is because he’s an avatar of all the privileges: white, male, straight, cis, rich. he can’t break the law because he is the law. he can’t ever face consequences because he can’t ever be wrong. that’s why every foul thing he says and does just cleaves those fuckheads closer to him. his untouchableness, his absolute freedom to publicly indulge in every lowest stupidest harefulest impulse, is a reflection and amplification of their own privilege (actual or aspirational).

feeling pretty “um, no duh" about taking so long to see this. i bet others have been pointing it out for ages.

he's just the result of a spoiled brat never being taught responsibility. It's always someone else's fault, you can run away from everything, you can pay people instead of doing anything yourself, etc

It goes beyond that. He has a truly aberrant personality. Without money, he'd likely be in jail or dead already.

*without money and a truly remarkable ability to get people to go along with his bullshit, which is closely related to, but not the same as, having money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybtwzNpJ0YA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71VqHpza58

i don't think the "start at" will work, maybe it will. but just in case, compare and contrast 58 seconds into the first video and 49 seconds into the second

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deconstructed/id1354611827?i=1000578150696

Alex holder’s peeks into the weird interior life of trump. If useful, maybe for “is he an evil machiavellian or is he a delusional madman?” eval.

But then, it doesn’t really sound like there’s too much interior there.

all the rich interiority of an empty shoebox

A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property.
Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Only the president, some members of his Cabinet or a near-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special-access programs, according to people familiar with the search, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive details of an ongoing investigation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/

I'm not at all convinced that he's fucked, but I'm almost certain we are.

otm (sigh)

it is mind boggling to me how much this one fucking guy, who is absolutely an incurious moron, has laid bare the basic inequities and depravities at the heart of US empire in a more visible way than any other person during my lifetime.

i’m not at all surprised that so many people cheer him on— they want the depravity, because without it, their lives are meaningless.

As others have said, the guy didn’t care about intelligence briefings etc. while he was President. Why would he want them now?

I’m sure his bestie MBS would be interested in Israeli or Iran nuclear information.

if that is what he was doing and the judge he appointed is running cover for him... i mean, i don't even know what to say.

my original theory was that he kept information that he thought showed the mueller investigation was a "witch hunt," or maybe information that could be used as oppo in the future. however, this document described in the washington post doesn't seem to be of this kind.

i’m not at all surprised that so many people cheer him on— they want the depravity, because without it, their lives are meaningless.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:46 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is true. they like that he is nihilistic and uninhibited, it gives them a vicarious thrill. if you have values or standards, that places certain demands upon you. trump doesn't have anything like this, and to some his existence suggests the intriguing possibility that nothing matters.

I mean the Saudis gave Jared K, a notoriously shitty businessman and all around idiot, $2bn.

As others have said, the guy didn’t care about intelligence briefings etc. while he was President. Why would he want them now?

Why does he ever want anything? Because (1) someone else has it and/or (2) he perceives some advantage to himself in having it.

As others have said, the guy didn’t care about intelligence briefings etc. while he was President. Why would he want them now?

I think he definitely saw something he could make money off of.

all of the above

He was probably collecting all this stuff for a cool coffee table book.

Things you can learn from playing golf, like.

Me too. Lemme know when you are in nyc.

― treeship., Friday, September 2, 2022 8:29 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I had my first negroni the other night and my bestie said "what put you in the mood for that"

I mentioned a friend in South Florida :)

― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Friday, September 2, 2022 9:23 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

hell yes

― sleeve, Friday, September 2, 2022 9:28 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Negronis rule.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 2, 2022 10:51 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love negronis so much.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, September 3, 2022 3:18 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

otoh, Donald Trump does not love negronis at all. the fool.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

https://i.imgur.com/s0ARTmn.jpg

Good morning!

Campari is overrated

You can always put that bottle where your heart ought to be!

Campari and soda is a wonderful apertif

When asked about what impact Trump’s border tax might have on the spirits business, Bob Kunze-Concewitz, CEO of Gruppo Campari said: “Usually I only comment on things I can influence and I don’t think Mr Trump will be listening to me on this topic.”

“Although I think a Negroni would do him a lot of good,” he added in reference to the Campari and gin cocktail.

Campari hasn't been the same since they stopped putting bugs in it. Make Campari Insectivorous Again!

I’ve been laughing at “This isn’t the 1800s. You can’t pay me with a horse” for a solid 10 minutes pic.twitter.com/DO3ribvXQD

— Abe Goldfarb (@AbeGoldfarb) September 8, 2022

wait, was this also for a handjob?

The best horse, people are saying...

It will make the best glue, believe me.

lol I love the idea that he has a junk drawer full of deeds and top secret docs and the like that he just doles out as needed. Like the "treasure" chest of plastic shit they keep at the children's dentist as an incentive for good behavior.

My favorite detail was all the empty folders marked "top secret." Lots of theorizing, but I'm pretty sure he just kept them to pass out to donors.

https://contentcdn.vtechda.com/Data/Store/US/InnoTab/58-126800-000-248/screenshotLarge06.png

Why, anybody can have money. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has money. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more money than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a horse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

THREAD: NEW: the DoJ has filed a motion for a PARTIAL STAY of Judge Cannon’s order to the 11th circuit pending appeal in the Mar-a-Lago case. These are screen grabs of a declaration supporting the partial stay from the assistant director of counterintel at the FBI. 1/ pic.twitter.com/vH5EmNq9u5

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) September 8, 2022

I like how we're supposed to believe these are both written by the same guy, back to back. pic.twitter.com/f25xPMLj4s

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 8, 2022

of course...

WHOA! Trump filed a baseless lawsuit v. Hillary Clinton, ex-FBI Agent Peter Strzok et al in Florida. Back in April, Trump tried to get the assigned judge kicked off the case. The judge said no & basically accused Trump of judge-shopping. For what judge? Yup, Aileen Cannon⬇️ /1 pic.twitter.com/WCHGqvNq7j

— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) September 9, 2022

Trump is doing his dictator tease over on Truth Social pic.twitter.com/yqWLwLYgPd

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2022

Reminds me of a meme I saw shortly after the '16 election, pitching 8 years of DT, then 8 of Pence, followed by 8 with Ivanka.

It's sort of adorable that Trump thinks he'll be alive in 2028, much less 2048.