Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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(being a victim of a violent crime sucked, but it means I'll probably never be selected so there's that)

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link

i was summoned once in 2006, and never even left the lobby. read an entire Al Franken book that day.

the last time, they told me I didn't even need to show up the day before.

they must read my social media

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link

This reminds me that the last time I got summoned I kicked the can down the road...and next month is the end of the road.

henry s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link

it's a pretty limited group of people that can serve on an 8 month grand jury where you instructed not to look at the news or talk to anyone about the case

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link

you really can't blame them for wanting to get their yap on as soon as it's done

henry s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link

i shook rudys hand looked him dead in the eye and said you are americas mayor

lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

and we're gonna get you out of this mess, sir

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link

(being a victim of a violent crime sucked, but it means I'll probably never be selected so there's that)

I laugh because when I was last called for jury duty and woman said she should be excused for this very reason and the judge said, "ma'am, this is Cook County, everyone has been, or is related to, someone who has been the victim of a crime, that's not going to get you out of performing your civic duty".

Now, I do suspect that if the case involved a violent crime and wasn't a civil case that might have actually been taken into account - but you could see the shoulders slump on other potential jurors who hoped that would be their ticket out.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link

when you know a secret but you're not supposed to share but technically you are allowed to share so

https://i.imgur.com/figOhQ4.png

z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link

So he went to Ohio...

Not paper towels. This time tossing MAGA hats in a McDonalds.

Leadership. pic.twitter.com/YHc5ziDnJK

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 22, 2023

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link

Please enjoy this 2007 video of Sylvester Stallone taste testing Trump Water and truly hating it.

Easily the second most embarrassing Access Hollywood clip involving Donald Trump. https://t.co/HyIV02cqSy pic.twitter.com/spUZhpdbss

— Jon Bershad (@JonBershad) February 22, 2023

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link

"Trump Water" is just Mar-A-Lago piss, yes?

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:10 (one year ago) link

Grand Jury is different from a regular trial jury, you’re not allowed to talk about what you’ve done even after your service is over.

Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link

I’m just going to be the one to say that even if they’re going after people whom I loathe and who want to kill me, grand juries seem blatantly fucked up and insane to anyone with a reasonable outlook on “justice” imho.

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link

xp that's what I thought as well... that's why you get $40 per day instead of $15, to keep your trap shut

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link

ok the poor hatless people of eastern Ohio now have some shitty hats, so there's that

I mean, when your economy has been fucked over by coroporate greed and your air is toxic, it's great that you have a stupid red hat. Hats are well known for their ability to protect you from economic and environmental harms wreaked upon you by... pretty much the same people who gave you a stupid red hat

carry on

nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link

take notes, biden

nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link

i'm reading https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591675/american-made-by-farah-stockman/. it seems like a book length version of those NYT-on-safari-in-a-diner industrial midwest things, padded out to book length. and i guess it kind of is. but it's pretty good and th length allows her to talk a lot more about local labor history, etc. while still ultimately being a long profile of a couple of specific trump voters.

anyway, my point is, reading it, i feel confident that 1) these kinds of voters are not going to turn out for trump again en masse 2) they will never turn out for desantis.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link

Just a reminder about Ohio and pay for play politics. This story seemed to really go under the radar with the orange infants incessant crying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link

nice to take both trump and desantis out of the running! this is the day nikki haley became my president

Cut every cent from every country that hates us.

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 25, 2023

z_tbd, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link

good luck ron!

Jeb Bush endorses Ron Desantis for president. pic.twitter.com/qBF0YGHcG4

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 26, 2023

lag∞n, Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link

and

New: With Trump running, nearly all Republican senators say no to a presidential bid

“This cycle is shaping up to be very different from every cycle since 2000, where it seemed half the Senate was campaigning for president.”

w/ ⁦⁦@scottwongDC⁩: https://t.co/fIBWEYyF9H

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 26, 2023

lag∞n, Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link

Ted Cruz can humiliate his own damn self without any of your help, Mr. Trump!

Donald Trump and a group of individuals incarcerated for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot have collaborated on a song called “Justice for All.” It will debut Thursday at midnight on streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify, according to a person with knowledge of the project.

The track interpolates Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is performed by a group of about 20 inmates, called the J6 Prison Choir, housed at the Washington, D.C. jail. The song ends with the inmates chanting, “USA!”

Profits are slated to benefit the families of people imprisoned for their alleged roles in the Capitol riots that left five people dead.

A music video featuring footage of Trump performing patriotic acts during his presidency and shots of the riots, including police firing tear gas, will debut later Friday morning on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.

not linking because forbes is a shitty website

z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link

Find it so grim, so true, so real

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link

I misread that last line as performing pathetic acts.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link

The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting white supremacy

what patriotic acts? skipping a visit to a cemetery because his hair would get wet?

StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link

A music video featuring footage of Trump performing patriotic acts

tossing rolls of Bounty to grateful Puerto Ricans

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link

holding a Bible upside down in front of a church

StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link

ok, standing behind heaps of american berders

StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link

getting the best health care in the united states that is unavailable to almost everyone to treat his covid, then upon discharge from the hospital, ascending to the upstairs balcony of the white house to heroically unmask himself

z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link

including Apple Music and Spotify

the war on Big Tech

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link

Dang Don, you’ve really outdone yourself

ian, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

Just clips of him shovelling McDonald’s into his face.

It occurs to me that I've seen tons of photos of him posing with food but I've never actually seen a picture or video of him eating.

but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link

i guess he was just posing in that one, too. you're looking for a food eating action shot?

z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link

there was a video of him eating pizza with a knife and fork next to Sarah Palin

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link

you really want to see this?

https://maysimpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Donald-Trump-890653.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link

In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a “quantum leap” in the American standard of living.

Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by “baby bonuses” to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.

"baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

Great idea, but I've got a better idea. Trump and all his family and friends can buy an island somewhere, declare it tax-free/regulation-free/woke-free, then spend the rest of their days developing flying cars.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link

Future Freedom Cities, filled with As Seen On TV appliances from the Trump brand? Did he get this from Ron Popeil?

StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link

”baby bonuses"? that sounds pretty national socialist

it’s very Viktor Orbán, yes

ha that plan rules tbf when did we forget how to dream

lag∞n, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link

he even knows a certain real estate developer who might be able to make them a reality

He should also make Mexico pay for the Freedom Cities and flying cars

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link

i was actually thinking of elon musk and how he make sure that people talk about him for the next 2 years

z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link

im gonna need big vision plans from all candidates going forward

lag∞n, Friday, 3 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link


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