Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

jeez Mike who could have possibly seen this coming for you huh

glad he's back to 'Sad!'

I once read a major magazine article on Mike/
It said he was not a very good person/
I was surprised/
But the article was right.

Sad! by King Missile

Didn't he already use "liddle" for Rubio? Or was that "widdle?" (And even by his standards, those are pretty lame putdown words, something you might expect in an Our Gang episode.)

Donald "Spanky" Trump

MAGAlfalfa

"I'ma He-Man Woke-Hater"

it might choke artie but it aint gonna choke donnie etc

I once read a major magazine article on Mike

Now his lies have gone too far.

I want to point out that it wasn't just "liddle," it was "liddle'" with an apostrophe after the e.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/trump-liddle-tweet/599032/

have lurking suspicion the linked article is not really worth the time, I just dug it up for reference, but I will never know for sure

I hate how it's Trump Trump Trump in the media again, every day. "what's the election going to be abouTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP" - there's that creeping inevitability again, isn't there? Who else is going to win in 2024? Nobody, let's face it.

+ all Putin needs to do in Ukraine is keep going until then and all the NATO help is going to dry up.

Stop

That Atlantic article was interesting... I didn't realize just how dishonest CNN was until Trump pointed out that they had deliberately misspelled "Liddle" by taking out the "hyphen" just to make him look dumb:
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word wrong."

LOL

The stable genious strikes again.

http://www.steeleryanracing.com.au/images/uploads/Stables12.jpg

stable genius needs to be put out to pasture

you left out the hyphen 'cause the hyphen ain't in you

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word wrong.

Maybe the dumbest utterance in the history of human utterances.

weird guy, seems like he’s losing it

🐦[lmao this is so deranged pic.twitter.com/Sg5BO8YTrL🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2023🕸]🐦

What an Iddiot'

Because I got hyphen

What a moron, doesn't know a hyphen from an ampersand.

Given his diet, maybe he should be a bit more concerned with the colon.

Tip your waitress.

Trump is soooooo dumb
How dumb is he?
He's so dumb he thinks putting air quotes around things makes them inadmissible
He thinks Question Mark means his chief of staff has to testify before Congress

It's almost impossible for me to comprehend the minutiae and the endless petty grievances that must circle his head 24/7, like turds flushing in a gold-plated toilet bowl.

have you hung out on right wing social media? That's all your neighbors and relatives do.

It's almost impossible for me to comprehend the minutiae and the endless petty grievances that must circle his head 24/7, like turds flushing in a gold-plated toilet bowl.

Even amongst his followers, I wonder what percentage see that tweet and think, "Yeah, Fuck CNN for leaving out that hyphen."

guarantee you it's happening

have you hung out on right wing social media?

I used to check out Freerepublic occasionally to see what they were on about, but quit long ago. I try to stay away from the comments section of the media I consume as I don't care what garbage people think, but sometimes I feel the need to correct utter lies/bullshit.

I haven't thought about Freerepublic since we liberals were all lying about how great the Iraq War was going

There's one blogger I read who still reposts Free Republic comments as if that proves anything other than that nursing homes shouldn't have internet access.

I found out a friend has a Truth social account to see what kind of stupid crap is going on. What entertained me is that all of the Trump posts max out at around 800 likes. Not a high engagement platform!

Sad!

It’s not that we liked or enjoyed or found Trump funny. It’s that we understood what would make him appealing to other people. As much as I wish the man would vanish into a black hole, on, like, the very basic charming con man level, I get it!

With Captain Florida, there is just … nothing, nada, zilch. There is no charm, or soaring oratory, or grace, or even a sense of being comfortable in his own skin.

i created a Gab account after it launched. Dunno how much traction that still has amongst those types but it was wall-to-wall racism and insanity.

on, like, the very basic charming con man level, I get it!

here on ilx there were many who delighted in Trump's early "big-mass-of-candidates debate" appearances in the summer of 2015. they cheered him on as he relentlessly belittled all his more conventional media-favored opponents like jeb! cruz and rubio. he was viewed as a kind of useful idiot cutting the "real" candidates down to size.

Classic

on the one hand he single-handedly burned the Bush-Cheney republican party to the ground, which is pretty classic. otoh he rules over a fanatically loyal zombie army numbering in the tens of millions, all clamoring to eat our brains, which is very dud.

checking in on the competition

There is something very wrong with this man pic.twitter.com/pOpInPBj5q

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) August 8, 2023

Trump is not just funny, he is the world’s greatest performance artist. His whole insane persona, an effete New York billionaire asshole turned idiot king of the “deplorables” of rural America, would be a remarkable literary invention, but he actually played it out in a reality. Everything he touches is somehow diminished — it is impossible for a serious person to be a patriotic American now, even in a qualified sense, after he reduced the pageantry of our politics to a pornographic spectacle. He ruined an entire country — a massive country, the world’s most powerful country — through the sheer perversity of his personality, and since we stooped to his level it’s hard to say we didn’t deserve it. (Resistance liberals, especially me, were as cringe as his supporters.) I hope he dies soon. He is a curse upon all of us. The fact that his performance was great doesn’t mean it wasn’t despicable and evil.

he was meant to die of covid, the perfect end to his story, the fact that the drugs that saved his life were produced just in time to do so was an affront to god

that shit is all so wild in retrospect because it's clear now how Trump's campaign and eventual victory was pretty much all a media creation. virtually nobody took him seriously back then, in fact I remember some CNN talking head going "I dunno, his poll numbers are pretty good, there could be something happening here" and getting laughed out of the room. even Trump himself was apparently only doing it to draw attention to himself in order to get The Celebrity Apprentice renewed. but he got ratings and so the RNC made the decision to focus these 12-man debates solely on him, and the media promoted them hard by going "oooh what's Trump gonna say next? who's the next guy to get a nickname? how racist is he gonna be?", essentially giving him billions of dollars worth of free airtime. and none of the other candidates wanted to attack him because it was clear he had 90% of the lunatic/KKK vote and they all wanted to be the guy who collected that once he inevitably dropped out. and because the GOP stands for nothing at all it turns out the voters actually didn't care who was a "serious" candidate, they just voted for the guy who made everyone mad, because that shit is how they get off in life. I mean if the media had just treated him like any other candidate he probably would've been one of the first guys out, now an entire political party is chained to a dude who is actively and brazenly trying to burn down the entire country

"I don't know how to tell you this, Donald, but these were not monoclonal antibodies you were given. You were given...poison"

"w...how is this....possible"

(doctor turns around, last name Rubio)

The fact that he A) didn't accept his defeat, and B) actively attempted to overturn it, was the final blow in his clown show

Authoritarians all over the world can point and say, "See - democracy is a complete mess! Trust us instead" ... all based on his inability to accept defeat with grace

pic.twitter.com/0l1xtYZeeK

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 8, 2023

I also pitch that it be written by Matthew Yglesias, Tulsi Gabbard, and Bret Stephens