I think that’s more down to the fact that, as every book written about him claims, he only remembers what the last person he talked to said
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
he got Covid because he held a huge event in celebration of the death of RBG, the exact sort of mass gathering that every doctor in the country was saying you shouldn't do.
lmao I forgot about this.
― treeship., Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:16 (eight months ago) link
Just want to interject that he looks like a Frank Miller drawing of himself at this point.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:24 (eight months ago) link
there is a method to how he conducts himself. he treats everyone and everything around him with contempt, as if life itself is a joke. this makes a certain % of people love him as they wish they too were liberated from moral constraints. and then for the people who try to stop him, they just end up embarrassing themselves. ever try to discipline an unruly kid and then have the kid laugh at you? that’s what it’s like to criticize him.
― treeship., Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:26 (eight months ago) link
he was reduced to a babbling maniac on the debate stage by...Joe Biden.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:44 (eight months ago) link
By the way I'm not saying anything bad about those folks, I have nothing against any of them
Oh, I do. This country worships absolute morons. Maybe that’s true elsewhere, I dunno, but thanks for reminding me that a dumb, affected teenager could signed to a recording contract thanks to an appearance on Jerry Springer. (many do)
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:45 (eight months ago) link
That was supposed to say many xp, stupid phone.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:48 (eight months ago) link
It's not an easy thing to do, especially running as he did the first time with no real infrastructure or even any real clue about how to go about it.
Who needs campaign infrastructure when you can just tweet out dumb shit 24/7 and have the media run your campaign for you?? If you can attack CNN nonstop and have them reward you by broadcasting footage of an empty podium you’re set to speak at while your opponent is giving policy speeches why do you need to know how to do anything at all?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:54 (eight months ago) link
^^^
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:57 (eight months ago) link
i wish a hacker org could somehow mute all text and vid from trump it’d make it better and make him nuts.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 02:03 (eight months ago) link
Trump is not uniquely gifted either, just gripped with enough survivor sense, carved out of three decades of getting away with shit, to delay prosecution, etc. And emough sense to realize the GOP base didn't give a shit about "policy" -- they wanted grievances.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 04:58 (eight months ago) link
WILL YOU SHUT UP MAN?
I still think this was the moment Biden won the election
― mh, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 14:39 (eight months ago) link
I doubt anyone had ever told Trump to shut up before.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 14:40 (eight months ago) link
both otm
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
imagine if he'd said "up your nose with a rubber hose", he'd have the Horshack vote
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
Would have to take it back from Romney:
In the current New Republic, the editors have this to say about Mitt Romney: "He's unbearably unctuous - the Arnold Horseshack of the race, furiously waving his hand to grab the teacher's attention."
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:07 (eight months ago) link
trump is very funny when is not in power and very unfunny when he is in power
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:22 (eight months ago) link
^^^ this is otm, urgent & key
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:04 (eight months ago) link
Civilian Trump commenting on Kristen Stewart cheating--funny
President Trump complaining about Jimmy Kimmel jokes--not funny
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:09 (eight months ago) link
I mean laugh-at funny, tbc.
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:26 (eight months ago) link
NEWS: Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account in January.A delay in compliance by the company prompted a federal judge to hold Twitter in contempt and fine the company $350,000.Details TK— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 9, 2023
Good luck getting this info from Musk, but still.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
Aw it was nice of Elongated to buy Twitter to help further try and (badly) protect his best bud.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
Oh, wait, delay in compliance means they got what they wanted, right? Apparently the delay was because Twitter was prohibited from telling Trump they even got the warrant.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
I hold Twitter in contempt myself.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:58 (eight months ago) link
Yeah they have what they wanted. So Smith has Trump's DMs, which are likely very moist.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:09 (eight months ago) link
Do you think Trump was much of a DM guy? I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underling. (His Truth Social posts might actually come from his own fat fingers, because they're demonstrably more insane/aggrieved.) He was always a guy who called people, and took calls from basically anyone who had his number.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:18 (eight months ago) link
he's a BM guy
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:22 (eight months ago) link
Back in 2005 a pal who at the time covered government for the Palm Beach Post was reporting on how neighbors near the airport were irritated by increasing air traffic. His editor asked him to call Trump at Mar-a-Lago. To my friend's amazement, Trump's secretary or whatever said, "He'll call you right back. Is this the number he can reach you?" And voila Trump himself called two minutes later, talked his ear off for 15-20 minutes. Then Trump called him back two days later to compliment him on the story ("You need anything? Let me know").
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:23 (eight months ago) link
I don't; he famously dictated his tweets to an underlingNo, you could famously tell which were written by staffers and which were blasted out on the can by his own thumbs from the “sent from iphone” labels
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 18:11 (eight months ago) link
Trump is funny in the same way Vince McMahon is, except Vince has the self-awareness to *know* he's playing a heel, and that therefore the audience actually wants to see him get his ass kicked or leave in a huff after getting shown up, whereas Trump is famously prickly anytime he thinks something makes him "look bad".
also, as crut says, being a horrible asshole is only funny when they don't actually have any power. I think the dudes on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are hilarious but I probably wouldn't want to know them in real life
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, you can what Vince is like from what Trump does, and vice versa.
Both dudes had similar backgrounds in coming from abusive households with rich & successful fathers who had to make their own name starting in the mid-70s in the NY metro and becoming media creatures thru the 80s trying to get acceptance by the Manhattanite establishment. They’ve worked together since at least Wrestlemania IV, which was at Trump Casino iirc.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:29 (eight months ago) link
Again, recommending "Ringmaster," a new bio of Vince. The connections between the two are myriad and very close, going back to Vince Sr. prompting wrestling events in Queens.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 21:07 (eight months ago) link
Yup, just got this book from the library
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 21:38 (eight months ago) link
https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-freak-donald-trump-very-likely-our-next-president-opinion-1818694
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:14 (eight months ago) link
oh cool -- more Newsweek clickbait
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:31 (eight months ago) link
Newsweek's calling it! Damn. OK, so who do we have in '28?
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:31 (eight months ago) link
I'll sum it up: No Labels, Cornel West, Joe Biden old.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
he didn't even mention hunter. or the biden documents case.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:40 (eight months ago) link
Or that Woody Harrelson is campaigning for RFK Jr!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 14:01 (eight months ago) link
i can't believe Trump is President again. oh well, back to Frisky Dingo
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 August 2023 14:03 (eight months ago) link
before Trump, the only two incumbent presidents to lose reelection in the last 50 years have had a strong third-party bid to deal with—Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992,
impeccable logic and punctuation
― symsymsym, Saturday, 12 August 2023 16:01 (eight months ago) link
Newsweek still polling dead Republicans, I see
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 12 August 2023 16:03 (eight months ago) link
NEW: we now have two of the four stand-by witnesses reporting they’ve been given their 48-hour notice to appear Tuesday. GET YOUR TOWELS READY IT’S ABOUT TO GO DOWN! Turn on notifications for @indictmentsonly! https://t.co/OO79PN6RZC— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 12, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:29 (eight months ago) link
We've got him this time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:31 (eight months ago) link
Another day, another legal team to assemble. But, hey, what else can you expect when you go on a multi-state crime spree?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:37 (eight months ago) link
Please don’t quote Mueller she wrote please
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:40 (eight months ago) link
can we fast-forward to the bit where he dies please?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:41 (eight months ago) link
xpost Rather.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:44 (eight months ago) link
Is there something wrong with that Mueller person? I don't know who she is, I just picked that one because it summed up the situation.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
Is this guy better?
Confirmed: https://t.co/Dh82ef2f1a— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 12, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:54 (eight months ago) link