Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

amazing all that dumb bullshit he was saying when calling into OAN is listed on the indictment

Well, there you go: a RICO conviction in GA imposes a mandatory 5 year sentence not subject to probation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73GefWWmSBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_f3kJOX_8

currently singing "Lido Shuffle" to the tune of "RICO Shuffle"

Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher

Oh RICO, RICO, because RICO
Oh RICO, RICO, because RICO
...
The man is dead

just a reminder the first Republican debate is in 9 days and even though Trump says he's not doing it you know he can't resist

Trump probably couldn't make a RICO UNSUAVE reference.

I like the way that ILX posters often respond to events with good-natured puns involving old rock song lyrics, even when I often don't know the songs (and I don't know what RICO means here either).

you need to start following some US youtube true crime accounts to complete your education!

one thing I have learned is that Epshteyn is pronounced the same way as Epstein.

They got the whole gang! Just the thought of all of those idiots lawyering up against each other is delightful.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, August 14, 2023 10:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

❤️

Christmas all year! And all next year! And probably the year after that, and …

amusing word-choice in the (first) giuliani section of the wikipedia article on the RICO act: "The Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano evaded conviction when he and his underboss, Thomas Bilotti, were murdered on the streets of Midtown Manhattan on December 16, 1985"

*fingers crossed* obviously

it is pretty wild that rudys getting ricoed

meanwhile this is my truth what's yrs: J6 was foiled by DC's system of ROUNDABOUTS, which terrified and confused the insurgency

("traffic cicles" for those who terrified and confused by the word roundabout)

one thing I have learned is that Epshteyn is pronounced the same way as Epstein.

Not every insurgent got stuck in a DC traffic circle, but every one of them that did formed a band.

meanwhile this is my truth what's yrs: J6 was foiled by DC's system of ROUNDABOUTS, which terrified and confused the insurgency

Heh.

BTW, the expensive icing on this indictment cake is that while Trump may have an army of fundraisers paying his legal fees, most of the other assholes indicted along with him (and in allegiance to him) don't have deep pockets. Someone like Trump makes even criminality seem mundane, but for normal people it's generally a good rule of thumb to not get indicted.

I see this batshit MAGA opera ending with Trump besting Giuliani in a duel (w/45s) on 5th Ave. and then, course, winning the election.

^^^Is “boring” an adjective, a verb, or a proper name.

Heading to Georgia now. See you soon!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2021

alright man have a great time

LAW & ORDER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2020

xxxp - I use boring as verb and adjective.

Hahahahahaha

The January 4, 2021 tweet

Given that we're at the point where the notion of a non-teflon human being circumventing this shit strains credulity to the point of structural meltdown, I am entertaining any and all theories on how ol' DT manages to wriggle his way out of this one. I mean, I assume it'll happen, I just don't understand how.

Maybe on a technicality, like how Bill Cosby got let out of jail? But there seem to be so many moving criminal parts here - has he hit 100 indictments yet? - that it's just as likely he dies before really paying a legal price, like Roger Ailes did.

And, well, more charges and indictments will probably follow. I can’t imagine how exhausting staying on top of all the legal stuff is if you have to do to for a living.

Watching even five seconds of MSNBC yesterday was exhausting. I had to turn it off and watch Adam's Rib.

that's true every day

So when dum dum *does* die, I wonder how hard it will be for his army of morons to accept? Or will we be seeing Trump campaign posters for decades to come, promoting the unbeatable dream team of Trump, JFK and Jesus?

I doubt JFK would be included.

Mussolini maybe.

They'll accept it immediately because there's a narrative for that: the Dems and MSM hounded him to death.

Enh, there'll still be the batshit minority posting "he's not really dead" conspiracy theories.

Trumpers love JFK. They're sundowning boomers living in the past, who don't have a consistent politics.

Hmm, how about a slate of Trump, Jesus and Walt Disney? Seems like a winner to me. I mean, Walt's been on deck for decades. "Put me in, coach, I'm ready to thaw!"

How can Hillary not go full Moe Greene at this point? "And this creep wanted to lock me up? No, no--you don't lock me up, I lock you up." Profound sadness? Honestly, who is she performing for at this point? Let loose with some gloating.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/08/15/hillary-clinton-reaction-trump-indictments-cnntm-vpx.cnn

She's got to stay relatively fair and neutral so that what she says does not come back to haunt her when she runs for president again in 2028.

So I have a Trump loving uncle, complete with a Trump flag in front of his house, that I'm honestly expecting to learn he actually was at January 6th any day now. Anyway, I try my hardest to minimize contact with him, which is fairly easy, but he was at my nephew's birthday party over the weekend and my cousin couldn't resist winding him up a little. My favorite was the exchange that caused him to get in his truck and leave...

MAGA uncle: "Why didn't Al Gore get indicted for when he tried to steal the 2000 election? Huh?"

my cousin: "Because he legally handled it through the courts and gave up when he lost the case? You do realize they are not comparable at all, don't you?"

MAGA uncle: "You liberal loonies are all the same, brainwashed fucking idiots."

fair point

it is kinda funny that Republicans have increasingly adopted the fringe-left lingo, like calling everyone 'sheep' and telling everyone to 'wake up'. that's the type of thing I used to hear at like, an anti-Iraq War rally.

only they do it while all sharing the same memes and c&ping the same posts on social media and not noticing the irony

and now they hate the Iraq War too!

Wasn’t fake news first used by the left in regards to Fox?