Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

(I acted like it was something on my phone that made me laugh when they said that)

“I’m sorry for eavesdropping but you are very very dumb”

Sweep the leg, stevie

Reportedly he's scheduled to be deposed in the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page thing, which is ironic on so many levels. He talked shit about them and interfered in their firing, so they filed a civil suit, which draws him in for a deposition where he will no doubt (given his track record) open himself up to further legal action.

Remember when he did an impression of those two having sex? Those were the days.

seems apt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of your hair

(lyrics ever so slightly adjusted by court order)

haha they are saying a gov shutdown could delay his deposition

lololol has the judge's Chico Marx quote been posted yet?

"who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes"

literally part of the ruling

i remember it as "your lyin' eyes"

Well, yeah.

Libs over here are panicky as well

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/unless-joe-biden-stands-aside-the-world-must-prepare-for-president-trump-20

Trump has similar factors to Biden too...be funny if both of them died on the campaign.

that guardian commentator particularly embodying the serious monkey journalist headshot

The Biden issue is one of them "well I wouldn't start from here" questions. Can't see that there's any younger pol who has the necessary profile + popularity to be a better bet. He has experience of campaigning and winning against Trump. And if Biden can take a big slice out of the coot vote as in 2020, that outweighs younger people thinking he's too doddery, because old people votes seem to count double.

(I am very much a fuck centrists into the sun guy)

Same here re: centrists, but there has been no prep from Democrats to prepare for a leadership change. Despise Garton Ash but the sleep is deep with that lot.

If we judge Biden by actions and results instead of how creaky his voice sounds, the consensus among US Ilxors leans towards his having been v competent and effective, and perhaps even startlingly progressive - the appearance on the picket lines this week isn't nothing, and is unprecedented. That's not what gets a vast chunk of the electorate voting though, I guess. Am very much hoping Democrats are considering who will takes the reins next, though. Newsom is very good at taking the fight to the media, but I haven't really a clue on where he stands with the larger, or even smaller, issues. Again, in the media climate we have now, that might even be a strength.

But I mean Biden could die, before the election even. But so could Trump. Welcome to the duality.

Harris vs. Junior '24

"The Californian Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein refusing to retire at 90. Really? Give us a break."

Well

If we judge Biden by actions and results instead of how creaky his voice sounds, the consensus among US Ilxors leans towards his having been v competent and effective

and harris could take over if need be. she knows how to do stuff. even if she is mostly invisible and people seem to hate her for some reason.

She's being exactly as competent and (in)visible as most other veep before Cheney. The only way the criticism makes sense is to remember what a racist society we still are.

Exactly. And I bet she knows how to spell "potato".

yeah well i kinda figure its race/sex-based hatred.

see, that's what's crazy to me. you can be VP of the US for 4 or even 8 years and nobody will remember a single thing you did unless you did something horrifying like spell a word wrong or get sworn in as president on an airplane next to a blood-stained widow. (that's my weird memory of johnson anyway...don't know if its true...)

it might have been a dream. were they on an airplane?

JFK is very much alive it must have been a dream

xxp or invent the internet!

The other thing I remember Dan Quayle for is also JFK related, but I'm aware that even remembering him for that makes me a political junkie.

I don't know, that moment moved beyond political junkie-dom and well into pop culture.

Quayle was born in 1947, which makes him younger than four of the five presidents who came after him.

Dan Quayle showed up to the Fox News HQ for some on-air bit and nobody in the reception area recognized him

"you were vice president of what, exactly?"

Didn't Quayle also tell a bunch of emaciated refugees that they all looked like happy campers?

I remember Bret Kimberlin claiming to have been Quayle's pot dealer in college.

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. ... No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history."

we all need to put food on our families.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sHMAAOSwmtFfpKbM/s-l400.jpg

BREAKING: Bail bondsman Scott Hall on Friday became the first defendant in the Fulton election interference case to take a plea agreement with prosecutors https://t.co/NjEcON5JWe

— Tamar Hallerman (@TamarHallerman) September 29, 2023

Departing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley:

“We are unique among the world’s militaries,” Milley said. “We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator.”

“And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” he spat. “We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”

Sounds like a traitor to me.

"he spat" lol

Woke Military

it's just crazy to me that the GOP used to have total boners for institutions like the Armed Forces and the FBI, now they're infested with the wokes and should be abolished

thing is, if they want to rip up the constitution and start instituting a dictatorship - getting the military establishment on board with this idea is quite an important part of this process!

'Please answer the question: are you or have you ever been a member of the Wokes? Answer the question!"

"Have you ever used a pronoun?!?"

ask/tell

I'm guessing there are probably more than several reasons why Milley should be executed, but him informing Bejing that he's not going to let the crazy orange man launch any nukes is not one of them.

Our military, thank God, consists of a lot of non-white and non-Cis-male people in positions of power who would probably not look favorably on going along with a white supremacist dictatorship coup attempt.