Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Too many beats

Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.

Trump's going to lose his mind when someone tells him about rechargeable batteries.

all the trump insults and fantasies are kind of sad, but understandable

speaking of trump fantasies

NEWS: Trump is considering a visit to the Capitol early next week where *he is open to pitching himself as a speaker candidate,* according to a R familiar.https://t.co/HK0KSRrzZ3

— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) October 5, 2023

he really thinks he can bail himself out of his legal trouble with this

What happens to you if you’re a Republican congressman and you don’t vote Trump for Speaker?

The answer, my friend

this country is so, so embarrassing

What happens to you if you’re a Republican congressman and you don’t vote Trump for Speaker?

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes),

He treats you like a KFC biscuit and slops you down.

Meanwhile on the toady front, Lindell can do a tour with Rudy begging for change with a tin cup

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/lawyers-bail-on-mypillows-michael-lindell-owes-millions-00120174

Trump is considering a visit to the Capitol early next week where *he is open to pitching himself as a speaker candidate

Like his large, complex, detailed but irrefutable report that was going to totally exonerate him, I suspect this is yet another idle thought that flitted through what passes for his brain and out his sound-making hole. He knows how to keep himself in the daily news cycle by spewing random bullshit, I'll grant him that.

Being Speaker is a thankless miserable job, I hope they elect him.

I hear you get a hidden cubbyhole though

does he even know what Speaker of the House does

he speaks

he probably thinks the Speaker gets to talk a lot, hence the name... something he's quite comfortable with

Pelosi sold a lot of NFT's while she was Speaker, he wants to get in on that action

https://www.gop.gov/conference-rules-of-the-118th-congress/

Rule 26—Temporary Step Aside of a Member of Leadership who is Indicted

(a) A member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years imprisonment may be imposed.

The GOP would have to change their own house rules to specifically allow someone indicted for a felony to serve, which scans terribly, which means they'd totally do it for Trump.

In January people were floating the idea that they could make Trump Speaker then impeach Biden and Harris so Trump would be President again

The Senate might go along. Who knows?

I don't think the Senate has a say

Not with the election for speaker, but with the fantasy double impeachment Pres. K. speaks of.

ah gotcha.

I'd say this isn't going to happen but I didn't expect people to storm the Capitol either. The problem is, if they do elect him he's not gonna do shit and then when they try and kick him out he's not gonna leave

How can you kick out the greatest Speaker of all time?

I could see him having a talent for whipping votes through sheer intimidation, but he'd have to show up and do all the other stuff for that to happen

One week as speaker would be more hours of labor than the rest of his life combined.

he'd just stay at Mar-a-Lago, hand over the real work to the Freedom Caucus. he could find plenty of willing dogsbodies to wield the gavel on a day-to-day basis. and, yes, once in he'd never permit a vote to kick him out.

Trump lawyers trying to get the Jan 6th indictment tossed since the coup attempt was part of 'official duties':

“Here, 234 years of unbroken historical practice — from 1789 until 2023 — provide compelling evidence that the power to indict a former president for his official acts does not exist,” they wrote.

The fucking GALL of '234 years of unbroken practice' when he was the first dickwad in those centuries to try and block the peaceful transition, JFC

I’m not sure I have ever seen a sadder tweet than this. https://t.co/aqxewpLATd

— Tim Nicolai (@tim_nicolai) October 5, 2023

Even as they wrote that they knew it was nonsense and that no court is going to accept that argument. The question of whether there was any legitimacy to Trump's claims of election fraud has already been litigated and disposed of when he lost more than 60 court cases attempting to establish those claims and did not win once. That puts his efforts on January 6 far outside of any official duties and places his actions squarely in the realm of abrogating his oath of office.

Right, "Trump's official acts" is both A: desperate and B: all they've got.

My Pillow dude deserves no sympathy, but this exhausted, dejected clip of him is, in every sense of the word, actually, to coin a phrase, sad:

Lindell is broke, basically. He did it to himself pic.twitter.com/ZcPUKCpxcS

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 5, 2023

then why don't I feel sad?

also, the fact that his lawyers took his case looks to me like prima facie evidence that their primary interest was billable hours. they should have been urging him to settle from the first day and every day after and when he consistently refused that advice, they should have resigned, not waiting until he ran out of money.

Wow I know that dude (Brad Moss, I mean, not Pillow Guy)

Yeah, I mean, I'm not sad, it's just rare that you see any of these losers minus the overconfident swagger.

I remain astonished at Trump's ability to get people to immolate themselves for him.

I've seen the argument that a bunch of hollow people wanting their lives to be exciting basically attached themselves to him for just that and well, there ya go, it's exciting.

Sure, you think you're part of something until you realize you're just a smoldering husk on the side of a very long road.

Lindell also blew a bunch of his own cash make weird documentaries and live presentations about the 'big steal' mythos, so it's hard to be too sympathetic to his current plight

"all the lawyers we have for mypillow and myself"

yeah, few have self immolated quite he did. overcame a substance abuse problem, had a successful pillow company, blew away his success in service of one of the biggest assholes in history.

OurPillows, Ourselves

What happened to the overstock.com guy? He went over the edge too didn't he? I suppose Rudy has fallen as far as anyone could possibly fall, but he was always a sleaze bag, just shifted to full wacky dgaf mode, to no apparent gain.

he's not part of that company anymore, I don't know... I think they bought BB&B and are rebranding that way, they don't just do overstocky stuff anymore

There was a whole podcast about him and his Russian girlfriend.

Trump attracts grifters like shit attracts flies.

Game recognize game vs. blood in the water.

I think Lara Trump is starting to release music? They should all release albums.

Apple Music is censoring HER song “I Won’t Back Down”

If you search for it you just see the version by this Tom Petty guy

Eric T. And Rakim

Hey, @Apple — where is my song??? Why doesn’t my song appear when you search “I Won’t Back Down”??? pic.twitter.com/CugiZggxOY

— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) September 29, 2023