emails the court in lower case as if e.e. cummings went to law school
― felicity, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:56 (three months ago) link
The judge went out of his way to accommodate Trump, and of course it wasn't enough.
The denial of the request for Trump to speak was classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:08 (three months ago) link
as if e.e. cummings went to law school
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
After explicitly being told 'these are the conditions. they are not negotiable. take it or leave it', I like how Trump's lawyer shows the judge who's really the boss here by writing "Mr. Trump will speak tomorrow". When you represent Trump you set a torch to your professional standing and then trample the ashes in case there's anything left of it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/buxTDVSqwhgAAAAC/asha-rangappa.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:47 (three months ago) link
fwiw ned i feel like now bsky posts are public you may was well just link the post rather than manually c+p
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
scuse me as I kiss Chris Kise
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
When someone holding a bible talks about how he is voting for Trump because of Trump's "principles"...to paraphrase ICP: "Fucking Trump voters, how do they work?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/iowa-voters.html
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:12 (three months ago) link
Trump reflects the eschatologically dwindling evangelical Xtian population's certainty that everyone else around them is evil?
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
he probably still would have appealed to a lot of those voters in the 90s, feel like the big difference with his forward trajectory is that he started appealing to a significantly greater percentage of people who really should fucking know better.
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:19 (three months ago) link
"I just want people to follow the law"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/bomb-threat-targeted-home-judge-trumps-civil-fraud-trial-rcna133416
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:21 (three months ago) link
Kise probably called it in himself
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:23 (three months ago) link
So there was just a courtroom meltdown?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
lol he said "it's a fraud on me"
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:22 (three months ago) link
lol Engoran said "please control your client" to Kise at one point
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:29 (three months ago) link
Trump says AG James is the reason why Exxon left New York and moved to Texas. Exxon moved to Texas in 1989 pic.twitter.com/EmBfetgznM— Acyn (@Acyn) January 11, 2024
lol
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
the lawyer nodding her head in agreement!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
'other companies are gonna be moving out of NY as well'
Including yours, idiot
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link
it's a circus that never ends. here's hoping Trump's DC trial on the Jan 6 conspiracy doesn't devolve into Trump spouting nonsense as badly as this one has.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:54 (three months ago) link
It hasnt really been that bad imo! Judge may have been a trifle too clever at times but all his nonsense has been outside the courtroom bc when he’s in court he has to shut the fuck up
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link
So he just started ranting and couldn't be stopped huh
― nashwan, Thursday, 11 January 2024 20:23 (three months ago) link
out of character tbh
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 January 2024 20:23 (three months ago) link
Hopefully he’ll come back, do it again, and be held in contempt of court
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 January 2024 20:24 (three months ago) link
^ rejected Steely Dan lyric
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 January 2024 21:53 (three months ago) link
After a few minutes, Justice Arthur Engoron — who had earlier denied Trump permission to give a closing statement at the trial — cut him off and recessed for lunch.
Chef's kiss
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 11 January 2024 22:11 (three months ago) link
Trump later threw his lunch plate at the wall.
― epistantophus, Friday, 12 January 2024 00:40 (three months ago) link
RIP Tyson chicken nuggies
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 January 2024 00:42 (three months ago) link
Trump telling senior citizens to risk their lives braving subzero temps for him in the Iowa caucuses: "you can't sit home," Trump said. "if you're sick as a dog... Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it."
― BrianB, Monday, 15 January 2024 15:08 (three months ago) link
Even if you were kidding, I’d 100% believe it.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:10 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6L2K-VHkiM
― BrianB, Monday, 15 January 2024 15:13 (three months ago) link
"If you want to save America from crooked Joe Biden, you must go caucus tomorrow. First step, very first step," the former president said at the tail end of a 100-minute speech in Indianola. "We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it big. You got to get out.""You can't sit home," Trump added, raising his voice. "If you're sick as a dog, you say: 'God, I gotta make it.' Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it."Trump paused to let his supporters laugh before pressing on."If you're sick, if you're just so sick, you can't, darling, I don't think I can. Get up. Get up. You get up, you're gonna vote," Trump said, imitating a woman urging her husband to vote. "Yes, darling, because ultimately, we know who calls the shots, right?"Republican supporters cheered for the former president's caricature.Trump added that the caucuses would be held indoors and voters would "all be safe.""But you gotta get up, you gotta vote, because it has nothing to do with anything but taking our nation back, and that's the biggest thing there is," Trump said.
"You can't sit home," Trump added, raising his voice. "If you're sick as a dog, you say: 'God, I gotta make it.' Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it."
Trump paused to let his supporters laugh before pressing on.
"If you're sick, if you're just so sick, you can't, darling, I don't think I can. Get up. Get up. You get up, you're gonna vote," Trump said, imitating a woman urging her husband to vote. "Yes, darling, because ultimately, we know who calls the shots, right?"
Republican supporters cheered for the former president's caricature.
Trump added that the caucuses would be held indoors and voters would "all be safe."
"But you gotta get up, you gotta vote, because it has nothing to do with anything but taking our nation back, and that's the biggest thing there is," Trump said.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 January 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
I don't mind if those voters die on their way to vote for Trump in a snowstorm tbh
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:17 (three months ago) link
at the tail end of a 100-minute speech
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:21 (three months ago) link
My senior citizen mom was thinking about going to caucus with whoever has the biggest non-trump group in her district but the weather plus having to register as a Republican will probably keep her at home.
― BrianB, Monday, 15 January 2024 15:28 (three months ago) link
Here's to Trump pulling a William Henry Harrison at a outdoor rally this week.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:30 (three months ago) link
On my gravestone I want it to read: He gave his life to stop a RINO from getting a good news cycle and 5% poll bump
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 15 January 2024 23:30 (three months ago) link
Anything to distract, still:
Trump has been muttering loudly & slamming his hand at counsel’s table.Judge Kaplan now, before the jury was brought back in says: “before we bring in the jury I’m just going to ask Mr. Trump to take special care to keep his voice down so the jury does not overhear it.”— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) January 17, 2024
Kaplan threatened to kick Trump out of court after Carroll counsel complained again about Trump's commentary. Kaplan: "Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited." He continued: "Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial"
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
Reporters in the courtroom heard Trump say, “I would love it.”“I know you would,” Kaplan said. “You just can’t control yourself in this circumstance apparently.”
“I know you would,” Kaplan said. “You just can’t control yourself in this circumstance apparently.”
and then everything resumes as-is because he gets all the warnings in the world because nobody wants to give him the press of being thrown out of the courtroom
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
I hope E Jean Carroll gets in a 'See you next time!' on her way out of the courthouse
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:44 (three months ago) link
Why does Trump care about this trial so much? Why not be out giving speeches somewhere? He just needs the fuel for the persecution narrative that badly?
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:00 (three months ago) link
yes, obv, you said it yourself, it's fuel
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
Trump's campaign is threatening Nikki Haley that if she doesn't drop out they're going to after her on her alleged infidelities. It's all part of the pattern.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
Pot, meet kettle
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
Unless it’s with corpses who would ever give a shit.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/46174c5a0f84d87192300ee2f8c984192f85e4d7/0_101_3024_1814/master/3024.jpg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
Just the amount of money and human effort to move this clown around to do all this crap is crazy in itself.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
so he only sexually assaults women that he considers 'his type', good to know
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
Mushrooms can be choosy.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 20:05 (three months ago) link
otm
I mean, this is the argument well-regarded people have been making in newspapers and magazines with better prose. 'If you hold major political figures accountable, a lot of people and politicians might get mad and retaliate in potentially destabilizing ways.' That's basically it. https://t.co/gRbCwMW29p— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 18, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:53 (three months ago) link