Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

(2) a heart attack/embolism

Depends who has the heart attack/embolism

yah for sure i think it will be close too

Mm, I don't think it'll be THAT close. A Biden blowout, nah, but it'll be comfortably enough in the end.

Ned, have you been tampering with the ballot or

Some very unhealthy people are also weirdly immortal

Ned, have you been tampering with the ballot or

shh ned's cookin'

Ned, have you been tampering with the ballot or

It's what I do, man.

Anyway, on the FAFO front:

Roberta Kaplan: He had an opportunity to participate in a trial--
Judge Kaplan: And he lost. I will so instruct the jury. More than once.
Trump says, "I wasn't at the trial, I never met this woman
Judge Kaplan: Mr. Trump, keep your voice down.

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) January 25, 2024

i mean i'm not super confident...about anything...but I dunno Trump-as-boogieman I just don't get it, he's very beatable

Some very unhealthy people are also weirdly immortal

― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, January 25, 2024 1:10 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Harry Dean Stanton lived to 91

I'm enjoying the trials but can't imagine they'll matter much in the election.

No way he's allowed to take the stand

Xpost they matter insofar as accountability and doing the right thing, esp this one

I mean when you take it all back to him being a Norman Vincent Peale drone when young, this all makes sense, everything about him -- he keeps power-of-positive-thinking his way out of everything whenever possible, and when it doesn't, he either doesn't get it or gets it but can't admit it. There's really not much more to him than that, it's everything else he's enabled along the way that's been the infuriation.

https://x.com/innercitypress/status/1750597398785855605?s=20

Xpost they matter insofar as accountability and doing the right thing, esp this one

oh absolutely

I'm confident Biden will beat Trump, if only because it is much better for my mental health and it's not like I can fly the plane from my passenger seat. If it gets too close for comfort I can always shovel some money where I think it may do some good.

i don't want to underestimate Trump but i don't think the Biden campaign is ever going to do that, either.

If it gets too close for comfort I can always shovel some money where I think it may do some good.

I could use an espresso now.

aw, go ahead and treat yourself!

Anyway anticlimactic in the end; he tried one sneak-in of something and was shut down, a quick two question cross, one short followup and done. It's probably the least he's ever said in a legal context in his life and that amuses me greatly.

The whole point was just to get on the record that he's a little bitch, legally.

if/when Trump loses in '24, he'll be back in '28

when he will be 82

and dead

trump himself may be dead, but he'll still be railing against RINO's and the Deep State and also low-pressure shower heads

I'm sure that wasn't he meant when he tweeted this video out, but it seems to apply to what we can expect:

pic.twitter.com/JDS4zUXXJG

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019

At least it'll keep ILE hummin'.

Has he tried to sell a Trump coffin yet? He's already taken a lot of lessons from Kiss, might as well go all in.

Sirhan Sirhan should be released on humanitarian grounds, as long as he agrees to one more mission

I'm sure they'll sell people the opportunity to cut off a body part and have it buried in Trump's coffin.

Trump is privately pressuring GOP to reject Ukraine/border deal to deny Biden a win.

“Trump wants them to kill it because he doesn’t want Biden to have a victory. He told them he will fix the border when he is president,” per a source close to the talks https://t.co/fJHy5lOVeI

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 25, 2024

I know the GOP is not serious about border security - it's really the only issue they have that has any traction with the voters anymore - so this is totally unsurprising

Thank God Biden's border thing is dead. We should all be rejoicing here. It was awful.

yeah and I think McConnell and some of the old guard do want to fund Ukraine all the same... if this is killed, they'll probably find a way to send them some munitions

I know we've kind of entered some uncharted waters anyway and the end result here is fine since Biden's border thing wasn't great anyway, but my god, I can't help but be struck by how much sway Trump still manages when he doesn't even hold any office.

He's not asking the GOP to do what most in the party wouldn't try to do anyway

It's really something to take a few steps back and imagine these career politicians who have in many cases spent decades playing the game to accrue power and influence and who now just bend in whatever direction some dough-brained reality tv star happens to aimlessly hurl his feces.

it's not Mitch's party anymore, that's for sure... and Johnson takes orders directly from the mango mussolini

I think Eric H. is right: the Trump shit is basically what the MAGAnumnuts wanted anyway. He just said the quiet part out loud, hence his appeal to those who wish they could do the same.

Well, yeah, I get that the interests are aligned... but more to OL's point, it's hard to imagine them allowing it to be made so blindingly obvious in the public eye that they are taking orders from him. Just seems like it'd be embarrassing on some level to a politicians' ego, even if they were getting what they wanted, to have to do a whole dog and pony show along with it about how they sure are making the unelected orange dipshit happy.

I am sure that most of them wish he would just die and let them get back to manipulating his mouth-breathing followers.

prepare for unimaginable levels of pettiness when he wins...

I'm curious who would make the candidate pool for VP but wouldn't be obviously rooting or even plotting for him to keel over.

Never forget

https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/aef/87/6220c8c9ccd6aa6da1989b406dc13ff7.jpg

prepare for unimaginable levels of pettiness when he wins...

Or loses... Floridian Dems are bracing for a grouchy loser DeSantis back in the capitol

Someone needs to make a "Hitler in the conference room" clip for DeSantis.

Just load his office with pudding cups, there's only so much damage he can do with his fingers perpetually shoved up his mouth.

I know we've already beaten this to death, but this is a solid take by Dahlia Lithwick on today's events in the defamation trial.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/trump-three-minutes-stand-point-explained.html

So would throwing Trump out of the trial early have been better? If not, we're just in "Trump put on a performance for his base" territory, right? The real question is whether he pays out to Carroll.

I think he's going to pay out bigly

what's the largest amount the jury could award, does anyone know?