"recreating" himself by becoming a blowhard reality tv/branding machine was actually the only thing he succeeded at. well that and tax fraud. for a while. annd presidon'ting
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:19 (three months ago) link
Quite a stretch to say he succeeded at presidenting.
He did a bang-up job at leaving the country in a shambles.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
trump was in pretty bad shape before his t.v. show, right? i think i remember reading that. the show saved him. he had no money. getting sued left and right. nobody cared about him. that new yorker article was good about all that. blaming the fate of the world on the producer of trump's t.v. show.
same with rudy before 9/11. nobody wanted to have anything to do with him.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:25 (three months ago) link
I think like a lot of rich people he leverages his value (as such) to get favorable loans, and those loans constitute his cash. But of course, as this lawsuit has underscored, he's repeatedly lied about or exaggerated his value to get said loans, so dunno what he's going to do to drum up more money to pay these fins and penalties. No doubt some other bank or entity will come through with more loans, if they see benefit from it. Nothing has ever stopped banks from being stupid with their (our) money.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
He's pretty much run out of banks to borrow from. I'm sure he's in hock to the Russians for millions.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:32 (three months ago) link
GoFundMe is still there, for millions of gullible dudes in red hats.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
presidon'ting
lol did you just coin this? applause.
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
That's what I get for not reading carefully, lol
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
Clear and Presi-danger
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:45 (three months ago) link
*bows with flourish*
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 January 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
Lol
Fake-hairison Ford?
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:26 (three months ago) link
u love to see it
"If it'll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that's my intent," Carroll told George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America," suggesting she would create a "fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump."
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Culture/jean-carroll-plans-83-million-donald-trump-hates/story?id=106751516
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:39 (three months ago) link
Truly a genius
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-more-popular-taylor-swift-maga-biden-1234956829/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:19 (three months ago) link
MAGA pundits have spent months fuming about Swift and her boyfriend — already a hated figure for his role as a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine spokesman.
Huh, I didn't know that, or tuned it out
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:32 (three months ago) link
^^That's why Aaron Rodgers was trying to feud with him.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
Trump has also privately claimed that he is “more popular” than Swift is and that he has more committed fans than she does
i think he definitely has more fans who are committed at one point or another
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:42 (three months ago) link
Good post: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/01/taylor-swift-and-the-paranoid-style
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:48 (three months ago) link
All's I want to say (rubbing my hands together): 'Mwaahahahahahah! Our secret weapon is Taylor Swift, what do you got? Huh?'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link
Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo, Gina Carano, Roseanne Barr, …
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:57 (three months ago) link
Big Football and Big Pop in bed with Big FD
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:58 (three months ago) link
Try That In A Taylor's Version
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:59 (three months ago) link
doesn't seem fair to namecheck Stephen A. Smith in there. he's wrong about a lot. it's sort of his thing.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:59 (three months ago) link
Oops.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/nyregion/weisselberg-perjury-trump-fraud.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:10 (three months ago) link
Quite a specimen!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/politics/roberta-kaplan-donald-trump-deposition-maralago/index.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:28 (three months ago) link
CLASSIC: He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:32 (three months ago) link
Fani Willis waited until the very last minute to respond to Roman's motion to dismiss, sounds like the relationship did not begin until after Wade was divorced and after he was a part of the legal team, which should be helpful. Not sure why they let weeks go by before making a strong statement. It seems like at least in the context of the trial this should be completely thrown out, but no doubt GA republicans will do everything they can to drag it out.
NEW: Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis responds to allegations that she engaged in an “improper” relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.She writes that efforts to disqualify her have “no merit” and should be summarily denied.” pic.twitter.com/JHE0evM2Yq— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) February 2, 2024
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
I mean the only response that really matters is filing the official response in court. court of public opinion doesn't really matter here, at least as far as the case is concerned.
guessing they took their time to make sure they addressed all of the complaints. but I don't know how court works.
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
The president has described Trump to longtime friends and close aides as a “sick fuck” who delights in others’ misfortunes, according to three people who have heard the president use the profane description. According to one of the people who has spoken with the president, Biden recently said of Trump: “What a fucking asshole the guy is.”The White House declined to comment.
The White House declined to comment.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:51 (three months ago) link
Biden otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:52 (three months ago) link
Trump going to walk out to Kanye's I Love It at his rallies now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link
Biden is finally putting out a policy i can fully get behind
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:21 (three months ago) link
Kaplan said that during a deposition for a fraud case that accused Trump of lending his name to a pyramid scheme through endorsements on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” the former president chastised Habba for offering Kaplan lunch. Kaplan, who also represents writer E. Jean Carroll in her successful sexual abuse and defamation cases against the former president — which have ended in multimillion dollar verdicts — said that the Trump team had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch as is often a courtesy practice between opposing counsel.
Later, however, Kaplan said that Trump asked her, “Well, how’d you like the lunch?” and taunted, “I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.”
Kaplan said Trump then threw a huge pile of documents and exhibits across the table and stormed out of the room, then turned to his own attorney and yelled at her.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
The White House declined to comment on what a sick fuck fucking asshole Trump really is
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
I am not even remotely interested in who or what Fani Willis did or didn't do. The case against Trump should remain the same, even if Willis is a shape-shifting lizard creature from the planet Vulcan.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link
a shape-shifting lizard creature from the planet Vulcan
That's actually Taylor Swift, yeah?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Willis also seemingly fired a whistleblower who told her about Wade’s misuse of grant money
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:48 (three months ago) link
a shape-shifting lizard creature from the planet VulcanThat's actually Taylor Swift, yeah?
Based on how easily Trump and the conservative echo chamber were able to turn Anthony Fauci- who at one point was polling as more popular than Trump- into a punching bag, I’m concerned about how hard they are going to go after her. Especially with the added dimension of massive sexism that is always so successfully deployed against women in power
― epistantophus, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:21 (three months ago) link
IDK, the Swiftie Army is not something I'd want to tangle with
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:26 (three months ago) link
🇯🇵 Statement from the Embassy of Japan on Taylor Swift’s Reported Travel from Japan to the United States ✈️🏈 Are you ready for it? pic.twitter.com/wFKadehTJk— Japan Embassy DC🌸 (@JapanEmbDC) February 2, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:27 (three months ago) link
Will Jack Antonoff comply with his Congressional subpoena?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:27 (three months ago) link
Xpost I mean, does it matter (from a legal perspective) how they go after her? Obviously I don't want anybody going through a harassment campaign from edgelord Republicans, especially not a Black woman, but public opinion isn't going to have any bearing on the case itself.
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
they're looking absolutely desperate with the taylor swift thing, just completely pathetic.
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
people were not "fans" of Dr. Anthony Fauci the way they are with Taylor Swift, they ain't gonna win this battle
― frogbs, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
tbh I'm surprised they didn't issue a statement that they're planning to send Air Force One to pick her up
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
Taylor has been given shoot to kill orders
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:31 (three months ago) link
Taylor Swift is...the Transporter.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:32 (three months ago) link
speaking of which the other day this whole thing was brought up at the record store and an older guy started talking about how some art organization he was a part of in the 80s did a big event that was sponsored by Trump Tower and featured a speech by the man himself. apparently Trump arrived with some woman who clearly was not his wife, spoke for about 5 minutes and left, then just outright refused to pay a dime, which caused this organization to fold. I believe the way he put it was "fuck that guy, he's a huge asshole and I hope everyone knows it"
― frogbs, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:34 (three months ago) link
Taylor Swift should fly Concorde, which I recall is how Phil Collins was able to get from London to Philly in time to play both cities for Live Aid.
― henry s, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:45 (three months ago) link
I remember that Collins stunt All Too Well
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:50 (three months ago) link
I do like the idea that someone like Taylor Swift can be so rich and successful that she owns a private decommissioned Concorde.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link