Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

ah yeah I read about Jackson too! Super interesting history

trenchant thought: historians should stop doings surveys on which slaveowning aristocrat and/or war criminal presidents had the best vibes, and start telling us about the history of mac and cheese

Does any other nation have such a robust canonical survey mechanism for ranking their own heads of state?

Of course not -- we are, to quote Agnew, the greatest country in the history of the nation.

need to be ranking byzantine emperors instead, this guy went to harvard and sat on the boards of weapons manufactures after he left office who cares, lets talk about guys who had their step mothers blinded and sent to nunneries

That being once again being the minority party in the Senate, no?

Yeah holding the Senate seems like mostly a lost cause. I got a lil shiver the other day at the prospect of waking up in November with Republicans actually in charge of everything, which is clearly a non-zero possibility. I do think the Dems will take back the House, but who knows.

he inspired the classic song i cant drive 5 by sammy the red rocker hagar xp

Talk about the nanny state

what was he driving, a lawnmower?

nah even that would get higher than 5

Maybe drunk driving an electric wheelchair around Cabo Wabo

french fries, and a bunch of other French dishes

But not, apparently, French dressing.

Anyway back to the most important topic - which is, of course, ice cream.

There was a 19th century custom where you got a glass container called a penny lick; they were intentionally designed to look more full of ice cream than they actually were. Generally I think you were supposed to return them.

Sometimes (apparently) a boy would follow you to retrieve the cup.

St. Louisans sometimes claim that the ice cream cone was invented for the 1904 World's Fair. Which is not quite right, but some St. Louisans just can't ever shut up about the Fair. There are some good things about that city, but. If I had peaked 120 years ago? I might start looking for new things to talk about.

Yeah the World's Fair story is Italo Marchiony erasure: https://www.idfa.org/the-history-of-the-ice-cream-cone

(I was just reading about the history of ice cream cone production for work-related reasons not long ago.)

Yes, waffles already existed, and pastry-based cones are an ancient concept.

Trying to swerve back to the topic, Donald Trump likes McDonald's and McDonald's prefers to sell its ice cream-esque products in cups, rather than cones. Their milkshakes contain algae, and they seem to have stopped including a maraschino cherry. I choose to blame Donald Trump.

those milkshakes bring all the puke to my mouth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-xhtOhvGg

Conspiring with Grimace on his deadly milkshakes

McDonald's makes concrete milkshakes to throw at cops, boycott this woke corporation

McDonald's prefers to sell its ice cream-esque products in cups, rather than cones… and they seem to have stopped including a maraschino cherry.

I haven’t been inside a McDonalds since the 20th century, but turns out I still have the capacity to find their regional variations fascinating

idk if they still do but I've been inside at least one McDonald's in Miami that has their own version of a Cuban sandwich.

it was, however, dogshit. i don't even think they used the right bread

So you were not...

Lovin' it?

Any time I've been in a McDonald's recently there's been a fight

Who have you been fighting?

Hamas

It's pronounced "HAM-bur-gers"

clam chowdare

“Americans can expect that immediately upon President Trump’s return to the Oval Office, he will restore all of his prior policies, implement brand new crackdowns that will send shock waves to all the world’s criminal smugglers, and marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation in American history,” said Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt…

she seems nice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/20/trump-mass-deportations-immigration/

will they use cattle cars?

What are the odds on Kyle Rittenhouse being in the administration?

In the Department of Street Justice

I mean, of course he’ll have a seat at the table.

Would love it if Kyle was ground into street tacos #onethread

"Tastes like freedom!"

serve him w/ freedom fries on a freedom bun

leavitt out

https://es.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cckr.jpg

^^ wtf is that?!?

Not really up on him these days, but I stopped on Jimmy Kimmel last night and he was showing a clip of Trump selling shoes recently at "Sneaker Con." Truly, truly bizarre--maybe this was discussed already.

he was booed at SneakerCon, but also applauded.. sneaker fans are a mixed batch

It's the politics of the sneaker gimps.

He'd have done better if he'd made Velcro versions of the sneakers and sold them in The Villages.

Yes, Newsweek is now a right-wing trash fire squatting on a once-worthwhile domain, but this is still pretty funny:

Donald Trump Wants to Negotiate with Judge Engoron

Donald Trump's attorney requested to propose a new judgment on Wednesday in the former president's civil fraud trial ruling, in which Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million.

Context:
In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump, his two adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.

On Friday, Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million and barred from doing business in New York for three years after a monthslong civil trial from late last year into early January. The trial was to decide the damages Trump would face after Engoron found that he committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets. The other defendants in the case have also faced financial penalties and been barred from doing business in New York for periods of time.

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has maintained his innocence in the case and claimed it was politically motivated.

On Wednesday, Clifford Robert filed a letter in the New York City civil court addressed to Engoron which argues Trump was "deprived" of the chance to speak out against the ruling before it was filed.

According to court records, Roberts requested the chance to propose a "counter-judgment" to Engoron's ruling, adding that it would be "contrary to fundamental fairness" if not allowed to submit a counter-judgment.

"Defendants therefore request that the Court set a return date for the Proposed Judgment that affords Defendants sufficient time to submit a proposed counter-judgment. To deprive Defendants of the opportunity to submit a proposed counter-judgment would be contrary to fundamental fairness and due process."

^^ wtf is that?!?

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Authorities in Argentina this week raided a cultural center named after Kyle Rittenhouse—the American teen known for shooting three people, two fatally, during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Police confiscated an 83-millimeter mortar shell from the center’s building in La Plata, about an hour outside of Buenos Aires, La Nacion reported, adding that the police planned to destroy the shell. It’s unclear if Rittenhouse is aware of the cultural center or has any ties to it. Attempts to reach him through social media and his former attorney were unsuccessful.

the clips in this monologue are all completely bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xuwD_xx0s

all completely bonkers and just meh-average for the man who suggested drinking bleach or exposing the inside of the human body to the sun would make good covid cures.

What about the woman at 10:00? Even Trump looked a little perplexed for a few seconds.

ok I admit Eric on the verge of tears saying "My father built the NYC skyline...and this is how they repay him??" was very funny

Calling this guy energon per transformers law.

https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3klzk5txou22f

xp - who can forget that iconic photo of a young Donny sitting next to his lunch pail on the steel beam 40 stories up?

I don't believe this, but sometimes I'm tempted to think Trump's all-time biggest sin was naming his son Eric

Trump was probably a CHIPS fan

Pres K, with much respect... Erik.

It is true that he should’ve gone with “ponch“, but I think that might have been a bridge too far