Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

it's weird because it's not like fringe hateful conservative candidates, some with decent fame/money, hadn't run before, and usually did poorly (including he himself in his failed Reform Party bid in 2000). but gay people being treated better and a Black man in office for 8 years pissed everyone off so much that he became their hero.

it's weird how it's just accepted now considering how ridiculous it seemed at the time.

sigh

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, March 6, 2024 1:32 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he also got real lucky by running against such a weak and diluted field - you had like 12 identical candidates who all sucked in the same ways, to the point where the presumptive nominee was Jeb Bush, simply because of his last name. that said I admit Trump played the game pretty well - he was loud and obnoxious enough to draw ratings and was legitimately whiny and pissed off in a way other rich businessman candidates couldn't pull off. I think Republican voters legitimately resent anyone who comes off as smarter than them so Trump is kind of their perfect candidate.

“agreeance” lol w these opinions, though my disturbing realization after 2004 prez election was “omfg it’s like we’re stuck in HS!” but my realization after 2016 was “omfg it’s like we’re stuck in 8th grade!”

I guess he filed his $91 million bond in the Carroll case. That's one down.

so will we find out where he got the money from?

The Chubb Corporation (not a joke)

So now he's in the pocket of Big Chubb.

The lock people?

Chubb Rock

No, Chubby Lock

... I mean, Chubb Lock.

I go by the name of the king Chubb Lock
I don't wear a cup nor a jock

https://media.petsathome.com/wcsstore/pah-cas01//300/7141960PL.jpg

chub gone pro-maga! Actually it's quite easy to boycott this vile stuff, it gives my dog diarrhea

Looks like Lara Trump is officially in with the RNC. Let the looting commence!

Conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists are angry and depressed over a Truth Social post in which Donald Trump boasts about the quick development of Covid vaccines during his presidency. pic.twitter.com/7ujom4wQ2T

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 8, 2024

one shouldn't have to prove he's full of shit but isn't the proof that his conflating haley with pelosi or biden with obama in speeches wasn't intentional as he later claimed, because any time he says anything that he considers remotely clever he takes a pause to bask in his own adoration of the hilarious thing he just said? there's nothing dry or understated about his delivery; if he had been utilizing a rhetorical device to make a point about how all these people are the same he would have congratulated himself at the time for being so smart and looked around the room with that stupid grin of self-approbation to soak it all in.

a quibbling point, but it always irks me with his pee-wee hermaning out of all the dumb stuff he says.

i either never knew this one or i forgot about it because its so dumb but now i'm just like wtf? who on earth would do this in public? i mean, i know who...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54842/trump-civil-war-river-of-blood/

its should be in the greatest hits package of Trumpiana.

that is so good.

“hey donnie that didn’t happen”

“In my bizness you sell the sizzle not the steak— by the way my steaks are the best, everyone’s saying that.”

“but there’s no steak—“

• *trump makes sizzle out of thin air, grievance, and hate*- smiles smugly

“It doesn't make any difference. But many people were shot. It makes sense."

This essay is rough. But as the writer says, her story is a common one.

Daddy Died a MAGA

Daddy died in August of 2017…it was a terrible and painful death and he was only 61 years old. His last words to me were absolutely unfathomable and embarrassing: He begged for forgiveness for his behavior and his Facebook posts, since 2015. The MAGA mentality he had displayed since Trump came down that escalator. The point of contention in our formerly close relationship—the reason we had barely spoken in two years.

He was dying and he talked about Betsy DeVos.

...

I don’t know why I wrote this other than as a warning—your legacy will be impacted by the love or the hate you surround yourself with. I have to go way back before the Trump era to remember my dad properly. I know he knew this at the end, and feverishly tried to take it back before he left. I gave him grace then and I do now, but it doesn’t erase what he said and did and how it impacted our relationship.

And that’s the thing…daddy wasn’t a outlier. His story is common. I wish it weren’t but such is the world we live in now. My hope is that the folks reading this can find grace for their loved one or just peace. Politics shouldn’t have destroyed my relationship with my dad before he died, but they did.

My last memories of him leave a metallic taste in my mouth—bitter bile in my throat. I loved him deeply and it was reciprocated, but his skewed world view at the end of his life tragically confused his legacy and his loved ones, and that is the saddest thing I can say.

Papa was a MAGA choad
Wherever he owned the libs was home

And when he died
All he left us was Anon

lol @ this guy being re-sued for further defamation every damn week for the next eight months because he cannot abide a) losing, b) keeping his mouth shut

Jimmy Kimmel responds to Donald Trump’s review of his Oscar hosting performance: “Isn’t it past your jail time?”pic.twitter.com/zDvP3Lxpno

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 11, 2024

Responding to this turd just allows the right one more chance to frame Hollywood as bastion of groomer wokeness.

I don’t know if I agree with that, and also the right framing everything that way has proven a losing battle in many ways

Yes, not as if they’re going to make nice if Kimmel said nothing at all or something conciliatory.

I guess we can cross Jodie Foster off the guest list for the second Trump inauguration.

Yeah, c'mon, the right wasn't going to suddenly toast Kimmel for a good job, so fuck it, it was a well delivered line.

Any chance to platform Trump as a whiny asshole more outraged about an awards show than atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza is a good thing.

it really does make the right upset that virtually nobody famous likes them, that's why people like Aaron Rodgers make up conspiracy theories about Jimmy Kimmel and why people like Kid Rock and the Kevin Sorbo were able to make a second career catering to these idiots (though that does sometimes come at the expense of your first career, as the Dilbert guy found out). maybe the whole Trump thing really is that simple, he was the first household name who actually (pretended to) like them

I knew I should've qualified my sentence! And it was a good line.

It also shows that the George Stephanopoulos interview with Nancy Mace pissed Trump off majorly.

that interview was horrific, hopefully Stephanopoulos is not the last person to ask why they are so willing to support a rapist

I mean this is a journalist's dream right? Trump has done so many utterly indefensible things, now actual juries are finding him liable so you can't say "its all politics", all you have to do is hold their feet to the fire

Oh, his followers are still saying it's all politics. They will believe he is being persecuted for political reasons even as he is led away in leg irons.

it generally seems to be the opposite, holding him accountable is the thing they fear the most, especially if they can't balance it out with similar crimes by the Bidens

xp

I think that is what the top brass clearly wants but for individual reporters there's no bigger dream than bringing down a president or presidential candidate

All interviews with politicians should be by Isaac Chotiner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLbfGSB5cs

he's so dumb. and weird.

'zuckerbucks'! that's pretty good

what on earth is he talking about

He just riffs and riffs and riffs with zero concern for making any sense

whatever he's literally saying, his reckless rudeness conveys that he inherited a blessed $400,000,000 and is therefore worth more than almost everyone else who's ever lived, so get on board pro-life sunday church-goers, amen

Wow.. a new low

Trump mocks Biden's stutter. #classy pic.twitter.com/4nzO552DHE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2024

That’s an old low

You really got him, Donnie, ZING

good point:

Writing in The Atlantic, John Hendrickson, who has described himself as a lifelong stutterer, noted, “More than Trump’s ugly taunt, one thing stands out to me about these moments: the sound of Trump’s supporters laughing right along with him. This is a building block of Trumpism. The man at the top gives his followers permission to be the worst version of themselves.”

yeah i don't think a lot of his followers need him to be the worst version of themselves. they are probably good at it all on their own.