Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Because Hunter's penis

But Lara Trump's penis is a-ok.

I mean, blatantly hypocrisy trails just behind cruelty as central trait of modern conservatism. Tribalism at its finest.

Preserve your sanity and remember the rule is "we do what we want; you do what you're told"

Hypocrisy is far down the list of things to hate about the Right. They believe anything is justified.

That Christie considered a third-party bid at all is in part an indictment of Biden.

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Prominent former GOP officeholders, from George W. Bush to Mike Pence to Paul Ryan, also haven’t been contacted.

This writer is fucking deranged

I reached out to every current Republican lawmaker who has refused to commit to Trump in the general election. Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) Mitt Romney (Utah), Todd Young (Indiana), Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) all said the same: they’ve not heard from Biden.
“It is surprising,” Collins told me. “It’s especially surprising because President Biden does understand the Senate, he has personal relationships with some of us.”

Contact them for what? To hear their expressions of "concern"? JFC.

Maybe it’s too early, in the campaign’s mind.

Would their voices even make a difference?

good morning, where's the consequences?

I was promised property seizures this week, guess not!

of course they're waiting for Biden to come to them, why do the right thing when you could withhold your endorsement to extract favors

Would their voices even make a difference?

This is the question. To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions does Chris Christie have? How about Susan Collins?

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to discount the existence of demonic entities to whom one can sell their soul in exchange for a lifetime of moderate success and pretty much consequence-free malfeasance. I'm not exactly sure how else to explain how this motherfucker manages to effortlessly tiptoe between every motherfucking raindrop. Oh, you say a billion-dollar valuation of a meme stock is what staved off his financial ruin today? Okay, cool, yes, this is indeed still a rational world.

It's true, Americans deeply care about what Susan Collins thinks.

Susan Collins would talk about endorsing Biden for three months before finally endorsing Trump

Operation Pieceofsh!t, recruiting the Republicans who took one for the team. But can they build rockets?

while I have my concerns about the man's litany of crimes, up to and including trying to overthrow the federal government, the country cannot withstand four more years of Biden's divisive rhetoric

https://i.imgur.com/4ThOV8Y.jpg

"Look! An independent voter!"

play them your brett kavanaugh speech, susan, you independent motherfucker!!!

...mornin' everyone

i put on that Frontline movie about Trump, Democracy on Trial, and its so ominous. especially with scary Frontline narrator.

a special easter message!

https://i.imgur.com/fikUXeH.png

He has risen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIghUfCim-k

JOE THUGS

uh oh, DJT stock is currently shedding nearly 25% of it's value today

That’s… too bad

working on my essay abt the role of well-enforced wordcount in 21st century politics

Don’t worry sophisticated stock picker Josh Marshall has called the bottom tick, to the moon from here

Truth Social now rebounding off low! pic.twitter.com/XPVVn4nqqW

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 1, 2024

hard to parse the layers of sarcasm here...

why line go down

Trump: "Get me a Sharpie!"

i guess this is what precipitated it but its not like it wasnt known that it was losing tons of money company

New: Trump Media — the parent company of Truth Social — recorded $58m in losses against $4m in revenue in 2023, per SEC filings. The merger to take the company public last week unlocked new capital but the business fundamentals don’t justify $7bn valuation.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 1, 2024

The weird thing for me is how this was known from the start but traders only ramped up the selling after the filing happened.

As someone pointed out, Truth Social is about as successful as your average McDonald's franchise.

i saw a mcdonalds commercial last night that went with the inspirational pr mood package, and as somber piano played it told me that 1 in 8 people in the united states had worked at mcdonalds at some point.

i thought, "damn, imagine if companies really did take care of their workers and paid them a fair wage and gave them benefits"

pump dump trump

that's my guy

Just in: Trump’s gag order in the New York criminal case expanded to cover relatives of the presiding judge and the Manhattan DA after Trump last week went after the judge’s daughter

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 2, 2024

He's posted that bond, BTW -- notably not through the Chubb folks again. (The fact that it took him a week is enough of a tell.)

it is pretty impressive that he seems to be meme stocking his way out of the civil judgment. the guy is like a greased pig, you can't get em.

Isn't the stock price plunging?

still pretty high for a worthless company and people are buying on the dip. i hope it plunges, obviously, but it seems like the kind of stupid thing that will save his ass.

it is pretty impressive that he seems to be meme stocking his way out of the civil judgment.

That's not what's happening at all. He hasn't been granted the waiver that would allow him to sell his shares before six months have elapsed, and the stock has lost a quarter of its "value" in the last 24 hours, so by the time he gets his hands on the money he ought to be able to get lunch at Subway out of it, assuming he's got a full punch card to redeem at the same time.

idk maybe

even if the price held until he was allowed to sell hed have a hard time cashing much in without driving it down

i think he has some sort of scheme running, or someone else does, that will allow this stock to stay high for a long enough time. he has more power behind him now than he did in 2016, as seen in things like project 2025.

if people want to prop the price up they might as well just give him the money it amounts to the same thing, which shows the problem with him selling hundreds of millions of dollars of it, is there hundreds of millions of dollars out there willing to be transferred to his account

hmm is there anything happening in about 6 months time that might affect the value of stock in $DJT?

The first presidential debates uh wait

Anyway per Forbes via a Bluesky summary:

NEW: Trump secured his $175 million bond with a combination of cash and investment-grade bonds, per Don Hankey, chair of Knight Insurance and the "little-known king of subprime car loans." A supporter of Jeb Bush and then Trump, Hankey says he reached out to Trump with the offer.

i consider myself a bit of a little-known king of subprime car loans too