Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

It’s gonna be a long year

It feels to me like Trump has lost about a third of his mojo. There's a good chance he's fallen below a threshold to where his stumble bum campaign de-motivates the more marginally-committed GOP voters from voting and Republicans start losing down-ballot races along with the presidency. otoh, I expect this will be the year where very determined reproductive rights voters, who may be unenthusiastic or uniformed on other issues, cast ballots in decisive numbers. And they will shun Republicans like the plague.

bill barr supports trump. says he's the lesser of two evils. just thought you should all know that.

well, yeah.

the polling hasn't really reflected that yet, Trump is still tied nationally and leads in the swing states. of course polls probably aren't too reliable yet if some of them are still showing RFK getting 15% or whatever. fwiw I suspect Trump going crazy over RFK and challenging Biden to debate him on the spot means there's some bad internals happening right now

The expanded character count on Twitter/Truth is going to be his downfall.

also feel like if he actually does get a felony conviction from this trial it will move the needle some. idk how many people are actually following it, which in light of OJ dying seems odd, because surely Donald Trump is the highest profile person to ever be tried criminally in the USA? if he's found guilty I think that actually would move some soft R support. especially knowing more criminal trials are coming. also I think it would means he would spend now until the election whining about how unfair everything is in lieu of talking about actual political issues. like his signature issue is going to be pardoning himself and I just don't think that plays well. meanwhile if he's acquitted it gives creedence to the "witch hunt" narrative and you can bet his entire campaign will be a victory lap. same as when his boy Bill Barr let him off the hook. so yeah even if there are no meaningful penalties for him in all this the conviction is really huge in my view

I saw a headline during jury selection that was like “could you be an unbiased juror in trump’s trial” and I realized I probably could because I haven’t a clue what he’s accused of

Getting on the jury for one fraud trial and thinking you're there for another.

There's a nonzero chance Trump will try to get himself on a jury for a Trump trial.

This VERY CORRUPT compromised "JUDGE" first makes me walk through a TINY DOOR, then won't let me be on a jury of my pee-ers for my OWN TRIAL. Very unfair and sad.

hard to tell in photos given his weird posture issues and decisions (and multiple other issues and decisions) but trump is 6'3" (or anyway was before havana syndrome shrunk him so)

and Barron is much further away

barron is just under 6'7" (differences then amplified by his stoneface slenderman affect)

barron is just under 6'7"

As the Bible foretold: 6'6.6", the Height Measurement of The Beast.

The expanded character count on Twitter/Truth is going to be his downfall.

Twitter’s impact on the election was overstated I mean

hard to tell in photos given his weird posture issues and decisions (and multiple other issues and decisions) but trump is 6'3" (or anyway was before havana syndrome shrunk him so)

it didn't matter if they weren't on Twitter literally everything he tweeted was "breaking news". even CNN fell for it.

He is not, dude wears lifts better than De Santis, which explains Trump’s much-pondered “front half of a centaur” posture.

No, he's legitimately pretty tall. I saw him in the lobby of a building I work in once, sometime around 2012 maybe?, and he was at least my height. To quote the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, "I didn't know they stacked shit that high!", but he's not lying about his height.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMGHeyzXsAA-lvd?format=jpg&name=small

low sympathy rating loool!

Get stacking those shelves, Grandpa, and quick about it.

Yeah nobody can claim they didn’t realise he was a self serving narcissist asshole, these days. Buy the ticket, this is the ride. I hope all these supporters suffer for it.

I wonder what price he bought at. It’s at $41.54 today.

"i finally must admit"

why

why must you oh definitely real person

yes, unfortunately it appears to be a not very funny parody account on truth social

Wait, there’s something untruthful on Truth Social?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6uQrPLiZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7elR9I_I

never forget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO0F6a4jVhg

What the fuck

Lizard people

dance like CNN isn't archiving this forever

Same as it ever was! (Gift link.)

Contempt of court. $9K

More "truths" to be considered still, too.

But he gets to attend Barron's graduation.

kinda funny there was no chance he was actually going to attend but now he has to

“and so trump, at the graduation, missed making three trump social bitchposts, and butterfly effect destroyed his candidacy.”

oh you know he's going to be truthing all though the graduation

Commencement ceremonies are dull as fuck tbh

can someone give Trump a special reserved parking space at the graduation ceremony and strategically place bear traps along the path from car to building

xpost my high school one was certainly dull, but then the girl who got Senior Lunch revoked for returning from it drunk walked onto the stage and about 50 people shouted "drunk!" at her. (fucked up, but the first actual thing of note that happened during the entire ceremony, other than one of the kids smacking the male principal on his ass after he got his diploma)

I'll attend Thursday's but the only exciting bits are the processional and the receiving line.

a funny thing about the ones in my town is that we have a pretty heavy Hmong population which means a lot of people with last names that start between the letters V and Z. you think once you get past the Ts it's gonna start wrapping up but nah with my class it was barely half over

Time magazine — whatever version of that still exists in 2024 — interviewed Trump for a cover story and printed the full transcript, with fact-checking annotations.

Finally an opportunity to put his views across.

"ramble on" f. orange jeezus

one funny trial note is that apparently they called someone from C-SPAN as a witness, basically to testify that C-SPAN's footage is authentic, something which should not have to be done except for the fact that Trump's team is challenging everything. so it's kind of their own fault this is going to take so long.

Doesn't the delay work on their behalf?

for the lawyers who are charging by the hour for this yeah

the defense attorney for the trial I was on did this kind of shit constantly, meaning the federal prosecutors had to fly in all sorts of people from various states, all essentially to say stuff like "yes this security footage is from the hotel I worked at" and then detail everything they knew about how tapes were retained. its not like the defense was making an actual effort to claim the tapes weren't real, but it is within the bounds to challenge anything you want before it gets entered into evidence. I cannot imagine this attorney thought he had a chance at winning the case but obviously the longer he was in court the more he made, which is such a tremendous waste of resources, given how much taxpayer money it must cost to keep these trials going several days longer than they need to, not to mention flying these people in and giving them a place to stay

This is not just a defense counsel trying to get paid more. If the witness who needs to testify in order to introduce the document into evidence is not able to do so, because of some reason (illness, whatever), it could end up allowing the defense to preclude that evidence if there is not another witness in a timely manner.