Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Draco-Onis]

Hey, I'm not looking to get into lurid, gossipy details...though I do love me some lurid, gossipy details. I'm more just amused at how his private life increasingly seems to conflict with his public image he presents.

It's safe to say his career is over, republicans are fine with overthrowing the government to install a dictator but being gay that's going over the line for them.

[solinari6]

To emphasize; nobody jumping on this stuff about Cawthorn think the actions in question are, themselves, "bad".

Actually, the people filing the ethics complaint are. There are house ethics about sexing up subordinates on your staff. There are no exceptions for distant cousins.
Also there are lots of undisclosed gifts that he is giving this cousin, including free airfare and housing, which is also problematic.

[Poopymonster]

Actually, the people filing the ethics complaint are. There are house ethics about sexing up subordinates on your staff. There are no exceptions for distant cousins.
Also there are lots of undisclosed gifts that he is giving this cousin, including free airfare are housing, which is also problematic.

Is that what they call it now? "Undisclosed gifts"? It sounds more professional than "My dick in his mouth" or "Fucked him up the ass" I guess.
Guess family isn't worth a $130,000 swallowing fee.

[Zan15]

Well, I guess if you are a democrat, joking around and pretending to grab boobs and taking a picture is bad and you should force that person to resign.

If you are a republican, actually having staff members and a relative actually grab your junk is the crazy left just trying to destroy a guy's career!!

[Breccia]

The quote in the tweet does not do the full clip justice.

I love this response, from Trevor Noah:

It is risky making jokes these days. I mean, we all saw what happened at the Oscars. I’ve actually been a little worried about tonight. What if I make a really mean joke about Kellyanne Conway… and then her husband rushes up on the stage and thanks me?

[Shadowferal]

I love this response, from Trevor Noah:

I read those last two words as "spanks me." Heh

[Endus]

Marge Greene says when women get abortions, it’s because Satan has whispered in their ears and promised them that if they do it, the guy they are with will marry them.

The quote in the tweet does not do the full clip justice. This woman needs help.

Like, this isn't "being religious". This is full-on religious extremism/cultist behaviour.

Also, not even Satanists are hearing Satan "whisper into their ears". If you're hearing voices, Marge, see a fuckin' shrink, regardless of whether you think the voices are angels or demons. Because it means you're suffering a mental break, not that you're in touch with a higher power. As nearly every church on the planet would agree, before anyone takes that as me "attacking religion".

[Breccia]

Because it means you're suffering a mental break

I mean, there's evidence of that. I don't really have a problem with Greene saying the Devil tells you to have an abortion, that's just standard Westboro Batshit. Claiming that the Devil will promise you that the father of the child will marry you, that's where we get into new levels of insanity.

[Edge-]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?

[Kaleredar]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?

And yet to them it's Biden who's mentally deficient, because... he stutters, or something?

[Smitzelplix]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?

He actually got confused twice, at first he couldn't even get the first part of the name right when he said J.P.

[zorkuus]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?

His cognitive test came back very negative. He didn't catch the cognitive, it's fake news.

[Kaleredar]

His cognitive test came back very negative. He didn't catch the cognitive, it's fake news.

I hear he almost got a 100% on his IQ test!

Not a straight 100, mind you, he's not a nerd. But very very close!

[draynay]

Cognitive tests are easy you just have to remember a sequence of words

man door hand hook car door

[Breccia]

Trump proves the obvious -- sales of CyberTrump 2077 would have been supported if he'd just posted. Over the weekend he posted five or six times and it's back to #1 on the Apple Store.

So all those months of falling stock prices, falling use, falling downloads? 100% on him.

[Edge-]

Trump proves the obvious -- sales of CyberTrump 2077 would have been supported if he'd just posted. Over the weekend he posted five or six times and it's back to #1 on the Apple Store.

So all those months of falling stock prices, falling use, falling downloads? 100% on him.

I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter, the company he's apparently spending $45B to purchase, on the App Store. Galaxy brain shit.

[Kaleredar]

I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter, the company he's apparently spending $45B to purchase, on the App Store. Galaxy brain shit.

He might be fluffing Trump up to try and get Trump back on Twitter should musk successfully buy it and unban Trump (God help us all)

He knows Trump will likely drive an insane amount of traffic come the midterms/2024 election season.

...Or should I say, "an amount of insane traffic"

[Breccia]

I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter

He could afford to. Everyone already has Twitter. Trump was mayor of a ghost town until 3 days ago.

He might be fluffing Trump up to try and get Trump back on Twitter

I read the opposite. "Hey Trump, your site is sooooooo bigly, you should, you know, stay there".

[Poopymonster]

He could afford to. Everyone already has Twitter. Trump was mayor of a ghost town until 3 days ago.



I read the opposite. "Hey Trump, your site is sooooooo bigly, you should, you know, stay there".

Hey Donald, I bought Twitter for just over 338,461 and a half Stormy Daniels. It has all the important people on it, famous, rich and, you are not going to believe this, even the plebians. How do they even have time for that? By the way, how's Truth doing?

[Breccia]

Hey Donald, I bought Twitter for just over 338,461 and a half Stormy Daniels.

Or four Trump Shutdowns.

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Former SecDef Esper, who Trump hired, becomes the 31st or so "only sane person in the White House" and says, in his new book, Trump wanted to shoot peaceful protestors.

"Ah! So he did want something done with the peaceful loving tour groups on Jan 6th!"

No...this was about the George Floyd protests. The ones for which he surrounded the White House with barbed wire, then hid in a bunker crying himself to sleep.

"Trump can't possibly have meant to shoot them. Surely that was a figure of speech."

Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?

-- Trump, not using a figure of speech

The good news — this wasn't a difficult decision. The bad news — I had to figure out a way to walk Trump back without creating the mess I was trying to avoid.

-- Esper

"If he's such a good person, why didn't he say something at the time?"

He did. He publicly opposed the Insurrection Act. Which, apparently, Trump thought would let him shoot peaceful protestors.

"Surely Esper is making all of this up!"

I mean, the book went through Pentagon vetting. It was reviewed by generals, some of whom were in the room when Trump said that.

"How come nobody else said it?"

They did.

"Surely Trump will sue for these libelous, slanderous lies!"

He's welcome to try. Of course, that means Trump has to sit on the stand. Place your bets?

Also let's be honest, even if Trump didn't say that, even if he did sue, even if he did take the stand...such a lawsuit is unwinnable. Trump went out of his way to ensure there were no records of most things. There will be no objective proof Esper lied -- and again, all evidence says Esper isn't lying, and that Trump really did want to murder some black people.

So once again, yet another Trump hiree/firee goes on record to say how completely incompetent -- or in this case, sociopathic and violent -- Trump is. Everything people said Trump would be before he was elected, it turned out he was after he was elected, only now, it's people Trump hired providing the evidence.