"Trump doesn’t want to run for president again, because he lost the last time, and he’s looking around, and he’s afraid he’ll lose again."
His niece originally said he wouldn't run again because he's afraid of losing. He's obviously coping with the losses by his endorsed candidates by insisting the elections were all rigged. In fact, except for the racism, Trump has little to say except to whine that the 2020 race was "stolen" from him.
I've never seen a more pathetic old crook, finally about to face the music after getting away with his crimes literally all his life.
I think the appropriate response to the Orange Blowhard's demand for a new election is to say, sure, November 2024. Feel free to campaign to be your party's nominee. But be aware, while your violent racist MAGA horde still loves you, the overwhelming majority hates you and is tired of your bullshit. So go for it Sparky, run again. And be humiliated once more.
Excellent. You're absolutely correct that he will never say anything in public that could get him charged with sedition - he was schooled in the dark art of dodging culpability too well by Roy Cohn to make that mistake. Rather I think he's angling for what's being called "Stochastic Terrorism" - the evil version of "wink, wink; nudge nudge" - to drum up some 1/6 style anti-government violence. The changes in policy that appear to be happening in Iran and China as a result of widespread protests must really be tweaking what's left of his rotted brain.
It may be my contempt for this carbon-based lifeform, but I have to disagree that Trump is "pretty good at reading the electorate." I think that he is a one-trick pony and that has resonated unfortunately with too many. I don't think he has an instinct other than self-promotion. I believe he ran for office solely for the publicity and his statements on the campaign trail were consistent with the crap he put out as the "man about town" in NYC and on The Apprentice. He's always been that way; but he found that he could be himself running for President and people liked (or worse, were amused by) what he said, apparently, because they were dumb enough to vote for him which proved to DJT that they "loved him" and that he was a "winner." I don't think he could change what he is, which is not a political sage. He's trapped. He is a self-promoter and nothing more. As long as anyone attends his Third Reich revival show, he's hooked. IMHO, if he had an ounce of political savvy and really could read the overall electorate, he could have tempered his nonsense during the 2020 campaign and been re-elected, particularly in light of the advantage that the incumbent has. I remember fearing that he would back off, but all he did (thankfully) was drone on. He's trapped with who he is. Unfortunately for us, and thanks to the Gutless Old Party, the country is sucked into his vortex.
Let’s focus on this. A former President of the United States — and someone often predicted to be the Republican nominee in two years — “truthed” this blithering idiocy yesterday:
“So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great Founders did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
A former President of the United States — and someone often predicted to be the Republican nominee in two years — declared his belief that the Constitution could be thrown out in order to benefit him personally. This has never happened before in U.S.history. It’s as huge a story as American politics has produced. Front page banner headline, right? Well, let’s just see how The New York Times — the nation’s “newspaper of record” that sets the agenda for much of American journalism with “All the News That’s Fit to Print” — sounded the alarm.
Not a mention of it on the entire front page. Not a mention of it in the entire newspaper. NOT A MENTION OF IT ON THE ENTIRE FUCKING WEBSITE.
Compared to the depths of my contempt for this once great and now despicable institution, the Marianas Trench is a sidewalk crack.
I've been seeing a lot of comments of 'how come he's not in jail yet?" or "Come on, Merrick Garland, get this bastard behind bars!"
I'm getting very tired of reading that and not commenting on it, but here goes-for anyone to become a target of a federal investigation is a massive amount of money and time, as well as resources to find the crime and the criminal in the mix.
Most of the time the time line is 2 years from crime being investigated and indictment. Sometimes it's longer, depending on the crime, and the criminal. The more sensitive crimes take a lot longer than usual because one has to find the loci of the crime to begin with.
Donald Trump is an ex-President of vast notoriety, who has been extremely prominent in the past for his big flapping mouth and his fans of adoring Magats.
It takes time to develop an ironclad, waterproof and solidly buttressed case against the man-and anyone who wants to rush this to the point where he gets off yet once again, is clearly not going to be happy when it happens.
Law and Order is a TV show. Real life criminal cases take months, if not years to develop and prosecute.
I would rather have Trump convicted on solid grounds that can't be over turned on appeal because you know what he's good at: delaying legal actions.
Don't think Garland is not acutely aware of this. He knows this, and that is why he is proceeding so very carefully and making sure he wins.
Trump is not going to win this. I can guarantee it. I know from personal experience that the feds do not fuck around when it comes to their work, and god help him if he even dares to say anything that gets them pissed off, because you don't want a pissed off fed in front of you. They tend to make sure you never get away from them again.
So stop with the whining about the time line. It's coming down to the last few furlongs and the horses are going around the last stretch. Just hold your breath and get the popcorn ready.
You are right, of course-Trump is totally panicked because the only people he really matters to right now are the ones who are investigating his particular penchant of stealing items from the US government.
They're the ones who have the power of life free or life in federal prison and there's not a whole lot he can do to stop them from putting him there right now.
He can't really stop it from happening, but distracting people from the dire situation keeps him 'relevant' and in the spotlight-however, he doesn't realize that should the tide turn, and he become the subject of an criminal indictment, he is going to have to keep silent or else blow his chances of being acquitted of espionage. Right now the odds are not good for him.
He can't plead insanity either-because there is no way for him to plead to something that we all know is part and parcel of his being-he's acting like he always has, and it looks like his desperate bid to stay in the news might just harden a jury against him.
His lawyers are probably pulling their hair out because they know how it looks to other people and you can well imagine what would happen should a grand jury indict him..I don't envy them because of all the people to be, you don't want to be the person who tells Donald Trump he has to shut the fuck up or else.
I just hope that the bearer of bad news has a ketchup proof suit. They're going to need it.
Recent history shows several leaders who lost elections (usually officiated by the UN or Jimmy Carters election monitors) staged rallies and stirred their base for a year or so, until time and boredom finished them. A candidate for President of Mexico (2006) set up a booth across from parliament and made loud noises entertaining the public until the free meals ended and the police threatened fines for being a public nuisance. Mr. Trump is first and last a loud agitator, stoking whatever fear lights up the night. He knows that the best of it is over. He's like an aging pro wrestler seeking glory and rent money. There is danger, America has a considerable number of aging men who dread the coming darkness. In the 1890's cities stopped allowing veterans of the War of Northern Aggression to parade and hold conventions, too many heroes got sick or died and the medical costs were too much for municipalities. The Trump crowed could rise one last time but it will be more a farce than a serious threat.
Finally, AG Garland can stop Mr. Trump with a dozen federal indictments.
I don’t disagree with Lucian’s astute analysis at all, but I would add this: *Rump doesn’t have many useful talents, but his PR sense is pretty good. He’s quite experienced at manipulating the media so the spotlight is always on him. Saying or doing something outrageous comes naturally to him, and he knows the media will grab the shiny object he presents and run with it. As they did with his deliberately public dinner with known White supremacists and anti-Semites. We can’t know whether he knew Fuentes was coming with Kanye or that the number of people at the table would be more than just the two of them. What *Rump wanted to do by being very open about it was to verify his White supremacist and anti-Semitic bonafides to his MAGA cult as he suspected they needed some red meat thrown their way. He got the publicity he wanted, but it began to get out of control. Normally he doesn’t care much about criticism. He just doubles-down, whines, and makes himself the victim. But this time it was more serious. The incident got legs, and wasn’t going away. So he did what he has done so often: he changed the subject. Do some new outrageous bit, wave the new shiny object in front of the media, and they’ll forget the previous outrage and dive right for the new one. So now he demands to be installed dictator by wiping away the Constitution and all the institutions that are derived from it so as to heal his still festering grievance over having lost the 2020 election. That’s pretty outrageous. Of course he’s demanding another coup by implication, but I think all of us who are paying attention knew that was inevitable. The only surprise is that he has gotten so heavy-handed so soon. I agree totally that he’s fearful and desperate. His usual legal shenanigans aren’t working for him the way they have so often in the past. His support is drifting away, slowly at this moment, he really doesn’t want to run again and risk losing, and the prosecutors are knocking on the Mar-a-Lago gates. The pressure on him is enormous, so once again he’s whining about his self-granted entitlement to be president, which he believes would make him immune. What he obviously doesn’t understand is that the best way to make all his troubles go away is for him to go away, far away, and never be heard from again. What a fantastic celebration we could have were that to come true. Chill the Champagne, cases of it.
Unfortunately, any news about trump only boosts ratings for the networks, so anything he spews on social media or at his “rallies” is gold. Like the lonely little man-child who never received love from his biological parents, he is desperate for attention to salve his fragile ego, so he throws tantrums to get people to notice him as even negative publicity is better than no publicity at all. To be forgotten or ignored again or to be regarded as a failure would crush him more than going to prison as he would no longer be in the limelight on center stage…only his death would rid us of his malignancy once and for all, just like Rush Limbaugh.
There was an episode of Star Trek original series where they drove out some malevolent force by laughing at it. One of the lesser episodes, but that could be used here. And ridicule. Like, what is Trump drinking or smoking.
Here is a Possibility, a fairy tale; if shared, only 4 people could contradict or confirm:
When Trump and Putin met without Trump's note taker or translator, Putin told Trump that he and Xi had agreed that Xi could have all of the Pacific from 100 miles west of Midway island; Putin will take all of Europe including the UK, plus Iceland; and, Trump may have all of the Americas from 200 miles from the North to 200 miles from the South Poles. While engaged in securing their territories, they will jointly isolate India, the middle east, and Africa, to bring about widespread famine resulting in massive civil mayhem, then deal with later.
What is your guess? The odds? Is Ukraine the first move? N Korea the scare card?
Well framed. I always wished, once Trump let the crazy show, that he would have a corner cell at Sandstone Prison. That would have at least slowed the bandwagon. The whole thing is a lost cause now, alas, because of all the crazies-in-waiting who agree with him. That this human being manqué was elected POTUS was surely a harbinger of worse to come. And it is here. With no religious component, I believe end times are now.
"Trump doesn’t want to run for president again, because he lost the last time, and he’s looking around, and he’s afraid he’ll lose again."
His niece originally said he wouldn't run again because he's afraid of losing. He's obviously coping with the losses by his endorsed candidates by insisting the elections were all rigged. In fact, except for the racism, Trump has little to say except to whine that the 2020 race was "stolen" from him.
I've never seen a more pathetic old crook, finally about to face the music after getting away with his crimes literally all his life.
I read a great quote this morning. Trump shot the Constitution on 5th Avenue and he will get away with it!
I think the appropriate response to the Orange Blowhard's demand for a new election is to say, sure, November 2024. Feel free to campaign to be your party's nominee. But be aware, while your violent racist MAGA horde still loves you, the overwhelming majority hates you and is tired of your bullshit. So go for it Sparky, run again. And be humiliated once more.
Excellent. You're absolutely correct that he will never say anything in public that could get him charged with sedition - he was schooled in the dark art of dodging culpability too well by Roy Cohn to make that mistake. Rather I think he's angling for what's being called "Stochastic Terrorism" - the evil version of "wink, wink; nudge nudge" - to drum up some 1/6 style anti-government violence. The changes in policy that appear to be happening in Iran and China as a result of widespread protests must really be tweaking what's left of his rotted brain.
It may be my contempt for this carbon-based lifeform, but I have to disagree that Trump is "pretty good at reading the electorate." I think that he is a one-trick pony and that has resonated unfortunately with too many. I don't think he has an instinct other than self-promotion. I believe he ran for office solely for the publicity and his statements on the campaign trail were consistent with the crap he put out as the "man about town" in NYC and on The Apprentice. He's always been that way; but he found that he could be himself running for President and people liked (or worse, were amused by) what he said, apparently, because they were dumb enough to vote for him which proved to DJT that they "loved him" and that he was a "winner." I don't think he could change what he is, which is not a political sage. He's trapped. He is a self-promoter and nothing more. As long as anyone attends his Third Reich revival show, he's hooked. IMHO, if he had an ounce of political savvy and really could read the overall electorate, he could have tempered his nonsense during the 2020 campaign and been re-elected, particularly in light of the advantage that the incumbent has. I remember fearing that he would back off, but all he did (thankfully) was drone on. He's trapped with who he is. Unfortunately for us, and thanks to the Gutless Old Party, the country is sucked into his vortex.
Let’s focus on this. A former President of the United States — and someone often predicted to be the Republican nominee in two years — “truthed” this blithering idiocy yesterday:
“So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great Founders did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
A former President of the United States — and someone often predicted to be the Republican nominee in two years — declared his belief that the Constitution could be thrown out in order to benefit him personally. This has never happened before in U.S.history. It’s as huge a story as American politics has produced. Front page banner headline, right? Well, let’s just see how The New York Times — the nation’s “newspaper of record” that sets the agenda for much of American journalism with “All the News That’s Fit to Print” — sounded the alarm.
Not a mention of it on the entire front page. Not a mention of it in the entire newspaper. NOT A MENTION OF IT ON THE ENTIRE FUCKING WEBSITE.
Compared to the depths of my contempt for this once great and now despicable institution, the Marianas Trench is a sidewalk crack.
24,406 Likes within 3 hours of posting his tantrum. I cringe to think what that number is now.
As you point out so well, we've way got bigger problems than the quivering "Prisoner of Mar a Lago".
I've been seeing a lot of comments of 'how come he's not in jail yet?" or "Come on, Merrick Garland, get this bastard behind bars!"
I'm getting very tired of reading that and not commenting on it, but here goes-for anyone to become a target of a federal investigation is a massive amount of money and time, as well as resources to find the crime and the criminal in the mix.
Most of the time the time line is 2 years from crime being investigated and indictment. Sometimes it's longer, depending on the crime, and the criminal. The more sensitive crimes take a lot longer than usual because one has to find the loci of the crime to begin with.
Donald Trump is an ex-President of vast notoriety, who has been extremely prominent in the past for his big flapping mouth and his fans of adoring Magats.
It takes time to develop an ironclad, waterproof and solidly buttressed case against the man-and anyone who wants to rush this to the point where he gets off yet once again, is clearly not going to be happy when it happens.
Law and Order is a TV show. Real life criminal cases take months, if not years to develop and prosecute.
I would rather have Trump convicted on solid grounds that can't be over turned on appeal because you know what he's good at: delaying legal actions.
Don't think Garland is not acutely aware of this. He knows this, and that is why he is proceeding so very carefully and making sure he wins.
Trump is not going to win this. I can guarantee it. I know from personal experience that the feds do not fuck around when it comes to their work, and god help him if he even dares to say anything that gets them pissed off, because you don't want a pissed off fed in front of you. They tend to make sure you never get away from them again.
So stop with the whining about the time line. It's coming down to the last few furlongs and the horses are going around the last stretch. Just hold your breath and get the popcorn ready.
Showtime's almost here.
You are right, of course-Trump is totally panicked because the only people he really matters to right now are the ones who are investigating his particular penchant of stealing items from the US government.
They're the ones who have the power of life free or life in federal prison and there's not a whole lot he can do to stop them from putting him there right now.
He can't really stop it from happening, but distracting people from the dire situation keeps him 'relevant' and in the spotlight-however, he doesn't realize that should the tide turn, and he become the subject of an criminal indictment, he is going to have to keep silent or else blow his chances of being acquitted of espionage. Right now the odds are not good for him.
He can't plead insanity either-because there is no way for him to plead to something that we all know is part and parcel of his being-he's acting like he always has, and it looks like his desperate bid to stay in the news might just harden a jury against him.
His lawyers are probably pulling their hair out because they know how it looks to other people and you can well imagine what would happen should a grand jury indict him..I don't envy them because of all the people to be, you don't want to be the person who tells Donald Trump he has to shut the fuck up or else.
I just hope that the bearer of bad news has a ketchup proof suit. They're going to need it.
I think this is seditious. I could be wrong, but this goes beyond free speech. 😡‼️
Recent history shows several leaders who lost elections (usually officiated by the UN or Jimmy Carters election monitors) staged rallies and stirred their base for a year or so, until time and boredom finished them. A candidate for President of Mexico (2006) set up a booth across from parliament and made loud noises entertaining the public until the free meals ended and the police threatened fines for being a public nuisance. Mr. Trump is first and last a loud agitator, stoking whatever fear lights up the night. He knows that the best of it is over. He's like an aging pro wrestler seeking glory and rent money. There is danger, America has a considerable number of aging men who dread the coming darkness. In the 1890's cities stopped allowing veterans of the War of Northern Aggression to parade and hold conventions, too many heroes got sick or died and the medical costs were too much for municipalities. The Trump crowed could rise one last time but it will be more a farce than a serious threat.
Finally, AG Garland can stop Mr. Trump with a dozen federal indictments.
I don’t disagree with Lucian’s astute analysis at all, but I would add this: *Rump doesn’t have many useful talents, but his PR sense is pretty good. He’s quite experienced at manipulating the media so the spotlight is always on him. Saying or doing something outrageous comes naturally to him, and he knows the media will grab the shiny object he presents and run with it. As they did with his deliberately public dinner with known White supremacists and anti-Semites. We can’t know whether he knew Fuentes was coming with Kanye or that the number of people at the table would be more than just the two of them. What *Rump wanted to do by being very open about it was to verify his White supremacist and anti-Semitic bonafides to his MAGA cult as he suspected they needed some red meat thrown their way. He got the publicity he wanted, but it began to get out of control. Normally he doesn’t care much about criticism. He just doubles-down, whines, and makes himself the victim. But this time it was more serious. The incident got legs, and wasn’t going away. So he did what he has done so often: he changed the subject. Do some new outrageous bit, wave the new shiny object in front of the media, and they’ll forget the previous outrage and dive right for the new one. So now he demands to be installed dictator by wiping away the Constitution and all the institutions that are derived from it so as to heal his still festering grievance over having lost the 2020 election. That’s pretty outrageous. Of course he’s demanding another coup by implication, but I think all of us who are paying attention knew that was inevitable. The only surprise is that he has gotten so heavy-handed so soon. I agree totally that he’s fearful and desperate. His usual legal shenanigans aren’t working for him the way they have so often in the past. His support is drifting away, slowly at this moment, he really doesn’t want to run again and risk losing, and the prosecutors are knocking on the Mar-a-Lago gates. The pressure on him is enormous, so once again he’s whining about his self-granted entitlement to be president, which he believes would make him immune. What he obviously doesn’t understand is that the best way to make all his troubles go away is for him to go away, far away, and never be heard from again. What a fantastic celebration we could have were that to come true. Chill the Champagne, cases of it.
Unfortunately, any news about trump only boosts ratings for the networks, so anything he spews on social media or at his “rallies” is gold. Like the lonely little man-child who never received love from his biological parents, he is desperate for attention to salve his fragile ego, so he throws tantrums to get people to notice him as even negative publicity is better than no publicity at all. To be forgotten or ignored again or to be regarded as a failure would crush him more than going to prison as he would no longer be in the limelight on center stage…only his death would rid us of his malignancy once and for all, just like Rush Limbaugh.
There was an episode of Star Trek original series where they drove out some malevolent force by laughing at it. One of the lesser episodes, but that could be used here. And ridicule. Like, what is Trump drinking or smoking.
Here is a Possibility, a fairy tale; if shared, only 4 people could contradict or confirm:
When Trump and Putin met without Trump's note taker or translator, Putin told Trump that he and Xi had agreed that Xi could have all of the Pacific from 100 miles west of Midway island; Putin will take all of Europe including the UK, plus Iceland; and, Trump may have all of the Americas from 200 miles from the North to 200 miles from the South Poles. While engaged in securing their territories, they will jointly isolate India, the middle east, and Africa, to bring about widespread famine resulting in massive civil mayhem, then deal with later.
What is your guess? The odds? Is Ukraine the first move? N Korea the scare card?
Well framed. I always wished, once Trump let the crazy show, that he would have a corner cell at Sandstone Prison. That would have at least slowed the bandwagon. The whole thing is a lost cause now, alas, because of all the crazies-in-waiting who agree with him. That this human being manqué was elected POTUS was surely a harbinger of worse to come. And it is here. With no religious component, I believe end times are now.