Treason Thread #68: Storm(y) of the Century

Loved this take on Trump's "Gettysburg" speech

Great title.

Former Pres Bone Spurs is declining cognitively as a very noticeable rate.

Biden will win in a landslide, but billionaires, and I don’t just say right wing ones, have decided democracy isn’t what they want. They feel their lives would be better if us peons didn’t have a say in our government. Therefore, they will not make this election easy. Buckle up!

Prior thread

You stole my goddam thread!

Seriously, doesn’t matter to me, we can use this one or mine.

Some billionaires are hedging their bets that if Trump gets reelected president and ends our democracy , they will become completely unregulated with no restraints like the oligarchs in Russia.

Sympathy & Delay……

Following jury selection, will Trump fake an illness and become hospitalized before testimony commences? Will it be very dramatic, happening on a weekend in south Florida while playing 18-hole golf with Lindsey Graham? Lindsey will be part of the scheme, and provide highly ‘emotional narratives to the media immediately afterwards, lasting for many weeks.

Over/under bets anyone?

I don’t know r6. He hates showing weakness. It would work, but geez, he was on death’s door when he had Covid and he still pretended he was fine.

Maybe he'll convince one of his followers to send in a bomb threat to the courthouse

R5 that’s sounds accurate

But alas, the US ain’t Russia and who knows, if that happens, what the consequences will be.

"They have a two million dollar budget. You'd think that they'd call on some staff to see if they're telling the truth."

Grifter Trump is asking for a 5% cut from downballot candidates

I love Jasmine Crockett

"It is time to do what's right even if it means you could lose your job"

R11 This is the best, most glorious news. He will funnel so much $ away from downballot Rs this is going to be a true blue tsunami in November.

R12 She’s wonderful and her staff loves her.

Scammers gonna scam.

But the big donors like Theil, Mercer, Crow and the like can dump as much $$$ into the orange traitor’s campaign as they like.

Why aren’t THEY funding this grifting traitor?

I'm old enough to remember when money influencing politics was frowned upon and viewed as the candidate being corrupt. SCOTUS ruling on the Citizens United vs FEC is a major reason for the significant corruption in today's political world.

[quote]Crow

Clarence’s sugar daddy.

Biden’s approval rating in South Carolina currently is 32%.

Miss Lindsey’s approval rating is 33%. It was 29%.

[quote] “Those right-wingers, they don’t like Lindsey,”

Amazing

R19 I don’t trust him. He did a complete 180. Beware.

At this point, if a group of Trumpistas just straight-up shot Johnson I wouldn't be surprised in the least.

r20 - I don't trust him either, FCI, but what's his game plan?

R20 From what I’ve read, the Senate will filibuster the Ukraine aid, it won’t get 60 votes (the whole package had 30 “no” votes and Ukraine was the least popular part of it), then Mikey shrugs and says he tried.

r23 - Ah, FCI, but of course...

R24 Yep, it’s game to them.

Folks, here's a story 'bout Trumpy the Moocher....

I’m not up on the filibuster rules, but isn’t this something that isn’t filibustered? I thought budgets didn’t have to have 60 votes. Judges don’t either. Everything else is fair game. Or am I missing something?

From what I’ve read, it is subject to filibuster.

I don’t know, r28, here’s what Google says: Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate's filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage.

What would make Ukraine funding not part of budget reconciliation?

Seems strange that Johnson would put his Speakership in jeopardy over a plan he knows is ultimately doomed to fail.

Harry Reid played the game for the American People. The Republicans play for Republican power.

Kari Lake in the future:

Hell, that's probably what Kari Lake looks like NOW without the filters

The Trump jury has been selected

[quote]The Trump jury has been selected

And they'll all be doxxed by 9:30am tomorrow morning.

This should be on tv.

R36, and getting death threats by 10:30

Judge Marchan needs to totally sequester the jury.

Tell them to show up on Monday with a change of clothes and their toothbrushes.

Judge Merchan seems quite aware of the sleazeballs he's dealing with. Why the fuck aren't they sequestering the jury??

What could go wrong?

^ Translation, he'll send them to cities with large black populations to try to scare black people away from voting

R42, I don’t think he realizes that black men won’t be scared of these assholes.

It's the revenge of Sleepy Joe!

Judge Merchan questioned a lady who appeared in the selection pool who showed no evidence for legally being there, and her name, which she claimed to be Miss Lindzebelle Sugarbaker, did not appear on any official court documents. Judge Merchan dismissed her from the courtroom and ordered her not to return.

Did "John Barron" make an appearance as well?

How about Kitara Ravache?

Man lights himself on fire outside of Trump trial

The farting inside the courthouse is probably what ignited the fire outside the courthouse.

Lol!!!!

Love Ben Meiselas. I wonder if the farting is passed through feces in his diaper. And why would anyone want a President who can’t stay awake and farts in his sleep!!!😴 💣🤯

[quote] Gaetz says that he thinks that at least 1-3 of his “corrupt Republican colleagues” will take a bribe and vote for Hakeem Jeffries once a motion to vacate is successful.

Go for it MTG!!!

[quote]Gaetz says that he thinks

Gaetz thinks?

If MTG files her motion, do the Democrats want to save Johnson or elect Hakeem? I can’t keep track anymore.

"I'd vote for Putin over Biden." A day at a Trump rally.

God, I hope they don't have any nonsense belief in giving Hakeem this poison pill. No, much better to keep Mike Johnson stringing along, barely in charge but still, officially, in charge. Anything else would be moronic.

Why, r60?

Because he would be stuck with all the responsibility and none of the power r61. Suddenly, everything that goes wrong, every budget that can't get passed would be the fault of Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats. And his only option would be running around, begging a few crazed and bitter and absolutely selfish Republicans to do what's best for the country (Hah!).

It would be the classic no-win situation, and the whole thing would go from Republicans suck at governing, as they so clearly do, to Democrats can't make the impossible happen (the fucked-up media's favorite theme).

Or, just maybe, the democrats get shit done

If enough repugs resign to give the Dems the majority, then shit will get done.

Yes, if enough Republicans resign, or even better, switch parties, great r63. But until that happens (and it won't), the current arrangement is actually better.

It only takes a couple more early resignations…

Given that it’s an election year, probably better to keep Johnson and let MTG throw her deranged orangutan fits. Then Democrats can elect Hakeem when they take back the house.

[quote] Or, just maybe, the democrats get shit done

One problem that I see is that abortion is a major issue this election cycle. Getting any kind of abortion protections through the House would be a huge lift in and of itself, but then there aren't enough votes in the Senate to override Prime Minister Manchin. Subsequently, Democrats "lose" the chance to be heroes, while deflating the momentum of their biggest get-out-the-vote enticement.

And the average voter isn't smart enough to understand margins and (unpopular opinion) Democrats traditionally have not been skilled enough to explain it.

The Alive Kennedys for Joe Biden

r67, stop your AI arguments. They are shit. Democrats get the win on Ukraine aid, period.

Republicans aren't going to do shit until September.

Let the campaigns begin.

Calling the noises and smells Trumps is making in the courthouse "farts" is actually being kind. He is shitting in real time into his jumbo sized diaper and filling it up to capacity.

Not only does Penelope Pussycat run from this guy, so do I. He gives both grabbed pussies and polecats a bad name.

Can't wait for him to have to spend so much time for Walt Nauta to bag up his organic waste and drive it to Trump Tower for disposal.

I wonder if he has moved to washable cloth diapers?

Rhetorically, Kari Lake & Miss Cotton Thang advocate for behaviors that could promote violence.

Kari Lake: "Sure I'll be glad to change your diaper."

State lawyers said in court filings Friday that the former president and his co-defendants — the Trump Organization and its top executives, including his two eldest sons — failed to prove the surety Trump used to obtain the bond actually has the money to back it.

The surety bond does not meet the New York legal standards. Therefore the appeal request cannot be accepted or move forward. Therefore Leticia James can probably begin putting leans on his assets and properties soon.

Coincidence that the bond was secured by The Hankey Group?

Leticia James should just seize Trump's shares of Trump Media (DJT). He owns 78.75 million shares which will increase to 36 million if it stays above $17.

The Russia caucus is freaking out over Ukraine aid

I wish someone would throw Lauren Boebert down a well!

Or drop a house on her.

112 Republicans in House are Putin devotees and assets. That’s a dozen more Republicans that voted for Ukraine aid.

It is past time to start vigorously labeling those 112 districts as having allegiance to Putin.

Having Democrats be in the majority now, with crazy Talib, Bush, Omar ready to cause all sorts of problems? No thanks. Once and if Ukraine aid is passed, let Republicans own this huge mess.

Progressives fall in line or are outvoted when Dems are in control. I suspect they do not want to suffer the professional ire of Speaker Jeffries.

^ None of those women are crazier than your average Republican

^ Or nuthouse

If Democrats were to get the majority it would be the slimmest majority. There is zero doubt the most radical in the progressive caucus would cause enormous problems for Speaker Jeffries. Then the narrative would be “Democrats can’t govern, either.”

I’m a pragmatic progressive. And no, none of our “crazies” are as crazy as half the Republicans.

I’d add: let’s wait until we secure a substantial majority after the election.

FCI we usually agree, but in this case I respectfully disagree. I do not want Johnson in charge of the house when the next election is being certified.

And our crazies are crazy on certain topics, they aren’t looking to be antisocial pariahs in general. I’m not a progressive, just a bougie liberal, but I am sure Jeffries could find two or three things the whole caucus could agree on, like junk fees and only bring those to the floor.

[quote]There is zero doubt the most radical in the progressive caucus would cause enormous problems for Speaker Jeffries.

I think that they have been taught how to be a fringe caucus by Speaker Pelosi. If there are problems between the Progressives and the Centrists, we will never know about it.

^^^

[quote] “I’d rather be organizing under Biden as an opponent than …Trump who seeks to dismantle American Democracy.”

The inroads Putin has made with the U.S. Congress is beyond alarming. The mainstream media is largely ignoring it. Democrats need to make it a huge campaign issue.

Expecting Wray and Garland digging into the details that aren’t publicly known, may be disappointing at best.

Tough decision between two of my favorites, R88 and R90.

Jefferies should not take over unless he has the votes to eliminate the “one person” motion to vacate that McCarthy (not surprisingly) stupidly adopted. . The Dems will give him that (and a few other things) in order to get (and keep) control.

In addition to junk fees we’ve got next year’s budget and likely another round of funding for Ukraine, etc. coming due before the election on September 30th. Scary stuff.

But it would be politically helpful to see the “in charge” republicans melt, and shut down the government five weeks before the election. That would salt the earth for their defeat. (I suppose MTG would belatedly wake up after lots of finger pointing and they’d barely adopt a short term continuing resolution.)

My guess is that Dems will take the House (but likely lose the Senate?) when new members are sworn in on January 3rd 2025 so taking over now won’t gain us That much.

Hobson’s choice.

I’d like to see the Democrats hold both houses of Congress and the presidency for a few months so they can pass the first on-time budget since 1997, preferably with CHIPS fully funded.

(I’d also like to see the debt limit abolished or at least de-fanged, but I think that may be an unreasonable hope.)

[quote]MTG would belatedly wake up after lots of finger pointing

MTG would belatedly wake up after lots of fingering

ElderLez, the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 2. The new Congress certifies the election. So the only way Mikey will be in charge is if Repukes hold the house.

Even then, who knows who the speaker will be b

Democrats are set for a 1980 type of landslide. After such a corrupt bunch of ass lickers...

Thanks for the reassurance R97.

My heart bleeds.

^ Hope E. Jean sues him AGAIN

What an extreme sycophantic, lying coquette! You know who she is without clicking the link.

Miss Lindz wants J.D. Vance to take a trip to Ukraine with her. Sounds like a lovely match. They can save on government expenses and room together.

Too bad ol piggy Vance couldn’t find his cocklet with both hands.

R90 This Congress would not be the one to certify the election. It would be the one sworn in in early January, then they certify the election. Though, I concede there are other things to consider and having Democrats in control is best.

r105, FCI, we will all celebrate when DC becomes a state and Dems have two more Senators.

R106 Yes we will!

FCI why are foreign ex-pats able to vote in their last state of legal residence for federal elections in perpetuity, but if a person moves from Georgia to DC they are not?

The Federal government considers their last state as their permanent residency. They’ve been trying to figure out the DC voting thing for so long. It makes no sense, Elderlez. It only makes sense in that it keeps a lot of black voters from being properly represented.

Maybe Lindz can suck J.D. Vance's puny cocklet, just like Peter Thiel did

Well it burns my buttons FCI. The law should be consistent; if you’ve lived in a state and you are now living outside a state then the last state you lived in should be your (and your descendants) state of permanent residence. It shouldn’t matter if it’s Belize, DC or a military base in Turkey. It’s grossly unfair in a transparently racist way and I don’t see why Congress doesn’t fix it.

And we thought the farts were bad...

Trump's valet Walt Nauta says Trump will pardon him

"Even then, who knows who the speaker will be be"

I want Nancy back. Trump would have convulsions.

R111 Yes, Elderlez, blatantly racist. I think it is that darn filibuster.

Pelosi said it to Trump’s face in a room full of officials/staff:

“With you, all roads lead to Putin.”

That picture, r116, says it all, too.

Every military man in that room has their eyes lowered as if they are being dressed down by a superior officer.

Only that orange fool has his face anus puckered like a spoilt brat. God, Pelosi should’ve back handed him into next week.

Rachel Maddow is hosting the MSNBC cast in a Trump on Trial episode, today at 8:00 pm eastern.

When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas

He never thought the leopards would eat HIS face

It would be fun to play with Puddin’ DeSantis. He’d feel like Silly Putty.

[quote]Trump's valet Walt Nauta says Trump will pardon him

If Trump loses and Mr. Smith bumps Trump up to an 18 U.S.C. § 794, Espionage charge, Walt becomes Ethyl Rosemberg.

No pardon for you, Valet Nauta.

Hot needle.

R119 I have zero sympathy for him, but I do feel bad for his workers who lost their jobs.

Can't say they're not warning us:

"The jig is up for them. The gloves are off. There are no holds barred here. He is going full-throttle. He’s not worried about winning another election [in 2028]. It’s four years of scorched earth when Donald Trump retakes the White House.”

^

[quote]Sorry. I’m distracted by her terrible pant choice that makes her look like a giant fupa, which shouldn’t be possible given the rest of her is skeletal.

Trump got Pecker to help his campaign by running negative stories on Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton in the Enquirer

Steve Bannon named as a co-conspirator in a $1 billion fraud case

Lock them *all* fucking up!

Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and Boris Epshteyn among those just indicted in Arizona for their involvement in a fake electors scheme.

Ha ha!!! Eat shit, Jenna, Rudy, and co.

Glad the states are handling bringing these scumbags to justice cause Merrick Garland sure couldn't give two shits less.

Andrew Weissmann just said the fact that Kenneth Chesebro isn’t indicted probably means one thing — he’s cooperating with prosecutors.

R133 Not just cooperating, he’s giving them the goods in a big way.

Fuck yes. Lock up these traitors!

Right now I'd imagine a combination of sweat and hair dye is leaking down Giuliani's forehead

Big deal. The time to have felony indictment for election fraud should have been made in 2021. It is now 6 months before the next presidential election.

R136 Democrats didn’t have power in AZ in ‘21.

R136, Arizona had a Republican state attorney general until Jan. 2023. You know they weren’t going to do shit.

State attorney generals should be prosecuting on evidence of crimes and violations of law, not political affiliation.

In today's edition of "elections have consequences"...

AGs that will only prosecute based on whether not not they are Democrat or Republican are corrupt.

At the beginning of the trial, Trump's lawyer said he would be referring to Trump as President Trump out of respect. Liar! Trump is demanding it as he always does from his employees.

[quote]The time to have felony indictment for election fraud should have been made in 2021.

The governor and AG were both Republicans, nothing was going to happen.

Trump graciously accepts Bill Barr's endorsement:

Do these people have brain chips that Trump can throw the switch on?

"We hold that the US President is immune from prosecution for private and public acts while serving as President.

This decision is STAYED until after the November, 2024 election."

Seriously, although I just made that up, would that surprise anybody coming from the USSC conservative majority?

Those chicken-shit assholes are so fucking afraid to correctly rule on the obvious- that the lower court denying immunity is the correct one, that it's sickening.

And the state actions take center stage.

That might be too far even for this SC, R146, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if they make some limited ruling and send the case back to a lower court, delaying a final decision until after the election.

The 45th (and 47th!) President is still passing out keys to the White House.

Agree, r148.

The USSC conservative majority doesn’t want the responsibility of making an immediate ruling.

They’re afraid to because they know what they should rule but they’d rather hope and pray the election makes everything moot, one way or another.

This, Allen Weisselberg's detailed, handwritten notes about how Stormy Daniels' payments would be be reimbursed to Cohen, and Cohen's tape of his conversation with Trump about Daniel's payments should be enough to convict, right. I mean the last two are detailed records of how the conspiracy was to be carried out. They gathered and kept their own receipts. 🙄

[QUOTE]NEW: David Pecker confesses that he structured Karen McDougal's agreement purposefully to avoid triggering campaign finance law and even sought election law advice. Why? 1/

[QUOTE]Because Pecker had found himself in some hot water after he paid then-Governor Schwartzenegger's housekeeper in exchange for the Terminator's continued association with two of his fitness titles--and after Arnold was running for governor.

And there was no benefit to either Cohen or Weisselberg as to the conspiracy between Trump and Pecker.

Trump got embarrassing pussy scandals quashed, and Pecker got a free hand in writing Fiction as Fact-crap to boost his sales.

Cui prodest? Pecker.

Cui bono? Trump.

Wow, the Schwarzenegger stuff is good dirt!

This question of presidential immunity is a no brainer - the answer is no. Why is this going on so long?

[quote]Why is this going on so long?

As has been stated...for the delay.

Some good news:

So much losing!

So she gets her money right now??

[QUOTE]in exchange for the Terminator's continued association with two of his fitness titles--

Not sure what this means.

Per Adam Klasfeld:

Trump's appeal before the Second Circuit in the E. Jean Carroll litigation remains pending.

This ruling, marking the latest setback in his effort to overturn it, is from the trial court.

[quote]So she gets her money right now??

I don't think that his appeals have been exhausted just yet.

Oh too bad

I'm glad that it's coming out what a horrible person Trump is during the hush money trial.

Heh, the Huckabeast getting dragged into it along with Hope Hicks. They both helped to conspire in the cover-up. You can't make this up. Patrician east coast elite offspring who had adulterous relationships (one, at least, one wife beater) and the grifting politician daughter of slimey, grifting, Southern politician preacher man get together to help out a then accused, now adjudicated rapist and inveterate misogynist. With women like these who needs Andrew Tate?

We need some feminist outrage.

[QUOTE]Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. "Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea," Pecker said.

LOL at Huckabeast getting dragged into this

Sarah's having a bad week. The committee investigating Lecterngate found eight possible violations of Arkansas law and sent the case to prosecutors last week Her approval rating has dropped and disapproval skyrocketed *among Republicans.* And now she may need a different set of lawyers.

I guess her version of Christianity isn't working out so well... I love this picture of the harsh, painted "beauty" and the beast.

[quote]The committee investigating Lecterngate found eight possible violations of Arkansas law

Amateur.

r167 - Beauty and the...Aghhh! What *is* that???

Lecterngate has to be one of the stupidest scandals ever. Which just makes it all the more perfect.

Who the hell gets all caught up in some nonsense about buying a ridiculously expensive podium? Sarah, that's who!

Also, Jesus clearly hates her, no doubt for reasons that are well known to her.

The point being, r170, that the lectern wasn't close to that amount and the money was actually spent elsewhere.

^ for a girls' trip to Paris, accommodations and meals. First class, of course.

Trump must have been operating as if he was still a sleazy Manhattan real estate mogul. How did any of these fools (including da goils) think this wouldn't be uncovered? Just laughable.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has not yet responded to a request for comment about David Pecker’s testimony that she was involved, in her capacity as a White House official, in the hush money cover up, but Stephanie Grisham confirms that Sanders initiated discussions about the story “all the time.”

Grisham was working for the First Lady. According to Grisham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (now the governor of Arkansas) and Hope Hicks (an expected witness for the prosecution) contacted her to ask, “What did I know, what did Melania know, what were we going to do.”

Horrendous Huck

The present governor or AR is also getting her fat ass dragged into the election fraud/hush money trial. She and resident crackhead KellyAnne Conway were both apparently involved in manipulating good/bad press.

I'd love for Kellyanne to get enough of a comeuppance to smack that smug expression right off her mug.

There were the olden days when there were threads asking: does Kellyanne’s pussy stink?

Oh my, how DL changed. Linking to those threads avoided paying, but rendered pay privileges.

"Donald Trump’s allies are quietly drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence if the former president wins a second term. The group of Trump allies argues that he should be consulted on interest-rate decisions, and the draft document recommends subjecting Fed regulations to White House review and more forcefully using the Treasury Department as a check on the central bank."

^ Quel surprise...not.

The BEST people

So they aren’t counting the vacancies?

There are six vacancies.

Republicans no longer have a majority if you count the vacancies 217/435, but do if you don’t 217/429. The chair’s pro forma announcement seems meaningful.

Eau De Trump: The Stench 4 U

What time is it? It’s Lindzebelle time!

The huz needs to keep her mouth shut since she is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case. She fought a subpoena to testify before the grand jury all the way to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

She is neither a resident of Georgia or New York. Someone must be getting less access to Trump’s @$$.

[quote]No one has ever been prosecuted in New York under the legal theory that’s being pushed by the Manhattan DA.

It's almost as if no other potential president has paid a porn star he raw-dogged while his wife was home taking care of a newborn $130,000 to keep quiet so it wouldn't impact his campaign.

As so often, Josh Marshall is on point, depressing but true. We have a fucked up Supreme Court and there is probably no easy answer here. It's nice to imagine that we can reshape the Court soon, but we all know we can't until MAYBE next year if everything falls into place. But it won't.

Somebody over in Freeperville is doing daily comments threads on the trial, they don't seem to be getting much activity. I guess they don't want to talk about it.

"It’s pretty fucking rich that Trump would act the part of a loving and doting husband who is missing his wife’s birthday celebration because he’s in a courtroom discussing his alleged infidelity on her on multiple occasions with multiple women. ALLEGEDLY."

Turd likes women until they get pregnant. Then he starts looking for fresh pussy.

[quote] This ad is airing during the NFL draft.

I would expect a plurality of MAGAs are football fans, even if it just on the level of their local high school.

Like Melania couldn't spend a night in her private apartment in Trump Tower and let Trump take her out for photo-ops?

[quote]It's nice to imagine that we can reshape the Court soon, but we all know we can't until MAYBE next year if everything falls into place. But it won't.

How terribly defeatist of you. Hell, don't even bother voting because Donald's gonna win anyways, eh?

Pro tip: Donald's three remaining brain cells are going to commit seppuku before November. He'll be an incoherent mess. If you can explain how MAGA is going to shape that into an electoral win (with no money), the class would love to hear it.

Don't go overboard r196. Everyone should vote, everyone should hope for the best. But when it comes to some dramatic change in the Supreme Court, understand it will take awhile, probably.

We should aim at expanding it, but that will take a significant victory in both the House and the Senate. Hope, but don't expect instant gratification.

Barr said Trump talked about executing people. But Barr defends him anyway!

Just checking in. Is Trump dead yet? Thanks.

What could go wrong?

There is an editorial in today’s New York Times from a Boston law professor, stating that the hush money case should never have been tried at state level. And even if Trump is convicted, he is likely to win on appeal. I know that Bill Barr‘s justice department chose to go after Michael Cohen and not Trump, which is why Michael Cohen went to prison. Is it too late to try Trump for federal crimes in this case? Of course, that means that Garland would have to grow a pair.

W all have to get Biden reelected, or we are all marching back to the plantation and if you are white, turning America into THE company store.

This is why a Democratic Senate Super Majority is so important.

And when Biden is reelected, he needs to replace Garland with Sally Yates and get Congress to remove all statutes of limitations for crimes committed during the Trump administration.

The founders never anticipated an American President who was so CRIME DENSE.

Actually, factually, too many crimes to prosecute in the time given.

[quote]Just checking in. Is Trump dead yet? Thanks.

Definitely on his way! Brain at this point is about 1/3rd oatmeal. I'd imagine his BP levels are astronomical at this point.

Every year, Miss Lindsey tweets Melania a happy birthday greeting.

What other Senator, man or woman, straight or gay, does that?

Lindsey is the reason the word sniveling was invented.

I suspect he would take that as a compliment, r207.

Trump Turns on R.F.K. Jr. Amid Concerns He Could Attract Republican Voters:

With as anti-science RFK Jr is, I can't see how any Democrat would vote for him. I've said all along that he'll siphon votes from Trump, not Biden.

I'm here for the Lauren Boebert shade

She does it for the attention and money. For every outrageous antic, she gets $$$$$.

CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed Lindsey Graham this morning. Lindsey looked pale, as if he has a hang over, and showing rigid, arrogant demeanor while promoting and crediting his “President Trump”. Graham was actually in Seneca, SC, and not Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster or Trump Tower. He’s been cut-off and must be desperate for some of that stinky “dad dee”.

r215 is also:

[quote]Illegal migration. The country is sick of it. Biden could have canned the illegal migration facilitator and enabler, Mayorkas.

[quote]It will cost Biden the election. The populace is angry.

The door to the storage room in Mar-a-Lago where Trump stored highly classified docs had a pinhole doorknob that could be unlocked… via coathanger, a witness told investigators per newly released exhibits.

[r216] How lucky one must be to have you as an adorning fan. You ignore, then peruse the listed posts, then repost something that disturbs you in another thread. That’s obsessive behavior and doesn’t suggest emotional stability.

Right, Matt?

Hardly, r218. Just trying to keep the Treason threads reasonably troll free...as they've managed to be from the beginning Mueller threads.

6219 That’s projection and you are not a hall monitor.

R220, these threads are an oasis among the trolldom that is DL occasionally. We are all hall monitors. Trolls are not welcome. Take that whatever way you will.

Show me your hall pass, bitch.

Fuck off, troll @ r222.

Thank you, r221.

Thank you for catching the troll, r216.

These threads have indeed been an oasis from the trolls. Our posters are too smart, smarter than I, so whatever tipped R216 off on that troll, good work!

r225 - You're welcome, FCI.

DeSantis will be VP. That's why he dropped out so soon.

They deserve each other.

But....they can't be from the same state.

I guess he crossed Kristi Noem off the list...

Is Trump's legal residence in NY, NJ, or FL?

"But....they can't be from the same state."

I'll allow it just this one time.

R221 r216 and dozens more, you lift a post from someone in another thread and post it here. You are the troll Doris, and not a sensible one. You and sidekick FCI can give each other stokes endlessly, but the merit of that has no substance, just exposing your nastiness.

You initiated the attack. as seen before, and cognitively couldn’t grasp a satire post in another thread and dumped it here. And even if the commentary was not to your liking, you certainly may disagree, but attempting to control and censor the opinions of others is rude, unacceptable, and the real trolling behavior. You chose this road and it is quite unnecessary.

r230, she owned a dog...

[bold]The Media They Consume[/bold]

“Supporters of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are sharply divided across all sorts of lines, including the sources they rely on to get their news,” new data from the NBC News poll shows.

“Biden is the clear choice of voters who consume newspapers and national network news, while Trump does best among voters who don’t follow political news at all.”

r235, that may be true if you classify Fox, OAN and Newsmax as ENTERTAINMENT with no political news.

Bullshit.

R235, so Trump fans don't read or watch the news? That tracks

Low information voters.

Low informed AND ill informed. Deadly combination.

PAUSE

[quote]PAUSE

What Trump never said on J6, he was enjoying the carnage far too much. What better man to take America forward in November.

Hunter Biden is threatening to sue Fox News

I work with a Somalian who said about Trump, "I like him!". I asked if he was aware of all the women who accused him of molesting them and he said no.

People just catch Turd on TV occasionally and that's all they need.

A friend in DC I trust says he thinks the media will keep this race as close as possible to squeeze every $ they can out of it, then pivot in Sept forward to reporting the news accurately, without bias for Former Pres Bone Spurs, which they feel will easily allow President Biden to win handily.

Bless your friend’s heart, R244.

Trump is fun to watch, he'll get rid of the foreigners, and he makes those liberal fucks cry - he's got my vote!

R242 For Fox the ratings and right wing support is worth the cost they may have to pay for defamation/libel/slander lawsuits. Except perhaps if it's like the Dominion voting machines where the amount reaches in the billions.

Now is when Trump comes down with shingles or Bells Palsey. Both are stress related.

OANN admits they made up an article about Michael Cohen

^^^

Found in contempt.

CNN:

Judge Juan Merchan issued a ruling Tuesday finding Donald Trump in contempt of court for “for willfully disobeying a lawful mandate” nine times this month, saying he violated a gag order and criticized expected trial witnesses.

The nine incidents represent seven posts and reposts on Truth Social and two posts on Trump’s campaign website. He was fined $1,000 for each violation, must pay the fine by the close of business Friday and must remove the posts by 2:15 p.m. today.

Merchan also threatened incarceration if Trump willfully violates the gag order again.

Also from TIME:

If elected to a second term in the White House, Donald Trump intends to pursue policies that would address what he says is a “definite anti-white feeling” in America.

“If you look at the Biden Administration, they’re sort of against anybody depending on certain views," he says.

“They’re against Catholics. They’re against a lot of different people. I think there is a definite anti-white feeling in this country and that can’t be allowed either. I don’t think it would be a very tough thing to address, frankly,” Trump says. “But I think the laws are very unfair right now. And education is being very unfair, and it’s being stifled. But if you look right now, there’s absolutely a bias against white [people] and that’s a problem.”

$1,000.00 per violation?

LOL!

Joe needs to win, not just for our sake (and the world's), but for Joe's.

It's too bad the court has a limit of $1K per violation. I would like to see Trump go nuts with a $1M fine per violation.

I would if I were Barron

Someone just cut out his tongue, see his fucking face anus shut, break his fingers and throw him in Gitmo so we NEVER HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIM AGAIN.

EVER.

$1K per violation is low enough to tempt Trump to run his mouth to permit his 'freedom of speech', and also because he can't help it. But there's also that rider about incarceration next time. Quite the stand-off, and you just know Trump's ego will be itching to push back at any higher authority and limitation.

1/ I am so tired of him.

I am tired of his face. I am tired of his style of speech. I am so tired of his lies. I am tired of his bluster, his narcissism. I am tired of his fraud and his crimes. I am tired of the relentless news coverage and the danger he poses to democracy.

I am so tired.

His Face

Or, more specifically, his facial expressions. Let’s start with the pout. It’s his way of trying to look tough, but he can’t pull it off because he isn’t tough. If we’ve learned nothing else in the last eight years, it’s that he’s a perpetually aggrieved child who can never find satisfaction and who blames everything bad that happens to him on everyone else.

Then there’s the sneer, which is worse. He saves it for those occasions when he scores a point against a perceived enemy — like getting the Mike Johnsons and Ron DeSantises of the world to come to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring, or on those alarming occasions when he gets away with breaking a norm (or a law) or, maybe even worse, when he gets an assist from an increasingly corrupt institution like the Supreme Court.

Together, the pout and the sneer perfectly encapsulate the tension that exists between his arrogant belief that he is utterly untouchable and his desperately fragile ego and unconscious sense that he is a weak, terrified little boy.

His Style of Speech

He just won’t stop talking. And the longer he speaks, the more he lapses into a stream of consciousness that defies logic or meaning. There is no nuance, no attempt to be coherent, no aspiration to eloquence.

Word Choice: Everything is always terrible or incredible. It is always like nothing you’ve ever seen. There are no shades of gray; only the black and white of hyperbole, because if it is in any way related to him or his enemies, it must be the best or the worst.

Asides and Non Sequiturs: He meanders without ever really getting to the point, and along the way he veers off onto a totally unrelated topic. He could be talking about nuclear weapons and then launch into a monologue about water pressure or lightbulbs while his supporters wait for a conclusion he never draws.

Repetition: When he wants to drive home a point, he doesn’t just repeat it once, he repeats it incessantly. He pounds it down. Repetition reinforces his message,even as it hides the lack of substance and factual information — and his brand of simple-minded patter makes it all the more effective. As Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for Nazi Germany put it, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” In cognitive psychology, this is known as the “illusory truth effect.”

Rhetoric: He speaks down to the lowest common denominator and doesn’t hesitate to call on his followers to commit violence on his behalf, riling them up with promises to pay their lawyers or otherwise offering them immunity. It is the coward’s way, but he excels at it. And here lies his disturbing resemblance to cult leaders. They, too, traffic in simplistic tropes and make vague promises; they see themselves as unique, chosen, and, in some cases, divine; they create a clear division between their group (the “chosen” ones) and the out group (the “enemy” or “other”). Cult leaders dehumanize the other, portraying them as inferior or inhuman (“vermin”).

Sound familiar?

When you hear that voice, rambling, repetitive, and threatening, remember: it’s not empty noise — he’s preying on the vulnerability of his followers, who at this point seem almost incapable of listening to any voice but his.

Thank God for Mary Trump!