red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'. . .shelter me from the putin and the bankeri bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 22 June 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC9_baHV0AABiyQ.jpg
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 23 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
#daddy
― korla pundit (crüt), Friday, 23 June 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
#dilfsinjocks
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 23 June 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
wasting his finite reserves of energy there
― El Tomboto, Friday, 23 June 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
Cronenbergian
― Treeship, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.
also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 June 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/James_Brown_Take_a_Look_at_Those_Cakes.jpg
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 June 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 June 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
you suggest Panama?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
libs/"centrists" for sure
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
*not adjusted for population inflation
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
indicative of a deep flaw in our universe
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame
― ciderpress, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...
mao would be the world champ though.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
this is a ridiculous statement
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
well he's certainly fatter
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDBB4IMWAAAO6sN.jpg:large
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
stahp posting this I cant handle it
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
My god, it's made of scrote.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
I feel badly for his clothes.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
If you blow the image up to its full size (not that I'm recommending you do so) the swollen, boiled-looking bullfrog neck is almost Lovecraftian.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
dainty watch worn to make hands look bigger.
― new noise, Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Is he going to be remembered as the worst thing ever? Would be deeply ironic if he just got forgotten but then people wouldn't learn from history.JUst hope his wrongness doesn't get outdone shortly after he dies painfully,choking to death on a shagpile carpet would be fitting, though too redolent of Elvis.But fingers crossed he doesn't act as a harbinger of things to come.
Just would be so funny if he went to all this bother and wasn't remembered in 20 years time.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 24 June 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
"Sorry no parliamentary email access today - we're under cyber attack from Kim Jong Un, (Vladimir) Putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something..."
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDF8ptxVYAQxha7.jpg
― soref, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
very few things gross me out as much as donald trump's watch band pic.twitter.com/mWOA8sQKi7— joe mande (@JoeMande) June 25, 2017
― j., Monday, 26 June 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/frank-rich-nixon-trump-and-how-a-presidency-ends.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Jesus, how has he not lost his hand yet?
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
"Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it's true! - but when you're a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it's four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
^ shows nearly doc casino level aptitude
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
"To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country."
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
saw a beer called alternative facts with a reference to it being the bigliest of IPAs :-/
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
http://redcollar.ca/impeachment-and-alternative-facts-cans-join-the-red-collar-line-up/
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 1 July 2017 03:36 (six years ago) link
xxxp reggie's quote, if that was a mathematical function it's be piecewise continuous but nowhere differentiable
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 July 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government or mommy and daddy. You are angry at your own failings and struggle for survival, mock the GOP and ridicule its members, but when Republicans do it to the Democrats and you, you call out racism and class warfare.
You all yammer on like you do, but let me tell you this here message board is one kooky place with as many double standards as the Grand Old Party, which is why I voted TRUMP!
― The Sniper, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CDbmwLL.png
many replies later
https://i.imgur.com/3xCV1hH.png
yeesh
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 May 2024 22:17 (two days ago) link
We don't need another asshole
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2024 22:19 (two days ago) link
my god
https://i.imgur.com/AQo7QVm.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 May 2024 22:25 (two days ago) link
Haha
― default damager (lukas), Friday, 31 May 2024 22:29 (two days ago) link
I wasn't paying attention because other, funnier stuff was going on, but apparently Truth Social lost 20% of its value when the verdict came down?
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:51 (yesterday) link
Great!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:55 (yesterday) link
well look at that
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), trading under the moniker DJT, plunged on Friday, a day after the company's majority shareholder former president Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records.
The company's share price declined 5.30 percent by close of trading on Friday which amounted to a $314 million loss in value for Trump's shares
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:58 (yesterday) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ble9k7N.png
― z_tbd, Saturday, 1 June 2024 02:40 (yesterday) link
damn, emptywheel as in Marcy Wheeler? She used to be good on nat'l security matters.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2024 04:09 (yesterday) link
this is a goldmine for him
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/trump-fundraising-verdict.html
― StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 06:16 (yesterday) link
which he's going to spend on legal fees, as he has been doing all along, because he can legally due to loopholes.
hence why between Biden and him, he's the one that's been too chickenshit to report 'cash in hand'
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 June 2024 06:28 (yesterday) link
When the unlikable sports boor podcast crowd are landing haymakers like this you’re in trouble https://bsky.app/profile/noelmu.bsky.social/post/3ktueo6mmok2m
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:06 (yesterday) link
Black voters, especially Black men, have slipped away from Mr. Biden over the last four years, but 27 percent of Black voters who backed Mr. Trump told pollsters from The New York Times and Siena College before the verdict that a conviction would flip them to Mr. Biden, compared with just 5 percent of white respondents who said that.
Daryl Jones, 49, who is Black, made it clear that he remained a fan of Mr. Trump’s as he cut hair at the busy Universal Barber Shop in Des Moines on Thursday evening. Yet when it came to the former president’s convictions, Mr. Jones was resolute.
“Well, you do the crime, you’ve got to do the time,” he said. “So, at the same time, if he’s wrong, he’s wrong. And he was wrong.”
Kourtney Thomas, 31, a coordinator at a Racine homeless shelter, was conflicted. In a lengthy conversation in the city’s downtown, she was visibly torn. She favors abortion rights, she said, and did not like how Mr. Trump had approached L.G.B.T.Q. issues in his term in office. She liked the former president’s much tougher policies at the border, however, an issue she said the current president had badly fumbled.
As the conversation swung back to Mr. Trump’s convictions, Ms. Thomas showed she understood chapter and verse what the former president had been convicted of, and she expressed anger at the way that the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., Fani T. Willis, a Black woman like her, had been treated by Mr. Trump and his allies as she pursued her efforts to prosecute the former president for subverting the 2020 election. She is leaning toward Mr. Biden.
“No one is above the law,” Ms. Thomas concluded. “He should go to jail.”
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:16 (yesterday) link
We really need some sort of documentary or movie or something - a public thing - exploring the life experiences that lead minorities to support someone like Trump.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:41 (yesterday) link
Do you think that for some people there’s just an assumption that powerful white guys are all racist anyway, so that Trump’s more overt racism isn’t as disqualifying as it seems like it should be?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:44 (yesterday) link
In the same way some people write off his legal issues because “eh, they’re all crooks”?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:45 (yesterday) link
there are tons people of color who hold generally conservative views, republicans just wont allow them in the tent due to racism, trump might hold more appeal by being not your typical establishment republican
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:51 (yesterday) link
Tipsy, I think those points are probably part of it.
There’s also, maybe, a sort of - if we think about family/community/nation/world, people are way more family and MAYBE community. Like “how does my life change either way” in strictly economic terms, not thinking about or paying attention to the dictator shit.
I do want to find and read the article Alfred quoted from.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:51 (yesterday) link
That’s a fair point, L. But why are the percentages shifting?
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:52 (yesterday) link
The bootstraps myth exerts a powerful pull. I live this shit. "I work hard, these illegals are leeching off the system, Donald Trump is strong," etc.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:56 (yesterday) link
cause biden sucks prob xp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:56 (yesterday) link
I've been steeped in Cuban butthurtness for decades.
I grew up with two black parents who were exceptionally politically aware, and left leaning, but there’s always been a bit of bootstraps built in. Maybe the bootstraps aspect is bigger for others.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:05 (yesterday) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreia4o6627ohx2iukituw2heytjc5nd4uctqwqohfthbqtgfmjxonhm@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:06 (yesterday) link
but if he doesnt, theyll vote for him, right
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:07 (yesterday) link
A lot of people seem to have the “surely Trump will step aside as things get worse” perspective, which makes me laugh. That won’t happen unless he dies or has a stroke or something. This is his Republican Party, and his ego may be bigger than that - which will (fingers crossed) crater the GOP in November.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:08 (yesterday) link
Hopefully this is the last time I paste this into an ILE politics thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDH3MX4MYI
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:09 (yesterday) link
Trump won't even drop out of he dies
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:11 (yesterday) link
I've been asked in my dad's hometown why I vote Democratic when it's against my interests as a white guy.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:14 (yesterday) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuqr22c990s
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:16 (yesterday) link