A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3)

In general, you can do stupid sleazy shit as long as you’re Donald Trump. Everyone else is subject to penalties.

Guilfoyle was once married to Gavin Newsome. Expect the right wing jackasses to try to play that up and seek to tar him with her crimes, even though they’ve been divorced for over 20 years, and she was most recently engaged to Donald Trump Jr up until a couple of years ago.

It’s weird that she’s played on both sides of the aisle.

Knowing how Russians love central control I’d bet the workers may be scattered hither and yon but all their efforts are funneled through one source.

Orange Foolius says (paraphrased) “She wasn’t a member of my family, she, uh, I guess dated my son a long time ago…”

Weren’t they engaged for 4 years???

Impressive Underbussing!

Did her face look like that? back then. It’s been striking me after this news and more images of her lately, how uncanny her face is. Creepy.

Pretty close. They started dating in 2018, and moved in together in 2019 (bought a house in the Hamptons together which they later sold before buying a different house in Florida), but broke up some time in 2024. So they were together for around 6 years. They got engaged literally the last day of 2020 (December 31) and I don’t know if anyone knows when they officially called that off. Late 2024 was when Don Jr was reportedly dating someone else, and when people asked it was said that he and Guilfoyle had broken up “months earlier”, so I’d guess probably around the middle of that year. So, their engagement probably lasted 3 1/2 years. Still a pretty long time.

Susan Collins-supporting Super PAC runs ads in Portland, OR instead of Portland, ME. (Paywalled link, sorry).

:rofl:

The group Defending Main Street, a political action committee affiliated with the Republican Main Street Partnership, confirmed the snafu in a statement.

“During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon, media market instead of Portland, Maine,” a spokesperson for the group said.

Her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, poked fun at the error in a message posted to X.

“Susan Collins’ allies ran ads against me in Portland, Oregon,” said Jackson… [snip] “Should’ve asked Navatek. They knew exactly where to send the money.”

This is obviously small potatoes, but it’s the kind of thing that will rile up Mainers in particular, and it brought a smile to my face.

No, it didn’t.

And that one source would surely be an obvious target for future drone attacks.

But: yeah. People online are all thrilled that the Bots Are Gone, even though they aren’t. Russian operations are likely in facilities in which quite a few humans work (programming the bots), and such facilities are trickier targets than are the data centers (morally, at least).

Yep. But the level of celebration does indicate how strongly people resent the manipulation of opinion that is so obvious a feature of today’s Internet.

Oh yes, people know that bots are a problem and it’s a huge problem.

I know it’s been discussed on this site in some thread or other (likely one of the Musk ones), but one of the funniest examples of schadenfreude ever was when Elon instituted the feature on X that let users see the geographic source of posts. This was last fall:

Oops!

One of my duties as a Black Rock Ranger at Burning Man is Intercept, mainly concerned that the art cars are adhering to the many regulations imposed upon them. The final day of the event one was flagged down and the three of us were ticking off all the violations we had observed when our lead suddenly paused, dug out his phone, and found a picture he had taken the same vehicle earlier in the week when it was sent to D-lot for lack of registration and reckless driving.

Once that happens it was supposed to stay in D-lot until the event closes, the next day. While we were waiting for the tow truck to haul it away again he gave about six reasons/excuses how it got out of there and was told, “Don’t care,” on every one. He sent his girlfriend out who flashed a lot of cleavage and begged how will they get back to camp. It’s a pedestrian and bicycle city. Walk.*

Finally when we were free of the situation and climbed back into the truck I commented he seemed like a guy who doesn’t hear, “No,” a lot and one of the others said he noticed she had the perfect Mar A Lago face. We other two agreed.

*It turned out their camp was about 200 yards away which in a city three miles across is small potatoes.

I don’t get it she was a perfectly normal and attractive woman. Why oh why would she mutilate her face like that?

I would in no way shape or form agree with the first part of that sentence. The 2nd, yes.

Well she certainly wasn’t ugly or scarred. She was normal looking. Now shiver I’d hate to run into her unexpectedly in a dark alley. urgh

The skin masks of the lizard people are slowly sloughing off.

Maybe a leopard ate it.

Do we have a “Mar-A-Lago Face” thread? I mean, I don’t really want to just mock women for their looks but on the other hand I audibly gasped when I first saw the picture of Barbara Thornhill, the State Department’s new Anti-Trafficking Director:

And that’s hot on the heels of the recent photos of Susan Dell. I really don’t understand why these people do this to themselves, but I hope it somehow makes them happy.

It is remarkable that people spend tons of money and effort to look like they have some kind of a serious condition.