How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?

[E-DUB]

How would Secret Service protection work if a former president were to be incarcerated, hypothetically?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

He was pretty unhinged in that presser today.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@E-DUB

How would Secret Service protection work if a former president were to be incarcerated, hypothetically?

An interesting discussion of that question here: Would Trump keep his Secret Service protection if he is sent to prison?

[BobLibDem]

Some interesting Secret Service questions. As I understand it, First Lady widows get SS until they die or get remarried. Presumably, presidential ex-spouses don’t get it. I presume that the ex-presidential detail gets a lot smaller after being sworn out of office. Also I believe that adult children of ex-presidents lose their SS detail. Can someone attest to that or show a link proving or disproving?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I believe you have correctly stated the policy. For more:

Is the Secret Service responsible for keeping the president from getting drunk?

[Skypist]

I think kids lose Secret Service detail when they turn 16 as opposed to 18 or 21.

[smithsb]

Is that mental age or actual? Eric might still qualify.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Trump remains silent on massive Russian cyberattack — and almost everything else except his own election: Trump remains silent on massive Russian cyberattack [Video]

[ThelmaLou]

I’m sure Donnie is pleased that there’s one more massive pile of shit that fake-not-really-the-president Biden will have to deal with.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

And you know this March 2020 Cyberattack by the Russians is absolutely going to be blamed on Biden.

[k9bfriender]

I wonder how much can be compromised if you had unfettered access to the White House, as Trump has graciously given to Russia.

[ThelmaLou]

Interesting point. Is it really theft if you invite the thieves in, show them where you keep the silver, and basically say, “Help yourselves, I’ll be on the golf course”?

[Knowed_Out]

I’m sure Trump’s silence is because he can’t figure out how it benefits him. Maybe, I highly doubt it, but maybe he’s humbled by the fact that the computer espionage he thought was happening at the polls was actually happening on his own turf, by the Russians he thought he was on good terms with. Maybe he realizes he has no idea what to do about it, and he can avoid the unpleasantness of national security breaches by actually leaving January 20th. Or maybe he realizes he’s actually incapable of protecting anything other than his own interests, and this threat is against his country instead of him. He’s already displayed a reluctance to go to war by withdrawing our troops from Middle Eastern hot spots, and realizes his bravado does nothing to deter high tech invasions.

[kaylasdad99]

@ThelmaLou

Interesting point. Is it really theft if you invite the thieves in, show them where you keep the silver, and basically say, “Help yourselves, I’ll be on the golf course”?

Well, yeah, if it wasn’t your stuff to give away.

[kaylasdad99]

@Knowed_Out

I’m sure Trump’s silence is because he can’t figure out how it benefits him. Maybe, I highly doubt it, but maybe he’s humbled by the fact that the computer espionage he thought was happening at the polls was actually happening on his own turf, by the Russians he thought he was on good terms with. Maybe he realizes he has no idea what to do about it, and he can avoid the unpleasantness of national security breaches by actually leaving January 20th. Or maybe he realizes he’s actually incapable of protecting anything other than his own interests, and this threat is against his country instead of him. He’s already displayed a reluctance to go to war by withdrawing our troops from Middle Eastern hot spots, and realizes his bravado does nothing to deter high tech invasions.

Stop! You’re killing me here!




Hoo boy, my ribs…

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Knowed_Out

I’m sure Trump’s silence is because he can’t figure out how it benefits him.

Oh, I think it’s a little more complicated than that:

@Snowboarder_Bo

Part of why I think Trump is so bewildered is because yeah, there was a ton of fraud and cheating, and he knew it was gonna happen.

Bo’s Crazy 2020 Election Theory

Okay, I have no evidence, and I know that it mostly sounds like ridiculous conspiracy theory-type bullshit; here’s my wild-eyed & crazy take on what actually happened in the 2020 election:

First: Trump cheated. He cheated with the help of the Russians and the full knowledge and cooperation of people like William Barr, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham as well as a veritable horde of others. He had the Postal System disrupted, he had lawyers waiting to pounce on things, etc. And he had the Russians helping him too with both agitprop and with actual interference in the voting software. He had no doubts he was going to win.

Two things happened that Trump didn’t count on: the Russians fucked him and the population really does hate him and so turned out in droves to vote against him.

The Russians fucked him by not really fucking with the vote totals like they could have. Putin, IMO, sees more benefit from cutting Trump loose than from continuing to help him. So they helped, but on Election Day they suddenly were amscrayed and Trump is left holding the bag. He can’t complain publicly or even privately about Putin because a) the American public would lynch him and b) Putin would prolly get to him before the American public.

So now Trump is in a pickle, eh. He has no way forward and no way back. He can’t even pivot: he’s truly backed himself into a corner. Trump is not used to this: he has no leverage. So he’s flailing, trying to find something to hang onto.

McConnell knows all this; so do Barr and Graham, but since they’ve all been compromised by Russia, they are also powerless to say or do much without instructions from Putin except keep backing Trump.

[smithsb]

I think DumpsterFire has slipped so far mentally that he cannot comprehend any briefings on the espionage given to him. Or his aides have simply not briefed him. Supposedly it’s been weeks since he’s gotten a security brief. paywalled but [

Trump turning away intelligence briefers since election win …

www.washingtonpost.com › world › 2016/11/23
](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-turning-away-intelligence-briefers-since-election-win/2016/11/23/5cc643c4-b1ae-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html)

He’s totally preoccupied with the fake election fraud coverage. He’s become a cult member of his own cult.

[Rick_Kitchen]

He finally spoke about the Russian hack. It isn’t as bad as the fake media says it is, it might have been China anyway, and what about the stolen election? Even as Pompeo says it was Russia.

Trump Still Won’t Criticize Russia: Claims Massive Cyber Hack "May Be China"...

Pompeo Says Russia 'Pretty Clearly' Behind Cyberattack, Prompting Pushback...

[Monty]

@Knowed_Out

I’m sure Trump’s silence is because he can’t figure out how it benefits him. Maybe, I highly doubt it, but maybe he’s humbled

Don’t do that! Are you trying to kill me?

Ah, I see kaylasdad99 beat me to that comment. I really should’ve read the rest of the thread first.

[Sherrerd]

Trump’s tiny, Swiss-cheesed brain is caught in an endless loop:

The current Russian hack included hacking the election in favor of Biden, so that means I win

then

BUT the Russians don’t hack things at all, and didn’t hack in 2016 or help me, and they didn’t help me, and I won on my own, and Putin thinks I’m a Brilliant Genius and would do nothing to hurt me so they didn’t hack in 2020 to help Biden they couldn’t have

then

But I really won in 2020 and a Russian Hack would be proof that I really won but got cheated so the Russians really did hack

then

But if I admit the Russians hacked in 2020 it shows I’m a bad President so they couldn’t have hacked

then

But they had to hack if Biden cheated because how could he win without Russian help?

then

ASPLODE