# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178 "2021-05-15T18:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 343
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6844 "2024-05-15T08:59:07Z")
Including himself. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6845 "2024-05-15T10:47:26Z")
That’s why I chose the word _soil_. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6846 "2024-05-15T12:30:12Z")
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has taken note of the apparent quid pro quo that arose from Trump’s Mar-A-Lago fundraiser (where – for a billion dollars in campaign funds, he’d set the global environment on fire): > **[Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses](https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-us-ethics-watchdog-investigating-100039845.html)** > > Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ‘taking very serious look’ at whether Mar-a-Lago meeting justifies legal action > [@](#): > > A powerful watchdog group that has been at the forefront of efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for constitutional violations is investigating whether his Mar-a-Lago meeting with oil company executives last month merits legal action. > > Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has told the Guardian that it is investigating the dinner at Trump’s club with more than 20 oil and gas company executives. Trump asked them for a $1bn presidential campaign contribution, while at the same time vowing to undo Joe Biden’s restrictions on natural gas export permits, oil drilling and car pollution, the Washington Post reported. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6847 "2024-05-15T12:40:35Z")
Something sure as shit ought to be done about that. It’s like bribing a Police Officer. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6848 "2024-05-15T17:14:59Z")
Unfortunately the supreme court decided that unless you explicitly say, “I will reduce regulations if you give me a billion dollars, and I won’t reduce regulations if you don’t give me a billion dollars” you are off the hook. Simply saying “I want to reduce regulations, and your giving me a billion dollars will help me do that \*wink\* \*wink\*.” Doesn’t count. Apparently the supreme court has never heard of subtext. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6849 "2024-05-15T22:22:36Z")
I’m watching a 1980 performance by the Jerry Garcia Band of Dear Prudence on youtube, and the sound suddenly gets muted. Here’s Donald and Lara Trump bitching about crooked Joe Biden!! Man, that Trump motherfucker has crossed lots of lines before, but his spoiled baby dumb fucking crying begging for money voice just came on in the middle of the fucking song!!! Fuck Donald Trump the useless fucking selfish piece of rat shit, and fuck youtube for allowing that to happen. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6850 "2024-05-15T22:36:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Apparently the supreme court has never heard of subtext. He could point a gun at these oil execs, and the SCOTUS would just say “He was just asking for donations to his campaign” Yes that’s how jaded I’ve become. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6851 "2024-05-15T23:25:55Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Apparently the supreme court has never heard of subtext. Or maybe they figure the fewer questions asked about money and gifts, the better. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6852 "2024-05-15T23:34:32Z")
I read that as, “… the fewer questions asked about money and grifts, the better.” Guess it works either way. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6853 "2024-05-16T10:35:52Z")
Griftgiving is the main purpose of Trumpmas, for example. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6854 "2024-05-17T15:39:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Mother-fucker’s still breathing, ain’t he? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YUluLIr98qc/maxresdefault.jpg "Still Alive") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUluLIr98qc) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6855 "2024-05-17T18:48:34Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I’m watching a 1980 performance by the Jerry Garcia Band of Dear Prudence on youtube, and the sound suddenly gets muted. Here’s Donald and Lara Trump bitching about crooked Joe Biden!! > Man, that Trump motherfucker has crossed lots of lines before, but his spoiled baby dumb fucking crying begging for money voice just came on in the middle of the fucking song!!! > Fuck Donald Trump the useless fucking selfish piece of rat shit, and fuck youtube for allowing that to happen. Just wait until Trump is elected again. A word to the wise at Google, to the effect of ‘_it would be a shame if something happened to your little business here_,’ and suddenly EVERY YouTube video will be interrupted by Donald and Lara Trump asking for money. (I mean, why **wouldn’t** Donald do that? What’s to stop him?) ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6856 "2024-05-17T18:58:19Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > A word to the wise at Google, to the effect of ‘_it would be a shame if something happened to your little business here_,’ and suddenly EVERY YouTube video will be interrupted by Donald and Lara Trump asking for money. I have to say, this is the one thing that might actually get me to purchase YouTube premium. As an aside I had a similar situation that happened to me a few months ago. I was looking at YouTube videos that were completely non-trump and non politics related. And right in the middle of it a news story pops up about a minor celebrity who was attacked by MAGAT’S on twitter. I did a whiplash because maga and Trump were the last things I expected to be brought up at the time. The f\*\*\*\*\* just infects everything you can’t get away from it. It gets extremely irritating at times. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6857 "2024-05-17T19:03:30Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I have to say, this is the one thing that **might actually get me to purchase YouTube premium**. > > As an aside I had a similar situation that happened to me a few months ago. I was looking at YouTube videos that were completely non-trump and non politics related. And right in the middle of it a news story pops up about a minor celebrity who was attacked by MAGAT’S on twitter. I did a whiplash because maga and Trump were the last things I expected to be brought up at the time. The f\*\*\*\*\* just infects everything you can’t get away from it. **It gets extremely irritating at times.** My bolding in the quote. So here we see a Google business plan in action: make them look at Trump and sympathetic-to-MAGA content in the middle of what they came here for, and they’ll hand us money! You have to wonder if their algorithms generate pro-_ **left** _ content with which to irritate-into-paying right-wing YouTube visitors… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6858 "2024-05-18T02:00:41Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > You have to wonder if their algorithms generate pro-_ **left** _ content with which to irritate-into-paying right-wing YouTube visitors… No profit in that. Whatever money those wingnuts have is headed straight to their idol’s coffers. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6859 "2024-05-18T19:48:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > No profit in that. Whatever money those wingnuts have is headed straight to their idol’s coffers. Good point. Though I don’t know of a reliable source of statistics on this, it does appear from what we know of Trump contributors (among others) that the MAGA-minded are much easier touches than are Democrats—and that, yes, they’d prioritize their political giving over handing cash to Google/YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6860 "2024-05-18T21:36:55Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I have to say, this is the one thing that might actually get me to purchase YouTube premium. I deleted the youtube app from my phone. I haven’t been back since. Fuck off, youtube. You are now in facebook realm, which is where internet apps that aren’t worth the negativity go to be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6861 "2024-05-19T01:13:32Z")
I watch more YouTube than just about anything else. On TV and computer, not on my phone. So I pay for premium. I watch cooking shows (love Max Miller’s Tasting History, air fryer how-to’s, lots of other cooking-related stuff), travel shows, history and almost-history (Recollection Road), makeup (Lisa Eldridge), far-out haircut makeovers, lots of music, cats, birds, puppies. Whatever you watch, YouTube recommends more of it. I NEVER watch anything remotely political, on YouTube or anywhere else on TV, so there’s that. I haven’t gotten any of the obnoxious nudges that y’all are complaining about. \ Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6862 "2024-05-19T16:43:17Z")
Today, he’s pissed me off because his followers are convinced that Biden [died in 2020](https://www.bitchute.com/video/dumvSo7xF5iV/). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/6863 "2024-05-19T16:49:58Z")
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