# Post CF and on-going Trump outrages **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746 "2021-02-25T21:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/582 "2021-08-26T15:43:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The Leftist ‘select committee’ has further exposed itself as a partisan sham! This exercise is a travesty! It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham! I move for a mistrial! _Do you realize there’s not a single homosexual on that jury?_ ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/583 "2021-08-26T16:00:37Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Otter, not Otto. You can’t disregard an entire post because a single typo! For if you, then shouldn’t we also ignore this whole thread? And if this whole thread is not worth our time, then isn’t this an indictment of the message board institution in general? I put it to you, **iiandyiii** isn’t this an indictment of our entire internet society? Well, you can do whatever you want with my post, but I’m not going to sit here and watch you bad mouth The Straight Dope! \ ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/584 "2021-08-26T16:20:08Z")
Don’t forget to hug the flag. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/585 "2021-08-26T16:40:14Z")
Bravo! ---
**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:** [August 26, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/586 "2021-08-26T17:22:20Z")
Interesting analysis… TL;DR- The Republican party is now so crazy that trumpy is boring and conventional. It’s the oldest horror plot in the book: you create a monster and one day it turns on you and it eats your face. > **[Trumpism Has Entered Its Final Form](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/radicalism-post-trump-gop/619891/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BTheAtlantic%2B%28The%2BAtlantic%2B-%2BMaster%2BFeed%29)** > > In today’s Republican Party, Trump is becoming what was once unthinkable—conventional, unexceptional, even something of an establishment figure. > Something happened last Saturday that was significant because it was unprecedented: Donald Trump spoke at a rally in the heart of Trump country—Cullman, Alabama, which gave the incumbent president [more than 88 percent of the vote in 2020](https://www.wsfa.com/2020/11/05/here-are-top-alabama-counties-that-voted-trump-biden/)—and he was booed. The jeers were scattered but noticeable, enough so that Trump responded to them. > > Trump had encouraged those in the audience to get vaccinated. “I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You’ve got to do what you have to do,” [Trump said](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/08/25/trump-booed-at-rally-for-encouraging-covid-vaccination-we-can-learn/5579328001/), “but I recommend: Take the vaccines. I did it—it’s good.” Yet for a large number of Trump supporters in the audience, even though the former president hadn’t embraced government or private-sector mandates, he had crossed a redline. > > Two days later Alex Jones, the far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Trump courted in 2016, rebuked Trump. After playing a clip of Trump declaring that the vaccines are working, Jones [responded](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/alex-jones-attacks-trump-for-promoting-vaccines-maybe-trumps-actually-a-dumba/), “BS. Trump, that’s a lie. You’re not stupid.” Jones added, “Shame on you, Trump. Seriously. Hey, if you don’t have the good sense to save yourself and your political career, that’s okay. At least you’re gonna get some good Republicans elected, and you know, we like ya. But my God. Maybe you’re not that bright. Maybe Trump’s actually a dumbass.” > … > > Not long ago, Trump was viewed as avant-garde, outrageous, and scandalous, America’s _enfant terrible_ . His actions were viewed as so shocking and norm-shattering that he couldn’t be ignored. In today’s Republican Party, however, Trump is becoming what was once unthinkable—conventional, unexceptional, even something of an establishment figure. > > In a right-wing movement that is home to a growing assortment of cranks and kooks—Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks and Madison Cawthorn, Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn, Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, Cyber Ninjas and QAnon, anti-vaxxers and insurrectionists—Trump looks rather ordinary. > … BTW, the author was a lifelong Republican up until 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/587 "2021-08-26T17:26:32Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Don’t forget to hug the flag. You misspelled **hump**. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/588 "2021-08-26T20:38:58Z")
Mea maxima culpa. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/589 "2021-08-26T23:08:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@susan](#): > > > > Don’t forget to hug the flag. > > You misspelled **hump**. I think this link is necessary. > **[42 Easy DIY Pallet Wood Projects You Can Complete in a Weekend](https://www.thespruce.com/diy-wood-pallet-projects-4157685)** > > Learn how to turn ordinary wood pallets into home and garden furniture and decor with these fun, affordable, and simple DIY pallet wood projects. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/590 "2021-08-27T02:38:57Z")
As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Trump wants you know that Soleimani, the terrorist killed under his watch, was way badder than that wimp Osama bin Laden. He falsely claimed that Osama only had “one hit” (he did concede that it was a bad one) but he wasn’t a real monster, the only real monsters are the ones slain by the Great Monsterkiller Trump, who is so much better at slaying terrorists than Obama was. > **[Trump Suggests Osama Bin Laden Wasn't That Big A Deal, Says He Only Had 'One...](https://news.yahoo.com/trump-suggests-osama-bin-laden-002834673.html)** > > Weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, ex-President Donald Trump said the terrorist behind the 2001 attacks wasn't as bad as the "monsters" he took out. THIS is the kind of shit Trump thinks about all day, he just can’t take it that Obama gets credit for anything. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/591 "2021-08-27T04:25:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think this link is necessary. > > [42 DIY Pallet Wood Projects From Furniture to Decor](https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-clean-the-american-flag-2146327) After reading that, I am shocked that they did not devote at least two paragraphs on how to deal with stains from jism. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/592 "2021-08-27T04:42:18Z")
The good old Red, White, Blue, and White. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/593 "2021-08-27T06:56:39Z")
I still say all this started with Obama joking about him. His face was red, not orange! And that’s all this was about. He told GOP he wants revenge on the Black guy, they guided the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/594 "2021-08-27T14:13:22Z")
That, and he’s an asshole. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/595 "2021-08-28T16:31:22Z")
> **[Trump's D.C. Hotel Permanently Bans Forbes Reporter After ... Wait For It ......](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-international-hotel-zach-everson-photo-ban_n_61297a18e4b02be25b5bf678)** > > Zach Everson has long tracked the lobbyists, Republicans and foreign government reps who have spent big at the hotel to wrangle favors from the former president. Complete headline: **Trump’s D.C. Hotel Permanently Bans Forbes Reporter After … Wait For It … Taking Photos** > Forbes journalist Zach Everson has been permanently banned from the [Trump International Hotel](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/trump-international-hotel), ostensibly [for taking photographs](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/08/27/heres-why-trumps-hotel-just-banned-me-for-life/?sh=1a26fc6f392e), he reported Friday. > > After a quick visit to the bar of the Washington hangout, a drink, a few photos and a text on Thursday night, Everson said he was [ordered to leave by Ernest Wojciech](https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1431285598330003460?s=20), the hotel’s director of security. Wojciech told the journalist he was getting the boot for “taking photos without permission,” Everson reported in Forbes. The reporter was then told the ban was for life. > > Photos of the bar, lobby and restaurant of the renovated Old Post Office Building — owned by taxpayers and leased by the [Trump Organization](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/the-trump-organization) — have been the focus of countless Twitter, Instagram and [Facebook](https://www.huffpost.com/impact/topic/facebook) posts showing who’s dropping a dime in hopes of currying favor with former President. > … > > Everson had headed to the hotel Thursday night after seeing that its room prices had soared. The “cheapest” room was suddenly listed at $2,400 a night, an astonishing jump from $400 just weeks before, he noted. > > It might have been a rate boost to profit from the [next pro-Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-braynard-protest-capitol-riot_n_610c5c6be4b05f8157079a71), planned for Sept. 18, which is already on police radar. > … No matter what, The Donald just keeps making money. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/596 "2021-08-28T17:19:00Z")
If rooms have gotten that expensive, that quickly, it sounds like the property has just gotten a lot more valuable. I hope the government raises the rental price significantly when the lease comes up for renewal. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/597 "2021-08-28T20:58:35Z")
This is sweet. 🙂 > **[The Sanctioning of Trump’s Lawyers Is Exactly What Is Supposed to Happen](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/trumps-lawyers-kraken/619915/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BTheAtlantic%2B%28The%2BAtlantic%2B-%2BMaster%2BFeed%29)** > > Those who represented the president in his frivolous election lawsuits should have known better. > The lawyers who battled for President Donald Trump in the days after the 2020 election are now fighting to salvage their professional careers—a fight they pretty much invited by openly flouting many of the core ethical precepts to which licensed attorneys are bound. Last November, [we warned these lawyers that this could happen](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trumps-lawyers-election/617064/). Today, they face punishing financial and professional consequences, including the potential loss of their license to practice law. This is exactly what should happen. > > On Wednesday, in a [110-page opinion](https://www.michigan.gov/documents/ag/172_opinion__order_King_733786_7.pdf) that will likely serve as required reading in future law-school ethics classes, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker delivered her comprehensive sanctions ruling against Sidney Powell and her merry band of [“Kraken”](https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-sanctions-kraken-lawyer-sidney-powell-recommends-disbarment-this-case-was-never-about-fraud) lawyers. The ruling addressed in clear terms the difference between “cable-news lawyering” and the actual practice of law. “While there are many arenas—including print, television, and social media—where protestations, conjecture, and speculation may be advanced,” Parker wrote, “such expressions are neither permitted nor welcomed in a court of law.” Her ruling outlined how Powell’s team had relied upon affidavits riddled with baseless speculation and accusations contradicted by existing public evidence to advance their claims seeking extraordinary relief that would have effectively nullified the votes of millions of Americans in Michigan. As Parker wrote, “this case was never about fraud—it was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.” > … > > Those lawyers now must pay significant legal bills as a form of restitution, complete legal-education retraining, and, perhaps most important, face potential disbarment by the states in which they are licensed to practice. > > That’s the cost of masquerading conspiracy theories as serious legal claims, and that is as it should be. > … ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/598 "2021-08-28T21:39:05Z")
All riiiiiight! That’s the stuff I like! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/599 "2021-08-28T23:12:42Z")
Fucking YAY. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/600 "2021-08-29T12:43:37Z")
How may people in Trumps orbit are either in prison or are in serious, serious trouble? About 15. I guess we should count the traitors, seditionists and insurrectionists too. So over 500. Everything he touches turns to shit. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/601 "2021-08-29T13:55:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Everson had headed to the hotel Thursday night after seeing that its room prices had soared. The “cheapest” room was suddenly listed at $2,400 a night, an astonishing jump from $400 just weeks before, he noted. This rate increase is an illegal campaign contribution by “interested” parties. I’ve written/emailed my congress critters for a reaction. Note that the DumpsterFire organization does not own the the building; it’s leased, but is trying to sell the lease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746.md?page=31)