JohnT
December 21, 2022, 10:29pm
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JohnT
December 30, 2022, 10:46am
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Seriously, this is a pathetic campaign. Olivia Nuzzi writes about this in The New Yorker:
Nunberg was not in the ballroom. He had been kicked out of Trumpworld early, fired over old social-media posts in which he used racist slurs. He had taken a much different path after the events of 2016. Amid the investigations, he began to appear often on cable news to needle Trump. He was still drinking then, and he went on an infamous bender during which he gave chaotic interviews to CNN and New York. Then he got sober. He left New York. He now has a girlfriend. So the morning after the announcement, when I reached him by phone, he drew in a sharp breath through his teeth. He hates Trump. In his view, Trump had fired and rehired and fired and betrayed and maligned him. In theory, as the kind of still-a-little-Trumpian character who loves revenge, he should take only pleasure in observing his old boss’s accumulating failures. But this? It was almost too pathetic. “It was sad to watch,” Nunberg said. “It was like watching Elvis at the end.” On second thought, it was worse than that: “It was like watching Elvis at the end if he was completely relegated to just piano bars.” He laughed a sad laugh. “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”
“It’s not there. In this business, you can have it and have it so hot and it can go overnight and it’s gone and you can’t get it back. I think we’re just seeing it’s gone. The magic is gone,” an adviser said. “When Seb Gorka and Raheem Kassam and Kash Patel and Devin Nunes are your stars, that’s the D-list. It was D-list MAGA. When Brick Man — that freak, Brick Man — is in the VIP seating, we’ve got a problem.” Brick Man is a man who wears a suit made of fabric with — you guessed it — a brick pattern. The bricks symbolize the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He wandered around the ballroom offering interviews to reporters. I have a high tolerance for this kind of shit, obviously, and I could not. “If you’re looking for an indication of how bad things are going,” the adviser added, “it’s Brick Man not just being there but being in the VIP section. Don Jr.’s not there!”
Inside his sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)
Skypist
December 30, 2022, 3:44pm
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Trump called her unattractive after she wrote that. As if all women’s only goal in life is to be attractive in Trump’s eyes, and they would be devastated if told they are not.
That was an excellent article. Thank you!
JohnT
December 30, 2022, 5:19pm
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The Trump trading card thread has 200 more posts than this one. The Mike Pence thread has about 100 fewer posts than this one.
Sad! Low energy!
LSLGuy
December 30, 2022, 7:40pm
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Why do I keep imagining the final scenes of Citizen Kane, where the pitiful angry evil old man with everything but friends is dying while repeating “Rosebud”?
I wonder what Trump’s dying repeated word would be? Probably something about enemas with Russian hookers. Or more likely: “Meee!”
“Cheaters…cheeeeeaters!”
Or maybe “Hamberdersssss”
enipla
December 31, 2022, 1:11pm
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Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger!
LSLGuy
December 31, 2022, 9:06pm
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You folks are on a roll! I hate to break it up, but …
This latest bit of news warms my heart:
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. If he manages to cripple the Rs instead of the USA that would be such a treat. Suicide meet pact.
LSLGuy
December 31, 2022, 9:51pm
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It will get real interesting if he does manage to become a real 3rd party candidate. That will produce a lot of pressure to suspend any court process until after the election almost 2 full years from now.
OTOH, if he does become a 3rd party candidate we may finally have found something the D & R hierarchies agree on. The sooner Trump’s in deeper trouble, the better. When you do something so both major parties have it in for you, … well … in the military we called moves like that “a career-limiting decision”.
JohnT
December 31, 2022, 10:10pm
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He guarantees the Libertarian party a record # of votes (for them). They may bite. And since they have 50-state ballot access already, no pesky petitions have to be made.
LSLGuy
January 1, 2023, 1:27am
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You tell the MAGAts they get not only a great America but legal weed if they vote for Trump? In all 50 states?
They’ll eat that shit up like BBQ ribs at a country fair.
Kolak_of_Twilo:
there is no line .
They’d be gone the second he stops being a bigot.