the trump lawyer Eastman memo

It’s hearting to see that Trump has slipped into such irrelevance that this thread is limited to copying the odd tweet or internet link without any kind of context or further comment. Perhaps I’ll revisit it when some of his acolytes are banged up or bankrupted after their election fraud cases.

Trumpists having a bad week.

The Arizona “audit” coming out tomorrow didn’t just confirm Biden won. Biden actually gained votes in their recount, while Trump lost hundreds, according to a draft report. https://t.co/vSflCtllni pic.twitter.com/9JuLNtYbeW

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 24, 2021

This would be major: The White House is leaning toward dispensing with precedent and giving information to Congress about Trump's actions Jan. 6, even if Trump tries to invoke executive privilege to shield the document.https://t.co/B66bM3wwz1

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 24, 2021

It doesnt really matter what the cyber ninjas provide as a count. If it isnt in their favour then thats a clear indication of just how cunning the cheating was.

Here's a response I got tonite: pic.twitter.com/6uuaveAjiH

— Lucie Catnip (@LucieCatnip) September 24, 2021

Trashelle Odom? Who the **** would name their kid Trashelle?

Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances

That’s terrible, but if you think Trump or his supporters are going to be worried about the association with this cretin, you’re living in an alternate, better, reality. They didn’t care when he “grab(bed) ’em by the pussy”, they’re not gonna care when an associate does a milder form of sexual harassment (that he will no doubt just deny).

thats a clear indication of just how cunning the cheating was.

The cunning doesnt stop there – Brietbart is telling its readers that Democrats tricked them into refusing to get vaccinated by encouraging them to get vaccinated, because you see democrats know that republicans don’t trust them so they know they’ll do the opposite of what they ask them too – Republicans should now own-the-libs but getting the vaccine that they’ve been encouraged to get because thats clearly what they don’t want them to do – Double bluff, or maybe treble. I’ve lost count.

WTF?

https://twitter.com/JamesHuntingto7/status/1445211607353774086

Jesus Christ.

Things are so bad now you have to check to make sure it’s fake.

Things are so bad now you have to check to make sure it’s fake.

Sorry about that, I checked to see if her anti-covid vax stuff was real and then my mind exploded when I saw that leggings thing.

Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and diphtheria are NOT THE SAME AS THE COVID Vax! Stop using them as examples. They are time tested and studied. The COVID vax is not! That’s just a fact!!

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) September 29, 2021

Can’t work out if that’s cameltoe or trump’s saggy neck skin.

Can’t work out if that’s cameltoe or trump’s saggy neck skin.

🤢

Can’t work out if that’s cameltoe or trump’s saggy neck skin.

Can’t work out if that’s cameltoe or trump’s saggy neck skin.

Oof.

Hoof!

Don’t worry,it’s a perfectly natural feature

^^ may contain images of an idiot

Not a Redneck, a C***neck

It seems obvious that Trump would have Camel Toe on his head really, what with being a ****

Can’t work out if that’s cameltoe or trump’s saggy neck skin.

Throatum

I never really took the golden shower story seriously. Until now.

At NRSC retreat, Trump continued false claims of fraud, urged GOP to stick together and relitigated much. “I'm not into golden showers," he told the crowd. "You know the great thing, our great first lady–'That one,' she said, 'I don't believe that one.'”
https://t.co/NEpvbLmSN4

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 14, 2021

@thols2 Do you need Trump in your life? Is there a void in your soul that can only be sated once filled with vitriol and outraged spittle flecks?

Can’t we just ignore him? Please?

Can’t we just ignore him? Please?

You posted in a thread titled “Donald Trump!” to wonder if we can just ignore him? It’s certainly possible, all you have to do is ignore this thread and you won’t be bothered by it.

Keep up the good work thols2!

Stumbled across this on Quora. Written by a UK based copywriter (I think). Regardless, most eloquently put:

“A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; He is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’

If being a **** was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

Yeah remember seeing that a few years ago when it came out. It’s still a pretty accurate description of the man

Good to see Don staying classy.

Am going to so miss reporting from the US. In the eulogies paid following death of #ColinPowell one ex-president remained silent. It was worth waiting for from #DonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/3D4VPdsaz3

— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) October 19, 2021

you won’t be bothered by it.

If I was prone to letting things like that get under my skin, I might be irked by the fact that his name gets bumped to the top of the forum, furthering his visibility on here. The guy is like a turd that stubbornly keeps floating to the surface of our consciousness. It’s accepted that we shouldn’t give trolls the exposure they crave, our fascination with the grotesque man, ironically, keeps his ideology alive and well.

That Colin Powell quote is staggering, though. So, uh, thanks for sharing that one.

If I was prone to letting things like that get under my skin, I might be irked by the fact that his name gets bumped to the top of the forum, furthering his visibility on here. The guy is like a turd that stubbornly keeps floating to the surface of our consciousness.

Get used to it – its what the whole of the rest of your life is going to be like. Its going to take decades to rake through the wreckage of his presidency. He’ll be dead and gone of course.

the publicity Trump gets from here is totally insignificant and I for one enjoy seeing his idiocy and watching him descend further into paranoia and delusion. so for me keep on posting stuff about him that I might miss elsewhere

Looks like Bannon is going to be held in contempt for not testifying to congress and Trumps attempts to claim privilege are worthless. In fact worse that worthless as he had to say what documents he wants exempted giving congress a target to go for

Its fun watching the orange shitgibbon unravel

If I was prone to letting things like that get under my skin, I might be irked by the fact that his name gets bumped to the top of the forum, furthering his visibility on here.

That’s exactly where I am.

When this thread started I thought “Clinton’s gonna beat him, this thread will be gone and I’ll never hear the name Trump again.”

Then he won and as the shock subsided I realized the implications for this thread. 😱😭

Then Biden beat him and I really thought this thread would sink off the page. But no….

Trump is like the Daily Mail or Shock Jocks. They literally make all their clicks and profile from people who have a love hate thing going on. I bet the Germans have a word for it.

In contrast there is no Obama thread constantly being bumped and no Biden thread being bumped and he’s the bloody current President.

But I’ve been resigned to the presence of this thread for years and I’ve been pretty good at ignoring it.

the publicity Trump gets from here is totally insignificant

True, but I see the name Trump here several times a day and maybe once a week on the news. So for me if this thread dropped off the page it would reduce my personal sightings of the name Trump by 95pc.

So for me if this thread dropped off the page it would reduce my personal sightings of the name Trump by 95pc.

Sadly though he is still having a massive influence on the US political scene, with the Republican party now seemingly turned into a cult, so its quite hard to ignore him aside from hoping that he will get hammered legally and so disappear back into irrelevance and allow the republicans to get back to being a semi sensible party.

allow the republicans to get back to being a semi sensible party.

That ship sailed years before Trump took the helm. The GOP has been chipped away at by the likes of Gingrich, McConnell and the Tea Party types for years, gerrymandering elections and trashing bipartisan politics. The heady brew of America First racism/evangelical christianity has been ripening since the 80s, and Trump is merely a figurehead for the hate to coalesce around.

Yeah I can’t ever see the republicans drifting back to the centre, without some sort of big crisis, the 2 party system means that the tea party/trump wing won’t split off

The sad thing is that every shift towards the extreme either disenfranchises millions, or radicalises them.

I use this thread for updates and a good laugh! It’s filtered out all of the crap from the less pleasant corners of the Internet and the fewer sites I click on, the less validity those sites get.

Every time I see it bumped back up to the top, there’s always the faint hope that it will be because someone is reporting the orange bawbag has turned his toes up. Or Don Jr has been caught in a crack den somewhere with some ‘specialist’ sex workers.

That ship sailed years before Trump took the helm.

I wasnt sure what to write there but it is relative. Prior to him as much as I disagree with McConnell and co at least they were operating to a strategy but then first the tea party and now trump has completely derailed it beyond, I think, pretty much any hope of survival.

they were operating to a strategy

That strategy was to block, by whatever means necessary, any form of effective government during the tenure of a Democrat president. It certainly appeared passive compared to the hatefest we’ve got going on now, but equally destructive in the long run.

The US political system relies on bipartisanship to work. It is too easy to deadlock, stall and obstruct.

Probably a key factor was the newfound ability to weaponise cable news and social media. Right Wing/Christian radio had been doing a sterling job, but Fox and latterly Facebook turbo-charged that.

I’m sure large chunks of the party are now secretly sweating over the emergence of QAnon, but are doubling down because they know no other way to behave.