Thread: Today in Trump

"Defiant Trump seeks to gain advantage by using mugshot in fundraising push"


Headline from The Guardian.

Ever the snake oil salesman... ever the Pied Piper. Trump once infamously said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, and nothing would happen. It's the only truth he's ever uttered in more than six years.

He knows his Minions will be standing in line, wallets in hand.

Here's the article link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...27162fff&ei=18



It used to be a politician, or worse... a former President... would hide in shame from being accurately accused of breaking the law.

But these are strange times indeed.

Trump's mugshot is awful. You would have thought he would have chosen a better one when he was looking in the mirror practicing his pose.

Originally Posted by Master

Trump's mugshot is awful. You would have thought he would have chosen a better one when he was looking in the mirror practicing his pose.

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Trump wins in 2024, not even close.

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

Trump wins in 2024, not even close.

Biden beat him once he can beat him again. No moderate or floating voter will dare support a divisive Trump.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

Trump wins in 2024, not even close.

Biden beat him once he can beat him again. No moderate or floating voter will dare support a divisive Trump.

American elections tend to come down to how the economy performed, particularly in the last six months before the election. It's not impossible there's a recession in America starting anytime over the next year. The Fed are cranking interest rates with the express purpose of slowing the economy to flatten inflation and they may easily have already put them up enough to tip the economy into recession at some point.

Add on the fact that there's been a burst of inflation for the first time in forty years. A lot of voters have never experienced that and voters have zero understanding of economics so they're going to blame the person currently in office. Trying to explain to them it's been caused entirely* by disruptions to the supply of goods and services due to the pandemic, good luck with that. Trump will simply say if I get reelected you'll go back to zero inflation like it was when I was prez before and a lot of people will believe it.

Then add on interest rates the highest they've been this century and that feeding into peoples' mortgage and other monthly payments. Even though inflation is now under three percent monthly payments are up in a big way. Look what that's doing to the popularity of the conservative government in Britain. Trump can tell people he'll put interest rates to zero and people will believe him. Biden will be stuck trying to explain monetary policy and open market operations to the American electorate. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Forget the Republican party actually holding Trump to account. They wouldn't impeach him after he tried to overthrow the government saying it should be left to the courts. Now they're saying he shouldn't be tried in court over it. They won't respect any future guilty verdicts as just and they won't accept the results of any future elections they don't win. Trump could easily win again and if he doesn't he's radicalised the party to the extent that it's now an ongoing threat to democracy and it's only a matter of time until they manage to get some future fascist cult leader elected president.


*You would think at least some of the inflation would have come from increased government spending and some must have done at some point but a lot of countries who didn't spend a coin on any bailouts for individuals or businesses like Mexico had higher inflation than America. The numbers will eventually show government spending played some part in American inflation but who was president when that spending happened? Mostly it was Trump. The one big bailout bill passed under Biden was negotiated under Trump and Trump was pushing for even bigger cheques to be mailed out.

Originally Posted by Master

Trump's mugshot is awful. You would have thought he would have chosen a better one when he was looking in the mirror practicing his pose.

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Six feet three and two hundred and fifteen pounds eh?




https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/s...59994330525830

Just in case anyone could use a refresher, here are the most recent six "scandals" that have preoccupied Republicans during the last two Democratic administrations:

• Benghazi
• IRS tea party targeting
• Hillary's email
• Durham investigation
• Afghanistan withdrawal
• Hunter Biden

And here's how they turned out:



https://jabberwocking.com/republican...ief-refresher/





There was a lot of blather at the Republican debate last night about the need to supercharge our energy production, all of it centered on fossil fuels. (For some reason Republicans have no apparent interest in supercharging any other type of energy production.) This makes me think that a lot of people don't realize just how much US oil and gas production has skyrocketed over the past 20 years. It's more than doubled:


Here is annual growth in crude oil production by president:

• Bush: -1.4% per year
• Obama: +9.1% per year
• Trump: +6.2% per year
• Biden (so far): +5.9% per year
  
  https://jabberwocking.com/us-fossil-...past-20-years/
  
  
  It's now at a record level by the way.

Trump wins in a Landslide.

https://youtube.com/shorts/brpMIUA86...NeLxlJQUy1fRwT

https://youtube.com/shorts/FyMt0gdOR...nuqdq05PYhGPIu

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66665682

Mitch isn't looking well at all these days, actually feel bad for him.

Originally Posted by palmerq

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66665682

Mitch isn't looking well at all these days, actually feel bad for him.

Saw that, and that is TWICE he did that in the past 3 weeks. WTF..... Fucking vile turtle needs to ADMIT he's fucked up but the turtle's office refuses comment for weeks. What a fucking joke

Vivek layin it down yo

https://youtube.com/shorts/SQf2Z0G2c...V0yl0GIz8kTAvO

@Master @palmerq @billpaxtom @killer_sheep

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