Ex President* Trump

[Vrede too]

By electing Joe Biden, America seems to have dodge a bullet.

Now, I admit Joe has his issues, but they are nowhere near as extreme as TFG's.

Nonsensical straw man, and you just gave billy.pilgrim crap for discussing Joe's issues:
viewtopic.php?t=21&p=160455#p160455

Make up your mind.

[GoCubsGo]

Good grift.

Administrative errors

Trump Held a Contest for Small-Dollar Donors to Have Dinner With Him. No One Won

[Vrede too]

Good grift.

Administrative errors

Trump Held a Contest for Small-Dollar Donors to Have Dinner With Him. No One Won

I'm sure that it's an innocent opps, just like the other "at least 15 online contests for a chance to win a meal with him — but no one appeared to have actually done so."

Con fight!:

GOP congressman calls Trump 'a would-be tyrant'

Republican Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.) slammed former President Trump in a statement on Saturday following the former president's rally in South Carolina, calling him "a would-be tyrant."

At the rally, Trump said Rice is a "disaster" and "total fool" and criticized the congressman for voting to impeach him following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Rice was one of 10 GOP House members to vote for impeachment at the time.

Rice's primary opponent, South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry (R), who was endorsed by Trump last month, also spoke at the event.

In a statement following the rally, Rice hit back at Trump, saying the former president was in South Carolina "because, like no one else I've ever met, he is consumed by spite," according to local CBS affiliate WBTW.

"I took one vote he didn't like and now he's chosen to support a yes man candidate who has and will bow to anything he says, no matter what," Rice said.

Further criticizing Fry, Rice also reiterated his opposition to the Jan. 6 attack and to Trump.

"If you want a Congressman who supports political violence in Ukraine or in the United States Capitol, who supports party over country, who supports a would-be tyrant over the Constitution, and who makes decisions based solely on re-election, then Russell Fry is your candidate," Rice said in his statement....

Rice reps South Carolina's 7th congressional district - NE SC, not Whack9's.

More of what Whack9 (probably ) missed:

Trump Says He ‘May Have To’ Run in 2024 During Rambling, Lie-Filled South Carolina Rally Speech

[billy.pilgrim]

This is a great description of the man and how he would rule, not govern but rule. It's from 2017, and here we are five years later with Trump still claiming to be president, and worse, much worse, maybe 50 million people agreeing with him.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... p-bullshit

"The Bullshitter-in-Chief

Donald Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true, often shamelessly so, and it’s tempting to call him a liar.

But that’s not quite right. As the Princeton University philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt put it in a famous essay, to lie presumes a kind of awareness of and interest in the truth — and the goal is to convince the audience that the false thing you are saying is in fact true. Trump, more often than not, isn’t interested in convincing anyone of anything. He’s a bullshitter who simply doesn’t care.

...When Trump says something like he’s just learned that Barack Obama ordered his phones wiretapped, he’s not really trying to persuade people that this is true. It’s a test to see who around him will debase themselves to repeat it blindly. There’s no greater demonstration of devotion.

...He’s a man who doesn’t care much about the truth. He’s a man who cares deeply about loyalty. The two qualities merge in the way he wields bullshit. His flagrant lies serve as a loyalty test.

Harry Frankfurt’s theory of bullshit

As Frankfurt put it in his groundbreaking essay “On Bullshit,” “one of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”

Frankfurt attempts to give the term definition that distinguishes the bullshitter from the liar, with the most salient distinction being that the liar is genuinely trying to trick you.

“The bullshitter,” by contrast, “may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be.”

The liar wants to be seen as the one telling the truth. The bullshitter just doesn’t care. That’s Trump. During the course of the 2016 campaign, he said over and over again that America is “the highest-taxed nation in the world,” which isn’t even remotely close to being true. But he kept saying it, despite having been called out repeatedly, and then he said it again in a recent interview with the Economist.

Trump says, over and over again, that he won one of the greatest Electoral College landslides in history. It’s not true, it’s obviously not true to anyone who bothers to look it up or remembers any past presidential elections, and it’s not even remotely clear why it’s important. But Trump keeps on saying it.

For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

This is a perfect portrait of a typical Trump statement. His assertions about policy matters are often so garbled as to make it nearly impossible to work out what he’s even trying to say in order to evaluate its truth or falsity.

The reason is that Trump is often completely indifferent to accuracy. His administration, like all administrations, sometimes tries to sell the public on something or other using tactics that are at times deceptive. But where he breaks from the mold is in the sheer quantity of things he seems to say for no reason at all, utterly outside the context of a planned sales pitch.

The annals of Trumpdown are simply littered with this kind of casual, fundamentally pointless falsehood:

• He told the Economist that he invented the phrase “prime the pump.”

• He says China stopped manipulating its currency only after he won the election.

• He says “millions” of illegal voters cost him the popular vote.

• He claims to have had an incredibly productive first 100 days in office.

• He says labor force dropouts are counted as employed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• He says Germany and other NATO members owe money to the United States.

None of this is useful in moving the ball forward on any kind of policy goal. And indeed, Republicans on Capitol Hill and even in the executive branch typically groan about these outbursts of Trumpian bullshit that throw their work into chaos and tend to at least temporarily derail the GOP’s substantive goals. But Trump not only keeps bullshitting, he tends to demand that his team offer a zealous defense of whatever bullshit he happens to spout on any given day — putting staffers and legislative allies in the untenable position of defending the indefensible.

The function of bullshit in the Trump regime

Trump launched his term in office by dispatching White House press secretary Sean Spicer to deliver an inaugural press briefing dedicated to disputing clear photographic evidence about crowd size.

t seemed insane, and one popular interpretation was that Trump had, in fact, lost his marbles and simply couldn’t stand the blow to his ego implied by mocking media coverage. But George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen argues that this kind of thing can serve a strategic role.

The key issues are trust and loyalty. By asking subordinates to echo his bullshit, Trump accomplishes two goals:

• He tests the loyalty of his subordinates. In Cowen’s words, “if you want to ascertain if someone is truly loyal to you, ask them to do something outrageous or stupid.”

• The other is that it turns his aides into members of a distinct tribe. “By requiring subordinates to speak untruths, a leader can undercut their independent standing, including their standing with the public, with the media and with other members of the administration."

[GoCubsGo]

Perfect.

[Ulysses]

Sorry you lost, Sluggo.

[Vrede too]

Sorry you lost, (GoCubsGo).

viewtopic.php?p=161551#p161551

... That tactic has been stupid every time you've tried it. billy.pilgrim and I are far to the left of you, and GoCubsGo, neoplacebo and O Really are at least as liberal as you are. Plus, you are the only proven racist, antisemite, sexist, and homophobe
(viewtopic.php?p=146658#p146658, viewtopic.php?p=160557#p160557) here.

[GoCubsGo]

This may be the funniest and stupidest thing he's ever done.

[Vrede too]

This may be the funniest and stupidest thing he's ever done.

More info:

Trump Sues Hillary Clinton, Others Over Russia Collusion 'Conspiracy'
Trump also named the Democratic National Committee and former FBI Director James Comey, among other prominent figures.

However:

Senate’s Bipartisan Russia Report Refutes Trump’s Repeated ‘No Collusion’ Lie
Intelligence committee finds "grave counterintelligence threat" but Trump’s 2020 campaign continues to claim "no collusion" and to call the investigations "a hoax."

Opps.

Replies to your tweet:

Just wait until you learn what the word “Discovery” means.

Is this a joke?

Only the Donald Trump part.

She’s never going to sleep with you bro.

Tell me you’re about to be indicted for rico without telling me you’re about to be indicted for rico.

More shit for the poorly educated to pay for

[GoCubsGo]

I didn't even bother with the tweets, so much low hanging fruit.

My mind first went to the discovery thing. Donald, Ivanka, Junior, Jared.....endless amounts of fun.


Oh, and let's not forget the crackerjack lawyer who filed the suit, Alinna Habba.

The One Trump Lawyer the Rest of Trump’s Legal Team Loathes

That's a damning article.

[Vrede too]

... Oh, and let's not forget the crackerjack lawyer who filed the suit, Alinna Habba.

The One Trump Lawyer the Rest of Trump’s Legal Team Loathes

That's a damning article.

I like her.

... Some of the Trump lawyers think her work is so bad—so self-interested, pointlessly aggressive, and sloppy—that they think Habba’s mere presence on the team increases the likelihood of Trump and his family facing court losses and legal peril....

But the 2010 graduate of Widener School of Law—ranked in the bottom 25 percent of law schools, according to U.S. News and World Report ...

[neoplacebo]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

[GoCubsGo]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

Talk to Useless, he's got that forgetting thing down to a convenient science.

[neoplacebo]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

Talk to Useless, he's got that forgetting thing down to a convenient science.

Ignored






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[GoCubsGo]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

Talk to Useless, he's got that forgetting thing down to a convenient science.

Ignored

That was fucking funny!

[Ulysses]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

Talk to Useless, he's got that forgetting thing down to a convenient science.

Ignored

Nice to see you ignoring Sluggo.

[neoplacebo]

I added a tally hole to my "ignored" post. That was my first one.

[Vrede too]

Shit, that's the same woman whose name I forgot once before. I think I'm about to forget it again.

Talk to Useless, he's got that forgetting thing down to a convenient science.

Ignored

Nice to see you ignoring (GoCubsGo).

Whooosh.

[Ulysses]

I added a tally hole to my "ignored" post. That was my first one.

What on earth is a "tally hole"?

[Vrede too]

I added a tally hole to my "ignored" post. That was my first one.

What on earth is a "tally hole"?

It's the count of how many times you hilariously posted "Glory Hole" without knowing what one is.

(signature: obsessed butthurt )

Awww. , Useless. So much for "Ignored". You fail again. Plus, Useless, you've been busted too many times for anyone to believe you're not reading my posts, anyhow. It's just your excuse for cowering. Awww.