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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 5, 2024 19:34:47 GMT -5
Trump: You have the J6 hostages. Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 5, 2024 22:50:35 GMT -5
Sounds legit, no?
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 6, 2024 0:07:40 GMT -5
Perfectly normal thing to post about oneself.
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 8, 2024 2:22:48 GMT -5
So, like I said, here's conformation from the big guy himself that if the court rules for him, Biden can then do whatever it takes to stay in office.
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Post by cadman on Jan 8, 2024 8:30:38 GMT -5
When did Biden ask for immunity?
When you post these Trump "Truths", I feel like reality has left the building sometimes or I missed part of the story. Does he ever read what he posts?
I keep hoping he gets more and more outrageous before the big primaries in March and his supporters finally wake up and figure out he nuttier than a fruitcake. We need someone besides Trump of Biden as the choices.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Jan 8, 2024 8:49:16 GMT -5
When did Biden ask for immunity? When you post these Trump "Truths", I feel like reality has left the building sometimes or I missed part of the story. Does he ever read what he posts? I keep hoping he gets more and more outrageous before the big primaries in March and his supporters finally wake up and figure out he nuttier than a fruitcake. We need someone besides Trump of Biden as the choices. If they haven't at this point they never will. Kind like the Qult.
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Post by old member on Jan 8, 2024 9:01:06 GMT -5
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Post by luapnor on Jan 8, 2024 13:51:17 GMT -5
This thread has been useful for filtering out the pretenders
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 8, 2024 14:10:07 GMT -5
When did Biden ask for immunity? When you post these Trump "Truths", I feel like reality has left the building sometimes or I missed part of the story. Does he ever read what he posts? I keep hoping he gets more and more outrageous before the big primaries in March and his supporters finally wake up and figure out he nuttier than a fruitcake. We need someone besides Trump of Biden as the choices. Yet the "media" keeps ignoring dozens of these sorts of statements from a leading presidential candidate like they're not there for all to read. If Biden posted even one of these, their collective heads would explode and Fox New would never stop talking about it.
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 8, 2024 14:30:56 GMT -5
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Post by nikonoclast on Jan 8, 2024 16:36:27 GMT -5
"Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, a writer from England wrote this, sentiments shared by people around the world.
“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 clumps of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God, what have I created?’
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 8, 2024 18:01:53 GMT -5
Community notes can be a bear.
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Post by luapnor on Jan 8, 2024 18:54:28 GMT -5
Since 1776, we havent given a shit what Britain thinks. But we can see that maybe they suffer from TDS too, like you.
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Post by biminitwisted on Jan 9, 2024 15:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by nikonoclast on Jan 9, 2024 15:30:15 GMT -5
After today's hearing, it's possible that neither side will be happy.
The "friend" brief that related to the 14th amendment wasn't mentioned.
The three judge panel were more concerned with the "immunity" claim made by Trump.
To describe the Court as "skeptical" would be an understatement.
The second "friend" brief , questioning "standing", received considerable attention.
The special counsel's office declined to make this argument ( for some tactical reason ).
But, that doesn't mean that the panel can't use the controlling "Asphalt" case of its' own volition.
They might very well send the case back to Judge Chutkin and say, in effect, "play on".
That will put the ball squarely in the Supreme Courts' court ( so to speak ).
Will they find some tortured logic to turn Scalia's ruling in Trump's favor?
Will they sit on a decision? If so, the trial goes on as scheduled.
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