All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

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Trumpsters now split into tiny forums:
Gab.com is under maintenance
https://parler.com/auth/access is working but the app on phones is not

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Parler goes offline Sunday if they cant find another host server.

[Tero]

Arnold speaks:
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/ ... 4439014402

[macdoc]

good speech

And a few that won't be going back to the American cesspool.

They’re ‘dreamers’ who left Trump’s America for life in Canada. And they say even Joe Biden won’t lure them back
Nicholas Keung
By Nicholas KeungImmigration Reporter
Sun., Jan. 10, 2021timer13 min. read

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/202 ... -back.html

[L'Emmerdeur]

Did Donald Trump Fart While Attempting To Commit Election Fraud?


There is nothing especially difficult to understand about the phone call that President Donald Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger this weekend, which is not the same thing as saying that any of it is exactly clear. The simple stuff is simple in the way that all the most purely Trump behavior is, and characteristically exactly the oafish power play it appears to be. Trump just doesn’t believe that he lost Georgia to Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, and in the absence of any evidence to that effect beyond his own very powerful sense that this isn’t something Trump would do, he reached for one of the most powerful tools available to any master dealsmith, which was to demand that someone he understood to be a subordinate just fucking fix it for him. In the recording of that hour-long phone call that the Washington Post released over the weekend, Trump does this sometimes in tones of peevish impatience and at other times in an oily simper, but mostly he just does it over and over again, even after it has become clear even to him that it is not working. The cumulative effect is basically that of watching a fat old housecat try to solve a Rubik’s Cube.

This is more or less how Trump has handled every challenge he has ever faced, and there is amid the last thrashing, whinging, sopping-wet days of his presidency also some evidently earnest surprise at how badly that is all working this time. None of what’s happening here is remotely good, all of it is ominous in ways so overt that they qualify more as “pending” than “looming,” but also there is a certain bleak amusement in watching this rancid adult Fauntleroy repeatedly and abjectly fail to comprehend the idea of consequences.

The parts of the call that are hard to understand, by contrast, are hard to understand by design. The various theories and gambits and hybrid rationalizations that Trump has deployed since losing the election are vague by necessity, because there’s nothing more concrete there to find; the point has always been to keep softer-brained and less-discerning types around through the next commercial break, and in a sufficiently blind and grift-amenable frenzy. In another delightful comic twist that is easier to appreciate in the abstract than from one uneasy moment to the next, Trump is both the most important character in this busy, busy trashscape and one of its most avid consumers. This means that some things tend to get lost in translation, as Trump now communicates almost entirely in its clammy patois of slang and lore and mini-stroke illogic. Trump has never quite seemed clear on what he’s complaining about beyond how unfair it was to him, but also he understands it perfectly. The soap opera plot he has memorized runs in perfect parallel to observable reality, and he has conflated and confused them utterly.

And so, on his call with Raffensperger and his counsel Ryan Germany, Trump is both making a very clear demand and effectively unable even to make the allegations he wants to make, or tell the sprawling story he quite clearly believes to be true as anything more legible than a series of frantic and doddering pivots from one isolated and unsupported outrage to the next. This doesn’t stop him. Trump says various large numbers in impatient ways, and asks odd heated questions about things that only people living in Trump’s own fervid counter-reality could even understand, and then gets frustrated when confronted with facts that rebut his powerful feelings, or with people who can’t or won’t do whatever he wants whenever he tells them to, or with his ongoing inability to turn rumors he’d heard—seen online or on his TV stories, overheard in a buffet line, had whispered into his big pink ear by Corey Pavin or whatever—into actionable legal remedies. This is how he has lived, and how he has ruled, and it has left the government resembling just the sort of gilded, involuted, manifestly unworkable and multiply overleveraged luxury wreck that Trump has spent his life depositing across the globe.

Also and maybe more to the point, right around the 51:40 mark in that phone call, Trump farts. It sounds like someone blowing into a French horn full of chowder. Then there’s another little one after that.

full article (audio included):
https://defector.com/did-donald-trump-f ... ion-fraud/

That was splendid, thank you. Entertaining analysis worthy of the time, then an excellent finish with (in my opinion) some superb comic writing.

That comment made me read the article after all, and I must say it is a bottom (teehee) of the barrel opinion piece. It does not just ignore well established facts the way our member from Yellowknife habitually does. It actually contradicts them like the pundits at Parler and similar haunts of Trump's benighted supporters do. You know exactly what I'm talking about, don't you? You must. It sticks out in exactly the same way Trump's penile erection does not. It is this: Despite the lack of opposable thumbs all cats can easily solve Rubik's Cubes. Even fat old housecats. They just don't bother because they prefer to leave menial tasks to their servants - us humans. And what can be a more menial, not to say demeaning activity than rotating tiny cubes?

The felines' ability is a scientifically proven fact. Countless studies confirming it have been published in all the most prestigious, trustworthy, peer reviewed journals like Catacomb and Comb a cat, including the most respected of all, Catastrophe. The only dissenting study, published in Catholic, was retracted when it was discovered that its author, Andrew Dogsfield fabricated the results of his study in the hope that people got rid of their cats and bought the dogs he sold out of the back of his white van instead. So, yeah, reading the article was a waste of time.

Thank you for the well-deserved admonishment.

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Would Trump resign in exchange for an immediate pardon by Pence of all crimes committed while president? It would leave his before presidency crimes to be examined.

[Joe]

Would Pence do it? After all, Trump threw him under the bus.

[Brian Peacock]

Pence must be pretty pissed about that. I wonder if there's been words.

[Brian Peacock]

You're going to need a new avatar next week Joe.

[JimC]

Being a good Christian, surely Pence will forgive Trump, and turn the other cheek...

[Cunt]

What Was Placed in Mike Pence’s Hand Just After He Certified The Election?

That's the latest wondering from the righties. Looks like a candy-cane flavoured condom to me, but I don't know Pence, or politics that well. Could be a fake video.

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[NineBerry]

What Was Placed in Mike Pence’s Hand Just After He Certified The Election?

That's the latest wondering from the righties. Looks like a candy-cane flavoured condom to me, but I don't know Pence, or politics that well. Could be a fake video.

It's a coin. I suppose it's this one:

[Brian Peacock]

What Was Placed in Mike Pence’s Hand Just After He Certified The Election?

That's the latest wondering from the righties. Looks like a candy-cane flavoured condom to me, but I don't know Pence, or politics that well. Could be a fake video.

The idea is the epitome of JAQing off.

Seems to me that some people are starting to see re-enforcing confirmation in ever finer detail - but they haven't noticed what tie he was wearing that day have they?

How Mike Pence's Tie Predicted He Would Always Betray His Country And Certify The Election

Those boys should stick at it - I'm pretty sure the more they look the more they'll find.

[Cunt]

It'll be like the 'special envelopes' at that funeral. Very suspicious, those getting it looked affected. No one knows what it was.

Except the recipients.

So the legend will grow, and the whispers will get more and more outrageous.