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  1. 3 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    He could write Shakespearean works... he still sucks.  

    Kevin Hart No GIF by Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud

    I agree, but that is a great quote that will play extremely well with a lot of people.  It frames this as David vs Goliath and David is so cool he's bored.  That's true whether Trump legitimately said it or not.  It's Ric Flair mic skills level of good.

    Of course, there are plenty of filmed examples of Ric Flair demonstrating his mic skills, and none of this quote from Trump.  Hence my dubiousness.  But if he's smart, he will recite this quote exactly next time he has a mic and a camera in his face.

  2. 1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    And you couldn’t be bothered to post a link to your admittedly questionably sourced quote. 

    lol, here you go?

    https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/24/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day-855/

    Political Wire is an American political blog. It was founded in 1999 and published by Taegan (/ˈtɡən/) Goddard, a former policy adviser to Democratic U.S. Senator Donald Riegle and Independent Governor Lowell Weicker, and the co-author of the 1998 political management book You Won: Now What? How Americans Can Make Democracy Work from City Hall to the White House with political commentator Chris Riback.[1][2][3]

  3. If Trump actually said this, it's a great response to sleepy-gate.  Of course, its an unnamed source, so its probably someone at the Bulwark coming up with what Trump should have said.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Wrapped up litigating one within the last 6 months or so.  It’s a very personality-specific thing.  Employer felt sort of like dad and needed to teach the kid that rules are rules. 

    Yeah, the employers I've encountered seem to view it more as a deterrence vs anything they will actually enforce.  Its tech, so maybe thats part of it, too.  I've always kind of assumed it was so they would not develop a reputation as corporate fascists in what has at least until recently been a very competitive marketplace for talent.  You might or might not stop one employee from going to a competitor through the courts, but you are for sure going to have difficulty overcoming that reputation in trying to entice top notch talent to your company in the future.

  5. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    ...even though the only source for this is their own whisky-addled brains...

    :raises hand:

    Um, I'd just like to state for the record, my brain is actually weed-addled.

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  6. On 4/21/2024 at 4:23 AM, Longhornstampede said:

    For a cougar, I would definitely consider sniffing her farts....

     

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    if this is accurate, this is a problem for trump.   When the prosecutor objects to you telling the jury it is not wrong to try to influence an election, and the judge sustain the objection, it is perceived by the jury has nothing less than Trump’s lawyer lied to me and the judge corrected him.

    I have always told every witness in every trial or deposition I’ve been in that as we start the proceedings, there is a bucket of credibility filled to the brim that goes with them.    when they are found to be lying, the bucket gets kicked over.   And usually all of the credibility spills out on the floor.   If the jury thinks you are lying, they normally do not care if you are lying 20% of the time or 60% of the time, they know you were lying.   

    I’m not talking about normal memory impaired things like the exact time or day exact words, but I’m talking about lying about important things. You normally either have credibility or you don’t.  there is very likely a pattern jury instruction telling the jury that if they find a witness non-credible, they can disregard everything that person says in their testimony. Not 20%, not 40%, but all of their testimony.    

    That seems like a rookie mistake, or something they had to say to please the boss   it may be the best thing we have going for us is Trump will direct parts of the trial.

    I think it's probably an attempt to muddy what is meant by "influencing an election."  Like, portraying yourself in your best light is technically an attempt to influence an election (I'm a stable genius!).  Portraying your opponent in their most negative light is as well (sleepy Joe).  Attempting to influence an election also covers paying off a porn star to avoid talking about an affair, and likewise stoking an insurrection at the capitol to stop certification.

    I think they are trying to equate what Trump did with regards to Stormy as nothing more than successful campaigning.

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  8. I don't necessarily disagree, but I know there are conservatives looking for an off ramp from highway Trump, and I know there are Republican congressional members that are not just doing his bidding in the House.  I also have a hunch that a lot of his support in the party itself is more of opportunity vs belief.  Sure, there are Boebert's and MTG's that are true believers, but I think there are more people like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham who would defect from team Trump in a heartbeat as soon as it is politically advantageous to do so.  Those people would be happy to stick a shiv in him if/when the right opportunity presents itself.

    I don't think anyone knows exactly how the next 6 months plays out.

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  9. 9 hours ago, tx ind said:

    Every time there's a story of him running out of cash it's not surprising, the best part is what happens next.  You move to the anticipation of what the next grift will be, we've gotten sneakers, bibles, 5% cuts from down ballot folks, what's next?

    MyTrumpPillows

  10. For you surly law dogs, can a judge order that a defendant be fitted with a shock collar so they can be issued a mild correction whenever they fall asleep at their own criminal trial?

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  11. By the way, for all you snowflake conservatives that believe you'll get negged to death in the cloakroom if you don't march lock step with the "liberal hive mind" here, this conversation is proof that you are full of shit :D

     

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Genco said:

    Are you seriously arguing that within a cult of personality, the cult leader has no influence?

    Not at all.  I'm arguing that while Trump's leadership was objectively shitty, the populist anti-establishment response to the pandemic -- eschewing social distancing, not masking up, not getting vaccinated -- did not come from the top/Donald Trump.  They arrived at their beliefs elsewhere, and they are who made the pandemic what it was in the US.

  13. 4 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

    The biggest misstep Trump had with covid was surviving it. 

    Something we can all agree on!

    1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    Trump's anti-vaccine rhetoric turbo-charged the antivax movement, and we're now seeing the re-emergence of polio and measles. It's now political to be vaccinated or not. 

    Trump made it political. 

     

    I don't think he should be held criminally liable for COVID deaths (and maladministration is really hard to prosecute), but he shouldn't be fucking let off the hook as you're suggesting.

    How many people were harmed during Covid from injecting themselves with bleach as Trump suggested might be a treatment?  How many injected themselves with horse paste as was circulating online as a proper treatment?

    I know a ton of people that didn't vaccinate, didn't mask up and didn't social distance, and it had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump.  And Donald Trump being wise, sensical and Presidential would not have gotten them to carry themselves otherwise.  They didn't vaccinate, mask up or social distance because they exceeded some critical threshold of stupidity and/or distrust of government that allowed them to fall victim of a digital grass roots movement promoting conspiracies, lies and misinformation online.

    One thing I think is under appreciated here is that it is not Trump leading these people astray.  He's their figurehead, but these people were already fucking astray.  And to the degree they've been led there, they've been led by their pastor, their family member, their friend, the community around them telling them, "Hey, you need to be aware this is going on" while passing them some bullshit meme, blog post, YouTube video or the content thereof.  It is at least as influential in their mental context as a steady diet of Fox News.

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