This Is How They See US?

Attribution: Aid of USA to Ukraine by Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Sturgeone
9 months ago

I reiterate:   FART is the oldest form of humor.   Way before the first guy to pretend to sit on his spear.

Pogo
9 months ago

I heard a rumor that Dumbass is planning to use the NY court’s day off for his trial Wednesday to campaign in Shartlesville, PA. Prolly just a rumor…

craigcrawford
9 months ago

Man who stormed Capitol with Confederate flag, pepper sprayed officers sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Just another tourist who “sprayed a Capitol police officer in the face and prompted him to collapse and lose consciousness”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4614704-man-who-stormed-capitol-with-confederate-flag-sentenced/

IvyGreen
9 months ago

The plays of William Shakespeare include several humorous references to flatulence, including the following from Othello:

CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir.CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail.FIRST MUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence_humor

IvyGreen
9 months ago

NATIONAL TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE DAY

On April 23rd each year, National Talk Like Shakespeare Day encourages us to speak like the Bard and the characters in his plays. 
#TalkLikeShakespeareDay

William Shakespeare (April 1564-April 23, 1616) is the author of some of the world’s most celebrated plays and poems. In 2016, we honored the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. What better way to celebrate his life and art than to speak like the poet and playwright.  

IvyGreen
9 months ago

blueINdallas
9 months ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/climate/indonesia-volcano-eruption-weather-impact/index.html
“A powerful volcano is erupting.”
 
No, this is not about Adolf’s gag order hearing. 

RebelliousRenee
9 months ago

today’s meme…
 
 

Pogo
9 months ago

Don’t know where this ends up after all is said and done, but things are not going well for Dumbass, and almost more importantly, for Todd Blanche.  NYT … In court on Tuesday, one of the prosecutors, Christopher Conroy, rattled off Mr. Trump’s various statements that may have crossed the line, including calling Mr. Cohen and Ms. Daniels “sleaze bags.” He also noted that Mr. Trump last week reposted an attack on the jury pool, and that one juror who had already been seated subsequently asked to be excused from the panel. “What happened here was exactly what this order was meant to prevent and the defendant doesn’t care,” Mr. Conroy said. The prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office had asked Justice Merchan to fine Mr. Trump $1,000 per violation, and Mr. Conroy said on Tuesday they were not seeking jail time — although he believed that is what Mr. Trump might have been angling for. Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, argued that Mr. Trump’s posts were political in nature, and did not violate the order because he was simply responding to “a barrage of political attacks” from Mr. Cohen and others. But Justice Merchan appeared to bristle at that claim, saying he did not want to get into “interpreting and reading between the lines” of Mr. Trump’s posts. As Mr. Blanche complained that Mr. Conroy had ample time to make his argument, Justice Merchan dressed down the lawyer, interjecting, “I’m asking the questions, OK,” and “I’m going to decide whether your client is in contempt or not so please don’t turn it around.” Mr. Blanche appeared flummoxed and frustrated by Justice Merchan, who remarked that one of the defense’s arguments was “silly” and noted that some of Mr. Trump’s posts were false. “I need to know what is true,” Justice Merchan said, before uttering the words no lawyer ever wants to hear from a judge: “You’re losing all credibility with the court.” … As the author noted – those aren’t words that any lawyer wants to hear. And before I forget -(1) the opening statements yesterday were a… Read more »

craigcrawford
9 months ago

Not a great way to start a trial: “You’re losing all credibility”, Judge buries Trump lawyer’s spin on gag order violations

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyer-2667857667/?s=01

Pogo
9 months ago

In a response to a RW tRupster troll on Quora Digest, a self-described Brit (Jonathan Trueman) responded as follows:

I despise Trump not only for policy reasons but for character reasons. He’s a con man. A liar on an unprecedented scale. A bigot. A hypocrite. A thin-skinned egomaniac. A thug. An abuser of women, with profoundly inappropriate attitudes to his own daughter. A crawler to monsters who do not deserve it – not that anyone does. A threat to your national security and ours.
And, let’s not forget, according to people who share many of his policy positions and have worked closely with him, a fucking idiot. 

Just in case you need a clear and concise answer if you’re ever asked why you don’t like Trump.

Pogo
9 months ago

No ruling from the contempt hearing – Pecker’s back on the stand and the jury is seated.  NYT is posting very good contemporaneous coverage at https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-news.  Not sure whether it’s a freebie but worth a click to find out.

Bink
9 months ago

broken link, but also not free

should have plead guilty, lock Crooked Don up

blueINdallas
9 months ago

“HIGHLY CONFLICTED, TO PUT IT MILDLY, JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN, HAS TAKEN AWAY MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. EVERYBODY IS ALLOWED TO TALK AND LIE ABOUT ME, BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND MYSELF. THIS IS A KANGAROO COURT, AND THE JUDGE SHOULD RECUSE HIMSELF!”
2.16k ReTruths 7.62k Likes
Apr 23, 2024, 11:00 AM
 
Well, FFS! and he is allowed to talk, he just can’t go after judge, jury and witnesses.  Harassing them and doxing them is not defending himself.  

Did he just break the gag order, again? Timeout for Donny?
Wait, he’s in court. Did his young, blonde, Ivanka-esque, media intern post this and is she immune from the gag order if she’s posting as him?

Bink
9 months ago

he just wants infinite mistrials, lock him up

no one else could get away with that kind of blatant contempt, certainly not people of color

ok —— that crook, back to
it ✌️

Jamie
9 months ago

A blog post for #talklikeShakespeareDay

Happy Birthday Will

Durward Discussion: Happy Birthday Will (jdurward.blogspot.com)

Pogo
9 months ago

Sorry about the Times link – it was literally nothing more than a copy/past from the address 
Test
http://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-news

Pogo
9 months ago

Try that one – should work.  If not, here’s the last two updates.

Trump pulls down the lapels of his jacket sharply and walks out, again looking frustrated. To me, he’s looked far angrier yesterday and today than he did during all of last week, during jury selection.

Alan Feuer

April 23, 2024, 12:39 p.m. ET18 minutes ago
18 minutes ago

Alan Feuer
Reporting from the courthouse

Trump’s lawyers have objected all along to prosecutors couching Trump’s relationship with Pecker and Michael Cohen as a conspiracy — after all, Trump is not facing a conspiracy charge. But Joshua Steinglass, one of the prosecutors, just noted for the first time in court that one of the election statutes the case is based on does in fact have a conspiracy provision. That could prove important later when the jury is instructed on the laws they must consider in reaching a verdict.
Interesting stuff.

Bink
9 months ago

At the meeting, Mr. Pecker said on the stand, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a crucial statement that supports the prosecution’s argument that the men were not just protecting Mr. Trump’s personal reputation, but aiding his presidential bid.

womp womp

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-news

craigcrawford
9 months ago

Four years ago today

Sturgeone
9 months ago

Chaucer, the miller’s tale   
 
This Nicholas immediately let fly a fart
As great as if it had been a thunder-bolt,       
So that with the stroke Absolon was almost blinded;     
And he was ready with his hot iron,   
And he smote Nicholas in the middle of the ass.

craigcrawford
9 months ago

He is so obsessed with his supporters not showing up, making up all kinds of lies to explain it away…

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave. It is an armed camp to keep people away. Maggot Hagerman of The Failing New York Times, falsely reported that I was disappointed with the crowds. No, I’m disappointed with Maggot, and her lack of writing skill, and that some of these many police aren’t being sent to Columbia and NYU to keep the schools open and the students safe. The Legal Scholars call the case a Scam that should never have been brought. I call it Election Interference and a personal hit job by a conflicted and corrupt Judge who shouldn’t be allowed to preside over this Political Hoax. New York Justice is being reduced to ashes, and the World is breathlessly watching. Hopefully, Appellate Courts can save it, and all of the companies that are fleeing to other jurisdictions. They can no longer take a chance on New York Justice!

Apr 23, 2024, 4:35 PM

craigcrawford
9 months ago

Mitt Romney’s verdict: “I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character, and so far as I know you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.” (CNN)

blueINdallas
9 months ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/trump-media-shares-plunge-before-former-presidents-stock-bonus.html
Trump Media shares fell 8% Tuesday as former President Donald Trump qualified for an expected earnout bonus.”
“DJT closed at $32.57 per share, about 50% below its opening price last month of more than $70.”
 
“Trump will receive an additional 36 million shares, worth about $1.15 billion, because the stock closed above a $17.50 minimum share price.”
 

blueINdallas
9 months ago

Yeah, someone else wrote that last post for him.  

Exhibit A: stanchion

Adolf would’ve used the word barricade. Actually, he would’ve used BARRICADE!

So much for the gag order. Would it apply to anyone posting for him on his account???

Sturgeone
9 months ago

Maggot Hagerman
 
Jesus…..the guy could be on “South Park”.

Cartman…..Respect my AUTHORITAH!

blueINdallas
9 months ago

Someone put up a video of the area surrounding the courthouse.  He’s lying.  Traffic is moving.   There are “steel stanchions” which I would call bike racks to keep folks corralled, except there’s nobody to corral.  Not a red hat in sight.  

Sturgeone
9 months ago

He’s painting a picture for the rubes, desperately trying to draw them into backing his play. Problem is they’ve all grown a little jail-shy.

He wants to force the issue……He wants to be thrown into jail.    Full Tilt Boogie.  

And she CANT WRITE! Neener neener neener……

blueINdallas
9 months ago

His young, blonde assistant has to channel him when she posts as him…or whomever is doing it.

blueINdallas
9 months ago

https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-aide-wireless-printer-good-news

“Her name is Natalie Harp, a former One America News anchor who joined Trump’s communications team in March 2022. According to reporting that year by the Washington Post, Harp would even accompany the former reality TV host on golf trips in a cart “equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials.”

“Harp has an unusual relationship with Trump, arguing that he saved her life by approving an immunotherapy drug that reportedly allowed her to survive a rare form of cancer.”

“However, experts have maintained that Trump’s “Right-to-Try” law, which greenlit a number of drug treatments, was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The FDA already had a process that approved more than 90 percent of people who wanted access to these drugs and treatments,” former top FDA official Peter Lurie told WaPo back in 2020.

Pogo
9 months ago

Stanchion – good catch BiD.  He wouldn’t know a stanchion from a bollard. And it COULD NOT be posted by him – the only thing all caps’d in it was NYU. I will note that the NYT (notice the all caps) reported today that after his beck and call for his supporters to show up, a throng of a dozen or so did – and tapered off to about half that number over the course of an hour or two.  Even in Manhattan he should be able to summon more supporters than that.  And I note that the husband, father, family man was in court again with no family members supporting him in the courtroom.  Some pundit yesterday noted that even Jeffrey Dahmer’s parents showed up for his trial.

blueINdallas
9 months ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13311119/margo-martin-donald-trump-communications-chief-melania-court.html
“Meet Donald Trump’s glamorous right-hand woman Margo Martin: Inside the lavish and jet-set life of 28-year-old as she makes stunning court appearance alongside ex-President – from her uncanny resemblance to his wife Melania to parties at Mar-a-Lago”

 
Or, is Margo “MAGAt” Martin his posting helper monkey?

IvyGreen
9 months ago

Harp has an unusual relationship with Trump

 
Don’t they all, including his wives and children. 

IvyGreen
9 months ago

‘Splains it all…
 

“In The Betrayal Bond, Dr. Carnes presents an in-depth study of these relationships; why they form, who is most susceptible, and how they become so powerful. Dr. Carnes also gives a clear explanation of the bond that compels people to tolerate the intolerable, and for the first time, maps out the brain connection that makes being with hurtful people comparable to ‘a drug of choice.’ Most importantly, Carnes provides practical steps to identify compulsive attachment patterns and ultimately to change or end them for good.”

IvyGreen
9 months ago

Total depletion of the narcissist’s batteries. He’s so transparent.  
 

There was Biden making campaign stops with fawning supporters of abortion rights in Tampa, Florida, while Trump was sitting in a “freezing” Manhattan courtroom, with barely any supporters in sight.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/23/trump-biden-campaign-trial-00153963
 

craigcrawford
9 months ago

Amazing. Nikki Haley is still getting votes — now at 34% in today’s Pennsylvania primary. That’s a lot of Never Trump Republicans in a battleground state Not good for Pumpkin Head.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/04/23/pennsylvania-president-republican-primary/

Sturgeone
9 months ago

He likes it when she takes dictation.  

Sturgeone
9 months ago

He’s jonesing for some honest-to-goodness jail time.  Not serious Big House time but just a little piddy-pat short-term incarceration where they bring him hamberders and shit.  He needs it for his legend. 

IvyGreen
9 months ago

Since we can’t seem to get him locked up, why not commitment? He could certainly use the treatment. 

blueINdallas
9 months ago

Zero positive attention is the bucket of water that just might melt his wickedness.  Do any of the ladies attending him have Russian ties? 

blueINdallas
9 months ago

Ivy – He’ll never get prison time and commitment we probably wouldn’t be able to confirm (HIPAA), although we would notice his absence due to things being more pleasant.

The way I see it, we have two chances:
lightning 
cholesterol

IvyGreen
9 months ago

We don’t know for sure that Trump was the one farting in court, so it would not be right for me to state that he was. So, I cannot in good conscience report that Trump was pumping gas like a Barstow Texaco, but I can report, to borrow a phrase he like to use when spreading rumors, that “many people were saying he was farting in court.”

 
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-passing-gas/

IvyGreen
9 months ago

and commitment we probably wouldn’t be able to confirm (HIPAA)

 
blue, doubtless, the tabloids would find whatever facility he’s committed to, their clamoring at the gates would outnumber his crowds of supporters.