trumpty plumpty

[jfish26]

"Significant portions" of "the billions raised by Trump’s campaigns in 2020 and 2024 have vanished," "funneled through private companies with opaque operations."

https://x.com/emeriticus/status/1828065 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Just posted it on the other thread. How is this not immediately a scandal that puts Trump in jail?

Because at this point the rubes see being victims of grift as owning the libs?

[defixione]

Oh, jesus, not another MAGA conspiracy.

[Overlander]

Oh, jesus, not another MAGA conspiracy.

That goddamn Deep State is at it again!

[twocoach]

https://x.com/emeriticus/status/1828065 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Just posted it on the other thread. How is this not immediately a scandal that puts Trump in jail?

Because at this point the rubes see being victims of grift as owning the libs?

Here's the actual story vs just the screenshot. I didn't include the original New York Times article because it is behind a pay wall:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-gop-co ... lack-hole/

[jhawks99]

I kinda want one of these

https://www.trumpytrout.com/ .

[Shirley]

NSFW, dammit!

Let's talk about what kind of "Support The Troops" mentality it takes to sue the US Dept of Veterans Affairs. Is it really a rant if I don't use profanity? Outtakes after the throatpunch... those outtakes DO contain profanity.

#AngryVeteran Rants About Trump Suing The VA

[KUTradition]

wut

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/trump- ... port-filed

[Shirley]

wut

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/trump- ... port-filed

As usual, Trump and his entourage exuding class.

Nothing, but class.

[Sparko]

Trump is more responsible for deaths that last year in Afghanistan than even the Taliban. Would love to have him arrested and detained in Gitmo. SOB

[jfish26]

wut

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/trump- ... port-filed

As usual, Trump and his entourage exuding class.

Nothing, but class.

Flailing.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

wut

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/trump- ... port-filed

Cheung added, "The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony."

"For a despicable individual to physically prevent President Trump's team from accompanying him to this solemn event is a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed [sic] grounds of Arlington National Cemetery," LaCivita said.

Let's review...
Neither Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung nor Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita deny that a physical altercation occurred.
It SEEMS the Trump folks were doing something that is typically not allowed to be done at the cemetery and that someone who works for the cemetery was attempting to prevent them from being able to do it.
My 2 cents.... I have a strong feeling the Trump team was highly disrespectful to the cemetery worker/employee. Regardless if they were granted permission or not. I also have a strong feeling the Trump folks felt fuck the rules, we will do as we please, and who the fuck cares because we are more important than the family members who we are (or at least may be) disrespecting (and those who are buried in the cemetery).

[jfish26]

What a squishy, mealy-mouthed non-denial.

It's gross that they clearly want you to think that the "unnamed individual"* was not a cemetery official.

* It's ESPECIALLY gross that what is described as a "mental health episode" was, in all likelihood, either/both (1) someone getting upset, in a "let me do my damn job" way, that Trump's team was running roughshod over the rules (which, understandable), or (2) someone getting upset, in a "show some fucking respect" way, that Trump's team was in fact using Arlington National Cemetery as a photo op (which, genuine patriotism).

[twocoach]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/p ... &sgrp=c-cb

Donald Trump's photo op at Arlington National Cemetary yesterday was of course against the law. And his staff had a physical confrontation with cemetery staff who attempted to uphold that law.

[jfish26]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/p ... &sgrp=c-cb

Donald Trump's photo op at Arlington National Cemetary yesterday was of course against the law. And his staff had a physical confrontation with cemetery staff who attempted to uphold that law.

It's not desecration when the "victims" are losers and suckers.

[Shirley]

Who knew there were such large numbers of self-loathing veterans? Who could have guessed veterans don't have the self-respect to expect better than the former Commander in Chief causing a scene at Arlington National Cemetery, referring to injured and dead soldiers as "suckers" and "losers", and who, once when he had the opportunity to serve, used 5 deferments to avoid serving? The same guy who goes after Gold Star Families when they disagree with him? The guy who disrespected John McCain's service?

Do the self-loathing veterans have a name, like Gay, "Log Cabin" Republicans do?

[KUTradition]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-goes-f ... 12070.html

[Shirley]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-goes-f ... 12070.html

"Stable genius."

[jhawks99]

Yeah, that dude is definitely not senile.

[Shirley]

Totally Safe For Work (Unless you turn the volume up)!

Big Sarge talks about Republican candidate, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, Donald Trump using the graves of fallen warriors as props in his political campaign--the Arlington Cemetery photo shoot.

#AngryVeteran Rants About Using Fallen Warriors for Photo Ops!

[japhy]

But Kamabla is weak.....

Former Trump National Security Adviser HR McMaster has written in a new book that the then-president was treated like a “chump” by a string of authoritarian leaders.

McMaster, a lieutenant general, writes about an almost two-week-long trip to Asia in his memoir At War With Ourselves, saying that China was the “most consequential” destination.

On their way to Beijing, McMaster cautioned Donald Trump that Chinese President Xi Jinping would attempt to trick the then-president into saying something that was positive for China but would in effect be bad for the US and its allies.

“The CCP’s favorite phrase, ‘win-win,’ actually meant that China won twice,” McMaster wrote that he told Trump. While Trump appeared to listen at the time, he later said he agreed with Xi that military exercises in South Korea were “provocative” and a “waste of money.” He also suggested that China could have a claim to the Senkaku Islands, which belong to Japan, a US ally.

As his stomach sank, McMaster wrote in a note to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly, a general, that Xi “ate our lunch,” according to The New York Times.

The national security adviser writes in the memoir that Trump was often treated like a “chump” by authoritarian leaders.

To get on Trump’s good side, some flattery and a bit of pomp and circumstance appeared to be all that was needed from leaders such as Xi, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.

McMaster notes that in 2018, he found Trump writing a note to Putin on top of a New York Post article in which he said he was disappointed at how the US political system was “eating itself up” but in which he praised Trump, calling him a great communicator.

“I have no disappointment at all. Moreover, on a personal level, he made a very good impression on me,” Putin said, according to the Post.

Trump asked McMaster to send the note to the Kremlin just as evidence was coming out that Putin appeared to have ordered an assassination in the UK.

The adviser didn’t send the note, telling an irate Trump that it would “reinforce the narrative that you are somehow in the Kremlin’s pocket.”

And the cult sees him as a "strong man". The rubes see what they wanna see.