Donald Trump 2020

[Ghost of LL 15531]

36 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The bolded is an interesting point.  Without his televised platform, and some power, his tweets are just a reminder of what an unhinged loon he is.

Many seem to assume that he will remain some kind of GOP martyr (which you also imply with your "Trump 2024" notion), but I think the opposite.  He's going to be a millstone around the neck of what remains of the GOP.

Well, we're using different metaphors, but it's the same concept.  The Trumpublican Party literally has no platform.  It's platform this year is "Trump."  There's no way to distance from that.

So in 2022, he's going to be out there tweeting like a lunatic.  He'll be on Fox & Friends and OANN spewing the same right-wing, white-supremacist rhetoric.  And he'll still be the head of the party.

How are Trumpublican incumbent senators in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Iowa, and Florida (not to mention a Trumpublican nominee in North Carolina, who will be seeking to retain the seat for the GOP with Richard Burr retiring) going to deal with that?  They'd like to turn it into a referendum on Biden.  But Trump is going to prevent that--just like he can't turn this campaign into anything other than about himself.

This is the Trumpublican Party.  And if he is alive in 2024 and he wants to run, he'll be the nominee.  I just can't imagine anybody beating him in a primary.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

3 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

 GOP Donors "freaking out"

"Republican donors who attended President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club are panicking after being around the commander in chief hours before he announced that he was infected with the coronavirus.

GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance following the event, according to a person briefed on the matter.

“The donors have been texting and calling. Freaking out,” the person with direct knowledge said. This person declined to be named as the conversations were deemed private.

Trump’s campaign, as of Friday morning, has not sent out any official guidance to many of the donors involved with the event."

[TornACL 7698]

Assuming he recovers, which I am personally rooting for because the alternative would launch us into new depths of chaos, here's how this will go. 

First day after recovery: "Trump seems to have a newfound understanding of the seriousness of this virus"

Trump, Day 2: THE CHINA PLAGUE IS A HOAX IT DOESN'T KILL HARDLY ANYONE I SURVIVED IT STRONGLY AND EASILY, DEATH NUMBERS ARE MADE UP BY THE LEFT

Trump sycophants: blargh blargh conspiracy china plague fake news hoax radical left

Everyone else: [Face Palm]

[Horn Dog 9855]

44 minutes ago, brown water said:

Wasn’t she known to be a super spreader even before Covid?  

Needs the PronHub label.

[Ghost of LL 15531]

6 hours ago, Goredho said:

No one will be talking about the Proud Boys today.  The front page headlines will be about Trump and his status for the next few weeks.  No other news will be able to compete for public attention in that time.

Is that intentional? I have no clue.  But it’s damn sure an opportunity while America sits transfixed with Trump’s fight against coronavirus.

Pay attention to what else is happening over the next couple of weeks.

I'm sorry, but is it your take that "Trump is deathly ill with a virus that he negligently allowed to spread and which has killed 210,000 Americans" is a big upgrade over the story that "Trump cozies up to white supremacists"?  Because I'm not entirely sure I agree.

COVID-19 is an absolutely terrible issue for Trump.  He fucked it up bigly, and everyone knows it.  If the lead story on the news every night going into the election is COVID-19, then Trump is absolutely fucked.

Trump wants the issue to be the economy improving.  He actually still has good numbers on the economy (incredible as that may be to believe).  There's no chance of that narrative taking root now.

[The Hot Dog Buffet 1291]

3 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Assuming he recovers, which I am personally rooting for because the alternative would launch us into new depths of chaos, here's how this will go. 

First day after recovery: "Trump seems to have a newfound understanding of the seriousness of this virus"

Trump, Day 2: THE CHINA PLAGUE IS A HOAX IT DOESN'T KILL HARDLY ANYONE I SURVIVED IT STRONGLY AND EASILY, DEATH NUMBERS ARE MADE UP BY THE LEFT

Trump sycophants: blargh blargh conspiracy china plague fake news hoax radical left

Everyone else: [Face Palm]

I can't help but think that him dying 2 months before he would have left office anyway probably gives us a whole lot less chaos than him contesting an election he clearly lost and everyone having to deal with that over then next few months.

[Jive Turkey 12598]

1 hour ago, 'stache said:

Well shit. The only way to save the Supreme Court was for Barrett to have spread it to the senate causing a shutdown. Good bye civil rights, hello theocracy.

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

2 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

I can't help but think that him dying 2 months before he would have left office anyway probably gives us a whole lot less chaos than him contesting an election he clearly lost and everyone having to deal with that over then next few months.

The 244 Years of Peaceful Transition of Power team will be popping champagne bottles like the 72 dolphins.

[BigOrange1 6437]

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26462]

5 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm sorry, but is it your take that "Trump is deathly ill with a virus that he negligently allowed to spread and which has killed 210,000 Americans" is a big upgrade over the story that "Trump cozies up to white supremacists"?  Because I'm not entirely sure I agree.

COVID-19 is an absolutely terrible issue for Trump.  He fucked it up bigly, and everyone knows it.  If the lead story on the news every night going into the election is COVID-19, then Trump is absolutely fucked.

Trump wants the issue to be the economy improving.  He actually still has good numbers on the economy (incredible as that may be to believe).  There's no chance of that narrative taking root now.

I was texting with a friend about this. I think catching Covid hurts him politically. It reminds me of the climactic wedding scene in The Man Who Would be King when Roxanne bites Daniel Dravot's cheek and draws blood, and the Kafirs realize all at once that he is not Alexander. 

Edited October 2, 2020 by Bozo_Casanova

[Beau Vine 54230]

 

[Underdog 28641]

2 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

 

Swear to God some people just don't deserve oxygen.  

[Goredho 17406]

40 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Dude, Twitter is going to ban Trump as soon as he's not president.  He's going to have to find another platform.

He will, along with Rush, found a new conservative AM talk radio platform KRAG “The Rage!”

It will be shut down 6 months later when it becomes known the public will only ever call it “The Rag!”

Edited October 2, 2020 by Goredho

[Guest Lobo]

So ain't on twitter, get my Trump tweets on Surly which is a roundabout way of saying I probably get better news than our own President does.  

What's he tweeting this morning?  I would think we're gonna have two weeks of him tweeting even more than usual.  I also think there's gonna be a ton of conflicting messages coming out of the white house via press office and twitter office.  Thankfully, we won't have to worry about what our allies and enemies think during such a tumultuous time since we are so clearly respected all over the globe, beyond reproach.  

Anyway, I hope he recovers, loses, and rots in the facility of his choosing within the New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision.  As a compromise, I think he'll be offered a deal whereby he'll get house arrest at Mar-a-Lago if he mans up and faces his charges in New York instead of hiding under DeSantis' skirt for three years.  It would be weird if he his bunkmate was also his secret service detail.  

Edited October 2, 2020 by Lobo

[cactusflinthead 27598]

 

[Beau Vine 54230]

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

 

5 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

So, do they include all the behind the scenes employees in stuff like this? The pilot, the people who clean the WH, etc? Not just the donors at the fundraiser, but all the people who served him there, the rally staff in Duluth?

[Lagunamadre 1975]

12 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

 

DeAnna last week (probably). "Democrats are all wearing masks and staying inside because of the china virus hoax. Republicans LOVE freedom, we're not scared of some stupid virus, we will not be muzzled with masks." 

[Willfully Horn 8017]

22 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I think that's what he was trying to say.  

Words are slippery. Thought is viscous.

[Hornius Emeritus 12462]

39 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Dude, Twitter is going to ban Trump as soon as he's not president.  He's going to have to find another platform.

 

From what I read, Parler is about 75% bots, so when he gets his account there he'll have plenty of people to converse with. 

If Twitter bans Trump there goes a whole lot of twitter hits.

[cactusflinthead 27598]

6 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

 

So, do they include all the behind the scenes employees in stuff like this? The pilot, the people who clean the WH, etc? Not just the donors at the fundraiser, but all the people who served him there, the rally staff in Duluth?

Yeah, that's going to require a concerted effort, honest answers, and some selfless behavior. 

I'm not confident about it. 

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

 

 

 

[Pasken 1309]

3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

[Goredho 17406]

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

This should be the most upvoted post in the history of Shaggy/Surly.

[Guest Lobo]

FUCK YEAH JOE!  Better get Blaze tested though just to be sure.  

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

Just now, Goredho said:

This should be the most upvoted post in the history of Shaggy/Surly.

well, the votes will be split among the thirty people posting it.

[Blotto 23512]

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

We're not quite there yet, but Biden is pretty close to being in "up two TDs with the ball and 30 seconds on the clock" territory. 

If you are talking 30 seconds left in the 1st Qtr, I might agree with you. The GOP plan for keeping Trump in office and control of the Senate does not hinge on the actual results of the election, they expect to lose that. They are telegraphing their plan, and that plan is to challenge the legitimacy of the election. While they might not succeed, people need to accept that this will likely drag on for months after November in the courts. And the GOP will have the Senate, the SC, and the DOJ stacked in their favor. 

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

 

 

[RomaVicta 29908]

48 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

 

How will that play if someone falls critically ill and/or dies from Covid and  it is traced back to Trump's events the last two days?

It will have the same devastating impact on his adherents that the Herman Cain death had. That 20,000 lies has. That grabbing pussy had. That blowing up the debt & deficit had. That abandoning the Kurds had. That "fine people" had. That the Kushners' graft has had. That it'll be gone by Easter had.

Forget it Jake, it's Malign Idiot World.

This still makes me sick.

Fuck us.

Edited October 2, 2020 by RomaVicta
Quote marks disaster.

[4th&Five 41554]

[yoladu 4094]

49 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

 GOP Donors "freaking out"

"Republican donors who attended President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club are panicking after being around the commander in chief hours before he announced that he was infected with the coronavirus.

GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance following the event, according to a person briefed on the matter.

“The donors have been texting and calling. Freaking out,” the person with direct knowledge said. This person declined to be named as the conversations were deemed private.

Trump’s campaign, as of Friday morning, has not sent out any official guidance to many of the donors involved with the event."

delicious.

[wildcat09 29354]

Is this the best day of 2020? I think it is.

[Underdog 28641]

Meh...  they live in Jersey*,  Covid's the least of their worries.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*j/k, some beautiful areas in NJ and I enjoy the grittiness of AC and Asbury Park and such.  

[MissingInAction 25077]

 

 

[RomaVicta 29908]

36 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I was texting with a friend about this. I think catching Covid hurts him politically. It reminds me of the climactic wedding scene in The Man Who Would be King when Roxanne bites Daniel Dravot's cheek and draws blood, and the Kafirs realize all at once that he is not Alexander. 

Brilliant reference! Great movie.

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

 

 

[Underdog 28641]

2 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

 

 

Sorta want. 

[gyroprotagonist 2592]

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 GOP Donors "freaking out"

"Republican donors who attended President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club are panicking after being around the commander in chief hours before he announced that he was infected with the coronavirus.

But I did not think the no mask wearing disease spreading would happen to me after I rallied for the no mask wearing disease spreading party.

[Underdog 28641]

1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

May be parked in front but still a few city blocks away due to Bunker Bitch's WH Wall. 

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

8 minutes ago, yoladu said:

delicious.

For guidance they were sent this helpful pamphlet.

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

 

 

[Patrick Bateman 3914]

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Lindsey crying like a baby on television?

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

 

 

[Beau Vine 54230]

44 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

 

That lady is fucking hysterical (unfortunately, she's being serious):

[yoladu 4094]

25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Here's another one. Since this thread seems to be trending toward the contact tracing fallout:

 

[Aqua Buddha 14597]

7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

[Gatorubet 30239]

That lady is fucking hysterical (unfortunately, she's being serious):

And Mardi Gras. We’ve been setting up the Covid liberty grab for a century with our masking.

[TornACL 7698]

If these chucklefucks can't even take the simple logistical precautions needed to protect themselves, why should anyone have any faith in them to manage the complex logistical policies needed to protect us?