A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]

[Gatorubet 30243]

This one is a good one.
This is one you can throw in their face.

No, you can’t.
When you go down the comments you run into people like a guy a guy calling himself Crazy Father, who says amidst all the Biden scandals that came out today all you libs can do is jizz about Trumps’s returns - even though “99.9% of auditors say they are fine.”
I can’t make this up. They truly worship their orange god king like drugged children with Stockholm syndrome, and will never admit to any wrongdoing by one of the most loathsome humans on earth.  We need more and worse Covid to save the country. 

[Beau Vine 54238]

On 12/29/2022 at 7:43 PM, Gil Bang said:

This is his "burn it down" moment.  A poison pill.  "You motherfuckers either nominate me, or I will make it impossible for your nominee to win the general". 

It's the destruction of the GOP that Lindsay warned about, before he started gargling Trump's shriveled, orange balls. 

[TwiceHorn 31488]

54 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

No, you can’t.
When you go down the comments you run into people like a guy a guy calling himself Crazy Father, who says amidst all the Biden scandals that came out today all you libs can do is jizz about Trumps’s returns - even though “99.9% of auditors say they are fine.”
I can’t make this up. They truly worship their orange god king like drugged children with Stockholm syndrome, and will never admit to any wrongdoing by one of the most loathsome humans on earth.  We need more and worse Covid to save the country. 

What I mean is, Trump said the NYT article was a lie.  Clearly it is not.  He lied about paying 750 in taxes a couple of years.  Flat lied.

They have no retort for that.  And, most of them are actually kind of sensitive about him being such a dickwad about his tax returns because it's indefensible in the context of the swamp they so badly want to drain, so they say.

[Gatorubet 30243]

6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

What I mean is, Trump said the NYT article was a lie.  Clearly it is not.  He lied about paying 750 in taxes a couple of years.  Flat lied.

They have no retort for that.  And, most of them are actually kind of sensitive about him being such a dickwad about his tax returns because it's indefensible in the context of the swamp they so badly want to drain, so they say.

Oh, I got you the first time. I was just pointing out that when confronted with the video evidence of the absolute narrow irrefutable lie, the Trump fan called Crazy Father switched the goal posts to Biden scandals and that 99.9% of audits would say there’s nothing wrong with Trump’s taxes.  

What I was trying to point out is that the Trump fan simply ignored the issue of Trump lying and moved the goal post.   You as a sane, educated non-gullible, non-Uber partisan citizen who loves his country would not have a retort for that lie.    The MAGat did.   Easily. 

[TwiceHorn 31488]

7 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Oh, I got you the first time. I was just pointing out that when confronted with the video evidence of the absolute narrow irrefutable lie, the Trump fan called Crazy Father switched the goal posts to Biden scandals and that 99.9% of audits would say there’s nothing wrong with Trump’s taxes.  

What I was trying to point out is that the Trump fan simply ignored the issue of Trump lying and moved the goal post.   You as a sane, educated non-gullible, non-Uber partisan citizen who loves his country would not have a retort for that lie.    The MAGat did.   Easily. 

I love it when I can make them change the goalposts.  I immediately point it out. It causes sputtering and tends to put an end to the spewing of right wing talking points.  It's as close as you can come to a big win.

[tx 3 putt 76980]

we should cut him a little slack for donating his salary to charities !

[tx 3 putt 76980]

 

[Beau Vine 54238]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

What I mean is, Trump said the NYT article was a lie.  Clearly it is not.  He lied about paying 750 in taxes a couple of years.  Flat lied.

 

The fake news took his words out of content.  Duh.

[burntorangebongos 10722]

On 12/28/2022 at 8:00 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

Hillary Clinton is a terrible politician who learned nothing from 2008. Elizabeth Warren and Claire McCaskill shouldn’t have stepped aside in 2016 and either of them  (or Biden) would have beat her, and then Trump, like a drum.

Elizabeth Warren in 2016....damn. i would love to be in that timeline.

[AnTiM 1666]

In case this has not been posted, here is a good description of how close the "coup club' came to stealing the election.

 

[Constant 6732]

 

[YGIFS 19450]

President O’Doyle…I got a bad feeling something’s gonna happen to you or your family in 2023.  

[pacman 7357]

I am afraid the tax release is too limited in scope to reveal much of anything. The fun would have really been had if we had access to his taxes in the decade prior to his Presidency.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9327]

Trumpkins and MAGATs aren't swayed by facts, evidence or truths. None of that matters to them. Donny hurts people they don't like, and that's all they care about.

The release of these particular tax returns are just part of the continued unraveling of his bogus empire in front of the rest of the world. Death by a thousand cuts, although by now it feels as if he's been nicked at least 10X that and is no worse for wear so at this point he's simply the ultimate poster boy for big pieces of shit who never suffer consequences for their actions.

[Red Five 40859]

38 minutes ago, pacman said:

I am afraid the tax release is too limited in scope to reveal much of anything. The fun would have really been had if we had access to his taxes in the decade prior to his Presidency.

As noted above, it confirms a bunch of shit he's been previously denying, including in presidential debates. It should be a massive story, but I suppose there are only so many hours in the day to devote to his massive horrific stories. 

[4th&Five 41558]

It’s ammo for Desantis or other challengers in the primaries if they choose to use it. For entertainment sake I hope they call him a broke dick on live TV. 

[Brisketexan 105151]

It’s ammo for Desantis or other challengers in the primaries if they choose to use it. For entertainment sake I hope they call him a broke dick on live TV. 

Their attacks will only make him stronger. The more others hate him, the more the cult loves him.
There is literally nothing you can do to turn them away from their god.
He is the favorite to win the nomination:
“Trump also leads early polling of the Republican primary by a substantial margin. In most national surveys, he registers in the high 40s or low 50s, 20-30 points ahead of his closest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
And the GQP and SCOTUS are working to ensure that actual votes in GQP legislature states won’t matter, so he has a good shot at winning the White House even as he loses votes. And if that fails, his violent cult will attempt another, better-planned insurrection, aided by fifth columnists in the secret service and the military.
Imagine what would happen in a crooked, failed Latin American state - that’s the model here.

[Francisco 2.0 32395]

 

 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9327]

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

It’s ammo for Desantis or other challengers in the primaries if they choose to use it. For entertainment sake I hope they call him a broke dick on live TV. 

The REAL ammo for Desantis is the details about Trump's Save America PAC. Every stump speech he gives and every commercial he airs needs to remind MAGATs that Trump begged for and received a quarter billion dollars from them and has only applied 5% of it towards some type of legal action. "Where's the other $240 million, Donald? What did you do with the money of all of these hard working patriots", blah blah blah. Sure, the rubes were idiots ripe for the fleecing, but even the densest Trumpkin has got to be tired of sending him money and getting nothing in return except maybe a poorly photoshopped jpeg.

EDIT: And Frisco2.0 beats me to the punch with the latest grift, "diamond dusted" cards that will cost them $20/month in perpetuity. 

Edited December 31, 2022 by GhostOfTomJoad
The grift is strong.

[RomaVicta 29909]

22 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Absolutely beyond parody. There's this silliness and being reminded that he threw around the term "enemy of the state" while he was fucking President of the United States of America. The trading cards are his version of having posters of Il Duce's big head (and every caudillo after him) on every public wall.

All unimaginable 25 years ago.

Edited January 1, 2023 by RomaVicta
Through? Threw? I operate on sound rather than site sight.

[AnTiM 1666]

The stupidity of people who fall for this BS leaves me wondering how they remember to breathe.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

It's crazy. I mean at ~20 a month you only have to grift 10,000 supporters to rake in over 2 million a year. Not inconceivable for fleecing the flock of true believers.

[skeeter 454]

16 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

No, you can’t.
When you go down the comments you run into people like a guy a guy calling himself Crazy Father, who says amidst all the Biden scandals that came out today all you libs can do is jizz about Trumps’s returns - even though “99.9% of auditors say they are fine.”
I can’t make this up. They truly worship their orange god king like drugged children with Stockholm syndrome, and will never admit to any wrongdoing by one of the most loathsome humans on earth.  We need more and worse Covid to save the country. 

Not enough ... 

 

[Red Five 40859]

47 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

It's crazy. I mean at ~20 a month you only have to grift 10,000 supporters to rake in over 2 million a year. Not inconceivable for fleecing the flock of true believers.

Mark Cuban gif.

[Francisco 2.0 32395]

So, any ideas on what his big announcement will be at 9 pm tonight from Mar a Lago?

New line of trading cards?  Ditching the GOP for the MAGA party?  Suing Biden, the FBI, the NYTimes, CNN, etc?

 

 

[RomaVicta 29909]

1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

The stupidity of people who fall for this BS leaves me wondering how they remember to breathe.

And wishing that they couldn't.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

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The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.

An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.

The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence of financial ties between protesters in custody; an effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.

“Did not find any evidence that assertion was true”
The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting “baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests” — up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”

One field operations analyst told interviewers that the charts were hastily “thrown together,” adding they “didn’t even know why some of the people were arrested.” In some cases, it was unclear whether the arrests were made by police or by one of the several federal agencies on the ground. The analysts were never provided arrest affidavits or paperwork, a witness told investigators, adding that they “just worked off the assumption that everyone on the list was arrested.” Lawyers who reviewed 43 of the dossiers found it “concerning,” the report says, that 13 of them stemmed from “nonviolent crimes.” These included trespassing, though it was unclear to analysts and investigators whether the cases had “any relationship to federal property,” the report says.

A footnote in the report states that “at least one witness” told investigators that dossiers had been requested on people who were “not arrested” but merely accused of threats. Another, citing emails exchanged between top intelligence officials, states dossiers were created “on persons arrested having nothing to do with homeland security or threats to officers.”

Questioned by investigators, the agency’s chief intelligence officer acknowledged fielding requests by Wolf and his acting deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, to create dossiers “against everyone participating in the Portland protest,” regardless of whether they’d been accused of any crime, the report says. That officer, Brian Murphy, then head of the agency’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), told interviewers that he’d rejected the idea, informing his bosses that he could only “look at people who were arrested,” and adding that it was something his office had done “thousands” of times before.

The DHS report, finalized more than a year ago, includes descriptions of orders handed down to “senior leadership” instructing them to broadly apply the label “violent antifa anarchists inspired” to Portland protesters unless they had intel showing “something different.”

Once the dossiers were received by the agency’s emerging threat center, it became clear that DHS had no real way to tie the protesters to any terrorist activities, neither at home nor abroad. Efforts to drum up evidence to support the administration’s claim that a “larger network was directing or financing” the protesters — a task assigned to another unit, known as the Homeland Identities, Targeting and Exploitation Center, diverted away from its usual work of analyzing national security threats — “did not find any evidence that assertion was true,” the report says.

A Trumped-up Threat, a Trumped-up Homeland Security Department
Fears of political toadies occupying key intelligence roles had been aired publicly by former intelligence community members during the Trump administration’s early years, but their concerns were all but ignored by Senate Republicans during confirmation hearings that would ultimately inflict serious reputational damage on a number of agencies that, for their own survival, had long avoided partisan leanings.

The report is based on interviews with approximately 80 employees conducted by attorneys drawn from various agency components, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard. The investigation began in response to leaks of internal DHS emails in July 2020 that prompted questions from lawmakers about potential intelligence abuses, including the monitoring of journalists’ activities online and the liberal application of terrorism-related language to describe Americans engaged in protest.

I&A is one of the nation’s 17 intelligence community members overseen by the nation’s “top spy,” the director of national intelligence, whose office drafts daily top-secret briefings for the president. The directorship was held throughout the protests by John Ratcliffe, a Republican of Texas and renowned Trump loyalist, whose nomination to the post was withdrawn initially in 2019 over qualifications concerns raised by lawmakers and career intelligence officials.

The dossiers, known as Operational Background Reports, or OBRs, are known colloquially within the agency as “baseball cards,” the report says. The task of creating them was handed, “with little to no guidance on execution,” to the agency’s Current and Emerging Threats Center, an analysis unit whose “actionable intelligence” is distributed widely throughout the government. According to the report, the dossiers would’ve been shared with, among others, the agency’s Field Operations Division, which works closely with House and Senate committee staffers, and the Federal Protection Service, whose core mission is securing some 9,000 federal facilities across the country. The extent to which entities outside the federal government were meant to be involved is unclear; however, the report indicates that DHS state and local partners, which would naturally include law enforcement, but also potentially organizations like National Governors Association, could have also been in the loop.

Funded to the tune of $1.5 billion, the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is comprised of thousands of security officers drawn from private contractors such as Triple Canopy, a firm merged in 2014 with another contractor called Academi, previously known as Blackwater. Its staff notoriously included elite warfighters recruited from among the Navy SEALS, the Army Rangers, and the Marines expeditionary force MARSOC.

Activated to engage protesters targeting federal buildings in Portland — including the well-vandalized Hatfield Federal Courthouse — FPS personnel were eventually joined by officers hailing from across the federal government, including some on loan by the U.S. Marshals Service tactical unit normally tasked with making the arrests of the nation’s most violent fugitives. They converged for a mission dubbed “Operation Diligent Valor,” authorized under Executive Order 13933, purportedly to apprehend “anarchists and left-wing extremists” who’d been driven by Floyd’s murder to target U.S. monuments commemorating slave owners and Confederate traitors — dangerous individuals, Trump said, advancing a “fringe ideology” painting the U.S. government as “fundamentally unjust.”

Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murder and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison in 2021, sparked more than 100 days of continuous marches in Portland. Sporadic protests continued well into the next spring, frequently marked by nightly standoffs between protesters toting bottles, fruit, and fireworks and riot-control squads armed with nightsticks, pepperspray, and “kinetic impact munitions” designed to irritate, disorient, and compel compliance through pain.

Police would eventually rack up an unprecedented 6,000 documented use-of-force cases against the demonstrators, who in turn reportedly inflicted more than $2.3 million in damage to federal buildings alone. Police ran off legal observers and physically beat journalist who suffered injuries at the hands of federal agents armed with crowd control weapons as well. In response to the bad press, Justice Department lawyers filed a successful motion in court giving police the power to force reporters off the streets.

Reports began surfacing, meanwhile, of protesters being abducted near demonstrations by men jumping out of unmarked vans in military fatigues. After widely circulated footage confirmed the accounts, DHS acknowledged the abductions, as well as the fact that agents had taken intentional steps to ensure their identities remained secret.

Analysts would feed protesters’ names into an array of databases, including LexisNexis, a tool used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to hunt undocumented immigrants. Another tool, referred to as “Tangles” — a likely reference to the now-defunct Facebook app CrowdTangle — was used to “[compile] information from the subject’s available social media profiles.

The report also states that dossiers were requested on multiple journalists, including Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare.

Wittes was targeted for publishing unclassified DHS materials, including the initial leak that set off the investigation. Wittes had coauthored an article at Lawfare with Steve Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor, in July 2020, which included leaked guidance — known as a “job aid” — disclosing DHS plans to act on Trump’s executive order. The document, Lawfare reported, implicated “at least parts of the intelligence community” in the “monitoring and collecting information on some protest activities.” Later leaks obtained by the New York Times included a DHS memo that, among other things, summarized tweets that had been published by Wittes.

One tweet, published on July 26 — a week after Lawfare published the guidance document — included a leaked email by DHS’s acting chief intelligence officer, relaying orders to begin referring to all violence in Portland as the work of “Antifa.”

As the summer nights grew longer and the 2020 elections near, the media spent less time focused on the cause of the demonstrations — the suffocation of a Black father of five by a white Minneapolis police officer who was outwardly unmoved by Floyd’s desperate pleas for air, or the heartrending cries for his mother. Headlines shifted instead, as if on cue, to focus on the narrative crafted by the president’s flailing reelection campaign; a pre-packed delusion designed to strike fear in voters’ imaginations and tether Democrats to a fictitious terrorist threat.

Nothing could dissuade Trump from continuing to propagate the claims, which his supporters — most to this day — continue to blindly believe. “In my book it’s virtually a part of their campaign, Antifa,” Trump said in the final months before the election. “The Democrats act like, gee, I don’t know exactly what that is.”

Trump’s highest ranking intelligence crony, John Ratcliffe, meanwhile, would go on to play the only card left with a little help from Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Shocking and alarming career intelligence officials, Graham posted a letter online ahead of the election’s final debate. It contained a batch of Russian disinformation that a Republican-led committee had disregarded as bogus four years earlier. Apparently, it focused on the only Democratic left on whom they could find any material with which to smear: Hillary Clinton, who had no election to lose.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/video/homeland-security-admits-tried-manufacture-114500599.html

 

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

ANTIFA!!! 

[DigglerontheHoof 21202]

If there were justice, Trump would be tried, convicted and executed for being a traitor.  

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3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Absolutely beyond parody. There's this silliness and being reminded that he through around the term "enemy of the state" while he was fucking President of the United States of America. The trading cards are his version of having posters of Il Duce's big head (and every caudillo after him) on every public wall.

All unimaginable 25 years ago.

I used to think the Franklin Mint plates were tacky, but at least they tried to make the Presidents, etc. look dignified.

 

[atomheartbevo 89682]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

So, any ideas on what his big announcement will be at 9 pm tonight from Mar a Lago?

New line of trading cards?  Ditching the GOP for the MAGA party?  Suing Biden, the FBI, the NYTimes, CNN, etc?

I guarantee he will fuck it up as bad as his 2024 announcement, although I'm sure his security won't have to bar the doors to keep people from leaving this time around, since those people will avoid it like the plague.

Lawsuit...what lawyers would take it at this point and against who?  NY Times?  Pretty sure the Sulzbergers have more money than him.  Parent company of CNN also has more money and lawyers.

MAGA Party would be entertaining.

[Covri 6249]

4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

So, any ideas on what his big announcement will be at 9 pm tonight from Mar a Lago?

 

Signed (facsimile) coloring book.

[YGIFS 19450]

5 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Signed (facsimile) coloring book.

bullshit aside, is there really some press conference or announcement coming down the pike tonight?  

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

He announced some type of media availability for this evening but no clear statement on what that entails. Perhaps he will just wish everyone a MAGA New Year or something. Maybe crash a party or wedding. Most of the pundits are saying he is clamoring for relevancy because the GOP is moving on to the other pols.

[TexasHooch 5122]

RIP Wawa.  Boy did she kick his ass here:

 

[Gatorubet 30243]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

So, any ideas on what his big announcement will be at 9 pm tonight from Mar a Lago?

New line of trading cards?  Ditching the GOP for the MAGA party?  Suing Biden, the FBI, the NYTimes, CNN, etc?

 

 

I’m assuming he will announce that “after a difficult four hour surgery, the best surgery with the best surgeons who were almost in tears, describing me as the strongest patient they’d ever seen, that they were able to remove the Depends that had been absorbed into my groin area after four months. Literally a miracle, everyone has been saying. I mean, the knowledgeable medical people are saying.  They all back my new product - “Commander in Chief Garments”.  Everyone is talking about buying them. The Mormons are excited because the word garment. These will sell out fast so you wanna check the box for automatic re-orders at the non-introductory price. And everyone will receive a 20% discount if I am the 2024 GOP Presidential Nominee.“

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[Francisco 2.0 32395]

 

 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

 

[atomheartbevo 89682]

That's a massive MAGA greeting he got there.

[Burt 4080]

I can't wait until the mods merge this thread with the 2023 death thread.

[TexArcher 37813]

13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Never in the history of this country have we so desperately needed to hang a man.  

And we won't.

[Dnaguy 11970]

8 hours ago, Burt said:

I can't wait until the mods merge this thread with the 2023 death thread.

[Superhero 8830]

8 hours ago, Burt said:

I can't wait until the mods merge this thread with the 2023 death thread.

[Chooky 13307]

"The blood of those who mocked me will run through streets and merge into the sewers and eventually cascade into a volcano of bile and effluvium.

HAPPY NEW YEAR and may health be with you all."

[AnTiM 1666]

I can't wait until the maga hotheads get tired of listening to this insane bullshit and off his sorry ass.

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

6 minutes ago, AnTiM said:

I can't wait until the maga hotheads get tired of listening to this insane bullshit and off his sorry ass.

That’s not how cults work. 

[AnTiM 1666]

I wonder if that is what Hitler thought before a member of his cult left a bomb under his table?