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

[BamaATL 16592]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Also a Trump in charge of the RNC, if they didn’t immediately jettison her into the Sun after November, it’s designed to set up Ivanka and Don Jr for office. They’re going to go broke with the Trump name until America finally does a Czar Nicholas on them 

I fine with them going to jail, a murder in the forest seems a bit extreme to me.  

[Brisketexan 104597]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He knows he’s going to lose or end up in prison. Gotta vacuum up all the money before it’s over for himself and his kids. Bc he’s not going to be alive in 2028

So....even though I know the answer....what is the end-game?

A smart man would run the grift till the last second, get the money offshore, then fly off someplace with no extradition (seriously, Moscow would set him up in a palace for life, so long as he continues to snipe at the US online).

But, con-man after con-man.....doesn't seem to have an end-game.  They just think they can keep the con going forever, and then when the music stops, they are stuck and fucked.  Trump is dumber than most con-men -- he's really good at the conning part, don't get me wrong, and he's a savant when it comes to manipulating people -- but in terms of complex strategy, he's a demonstrable moron.  So, I don't think he has any sane end-game in mind.  

Just now, BamaATL said:

I fine with them going to jail, a murder in the forest seems a bit extreme to me.  

Only because you haven't been paying attention.

We need more Esso stations.  That's the way fascist regimes end.  Always.

[Js1 85104]

2 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I fine with them going to jail, a murder in the forest seems a bit extreme to me.  

America needs to shed the puritanical shit towards traitors. Country would be a lot better if we executed after the civil war or Jan 6

Edited February 14 by Js1

[Brisketexan 104597]

Just now, Js1 said:

America needs to shed the puritanical shit towards traitors. Country would be a lot better if we executed after the civil war or Jan 6

Sorry, we only execute minorities.  White traitors (well, white anything, really) pretty much get a free pass.

Lynching tree out front shoulda told ya.

[6th Street 6357]

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Also a Trump in charge of the RNC, if they didn’t immediately jettison her into the Sun after November, it’s designed to set up Ivanka and Don Jr for office. They’re going to go broke with the Trump name until America finally does a Czar Nicholas on them 

Ivanka and Jared are smart - left the politics game and are living the good life thanks to the Saudis.

Don Jr I could see trying and failing miserably to make a run.

[C-Man 27050]

4 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I fine with them going to jail, a murder in the forest seems a bit extreme to me.  

[Js1 85104]

I have some bloodlust reading Roma. The consul Brutus executed 2 of his sons for conspiring to overthrow the republic and re-install Tarquinius as king 

[C-Man 27050]

2 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Don Jr I could see trying and failing miserably to make a run.

Don Jr: "I should run for office."

 

[BamaATL 16592]

6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So....even though I know the answer....what is the end-game?

A smart man would run the grift till the last second, get the money offshore, then fly off someplace with no extradition (seriously, Moscow would set him up in a palace for life, so long as he continues to snipe at the US online).

But, con-man after con-man.....doesn't seem to have an end-game.  They just think they can keep the con going forever, and then when the music stops, they are stuck and fucked.  Trump is dumber than most con-men -- he's really good at the conning part, don't get me wrong, and he's a savant when it comes to manipulating people -- but in terms of complex strategy, he's a demonstrable moron.  So, I don't think he has any sane end-game in mind.  

Only because you haven't been paying attention.

We need more Esso stations.  That's the way fascist regimes end.  Always.

How about a hunting trip with Dick Cheney, it'll assuage my sensibilities? 

[Pescado_Rojo 19331]

31 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Ivanka and Jared are smart - left the politics game and are living the good life thanks to the Saudis.

Don Jr I could see trying and failing miserably to make a run.

Don Jr will die of a cocaine induced heart attack and MAGA will claim Hillary had him murdered or some similar idiocy. Never mind that he's been in an obvious drug and alcohol death spiral on social media for a few years now. 

[HenryJames 65889]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/trump-on-pace-to-drain-legal-funds-by-july-with-only-27-million-left?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=business

['stache 21772]

24 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Don Jr will die of a cocaine induced heart attack and MAGA will claim Hillary had him murdered or some similar idiocy. Never mind that he's been in an obvious drug and alcohol death spiral on social media for a few years now. 

At least Hunter is banging whores along the way and having the time of his life, Don Jr. is just spiraling in the misery that everyone hates him and only the MTGs of the world want to fuck him.

Edited February 14 by 'stache

[tx 3 putt 76354]

very classy 

[BamaATL 16592]

7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

very classy 

$10 bucks says shes filing for divorce today.  

[Red Five 40655]

*Melanie 

[Js1 85104]

12 minutes ago, Red Five said:

*Melanie 

“Hey you, bitch”

[Macanudo 12926]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

very classy 

Never left his side?   She's been seen with him, what, twice or three times in the past 6 months?  

[Francisco 2.0 32323]

3 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Never left his side?   She's been seen with him, what, twice or three times in the past 6 months?  

 

Well, there was her mom's funeral.  Other than that, who knows.

 

 

[YGIFS 19449]

15 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Well, there was her mom's funeral.  Other than that, who knows.

 

 

Well then, and when she walked on him smothering her mother with a mypillow.  So yeah, twice.  Let's be generously Christian on Ash Wednesday, and round up to 3 times total this year.  

Edited February 14 by YGIFS

[ChiTownDoc 21098]

3 hours ago, Js1 said:

He knows he’s going to lose or end up in prison. Gotta vacuum up all the money before it’s over for himself and his kids. Bc he’s not going to be alive in 2028

LOL at the 'for his kids' part.  He would be happy dying and spending every last penny with his last breath, leaving nothing for anyone, even his family.  Guy is ME ME ME, and, as importantly, ONLY ME.  As has been noted above, he's gonna suck the R party so dry that they're gonna continue to get their ass kicked in congressional races etc.  The R's stupidly think they can contain the burn, they can't...nobody can.  If they realize it, and I doubt they do, it will already be far too late. 

[Francisco 2.0 32323]

 

 

 

 

[ChiTownDoc 21098]

5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

Over/Under on how long until she gets into porn with black dudes?  I'll say set it at 18 months and I'll take the over, but not by much. 

[YGIFS 19449]

The same S.I. that according to multiple periodical experts on this very website, claimed that it's going out of business because it refused to embrace Great American Values Again, and instead placed trans and plus-sized models in its swimsuit edition?  I believe in political nuance and multitudes.  But when it comes to a magazine, either it's in the pages or it's not.  So I'll leave it to our resident dipshits to weigh in on this issue.  /punintended.

(also, her politic aside...totally would)

[Mdhorn 5911]

9 hours ago, HenryJames said:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/trump-on-pace-to-drain-legal-funds-by-july-with-only-27-million-left?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=business

Running his patented how to bankrupt a casino routine--can Trump file for bankruptcy on the Republican party?   

[Gatorubet 30091]

9 hours ago, 'stache said:

At least Hunter is banging whores along the way and having the time of his life, Don Jr. is just spiraling in the misery that everyone hates him and only the MTGs of the world want to fuck him.

 

When she’s not attached to the underside of a reef shark by her mouth, grabbing for bits of stray flesh with her toes and fingers, she is probably giving Don Junior BJ’s with a suction pressure not equaled by the safety seals of hyperbaric chambers. 

[TeeDubya 3358]

12 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

 

When she’s not attached to the underside of a reef shark by her mouth, grabbing for bits of stray flesh with her toes and fingers, she is probably giving Don Junior BJ’s with a suction pressure not equaled by the safety seals of hyperbaric chambers. 

[tx 3 putt 76354]

[HenryJames 65889]

15 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Over/Under on how long until she gets into porn with black dudes?

[WhatTheBuck 28710]

18 hours ago, BamaATL said:

$10 bucks says shes filing for divorce today.  

You’re on. 

[South Austin 52144]

18 hours ago, BamaATL said:

$10 bucks says shes filing for divorce today.  

She ain’t getting off that grifting train.

[BamaATL 16592]

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

You’re on. 

[4th&Five 41459]

 

[TeeDubya 3358]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

[Neonmoon 38127]

Don Jr is going to be doing so much cocaine tonight, J.J. Cale is going to write a sequel 

[Gap03 3284]

[4th&Five 41459]

 

[Party_Taco 3674]

[Red Five 40655]

15 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Imagine waking up from a 10 year coma. And reading that, and then reading that Donald Fucking Trump is running away with the republican nomination. 

[YGIFS 19449]

2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Don Jr is going to be doing so much cocaine tonight, J.J. Cale is going to write a sequel 

You laugh, but there really is going to be campfire tales years from now, about how there was literally no coke to do in late February because Don, Jr. had all of it.

"You mean like a bunch of it, pa?"

No, he literally had all the world's cocaine for like, TWO WEEKS!  Couldn't get a bump anywhere, people were just turning their pockets inside-out to get a gummy's worth.  

 

Also, I like Trump's new catchphrase, "Strongly Prosecuted."  You see?  It's one more than "Regularly Prosecuted."  How in the wild, wild western fuck has nobody asked him if this such a flagrant issue in American politics that it has never once happened in the history of our Republic...no administration has ever gone back and prosecuted a prior administration.  Oh wait, I think I got it.  I think I see the difference.  CRIMES.  Got it, got it.  Okay, takes me a minute somedays...

[Brisketexan 104597]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Imagine waking up from a 10 year coma. And reading that, and then reading that Donald Fucking Trump is running away with the republican nomination. 

I mean....goddamn.  This.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20344]

NY Times: Donald Trump is cannibalizing what was left of the rotting corpse of the GOP:

 

Spoiler

Feb. 16, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET

 

Donald J. Trump is stamping out the final flashes of independence inside Republican institutions with astonishing speed, demonstrating that his power continues to expand over the new party establishment he has created.

At the Republican National Committee, he is moving to replace longtime supporters with allies even more closely bound to him, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

In the House, Republicans are more compliant than ever. Most vividly, Speaker Mike Johnson — ostensibly the party’s top-ranking official — backtracked on an endorsement in a crucial Senate race because Mr. Trump disagreed. On Thursday, Mr. Johnson’s candidate ended his campaign less than one week after opening it.

In the Senate, which has been less beholden to Mr. Trump, his influence over a failed border bill made one of the party’s most effective lawmakers, Mitch McConnell, look weak.

 

 

The displays of obedience emerging in recent weeks remove any lingering doubt that the Republican Party is aligned to advance the interests of one man, signaling that a sweep of victories from Mr. Trump and his allies in November could also mean replacing checks and balances in Washington with his wishes and whims.

For many Republicans, those aren’t risks but the rewards of a second Trump administration. Only a rapidly dwindling minority inside the party remains worried about Mr. Trump’s intentions.

“This is a defining moment for our party and our country,” said former Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who ran a long-shot Republican primary challenge to Mr. Trump on a promise to restore the party to its traditional principles. “As long as leaders continue to wilt under Trump’s pressure, we’re going to be moving in the direction of a Trump party and not the Republican Party.”

Mr. Trump is consolidating control even as he faces 91 felony charges, with a New York judge on Thursday setting a trial date of March 25 in the case concerning hush money payments to a porn star. On Friday, a final ruling is expected in a separate New York civil fraud case, where the state attorney general is seeking to penalize Mr. Trump nearly $370 million and effectively cut him off from his family business.

 

At the same time, Mr. Trump, who long accused Republican leaders of rigging the system for their self-gain, has come to mirror their methods. The swamp that he once declared in need of draining, he now sees as wetlands in need of protecting.

 

Mr. Trump’s team argues that he is giving voice to popular opinions that had no champion in the party, and that the changes at the Republican National Committee are intended with a single goal in mind: electing him to a second White House term.

“Our mission is straightforward: maximize the Republican Party’s resources to get President Trump elected,” said Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign senior adviser set to take over as chief operating officer of the R.N.C.

Presidents tend to become the political establishment, and often install trusted lieutenants in key positions of their party’s apparatus. But Mr. Trump has gone beyond traditional norms in both the degree of loyalty he requires and the totality of his project to remake the conservative movement in his own image.

When Mr. Trump arrived in Washington, the welcome was as hostile as the takeover he led, pushing for sharp reversals of longstanding Republican principles.

 

 

He praised strongmen like Vladimir V. Putin and publicly undermined foreign allies. He cast doubt on fair and free elections. He embraced hard-line immigration measures, waved away concerns about the national debt and backed protectionist trade policies.

Eight years later, the only question is whether Mr. Trump’s grip can tighten any further.

On the campaign trail, he has made a mockery of traditional conservative powerhouses like the Koch political machine and the Club for Growth, crushing their attempts to oppose him.

The Club for Growth, a well-funded anti-tax group, effectively folded its tent after an allied group spent millions against Mr. Trump only to conclude nothing worked. On Saturday, the group’s president, David McIntosh, sat in the front row of a Trump rally in Conway, S.C., a detail that the former president repeatedly dwelled on for his audience.

“David, stand up, please,” Mr. Trump said as Mr. McIntosh quickly jumped to his feet. “He’s now with us 100 percent — he’s with us 100 percent. Thank you. Thank you. Good to have you.”

The Koch political network, Americans for Prosperity Action — long among the nation’s most influential conservative outfits — has poured millions into helping Mr. Trump’s last remaining primary rival, Nikki Haley. Yet polls show her at risk of being trounced in the primary election next week in South Carolina, her home state.

 

At the same rally in South Carolina, Mr. Trump mocked Ms. Haley by insinuating that her husband had left for deployment with the National Guard to escape her — an insult aimed at a military family that met little criticism within their party.

“Why is there silence from the Republican Party?” Ms. Haley asked Monday in an interview with Politico. “Where are the Republicans in defense of our men and women in uniform that sacrifice for us and protect our country?”

Ms. Haley’s bid was undermined years before she announced a presidential campaign, when the Trump team began working to rewrite rules in Republican state parties to favor front-runners like him. Nevada’s nominating contest this month was so tilted toward Mr. Trump that opponents argued it had been manipulated.

But Mr. Trump seemed to want to go even further.

At multiple points during the past two years, the former president floated the possibility of canceling the primary process during discussions with Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, according to two people familiar with the conversations.

 

 

Ms. McDaniel did not consider Mr. Trump’s suggestion to be a serious request, even as the former president complained he was being treated unfairly, the people said. Ms. McDaniel did not return a call seeking comment.

On one occasion, Mr. Trump fumed that the party would have canceled primaries for George W. Bush if it had been the nation’s 43rd president who had lost re-election and tried to run again, one of the people briefed on the conversations said.

The Trump campaign denied that the former president had made such remarks. Mr. LaCivita, the former president’s senior adviser, said the conversations were completely manufactured and used an expletive to describe the disputed exchanges.

Still, Ms. McDaniel was no Never Trumper.

She owed her political post and subsequent re-elections to Mr. Trump’s endorsements, and signed off on a plan for the party to help pay his legal bills. She quickly became a close political adviser, even as she showed an occasional willingness to disagree with him.

Ms. McDaniel privately urged Mr. Trump to drop his opposition to masks during the pandemic, and cautioned that his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Michigan, her home state, were based on lies. She warned that a third presidential campaign would make it impossible for the party to continue paying his legal bills — and cut him off after he declared his candidacy anyway.

 

Most recently, Ms. McDaniel refused to cancel all of the Republican presidential debates — despite badgering from Mr. Trump, who refused to participate.

Mr. Trump’s next chairman at the R.N.C. is likely to be Michael Whatley, a supporter of the former president’s false election claims. Mr. Trump also endorsed as party co-chair his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who has had various roles in his political operation.

Mr. Trump is not the first president to seek a lieutenant from within the family: Ronald Reagan had his daughter, Maureen, installed in the same No. 2 party post.

But previous efforts to overhaul parties were aimed at winning elections across the ballot, not just the presidency, said Michael Steele, an anti-Trump conservative who served as Republican National Committee chairman during the rise of the Tea Party movement.

“Many of us have made the argument that the Republican Party has grown old and stale and frayed at the edges,” Mr. Steele said. “But we addressed that by encouraging a new generation of leadership, and it was never so selfishly oriented around one person.”

 

[Gatorubet 30091]

Holy shit, does this mean that Junior and Eric are now about to be unemployed?  

I guess every penny that Trump does not grift from the yokels and somehow manages to hit the RNC coffers will now go to the RNC co-chair salaries - which will include the two Trump sons and someone to do the grunt work at Donald’s behest…. which will mostly consist of spending RNC money for Trump legal fees. 

[Surly Bevo 24696]

Putting on a pre-emptive tinfoil hat.  Doesn't this all end when Putin decides that Trump has shriveled up significantly enough that he is no longer worth allowing to continue to draw breath as a means of sowing discord in the U.S.  He then moves to the final stage of allowing Trump to be a useful idiot by having him killed in such a way that at the worst the true nutters go true nuts believing Biden (the man they claim can't put together a coherent sentence) is all behind it and even at best is something the administration has to deal with in a serious manner given the whole "former president murdered" thing.  

I know there is a lot of talk here about celebrating Trump's death (and yes Lobo we KNOW how you feel about it), and I don't disagree in the least bit, but that scenario seems potentially ugly.  

Or maybe just as they have with the trials, etc the Magatards will shrug and move on to the next zany grifter.  

Edited February 16 by Surly Bevo

[Rimbo 25778]

On 2/14/2024 at 7:33 PM, Gatorubet said:

 

When she’s not attached to the underside of a reef shark by her mouth, grabbing for bits of stray flesh with her toes and fingers, she is probably giving Don Junior BJ’s with a suction pressure not equaled by the safety seals of hyperbaric chambers. 

 

[YGIFS 19449]

Al, "Boy the last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.  You musta been something before electricity..."  

[Bullneck 18987]

On 1/4/2024 at 1:05 PM, Underdog said:

I’m sure this genius will get right on that investigation… 

 

ELECTION KY

College girlfriend says James Comer abused her

Joseph Gerth

@Joe_Gerth

A woman who dated gubernatorial candidate James Comer while the two were in college said in a letter to The Courier-Journal on Monday that he was physically and mentally abusive to her during what she said was a two-year relationship.

"Did Jamie Comer ever hit me? Yes," wrote Marilyn Thomas, who attended Western Kentucky University with Comer in the early 1990s.

Comer's lawyer, Dick Plymale, of Lexington, said in an interview that Comer "profusely denies" all the allegations in the letter and promised a "devastating lawsuit" against the newspaper if it published the story.

Plymale went on to criticize Thomas, saying "I've heard unpleasant things about her personality and mental state."

The allegations come as Comer, Kentucky's agriculture commissioner, enters the final two weeks of his campaign to be the Republican nominee for governor.

In the four-page letter, Thomas detailed a relationship that she said "was toxic, abusive and caused me a lot of suffering. His controlling and aggressive personality alienated me from most of my family and friends at the time."

Thomas said Comer threatened and belittled her and that she ultimately moved away from Kentucky in an effort to leave that chapter of her life behind. She now lives in New York City.

She has supported Hal Heiner, one of Comer's rivals for the nomination, on social media and has contributed $100 to his campaign, according to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.

In the letter, Thomas does not offer specific details of the alleged physical abuse other than to say Comer struck her. She told a reporter that she never filed a police complaint against him. In the letter, she said she had been "emotionally weak" at the time.

"Everything I did, everywhere I went, and everyone with whom I interacted had to be approved" by Comer, Thomas wrote. "Consequences were violent and swift otherwise."

She said Comer became "enraged" in 1991 after they visited a Louisville abortion clinic and learned that she had used his real name on a form requiring proof that she had an escort to drive her home.

Plymale told The Courier-Journal late Monday night that the abortion allegation was crazy and "not true."

Wendy Curley, who said she shared a dorm room at Western Kentucky with Thomas, said that Thomas and Comer had "a very rocky relationship."

"I would see bruises on her wrists and stuff where she'd say, 'Oh, I ran into a table,' 'I fell,' just that kind of stuff," Curley said.

Curley said Thomas never told her she was being abused. "It was always something to cover (for him). She didn't want anybody to know that he was abusive to her."

She also said Comer took Thomas for an abortion.

"I know she ended up getting pregnant in like October of 1991 and had an abortion in the beginning of November, and I remember him seeing her to the dorm and just dropping her off after they got back from the abortion," Curley said.

Billy Proffitt, an auctioneer and real estate agent in Comer's hometown of Tompkinsville and Comer's roommate in college, however, said he never saw Comer be abusive toward Thomas.

"That doesn't sound like Jamie at all," said Proffitt, who said he had never even heard rumors of abuse until blogs started talking about them and that he had never heard allegations of an abortion.

Thomas said she still has paperwork from the visit to the clinic. "I kept that piece of paper as a reminder of what desperation and rock bottom feel like. For more than 20 years, that piece of paper has been a source of anxiety and shame. But it was mine. It was only mine."

She said the paper is in a lock box at a Kentucky bank and she didn't have immediate access to it.

In the letter, Thomas said that Comer once called her parents at 2 a.m. to "make violent threats against me."

Mary Rose Thomas, Marilyn Thomas' 83-year-old mother, said in an interview that Comer called her home one morning some 25 years ago. "I couldn't understand everything he was saying, but he said something about your daughter's going to be killed. ... It was something like that."

Plymale did not address those allegations specifically when asked Monday night, but he suggested the newspaper was falling victim to a hoax.

Marilyn Thomas said she felt she had no choice but to come forward following months of allegations by a Lexington blogger who identified her by name and then last week when the Lexington Herald-Leader ran a story that raised the question of abuse by Comer but did not name her.

Comer told The Courier-Journal last week that the two had dated for a "few months" and later said it was "less than a year" while they were at Western. He went on to say that he didn't recall how the relationship ended.

"I don't remember. I don't think it was, if I remember correctly it was just a mutual agreement. Nothing controversial," he said.

In the Herald-Leader story, Comer said of Thomas, "I think she's a good person. … And I don't think she would have anything to do with this."

In her letter, Thomas said she wanted to avoid coming forward.

"I feel as if I have no choice but to speak up against the lies," she wrote to The Courier-Journal. "The underbelly of the internet has painted me as a crazy person, a liar, an opportunist, a fame-seeker, and a bitter ex-girlfriend. … (E)nough is enough."

That story in the Herald-Leader said that Scott Crosbie, the husband of KC Crosbie, who is running for lieutenant governor on a ticket with Heiner, had been in communication with the blogger concerning rumors about her and Comer. Heiner denied his campaign was involved.

Comer and Matt Bevin, another candidate for governor, both criticized Heiner for the episode.

With that, Thomas said, "all the scars of my relationship with Jamie were reduced to fodder last week to tear down a politician, who I have also never met."

In months of discussions with The Courier-Journal, Thomas said repeatedly she wanted only to be left alone. The newspaper never pressed her to speak.

"The fact that I am speaking out now is not something I approached lightly. As a matter of fact, I feel under great duress in doing it now. I do not want to be involved in this. This letter will be the last thing that I say about Jamie Comer and my past relationship," she wrote.

 

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