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

[Biff Tannen 46165]

19 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

Lots of fun drops today... keep it continue until they’re all in shackles or exile.

I don't see why it takes so long.  What were these people doing for the past 4+ years?  They should have had all this shit lined up and ready to go the minute he left office.  I don't think anything will happen and he will die comfortably in Maralago without ever serving a moment in jail or losing a dollar to fines.

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

22 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

This seems significant

 

Damn those federal judges!!!  Don’t they know they owe Donald a favor ever since he appointed them?

[Constant 6886]

I appreciate infrastructure humor. 

[Bullneck 19519]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Guess who launched another website today.

https://www.45office.com

And as somebody who dabbles in website stuff on the side, that domain name is hit.

Can't wait to see his social media platform.

 

I looked around the website.  No requests for donations.  Something's wrong.

[Born to Run 6601]

I don't see why it takes so long.  What were these people doing for the past 4+ years?  They should have had all this shit lined up and ready to go the minute he left office.  I don't think anything will happen and he will die comfortably in Maralago without ever serving a moment in jail or losing a dollar to fines.

The millstone of justice turns slow but it grinds exceedingly fine.
- Owen Wilson

He's going to be miserable fuck until he dies tho, and end up like his old man sending out releases no one reads via some schmuck with no other options

[SaucyJack 3520]

On 3/29/2021 at 7:15 PM, Biff Tannen said:

He just needs to die.  For the good of all humanity.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

I looked around the website.  No requests for donations.  Something's wrong.

His people are probably getting the Foundation set up. It takes awhile for the NDAs to be signed, for everything to be vetted. The mob may be disorganized, but one thing they know is how to suck up money like a vacuum cleaner. The $2 million dollar settlement for misusing charity dollars isn't something they want to repeat because that was a $2 million dollar mistake. Once the mechanism for how to siphon the dollars is determined, the donate button will appear. And then, the money will vanish....

 

 

He may set up a different foundation if the current Trump Foundation is appealing the NY settlement agreement.

Edited April 1, 2021 by Mrs Whiggins
I don't believe that he is barred from operating the Foundation under his name. Since he is no longer domeciled in New York, the settlement agreement with that state may not apply but I don't know the details of that.

[956 Worldwide 35592]

All about the grift, part 246,312......

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/01/factionalism-trump-lord-of-flies-478811

While I am tempted to rejoice at this stuff, near identical dysfunction plagued his last two campaigns and one succeeded and the other came close to it. 

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The warning shot fired over unauthorized use of the Trump Victory donor list was, for many, a clear example of the eagerness that some Trump aides or ex-staff have in exploiting what one 2016 Trump campaign official described as a “Wild West” environment at Mar-a-Lago.

“Right now, it’s like a daycare if you took all the adults away. There’s virtually nobody with organizational skills left,” said a person familiar with Trump’s operation. 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

While I am tempted to rejoice at this stuff, near identical dysfunction plagued his last two campaigns and one succeeded and the other came close to it. 

 

When there are no rules except win at all costs, then the odds for success increase. The 4D chess rook out front should've told you.

[SydneyCarton 49490]

Let’s go ahead and sanction some restaurants and tech businesses by mistake. Because he’s a fucking idiot and so are those with whom he surrounds himself. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/02/italian-restaurant-owner-sanctioned-trump?fbclid=IwAR2VRAWJYdxM-RSG6cWPy7UWhqMHmdCrqr4-fGc0DEjGMdnlDEZiA9jxEyc

 

 

[Goredho 17655]

On 3/30/2021 at 7:48 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

He is who they thought he is. They eat that shit up. They believe everything he says. They’re not normal or they’d hold their wedding somewhere else. I’ll bet both bride and groom and everyone in the wedding party fully believe the election was stolen. He has a long history of showing up at weddings and giving self-serving narcissistic speeches. You’re thinking like a normal person. Gotta learn how to think like a Trumpist. 

Most people get married in a place of worship.

[Longhorn_Fan68 34104]

 

[956 Worldwide 35592]

2 hours ago, Goredho said:

Most people get married in a place of worship.

Do they these days? I remember even when I tied the knot over 15 years ago I was one of a very few in my “marrying cohort” of friends and relatives that had an old-fashioned church wedding.  Beaches, gardens, ranches, backyards, event centers, etc. all seemed to be the thing. 

Off topic, I was glad when I left the “going to multiple weddings a year” age. No one should host a wedding outside in Texas in between April and mid-October. Miserable. 

[Biff Tannen 46165]

23 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

People who support him and that ideology deserve to be fleeced of everything they have. 

[SydneyCarton 49490]

21 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Do they these days? I remember even when I tied the knot over 15 years ago I was one of a very few in my “marrying cohort” of friends and relatives that had an old-fashioned church wedding.  Beaches, gardens, ranches, backyards, event centers, etc. all seemed to be the thing. 

Off topic, I was glad when I left the “going to multiple weddings a year” age. No one should host a wedding outside in Texas in between April and mid-December Miserable. 

No one in Texas should have a wedding period during fucking football season, either. If they do they are an unmitigated shitbag. So FIFY. 

[Underdog 29184]

On 3/31/2021 at 9:11 PM, SaucyJack said:

Look!  It's Jesus, the sandals give him away. 

[Underdog 29184]

On 3/31/2021 at 5:14 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Guess who launched another website today.

https://www.45office.com

And as somebody who dabbles in website stuff on the side, that domain name is hit.

Can't wait to see his social media platform.

 

For the Lawballs on this site, could, say someone I know, get in  trouble if someone dropped a "Fuck You" through the contact page on there?  Asking for someone. 

[Francisco 2.0 32588]

The Art of Grifting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html

 

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Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.

It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.

 

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What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.

“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”

 

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But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election.

Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.

 

Spoiler

As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.

The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists — retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Soon, banks and credit card companies were inundated with fraud complaints from the president’s own supporters about donations they had not intended to make, sometimes for thousands of dollars.

“Bandits!” said Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian, who made a $990 online donation to Mr. Trump in early September via WinRed. It recurred seven more times — adding up to almost $8,000. “I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”

The sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final two and a half months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time.

The recurring donations swelled Mr. Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.

 

In effect, the money that Mr. Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race.

 

Marketers have long used ruses like prechecked boxes to steer American consumers into unwanted purchases, like magazine subscriptions. But consumer advocates said deploying the practice on voters in the heat of a presidential campaign — at such volume and with withdrawals every week — had much more serious ramifications.

“It’s unfair, it’s unethical and it’s inappropriate,” said Ira Rheingold, the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

Harry Brignull, a user-experience designer in London who coined the term “dark patterns” for manipulative digital marketing practices, said the Trump team’s techniques were a classic of the “deceptive design” genre.

“It should be in textbooks of what you shouldn’t do,” he said.

Political strategists, digital operatives and campaign finance experts said they could not recall ever seeing refunds at such a scale. Mr. Trump, the R.N.C. and their shared accounts refunded far more money to online donors in the last election cycle than every federal Democratic candidate and committee in the country combined.

Over all, the Trump operation refunded 10.7 percent of the money it raised on WinRed in 2020; the Biden operation’s refund rate on ActBlue, the parallel Democratic online donation-processing platform, was 2.2 percent, federal records show.

 

Several bank representatives who fielded fraud claims directly from consumers estimated that WinRed cases, at their peak, represented as much as 1 to 3 percent of their workload. An executive for one of the nation’s larger credit-card issuers confirmed that WinRed at its height accounted for a similar percentage of its formal disputes.

That figure may seem small at first glance, but financial experts said it was a shockingly large percentage, considering that political donations represent a tiny fraction of the overall United States economy.

In its investigation, The Times reviewed filings with the Federal Election Commission from the Trump and Biden campaigns and their shared accounts with political parties, as well as the donation-processing sites ActBlue and WinRed, compiling a database of refunds issued by day. The Times also interviewed two dozen Trump donors who made recurring donations, as well as campaign officials, campaign finance experts and consumer advocates. Nearly a dozen bank and credit card officials from the nation’s leading financial institutions spoke for this article on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

A clear pattern emerged. Donors typically said they intended to give once or twice and only later discovered on their bank statements and credit card bills that they were donating over and over again. Some, like Mr. Blatt, who died of cancer in February, sought an injunction from their banks and credit cards. Others pursued refunds directly from WinRed, which typically granted them to avoid more costly formal disputes.

WinRed said that every donor receives at least one follow-up email about pending repeat donations in advance and that the company makes it “exceptionally easy,” with 24-hour customer service, for people to request their money back. “WinRed wants donors to be happy, and puts a premium on customer support,” said Gerrit Lansing, WinRed’s president. “Donors are the lifeblood of G.O.P. campaigns.” He noted that Democrats and ActBlue had also used recurring programs.

Jason Miller, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, downplayed the rash of fraud complaints and the $122.7 million in total refunds issued by the Trump operation. He said internal records showed that 0.87 percent of its WinRed transactions had been subject to formal credit card disputes. “The fact we had a dispute rate of less than 1 percent of total donations despite raising more grass-roots money than any campaign in history is remarkable,” he said.

That still amounts to about 200,000 disputed transactions that Mr. Miller said added up to $19.7 million.

“Our campaign was built by the hardworking men and women of America,” Mr. Miller said, “and cherishing their investments was paramount to anything else we did.”

Mr. Trump’s hyperaggressive fund-raising practices did not stop once he lost the election. His campaign continued the weekly withdrawals through prechecked boxes all the way through Dec. 14 as he raised tens of millions of dollars for his new political action committee, Save America.

In March, Mr. Trump urged his followers to send their money to him — and not to the traditional party apparatus — making plain that he intends to remain the gravitational center of Republican fund-raising online.

A small yellow box and a flood of fraud complaints

The small and bright yellow box popped up on Mr. Trump’s digital donation portal around March 2020. The text was boldface, simple and straightforward: “Make this a monthly recurring donation.”

Even that was more aggressive than what the Biden campaign would do in 2020. Biden officials said they rarely used prechecked boxes to automatically have donations recur monthly or weekly; the exception was on landing pages where advertisements and emails had explicitly asked supporters to become repeat donors.

But for Mr. Trump, the prechecked monthly box was just the beginning.

By June, the campaign and the R.N.C. were experimenting with a second prechecked box, to default donors into making an additional contribution — called the money bomb. An early test arrived in the run-up to Mr. Trump’s birthday, June 14. The results were tantalizing: That date, a seemingly random Sunday, became the biggest day for online donations in the campaign’s history.

Ronna McDaniel, the R.N.C. chairwoman, crowed to Fox Newsabout the achievement without mentioning how exactly the party had pulled it off. “Republicans are thinking smarter digitally,” she said, and were poised to “outwork, outdo, and outmaneuver the Democrats at every turn.”

Until then, the Biden and Trump operations had nearly identical refund rates on WinRed and ActBlue in 2020: 2.18 percent for Mr. Trump and 2.17 percent for Mr. Biden.

But from the day after Mr. Trump’s birthday through the rest of the year, Mr. Biden’s refund rate remained nearly flat, at 2.24 percent, while Mr. Trump’s soared to 12.29 percent.

In early September — just after learning that it had been outraised by the Biden operation in August by more than $150 million — the Trump campaign became even more aggressive.

It changed the language in the first yellow box to withdraw recurring donations every week instead of every month. Suddenly, some contributors were unwittingly making as many as half a dozen donations in 30 days: the intended contribution, the “money bomb” and four more weekly withdrawals.

“You don’t realize it until after everything is already in motion,” said Bruce Turner, 72, of Gilbert, Ariz., whose wife’s $1,000 donation in early October became $6,000 by Election Day. They were refunded $5,000 the week after the election, records show.

Around the same time, officials who fielded fraud claims at bank and credit card companies noticed a surge in complaints against the Trump campaign and WinRed.

“It started to go absolutely wild,” said one fraud investigator with Wells Fargo. “It just became a pattern,” said another at Capital One. A consumer representative for USAA, which primarily serves military families, recalled an older veteran who discovered repeated WinRed charges from donating to Mr. Trump only after calling to have his balance read to him by phone.

The unintended payments busted credit card limits. Some donors canceled their cards to avoid recurring payments. Others paid overdraft fees to their bank.

All the banking officials said they recalled only a negligible number of complaints against ActBlue, the Democratic donation platform, although there are online review sites that feature heated complaints about unwanted charges and customer service.

The Trump operation was not done modifying the yellow boxes. Soon, the fact that donations would be withdrawn weekly was taken out of boldface type, according to archived versions of the president’s website, and moved beneath other bold text.

As the campaign’s financial problems became increasingly acute, the yellow boxes became dizzyingly more complex.

By October there were sometimes nine lines of boldface text — with ALL-CAPS words sprinkled in — before the disclosure that there would be weekly withdrawals. As many as eight more lines of boldface text came before the second additional donation disclaimer.

Even political professionals fell prey to the boxes.

Jeff Kropf, the executive director of the Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation, a conservative group, said he had been “very careful” to uncheck recurring boxes — yet he missed the “money bomb” and got a second charge anyway.

“Until WinRed fixes their sneaky way of adding additional contributions to credit cards like they did to me, I won’t use them again,” he said.

Mr. Brignull, the user-experience designer who also serves as an expert witness in legal cases involving misleading advertising, noted that a Consumer Rights Directive in Europe prohibits companies from deploying a defaulted opt-in tactic for recurring payments.

“It is very easy for the eye to skip over,” he said. “The only really meaningful information in that box is buried.”

 

The ‘Gary and Gerrit’ operation

By last summer, the Biden campaign had begun outraising Mr. Trump’s team, and the president was hopping mad. For months, years even, his advisers had been telling him how he had built a one-of-a-kind financial juggernaut. So why, Mr. Trump demanded to know, was he off the television airwaves just months before the election in critical battleground states like Michigan?

“Where did all the money go?” he would lash out, according to two senior advisers.

Inside the Trump re-election headquarters in Northern Virginia, the pressure was building to wring ever more money out of his supporters.

Perhaps nowhere was that pressure more acute than on Mr. Trump’s expansive and lucrative digital operation. That was the unquestioned domain of Gary Coby, a 30-something strategist whose title — digital director — and microscopic public profile belied his immense influence on the Trump operation, especially online.

A veteran of the R.N.C. and the 2016 race, Mr. Coby had the confidence, trust and respect of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, who unofficially oversaw the 2020 campaign, according to people familiar with the campaign’s operations. Mr. Kushner and the rest of the campaign leadership gave Mr. Coby, whose talents are recognized across the Republican digital industry, wide latitude to raise money however he saw fit.

That meant almost endless optimization and experimentation, sometimes pushing the traditional boundaries. The Trump team repeatedly used phantom donation matches and faux deadlines to loosen donor wallets (“1000% offer: ACTIVATED…For the NEXT HOUR”). Eventually it ratcheted up the volume of emails it sent until it was barraging supporters with an average of 15 per day for all of October and November 2020.

Mr. Coby, who declined an interview request for this article,outlined his philosophical approach when offering advice to other ambitious young strategists after he was named to the American Association of Political Consultants’ “40 under 40” list in 2017: “Asking for forgiveness is easier than permission.”

Mr. Coby’s partner in fund-raising was Mr. Lansing, the president of WinRed, which had been created in 2019 as a centralized platform for G.O.P. digital contributions after prominent Republicans feared they were falling irreparably behind Democrats and ActBlue.

The Trump and WinRed operations had been closely aligned since the platform’s inception — Mr. Trump reportedly helped come up with the firm’s name — and the president’s re-election operation amounted to a majority of all of WinRed’s business last cycle, when it processed more than $2 billion.

Inside the Trump orbit, “Gary and Gerrit” became something of a shorthand term for Mr. Coby and Mr. Lansing, according to multiple senior Trump campaign and White House officials.

The two strategists were already well acquainted: They had worked together at the R.N.C. in 2016, when Mr. Lansing oversaw its digital operations and Mr. Coby was the director of advertising. And they were business partners in Opn Sesame, a text messaging platform, which Mr. Lansing co-founded and served as chief operating officer for; WinRed said he stepped away from its day-to-day operations in early 2019.

Top Trump officials said they did not know specifically who had conceived of using the weekly recurring prechecked boxes — or who had designed them in the increasingly complex blizzard of text. But they said virtually all online fund-raising decisions were a “Gary and Gerrit” production.

“The campaigns determine their own fund-raising strategies and make their own decisions on how to use these tools,” Mr. Lansing said in WinRed’s statement.

Unlike ActBlue, which is a nonprofit, WinRed is a for-profit company. It makes its money by taking 30 cents of every donation, plus 3.8 percent of the amount given. WinRed was paid more than $118 million from federal committees the last election cycle; even after paying credit card fees and expenses like payroll and rent, the profits are believed to be significant.

WinRed even made money off donations that were refunded by keeping the fees it charged on each transaction, a practice it said was standard in the industry, citing PayPal; ActBlue said it does not keep fees for refunded donations. WinRed’s cut of the Trump operation’s refunds would amount to roughly $5 million before expenses. (Archived versions of WinRed’s website show it added a disclaimer saying it would keep its fees around when refunds surged.)

There is another reason Mr. Trump’s refund rates were so high: His campaign accepted millions of dollars above the legal cap, a problem exacerbated by recurring donations. A pianist in New York, for instance, contributed more than 100 times in the months leading up to Election Day, going far past the legal limit of $2,800. She was refunded $87,716.50 — three weeks after Election Day.

While every large-scale campaign winds up accepting and returning some donations above the legal limit, including Mr. Biden’s, the Trump situation stands out. Records show that Mr. Biden’s campaign committee issued roughly $47,000 in refunds larger than $5,000 after Election Day; Mr. Trump’s campaign issued more than $7 million.

Trump officials attributed the excessive donations to enthusiastic supporters and said the surge in postelection complaints was a result of losing the election, not of the recurring donation tactics.

The use of prechecked boxes is not unprecedented in politics, and WinRed said it was simply adopting tactics that ActBlue put in place years ago. ActBlue said in a statement that it had begun to phase out prechecked recurring boxes “unless groups were explicitly asking for recurring contributions.” Some prominent Democratic groups, including both congressional campaign committees, continue to precheck recurring boxes regardless of that guidance. Still, Democratic refund rates were only a small fraction of the Trump campaign’s last year.

Republicans widely hailed WinRed as one of the standout successes of the 2020 cycle, and in a memo last October the company declared itself the “trusted, recognizable platform” for Republican giving. “Scam PACs, shady operators and outright fraud is unfortunately a common occurrence in the online political donation world — particularly on the right,” the memo stated. “WinRed helps civilize the Wild West of the G.O.P. donation ecosystem.”

But for some Trump supporters like Ron Wilson, WinRed is a scam artist. Mr. Wilson, an 87-year-old retiree in Illinois, made a series of small contributions last fall that he thought would add up to about $200; by December, federal records show, WinRed and Mr. Trump’s committees had withdrawn more than 70 separate donations from Mr. Wilson worth roughly $2,300.

“Predatory!” Mr. Wilson said of WinRed. Like multiple other donors interviewed, though, he held Mr. Trump himself blameless, telling The Times, “I’m 100 percent loyal to Donald Trump.”

Trump was just the beginning

All told, the Trump and party operation raised $1.2 billion on WinRed, and refunded roughly 10 percent of it.

Whatever blowback it received, WinRed was not deterred. Soon after the November election ended, the two Republican Senate incumbents in Georgia, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, deployed prechecked weekly recurring boxes in advance of their January runoffs.

Predictably, refund rates spiked.

Keith Millhouse, a transportation consultant in California, intended to donate once to Mr. Perdue, with the aim of keeping Republicans in control of the Senate. He wound up a recurring contributor and called the practice “repugnant” and “deceptive.”

“I’m busy like a lot of other people during this Covid era and I just wanted to get in, make a donation, get done and move on to what I needed to do next,” he said. “I thought I had done that. Then I find out that, you know, I’m getting these other charges.”

He canceled the repeating charge when he saw the reminder email. But by then WinRed had already processed his second $100 “bonus” contribution. He figured it was not worth the hassle to protest. “Don’t try to sucker it out of me,” he said.

In the final 2020 reporting period, from Nov. 24 through the end of the year, Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler refunded $4.8 million to WinRed donors — more than triple the amount refunded by their Democratic rivals via ActBlue, even though the Democrats had raised far more money online. The refunds have stretched into 2021 and have been a source of frustration for the Loeffler campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Now WinRed is exporting the tools it pioneered during the Trump re-election across the Republican Party, presaging a new normal for G.O.P. campaigns.

Today, the websites of various Republican Party committees and top congressional Republicans, including Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, include prechecked yellow boxes for multiple or recurring donations.

And after Mr. Trump’s first public speech of his post-presidency at the end of February, his new political operation sent its first text message to supporters since he left the White House. “Did you miss me?” he asked.

The message directed supporters to a WinRed donation page with two prechecked yellow boxes. Mr. Trump raised $3 million that day, according to an adviser, with more to come from the recurring donations in the months ahead.

 

[956 Worldwide 35592]

I do not understand small-scale political donations, regardless of the party or ideology. I just don’t. Happy to phone bank or door knock or sit at a precinct. Happy to vote. 
 

I would rather burn my spare twenties in my Weber than donate to a campaign. So many other places that coin can do more good if you have it.

[TheStoicPaisano 9953]

Do they got weed out on the Ledge? Sigh.

 

[Biff Tannen 46165]

1 hour ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Do they got weed out on the Ledge? Sigh.

 

Cult gonna cult

[Born to Run 6601]

Do they got weed out on the Ledge? Sigh.
 

I'm holding.

[Underdog 29184]

I bet these same idiots are still waiting to hear back from that Nigerian Prince.  

[henrygandorf 29225]

5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

"unwitting supporters" seems awfully redundant.

[Bullneck 19519]

 

 

[Underdog 29184]

Don't worry, Donny, Loondell is on the case.  

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

I always use a burner credit card number when donating to known grifters. <points to head.gif>

[Guest Lobo]

"Other than that, Happy Easter." 

Politics aside, it has to hurt some of you somehow...to know he couldn't possibly share your faith any less if he tried.  

He's just fucking with you idiots at this point.  The guy signs off on the holiest of weekends with, "Other than that, Happy Easter."  He's literally just fucking with you, everything is about him.  Everything.  And you love him for it.  I promise many of you will be thinking of Trump more this weekend than you'll be thinking of Christ.  

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

I’m still waiting on the original facts much less the “more and more”.

 

i swear on trumps gravestone it’s gonna say “I won, it was rigged, I’ll show the proof in 2 weeks”

[conVINCEd 21477]

1 hour ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

I’m still waiting on the original facts much less the “more and more”.

 

i swear on trumps gravestone it’s gonna say “I won, it was rigged, I’ll show the proof in 2 weeks”

If you’re willing to dig through all of the fecal matter to see what it actually says you are a braver man than me.

[WhatTheBuck 28929]

*I

[Red Five 41737]

Imagine being fooled by that carnival barker. He's not even trying anymore. He's a caricature of the guy who ran in 2016. And that was a caricature. 

[Jack Straw 2955]

21 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

People who support him and that ideology deserve to be fleeced of everything they have. 

they deserve to have their lives utterly ruined in every respect.  

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

"Other than that, Happy Easter." 

Politics aside, it has to hurt some of you somehow...to know he couldn't possibly share your faith any less if he tried.  

He's just fucking with you idiots at this point.  The guy signs off on the holiest of weekends with, "Other than that, Happy Easter."  He's literally just fucking with you, everything is about him.  Everything.  And you love him for it.  I promise many of you will be thinking of Trump more this weekend than you'll be thinking of Christ.  

While it's true that everything is about him, the number one identifier is the grievance. The grievance comes first. That is the sell for the supporters. You know people like this. You're trying to have a conversation but the conversation is steered back to the grievance. Doesn't matter what topic you brought up, this person will grab any little detail like a beacon and run it through the grievance.

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

Snowflake nation unite! Trump has risen!

[JimmyJames 12271]

Cancel not! That ye be not canceled! 

[mdmost 44032]

I think Trumps would've gotten his message across better had he posted a picture of himself nailed to a cross. 

[956 Worldwide 35592]

Here’s some even more confused gibberish!  I had a really hard time tracking which group of persecutors he was lashing out at in this one

 

[Underdog 29184]

DJT whispering into some poor MAL staffer:  Be sure we're stocked up on plenty of diet coke before I begin my boycott. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

So getting other people to tweet his tweets about a stolen election seems like a loophole. 

And hahaha, getting dumb poor whites to boycott Baseball, CBS, and Coke. That is the chefs kiss.

[henrygandorf 29225]

4 hours ago, Bullneck said:

 

 

how come it’s only the very angry people who can understand this? 

[Neonmoon 38130]

 

[Chuckie Finster 23068]

There will be a day where I no longer find it funny that the former president is forced to pass along incoherent ramblings to his lackeys just to communicate with the country he used to lead, but that day is not today.

[henrygandorf 29225]

 

he’s having a normal one. 

[Bullneck 19519]

28 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

 

he’s having a normal one. 

OK, I'm struggling here.  Is he wishing a Happy Easter to MS13 and the refugee children who may or may not have parents anymore?  I see he's covering Antifa. What about The Squad?  He's being big and wishes them Happy Easter, even if Jesus isn't part of their religion?  Happy Easter to all you ChiComs out there!!  

The woman in the pink dress looks familiar.

Edited April 4, 2021 by Bullneck

[Bullneck 19519]

Oh, yeah.

 

[4th&Five 42004]

Ranting about cancel culture while calling for the the cancellation of certain companies? Perfect. 

[henrygandorf 29225]

it's cancel cancel culture.

duh.

[aggie08 21796]

1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

 

he’s having a normal one. 

That was almost magnanimous. He even capitalized the "ALL."

[bolverk 30323]

I'll be turning 50 in a couple of months, and the first corporate boycott I'm aware of in my lifetime was by the religious right against Proctor & Gamble back in the mid- to early-80s, because they thought the logo meant P&G was satanic. That doesn't mean it was the first one, but consumer activism has been going on forever by BOTH SIDES. Shortly after P&G, there was also the divestment movement against apartheid South Africa and Exxon after the Valdez oil spill by the left, but at least those were based on some semblance of reality and done in the defense of the oppressed and the environment.

Edit: The only boycotts I remember from the 1990s were against record labels, rock groups, and video games by cultural conservatives.

Edited April 4, 2021 by bolverk