Three Olives posted:

Something that I think is going to be a bigger thing than people can imagine is how much money is going to be wasted on Trump's vanity during the campaign, it is going to be stupid. Security to throw people out of his events, oversized venues so he can lie and say he sold out arenas, his stupid loving 757 which is completely impractical and stupid expensive to use for almost daily campaigning.

We are going to get to October and there will be article after article about how the campaign is struggling to pay for ads because Trump has wasted $70M flying his 757 around along with another 737 just for campaign staff.

Grammarchist posted:

Tip O'Neil has already lit one man's loins afire.

kazil posted:

anyway, have a lol

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

BigglesSWE posted:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1753214919007207657?s=20

Someone missed the "this is a grift movement" call it seems.

Jean-Paul Shartre posted:

January Six? Oh no.

January Sex? Hell yes.

vaginite posted:

Trump: We're looking for a hung jury.
Alina: I'm on it.



Trump: Goddamn it

kazil posted:

PBS is in the pocket of Big Bird

John Yossarian posted:

I recently read that Trump met with the union teamsters to get their support, and it might actually work. I know a few people that are in unions and they support Trump, even though he's strongly anti-unions. Biden has probably been the most pro-union president in years, yet these freaks will vote for Trump. It's absolutely nuts.

Data Graham posted:

There's that, and also I wonder how many people there are who are like "I'm in a union, and I want whoever is in charge to destroy the union so I don't have to be in the union anymore. That way I'll get more money"

Data Graham posted:

There's that, and also I wonder how many people there are who are like "I'm in a union, and I want whoever is in charge to destroy the union so I don't have to be in the union anymore. That way I'll get more money"

ishikabibble posted:

Admittedly I heard this from a small factory owner in Ohio so take it with the biggest grain of salt, but probably. I was there for an audit and at dinner that night he was mentioning he was having trouble hiring people because he was offering big boy job benefits like healthcare/etc, possibility of advancement/pay raises, that sorta stuff. But there were other factories in the area beating his base pay by a buck an hour and that was all the potential hires seemed to care about. Claimed he'd even sit some guys down and outline how much the benefits are worth in monetary value and how that beat what they'd be getting paid elsewhere, but they'd almost just stare at him blankly and go 'but the other place will pay me a dollar more an hour'.

red19fire posted:

12 Angry Inches.

Data Graham posted:

Yeah. Let's not be underestimating the degree to which people would happily go without insurance or retirement savings if it meant another few hundred bucks a month NOW.

It's practically the whole theme of the Trump Years

ishikabibble posted:

Admittedly I heard this from a small factory owner in Ohio so take it with the biggest grain of salt, but probably. I was there for an audit and at dinner that night he was mentioning he was having trouble hiring people because he was offering big boy job benefits like healthcare/etc, possibility of advancement/pay raises, that sorta stuff. But there were other factories in the area beating his base pay by a buck an hour and that was all the potential hires seemed to care about. Claimed he'd even sit some guys down and outline how much the benefits are worth in monetary value and how that beat what they'd be getting paid elsewhere, but they'd almost just stare at him blankly and go 'but the other place will pay me a dollar more an hour'.

zone posted:

Didn't think the leopards would eat your face huh? tough.

Caveman Cat posted:

Tröemp!

It's pronounced Tröemp.

quote:

Last month, Fox News host Jesse Watters speculated that [Taylor] Swift might be a Pentagon "psyop" — an asset used for psychological operations.

“It’s real. The Pentagon psy-op unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online,” Watters said.

Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh pushed back against Watters claim, referencing one of Swift’s big hits by saying in a statement, “as for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

“But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be out of the woods with potential fiscal concerns,” Singh added, seizing the opportunity to slyly highlight a Swift song by telling Congress “I Wish You Would” grant the administration its supplemental budget request.

quote:

Representatives for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Beefed Owl posted:

Why doesn't that company just pay them one more dollar an hour. "We can't get anybody to work for us but we'll be damned if we pay them even one more dollar an hour"

And yes I know in some companies a $1 raise across the board can be a good amount of cost but if it's costing you good labor maybe it's worth the investment

LifeSunDeath posted:

all republicans are chickenshit bozos
https://packaged-media.redd.it/yeqi...615eca8890d#t=0

LifeSunDeath posted:

all republicans are chickenshit bozos
https://packaged-media.redd.it/yeqi...615eca8890d#t=0

LifeSunDeath posted:

all republicans are chickenshit bozos
https://packaged-media.redd.it/yeqi...615eca8890d#t=0

Accipiter posted:

"[Australians] are dependent on their government telling them what they can and cannot do. They're not free."

Accipiter posted:

"[Australians] are dependent on their government telling them what they can and cannot do. They're not free."

Republican lawmaker doesn't understand laws.

Grey Cat posted:

Gonna storm the capitol with a crowd of passionate gays. Reclaiming January Sex.

We can make america gay again.

quote:

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch.

Kaplan, who has represented clients in high-profile cases against Trump, including E. Jean Carroll, said on an episode of the “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” podcast recorded Thursday that she rejected the former president’s request that they work through a lunch break because he believed the deposition was “a waste of my time.”

“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. “And he said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?’”

Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal teams.

“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch.

“He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina,” she said.

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

Galginaitis posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/politics/roberta-kaplan-donald-trump-deposition-maralago/index.html

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

busalover posted:

This guy... you can't invent this. He's such a unique little turd flower.

quote:

In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.

“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday. “You could tell it was like, it was like a kind of a joke again, like teenage boys would come up with. But again, I wasn’t in on the joke,” she said.

busalover posted:

This guy... you can't invent this. He's such a unique little turd flower.

Galginaitis posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/politics/roberta-kaplan-donald-trump-deposition-maralago/index.html

Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch

Seth Pecksniff posted:

353,000 new jobs in January and wages rose 0.6%, beating analyst estimates

And wall street thinks those are bad numbers lmao

BrigadierSensible posted:

Was there ever a time when this kind of pettiness and tantrummy behavior was considered acceptable? By anyone?

Also huge LOLs at the last line. "I told them to make you bad sandwiches. Because I am a petty tantrummy bitch. But the sandwiches were good. Because everything I touch is the best. So there!"

I hope he dies alone, poor, and in pain.

SlurredSpeech609 posted:

Trump just truthed this out. Wall street watches the polls and number goes up when he's leading.

quote:

“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,”