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BiggerBoat posted:Why are so many people lining up to swear loyalty to this loving idiot? I think he controls or influences a lot of the money going to R campaigns now, through his own PACs, through control of the national Republican party, and through local dingbat parties. And there were, what, 7 Republican house members who voted to impeach Trump, and none of them are still in office?
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Tatsuta Age posted:they want to be one of the ones allowed to keep their necks when he wins in november It doesn't matter if they are loyal to him or not. It only matters if their destruction benefits him. Trump shows loyalty to no one. And they should know this.
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Man, Michael Cohen really knows who he is and has no shame about it.
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Lammasu posted:It doesn't matter if they are loyal to him or not. It only matters if their destruction benefits him. Trump shows loyalty to no one. And they should know this.
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The Islamic Shock posted:How many more thousands of years do you think it'll take before people start to figure out that intentionally giving the worst people power to accomplish your goals doesn't go well Instructions unclear, working on finding a worse person to defuse the current worst person.
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Angry_Ed posted:And be absolutely 100% upfront about it no less "I am here to actively participate in the furtherance of a crime." I continue to be amazed that they don't even try to hide their criminal behavior. Put the reporter on the stand,amd then put Tunerville on the stand.
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Push El Burrito posted:Tucker was mysteriously let go right after. That was such a weird firing too. Vanity Fair released a hatchet piece shortly after the firing. There were years worth of allegations in that piece that all could have gotten him fired in a normal corporate setting. that piece felt like it was set up by Fox to make it look like the firing had been a long time coming, and wasnt part of the settlement or a reaction to it. Just years of bullshit they’d been sitting on, including people describing Murdoch as always having his people’s back….until he didn’t. And all this came about a year after Tucker was in a Zuckerberg_eating_toast.gif-esque media blitz. Remember where he was sitting in his bespoke wood shop in an Orvis flannel shirt wasting hundreds of dollars of lumber on an etsy plan for a birdhouse? That guy was figuring out how much of his daddy’s money he’d have to spend to buy a political career. Tucker was a guy so stupid his family wanted him to get into journalism because the CIA didn’t want him. He got his start in news by lying about being an expert on the OJ Simpson trial and getting a job with CNN. He leveraged his family’s wealth and his ability to mask his racist inclinations to move up in the news world, even surviving an on air garroting by Jon Stewart in the process. I can’t imagine how insufferable he was to work with or under. He’s a real deal, in the flesh white supremacist who was born with a billion in his bank account. gently caress sean Hannity and all but there’s definitely an alternate universe where he’s the second largest jet ski and water sports salesman in the tri county area and voted for Obama in 2008. Carlson was peddling this poo poo on cspan call in shows in the mid 90s. He probably believed he was too powerful for even Fox News to touch, and thought if they did fire him he’d become “more powerful than you can imagine.” How long after his firing did he wait to reach out to Musk? I feel like humanity dodged a real bullet on him. Hope he finds joy ranting about trans athletes to an audience of hundreds while rereading biographies of Nixon written after he lost his race for the California governorship. And I’ll take a 5 for 5 (it’s a 2 for 6 now) sit, thank you.
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When I look at people like Tucker I think of the job I had with an average white people turnover rate of one week after hiring (drat near entirely Mexicans who were willing to put up with that poo poo for years) and I think he's exactly the kind of gently caress who would suffer considerably more psychological damage doing that for a month than any duration in solitary confinement
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The Islamic Shock posted:How many more thousands of years do you think it'll take before people start to figure out that intentionally giving the worst people power to accomplish your goals doesn't go well Surely making this art school flunk out couldn't have any long-term negative consequences.
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Also the worst people are inexplicably the ones who are most motivated and attracted to leadership positions, sooo..
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The Bible posted:Although that's no guarantee either. They're the best, most wonderful people. Then they're very disloyal losers and coffee boys
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 Trump appeals gag order in New York “hush money” trial quote:Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have New York's highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial.
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The Bible posted:Although that's no guarantee either. Most hilariously exemplified by his continued dangling of pardons for the Jan. 6 convicts when he could have loving pardoned them before he left office but didn't.
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FizFashizzle posted:And I’ll take a 5 for 5 (it’s a 2 for 6 now) sit, thank you. THANKS OBAMA
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Looks like Trump brought noted intellectual heavyweights Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert to be his mouthpieces today. Good God.
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Angry_Ed posted:And be absolutely 100% upfront about it no less The funny thing is that he almost certainly had someone in his legal team suggest the idea to him Congress members have the speech and debate clause as a shield to keep the judge from raking them over the coals for this and asking them if Trump put them up to it. Then tubberville just says it anyways because he is the orange tabby of human beings.
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FizFashizzle posted:That was such a weird firing too. lol no" he would say, looking down his enlightened centrist nose at me, "they'll be even MORE popular now! you see how their merch sales went up by 10% for the first week of being banned?? and you shouldn't punch nazis, richard spenser will be back and stronger than ever" "just get rid of the assholes" works 99% of the time and has throughout history
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InsertPotPun posted:when trump was ramping up i had a brother who was a contrarian. nothing was smarter than to say "i disagree *sniff*". and one of the many things he would never accept was "deplatforming works" How’s his crypto doing
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InsertPotPun posted:when trump was ramping up i had a brother who was a contrarian. nothing was smarter than to say "i disagree *sniff*". and one of the many things he would never accept was "deplatforming works" Thats a lot of words to just say your brother is an idiot
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Lammasu posted:It doesn't matter if they are loyal to him or not. It only matters if their destruction benefits him. Trump shows loyalty to no one. And they should know this. They won't because right wing politics hinges entirely on a lack of and disdain for empathy. Every single chud could never imagine that THEY would suffer that kind of fate because it necessitates believing misfortunes that happen to others could very well happen to them.
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InsertPotPun posted:when trump was ramping up i had a brother who was a contrarian. nothing was smarter than to say "i disagree *sniff*". and one of the many things he would never accept was "deplatforming works" If you have this sort of personal connection with Koos, I'd encourage you to really lean on him on this prior to the next feedback thread.
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InsertPotPun posted:after world war 2 in germany, when the nazis were all removed and anyone left was long dead,
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BiggerBoat posted:Why are so many people lining up to swear loyalty to this loving idiot? It's a chance to be in on the ground floor of a new autocracy, your family will be oligarch-rich for generations.
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The people lining up have no convictions/beliefs and are just power hungry sycophants. They would line up for anyone that they think will give them a bit of power. It isn't really more complicated than that. They think Trump will give them the power they crave (even if he won't) so they will suck up to him regardless of what he does.
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You need to performatively support Trump to do a Republican campaign for office now
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Hahahano. Tons of prominent Nazis, including prominent Nazi doctors, lived untroubled lives, some of them serving in later governments. poo poo the US government gave Nazi scientists and engineers and stuff sweet heart deals to come to the US and live out their lives without trouble. Operation Paperclip.
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Sarcastro posted:Most hilariously exemplified by his continued dangling of pardons for the Jan. 6 convicts when he could have loving pardoned them before he left office but didn't. How many of them had even been charged by the time he left office?
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bird food bathtub posted:poo poo the US government gave Nazi scientists and engineers and stuff sweet heart deals to come to the US and live out their lives without trouble. Operation Paperclip. As did the Soviets! Fortunately, our Nazi scientists were better than their Nazi scientists 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Hahahano. Tons of prominent Nazis, including prominent Nazi doctors, lived untroubled lives, some of them serving in later governments. The trick was to be a lower 2nd tier or lower Nazi. Shity enough to be a leading Nazi, but low key enough to not make the Nuremberg list. That way you just get to keep on keeping on with a promotion and a redesign on your political flag. Of course that was just for the foolish Germans. Italian and Japanese fascists got a way different restructuring deal.
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Subjunctive posted:How many of them had even been charged by the time he left office? It doesn't really matter. He could have blanket pardoned everyone involved.
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Gyges posted:The trick was to be a lower 2nd tier or lower Nazi. Shity enough to be a leading Nazi, but low key enough to not make the Nuremberg list. That way you just get to keep on keeping on with a promotion and a redesign on your political flag. Of course that was just for the foolish Germans. Italian and Japanese fascists got a way different restructuring deal. Yeah, like this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
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bird food bathtub posted:poo poo the US government gave Nazi scientists and engineers and stuff sweet heart deals to come to the US and live out their lives without trouble. Operation Paperclip. A lot of people talk about Siberian prison camps, but imagine living in Arizona in the 1940s.
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Bankrupt Mayor Launches Bizarre Coffee Venture as He’s Crippled by $148M Debt quote:Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor, Trump lawyer, and criminal defendant, has launched a coffee sales venture called “Rudy.Coffee” as he grapples with bankruptcy and debt of $148m. The company offers three styles of coffee beans, with the first 100 bags signed by Giuliani and set to begin shipping in June. The bags feature tag lines such as “fighting for justice,” “enjoying life,” and “America’s mayor.” While Trump has chosen to sell sneakers and bibles to cover his legal fees, Giuliani’s former lawyer is selling three coffee types: “bold,” “morning,” and decaf. The bags weigh two pounds each and can be purchased for $29.99.  
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine coffee.
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Sounds like Cohen got caught in a lie today about a phone call. He got shredded by the defense and it looks real bad. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/politics/takeaways-trump-trial-michael-cohen-thursday/index.html
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I'm shocked that the guy who was convicted for lying under oath lied under oath.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Sounds like Cohen got caught in a lie today about a phone call. He got shredded by the defense and it looks real bad. Feels more like the defense hammering the one incredibly niche gotcha they could find. Cohen is talking about calls from six years ago, it'd be weirder if he wasn't slightly mixing up his recollections.
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Madkal posted:The people lining up have no convictions/beliefs and are just power hungry sycophants. They would line up for anyone that they think will give them a bit of power. It isn't really more complicated than that. They think Trump will give them the power they crave (even if he won't) so they will suck up to him regardless of what he does. Except he fucks over every single god damned person that does that.
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