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Trump gets gagged, McCarthy gets booted. What's next in Trumpworld?

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AcrossthePond55 · 04/10/2023 13:20

Roll up, roll up for the GOP Mystery Tour!! Trump thread lost-the-count!!!

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SerendipityJane · 12/04/2024 09:42

It's sobering to remember what the only way to stop some despots has been.

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AcrossthePond55 · 12/04/2024 01:37

MsMaturio · 11/04/2024 23:25

Ah yes. Many of us called that one wrong. Me and DH were shook, as the kids say, for a while after that.

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I think that might have been the start of it. We all truly believed Trump would get his comeuppance or at least that his cult would see clearly what a rat bastard he is. And instead it ended as a big nothing burger with the Cult believing even harder. Since then, every time he's slipped the noose it's just been adding insult to injury.

I think that's why many of us are no longer holding our breath. "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst". Or as the Who said "We won't get fooled again!".

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MsMaturio · 11/04/2024 23:25

Spandauer · 08/04/2024 10:56

Remember when we all thought Robert Mueller would save us?
That went well.

Ah yes. Many of us called that one wrong. Me and DH were shook, as the kids say, for a while after that.

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AcrossthePond55 · 11/04/2024 19:03

SerendipityJane · 11/04/2024 17:17

😀

Bwah ahahaha.

Thanks so much for the picker upper!!

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AcrossthePond55 · 11/04/2024 19:01

Spandauer · 11/04/2024 16:25

It's the hope that kills you! 😔

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So, so true.

They say 'hope springs eternal' and it may be true. But there also seems to be Trump's flat foot (oh excuse me 'ankle spurs') just waiting to squash it like a bug.

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SerendipityJane · 11/04/2024 17:17

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Trump gets gagged, McCarthy gets booted. What's next in Trumpworld?
Spandauer · 11/04/2024 16:25

AcrossthePond55 · 11/04/2024 16:07

@Spandauer

I'm not so sure re no further delays. It's a well known tactic to put forth your objections one at a time to delay, delay, delay. So it wouldn't surprise me if his legal beagles lodge a final protest on late Friday afternoon knowing it will mean the judge has to delay again to consider and make a ruling.

But then again, the whole Trump debacle from actually being elected in 2016 to his latest 'I won't sign an abortion ban' statement has made me cynical and pessimistic where any possible comeuppance is concerned.

I swear, sometimes I feel like I've been on a hallucinogenic 'bad trip' since election day 2016.

I've always sort of believed in the 'born under a lucky star' thing and have known ONE person who always seemed to come up roses no matter what they did. But since Trump, I'm convinced it's a real thing.

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It's the hope that kills you! 😔

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AcrossthePond55 · 11/04/2024 16:07

@Spandauer

I'm not so sure re no further delays. It's a well known tactic to put forth your objections one at a time to delay, delay, delay. So it wouldn't surprise me if his legal beagles lodge a final protest on late Friday afternoon knowing it will mean the judge has to delay again to consider and make a ruling.

But then again, the whole Trump debacle from actually being elected in 2016 to his latest 'I won't sign an abortion ban' statement has made me cynical and pessimistic where any possible comeuppance is concerned.

I swear, sometimes I feel like I've been on a hallucinogenic 'bad trip' since election day 2016.

I've always sort of believed in the 'born under a lucky star' thing and have known ONE person who always seemed to come up roses no matter what they did. But since Trump, I'm convinced it's a real thing.

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Spandauer · 11/04/2024 13:46

So first trial is actually going to start on Monday 15th...
I don't think Trump has any means of stopping it now but I could be wrong - it's so difficult to keep track of the appeals and counter appeals etc!

This is a explainer from The Washington Post about the trial and charges. Hopefully the share token will work.

The article doesn't seem too convinced that the prosecution will be successful but they do admit that there is a grain of hope!
I guess the choice of jurors is going to be very interesting - 12 good men and true and all that!

What to know about Trump’s New York charges — and any potential sentence.
https://wapo.st/3vN5x5W

borntobequiet · 10/04/2024 18:10

I bet Trump would piss off his fellow inmates in no time though. They might feel like incentivising him, in no uncertain terms, to shut up.

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AcrossthePond55 · 10/04/2024 17:54

@DuncinToffee

What a fucking joke. And he'll probably serve it in some 'Camp Cupcake' minimum security facility that holds mainly white-collar criminals. And with time off for good behaviour, he'll be out in 2-3 months.

I think that's why as much as I'd like to see Trump in an orange jumpsuit, I don't think the sentence would fit the crime. And what's worse is he'd know it. It would be almost insulting to see him get some piddly-ass sentence then sent to a white collar federal prison.

I want to see him breaking rocks in the Leavenworth yard or digging ditches in a chain gang. What a pretty picture that would be.t

Also, I'm sure that disgusting AZ court ruling will be appealed all the way to SCOTUS. Not that I have any confidence in them.

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DuncinToffee · 10/04/2024 17:40

Ex-Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg has just been sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath during Trump's civil fraud trial.

SerendipityJane · 10/04/2024 08:53

So true it hurts.

Trump gets gagged, McCarthy gets booted. What's next in Trumpworld?
DuncinToffee · 09/04/2024 20:58

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/arizona-supreme-court-ruling-abortion-ban-rcna146915

NEW: The Arizona Supreme Court has now ruled that an 1864 law is valid that criminalized abortion by making it a felony punishable by 2-5 years in prison for anyone who performs or helps a woman obtain one.

"The decision — which could shutter abortion clinics in the state — effectively undoes a lower court’s ruling that stated that a more recent 15-week ban from March 2022 superseded the 1864 law."

Arizona Supreme Court rules a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable

The ruling is on hold for 14 days, and voters will likely have a chance to weigh in on an ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in the state's constitution this fall.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/arizona-supreme-court-ruling-abortion-ban-rcna146915

Spandauer · 08/04/2024 10:56

Remember when we all thought Robert Mueller would save us?
That went well.

SerendipityJane · 08/04/2024 09:34

😁

Trump gets gagged, McCarthy gets booted. What's next in Trumpworld?
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AcrossthePond55 · 08/04/2024 00:12

I'd think it'd be better to change the name of Yucca Mountain to "The Donald J Trump Nuclear Waste Repository". Maybe he can build his presidential library right outside the gates.

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 06/04/2024 13:23

I take it that's a response to the unserious suggestion by the Republicans that they want to name some airport or other the Trump International Airport. It's a lot funnier, though.

SinnerBoy · 06/04/2024 09:35

Ha ha!

SerendipityJane · 06/04/2024 08:57

House Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami federal prison after Trump

"Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution" would be the prison's name.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrats-propose-bill-rename-miami-federal-prison/story

DuncinToffee · 04/04/2024 15:16

The check bounced 😂

SinnerBoy · 04/04/2024 14:57

SerendipityJane · Today 14:51

The check bounced ...

What's that you say, Skippy? A man convicted of fraud used dodgy methods to appeal?

Lose10kyesterday · 04/04/2024 14:55

That is hilarious! Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bloke.

PerkingFaintly · 04/04/2024 14:54

Wha....?

That's just too good.Easter Grin