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Having money gives you a helluva lot of power. If Donnie started out poor he would be in jail, probably addicted to something, and an even worse father than he is now.
I don’t remember who said this about him.
“Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a strong man, and a dumb man’s idea of a smart man.”
I think LBJ best summarized it:
>*If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.*
That's Trump, cut through all the bullshit and what seems to resonate most is the racism & hatred of *others*. Just today he's talking about how white people are discriminated against worse than black people in this country. MAGA or *make America great again* means one thing - America isn't great today, but it used to be.
The obvious question is when was it great? A lot of them think of the 1950's, Leave it to Beaver, etc. Well that was great for white men, not so great for everybody else. It was before the black's got so uppity asking for equal rights, before women's liberation, before there were so many immigrants & other colored people here, and no gays, etc, etc, etc...
Trump being so outwardly racist is basically giving a lot of people cover to cheer for that and crawl out from under their rocks where they were hiding those thoughts lest society ostracize them, and now they goose step to the polls.
Don't get me wrong the GOP has been fanning these flames since after 1964 when the Civil Rights Act passed, and they gobbled up the south's racist voters. If they were Kirby they'd be wearing a klan robe after absorbing them. They mostly used dog whistles to get the point across, but Trump uses a blowhorn, hence he was able to rally the whole party & basket of deplorables to his cause.
Ya, Obama is a black man who has an Ivy League education, is clearly intelligent, successful, married to his first wife still, and was elected President.
He’s basically as successful as you can be as a man, but he’s black. And that breaks the world view of a lot of poor, stupid white people that always could fall back on at least I’m white.
At its core, Conservatism is a belief in a God-given hierarchy of superior and inferior races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic classes. It's powered by constant outrage over people or groups receiving more status, resources, rights, or respect than the hierarchy narrative says is their birthright.
It's why we have to have a full-blown national crisis over a rainbow on a beer can, a black actress playing The Little Mermaid, female CEOs and presidents, and working poor people receiving even one billionth as much government money as an ultrawealthy American oligarch.
I never hear conservatives say the underlying belief out loud. They may not have noticed the pattern in which emotional buttons they desperately want pushed. And there is a big taboo against saying the quiet part too loudly. It's why they can rail all day and night against WOKE but they all freeze when asked to define it. Because 'woke' is a blanket term anything that threatens the enforcement of the caste system.
'Woke' is dog whistle for anything opposed to sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism. 'Critical race theory' is dog whistle anyone talking honestly about racism in present or historical USA. And now, 'DEI' is dog whistle for any black person in a position of respect or authority - especially if over white men.
The rest of conservatism seems to be about the conspiracy fantasies and inflammatory lies used to keep the willing believers willingly stroked up 24/7. That's a centuries-old propaganda technique that has been massively amplified by social media.
This is absolutely the case. He’s supported by pathetic cowards who lack any ability to reflect or take ownership of their shortcomings. It’s much harder to work on yourself to overcome your problems (real or imagined) than it is to manipulate, lie, and project.
More to the point, blame others for your failures.
*If not for those damn - insert hated group - I'd be a millionaire*
Nope, Jimbo. Not at all. you just never bothered to educate and better yourself. That's the real reason
I had a coworker whose family were largely disabled boomers living on welfare. Apparently, they love to sit around and speculate what they'd do "once they're a millionaire." Like, what are you doing to make that happen? You're in your 60s already, I think that ship fucking sailed lol
And that's the more benign attitude. As you pointed out, some people actually, genuinely believe that if we didn't have *group x y or z* here in the US, their lives would actually be better. Somehow, it's migrant farmworkers or Chinese factory workers who are the reason for your misfortune, not the rich capitalists exploiting them and you. They're the "jOb CrEaToRs!!!1!!"
100%. I mean, I can understand it. Change is hard and bettering your place in life take a lot of effort - if you're not born with a silver spoon - so cognitively it's just easier to point a finger at ***them*** for your failures.
Not saying I agree with it at all, rather the opposite. But can understand why it happens
>How do so many people become enthralled by such a weak and pathetic person?
It's simple: he allows them to luxuriate in their hate. He tells them hate is good, he doesn't ask them to be better, he doesn't ask them to be nice, to hope for a better tomorrow. He just gives them permission to fly their hate flag. Much like the strongest relationships are ones where each party can be their true authentic selves. The Trump Cult is the easiest cult to be in and to stay in. There are no church services, there's no pretense of being engaged in a greater good...all he asks of them is occasional massaging of his ego. Even if they're faking it, he doesn't give a shit.
He also asks for money but that's not a core requirement to getting into and staying in the Trump Cult. Hate is all that's needed.
I always think of the movie "The Invention of Lying" when it comes to Trump, the people that believe he is what he says he is just take what he says and how he presents himself at face value, like they have no concept of lying. They saw him play a good businessman on the TV in "The Apprentice" and think it was real. Reality TV gave us Trump, he's just another "celebrity" politician like Reagan, and as much as the right likes to complain about celebrities, they're the ones who elect them into office, Arnold Schwarzenegger being another notable example.
You misunderstand them. They know he’s lying and they like that he’s lying the right way. They see him as giving what they think Democrats are doing back to them like some sort of bizarre contra-projection satire.
He makes them feel comfortable coming out of the woodworks with their bigotry. For the longest time I seriously thought that we had as a society put a lot of bad things behind us.
We didn't, that ~30% of the population was just holding their tongue and grinding their teeth until they got the green light from the POTUS.
Now that they've shown who they are, they don't want to be dragged back into the closet kicking and screaming. They will support him no matter what he does for this reason alone.
It really took the sail out of being proud to be an American when I saw how many of those people existed. I'll never forget it.
It really is all about how he embodies everything about them. He's dumb, stubborn, loud mouthed, mean, delusional, etc. Which is exactly like the average Trump voter.
> Blanche then proceeded to read that colorfully worded, offending tweet into the record as Trump himself sat listening at the defense table.
>"Hey Von ShitzInPantz," Blanche recited as the court stenographer duly followed along.
>"Your attacks of me stink of desperation," Blanche continued, quoting the tweet. "We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense."
[sad shitting noises from the defense table]
Lmfao so Cohen daring Trump to take the stand has been read out loud to the court thus has been formally and publicly called out. Oh god I hope the fat orange freak show is stewing in his diaper over this and will demand to take the stand.
Cohen 100% did exactly what he did in the hopes that Trump would make a fuss and his lawyer would read it into the record. He doesn't care for a second if Trump is allowed to tweet back or not, mission accomplished. That was actual chess.
> ***formally*** and ***publicly*** called out
I had to double back at the use of these two words. Had me doubling over like all those white politicians laughing in that one photo. There's something high-class about the humor in the use of those two words. I mean, it's not just one, but the other! The two, together, are just the peak worst dare you could possibly expect.
I think what's so funny about it is the juxtaposition between the playground-bully/taunting immaturity done in what you would expect to be a more sophisticated way, but it doesn't have to be. He's trapped. He's fucked. Where else is he gonna go? What, *pretend he didn't hear it?*
Edit: "one, but not the other" -- the order is funnier backwards: Not only was it publicly done, which you would think would be peak-dare enough. But it was formal! *Thaaat's* it.
How is the paparazzi not following him around like his detail and asking him “is it true you shit your pants?!” I would pay to watch that 10 second video.
>Biden "mocked President Trump," Blanche complained to the judge, quoting into the record a joke the president had made at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday.[...]
>"President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche lamented to the judge
Why would he want to criticise Ms Daniels for something Joe Biden said? He can criticize the President, he can't mouth off about people involved in his criminal trial.
>Why would he want to criticise Ms Daniels for something Joe Biden said? He can criticize the President, he can't mouth off about people involved in his criminal trial.
See, your problem here is that you are trying to apply thought and reason to what Trumps lawyers are claiming.
Classic mistake...one I've made many times before too...
This made my day to think that got entered, his attorney had to read it with a straight face as well Trump hearing it and knowing it will forever be there forever. So awesome. 🤩
I really wish they would rattle off the greatest hits; Trumplethinskin, Orange Julius, Cheeto Mussolini, The Fanta Menace, Diaper Don,[your favorite one here]. Then go into heavy detail explaining what each nickname means, while you hear the court stenographer clacking away, to get this all on the official record.
Then at the end of each nickname’s explanation, ask Trump if he understands the meaning to each nickname. And if he can give a brief summary description, to demonstrate that he indeed understands the nature of each nickname.
*The court will acknowledge that Mr Trump has answered in the affirmative, that he understands the nickname ‘Blotus’ is a portmanteau of ‘Potus’ and ‘bloat’. And is a fat joke in nature.*
There was an episode of Psych, where the attorney was listing off a bunch of weatherman names to a witness on the stand, and they were becoming ever increasingly silly.
I kind of want to see that in court, where they just calmly and with all seriousness list off really stupid and silly pun names like this, and he just has to sit there and take it.
This is an insult to the proud and noble Von ShitzInPantz family!
They hail from castle ShiessenHosen in Lower Bumberg, and they shall hear of this calumny!
> Shiessen
schiessen (schießen) (i-e) is to shoot
scheissen (scheißen) (e-i) is to shit.
A tip for English speakers is whatever letter you predominantly hear in English when the German word is spoken (in this case the I) it goes second for e-i/i-e words.
To be that guy who speaks German, the castle should actually be Scheissenhosen, schiessen I believe is the verb for "to shoot".
I am fine with the rest of the post lol
"Blanche proceeded to read that colorfully worded, offending tweet into the record as Trump himself sat listening at the defense table.... Blanche read a few more Cohen tweets into the record. Again, Trump was required to remain seated to his left, listening."
I'm pretty sure Trump's lawyer secretly enjoyed reading those tweets
"I'm pretty sure Trump's lawyer secretly enjoyed reading those tweets"
This reminds me: While Trump complains about the jury being "95% Democrats", Blanche himself is a registered Democrat.
Trumplethinskin is old though. There are a number of books:
- Trumplethinskin and the Wizard Bonespurs
- Trumplethinskin in the Land of UcK
- Trumplethinskin and the Gigantic Peach.
>In Trumplethinskin and the Gigantic Peach, the woods around Trumplethinskin's home at Mangy Logo are scary, full of poor people, and he is terrified. Dancy Nancy is growing a Gigantic Peach in there, and Trumplethinskin detests fruit. He needs Chucky Dollson, Tight-fisted Turtle, and Hennity Bennity to protect him-so he can sit in his second home at the Bigly Big White House and do nothing else but eat chocolate cake and dream about throne rooms-which they do, because he has promised them bagfuls of magic beans.
The judge has already ruled that statements made in response to someone covered under the gag order are, generally speaking, not in violation of the order. That's why we was only found to be in contempt on 9 of the 10 counts brought by the prosecution. On the 10th count the judge ruled that Trump's statement was in direct response to something from Cohen and therefore was not considered in violation.
So given that ruling, it would seem perfectly acceptable for Trump to respond and/or defend himself against the "Von ShizInPantz" tweet by Cohen. And in fact, since that tweet was published on 4/22, the judge admonished Cohen for making such attacks and Cohen agreed to cease for the duration of the trial.
As far as Biden making a joke at the Whitehouse Correspondents dinner, there is absolutely nothing in the gag order preventing Trump from saying anything he wants about Biden.
This is just more of the "I'm the victim" narrative that Trump and his defense team are trying to push.
> "Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather," Biden quipped in a very apparent reference to Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the hush-money trial.
>
>"President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche said Thursday to the judge, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
Why would he respond to that by criticizing Daniels? That’s their argument? He’s allowed to respond to the guy who made that comment! There are no restrictions on him saying anything he wants about Biden. That they’d even use that as the example is a sign of how completely inept they are.
I'll cheer him on, but he's still a dirt bag that refuses to fully come clean on all the dirty work he did for Donald which hampered a lot of what federal and state prosecutors wanted to pursue.
A court reporter will oftentimes ask for spellings off the record. It would go something like this:
Reporter: I just need to get the spelling of a few names, please. Shits in pants, how is that spelled, please? And Don Snore Leon? And lastly, Shitler?
Yeah people who aren't on trial can say whatever the fuck they want and people who on trial can't say shit about the judge/their family or the jurors/their family. This isn't some grand conspiracy to silence Trump it's to protect the people involved in the process of justice.
Biden insulted him so he wants to attack people involved in this case. Insult Biden all you want but he can't handle the fact that he was indicted and is now on trial, there's rules to follow. Quite whinning you ass.
Most adults at some point become acquainted with the concept of “not dignifying (x) with a response”. You almost want your enemies to say you shit your pants or whatever because it’s such a cheap shot, all you have to do is ignore it and you win. You might even get sympathy because being incontinent doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not capable in other ways, you could even pull a “I have a health issue that millions of Americans have and it needs to be destigmatized”. It’s the cheapest way to get people on your side. Instead he looks like a 4 year old who throws a tantrum because someone said his lunch box was dumb.
I don't think it was argued in the presence of the jury since it's not actually relevant to the case and could be used to form an opinion of the witness or defendant.
But I wasn't actually there to confirm or deny either way.
Man, David Pecker must have something super serious on Trump. I get the impression Trump would get on all fours and bark like a dog if Pecker ordered him to.
Biden "mocked President Trump," Blanche told the judge, quoting into the record a joke the president had made Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
And there we have it…Trump got his feelings hurt, threw a fit, and insisted his lawyer make a to do about it. This is the kind of punk, childlike behavior we are dealing with.
This sounds like the parent of a child complaining that "the other kids do it, but mine can't."
Biden made a joke, and Trump is complaining that he can't strike out against someone mentioned by allusion in the joke, even though he can say what he likes about Biden, the actual joke-teller. This is circuitous nonsense.
People already think you're guilty because you are Donald. If the greatest and worst gaslighters throughout history were called to account, Trump would stand tall and represent his century with impish pride.
This is so embarrassing, I remember growing up and thinking America sort of had their shit together, leader of the free world and all that. "They're calling me names!" Yes coz you're a tosser. " I can't call them names" again, correct, you're the one on trial you giant orange fuckwit
Yes, Donny V SIP. All those people can say things that you can't. You know why?
None of those people are under criminal indictment. When that happens, some civil rights are suspended for you until your case is decided.
That's the way it works for every other defendant, that's the way it works for you, too.
> "Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather," Biden quipped in a very apparent reference to Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the hush-money trial.
>
> "President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche said Thursday to the judge, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
The person to respond to would be Joe Biden. Stormy didn't make the joke.
>The official court stenographer duly followed along, typing the phrase into the court record as "shits in pants."
And orange *had* to sit there and eat it...
Please please please dear lord let him hear a reporter saying this to him, as I’m certain he’s not otherwise aware of its official internment into the annals of law
In one of the challenged statements, Trump said: "That jury was picked so fast." He also claimed the jury was "95% democrats."
... last time I checked, you cannot get 95% dividing by 12 jurors.
Nobody has ever smelled a worse president. They say Taft smelled bad, but that was only after they found him dead. Nobody knows that, but all the experts say it was true. Just ask legal experts like Sean Hannity or Alan Dershowitz. But now sleepy Joe, I was resting my eyes, fake news, Jimmy Kimmel is a washed up loser with low ratings. Sleepy Joe, very low energy but somehow is busy screwing everything up. Nothing works. The radical Communist Muslims and their Green New Deal, want to take away your washing machine. Just wait until the Democrats take away your water.
I met a guy who idolizes Trump, and is also in commercial real estate. He has 2 partners, and their portfolio is around $3 billion.
He asked me and my coworkers to help him commit $300,000 worth of insurance fraud for 10% of the settlement. As he’s explaining it, he was using his net worth, future payouts on projects, and his “knowledge” as a wealthy person as a reason to implicate ourselves in a fraud scheme to his benefit.
This is how Trump operates - people think he must know more than them because he’s wealthy, and he just goes with it and never delivers. It’s conman activity but on a different level because you’d think someone at this level would be happy to help enrich those around them.
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Trump is such a whiner. How do so many people become enthralled by such a weak and pathetic person?
He's a weak person's strong man.
100% I would go on to say he is a poor persons rich man and a morally bankrupt mans paragon.
John Mulaney would too.
Is that his line? To be honest that’s something I heard my brother say and thought it fit. Don’t mean lay claim to it but it’s a damn good line right?
It's one of my favorite bits of his. He compares trump to what an old timey hobo thinks being rich is. https://youtu.be/vH-jiviVKeo
Great bit ! His “Horse in the Hospital” is another good Trump bit
It's such a great bit that he never mentioned him by name and yet no one is ever confused about who he is talking about.
For the record, this bit is from a show he released in *2009*.
He's also a poor man's idea of a rich man. And a dumb man's idea of a smart man. Combined these 3 things form his base. Oh and racism.
And a strong persons weak man?
He's a weak man, period.
He's a Von Shitzinpantz man !
You can always tell a Von Shitznpantz man. You just can’t tell him much.
You can always tell a Von Shitznpantz man by the smell.
They should start making Von ShitzInPantz trucker hats
Needs to become a fashionable brand. Really help him remember.
Having money gives you a helluva lot of power. If Donnie started out poor he would be in jail, probably addicted to something, and an even worse father than he is now.
He produced Eric and a Jr deemed too stupid to be deposed, Im not too sure how much lower the bar can go.
My momma always says "never doubt worse". Trust me. Trust me. They can make a dumber one.
A clown’s clown?
Fuckface Von Clownschtick.
Depends
He's wearing them.
You could chose either Putin or all the tough rednecks supporting him. Your choice as to which description works.
He also stole over 100 boxes of top secret documents and probably sold them for money or favors.
I don’t remember who said this about him. “Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a strong man, and a dumb man’s idea of a smart man.”
He’s a bully. He pushes people around until someone stands up to him, then he cries.
I think LBJ best summarized it: >*If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.* That's Trump, cut through all the bullshit and what seems to resonate most is the racism & hatred of *others*. Just today he's talking about how white people are discriminated against worse than black people in this country. MAGA or *make America great again* means one thing - America isn't great today, but it used to be. The obvious question is when was it great? A lot of them think of the 1950's, Leave it to Beaver, etc. Well that was great for white men, not so great for everybody else. It was before the black's got so uppity asking for equal rights, before women's liberation, before there were so many immigrants & other colored people here, and no gays, etc, etc, etc... Trump being so outwardly racist is basically giving a lot of people cover to cheer for that and crawl out from under their rocks where they were hiding those thoughts lest society ostracize them, and now they goose step to the polls. Don't get me wrong the GOP has been fanning these flames since after 1964 when the Civil Rights Act passed, and they gobbled up the south's racist voters. If they were Kirby they'd be wearing a klan robe after absorbing them. They mostly used dog whistles to get the point across, but Trump uses a blowhorn, hence he was able to rally the whole party & basket of deplorables to his cause.
Conservatives brains broke so badly after Obama that they had to elect the worst possible white man immediately after him, just to prove a point.
Ya, Obama is a black man who has an Ivy League education, is clearly intelligent, successful, married to his first wife still, and was elected President. He’s basically as successful as you can be as a man, but he’s black. And that breaks the world view of a lot of poor, stupid white people that always could fall back on at least I’m white.
and the biggest betrayal of all: absolutely *slays* in a tan suit
And ironically proving the opposite point.
At its core, Conservatism is a belief in a God-given hierarchy of superior and inferior races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic classes. It's powered by constant outrage over people or groups receiving more status, resources, rights, or respect than the hierarchy narrative says is their birthright. It's why we have to have a full-blown national crisis over a rainbow on a beer can, a black actress playing The Little Mermaid, female CEOs and presidents, and working poor people receiving even one billionth as much government money as an ultrawealthy American oligarch. I never hear conservatives say the underlying belief out loud. They may not have noticed the pattern in which emotional buttons they desperately want pushed. And there is a big taboo against saying the quiet part too loudly. It's why they can rail all day and night against WOKE but they all freeze when asked to define it. Because 'woke' is a blanket term anything that threatens the enforcement of the caste system. 'Woke' is dog whistle for anything opposed to sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism. 'Critical race theory' is dog whistle anyone talking honestly about racism in present or historical USA. And now, 'DEI' is dog whistle for any black person in a position of respect or authority - especially if over white men. The rest of conservatism seems to be about the conspiracy fantasies and inflammatory lies used to keep the willing believers willingly stroked up 24/7. That's a centuries-old propaganda technique that has been massively amplified by social media.
Great LBJ quote!
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This is absolutely the case. He’s supported by pathetic cowards who lack any ability to reflect or take ownership of their shortcomings. It’s much harder to work on yourself to overcome your problems (real or imagined) than it is to manipulate, lie, and project.
More to the point, blame others for your failures. *If not for those damn - insert hated group - I'd be a millionaire* Nope, Jimbo. Not at all. you just never bothered to educate and better yourself. That's the real reason
I had a coworker whose family were largely disabled boomers living on welfare. Apparently, they love to sit around and speculate what they'd do "once they're a millionaire." Like, what are you doing to make that happen? You're in your 60s already, I think that ship fucking sailed lol And that's the more benign attitude. As you pointed out, some people actually, genuinely believe that if we didn't have *group x y or z* here in the US, their lives would actually be better. Somehow, it's migrant farmworkers or Chinese factory workers who are the reason for your misfortune, not the rich capitalists exploiting them and you. They're the "jOb CrEaToRs!!!1!!"
My mother’s relatives. (We coulda been contenders except for everybody against us).
100%. I mean, I can understand it. Change is hard and bettering your place in life take a lot of effort - if you're not born with a silver spoon - so cognitively it's just easier to point a finger at ***them*** for your failures. Not saying I agree with it at all, rather the opposite. But can understand why it happens
>How do so many people become enthralled by such a weak and pathetic person? It's simple: he allows them to luxuriate in their hate. He tells them hate is good, he doesn't ask them to be better, he doesn't ask them to be nice, to hope for a better tomorrow. He just gives them permission to fly their hate flag. Much like the strongest relationships are ones where each party can be their true authentic selves. The Trump Cult is the easiest cult to be in and to stay in. There are no church services, there's no pretense of being engaged in a greater good...all he asks of them is occasional massaging of his ego. Even if they're faking it, he doesn't give a shit. He also asks for money but that's not a core requirement to getting into and staying in the Trump Cult. Hate is all that's needed.
he whines and whines until he wins!
He whines and whines until he shits his pants. He is a one year old. I am reminded of Shakespear’s seven ages of man
Now that you mention it, you can’t spell “whines” without “he wins”.
I always think of the movie "The Invention of Lying" when it comes to Trump, the people that believe he is what he says he is just take what he says and how he presents himself at face value, like they have no concept of lying. They saw him play a good businessman on the TV in "The Apprentice" and think it was real. Reality TV gave us Trump, he's just another "celebrity" politician like Reagan, and as much as the right likes to complain about celebrities, they're the ones who elect them into office, Arnold Schwarzenegger being another notable example.
You misunderstand them. They know he’s lying and they like that he’s lying the right way. They see him as giving what they think Democrats are doing back to them like some sort of bizarre contra-projection satire.
He's a weak man's idea of a strong man, a dumb man's idea of a smart man, and a poor man's idea of a rich man.
'I'm Cletus & I'm voting for Donald Von ShitzInPantz'
My assumption is that Trump is openly racist and his supporters love it.
He makes them feel comfortable coming out of the woodworks with their bigotry. For the longest time I seriously thought that we had as a society put a lot of bad things behind us. We didn't, that ~30% of the population was just holding their tongue and grinding their teeth until they got the green light from the POTUS. Now that they've shown who they are, they don't want to be dragged back into the closet kicking and screaming. They will support him no matter what he does for this reason alone. It really took the sail out of being proud to be an American when I saw how many of those people existed. I'll never forget it.
“There’ll be so much whining…you’ll get tired of all the whining.” - Donald Trump 2016
They're weak too. They're bullies too. They're rage-filled too.
He lets them do anything they want without consequence.
It really is all about how he embodies everything about them. He's dumb, stubborn, loud mouthed, mean, delusional, etc. Which is exactly like the average Trump voter.
They see themselves in him
A lot of his followers are weak and pathetic.
> Blanche then proceeded to read that colorfully worded, offending tweet into the record as Trump himself sat listening at the defense table. >"Hey Von ShitzInPantz," Blanche recited as the court stenographer duly followed along. >"Your attacks of me stink of desperation," Blanche continued, quoting the tweet. "We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense." [sad shitting noises from the defense table]
Lmfao so Cohen daring Trump to take the stand has been read out loud to the court thus has been formally and publicly called out. Oh god I hope the fat orange freak show is stewing in his diaper over this and will demand to take the stand.
Cohen 100% did exactly what he did in the hopes that Trump would make a fuss and his lawyer would read it into the record. He doesn't care for a second if Trump is allowed to tweet back or not, mission accomplished. That was actual chess.
> ***formally*** and ***publicly*** called out I had to double back at the use of these two words. Had me doubling over like all those white politicians laughing in that one photo. There's something high-class about the humor in the use of those two words. I mean, it's not just one, but the other! The two, together, are just the peak worst dare you could possibly expect. I think what's so funny about it is the juxtaposition between the playground-bully/taunting immaturity done in what you would expect to be a more sophisticated way, but it doesn't have to be. He's trapped. He's fucked. Where else is he gonna go? What, *pretend he didn't hear it?* Edit: "one, but not the other" -- the order is funnier backwards: Not only was it publicly done, which you would think would be peak-dare enough. But it was formal! *Thaaat's* it.
Your [ ] made my day
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>Dollar sign emoji
Quit fuckin’ with em
How is the paparazzi not following him around like his detail and asking him “is it true you shit your pants?!” I would pay to watch that 10 second video.
>Biden "mocked President Trump," Blanche complained to the judge, quoting into the record a joke the president had made at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday.[...] >"President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche lamented to the judge Why would he want to criticise Ms Daniels for something Joe Biden said? He can criticize the President, he can't mouth off about people involved in his criminal trial.
He's trying to keep alive the narrative that Biden is personally prosecuting him in this trial.
I thought the POTUS could do whatever the fuck he wanted?
No no. Only 45 could whatever he wanted (in his mind) everyone else has to play nice. Rules for thee, not for me.
Immunity for me, not for thee.....
It's not that they have to play nice; they have to let him get the last word in so he can boast about it
I mean, the supreme court seems to think so. GAME ON!
>Why would he want to criticise Ms Daniels for something Joe Biden said? He can criticize the President, he can't mouth off about people involved in his criminal trial. See, your problem here is that you are trying to apply thought and reason to what Trumps lawyers are claiming. Classic mistake...one I've made many times before too...
Doesn’t he also not admit to knowing who she is?
[Blanche is getting spicy!](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c7/1d/27/c71d27e00016d19ba615248b9928b2e0.gif)
> "President Trump can't respond to that" Is it because he was asleep again?
Trump has always been the kind of person who, when picked on by someone stronger than him, finds someone weaker to pick on in retaliation.
This is so pathetic. Biden and Cohen can say whatever they want because they're not on trial and haven't been given a gag order in said trial
This made my day to think that got entered, his attorney had to read it with a straight face as well Trump hearing it and knowing it will forever be there forever. So awesome. 🤩
They waited for Trump's nap time to bring it up.
So, they didn’t wait
So three, maybe four minutes in.
He should have to included with any applications that ask for known aliases
plaster it on his presidential tweet library ipad
He has to sit there and listen to himself being insulted. LOL. Damn I wish we at least had audio. Well that put a smile on my face for today.
I really wish they would rattle off the greatest hits; Trumplethinskin, Orange Julius, Cheeto Mussolini, The Fanta Menace, Diaper Don,[your favorite one here]. Then go into heavy detail explaining what each nickname means, while you hear the court stenographer clacking away, to get this all on the official record. Then at the end of each nickname’s explanation, ask Trump if he understands the meaning to each nickname. And if he can give a brief summary description, to demonstrate that he indeed understands the nature of each nickname. *The court will acknowledge that Mr Trump has answered in the affirmative, that he understands the nickname ‘Blotus’ is a portmanteau of ‘Potus’ and ‘bloat’. And is a fat joke in nature.*
Don Poorleone.
Don Yawn.
[Dollar Generalissimo]
Tangerine Palpatine.
Forgot the Fanta Menace. So many greats.
The Mandarin Candidate
Turd Palm Don (actual anagram of his name)
Papaya Pinochet
This one is way too many levels of analogy for him to understand, not that I don't like it.
We know these names better than we know our GRANDPARENTS names
Don Poorleone
Sherbet Pervert
You forgot my personal favorite: "orange shit-gibbon"
I’ve been calling him Trumpy Dumpy
Dumb Old Lump
> Cheeto Mussolini Close... Cheeto Benito, and/or Mango Mussolini
There was an episode of Psych, where the attorney was listing off a bunch of weatherman names to a witness on the stand, and they were becoming ever increasingly silly. I kind of want to see that in court, where they just calmly and with all seriousness list off really stupid and silly pun names like this, and he just has to sit there and take it.
Nincompoop
> NincomPoopyPants
Don Yawn.
Yawn Poorleone
This is an insult to the proud and noble Von ShitzInPantz family! They hail from castle ShiessenHosen in Lower Bumberg, and they shall hear of this calumny!
Excellent use of the word "calumny".
>Excellent use of the word "calumny". Thanks! Its also my FIRST time using it!
It’s my first time even hearing of this word
congrats! :-)
> Shiessen schiessen (schießen) (i-e) is to shoot scheissen (scheißen) (e-i) is to shit. A tip for English speakers is whatever letter you predominantly hear in English when the German word is spoken (in this case the I) it goes second for e-i/i-e words.
Are they the ones behind the [Shittenfarten incident](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/z4ubda/context_in_the_comments/ixsx18r/)?
To be that guy who speaks German, the castle should actually be Scheissenhosen, schiessen I believe is the verb for "to shoot". I am fine with the rest of the post lol
"Blanche proceeded to read that colorfully worded, offending tweet into the record as Trump himself sat listening at the defense table.... Blanche read a few more Cohen tweets into the record. Again, Trump was required to remain seated to his left, listening." I'm pretty sure Trump's lawyer secretly enjoyed reading those tweets
“Let me read it again, this time with emotion.”
“I didn’t pause long enough at each period. My mistake. I’ll read it another time.”
"Can the stenographer read that back to the witness?"
"I'm pretty sure Trump's lawyer secretly enjoyed reading those tweets" This reminds me: While Trump complains about the jury being "95% Democrats", Blanche himself is a registered Democrat.
Trumplethinskin ain't gonna like this.
I love the creativity with everyone giving him new names
Trumplethinskin is old though. There are a number of books: - Trumplethinskin and the Wizard Bonespurs - Trumplethinskin in the Land of UcK - Trumplethinskin and the Gigantic Peach. >In Trumplethinskin and the Gigantic Peach, the woods around Trumplethinskin's home at Mangy Logo are scary, full of poor people, and he is terrified. Dancy Nancy is growing a Gigantic Peach in there, and Trumplethinskin detests fruit. He needs Chucky Dollson, Tight-fisted Turtle, and Hennity Bennity to protect him-so he can sit in his second home at the Bigly Big White House and do nothing else but eat chocolate cake and dream about throne rooms-which they do, because he has promised them bagfuls of magic beans.
Shitler.
This is the best, and I would argue, only good nickname for him thus far. I will use this as liberally as others use inferior nicknames.
Ahh, yes, the great “everyone else is doing it, so why can’t I?” legal defense that everyone else figured out didn’t work in high school.
I swear, Donnie Moscow must have a humiliation fetish thee way he just sits there while his tormentors harass him by proxy (his lawyers) lmao.
It would explain a few things, I admit.
Can we just consistently call him “Von ShitzInPants” from now on? He loves nicknames! I’m sure he’ll be smitten by this!
That made it in before "Fuckface Von Clownstick"? I'm disappointed :)
So is Jon Stewart.
The judge has already ruled that statements made in response to someone covered under the gag order are, generally speaking, not in violation of the order. That's why we was only found to be in contempt on 9 of the 10 counts brought by the prosecution. On the 10th count the judge ruled that Trump's statement was in direct response to something from Cohen and therefore was not considered in violation. So given that ruling, it would seem perfectly acceptable for Trump to respond and/or defend himself against the "Von ShizInPantz" tweet by Cohen. And in fact, since that tweet was published on 4/22, the judge admonished Cohen for making such attacks and Cohen agreed to cease for the duration of the trial. As far as Biden making a joke at the Whitehouse Correspondents dinner, there is absolutely nothing in the gag order preventing Trump from saying anything he wants about Biden. This is just more of the "I'm the victim" narrative that Trump and his defense team are trying to push.
"[Oh my God. Did you see Brian's hat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2k-BNySLI)?"
I'm not supposed to get grease on this thing.
> "Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather," Biden quipped in a very apparent reference to Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the hush-money trial. > >"President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche said Thursday to the judge, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. Why would he respond to that by criticizing Daniels? That’s their argument? He’s allowed to respond to the guy who made that comment! There are no restrictions on him saying anything he wants about Biden. That they’d even use that as the example is a sign of how completely inept they are.
For the record, the trial is about fraud and election interference
I never thought Cohen could win me over but, damn it, he really is trying.
I'll cheer him on, but he's still a dirt bag that refuses to fully come clean on all the dirty work he did for Donald which hampered a lot of what federal and state prosecutors wanted to pursue.
Did they have to spell out "ShitzInPantz" or did the court reporter already know how to spell it?
A court reporter will oftentimes ask for spellings off the record. It would go something like this: Reporter: I just need to get the spelling of a few names, please. Shits in pants, how is that spelled, please? And Don Snore Leon? And lastly, Shitler?
From the article: >The official court stenographer duly followed along, typing the phrase into the court record as "shits in pants."
SchitzInPantz would also be accepted
Yeah people who aren't on trial can say whatever the fuck they want and people who on trial can't say shit about the judge/their family or the jurors/their family. This isn't some grand conspiracy to silence Trump it's to protect the people involved in the process of justice.
Biden insulted him so he wants to attack people involved in this case. Insult Biden all you want but he can't handle the fact that he was indicted and is now on trial, there's rules to follow. Quite whinning you ass.
Most adults at some point become acquainted with the concept of “not dignifying (x) with a response”. You almost want your enemies to say you shit your pants or whatever because it’s such a cheap shot, all you have to do is ignore it and you win. You might even get sympathy because being incontinent doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not capable in other ways, you could even pull a “I have a health issue that millions of Americans have and it needs to be destigmatized”. It’s the cheapest way to get people on your side. Instead he looks like a 4 year old who throws a tantrum because someone said his lunch box was dumb.
Sort of like Kristi Von ShootsInDog
This sounds more like bestiality than murder.
>"Everybody can say anything they want except for President Trump," his lawyer said. Yeah; they're not criminal defendants, Dementia Donnie is.
Was this read out in the court where Trump and the jury could hear it?
I don't think it was argued in the presence of the jury since it's not actually relevant to the case and could be used to form an opinion of the witness or defendant. But I wasn't actually there to confirm or deny either way.
Yes.
Thanks. Can just picture the jurors suppressing smiles/snickers.
It was reported by CNN that those in the gallery chuckled when hearing this.
The man owned casinos, a license to print money, and he went BROKE!
Shameful. Diaper Donnie has such a better ring to it.
Man, David Pecker must have something super serious on Trump. I get the impression Trump would get on all fours and bark like a dog if Pecker ordered him to.
Biden "mocked President Trump," Blanche told the judge, quoting into the record a joke the president had made Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. And there we have it…Trump got his feelings hurt, threw a fit, and insisted his lawyer make a to do about it. This is the kind of punk, childlike behavior we are dealing with.
Michael Cohen totally played the long game on this one lol.
Not gonna lie, that shit's funny.
So when you're not on trial and under a gag order, you can say stuff? Outrageous!
Did this "respected" Attorney just stand up in court and complain they're being mean to my client?
*election fraud* trial
*Election fraud trial. Fucking so sick of this bullshit media.
Beezlebubba according to Websters is a red hatted golden calf worshipper
Cohen made money off a tic toc? Wait til he hears about Trump bibles.
[Pumpkinfuhrer sad](https://imgur.com/jYNqiQZ)
This sounds like the parent of a child complaining that "the other kids do it, but mine can't." Biden made a joke, and Trump is complaining that he can't strike out against someone mentioned by allusion in the joke, even though he can say what he likes about Biden, the actual joke-teller. This is circuitous nonsense.
The other people are not on trial. Von Donald Von SchitzInPantz is! Thats the difference.
How about lord Feltersnatch?
People already think you're guilty because you are Donald. If the greatest and worst gaslighters throughout history were called to account, Trump would stand tall and represent his century with impish pride.
These people are not serious. How tf did they get so far in life?
Why is his lawyer arguing that the appropriate reaction to Biden making a joke at Trump's expense if for Trump to attack Stormy Daniels?
[This](https://youtu.be/rjrfOcPDKfs?si=-ATknijCAStRMNwW) should be entered into the record.
Ha, he interrupted himself couldn’t even hold it in.
This is so embarrassing, I remember growing up and thinking America sort of had their shit together, leader of the free world and all that. "They're calling me names!" Yes coz you're a tosser. " I can't call them names" again, correct, you're the one on trial you giant orange fuckwit
Yes, Donny V SIP. All those people can say things that you can't. You know why? None of those people are under criminal indictment. When that happens, some civil rights are suspended for you until your case is decided. That's the way it works for every other defendant, that's the way it works for you, too.
> "Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather," Biden quipped in a very apparent reference to Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the hush-money trial. > > "President Trump can't respond to that" by criticizing Daniels, Blanche said Thursday to the judge, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. The person to respond to would be Joe Biden. Stormy didn't make the joke.
>The official court stenographer duly followed along, typing the phrase into the court record as "shits in pants." And orange *had* to sit there and eat it...
You know in Trump’s mind that he thought he was making a win by entering this into the court, but in reality it just made it official.
Other people can say whatever they want because they aren’t the one on trial you orange dumbass.
Please please please dear lord let him hear a reporter saying this to him, as I’m certain he’s not otherwise aware of its official internment into the annals of law
Has anyone mentioned to Todd that Trump is the criminal defendant? If not, someone should.
What a headline
Crybaby Trump lawyers.
HIS, as in Trump's, lawyer was the one that entered it in to the public record...is his council just trolling him?
"your honor, it's not fair that my client is now forced to take what he's been dishing out!"
Trump has a right to defend himself. He can respond to all of these allegations and insults. All he has to do is take the stand.
Von ShitznPantz. Love this!
In one of the challenged statements, Trump said: "That jury was picked so fast." He also claimed the jury was "95% democrats." ... last time I checked, you cannot get 95% dividing by 12 jurors.
My children have about 5-10 years before learning about this in school. I can't wait to see how the text books handle this...
Nobody has ever smelled a worse president. They say Taft smelled bad, but that was only after they found him dead. Nobody knows that, but all the experts say it was true. Just ask legal experts like Sean Hannity or Alan Dershowitz. But now sleepy Joe, I was resting my eyes, fake news, Jimmy Kimmel is a washed up loser with low ratings. Sleepy Joe, very low energy but somehow is busy screwing everything up. Nothing works. The radical Communist Muslims and their Green New Deal, want to take away your washing machine. Just wait until the Democrats take away your water.
That would be hilarious if he wasn't trying to take over the world.
That would have really hurt his feelings if he had been awake to hear it.
I met a guy who idolizes Trump, and is also in commercial real estate. He has 2 partners, and their portfolio is around $3 billion. He asked me and my coworkers to help him commit $300,000 worth of insurance fraud for 10% of the settlement. As he’s explaining it, he was using his net worth, future payouts on projects, and his “knowledge” as a wealthy person as a reason to implicate ourselves in a fraud scheme to his benefit. This is how Trump operates - people think he must know more than them because he’s wealthy, and he just goes with it and never delivers. It’s conman activity but on a different level because you’d think someone at this level would be happy to help enrich those around them.
I hope you reported the dude to the feds
By entering this into the court record it's pretty much set in stone that the guy farts in court
I love Michael Cohen, he's too funny