Trump

[KlaxonCow]

Eric Trump tweets "Minnesota get out and vote"... a week after the election has happened:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 20416.html

The comedic gift that keeps on giving, as I've said.


I saw one analyst on American TV say that he reckons that Trump will go to Mar-a-lago in Florida for Christmas... and then he'll just never came back to Washington ever again. Not for the inauguration. Not for anything. That, basically, he'll just walk away and sulk. If anyone mentions the election, he'll shout "voter fraud" and then run away again.

Of all the political predictions I've heard, I think he might be exactly right on that one. Trump'll shout and shout about "voter fraud" - until all the appeals are rejected - and then he'll just skulk off quietly, to avoid facing the cameras as being a big loser, and then remain in a state of denial that he ever lost anything ever for the rest of his life. That's just - as we've seen for the last 4 years - how Trump's brain works.

[Mat]

I know it's old news now, but following Harlequin's Guardian link to the story about Trump's scam to get his supporters to pay off his debts, I saw their headline about the garden centre story, and it gave me a right chuckle:

Make America Rake Again

[merman]

Trump: they deleted millions of my votes

Security experts: safest election ever, did not happen

[skab]

Security experts: safest election ever, did not happen

Head of security experts department: Fears his job will be axed by Trump very soon.

Not kidding, BTW.

[F-ZeroOne]

Joe Biden didn’t steal the election, but Trump is certainly trying to.

[PFVA]

Mike Pompeo is on the way to Europe to visit 10 countries.
What do they want now?

[Little stoned kiwi]

What do they want now?

New strains of covid?

[KlaxonCow]

Apparently, the Four Seasons Total Landscaping fiasco wasn't just bizarrely hilarious, but made many of the lawyers that the campaign had recruited to fight the election result insta-quit as they were "horrified" to see Rudy Giuliani standing in a garden centre parking lot, next to an adult book store, spouting insane conspiracy theories:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 23014.html

Lawyers who had committed to working with the Trump campaign to contest the results of the election reportedly backed away after Rudy Giuliani’s disastrous press conference in the parking lot of a suburban Philadelphia landscaping company.

Politico reports that campaign staffers were horrified when they learned about the event, organised by Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, and tried to get it cancelled.
[...]
Many of the lawyers that the campaign had spent months recruiting no longer wanted to be involved.
[...]
Targeting lawsuits for each state specific to the circumstances, the intention was to diminish Joe Biden’s leads in swing states to the point of triggering recounts.

Mr Giuliani on the other hand has independently appeared on Fox News with wild allegations of widespread voter fraud, telling the rest of the Trump legal team that they are not being aggressive enough.

I mean, there's zero hope for them to overturn the results of election in multiple states - because each state is legally responsible for its own election and, therefore, you have to prosecute your case individually, in each state that you want to contest. And now Trump would need to overturn more than one of these state elections to make a useful difference.

Successfully winning even one of these cases when there really is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud going on, let alone doing it multiple times in different states, seems impossible anyway... but then Rudy Giuliani further destroyed their hopes with that Four Seasons Total Landscaping stunt, by making them look totally insane - standing in a garden centre, spouting "aggressive" conspiracy theories that obviously have no legal basis whatsoever - that they lost tons of lawyers from their legal team (who understandably didn't want to have their professional reputations linked to this ridiculous nonsense), which then loses them the "per state" legal expertise they needed, to have lawyers who specialise in that state's laws. And, just simply, the sheer overall number of lawyers they have - as if you want to prosecute all these lawsuits in multiple states simultaneously, you need to send big legal teams to ever state... you simply need an awful lot of lawyers to do that.

And tons of them just instantly walked upon seeing that travesty unfold on their TVs, as the supposed beginning of their legal fight back. "Yeah, right. No. I think I'll pass on that".

[merman]

Lawsuits in Pennsylvania all thrown out and the legal team there on the verge of quitting.

Funny how Trump getting over 300 electoral college votes was a "landslide"...

[F-ZeroOne]

Ah, but those were all Trump votes, which are completely untainted, uncorrupted, pure votes of pure pureiness, whereas every vote for Biden is THE EVIL OF EVIL VOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ALL UNIVERSES.

[gilesgoat]

Ah, but those were all Trump votes, which are completely untainted, uncorrupted, pure votes of pure pureiness, whereas every vote for Biden is THE EVIL OF EVIL VOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ALL UNIVERSES.

I still have to listen to the new rants of Alex Jones .. but that's "nothing" it's YEARS he's going over and over and over and over that "whatever bad happens in the world it's a fault of OBAMA and BILL GATES !!" .. they are evil on earth !!

[snaff]

[ThetaReactor]

So now we're hoping that the SCOTUS is gonna act like partisan hacks? That cartoon is almost as cringey as a Ben Garrison comic.

[SuperMappy]

[Foozwah]

So now we're hoping that the SCOTUS is gonna act like partisan hacks? That cartoon is almost as cringey as a Ben Garrison comic.

I know it's feeding the resident ineffectual troll to even comment one step removed, but wow, talk about an animated version of the observable truth that "the right can't meme".

In all seriousness, there must something in the far-right psyche that renders it incapable of producing "humour" that is actually funny. It's just sad and laboured and kind of pathetic.