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At the job interview …
Q: And why do you want to be president?
A: To stay out of jail.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 6-1384379/
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 9:17am
At the job interview …
Q: And why do you want to be president?
A: To stay out of jail.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 6-1384379/
Two possible outcomes here:

1. He views becoming president such an existential necessity that he is maximally willing to ratfuck any Republican who stands in his way, including DeSantis, and destroy the party if he thinks he may be able to save himself;

2. Republicans cut a dirty deal with Trump to shield him from any legal actions against him if he agrees to be a team player.

I don't know if #2 could even work - how would you stop the state of New York from investigating him, for example - and even then then I gotta think the trump brain would resist requiring to rely on any non-family member to assure him of his security and safety.
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Flex wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 9:56am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 9:17am
At the job interview …
Q: And why do you want to be president?
A: To stay out of jail.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 6-1384379/
Two possible outcomes here:

1. He views becoming president such an existential necessity that he is maximally willing to ratfuck any Republican who stands in his way, including DeSantis, and destroy the party if he thinks he may be able to save himself;

2. Republicans cut a dirty deal with Trump to shield him from any legal actions against him if he agrees to be a team player.

I don't know if #2 could even work - how would you stop the state of New York from investigating him, for example - and even then then I gotta think the trump brain would resist requiring to rely on any non-family member to assure him of his security and safety.
There are way too many moving parts for #2 to work, including the foreknowledge of all involved that Trump will fuck over everyone involved in the deal, and, yeah, New York's and Georgia's investigations are underway. But fundamentally, apart from his all-encompassing narcissism, he's in love with chaos, believing (from experience) that that's how to succeed. He can't help but wreck things, both for ego—look what I did!—and for method. Lindsey Graham's prediction about how accommodating Trump will eventually destroy the Republicans seems more and more likely to me as Trump's anxiety grows.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Hey, dumbasses, that's a bus, not a train. :rolleyes: :shifty:
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Y'know, people have regularly looked back and asked how Germans could be sucked into following an absurd-looking little lunatic or the Italians a strutting pompous oaf, yet when Americans finally found their fascist lovegod, it's an absurd spray-tan fat-ass. In spite of fascism's love of the strong man leader, does it actually require a ridiculous boob as its figurehead?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:18am
Y'know, people have regularly looked back and asked how Germans could be sucked into following an absurd-looking little lunatic or the Italians a strutting pompous oaf, yet when Americans finally found their fascist lovegod, it's an absurd spray-tan fat-ass. In spite of fascism's love of the strong man leader, does it actually require a ridiculous boob as its figurehead?
At least Young Stalin was hot.
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JennyB wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:24am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:18am
Y'know, people have regularly looked back and asked how Germans could be sucked into following an absurd-looking little lunatic or the Italians a strutting pompous oaf, yet when Americans finally found their fascist lovegod, it's an absurd spray-tan fat-ass. In spite of fascism's love of the strong man leader, does it actually require a ridiculous boob as its figurehead?
At least Young Stalin was hot.
Born a different time, he's pursues a career as a model instead of a genocidal monster. Life's funny.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:28am
JennyB wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:24am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 11:18am
Y'know, people have regularly looked back and asked how Germans could be sucked into following an absurd-looking little lunatic or the Italians a strutting pompous oaf, yet when Americans finally found their fascist lovegod, it's an absurd spray-tan fat-ass. In spite of fascism's love of the strong man leader, does it actually require a ridiculous boob as its figurehead?
At least Young Stalin was hot.
Born a different time, he's pursues a career as a model instead of a genocidal monster. Life's funny.
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Great hair too.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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That may not actually be him.
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Silent Majority wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 1:27pm
That may not actually be him.
Really? I've understood that to be a mug shot when he was, like, 17.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 Jul 2022, 8:42am
Mimi wrote:
16 Jul 2022, 8:23am
oh good lord. Where is this?
Some town in Virginia, allegedly.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/trump-store-boones-mill

SW Virginia. Never been to that part, but it seems West Virginia adjacent both geographically and politically.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Silent Majority wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 1:27pm
That may not actually be him.
Yeah, I was gonna say, it's disputed. Still, tho, quite a dish if true.
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matedog wrote:
18 Jul 2022, 1:39pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 Jul 2022, 8:42am
Mimi wrote:
16 Jul 2022, 8:23am
oh good lord. Where is this?
Some town in Virginia, allegedly.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/trump-store-boones-mill

SW Virginia. Never been to that part, but it seems West Virginia adjacent both geographically and politically.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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The Boss sent me this about Bannon's day in court.
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Don't ruin the Peanuts gang for me. :lol:

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