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Kendra wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:13 pm

It’s been over a week since former President Donald Trump pledged that he would be filing a lawsuit against CNN.

Yet, instead of court documents being filed, Trump appears to be more preoccupied with begging followers to send in money to “support” the so far non-existent legal action.

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:14 pm Is he wearing a toupee?

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:40 am Why bother suing them? He can get a lot more money asking his donors to fund suing them than he could possibly expect to win. Make the fine print say you will use donations to file the suit and any leftovers will be used "to save America"/

Then pay the $40 filing fee, turn in a copy pasted hot mess you expect to be dismissed by lunch, pocket the $50 million or so the rubes sent in.

Trump calls swimmer Riley Gaines up on stage and tries to give her a kiss. She flinches and pulls away.

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin Diet Coke and a dirty diaper.

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin and a dirty diaper.

humblescribe wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:57 pm Or Charlie McCarthy?

June bug wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:20 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin and a dirty diaper.

Did you mean Joe McCarthy?

Suranis wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:11 pm He wasn't wearing the toupee today. There must have been a fight about it.

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin and a dirty diaper.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:31 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin Diet Coke and a dirty diaper.

FTFY, unless you think he'll finally become a drinker.

Maybe but he enabled the New Fascist Party in the ambitious hands of De Santis, Abbott, and a host of others. No going back.

humblescribe wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:57 pm Or Charlie McCarthy?

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:53 pm

Maybe but he enabled the New Fascist Party in the ambitious hands of De Santis, Abbott, and a host of others. No going back.

I’m not so sure. As low information voters raise their heads, look around the political landscape and recognize that we’re in a pickle, a shift will occur ( see Kansas).

I have one set of relatives whose mantra was ‘ what difference does politics make to our daily lives. Why do we need to pay attention 24/7/365?” They don’t say that anymore.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:35 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah, by the end of 2024 Trump is gonna be Eugene McCarthy, disgraced, ignored and trice denied by Peter (or Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham) He'll die a few years later almost forgotten and smelling of cheap gin and a dirty diaper.

Maybe but he enabled the New Fascist Party in the ambitious hands of De Santis, Abbott, and a host of others. No going back.

On Sept. 27, 1994, more than 300 Republican members of Congress and congressional candidates gathered where the insurrectionists would one day mount the scaffolding. On that sunny morning, they assembled for a nonviolent transfer of power. Bob Michel, the unfailingly genial leader of the House Republican minority for the previous 14 years, had ushered Ronald Reagan’s agenda through the House. But he was being forced into retirement by a rising bomb thrower who threatened to oust Michel as GOP leader if he didn’t quit. “My friends,” a wistful Michel told the gathering, “I’ll not be able to be with you when you enter that promised land of having that long-sought-after majority.”

Newt Gingrich had almost nothing in common with the man he shoved aside. Michel was a portrait of civility and decency, a World War II combat veteran who knew that his political opponents were not his enemies and that politics was the art of compromise. Gingrich, by contrast, rose to prominence by forcing the resignation of a Democratic speaker of the House on what began as mostly false allegations, by smearing another Democratic speaker with personal innuendo, and by routinely thwarting Michel’s attempts to negotiate with Democrats. Gingrich had avoided service in Vietnam and regarded Democrats as the enemy, impugning their patriotism and otherwise savaging them nightly on the House floor for the benefit of C-SPAN viewers.

“Newt! Newt! Newt! Newt!” the candidates and lawmakers chanted. A pudgy 51-year-old with a helmet of gray hair approached the lectern. “The fact is that America is in trouble,” Gingrich declared. “It is impossible to maintain American civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, 15-year-olds killing each other, 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can’t even read.” The pejoratives piled up in Gingrich’s shouted, finger-wagging harangue: “Collapsing … Failed so totally … Worried about their jobs … Worried about their safety … Trust broke down … Out of touch … Wasteful … Dumb … Ineffective … Out of balance … Malaise … Drug dealers … Pimps … Prostitution … Crime … Barbarism … Devastation … Human tragedy … Chaos and poverty.” “Recognize that if America fails, our children will live on a dark and bloody planet,” Gingrich told them.

“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.