When I was a kid, I had this friend down the street who lived next to an alley and we used to collect all kinds of junk for our clubhouse, which was really just a big cardboard box. One day it was really windy, like crazy windy and our whole goal that day was to keep the cardboard box from collapsing with all of our goofy stuff in it.
I feel like this is basically Trump, I mean what fucking adult human does things like this? And all the “handlers”, and all the people surrounding him either encouraging it or just letting it happen, it makes you question everything that you thought about the “adults”, and people that get into politics, and what exactly is “leadership.”
Absolutely surreal. I try to ignore it for my mental health but I mean it’s everywhere, it’s impossible to ignore and it is definitely intriguing to find out the next thing and the next thing everyday.
Oh yeah and completely ignoring a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of people.
I am looking forward to all this being over soon, but it’s definitely like the curtain has been lifted on the bullshit that can and will continue to happen in government.
What is a leader really? I mean in ideal terms I suppose it’s someone that has experience in the ways of persuading a large populace to accept the ideals that help and support the greater good. But what the fuck can 70 million people see in fucking garbage, garbage family, and just everybody surrounding them??
I don’t know if I’ll ever get that answer but I look forward to someone that seems like they care to play the role as a true leader, at least to not be a divisive petty psychotic . We will see
“Trump is hurting the right (immigrants, non-white, poor, experts, anyone left of mussolini) people”
-Pretty much every trump voter you care to engage with
And yeah, it turns out a really huge chunk of americans are just stupid and/or evil.
It was amazing. Rudy could not understand or discuss the most basic legal concepts. I read that he last appeared in federal court 28 years ago, but still his incompetence (and apparent mental decline) was unbelievable. Good news for the rest of us, though.
I wonder if he’s ever fired anyone in-person. IIRC, he never actually fired anyone in person on The Apprentice. It was always edited to look like he did, but he couldn’t do it.
If (in some alternate universe) the Senate was amenable, Trump could be disqualified from holding and enjoying any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States
They could. But given that the Senate composition won’t change until after he’s President, it doesn’t seem like a realistic path. As some wise soul on Twitter said “trump could shoot someone in the senate and still get acquitted 53-47. unless he shot a republican, then it would be 52-47.”
Back in 2016, I was asking “who looked at this turd and saw someone who would help them?” A clearer-headed friend said “A vandal doesn’t look at the brick in their hand and wonder who it will help. Trump is their brick.”
At this point of administrative decay, I’m assuming the two Stev/ph/ens (Miller and Bannon) are whispering commands like the snakes in Rikki Tikki Tavi.
He was way out of his depth, in a field of practice he knew nothing about, on a case where he was oblivious to what prior plaintiff’s attorneys had done, with only some scripted crap about causes of action which were already dismissed. Its not just mental decline, it was hubris and way too much time on Fox News.
I think the judge kept Rudy in there because he wanted the case moved through his court as quickly as possible, without delays waiting for plaintiffs to obtain new counsel.
That being said, I really feel sorry for the paralegals Rudy probably dragooned into writing the opposition to defendant’s motion to dismiss on a 12 hour deadline.
The judge treated Rudy exactly the way I see judges treat pro se litigants. Let him ramble. Let him make his horrible arguments. Let him make his record. The judge even went out of his way to suggest the arguments that Rudy should’ve made, and worked to clarify Rudy’s muddled legal positions. In short, he left Rudy no basis on which to appeal after the judge inevitably rules against the Trump campaign.
