Disappointing that so many people are assuming this is a scam and not a sign of the President’s deep love of literature and learning. When did we all become so cynical? https://t.co/1yaoQG3Rc9
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) January 17, 2021
Who better qualified for the task than Dan Scavino, Trump’s former caddy and devoted keeper (until it was permabanned) of Trump’s personal Twitter account.
Anyone who ‘donates’ as much as fifteen cents in hard currency to this particular grift is either a willing mark or someone looking for a favor… but how many favors will be Trump’s to grant, once he’s escorted off the White House premises?
Per the original Washington Post article:
… Speculation is also coursing through Trump World about a possible presidential library and museum. No announcements have been made, but two people familiar with internal discussions said it is likely to be located in Florida and run by Dan Scavino, one of Trump’s longest-serving and most loyal aides who advises him on social media and most recently served as deputy White House chief of staff.
One of these people, who was a top fundraiser on Trump’s campaign, said the president has told supporters he wants to raise $2 billion for the library — a far greater sum than has been raised for past presidential libraries — and thinks he can collect it in small-dollar donations from his grass-roots supporters.
“I thought to myself, what is this alternative fantasy life you’re living?” this fundraiser said. “I have no clue where they think they’ll get this money raised. Anyone who gives to him will be radioactive.”
Asked about raising money for the library, another former top Trump fundraiser wrote in a text message: “Insane.” This person noted that, “except for the wackos, everybody’s running for the hills.”…
There’s gonna be a network of shell LLCs that spends $2 billion to make an Arby’s with a single copy of Art of the Deal in it and the financial reports will look like a sudoku filled in by a manic orangutan https://t.co/GtqTGjc1y2
— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) January 17, 2021
The part that will keep a horde of paralegals busy for years is sorting out which funds were misappropriated by Trump family members and cronies, which were misappropriated-without-permission-from-Himself ditto, and which never existed beyond some weasel words and a line on some photocopied ‘financial document’.
“It fits in with Florida’s overall character of being the magnet for all insanity in the universe … Florida, in some freakish, horrible way, is the Trumpiest of states. This is the logical place for them to come,” ?@TheRickWilson? https://t.co/2OciZchLXg
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 17, 2021
More schadenfreude:
… By migrating… to Palm Beach, Fla., Trump plans to inhabit an alternative reality of adoration and affirmation. The defeated president will take up residence at his gilded Mar-a-Lago Club, where dues-paying members applaud him whenever he eats meals or mingles on the deck. He is sure to take in the same celebratory fervor whenever he plays golf at one of the two Trump-branded courses nearby…
Trump may have imagined a mischief-making, mega-rally farewell — complete with a tease about reclaiming the White House in 2024 — to draw attention from President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to remind fellow Republicans that he still rules the roost.
But there will be no such grand departure in the wake of the Capitol insurrection…
… Trump has been consumed with anger over his impeachment Wednesday by the House for inciting the Capitol riot, advisers said. He is also upset by the silence from many of his most vigorous defenders, and is nursing feelings of betrayal from Republican congressional leaders, they said…
Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, are shopping for a house in Jupiter, Fla., about 15 miles from Palm Beach, according to a person familiar with their plans, confirming a New York Post report. Trump Jr.’s ex-wife, Vanessa, and their five children moved to the area last year, this person said.
Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, both White House senior advisers, recently purchased land owned by pop star Julio Iglesias in Indian Creek, a gated private island near Miami that is home to celebrities, business figures and professional athletes, including Jay-Z, Beyoncé and football star Tom Brady.
Daughter Tiffany Trump also is shopping for property in Miami, according to Page Six…
At least they’ll all be corralled in one place, where the rest of us can keep an eye on them. Condolences on your new neighbors, Betty, Adam, other Floridian jackals…
Breaking: Alexei Navalny’s Plane Landed Safely In Russia; He Was Immediately Arrested
Baud
That’s $2 billion that can’t be used against Democrats.
Ken
The whole Trump family’s moving to coastal Florida? Suddenly global warming doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
Litlebritdifrnt
He can’t live at Mar A Lago for more than 21 days. Period.
Ryan
Unfortunately, there are no more tweets to print out and bind into volumes.
Parfigliano
I thought the scumbag cant reside at Mar A Lago.
NotMax
Betcha the artist’s conception drawing will show it spelled “Liberry.”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Methinks Mar-a-Largo is going to be having an exodus of dues-paying members
PaulWartenberg
I blogged earlier about the reality of a trump library. The nonprofit setup for it will collapse on itself because trump and his peeps CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH A NONPROFIT. Theres few places he can place something like that without controversy even in Florida. If he tries Mar A Lago the National Archives will reject it as vulnerable to hurricanes and floods. And it will never be a true library it will be a gift shop selling MAGA towels and trump branded golf clubs.
Anne Laurie
@Litlebritdifrnt: Maybe his favorite daughter and her loving hubbie will let Daddie use their guest house… for a consideration, of course.
(He may have to share the bathroom with their Secret Service detail, though.)
Actually, I doubt the Palm Beach authorities will be able to enforce the ‘no more than 21 days occupancy’ rule without spending more on legal fees than it would be worth. But if they can figure out how to fine him on a regular basis, now…
Benw
He may move to Florida, but whatever lawyers he has left better live in Manhattan….
Mike in NC
A guy who never reads books isn’t going to build a library. He just cannot stop committing crimes.
dmsilev
@Anne Laurie: Assuming he wants to put the library there (or at least has bold plans to do so), the city has a lot of leverage.
MattF
There’s already a website!
Uncle Cosmo
‘Cuz it’s where they’ll bury all his lies!
NotMax
Pull the club’s liquor license.
Place will be emptier than a Bill Cosby concert in 24 hours.
matt the semi-reasonable
He’s gonna try to steal the money to pay Deutsche Bank
Ken
@Anne Laurie: @dmsilev: Unless Mar-A-Lago has its own generator and well, the city has plenty of leverage.
matt the semi-reasonable
I can imagine something like Scientology’s glitzy centers, but for QAnon. And maybe an archive of Trump’s entire Twitter output.
NotMax
@Uncle Cosmo
“Now, about the exterior — gildy or not gildy?”
//
RSA
@MattF:
Nicely done.
Anonymous At Work
Two hard questions, not one, for the donors:
Also, kinda curious why Trump didn’t try to get an entire Chapter of Bankruptcy Code set aside for him…
danielx
Cannot describe how tired I am of hearing about the Toddler in Chief’s wounded fee-fees.
It will be ever so refreshing to know that the fate of untold numbers of people does not rest upon the shitgibbon’s mood swings.
Mallard Filmore
@Parfigliano:
Taking a wild guess here, this arrangement started as a property tax discount. Since past presidents are rather difficult to dislodge, I suspect it will end as a revocation of any tax favors he was granted and become a tax collection issue. This will end up getting resolved when the property is sold (or defaults to the state).
ETA: Also at risk are permits to host large gatherings and liquor licences.
PaulWartenberg
Hello… actual librarian here. I made some arguments aboot this already…!
NotMax
“Located on the most beautiful street in Florida, My Pillow Boulevard.”
//
JMG
As one of my son’s friends said right after the 2016 election, the Trump Library will have “the loosest slots in town!”
Matt McIrvin
@PaulWartenberg: They’ll have no documents to archive because Trump ate them all. It’ll be printouts of tweets.
SFAW
@MattF:
That site is wicked pissah.
danielx
Maybe he can have a ghostwriter pen a book for him. It could even have a simple title, say Mein Kampf…er, My Struggle.
dm
I expect one wing will be a residence, and possibly an adjoining golf course.
and there’ll be a “ten-thousand seat” (with one thousand folding chairs) auditorium where he can hold rallies each week.
Also, a mock-up of the “server in Ukraine” with … what was it? Biden emails or something?
Plus a special display with mockups of photographs of ballots in ditches and a shipping container from China with already-filled-in Biden ballots.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Doesn’t the state, and presumably Trump mini-me DeSatan control that?
SFAW
@Mallard Filmore:
I figured the Murderer-in-Chief would get around the Mar-a-Grifto “can’t live there” thing by having Pam Bondi declare it to be OK by her. But then I discovered she’s no longer Florida AG. But your comments make sense.
LuciaMia
Yumpin’-Yiminy, CanNOT wait till Wednesday.
sdhays
Bullshit.
NotMax
Cafeteria will, of course, be named DeJoy of Cooking.
//
debbie
danielx
@MattF:
Not bad!
OzarkHillbilly
You must have been really bad people in a previous life.
Anonymous At Work
@SFAW: AG isn’t in charge of that, zoning board is and Trump would have a hard time getting around it, since ZB is run by retired attorneys with nothing better to do than harass neighbors over perceived slights to property values.
Pauline
@MattF: The best part is where it’s located in my home town.
SFAW
For a number of years, I’ve suggested that Texas get renamed “Dumbfuckistan,” and have all the RWMFs deported there, followed by the construction of a “big, beautiful wall” to keep them in. [Might consider turning Austin and Houston into latter-day West Berlins, because they seem to be Blue centers. But with the Traitor-in-Chief and his spawn all moving to FLA, I’m thinking that might be a better location. And with sea levels rising, hilarity would ensue. [NB: Naturally, there’d have to be some sort of accommodation made for Betty Cracker, Adam Silverman, and the rest of the Florida Juicers.]
danielx
@sdhays:
Hey, it’s not MY quote. And it wouldn’t have been the end I’d have scripted for him either.
OzarkHillbilly
@Litlebritdifrnt: Wanna bet?
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
They’ve more than made up for any of that, in this life.
Skepticat
A college friend always talked abut the rooftop theory—the U.S. is a house with a pitched roof, and Florida and Southern California are the gutters.
This.
Michael Cain
@PaulWartenberg:
Why do you think Trump will let the National Archives have anything to do with this, or hand over any of the interesting documents? Or that this SCOTUS won’t find big chunks of the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional?
WaterGirl
@danielx: OT, but how is your daughter doing? Only mild symptoms, I hope.
Haroldo
@MattF:
Thank you. That’s truly a work of art.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: Neither Texas nor Florida is uniformly Republican enough to really deserve it. There are sections of Wyoming we could probably fence off.
debbie
Trump Library = Amusement Park. I can’t wait to see what he charges for admission, etc.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I love that and plan to listen to it again.
Probably best, though, to link to the fellow himself so he gets the credit.
Lapassionara
@Ken: That was my thought too. Isnt Miami already having flooding problems?
SFAW
@Anonymous At Work:
Although Zoning Boards have a lot of local power, I would bet a beer that various regs could get “amended,” were enough pressure brought to bear by the appropriate state politicians. And I think zoning regs have been thrown out, if they run afoul of state law/policy.
But I get your point.
debbie
@MattF:
Rats! We missing being able to vote for nominees for the Hall of Enablers!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Michael Cain:
Why would they do that?
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: What are you talking about? Sentenced to entertaining a bunch of unappreciative jackals who whine about everything under the sun all day long.
Ken
“DSM-5” is already taken.
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
Fair enough. Maybe they could rename it “Nuevo Florida,” and Shitgibbon and his evil spawn would move there? [Along with all the RWMFs, of course.] Maybe they can do the same marketing/sales job that was done for Greenland, centuries ago.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Yes thanks, I found it and his name on youtube after posting.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@SFAW:
I propose the Florida panhandle for “Nuevo Florida”. It’s pretty Trumpy/deep red
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Exactly. You DON’T consider that majorly penance? It’s bought them a lot of positive karma, I think, no need to add to their penance.
Just One More Canuck
@MattF: this is brilliant
SFAW
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Isn’t that where Betty lives? [I can never remember.] If so, don’t you think she has enough asshole neighbors already? I mean, philosophically, it’s a good point, but …
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Whine, you say?
It’s — um, er, hmph — interpretive critique.
:)
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
By the way: were you able to get a second full-night’s sleep? I saw your mention of getting one, the other day, was hoping it was going to turn into a streak.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: I take it as a sign that god really really really hates them and he will bring down such an unending tide of suffering upon them that it will make what he did to Job look like a nice leisurely spring walk in the park.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Danced around that one, I see.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Hast thou considered My servant Betty” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: Nope. Woke up the next night at 11 and could not go back to sleep. Woke up last night at 10:30. And 12 midnight. And 1:15. And 4. Got up after that.
NotMax
@SFAW
I see what you did there.
:)
Raven
@SFAW: Tampa area
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@SFAW:
Neither can I. However, TIL that Alabama tried to annex the Panhandle throughout the 19th century so it could always be worse
Kent
Sounds like they are all getting nicely lined up so that one big hurricane can take out the entire clan in one landfall.
Michael Cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
So that Trump and descendants can tell the National Archives to pound sand when they try to get any of the million interesting pages of records that aren’t going to be turned over.
Major Major Major Major
If donors want to spend their money on this, who am I to get in their way?
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Not anymore? I thought the new place was much further north.
Ken
Yeah, but they dress pretty low-class, according to noted fashion critic Donald J. Trump.
SFAW
@NotMax:
I would hope so.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sorry to hear it. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for non-rare full-night sleeps
prufrock
To give you an idea of how ridiculous that 2 billion number is, the new building that houses STRATCOM on Offutt AFB took years to construct and cost 1.5 billion including the massive overruns.
And it still has issues. So what I’m saying is there is a case of getting the right contractors for the Trump library.
SFAW
@Michael Cain:
I thought any papers were property of the US, not the resident?
ChiJD Doug
@MattF: parody, right?
hueyplong
Based on her photos and written descriptions, B Cracker’s neighbor is more likely to be the Dennis Hopper character with a bunch of cameras around his neck than a bunch of jet-setting GOP grifters.
“You don’t talk to the Cracker, man, you listen to her.”
NotMax
OT.
Now that’s weird.
Post office truck pulled into the driveway five minutes ago and the postman delivered an overdue Priority Mail package. On a Sunday afternoon.
Uncle Cosmo
Not gildy by reason of InsHannity, Yerroner!
noncarborundum
Bugs-Bunny-sawing-Florida-off-and-watching-it-float-away.gif
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MattF: There’s a lot of detail there!
Adults (citizens): $25
Adults (immigrants): $50
“Grift Shop” has Pardons for Sale (pay what you want)!
And so much, much more.
Redshift
@danielx: Yeah, the author of that seems not to understand the difference between playing the victim (which he loves) and being the victim (which he doesn’t.)
chrome agnomen
@Matt McIrvin: Kanye…I mean yeezy, has got a spread outside of Cody. maybe he’d be willing to donate some space. Wyoming, that is. can’t get much redder. dick Cheney could be in charge of the archives.
Redshift
@NotMax: We’ve had them come by several times in Sunday in the past month or so. They’re still trying to dig out from the DeJoy sabotage and the historic holiday volume, I think.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Maybe the mail man has gone postal because of DeJoke’s regs?
LuciaMia
And people on the fringe will just keep moving on, till they finally run out of country.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@ChiJD Doug: Yeah, I don’t think there’s a 1 MAGA Lane in Nogales, AZ.
Haven’t yet found a clue to who’s behind it, but the Donate page seems to be sincere. The rest of it is just brilliant parody with a frightening amount of attention to detail.
Edit: The “Our Team” page lists Anthony Scaramucci and Luke Thayer, whoever that is. Is that real? Scaramuci’s name made me think maybe not, but… maybe? Now I think maybe Thayer is the brains behind this masterpiece.
There go two miscreants
Needs to be a rotating tag!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Michael Cain:
Yeah, but why would the SCOTUS care about that? They didn’t interfere when Trump tried to overturn the election. The conservative 6 don’t owe Trump anything
Just Some Fuckhead
The Kardiac Kids are back!
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: They are.
Gvg
@Ken: I doubt any coastal property has a well. Dig and you hit salt water. The aquifer is inland and deep in south Florida. Water rights and sources are already limiting growth down there and will more in the future.
LuciaMia
@NotMax: theyve finally shoveled out all the over flow spaces that got filled up over Christmas.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ken:
Ah yes, how could I forget? Donald John Trump knows fashion; you know he does because he wears oversized suits and spray pains his skin orange lol
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: The local postmaster used to do that here on a semi regular basis when his carriers were overwhelmed. Pre Dejoy.
Subsole
@NotMax: The correct spelling is, of course, lyburry.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
So… the 17th is almost over and no attack from the Q folks. Today was one of the days that there was a lot of chatter about (Q being the 17th letter of the alphabet).
Were they intimidated by the arrests and the fortification of DC? Is it possible we might hope for getting through the 20th without another insurrection?
hueyplong
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: And tomorrow is MKL Day. And the 19th is AllQ’sEve or whatever.
Every day can be something if a Q person pretzels it out just right.
Subsole
@NotMax:
“Give those nymphs some hooters!!!”
craigie
@MattF: That is amazing, and doubly amazing that someone took the time to do it. I guess all those COVID hours gotta go somewhere.
Bill Arnold
@Kent:
Yep. :-)
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Better than even chance of that. They’ve shot their
wadboomerang.Expect there will be some minor disruptions, those scattered and at the edges.
Joy in FL
I bumped into this Wellerman sea chanty, but it’s about COVID. It’s by a scientist and very clever.
https://twitter.com/acapellascience/status/1350782855564111875?s=21
cckids
There’s really no need to disparage honest casinos with comparisons to Trump.
Never forget; the reason the Trump hotel in Vegas doesn’t have a casino is that the NV gaming board wouldn’t give him a license because of his poor financial history and mob ties.
Ken
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I think you’re right about them being intimidated. But did you see the report that after the cut-off of Trump’s twitter and a bunch of others, internet fake information and conspiracy theories have fallen off something like 70%? Maybe the signals to act were also cut off.
MomSense
I don’t want anything to do with them, but what the hell are we as a nation going to do about all these brainwashed people?
mrmoshpotato
But will Dump use crayons or Sharpies?
To hell with Bill Maher, but he did give us the story of Dump being the son of an orangutan.
Alison Rose
Glad my grandparents are both long passed on so they don’t have to live in a state populated by so many Trumps. Jupiter isn’t far from where they lived. Blech.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
We can only hope. I know there was a guy with 500 rounds of ammo that was trying gain access to the Capitol by posing as private security
Michael Cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Four unitary executive justices are enough to grant cert. A fifth and the PRA restrictions on the president are toast. That assumes that some lower court agrees that someone — the Archivist? — has standing to sue. These are strange times. And while winning the Presidency and both houses of Congress has saved us from some things, McConnell’s court loading is something we will be fighting for a long time.
Another Scott
@Joy in FL: Excellent. Thanks for the pointer.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
@MomSense: There’s not much that can be done, other than pushing back; “freedom to be insane” wasn’t on Roosevelt’s list but for all practical purposes it exists. Of course if they take action, they can be arrested.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
She still on the payroll?
Geminid
@NotMax: I don’t worry so much about militia operations, but I do worry about car bombs and backpack bombs. Not just for the next few days, but for the next few years.
Nicole
I dunno how the fundraising is going to work out for him. I can see these cult followers of his giving him their money to overturn election results, but a LIBRARY? Eh, what’s in it for them? Nothing.
But how unsurprising to know that the grift will go on.
As I mentioned to WaterGirl today, all I want is to picture Ivanka lying awake at night, despairing that her father completely blew up her chance for a political career last week.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Anne Laurie: Yeah but here’s what I suspect he hasn’t thought out. FL homestead law makes it nearly impossible for creditors to seize your primary residence in bankruptcy…kinda wonder though, if that residence isn’t a legal residence, that it’ll be protected from seizure.
p.a.
@joshtpm posts Oleaginous Lindsey on Fux saying the Capitol riot is Pelosi’s fault because she’s in charge of security. I’m really superstitious abt wishing evil on people but I can overcome that more and more often lately.
germy
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
He was Private Security.
Achrachno
@MomSense: Maybe we can establish cities on the moon.
Patricia Kayden
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Kinda suspect the 6th was their big shot and most of the most committed were involved and hence either under arrest, or too nervous about Johnny Law showing up at their door to try again. I think they expected hundreds of thousands to show up on the 6th but drew less than 20k. They’re delusional about the size of their “army” so I’m not sure how many folks they could even turn out at this point.
Geoduck
@NotMax: The USPS has been delivering Amazon packages on Sunday for some time now, long before the Current Troubles, thanks to a deal they cut with the company. Is that who it was from?
Nicole
@Patricia Kayden: That tweet you posted made me think about how the word seems to have gotten out to the Democrats to refer to it as the “Biden-Harris” Administration and I wholeheartedly approve. I don’t recall other Administrations having the VPs name included so consistently. I assume that instruction came from Biden, and good for him for doing it.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
People here wildly underestimate how much those insurrectionists were LARPers from a culture of extreme chickenshits who would never have had the guts to storm the capitol if it had been properly defended. They talk big about what gun-toting tough guys they are prepared for the race war, they spin elaborate fantasies about murdering their opponents, but they’re really pathetic bullies who have to feel like they have an overwhelming advantage before they’ll actually be violent. Notice how shocked and baffled they are that they’re getting push back after? And that’s the brave ones like the Proud Boys. The rest are there to stand way back yelling and hoping someone else will commit murder.
Alison Rose
@Patricia Kayden: Sadly, I expect this is going to be an issue the whole time, from all points on the political spectrum. It’s maddening as fuck, too. Misogynoir in action.
trollhattan
Guessing it will be indistinguishable from a giant Bass Pro Shop.
Geminid
@Patricia Kayden: Stelter is CNN’s media critic. I hope he he will have the integrity to apologize on air next Sunday.
Drdavechemist
@Joy in FL: Nice performance and scientifically accurate, but we need SiubhanDuinne to work on the lyrics so they scan better. I can’t deal with “i-SO-la-tion”
evodevo
@NotMax: Not surprising…we mail carriers have been having to work Amazon packages on Sundays for 4 years now…
catclub
Although a check for 15 cents would probably cost the organization
more to cash than its value. See also, famous article on how cheap Trump is.
catclub
Looks that way. A week ago warnings were that more revolts were coming on… Jan 17.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@cckids:
Ha! I didn’t know he didn’t have a casino there. How the hell does a Vegas hotel survive without one?
That said, my aunt and uncle used to go to Vegas to golf and generally be in the heat back when flying was a lot more expensive and there were cheap packages
Subsole
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Baja Georgia also works.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: Princess Ivanka’s Secret Service detail ends Wednesday at noon.
danielx
@WaterGirl:
Mild symptoms passed and she got out of Covid jail today. Yay!
Subsole
@SFAW: ‘Course not. You gotta Romanicize that shit, dude.
“Behold, my good and faithful servant, Bettitia, in whom I am well pleased.”
“Oh, fuck my life…”
Subsole
@chrome agnomen: Aren’t there some Reservations up that way?
Walling those folks off with the Trumps would just be insult to injuries.
Why not Idaho? Everybody forgets it exists already. Perfect place for internal exile.
Subsole
@MomSense: Trepanning.
Subsole
@Nicole: They get to prove their undying devotion to the Holy Brupp. That’s all they need. Faith is it’s own reward, y’know.
Ken
All the more reason for her to persuade Daddy to live with her and Jared. Free security, though I guess they wouldn’t go with her when she goes shopping.
JoyceH
You know, I can’t help enjoying the thought of how Trump’s early post-presidency is going to go.
Picture, if you will – he’s in his quarters at Mar A Lago. And he’s stuck in there because he doesn’t want to bother with doing his hair and putting on his face, so he’s just there, watching television.
What’s on the news? Biden Administration stuff. And Biden is getting a Honeymoon. The news media is so sick of doing pandemic stories that feature wrenching videos from heart-broken, furious nurses that they want to do some good news pandemic stories. So they’re breathlessly reporting that FEMA is over here doing this, and the National Guard is over there doing that, and the Defense Production Act has been invoked and smoothed out all these supply glitches, and here are all these vaccines being administered at high speed, and isn’t it all so awesome and organized?
And there Trump sits – AND HE CAN’T EVEN TWEET!
Subsole
@Frankensteinbeck: This. These people are profoundly weak.
Which does not, it must be noted, make their movement any less dangerous or destructive.
But in a way it’s the warped mirror image of sll the Bernie supporters who thought Mitch would cave b/c a bunch of protestors camped on his lawn.
They think they are going to be a big inspiration and the millions of people who secretly, silently agree are going to see that PC SJW culture can’t hurt them, and cast off Hillary’s Vagenda of Manocide in a glorious NeoConfederate revanchaissance.
It’s buried in Limbaugh. For 30+ years these people have told thselves that everyone is a miserable bastard, they’re just the only ones with the BALLS! to be honest about it.
Imagine their surprise…
Vhh
@Baud: Absolutely. The real point is that it could bankrupt the GOP.
Ken
@JoyceH: Almost makes me believe in karma. The only flaw is that he’ll retreat to whatever cable shows are pushing his version of reality.
JoyceH
@Ken:
Naw. He says he doesn’t watch CNN and MSNBC, but he does. He can’t help himself. If he were only watching Fox, he wouldn’t have done so much rage-tweeting at Joe Scarborough and Don Lemon.
danielx
@JoyceH:
A truly heartwarming picture.
Vhh
@catclub: We could make $1 donations to keep them spending on mailers and media kits. Use some GOPers phone number, though.
Citizen Alan
If I were rich enough to live in that area, there would be no sum of money to great to spend on keeping Shitgibbon from becoming a permanent resident. I would bankrupt myself if that’s what it took.
Aleta
Also in Florida: asset protection.
Is it easier for an indicted Trump to flee the country from Florida? Could it be the state where they own the most judges?
jackmac
The words Trump and Library conjure images of an elementary school classroom with crayon drawings, construction paper projects taped to the walls and books with big color images and single syllable words.
Aleta
I like to imagine the cheer that will echo across the country on Wed.
Last night I dreamed I was putting all the bells in the house on one table. (My mother’s family’s one-room schoolhouse hand bell, the cats’ jingle bells, etc etc). I thought I was dreaming about the New Year. Now I realize it’s about the day he leaves and Biden’s team takes over. Maybe I will ring some in the street between dances.
Scout211
https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege
This may have already been posted. A New Yorker reporter filmed the Capitol siege as it happened. Chilling.
Ken
@JoyceH: That’s a good point, but will he keep watching CNN and MSNBC when they aren’t talking about him? This is the man who wasn’t reading the PDBs until his staff started salting his name through the document.
dm
@Joy in FL: Oh. A Capella Science!
Check out his “Bohemian Gravity”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc
Check out his “Evo Devo”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk
and… and… and…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JoyceH: other than Scarborough and for a little while Nicole Wallace, and way back in the campaign “little” Katie Tur (gee, I wonder how she caught his eye….) I don’t ever remember him going after anyone else on MSNBC. Chris Hayes said the other day he had experience of what it’s like when trump targets a journalist, but I don’t remember that.
By the time the evening shows roll around, he probably needs that steady diet of defense and adulation
CarolPW
@Aleta: For tomorrow’s Covid-19 memorial they are asking cities to illuminate buildings and ring church bells at 5:30 pm ET. Would be a good use of your bells to join in. The pup has eaten the kitty jingle balls so I don’t even have any of those to ring.
NotMax
@Geoduck
Nope, not Amazon.
rikyrah
@danielx:
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WaterGirl
@danielx: Late getting back to this thread… that’s such great news! You must all be very relieved.
ballerat
@cckids:
Since when would that ever stop a NV gaming commission? As if all the other casinos in Las Vegas don’t have owners with questionable business history or mob ties?
I think it’s more about which people he has his business history with, and which mob he has ties to.
I would hazard a guess the mob in Las Vegas is not the mob Trump is involved with.