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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Meanwhile, Out in the Street, Dancing Bears & Jugglers Are Becoming A Common Sight…

by Anne Laurie|  June 14, 20239:16 pm| 38 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Trump Indictments, Trumpery, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

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a few hundred people, at least half of whom are there solely to promote their merch brand / livestream / various hustles. low energy. he's cooked. https://t.co/yDy0081exi

— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) June 13, 2023

The title quotes Doonesbury‘s Roland Headley discussing some past GOP courtroom sh*tshow — Oliver North / Iran-Contra, maybe?

Never forget that trump was big mad about how dumb his supporters looked on j6, as such it's your duty to share photos of his dozens of courthouse crazies far & wide pic.twitter.com/tR11a3DAoq

— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) June 13, 2023


The pig head being carried around the courthouse looks significantly more cooked after a day in the 90° Miami heat ????? pic.twitter.com/L4wu0foWHm

— Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) June 13, 2023

Here's the same anti-Trump protester immediately afterward.

The police took him away as a loud crowd of Trump supporters chanted "Lock him up!" pic.twitter.com/ETupIgYaG4

— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) June 13, 2023

Glad the Times pays this guy the big bucks for insights like “had he not flagrantly and obviously committed the crimes he probably wouldn’t have been charged with the crimes he flagrantly and obviously committed.” https://t.co/AcJcjB48S9

— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) June 12, 2023


Also the NYTimes: “Outside the courthouse, a circuslike atmosphere brings out activists seeking eyeballs.”…

Funniest thing about Trump is how every time the defenders are like, "well, he didn't cross THIS line which would be actually bad" and then he pops a wheelie, drives his motorcycle off a big ramp, and does three flips through a series of flaming hoops over the line Knievel-style.

— Melania Trump’s Burner Account (@IRHotTakes) June 13, 2023

Byron York on Fox News speculates that Trump may have held on to classified documents simply because "he really liked momentos" and "souvenirs" pic.twitter.com/HLBSkbmNcg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2023

The reverse of this is all of the conspiracy obsessed narrative questioners on here who see nothing suspicious at all about what a former president was planning to do with a truckload of classified documents. Not even worth discussing.

— Environmental Services Weedle (@PartyWurmple) June 13, 2023

As the experts say: 10/10, no notes:

Trump’s Bedminster property is still serving Bud Light. pic.twitter.com/6F35sFkROX

— PatriotTakes ???? (@patriottakes) June 13, 2023

“He’s scared shitless,” said John Kelly, Trump’s ex chief of staff. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this. For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable.” https://t.co/uomHeqhipz

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2023

… “He’s scared s—less,” said John Kelly, his former chief of staff. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this. For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable. Up until this point in his life, it’s like, I’m not going to pay you; take me to court. He’s never been held accountable before.”…

Trump has wanted to show, according to his advisers, that he is ready to fight — instead of looking downtrodden and glum — as he appeared in court Tuesday. The advisers, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions, have said in the past that few things bother him as much as news accounts of his surly mercurial moods and occasional volcanic temper…

“It’s part public relations and part babysitting,” said Stephanie Grisham, one of Trump’s former White House press secretaries. “He wants people to see the cheering crowds so they don’t think anything is going wrong. It’s also because the staff around him want to keep him busy and wants to have people cheering for him and giving him the ego stroke that he’ll need so they don’t have to deal with him being completely pissed.”

Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”…

“If you notice, no one on his campaign is saying it was smart to keep the boxes, and what a brilliant thing he did,” one longtime Trump ally said. “They are slashing and burning.”…

Pound the table! Send in the clowns!

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  1. 1.

    Parfigliano

    June 14, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    First?

  2. 2.

    RaflW

    June 14, 2023 at 9:25 pm

    Here’s one Republican who isn’t stupid.
    via WaPo reporting on TFG refusing to even consider negotiating with DoJ last year: “Christopher Kise, a former solicitor general of Florida who was paid $3 million upfront to join Trump’s team last year, declined to comment.” (emphasis added)

    Seems at least one the attorneys in that orbit learned a thing or two about the futility of bill collecting Donnie.

  3. 3.

    oatler

    June 14, 2023 at 9:27 pm

    The Doonesbury collections that cover the 1980s are essential. Ron Headrest!

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    June 14, 2023 at 9:30 pm

     

    Newburn, Alabama does a coup against the duly elected Black Mayor😠😠😠

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZT81tGv5H/

  5. 5.

    Ken

    June 14, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    “he really liked momentos” and “souvenirs”

    Like Ed Gein.

  6. 6.

    bbleh

    June 14, 2023 at 9:36 pm

    Seems to me there’s approximately zero mystery about who Trump is, who various groups think he is, and who those groups are, including about how big they are and what they’re willing to do.  It’s all pretty much laid out and pinned on paper like some butterfly collection.

    The big questions now seem to be (1) can the combination of cultists and ratfuckers monkeywrench things in enough states to steal the election for him, (2) can the “no labels” saboteurs mount a sufficiently effective spoiler effort to throw the election to him, and (3) will some external shock (recession, war, whatever) hit Biden hard enough that he’ll lose?  Or, of course, more than one at once.

    I’m still optimistic that the probability of each of these is low enough that even a combination won’t be enough to throw things to Trump, but that can change, especially (3).  Now is most definitely not the time to slack off organizing, volunteering, donating, whatever!

  7. 7.

    Shalimar

    June 14, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    It’s good to hear from racist POS John Kelly.

  8. 8.

    Shalimar

    June 14, 2023 at 9:52 pm

    @RaflW: I don’t think Trump was the one who hired Chris Kise.  Kise was pushing Trump to cooperate and return the documents, which is why Trump started ignoring him immediately.   I think someone close to Trump who was tired of his good advice being ignored decided to pay the $3 million to the exceptionally competent Kise to give the same advice, because surely Trump would listen to a prestigious lawyer making that much money he couldn’t get back.  That turned out to be wrong.

  9. 9.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 14, 2023 at 9:52 pm

    I would like to nominate this NYC woman as official blog voice / attitude /e nergy / getthefuckouddaheahyoufuckingtyrants / spokesperson.

  10. 10.

    bbleh

    June 14, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I don’t care how much crap has been created with it, the phone camera has gotta be one of the best recent technological innovations

  11. 11.

    Chetan Murthy

    June 14, 2023 at 10:01 pm

    @bbleh: It gave us incontrovertible proof that neither Sasquash, nor UFOs, exist.  Gotta be worth somethin’!

  12. 12.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    June 14, 2023 at 10:03 pm

    @Ken:

    “he really liked momentos” and “souvenirs”

    Like Ed Gein.

    Well, I’ve laughed enough for the whole night…

  13. 13.

    SpaceUnit

    June 14, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    The dude with the pig head on a stick is making a succinct and profound political statement.

     

    I just have no idea what it is.

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    June 14, 2023 at 10:07 pm

    Trump has wanted to show, according to his advisers, that he is ready to fight — instead of looking downtrodden and glum — as he appeared in court Tuesday. The advisers, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions, have said in the past that few things bother him as much as news accounts of his surly mercurial moods and occasional volcanic temper…

    For some reason, this just makes me thinks of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me”:

    You may think that you’re a playerBut you’re completely lost

    How much of his swagger is he going to lose over the course of the next year and a half? And since that’s basically his entire persona… Clear-eyed Republicans should be worried about an implosion. They can fundraise off calling Biden a wannabe dictator all they want, but Trump’s loser stench is going to continue to ripen.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 14, 2023 at 10:09 pm

    @bbleh:

    Indeed.

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    If you haven’t seen it, Mindhunter on Netflix is very good. It’s the story of the development of the FBI’s profiling process for serial killers.

    Elsewhere, on Twitter I saw Carlos Santana trending and immediately thought the worst. Instead, it was young baseball player Carlos Santana hitting a home run.

    Whew.

  16. 16.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    June 14, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: If you haven’t seen it, Mindhunter on Netflix is very good. It’s the story of the development of the FBI’s profiling process for serial killers.

    I’ll check it out. I’ve never taken much interest in crime, but processes? That’s where the real fun’s at.

    To those who think I’m kidding, I’m not.

  17. 17.

    sdhays

    June 14, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    Wait, so was that pig’s head real? I assumed it was plastic or something.

  18. 18.

    bbleh

    June 14, 2023 at 10:20 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: not at all. events are one-off, but systems …

  19. 19.

    Ken

    June 14, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    @sdhays: There’s something profoundly self-defeating, and more profoundly stupid, about the advisers telling the press “He really hates it when the press reports on his bad moods”.

    That is, unless they’re riffing on the Fawlty Towers episode “The Germans”, and Basil’s absolutely-hilarious-in-context lines “Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it, but I think I got away with it.”

  20. 20.

    Sister Golden Bear

    June 14, 2023 at 10:25 pm

    @Parfigliano: I am aware of all BJ traditions and it should be “frist.” //

  21. 21.

    p.a.

    June 14, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    I really like watches.  That Omega I grabbed from the jewelry store was just “mishandling documents inventory.”

  22. 22.

    Sister Golden Bear

    June 14, 2023 at 10:31 pm

    @sdhays:

    How much of his swagger is he going to lose over the course of the next year and a half? And since that’s basically his entire persona…

    How many cultists will begin drifting away once as he as the loser stink gets worse and worse….

  23. 23.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    June 14, 2023 at 10:55 pm

    A bit OP, but I see where the Southern Baptists are refusing some churches re-admission as they want to keep women pastors.

    The Southern Baptists, forever on the wrong side of history since 1854. And the GOP on the wrong side since 1912.

    No, that’s not OP, is it?

  24. 24.

    Bill

    June 14, 2023 at 10:59 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     

    Elsewhere, on Twitter I saw Carlos Santana trending and immediately thought the worst. Instead, it was young baseball player Carlos Santana hitting a home run.

    He may be younger than the musician, but in baseball terms, at 37 years old, Santana is a veteran getting close to retirement.

  25. 25.

    OB-118

    June 14, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    @SpaceUnit: The “succinct and profound political statement” will be pronounced from the heavens when pigs engage in aeronautical maneuvers of a non-ballistic nature and without the assistance or prodding of pointy sticks.

  26. 26.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 14, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    @Bill:

    Got him mixed up with another player.

    Carlos the musician remains alive, however, and that’s good.

  27. 27.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    June 14, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    By the way, what the hell was going on with the pig’s head? I thought at once of TFG!.

  28. 28.

    Maxim

    June 14, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    @rikyrah: FFS. Good for Braxton. I hope his lawsuit succeeds.

  29. 29.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 14, 2023 at 11:10 pm

    @Bill:

    And speaking of baseball, Isiah Kiner-Falefa just stole home against the LOL Mets.

  30. 30.

    JaySinWA

    June 14, 2023 at 11:11 pm

    @Boris Rasputin (the evil twin): I assume it was an anti (some) cops statement. FBI, DC police, etc. R’s are pushing the defund several policing agencies now.

  31. 31.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    June 14, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    @bbleh: not at all. events are one-off, but systems …

    (Wo?)Maaaaaan, listen…

  32. 32.

    karen marie

    June 15, 2023 at 2:55 am

    “If you notice, no one on his campaign is saying it was smart to keep the boxes, and what a brilliant thing he did,” one longtime Trump ally said. “They are slashing and burning.”…

    This made me laugh out loud.

    Icing on the cake.

    I see no evidence he’s even got a campaign manager. He’s running it like it’s The Apprentice.

  33. 33.

    columbusqueen

    June 15, 2023 at 2:57 am

    I guess Trump never realized his pitch would attract the lower class deplorables of our country?

  34. 34.

    Bill

    June 15, 2023 at 3:12 am

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     You don’t see that every day

  35. 35.

    Chris T.

    June 15, 2023 at 4:58 am

    Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”

    “Sure, everyone died horribly from the poison in it, but the cake was so tasty!”

  36. 36.

    Chris

    June 15, 2023 at 9:35 am

    Trump was more upset that Capitol mob looked ‘low class’ than about violent attacks, reporters say

    Yeah, you could use a tuck here and there yourself, brother…

  37. 37.

    Quicksand

    June 15, 2023 at 10:17 am

    Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”…

    Mrs. Lincoln nods sagely

  38. 38.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    June 15, 2023 at 11:25 am

    I feel really bad for that pig. What did it ever do to deserve this?

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