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Years ago, there was a poster that would periodically pop up on the IMDb boards and post a bunch of really bizarre paranoid delusions in a few hours, then vanish again. The story around the boards was that she was a mental patient, and she'd slip away from her institution for a while and post, then they'd take her back.
I'm reminded of her every time I read one of Trump's rants, because they sound exactly the same.
It always almost reads like the rant of a toddler, certain points, like when he goes Y'ALL GO TO HELL! ( Edit: I'm phrasing here ) I think he screams out in real life all the words he writes in capitals, while writing the rant.
Even the way he lists all the "bad people" throughout his rant, it's all in all pretty infantile, but also petty and fucking creepy. It's so unreal.
When he was in office, I had a chrome extension that changed the font of all his tweets to look like a toddler wrote them in crayons. Reading it that way made the font match the message and helped soften the existential crisis.
Early on in his term, I wrote a grease monkey script that changed “fake news” to “fake hair”. But then dumped chrome and didn’t copy it over. The crayon font is a great idea too.
I dont suppose you grabbed a screenshot of one? Although I'd understand not wanting to post it. It just sounds hilarious.
https://addons.mozilla.org/user-media/previews/thumbs/182/182372.jpg?modified=1622132681
The extension was called Make Trump Tweets Eight Again. It was based on a bit from Stephen Colbert.
Amazing, ty.
It's also a horrid run on sentence. I'm no English teacher, but I want to grab a red pen and start correcting the whole thing. It might save time to just cross the entire thing out and write a big F across Trump's forehead. It can stand for both Fail and Fascist!
I was an English TA for 3 semesters, and the urge to unsheathe and wield the Red Pen of Pedantry was strong during his term. Ultimately, it was going to be a never-ending battle, so I just gave up.
It's interesting the parallels between Trump and Alex Jones. Both now have their empires on the chopping block for things they've said, and both are behaving in much the same way.
Old Man Yells at Cloud
Old man that could be a vindictive dictator.
The sad part is the percentage of voters looking into the clouds for their solutions.
I think he's spent every single holiday this year ranting furiously.
For fuck's sake, put the phone down, sit at the table and eat some turkey.
McDonald's doesn't sell mcturkey.
McProfitOpportunity
These days it appears his diet consists of Sudafed and Adderall
Fuck that asshole and stop giving him attention every time he vomits some repugnant shit out of his mouth.
every time he vomits some repugnant shit out of his mouth.
You mean talking?
McBain.
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken
Fuck.
"These are my talking points. Go forth and parrot them."
"Amen!"
He's a cult leader.
like a combo of Hitler and Jim Jones
Can they break out the flavor aid?
This rotten prick needs to be buried in the deepest pit of hell.
Kinky.
What a loser.
Crybaby cries.
Happy NoFucksgiving
Dictators gonna dic.
The reporting that was saddest to me was that Trump was said to be attacking his political enemies, and then naming prosecutors and judges. If Trump didn't provably break 91 laws, he would not have his 91 charges. Prosecuting crime is a wholly different from political attacks. I expect that from Rs, not Newsweek.
Just think how many of his crimes haven't been investigated enough to be indicted for? He commits more crimes before breakfast than most people do over their life. My favourite is, he couldn't even donate (or was it pay for dues?) to boy scouts without commiting a crime ... Cause he paid with charity funds or something similar that wasn't his money, like $7 in 1989. Billionaire for sure, that $7 would be like us regular folk stealing a hundredth of a penny or something, I didn't do the math but it's smaller than his hands anyways.
The quite frankly bizarre use of capitals here really highlights the deranged lunacy of this unhinged rant...
Leader of the Free World and most powerful man in the world 😂 😐 🤔 🫨
If you use your secret decoder pin on the capitals it reveals a hidden message:
spoiler
It's just a crummy call for violence.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He wrote: "Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia 'Peekaboo' James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a 'Psycho,' Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a 'tiny' Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial, or seeing any PROOF, & used his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison Greenfield, to sit by his side on the 'Bench' & tell him what to do; & Crooked Joe Biden, who has WEAPONIZED his Department of Injustice against his Political Opponent, & allowed our Country to go to HELL; & all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
The frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is facing a civil fraud trial brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The $250 million lawsuit alleges Trump and executives at his company fraudulently inflated his wealth on his financial statements, which were used to secure loans and insurance.
A gag order in the case previously prevented Trump from criticizing court officials, but last week a state intermediate appeals court, headed by Judge David Friedman, granted a temporary stay on the order, effectively suspending it due to the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue."
Engoron had previously fined Trump $15,000 in total for violating the order twice after commenting about Greenfield, including falsely claiming she was in a relationship with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Meanwhile, Trump complained that there was no food left for him at a luncheon for Texas state patrol officers he attended last weekend to celebrate the federal holiday, which began in 1789 under then-President George Washington.
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Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James
Does he think anyone doesn't understand what he's saying there? Why is he even trying to hide it?
I'm actually not familiar with this particular dog whistle. Can you enlighten me?
There's a very nasty racial slur against black people that starts with "jiga" and ends with "boo." Many people think that Trump's use of "peekaboo" in relation to the black Letitia James is a reference to that phrase.
He has a history of doing this. He has referenced the two black poll workers in Georgia that the MAGA conspiracy theories targeted as "Riggers" in a clear nod to the N word.
His followers love this kind of stuff. They think they're being sneaky by "hiding" their racism behind otherwise innocuous words.
Just like when they thought that yelling "Let's Go Brandon" was sooo fucking clever.
He seems nice.
Just getting ready to throw some Yule Tide hands, and spread a message of tolerance, peace, and love.
The sky is often blue.
Where does it cross the line into contempt of court and where does it cross the line into libel? I think it may be beyond the horizon behind him.
