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I am also willing for you to go to jail.

And I'm guessing the judge also plays racquetball or something.

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"If I lose to [Joe Biden], I don't know what I'm going to do -- I will never speak to you again. You'll never see me again." —DJ Trump

“I Am Willing to Go to Jail”

The master spinner of lies and deceit shits out just another lie.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

He's a tease, never delivers the goods. Well, he did get fastfood delivered to the White House that one time. Food orders taken, food orders delivered.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm down for seeing it. I'm betting he will sob like a fucking baby.

"But he has a Secret Service detail! It can't be done!"

Sure it can. Solitary confinement with a Secret Service agent right outside the door in rotating shift.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heh. I’m not sure the secret service even needs to.

At a certain point, “we’re withdrawing protection” needs to be on the table.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Unfortunately, secret service protection isn't just about physically protecting him. It's also about protecting the information that he knows.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How's that working out? Pretty sure that they didn't protect a bunch of info at his home.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't some of them even assist in covering for Jan 6th and or the documents fiasco ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Deleted texts on SS phones say "yes"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems like the simplest method for dealing with traitors goes back to a long drop and a short rope.

If done right it can be relatively quick and painless. I have never felt the need to learnt to tie a noose, but I'll give it a shot for that piece of filth.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I believe legally the President and their family get SS protection for life.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

We also have never had a president end up a convicted felon. Personally I think that should warrant withdrawing secret service protections. Obviously he probably should keep the detail. But also fuck his traitor ass.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In his defense he has been unlikable for the entirety of many people's lives

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When folks claimed, in 2015, that no one hated trump before he ran for president (also forgetting he ran a sweaty napkin of a campaign years prior) I always loved playing a couple songs by the Coup.

They had someone pretending to be him rap in one from 1994 (the joke being that he's hated even by other rich assholes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk8Um2Sso (lyrics here: https://genius.com/The-coup-pimps-free-stylin-at-the-fortune-500-club-lyrics)

And in a powerful line in a track of their 2001 album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84bJG5qj96w (lyrics here: https://genius.com/The-coup-ghetto-manifesto-lyrics)

I practice this like a sport, met Donald Trump and he froze up

Standing on his Bentley yelling, "Pimps down, hoes up"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When folks claimed, in 2015, that no one hated trump before he ran for president

Of all the absurd claims that Trump supporters regularly make that's one of the most absurd. Donald Trump hates New York because the NYC elites didn't accept him as one of their own. The dude was a social pariah that had to resort to crashing parties because he'd never actually get an invite. Even the average New Yorker on the street has known since the '80s that he's nothing but a silver-spooned fame seeking circus clown.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

folks claimed, in 2015, that no one hated trump before he ran for president

In the late '80s and early 90s, Spy magazine did an annual "Top 10 Worst People" issue and Donald Trump always made it. Hilariously/depressingly each entry had a "mitigating factor" - Trump's was always "at least he's not in politics".

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've hated Donald Trump since he ruined our Christmas Eve in 1989.

When I was young, we had a family tradition of buying a new board game every year for Christmas. It was the one gift we would open as a family on Christmas Eve, so we'd have something new and fun to do together for the evening. In 1989, Milton Bradley released Trump: The Game. My older brother, who has always been interested in ways to get rich, was a fan of Donald Trump at the time (he got better), and insisted that we get the game that year. It was awful. We played it once and I don't think we ever opened the box again. It was somehow simultaneously too confusing and too simplistic to be fun.

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[–] zaph 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember seeing him in Home Alone: Lost in New York. I screamed at Kevin not to talk to creepy strangers.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Donald Trump is the only cast member of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives

[–] zaph 12 points 1 year ago

That was fun!

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He really does seem to be trying to emulate Hitler, right down to running for office while in prison for an attempted coup. The only difference was that Hitler was not quite 40 when he did that. If Trump goes to actual prison (and doesn't get some cushy house arrest), he is old enough that he doesn't have much time left after that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is exactly it, but he foresees becoming some kind of political prisoner 'martyr for the cause' that will 'surely rally everyone behind him' for the election.

Unfortunately I'm not sure he's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guarantee you he is terrified of prison, even if it is house arrest.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I am willing to go to jail"

Narrator: He was not.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe he should start the chant “lock me up”! At his events.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

At this point, his people would count it as a win. "He was in jail, just like Martin Luther King!"

Four legs good, two legs better!

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

I find his terms acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God damn why do I still have to hear this giant orange toddler all the fucking time? Conservatives are the most pathetic morons.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His only vision past 2024 will be three white walls and a steel door. Our whole lives aren't about hating you Cheeto, you committed treason.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

'Her Whole Life is Not Liking Me'

textbook narcissist

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

24 hours ago:

The Associated Press notes, however, that “there would be no restrictions on statements criticizing the Justice Department generally or statements about Trump’s belief that the case is politically motivated.” Chutkan remains a permissible target for Trump’s public ire.

You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Every new picture of him in public I see he gets darker and darker. Doing a reverse Michael Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he has vitiligo too and parts of his skin are naturally orange?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trump being Uncle Ruckus actually makes a lot of sense

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quote from article "Trump then declared, “But what they don’t understand is that I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to win and become a democracy again,”

No most Americans understand that him going to jail is good for the country and democracy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that what he said? It sounds like he accidentally told the truth, for once.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

He's like the loud drunk being "escorted" from the bar by security.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sassy peach can't even fathom the inside of a jail cell. I do have hopes, though.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 20 points 1 year ago

He’s wondering if pretending to have bone spurs will work a 2nd time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

What a child.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Donald should know how we used to treat traitors. The fact he gets the gift of any judicial process and not instantly getting the wall is so fucking generous of us.

Don't look a gift judge in the mouth you repugnant fuckwit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

He should stop threatening us with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

What is this blabbering flap of skin yapping about now

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