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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you know why the vile MAGAcretin is in such a depressed state?
He convinced himself that he won the stolen election and now he's been whipped. He is exposed. All his lies have been exhausted. No one buys his bullshit.
That caravan lie will haunt him.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I recommend he seek asylum in Ecuador.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Federal Pen
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He is a terrorist.
malaise
(268,930 posts)No.
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)Trump could thank Assange in person for his help with the 2016 election.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)DBoon
(22,356 posts)would be the perfect punishment for both
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)and he's gonna have big financial and legal trouble
malaise
(268,930 posts)How and why did he think he could steal the White House and get away with it?
He's an absolute fool.
Stay way from fans.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I was amazed that Manafort didn't strike a deal early on. I guess he expected he wouldn't be found guilty. These rich guys do these big dollar crimes for decades and get away with it, probably thinking they're so much smarter than other people, no one could catch on to them, or figure out the convoluted money laundering. He probably thought the jury would be too stupid to understand. And then, boom.
They have drunk their own Kool-Aid and convinced themselves they are what they tell people they are.
Time for consequences
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Time for a karmic adjustment.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)He watches FoxTV, runs his mouth about what he saw and then acts on impulse. He does not seek advice from people with expertise but rather from the toadies he surrounds himslf with. He is truly a very stupid man. Inexcusable in this day and age and even more so as president of this country.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)His business is actually a very small company with only about 12 employees, some of whom are family members. He's never been a CEO of a public company; the Trump Organization doesn't even have a board of directors he ever had to answer to. It's not much different from a little corner hardware store except for the amount of money that goes through it, much of it acquired under dodgy circumstances. Nobody ever challenged anything he ever did. And because he's an ignorant, arrogant narcissist, he simply assumed that being president would be the same.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)Trump is blinded by his narcissism. He has been running away from his own sense of worthlessness through the self aggrandizement and family money that he has moments where he convinces himself that he is actually good. He has been able to con people but he has never been good.
I have said before that without his family fortune he would have ended up in prison or dead decades ago.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)that is held by some and quite interesting.
He really did not start out to win. He started out to campaign and rack in more money and contacts by which to add to his wealth, which may account for the obvious other cons he brought into his campaign. They all were there for the political pig trough, but clearly not to govern.
Melania was in the process of divorce...getting rid of him. No one knows about their legal agreement, but again, the scuttlebut was that he made her promise to stay with him if he won. When he won, she cried.
Russia really, really wanted him installed...and apparently saw to it...with or without his tacit agreement.
IDK, but it could make some sense and describe a few things...along with the fact that Manafort brought in Pence as VP. Crooked as the rest of them.
Also could explain why he just doesn't give a sh## any more or have any taste for things like Veteran's Day or even any semblance of governing, etc. He's losing his greatest asset...his brand...it's going to be less than worthless...more like a millstone around any neck that it currently occupies. And we'll just have to wait and see what the legal consequences for all involved...including the entire Republican Party. They are complicit up to their weasly RNC necks.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Trump never wanted to win, he wanted the publicity for a TV show, for Trump News or whatever. His big accomplishment in his sad life was the Apprentice, he wanted those glory days back. Putin and his Republican cronies pushed Trump into the winner's circle.
Right now Trump is scared shitless, as Rachel Maddow said, this new AG is his last Hail Mary pass. I still think that Trump may have a nervous breakdown, he is not a tough guy, he may try to use some medical excuse to get him out of his situation, Cadet Bone Spurs, Tension. (purposely misspelled.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Uses Twitter or someone else. The Ultimate Con Man but a total POS. I think he got conned...big time...by Russia and everyone else who stands to make money off his 2 years in office and ultimate, humiliating failure. For one thing, The Brand is soiled beyond repair. That's all he had. Poof !
lunatica
(53,410 posts)is that his knuckle dragging base cant afford it!
spanone
(135,823 posts)Those damn Democrats....
malaise
(268,930 posts)He disgusts me.
spanone
(135,823 posts)If anyone deserves to be miserable, it's don trump.
He's such a bad victim.
I've been hearing about his mood a good deal of the day....cnn / msnbc
This jig is up. Fuck that fucking Con.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)makes me happy!
spanone
(135,823 posts)Howdy lunatica
DFW
(54,341 posts)I heard his latest golf scores were abysmal, and that was the blow that eventually really laid him low.
malaise
(268,930 posts)DFW
(54,341 posts)He has been inconsolable!
malaise
(268,930 posts)He cheats at golf.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)that Trump has ever posted an honest accounting of a round of golf.
DFW
(54,341 posts)Sort of like the latest round of House races--they cheated their asses off and STILL lost. They're trying to salvage the Florida Senate seat and the Georgia Statehouse, but they're losing (Republicanese: "loosing" ) ground every day that close examination is allowed to continue (which is why they are so desperate to stop it).
nt
Great post.
leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)I think I saw a posting somewhere that he is nearly a scratch golfer! Posted a "73" just the other day. The post didn't indicate whether it was 9 holes or pee wee golf.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)scores. That sent the con around the bend.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Than Barack Obama?
How EPIC ... would a pay-per-view special (ala Phil and Tiger coming up here) of BHO vs Trump in a round of golf ... be?
I think Obama should propose doing just that, with ALL of the inevitable MILLION$ of profits ... to be donated to the Charity of the Winners Choice. And either of their own Foundations are excluded.
Seriously, it would be REALLY fun to watch The Donald squirm if Obama proposed this idea. He'd HATE the idea that all the money would go ELSEWHERE ... even if he won the match. OMG it'd drive him crazy. Then there's the fact that he'd know ... he might lose to 'That Black'.
And of COURSE he'd insist it must be held at one of his Clubs, if he was going to participate. With full pop payment on all 'his costs'.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I saw one wedge swing where he totally lost his balance and I saw one putt where he breaks his wrists and stabs at the ball. I'm 71 and still haven't moved up to the senior tees. I used to be pretty decent but at 70 I've lost a lot but from what I saw of Trump, game on, let's play.
DFW
(54,341 posts)But I'm sure "liar's poker" is the only game where I'd have no chance against him (and I've never played that, either!)
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)First, with that swing, his scores are always abysmal except for the cheating. Then with all the cheating, how would he know his scores are abysmal?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Those are the only ones who were ever with him, and he didn't care about representing the rest of the country, whether Democrats or independents, male and especially female, and especially different colors and ethnicities.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)RoBear
(1,188 posts)a peanut shell and a rubber band.
Although it would have to be an extra large rubber band...
malaise
(268,930 posts)they dismount.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)until someone takes his place. They are like cult followers. They stay with their leader, even in a burning building, unless a new leader comes along.
safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)and made his deal. Time to pay up.
yonder
(9,663 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)although the Special Counsel has plenty of reason to be laughing at tRumps stupidity, he likely will not.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)Both he and vlad showed up late to the one event he appeared at.
Putin released a statement that they met and had a good conversation, even though france asked yhat no meetings occur during the rememberance.
Trump is clearly upset because vlad was mean to him. The big meany wouldn't give him a hug, and was critical of tiny. He may have even admitted muhler has the pee tape.
It would fit with a bully cretin's behavior. They don't just ignore a former friend or ally; they humiliate and destroy them. They do it in public, at the point it will have maximum impact.
Tiny knows its coming. Vlad told him so.
Initech
(100,063 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)a fool, and he knows that all the leaders of the world are larfing at him. And, it especially hurts that former President Obama is larfing larfing larfing. Just like the time that Obama speared him at the White House correspondents' dinner.
This jig is up.
A proven idiot
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)First is I suspect Dotard realized Mueller knows a hell of a lot of things that he didn't expect Mueller to ever know or find out. But he also probably realized, or his lawyers did anyway, that they don't know exactly what Mueller knows, or how, or who told him, or what documentary evidence he has. So Dotard knows he needs to lie to save his bacon, but also doesn't know which lies he can tell without making things worse.
Second is I suspect Dotard talked to Junior, Jared, and some others who already testified (even though he shouldn't be doing that) about what they said, and this put him in a bind too. On one hand there are things Dotard wishes they hadn't said which he'd like to contradict, but contradicting them both draws attention to the matter and increases the risk one party or the other gets busted for lying (dumbassed DonJr seems like someone who would err thusly). On the other hand, he can't be sure they are telling HIM the truth about what they said to the grand jury. Maybe they spilled their guts to the grand jury -- at least about other people's misdeeds -- but are telling Dotard reassuring lies about what they did or didn't say (Jared seems the most likely person to behave thusly).
lunatica
(53,410 posts)On Wednesday, October 22, 2016 at 3pm who did you meet with and what was the meeting about? that would strike terror in Trumps ass.
A question like that would definitely indicate Mueller knew everything about that meeting so if Trump lies about it hes in deep shit. Or it could mean that Mueller only knows there was a meeting but doesnt know what it was about. The only thing Trump and his lawyers could know for certain is that there was a meeting that day.
Thats scary shit whether youre guilty or not.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Hope they all sold him out
VOX
(22,976 posts)The guy has a VERY limited emotional palette, and hes never really in the moment because he sees the world as an extension of himself: I won the Senate, etc.
I think he seeks his own level of discomfort in ANY situation that runs contrary to his delusions. And the blame always, but ALWAYS, lies elsewhere.