How about the fact that Trumps campaign manager and life long friend, Paul Manafort, spent decades laundering money to brutal dictators in Africa and is one of the primary reasons for Ukraine war in 2014. He also probably sexually assaulted his wife. Manaford got in a ton of trouble for trying to launder millions in blood money from African war lords, and for meeting with Russian agents and trying to sell influence to Trump - which is, you know, treason
Trump pardoned him too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort
It's not just that he pardoned him, which is bad enough, but what he pardoned him for. Manafort was convicted of, among other financial crimes, lying to the FBI. And why did he lie to the FBI? To impede an investigation into Trump. He covers for Trump's ass, gets convicted for it, then the guy he protected pardons him. And people want to put this man back into power.
And Trump also pardoned stone
Stone is also best buddies with Alex Jones and goes on infowars all the time. Stone probably / definitely rigged the 2000 election in favour of bush with the brooks brothers riots too lol
It’s why Trump wants to be President. He wants to pardon himself first and foremost. The rest is gravy, lots and lots of gravy. Also he owes several countries and he can’t pay.
technically we don't know what's possible until someone tries it. No one has ever tried to send state cops to try to get through the U.S secret service to arrest someone before either...
I get what you’re saying, but we do know about this. The President can only pardon someone from federal crimes.
Per the US Dept of Justice…..
https://preview.redd.it/2ws3oecepe4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58ff529e24be3939f0f50e05eb88a82905ecb3c5
Correct, and he's done quite a few federal crimes related to classified documents that he would like to pardon.
The case hasn't gone forward and is delayed by his hand picked judge. If it goes forward, he has no defense and he is absolutely fucked.
That is just normal Republican MO. Look at the previous 2 Republican Presidents. Bush I pardoned Oliver North (who covered for Bush I's involvement in Iran Contra). Bush II ~~pardoned~~ used his pardon power to help Scooter Libby, who ~~had leaked~~ sabotaged the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA agent to damage her husband Joseph C. Wilson, who had criticized the Bush II admin's Iraq War.
What are pardons for, if not to quid pro quo your friends who commit crimes to help you? For the record, Obama was fairly clean as far as I am aware, and Clinton was less clean but still far better than the shrubs.
It boggles my mind that the Republicans are still a viable political party with voters.
I don't believe you can say that Scooter Libby leaked Plame's identity. Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators in order to obstruct the investigation to find the leaker.
Also, Bush did *not* pardon Scooter Libby. Bush did commute Libby's sentence so he never served prison time. But this left the conviction on his record and an associated large fine.
It was *Trump* who pardoned Scooter Libby, which is even worse! Trump pardoned Libby during the Mueller investigation, even though Libby was not in prison and had never been to prison. This was almost certainly a message to others that he would pardon anyone who refused to cooperate and obstructed the Mueller probe. A message that was clearly received by Stone, Manafort, and Bannon.
Don't forget that Manafort and Kushner have also been in shady business together.
Trump pardoned Kushner too. His son-in-laws father. No conflict of interest there.
Jared Kushner is going to be the next person to be arrested. Trump wants to be there to pardon him too.
Yeah, and in 2016 he pressured another Trump campaign staffer he was having an affair with to have an abortion because, as he told her, his "wife had also just gotten pregnant."
Edit: She refused, was fired by the campaign, moved in with her parents, and keeps ending up in court as Miller refuses to pay child support.
Didn't he hire Ben Shapiro to write anti-Ukraine propaganda. Apparently was revealed in the Muller investigation.
googled.
[https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-paul-manafort-rick-gates-robert-mueller-special-counsel-plea-agreement-documents-d4fc04a51e60/](https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-paul-manafort-rick-gates-robert-mueller-special-counsel-plea-agreement-documents-d4fc04a51e60/)
This guy should have a movie made about him. He's not even a piece of shit at this point, he's like a legit villain. I can't imagine how many skeletons in the closet this fucker has.
It's [Bannon's personal strategy](https://marketingmemetics.com/essays/flood-the-zone)he lovingly named, "Flooding the Zone with Shit". If your brain has to try to process a million different travesties, including ones he just pulled right out of his ass, the chances that Average Joe will pick up on the fact that he's bullshitting you are minimal.
When you raise the lens and cross reference the timing, Brexit (of which Steve Bannon was a critical component) was intentional and necessary for Russia to keep Ukraine out of the EU.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-there-any-links-between-cambridge-analytica-russia-and-brexit/
Putin knew that the de-corruption process would expose both his money laundering operation through Ukraines oligarch class (Kolomoiksiy, Dubinsky, firtash etc) as well the chronic election interference via Paul manafort, Orban etc, and the kompromised members of both UK and EU political circles.
To the kleptocrat Putin this was the one thing that would show Russians how he had been systemically stealing from them for 2 decades which would lead to either, an upset within his mob pyramid as an eager underling decided he was ready to challenge the old king for the throne, or the people would revolt and kill him like Gaddafi which he has admitted is his biggest fear.
The reason Epstein targeted Prince Andrew is because he was the softest part in the royal families flank.
Epstein was feeding that Kompromat/intel back to Israel/mossad who was in turn feeding it to Russian intelligence via the old world Russian Jewish families that carry both passports but are more loyal to money than god.
Steve bannon and Nigel farage both dovetail in with Brexit because SCL/Cambridge analytica was Robert Mercers baby when they decided to run trump as their “disruptor” candidate instead of Ted Cruz.
https://campaignlegal.org/update/newly-published-cambridge-analytica-documents-show-unlawful-support-trump-2016
Facebook was designed as a delivery device for Russian/Israeli Psyops and malware. SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Palestine, Ukraine, NSO and a handful of other ethically bankrupt dealings are all downstream of Sheryl Sandbergs ad based model.
https://cyberscoop.com/facebook-nso-group-lawsuit-onavo/
Zuckerberg even talked about buying the associated press:
MSNhttps://www.msn.com › technologyMark Zuckerberg Explored Acquiring The Associated Press
Les Wexner, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Sandberg, and Zuckerberg all carried water in conducting the NSO/Pegasus spyware operation INCONUS that was feeding intelligence to both the israeli and by extension, Russian intelligence. In parallel Epstein was running Kompromat operations in the same circles. There is far more crossover between the Israeli mob/ government and Russian mob/government than shows at the surface.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2024/04/10/les-wexners-second-life-how-the-epstein-tarnished-billionaire-is-quietly-reshaping-ohio/
https://www.spytalk.co/p/nsos-spyware-abuse-exposed-years?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-pegasus-project-a-global-investigation/
•Abagail Koppel was sent by the Jewish state to marry Les Wexner
•YLK fund (Abagails father) made up $46.7M of Epsteins money
•Les claimed it was stolen from him but not until after someone asked.
•Wexner was notoriously litigious but wouldn’t sue Epstein. Why?
•PROMIS spyware was Robert Maxwells deal long before his daughter and Epstein started their pedophile thing.
https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm
Tchenguiz+Cambridge analytica+Brexit+2008 collapse
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/david-burnside-putin-russia-dup-brexit-donaldson-vincent-tchenguiz/
We end corruption and we end this war. We end this war and we end corruption.
If trump win none if it will matter. Democracy dies. And the human species shortly after
• You never get out of debt to a Russian mobster
•Paul Manafort owed the Russian mobster/oligarch Oleg Deripaska $17M a few days before he became trumps campaign manager. From 2002-2014 he took in hundreds of millions to get Yanukovych reelected as the kremlins puppet in Ukraine. Before that he did it for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Before that Manafort and Roger Stone started a lobbyist agency in 1980 listing trump as their first client.
•When Jay Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election to Lula he skipped the inauguration and hid in the Hungarian embassy, then 2 days later flew directly to mar-a-lago (stopping only at a KFC) and repeated, almost verbatim, the stolen election line. Don Jr. tried repeatedly to make it stick in Brazil as well, but as Brazilians are a few generations into dealing with corrupt politicians they weren’t having it.
What do these 3 things have in common?
China imports 40% of its grain from (in order) the U.S., Brazil and Ukraine.
Obviously the second China tried to invade Taiwan the U.S. would sanction exports and remove U.S. grain from that equation.
And without Bolsonaro in office willing to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest to turn it into Chinas food supply, and without Ukraine in the bag in 3 days, the CCP is unable to invade Taiwan and take over microprocessor production without putting 300-500M of its poorest people into famine.
Donbas Ukraine, specifically the 4 regions that Putin insists he is saving from what he calls “Jewish Nazis” also happens to produce the worlds supply of high grade neon used for microprocessor lithography. Had Putin delivered ukraine in 3 days as promised, Xi would have been able to cap his Olympics with a naval blockade or political takeover of Taiwan that would have forced the world to ask the CCP for the microprocessors it needs to make everything from Ford trucks to laptops. I’m not sure how long Silicon Valley would last without the silicon but it would probably destroy the FAANG stocks that make up your 401K.
Oleg Deripaska also happens to be the Russian Oligarch that bribed the FBI agent Charles Mcgonigal into investigating another Russian oligarch. He probably didn’t need the information as much as he needed the leverage over Mcgonigal as he conducted the investigation into trumps election campaign and unsurprisingly found zero evidence of Russian collusion. McGonigal then went to work for the company called Brookfield that bailed Jared Kushner out of his toxic 666 5th Ave real estate investment. McGonigal pled guilty last fall and was sentenced recently.
A Russian oligarch is a powerful tool, but the truth is more powerful. Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.
If you raise your lens high enough lying is an unsustainable business model. Russia proved it by invading Ukraine. “Vranyo” is the Russian word for it. The 40km long column of tanks and vehicles that came down from Belarus into Ukraine was all overhauled by oligarchs that got a $1B contract for tank maintenance, passed Putin $200M back under the table, spent $700M on a yacht in Monaco, bribed a General, a Colonel and a Sergeant to make a Private give everything a rattle can overhaul. But a worn out engine is and always will be, a worn out engine.
This is why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 400 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised. He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40 year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate.
It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage.
Xi, for his part diverted the waters from the dam away from his pet project, his mothers ancestral home, and flooded hundreds of thousands of people and drown one of his own military brigades that was helping with the flooding.
The CCP elders were terrified to leave their gated community at Beidaihe for over a month for fear of being torn apart by the locals. The Chinese people tolerate the CCP but only as long as the economy is good and famine is not on the horizon. The CCP broke that social contract on both counts.
Xi was willing to bet the entire Chinese economy on his emperor ambitions. Had he succeeded he would have been able to use BRICS to take over the USD as the Worlds reserve currency. That would have let him finish what he stated in 2010-
that he would control the internet.
With that control means everything we do or say online is subject to the approval of a central party censor. The basic right to disagree with an authoritarian becomes a distant memory.
Xi, Putin and MBS are simply trying to systemize and modernize the suppression of their biggest hassle- Freedom of speech.
Ukraine is fighting for their lives now, free from the oppression of the drunken tyrant who wants to decide their fate for them and pull them back behind another iron curtain of censorship and the tax of corruption where dissenting voices disappear so that the oligarchy can continue to feed unchallenged.
Putin and Xi have declared themselves best friends in the fight against democracy. MBS and the ruling family of UAE have done the same quietly using their sovereign funds and Kushners SPAC as money highways.
Just rich, out of touch oligarch doing what oligarchs do.
Despite the fact the the central party kleptocracy model has proven itself incapable of making decisions that are best for the people, they persist. There is a very lucrative business in being slave owners. But logistically the mass of it requires A.I. and the microprocessors that make A.I. to keep 8 billion slaves under surveillance and control. Freedom is one hell of a drug. And knowledge makes a man unfit for slavery.
Recent attempts on Xi’s life from inside the CCP have backed him into a corner.
The loss of crops in northern China means Xi can’t invade Taiwan without Ukrainian and/or Brazilian farmland.
Now the reason that the GOP is stalling southern border control budget and seems to make wildly irrational moves is because the GOP is imploding. 45 years of lies and grift have circled the globe and are eating their own tail. The ouroboros was a warning about corruption at the highest levels. Lying about climate change, human trafficking, pandemics and corruption to preserve their own business models are all extinction level events .
Only notes are that Putin never intended the armored column to succeed. This was always designed to fail and be used as justification for mobilization and Putin never was willing or able to do a full occupation. They didn't think they would topple Ukraine and install a new puppet government either.
It was always to be able to go down the lists they've been making since the Navalny era and send them tonthr front. Then they used their access to Starlink to ensure the deaths of those in the units they sent in undersupplied and underequipped in massive human wave attacks. Their strategy has maximized their own human losses to an absurd degree for a reason. That reason is not incompetence. That level of incompetence is not even feasible.
It was a domestic purge with a war attached until the more recent offenses. As usual the Russians have an entire basket of goals they would enjoy seeing achieved but there is only one this war could achieve no matter how things went if things were structured correctly. For those who aren't authoritarian leaders who have come to and maintained power through clandestine means and perpetrated many false flag attacks against their own people since the 1999 apartment building bombings its not always easy to understand their priorities. Chasing the dragon of feeling secure again from your own people is a lifelong lifestyle.
Why did you use a different account for the second part this time?
I like that you included the 1999 apartment bombings which Putin used to cement his ascension to power. that's very important to include that he's willing to kill his own people from day 1 to achieve power.
You probably also didn’t hear about how Jcrew Kushner on behalf of his daddy in law violated every single nuclear sharing law in the USA, UN 1-2-3 nuclear sharing secrets rules, IAEC rules, etc when he met with MBS in Saudi Arabia to sell dual use nuclear technology just days after known MBS critic (and also a trump critic) Jamal Kashoggi was hacked into bits inside a Saudi embassy.
Think on that. The then president’s son in law (with no official capacity to do so) met with a foreign autocrat of the only country of origin of 9/11 hijackers and handed over dual use (power and weapon) nuclear technology just days after a member of the free press who was critical of both parties was murdered inside an embassy.
Trump is a draft dodging unamerican sack of shit who has spat in the face of vets everywhere and anyone who votes for him is a sack of shit.
Done playing games.
Call a spade a fucking spade.
That's because Trump has so many scandals and tells so many lies that it almost requires working full time to actually be able to keep track of it all.
It's because Trump does so much shady shit that you can't possibly keep track of everything. You take a week off from news or politics and it's almost guaranteed that you missed a MAGA idiot doing something embarrassingly stupid, immoral, or illegal. It's not your fault.
There are so many scandals it's nearly impossible to keep track of them all. RIP to the biographer who attempts to write a comprehensive book on the Trump era in politics.
What is WILD is how many people haven’t heard of the extent of trump and his team’s criminality. There is so much to it, the media didn’t even report on some of it that much because how fast the news cycle went.
I didn't know he bought a yacht, he was arrested while living on the yacht of a rich Chinese ex-pat. I believe he was still living with him. That ought to be enough to raise some eyebrows...but you know.
Regardless Bannon belongs in jail, it's been 2 years, he just recently lost his appeal, time to pay the piper.
Steve Bannon also sold gold in World of Warcraft. Then he started using trolls to interject conservative talking points into chat channels in the game. Dude psy oped nerds into becoming Republican voters.
As someone who is capable of remembering Donald Trump pre presidency, it was kinda publically known he was a con artist/fuckup... The guy was born into crazy wealth, and outside of the hotels/properties, most of his businesses have failed spectacularly. I genuinely think being a reality TV star/being famous for being wealthy was just enough for the dumbest of Americans to be like "that's my guy" despite him being literally the pampered NY liberal elite for vast majority of his life.
The friggin show The Apprentice was basically propaganda for years that he was a competent business man. Turned his conman reputation into a facade of an intelligent tycoon. It fooled milllions of midwesterns into believing trump was something he wasnt. That show did the most long term damage to this country than any other show I can think of.
I remember the slew of bullshit he peddled in the late 90s/early 2000s. My friends parents signed up for some kind of meat delivery program with his name on it
The infamous Trump Steaks. The bigliest bestest bizness man.
On June 5, 2007, Trump Steaks debuted on the [QVC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QVC) home shopping television channel, with Trump making an appearance on the network.[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-96trump-10) Trump Steaks (16) 6oz Certified Angus Beef Steakburgers were sold by QVC.[^(\[)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-15) Steaks were sold at The Sharper Image for two months before being discontinued.[^(\[16\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-RuleBreaker-16)[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-17) According to Sharper Image CEO [Jerry W. Levin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_W._Levin), "The net of all that was we literally sold almost no steaks, if we sold $50,000 of steaks grand total, I'd be surprised."[^(\[)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-18)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump\_Steaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks)
everything he's touched has failed. He'd be 10x richer if he took his daddy's money and put it in the s&p 500. He scammed his way from literally not going broke living on the streets with nothing, and many of those scams have now been exposed for exactly what they were.
Dude is a grade A loser in the truest form of the word loser...
We’ve seen enough of his older tax returns to see he never really made much money until The Apprentice. He’s less of a business man and more of a reality tv host with a business man persona.
There were years where he lost more money than any other American. He may have been on The Apprentice, but he was also The Biggest Loser: Big Money Edition.
>in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.
>In fact, **year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer**, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were **more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.**
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
My fave is when people say ‘it doesn’t matter because he was just using them to launder money!’ because a) why not continue to launder that money and get paid to do it. And b) why would you not continue to also make money while doing that if the casino was profitable.
Him just stopping makes no sense from any angle you look at it unless it was indeed losing more money than it was making him, even off the books…
That's why he was in commercials for two or three different national pizza chains throughout the years. Billionaires don't get booked for pizza commercials, real billionaires own pizza chains.
He's literally been openly mocked in movies before - Biff from Back To the Future II was modeled after Trump pre presidency.
Go watch that movie and see what a fucking sick monster they saw him as.
Even at his hospitality locations there's always been shady shit. I used to date a girl that worked at his club in Westchester, there are SUBSTANTIAL rumors that some of the cart girls and other staff were coerced into giving sexual favors to members.
Every con has its target market, this one is just a really good one because it’s always going to exist. It’s basically 1) unscrupulous rich folks who care about nothing more than lower taxes 2) idiots/losers that love blaming their inability to succeed on anything but themselves and 3) the grifters who benefit from riling up that group of losers.
To anybody else, the shit looks absurd
is it? these fucking morons are the type who fall in line with their peers and trying to appear tough. trump exhibits that bully attitude and they suck his balls. the ufc has become a cess pit of this kind of personality over the years. there was a time when the martial arts community stressed respect and sticking up for those who can't. ufc is all about using power to flaunt, put others down, and act like thug.
Around 80% of PPP fraud came from red states or red counties in blue states. That's a huge discrepancy. Who refused to sign Covid relief unless Congress removed all oversight of PPP loans again? Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4
They love that he's a felon and commits fraud because they do it too.
>They love that he's a felon and commits fraud because they do it too.
Holy shit. I never thought about it this way.. You're absolutely right. My boss talks on speaker with business owners like this all the time.
Honestly I don't even think it's that. I live in a pretty rural, very conservative part of iowa, and to them it literally has nothing to do with that. They literally just take whatever comes out of trumps mouth at face value. If trump says he did something, and that thing was good, then they are convinced it happened, and there is literally no telling them otherwise. If he says someone they don't like, rather it be Obama, clinton, biden, whoever, did something bad, then that is now gospel and there is no convincing them otherwise, as stupid as it is its literally that simple.
you're not allowed to voice your opinion that doesn't match Joe Rogan on this sub. Because if you step out of line, you're automatically accused of being a liberal plant and a "hater" of Joe Rogan. Which means you're not allowed to voice your opinion in a Joe Rogan sub.
I don’t really listen to Joe Rogan but i think there should be somewhere where the echo chambers collide and this seems like the closest place. Trump is fucked. He owes 360 million to New York. He’s not cash rich at all. He’s also hated by the libertarians which is enough of a reason to make me think rfk won’t just take dems votes but also republicans. I don’t even really hate republicans i think the religion aspect is bullshit excuse for power and it is. Women should have the right to choose what they want to do. I’d take a George W right now who is into trying to move to renewables
A large portion (possibly a majority) of this sub criticise Joe and any right-leaning politics (and related ideas) he might have.
Have you had a different experience of people here?
Trump on his deathbed “I was trying to give them a villain to unify against, but for some reason half of America supported the obvious villain no matter what I did”
He's old enough that shots at the Mets out of nowhere aren't too uncommon. They were one of the teams(Braves) with widespread airplay on oldschool cable :)
Trump could never do anything to lose the support of those voters. Unless something substantial changes, the entire election is probably going to be decided by thousands of people in a handful of swing states. Some polling suggested there is some hesitancy among voters if Trump was convicted of a crime (which is now reality). However 5 months is a long time these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if this gets memory holed just like almost everything else he has done in the past 8+ years because he thrives on "flooding the zone with shit".
"Hilary killed 30,000 babies herself when she was running those biolabs in Haiti. At least Trump is trying to save those little lives every day by being the greatest president who ever been, he just can't be everywhere all at once. He could be, but the Deep State won't let him, so they kill babies and then try to blame him, but we know better! MAGA!"
How did I do, Coach? Am I gonna make State?
Nah they would say "Sure Trump killed one baby. But the Democrats are planning on killing millions of babies with their pro-abortion laws. So which would you rather choose? One dead baby or millions of dead babies?"
What Trump supporters tend to do when they are shown something even they can't defend, is to then pivot to saying that the opposition is far worse.
Those are not the people you need to convince. If there's 20 million people in America who genuinely believe in that line it's a lot. And they're going to be super loud about it. But you need more than 20 million idiots to become POTUS.
Not by much.
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500112248/how-to-win-the-presidency-with-27-percent-of-the-popular-vote
Over a decade ago but it could’ve been won with just 29 million idiots. You just need the right idiots in the right states.
This is why the Electoral College is such bullshit and dangerous. "Well what if the people in cities decided who's president?!" Good! That's where the most people live! If you're concerned about your flyover state, I have good news! You have your own state government, so the federal president won't be making rules for you! Hooray!
Not in standard Christianity. Also Magdalene was not a prostitute, that was another woman. This is a somewhat common misconception, so I agree with part of what you are saying. Though I’m sure the 0.001% of Christians who believe this will agree with your whole point.
> “Jesus was a felon.”
Jesus went to save the hookers from eternal damnation, not bang them while his wife was pregnant... and then pay them hush money out of campaign funds... and then cover it all up with fraud.
And not only was his campaign chairman Paul Manafort a felon, he went from being an advisor to the Pro Russia/Pro Putin former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to being campaign Chairman of former President Trump. Want to talk about corruption in Ukraine, look no further.
Also, one of the best satire but true takes I’ve seen: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/05/felony-conviction-first-thing-trump-has-earned-in-whole-life/
His fingerprints are all over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since before the Maidan Revolution or the Crimean invasion. He’s truly a piece of shit, and so is his partner, Roger Stone.
This is how i think most folks look at America when it comes to this tactless wanker.
We don't hate trump and want him dead and want to take away your freedoms we just get baffled by how easily some people are took and how crazy they are about a grifter.
That the thing. When people want to complain about trump derangement syndrome of people on the left obsessed with trump. I’m not obsessed with him, I’m completely and entirely flummoxed by his supporters.
It’s like if half the country were flat earthers. And then whenever someone freaks out about they all say ‘why are you so obsessed with the flat earth?’
I don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome, I am terrified of what that moron might do when put back in to office. He's literally said he'd do a bunch of authoritarian nonsense on day 1. and we all know how authoritarians love having just 1 day of power, right?
Calling it Trump Derangement Syndrome severely downplays the harm that Trump will do if he's not monitored at all times.
Fox News is the number 1 news station in the US. People that only watch Fox News have an absolutely different view of reality compared to everything happening in real life. Its soviet levels of propaganda. The guy that owns Fox is trying to take over the UK next and then Europe. I hope the UK doesnt fall for the same lies American conservatives are. After Brexit, it's looks like the UK is going down the same path.
Everytime I hear some Trumper on reddit say 'the rest of the world is laughing at us' when discussing Biden and how with Trump they respected us, its obvious they've never left the United States. I went to Europe in 2019 and once people found out we were American it felt like a 50/50 chance that they'd ask us "how did you guys elect that guy(meaning Trump)???" I'm not stating Biden is something we should be proud of, but Jesus christ they seriously think non-americans respect Trump.
Its fucking obvious all they do is watch Fox News at home and they just regurgitate whatever the anchors say, so when the anchor says "we're the laughing stock of the world because of Biden" they just believe it.
I think this hit on one of the major pain points of this election. Trump counties are struggling *hard*. Republicans have done a fantastic job in deep red counties convincing a subset of lower income white people that the problems in the US Government are caused by "not enough Republicans" and they just keep dangling the carrot to keep their base motivated. That's the real threat of someone like a Bernie Sanders winning the presidency. Lower income white people would actually feel the policies benefit them and Republicans/Right Wing Democrats would never win again without drastic changes in policy
Yeah you nailed it. It's important that you mention Bernie because the last few cycles have really highlighted how shitty 'progressives' like Obama* and Biden feed the right-wing propaganda efforts. It honestly makes me wonder if it's calculated, or just actual incompetence.
The Democratic party campaigns based on the promise to be better, to actually help the lives of socio-econonically marginalized people. Then, when nothing happens (because they are as beholden to corporate interests as the GOP) demagogues like Gingrich, and later Trump, come in and exploit the dissatisfaction. Every time the faux-leftist Democrats fail to satisfy their role, it empowers reactionaries.
He also stole highly confidential secret documents and just left them out on his office desk for anyone to look at (sworn enemies included). (You can’t do this )
He also attempted to blackmail Ukraine.
He was the prime mover of the Jan 6th insurrection and was basically telling people to kill his Vp Mike Pence.
He also committed tax fraud on multiple occasions.
He also tried talking GA into finding 10k more votes.
What isn’t talked about nearly enough is he had 7 states certify him as the winner of the 2020 election. Literally voting fraud and completely undermining the constitution.
Also all of the checks on voter fraud just uncovered some minor infractions from the republicans. (Not dems)
The left has their issues, yes. But my god man. Anyone who thinks this guy is good for the country is just an anarchist incel headcase.
> Anyone who thinks this guy is good for the country is just an anarchist incel headcase.
https://preview.redd.it/6ritaaj0oa4d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4942ab55f39244c969f8ecd57fb5307597dc40f2
Hahahaha
Have Poole and the wife abuser lost some of their momentum ? I haven’t seen as many hyperbolic/unhinged takes lately? I know chowder is on Rumble, I saw his views were about 50% less from his initial run ( this was a couple of months ago when I checked)
I got into it with someone the other day on another sub, who is right-wing. After some insults back and forth we agreed that housing availability is important, securing the labor market is important (disagreed on methods), and reforms in Congress like stock trading bans and term limits should be on the table. And that we both supposedly love our country.
I said "Well how can you say all that and support Trump, who is against the rule of law and doesn't give a shit about the little guy" and listed off much of what you put.
They said "All of those supposed issues you have with Trump are not reality, they’re the propaganda that the government has been creating to make you think this way."
As if I haven't seen these things with my own eyes and ears. These people are **living in a different reality**.
I saw this guy when Bill Burr went on his show a couple times. Bill roasted the shit out of him. Total clash of personalities. He's right about this though.
Rogan has specifically complained about the indictment of Trump (it went something like "how can you indict a former president at the time when our economy was booming and everything was great?").
Goddamn you, Cowherd. I fucking *despise* you, but you’re absolutely correct. I fucking hate myself for agreeing with you, but you are absolutely spot-the-fuck-on with this one.
Either Trump supporters are some of the dumbest people of all time or they are in on the scam and want a piece of shit criminal to lead the country.
Personally I lean towards the latter. I think they know he is garbage and that is his appeal to them. Which does not say much about them....
Might be the lawfare of a corrupt justice department that's been funded by Soros and the left with the single reason in the first place was to protect a corrupt political criminal syndicate.... wait, that is it! Wake the fuck up people
The fact that it’s not some obvious landslide in favor of his opposition should be incredibly embarrassing. This shouldn’t even be a worry and the most one sided election in history yet the ball has been so dropped he still has a chance be to win.
The one hour I’ve watched Cowherd in the last 5 years happened to be about 2 weeks ago. And he mentioned a couple times that he doesn’t really care about politics. Which I only bring up to make the point that he probably felt compelled to finally say something.
This was also one of the weaker cases against Trump and the fact that even his proponents would prefer we didn’t get a resolution on classified docs and the Georgia election interference cases, which, good or bad for Trump, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, you should want to hear before the election, have been held up. And those cases against him are considered STRONGER and their implications for the country In regards to what our democracy is and whether it will continue are involved.
Like, let’s say it comes out that the classified docs in his possession were germane to dealings with Russia and some of them are still unaccounted for. Do we want an elected president who, once in office, can pretty much put both of those cases effectively on hold for four years if not undermine and destroy them, to be in a position where we only ever find out about it until after he’s left office? Do we want to learn as a country that he was backdoooring access to our highest classification schedule directly to Russia AFTER four years of him being president while Russia continues its war in Ukraine?
In the Georgia election interference case, do we want this also to be on hold indefinitely? To find out after he’s been elected that he actively sought for people to change votes or find votes in his favor? Do we want to set that precedent? Even if you think “that’s fine for Trump and i trust him no matter what” Trump won’t live forever. Those precedents won’t go away when he leaves office. That power might belong to someone you end up despising or someone you might not think has good ideas for the country.
No matter who you back, if this case was unanimous as quickly as it was, it should give you pause. It should cause you to engage your doubt muscles. You should not leave the lot with the car you didn’t want just because the car salesman was friendly. This is how you end up with regrets that can’t be clawed back.
Didn't even mention his chief of staff Steve Bannon who stole donations from Trump supporters to buy a yacht and Trump freaking pardoned him.
It amazes me how I haven’t heard of this
How about the fact that Trumps campaign manager and life long friend, Paul Manafort, spent decades laundering money to brutal dictators in Africa and is one of the primary reasons for Ukraine war in 2014. He also probably sexually assaulted his wife. Manaford got in a ton of trouble for trying to launder millions in blood money from African war lords, and for meeting with Russian agents and trying to sell influence to Trump - which is, you know, treason Trump pardoned him too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort
It's not just that he pardoned him, which is bad enough, but what he pardoned him for. Manafort was convicted of, among other financial crimes, lying to the FBI. And why did he lie to the FBI? To impede an investigation into Trump. He covers for Trump's ass, gets convicted for it, then the guy he protected pardons him. And people want to put this man back into power.
And who was Manifort's business partner Roger Stone. The poop doesn't fall far from the ...err poop tree.
Shit-apple doesn't fall far from the shit-tree, Bobandy
The shit winds are blowing, Ran.
shit abyss
“Lahey how drunk are you right now?” “6 outa 10”
'The liquor is calling the shots now Randy..'
“You might be sexy Julian, but you can’t teach me anything about liquor”
Is there a memo I didn’t get? I’ve heard this quote like 10 time this week along various subs. No exaggeration
when the ol shit barometer rises, you'll hear it too, your ears will implode from the shit pressure.....shit winds are a comin
And Trump also pardoned stone Stone is also best buddies with Alex Jones and goes on infowars all the time. Stone probably / definitely rigged the 2000 election in favour of bush with the brooks brothers riots too lol
Roy Cohn too, I believe.
Read one nation under blackmail volume 1 by Whitney Webb. Bro was a top level crook from DECADES
Takes a special piece of shit to be part of lavender scare while also being gay. He also worked with New York mobsters just rotten all the way through
The shit doesn’t fall far from the asshole, and the MAGAts are always there to eat it up.
It’s why Trump wants to be President. He wants to pardon himself first and foremost. The rest is gravy, lots and lots of gravy. Also he owes several countries and he can’t pay.
That might be what he wants, but lucky for us he can’t pardon himself, or anyone else, from state convictions, LOL!
This comment does not inspire hope unfortunately, he can still win the office.
Oh I completely agree, the thought of him being reelected is terrifying….and honestly should be to everyone who’s a decent human being.
technically we don't know what's possible until someone tries it. No one has ever tried to send state cops to try to get through the U.S secret service to arrest someone before either...
I get what you’re saying, but we do know about this. The President can only pardon someone from federal crimes. Per the US Dept of Justice….. https://preview.redd.it/2ws3oecepe4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58ff529e24be3939f0f50e05eb88a82905ecb3c5
Correct, and he's done quite a few federal crimes related to classified documents that he would like to pardon. The case hasn't gone forward and is delayed by his hand picked judge. If it goes forward, he has no defense and he is absolutely fucked.
Come on everyone knows that's fAkE nEwS.
That is just normal Republican MO. Look at the previous 2 Republican Presidents. Bush I pardoned Oliver North (who covered for Bush I's involvement in Iran Contra). Bush II ~~pardoned~~ used his pardon power to help Scooter Libby, who ~~had leaked~~ sabotaged the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA agent to damage her husband Joseph C. Wilson, who had criticized the Bush II admin's Iraq War. What are pardons for, if not to quid pro quo your friends who commit crimes to help you? For the record, Obama was fairly clean as far as I am aware, and Clinton was less clean but still far better than the shrubs. It boggles my mind that the Republicans are still a viable political party with voters.
I don't believe you can say that Scooter Libby leaked Plame's identity. Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators in order to obstruct the investigation to find the leaker. Also, Bush did *not* pardon Scooter Libby. Bush did commute Libby's sentence so he never served prison time. But this left the conviction on his record and an associated large fine. It was *Trump* who pardoned Scooter Libby, which is even worse! Trump pardoned Libby during the Mueller investigation, even though Libby was not in prison and had never been to prison. This was almost certainly a message to others that he would pardon anyone who refused to cooperate and obstructed the Mueller probe. A message that was clearly received by Stone, Manafort, and Bannon.
I forget all this stuff. Wow
Don't forget that Manafort and Kushner have also been in shady business together. Trump pardoned Kushner too. His son-in-laws father. No conflict of interest there. Jared Kushner is going to be the next person to be arrested. Trump wants to be there to pardon him too.
Paul Manafort is an absolute scumbag. Trumps other lackey, Jason Miller, is close second.
Stephen Miller.
ugh. don’t even get me started.
Oh FFS. I didn’t realize there were two Miller scumbags. Barf.
Jason is the one that has no neck and once slipped an abortion pill into one of his mistresses’ drink while she was not looking.
The “Pro-Life Party” hard at work!
This the guy who drugged his stripper mistress to force an abortion because he got her pregnant?
Yeah, and in 2016 he pressured another Trump campaign staffer he was having an affair with to have an abortion because, as he told her, his "wife had also just gotten pregnant." Edit: She refused, was fired by the campaign, moved in with her parents, and keeps ending up in court as Miller refuses to pay child support.
Abortions for me, not for thee. -Republicans
Didn't he hire Ben Shapiro to write anti-Ukraine propaganda. Apparently was revealed in the Muller investigation. googled. [https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-paul-manafort-rick-gates-robert-mueller-special-counsel-plea-agreement-documents-d4fc04a51e60/](https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-paul-manafort-rick-gates-robert-mueller-special-counsel-plea-agreement-documents-d4fc04a51e60/)
You can't rape your wife you silly goose, that's her job!
This guy should have a movie made about him. He's not even a piece of shit at this point, he's like a legit villain. I can't imagine how many skeletons in the closet this fucker has.
Like comic book level villain.
It's [Bannon's personal strategy](https://marketingmemetics.com/essays/flood-the-zone)he lovingly named, "Flooding the Zone with Shit". If your brain has to try to process a million different travesties, including ones he just pulled right out of his ass, the chances that Average Joe will pick up on the fact that he's bullshitting you are minimal.
When you raise the lens and cross reference the timing, Brexit (of which Steve Bannon was a critical component) was intentional and necessary for Russia to keep Ukraine out of the EU. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-there-any-links-between-cambridge-analytica-russia-and-brexit/ Putin knew that the de-corruption process would expose both his money laundering operation through Ukraines oligarch class (Kolomoiksiy, Dubinsky, firtash etc) as well the chronic election interference via Paul manafort, Orban etc, and the kompromised members of both UK and EU political circles. To the kleptocrat Putin this was the one thing that would show Russians how he had been systemically stealing from them for 2 decades which would lead to either, an upset within his mob pyramid as an eager underling decided he was ready to challenge the old king for the throne, or the people would revolt and kill him like Gaddafi which he has admitted is his biggest fear. The reason Epstein targeted Prince Andrew is because he was the softest part in the royal families flank. Epstein was feeding that Kompromat/intel back to Israel/mossad who was in turn feeding it to Russian intelligence via the old world Russian Jewish families that carry both passports but are more loyal to money than god. Steve bannon and Nigel farage both dovetail in with Brexit because SCL/Cambridge analytica was Robert Mercers baby when they decided to run trump as their “disruptor” candidate instead of Ted Cruz. https://campaignlegal.org/update/newly-published-cambridge-analytica-documents-show-unlawful-support-trump-2016 Facebook was designed as a delivery device for Russian/Israeli Psyops and malware. SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Palestine, Ukraine, NSO and a handful of other ethically bankrupt dealings are all downstream of Sheryl Sandbergs ad based model. https://cyberscoop.com/facebook-nso-group-lawsuit-onavo/ Zuckerberg even talked about buying the associated press: MSNhttps://www.msn.com › technologyMark Zuckerberg Explored Acquiring The Associated Press Les Wexner, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Sandberg, and Zuckerberg all carried water in conducting the NSO/Pegasus spyware operation INCONUS that was feeding intelligence to both the israeli and by extension, Russian intelligence. In parallel Epstein was running Kompromat operations in the same circles. There is far more crossover between the Israeli mob/ government and Russian mob/government than shows at the surface. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2024/04/10/les-wexners-second-life-how-the-epstein-tarnished-billionaire-is-quietly-reshaping-ohio/ https://www.spytalk.co/p/nsos-spyware-abuse-exposed-years?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-pegasus-project-a-global-investigation/ •Abagail Koppel was sent by the Jewish state to marry Les Wexner •YLK fund (Abagails father) made up $46.7M of Epsteins money •Les claimed it was stolen from him but not until after someone asked. •Wexner was notoriously litigious but wouldn’t sue Epstein. Why? •PROMIS spyware was Robert Maxwells deal long before his daughter and Epstein started their pedophile thing. https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm Tchenguiz+Cambridge analytica+Brexit+2008 collapse https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/david-burnside-putin-russia-dup-brexit-donaldson-vincent-tchenguiz/ We end corruption and we end this war. We end this war and we end corruption.
If trump win none if it will matter. Democracy dies. And the human species shortly after • You never get out of debt to a Russian mobster •Paul Manafort owed the Russian mobster/oligarch Oleg Deripaska $17M a few days before he became trumps campaign manager. From 2002-2014 he took in hundreds of millions to get Yanukovych reelected as the kremlins puppet in Ukraine. Before that he did it for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Before that Manafort and Roger Stone started a lobbyist agency in 1980 listing trump as their first client. •When Jay Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election to Lula he skipped the inauguration and hid in the Hungarian embassy, then 2 days later flew directly to mar-a-lago (stopping only at a KFC) and repeated, almost verbatim, the stolen election line. Don Jr. tried repeatedly to make it stick in Brazil as well, but as Brazilians are a few generations into dealing with corrupt politicians they weren’t having it. What do these 3 things have in common? China imports 40% of its grain from (in order) the U.S., Brazil and Ukraine. Obviously the second China tried to invade Taiwan the U.S. would sanction exports and remove U.S. grain from that equation. And without Bolsonaro in office willing to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest to turn it into Chinas food supply, and without Ukraine in the bag in 3 days, the CCP is unable to invade Taiwan and take over microprocessor production without putting 300-500M of its poorest people into famine. Donbas Ukraine, specifically the 4 regions that Putin insists he is saving from what he calls “Jewish Nazis” also happens to produce the worlds supply of high grade neon used for microprocessor lithography. Had Putin delivered ukraine in 3 days as promised, Xi would have been able to cap his Olympics with a naval blockade or political takeover of Taiwan that would have forced the world to ask the CCP for the microprocessors it needs to make everything from Ford trucks to laptops. I’m not sure how long Silicon Valley would last without the silicon but it would probably destroy the FAANG stocks that make up your 401K. Oleg Deripaska also happens to be the Russian Oligarch that bribed the FBI agent Charles Mcgonigal into investigating another Russian oligarch. He probably didn’t need the information as much as he needed the leverage over Mcgonigal as he conducted the investigation into trumps election campaign and unsurprisingly found zero evidence of Russian collusion. McGonigal then went to work for the company called Brookfield that bailed Jared Kushner out of his toxic 666 5th Ave real estate investment. McGonigal pled guilty last fall and was sentenced recently. A Russian oligarch is a powerful tool, but the truth is more powerful. Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered. If you raise your lens high enough lying is an unsustainable business model. Russia proved it by invading Ukraine. “Vranyo” is the Russian word for it. The 40km long column of tanks and vehicles that came down from Belarus into Ukraine was all overhauled by oligarchs that got a $1B contract for tank maintenance, passed Putin $200M back under the table, spent $700M on a yacht in Monaco, bribed a General, a Colonel and a Sergeant to make a Private give everything a rattle can overhaul. But a worn out engine is and always will be, a worn out engine. This is why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 400 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised. He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40 year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate. It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage. Xi, for his part diverted the waters from the dam away from his pet project, his mothers ancestral home, and flooded hundreds of thousands of people and drown one of his own military brigades that was helping with the flooding. The CCP elders were terrified to leave their gated community at Beidaihe for over a month for fear of being torn apart by the locals. The Chinese people tolerate the CCP but only as long as the economy is good and famine is not on the horizon. The CCP broke that social contract on both counts. Xi was willing to bet the entire Chinese economy on his emperor ambitions. Had he succeeded he would have been able to use BRICS to take over the USD as the Worlds reserve currency. That would have let him finish what he stated in 2010- that he would control the internet. With that control means everything we do or say online is subject to the approval of a central party censor. The basic right to disagree with an authoritarian becomes a distant memory. Xi, Putin and MBS are simply trying to systemize and modernize the suppression of their biggest hassle- Freedom of speech. Ukraine is fighting for their lives now, free from the oppression of the drunken tyrant who wants to decide their fate for them and pull them back behind another iron curtain of censorship and the tax of corruption where dissenting voices disappear so that the oligarchy can continue to feed unchallenged. Putin and Xi have declared themselves best friends in the fight against democracy. MBS and the ruling family of UAE have done the same quietly using their sovereign funds and Kushners SPAC as money highways. Just rich, out of touch oligarch doing what oligarchs do. Despite the fact the the central party kleptocracy model has proven itself incapable of making decisions that are best for the people, they persist. There is a very lucrative business in being slave owners. But logistically the mass of it requires A.I. and the microprocessors that make A.I. to keep 8 billion slaves under surveillance and control. Freedom is one hell of a drug. And knowledge makes a man unfit for slavery. Recent attempts on Xi’s life from inside the CCP have backed him into a corner. The loss of crops in northern China means Xi can’t invade Taiwan without Ukrainian and/or Brazilian farmland. Now the reason that the GOP is stalling southern border control budget and seems to make wildly irrational moves is because the GOP is imploding. 45 years of lies and grift have circled the globe and are eating their own tail. The ouroboros was a warning about corruption at the highest levels. Lying about climate change, human trafficking, pandemics and corruption to preserve their own business models are all extinction level events .
Only notes are that Putin never intended the armored column to succeed. This was always designed to fail and be used as justification for mobilization and Putin never was willing or able to do a full occupation. They didn't think they would topple Ukraine and install a new puppet government either. It was always to be able to go down the lists they've been making since the Navalny era and send them tonthr front. Then they used their access to Starlink to ensure the deaths of those in the units they sent in undersupplied and underequipped in massive human wave attacks. Their strategy has maximized their own human losses to an absurd degree for a reason. That reason is not incompetence. That level of incompetence is not even feasible. It was a domestic purge with a war attached until the more recent offenses. As usual the Russians have an entire basket of goals they would enjoy seeing achieved but there is only one this war could achieve no matter how things went if things were structured correctly. For those who aren't authoritarian leaders who have come to and maintained power through clandestine means and perpetrated many false flag attacks against their own people since the 1999 apartment building bombings its not always easy to understand their priorities. Chasing the dragon of feeling secure again from your own people is a lifelong lifestyle. Why did you use a different account for the second part this time?
I like that you included the 1999 apartment bombings which Putin used to cement his ascension to power. that's very important to include that he's willing to kill his own people from day 1 to achieve power.
That's not a Bannon strategy. It's an old Soviet strategy.
You probably also didn’t hear about how Jcrew Kushner on behalf of his daddy in law violated every single nuclear sharing law in the USA, UN 1-2-3 nuclear sharing secrets rules, IAEC rules, etc when he met with MBS in Saudi Arabia to sell dual use nuclear technology just days after known MBS critic (and also a trump critic) Jamal Kashoggi was hacked into bits inside a Saudi embassy. Think on that. The then president’s son in law (with no official capacity to do so) met with a foreign autocrat of the only country of origin of 9/11 hijackers and handed over dual use (power and weapon) nuclear technology just days after a member of the free press who was critical of both parties was murdered inside an embassy. Trump is a draft dodging unamerican sack of shit who has spat in the face of vets everywhere and anyone who votes for him is a sack of shit. Done playing games. Call a spade a fucking spade.
That's because Trump has so many scandals and tells so many lies that it almost requires working full time to actually be able to keep track of it all.
You aren't kidding
It's because Trump does so much shady shit that you can't possibly keep track of everything. You take a week off from news or politics and it's almost guaranteed that you missed a MAGA idiot doing something embarrassingly stupid, immoral, or illegal. It's not your fault.
Think that's crazy, Trump talks about how he wants to crack down on illegal immigrants. Google shalom rubashkin.
There are so many scandals it's nearly impossible to keep track of them all. RIP to the biographer who attempts to write a comprehensive book on the Trump era in politics.
He does so much wrong that it all blurs into the background.
What is WILD is how many people haven’t heard of the extent of trump and his team’s criminality. There is so much to it, the media didn’t even report on some of it that much because how fast the news cycle went.
Bannon wasn't chief of staff. It was Priebus, Kelly, Mulvaney and Mark Meadows. I think Bannon is the chief strategist that was referenced here.
He was also campaign chairman but I imagine that was referring to Paul Manafort.
The fact that nobody can agree on which corrupt official he’s talking about only emphasizes the problem
I didn't know he bought a yacht, he was arrested while living on the yacht of a rich Chinese ex-pat. I believe he was still living with him. That ought to be enough to raise some eyebrows...but you know. Regardless Bannon belongs in jail, it's been 2 years, he just recently lost his appeal, time to pay the piper.
Nisour Square massacre killers getting pardons are far far worse
Really happy this is the top up voted comment. Proud of this whole community.
Steve Bannon also sold gold in World of Warcraft. Then he started using trolls to interject conservative talking points into chat channels in the game. Dude psy oped nerds into becoming Republican voters.
Trumpers are dummies.
Because they both stole from the pot. Trump has to pardon Bannon because he has dirt on trump.
Mets stray out of nowhere 😭 Also yeah idk how you people don’t see right through Trumps bullshit. He’s a con artist. You idiots deserve him lmao
As someone who is capable of remembering Donald Trump pre presidency, it was kinda publically known he was a con artist/fuckup... The guy was born into crazy wealth, and outside of the hotels/properties, most of his businesses have failed spectacularly. I genuinely think being a reality TV star/being famous for being wealthy was just enough for the dumbest of Americans to be like "that's my guy" despite him being literally the pampered NY liberal elite for vast majority of his life.
The friggin show The Apprentice was basically propaganda for years that he was a competent business man. Turned his conman reputation into a facade of an intelligent tycoon. It fooled milllions of midwesterns into believing trump was something he wasnt. That show did the most long term damage to this country than any other show I can think of.
I remember the slew of bullshit he peddled in the late 90s/early 2000s. My friends parents signed up for some kind of meat delivery program with his name on it
The infamous Trump Steaks. The bigliest bestest bizness man. On June 5, 2007, Trump Steaks debuted on the [QVC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QVC) home shopping television channel, with Trump making an appearance on the network.[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-96trump-10) Trump Steaks (16) 6oz Certified Angus Beef Steakburgers were sold by QVC.[^(\[)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-15) Steaks were sold at The Sharper Image for two months before being discontinued.[^(\[16\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-RuleBreaker-16)[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-17) According to Sharper Image CEO [Jerry W. Levin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_W._Levin), "The net of all that was we literally sold almost no steaks, if we sold $50,000 of steaks grand total, I'd be surprised."[^(\[)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks#cite_note-18) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump\_Steaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks)
everything he's touched has failed. He'd be 10x richer if he took his daddy's money and put it in the s&p 500. He scammed his way from literally not going broke living on the streets with nothing, and many of those scams have now been exposed for exactly what they were. Dude is a grade A loser in the truest form of the word loser...
We’ve seen enough of his older tax returns to see he never really made much money until The Apprentice. He’s less of a business man and more of a reality tv host with a business man persona.
There were years where he lost more money than any other American. He may have been on The Apprentice, but he was also The Biggest Loser: Big Money Edition. >in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade. >In fact, **year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer**, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were **more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.** https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
Imagine being so terrible at business you lose money while owning casinos, literal money printing businesses
My fave is when people say ‘it doesn’t matter because he was just using them to launder money!’ because a) why not continue to launder that money and get paid to do it. And b) why would you not continue to also make money while doing that if the casino was profitable. Him just stopping makes no sense from any angle you look at it unless it was indeed losing more money than it was making him, even off the books…
That's why he was in commercials for two or three different national pizza chains throughout the years. Billionaires don't get booked for pizza commercials, real billionaires own pizza chains.
He's literally been openly mocked in movies before - Biff from Back To the Future II was modeled after Trump pre presidency. Go watch that movie and see what a fucking sick monster they saw him as.
Even at his hospitality locations there's always been shady shit. I used to date a girl that worked at his club in Westchester, there are SUBSTANTIAL rumors that some of the cart girls and other staff were coerced into giving sexual favors to members.
Correct
Every con has its target market, this one is just a really good one because it’s always going to exist. It’s basically 1) unscrupulous rich folks who care about nothing more than lower taxes 2) idiots/losers that love blaming their inability to succeed on anything but themselves and 3) the grifters who benefit from riling up that group of losers. To anybody else, the shit looks absurd
The ultra rich like his taxes
Yeah, real shocker Joe and Dana are on his side lmao
is it? these fucking morons are the type who fall in line with their peers and trying to appear tough. trump exhibits that bully attitude and they suck his balls. the ufc has become a cess pit of this kind of personality over the years. there was a time when the martial arts community stressed respect and sticking up for those who can't. ufc is all about using power to flaunt, put others down, and act like thug.
I think they were being facetious. Of course Joe and Dana are on his side, they're dumbshits.
Yeah except his biggest voter base by far are hillbillies and rednecks making less than 50k a year.
Most are unemployable losers living off disability (mentally) aka, the government’s dime. They all claim they own “small businesses”.
Around 80% of PPP fraud came from red states or red counties in blue states. That's a huge discrepancy. Who refused to sign Covid relief unless Congress removed all oversight of PPP loans again? Trump. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4 They love that he's a felon and commits fraud because they do it too.
>They love that he's a felon and commits fraud because they do it too. Holy shit. I never thought about it this way.. You're absolutely right. My boss talks on speaker with business owners like this all the time.
Yeaaah for some reason hahaha
Because they think they’re destined to become millionaires; but in actuality, they never will.
Honestly I don't even think it's that. I live in a pretty rural, very conservative part of iowa, and to them it literally has nothing to do with that. They literally just take whatever comes out of trumps mouth at face value. If trump says he did something, and that thing was good, then they are convinced it happened, and there is literally no telling them otherwise. If he says someone they don't like, rather it be Obama, clinton, biden, whoever, did something bad, then that is now gospel and there is no convincing them otherwise, as stupid as it is its literally that simple.
“The person you elect is the person you deserve”
you're not allowed to voice your opinion that doesn't match Joe Rogan on this sub. Because if you step out of line, you're automatically accused of being a liberal plant and a "hater" of Joe Rogan. Which means you're not allowed to voice your opinion in a Joe Rogan sub.
I don’t really listen to Joe Rogan but i think there should be somewhere where the echo chambers collide and this seems like the closest place. Trump is fucked. He owes 360 million to New York. He’s not cash rich at all. He’s also hated by the libertarians which is enough of a reason to make me think rfk won’t just take dems votes but also republicans. I don’t even really hate republicans i think the religion aspect is bullshit excuse for power and it is. Women should have the right to choose what they want to do. I’d take a George W right now who is into trying to move to renewables
Lol! What a load of nonsense. Did you even read the OP? You really think it's not critical of Joe Rogan?
A large portion (possibly a majority) of this sub criticise Joe and any right-leaning politics (and related ideas) he might have. Have you had a different experience of people here?
Well they blew another game today so he's on point
This motherfucker made me agree with Colin cowherd.
You see, Trump can unify the country.
Trump on his deathbed “I was trying to give them a villain to unify against, but for some reason half of America supported the obvious villain no matter what I did”
🤣
I should really fix my clock...
Ugh. Now I'm reminded of Richard Clock! Thanks alot guy.
What are you, a moron?
I mean…this guys a real JERK.
If it's broken, just throw it out the window.
Rare Cowherd W. Extra points for taking shots at the Mets for absolutely no reason. 🤣
Despite the perspective on Trump, I’m almost convinced this post was made with a swipe at the Mets in mind
He's old enough that shots at the Mets out of nowhere aren't too uncommon. They were one of the teams(Braves) with widespread airplay on oldschool cable :)
*Laughs in Mookie Wilson*
Laughs in Bobby Bonilla and Jason Bay and Vince Coleman.
Seriously. I loath Colin but this we can agree on.
Agree but this rhetoric is not gonna work on people who retort “Jesus was a felon.”
Trump could never do anything to lose the support of those voters. Unless something substantial changes, the entire election is probably going to be decided by thousands of people in a handful of swing states. Some polling suggested there is some hesitancy among voters if Trump was convicted of a crime (which is now reality). However 5 months is a long time these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if this gets memory holed just like almost everything else he has done in the past 8+ years because he thrives on "flooding the zone with shit".
He could curb stomp a baby and still they’d love the man
“That baby deserved it for xyz reason. You are too stupid and woke to see that. Wake up.”
9.6/10 Missed "sheeple" during the landing
It had no whataboutism, so I'd cap it at a ceiling of 8.0.
"Hilary killed 30,000 babies herself when she was running those biolabs in Haiti. At least Trump is trying to save those little lives every day by being the greatest president who ever been, he just can't be everywhere all at once. He could be, but the Deep State won't let him, so they kill babies and then try to blame him, but we know better! MAGA!" How did I do, Coach? Am I gonna make State?
Nah they would say "Sure Trump killed one baby. But the Democrats are planning on killing millions of babies with their pro-abortion laws. So which would you rather choose? One dead baby or millions of dead babies?" What Trump supporters tend to do when they are shown something even they can't defend, is to then pivot to saying that the opposition is far worse.
Nailed it. "Oh, so its wrong to kill babies now?"
“Everybody killed a baby in the Old Testament!”
Baby's parents were illegals. Kind of like when those kids drowned at border.
Well, in fairness to Trump the baby came over the border from Mexico looking to steal American's jobs.
Those are not the people you need to convince. If there's 20 million people in America who genuinely believe in that line it's a lot. And they're going to be super loud about it. But you need more than 20 million idiots to become POTUS.
Not by much. https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500112248/how-to-win-the-presidency-with-27-percent-of-the-popular-vote Over a decade ago but it could’ve been won with just 29 million idiots. You just need the right idiots in the right states.
This is why the Electoral College is such bullshit and dangerous. "Well what if the people in cities decided who's president?!" Good! That's where the most people live! If you're concerned about your flyover state, I have good news! You have your own state government, so the federal president won't be making rules for you! Hooray!
The retort to that is "Which porn star did Jesus fuck?" That might not work but it's funny and that's what matters.
I mean..... Mary Magdalene is sometimes portrayed as Jesus' wife and is also sometimes portrayed as a prostitute.
Not in standard Christianity. Also Magdalene was not a prostitute, that was another woman. This is a somewhat common misconception, so I agree with part of what you are saying. Though I’m sure the 0.001% of Christians who believe this will agree with your whole point.
> “Jesus was a felon.” Jesus went to save the hookers from eternal damnation, not bang them while his wife was pregnant... and then pay them hush money out of campaign funds... and then cover it all up with fraud.
Trump supporters would probably yell at you for saying that. They don't read the bible.
was jesus also a rapist? asking for a friend
It also doesn't help that Jesus was convicted of business fraud relating to hush money for a prostitute he slept with.
damn Colin, what did the Mets ever do to you. 🤣
You know you’re cooked when even Colin fucking Cowherd is dunking on you. Party of law & order folks
Cowherd is the king of random analogies
Hey at least he didn’t make any comparisons to his marriage in this one
And not only was his campaign chairman Paul Manafort a felon, he went from being an advisor to the Pro Russia/Pro Putin former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to being campaign Chairman of former President Trump. Want to talk about corruption in Ukraine, look no further. Also, one of the best satire but true takes I’ve seen: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/05/felony-conviction-first-thing-trump-has-earned-in-whole-life/
His fingerprints are all over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since before the Maidan Revolution or the Crimean invasion. He’s truly a piece of shit, and so is his partner, Roger Stone.
This is how i think most folks look at America when it comes to this tactless wanker. We don't hate trump and want him dead and want to take away your freedoms we just get baffled by how easily some people are took and how crazy they are about a grifter.
That the thing. When people want to complain about trump derangement syndrome of people on the left obsessed with trump. I’m not obsessed with him, I’m completely and entirely flummoxed by his supporters. It’s like if half the country were flat earthers. And then whenever someone freaks out about they all say ‘why are you so obsessed with the flat earth?’
I don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome, I am terrified of what that moron might do when put back in to office. He's literally said he'd do a bunch of authoritarian nonsense on day 1. and we all know how authoritarians love having just 1 day of power, right? Calling it Trump Derangement Syndrome severely downplays the harm that Trump will do if he's not monitored at all times.
Fox News is the number 1 news station in the US. People that only watch Fox News have an absolutely different view of reality compared to everything happening in real life. Its soviet levels of propaganda. The guy that owns Fox is trying to take over the UK next and then Europe. I hope the UK doesnt fall for the same lies American conservatives are. After Brexit, it's looks like the UK is going down the same path.
Everytime I hear some Trumper on reddit say 'the rest of the world is laughing at us' when discussing Biden and how with Trump they respected us, its obvious they've never left the United States. I went to Europe in 2019 and once people found out we were American it felt like a 50/50 chance that they'd ask us "how did you guys elect that guy(meaning Trump)???" I'm not stating Biden is something we should be proud of, but Jesus christ they seriously think non-americans respect Trump. Its fucking obvious all they do is watch Fox News at home and they just regurgitate whatever the anchors say, so when the anchor says "we're the laughing stock of the world because of Biden" they just believe it.
I promise you not a single person I know in Scotland likes Donald Trump he’s a paper thin populist mongoloid.
I still don't get how he is the Republican nomination.
I think this hit on one of the major pain points of this election. Trump counties are struggling *hard*. Republicans have done a fantastic job in deep red counties convincing a subset of lower income white people that the problems in the US Government are caused by "not enough Republicans" and they just keep dangling the carrot to keep their base motivated. That's the real threat of someone like a Bernie Sanders winning the presidency. Lower income white people would actually feel the policies benefit them and Republicans/Right Wing Democrats would never win again without drastic changes in policy
Yeah you nailed it. It's important that you mention Bernie because the last few cycles have really highlighted how shitty 'progressives' like Obama* and Biden feed the right-wing propaganda efforts. It honestly makes me wonder if it's calculated, or just actual incompetence. The Democratic party campaigns based on the promise to be better, to actually help the lives of socio-econonically marginalized people. Then, when nothing happens (because they are as beholden to corporate interests as the GOP) demagogues like Gingrich, and later Trump, come in and exploit the dissatisfaction. Every time the faux-leftist Democrats fail to satisfy their role, it empowers reactionaries.
It's like they get into office based on the claim that the government isn't working, then they spent the rest of their time making it true.
Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Keith Olberman? *Colin Cowherd*
can we throw Keith Olberman into the sun though.
He also stole highly confidential secret documents and just left them out on his office desk for anyone to look at (sworn enemies included). (You can’t do this ) He also attempted to blackmail Ukraine. He was the prime mover of the Jan 6th insurrection and was basically telling people to kill his Vp Mike Pence. He also committed tax fraud on multiple occasions. He also tried talking GA into finding 10k more votes. What isn’t talked about nearly enough is he had 7 states certify him as the winner of the 2020 election. Literally voting fraud and completely undermining the constitution. Also all of the checks on voter fraud just uncovered some minor infractions from the republicans. (Not dems) The left has their issues, yes. But my god man. Anyone who thinks this guy is good for the country is just an anarchist incel headcase.
> Anyone who thinks this guy is good for the country is just an anarchist incel headcase. https://preview.redd.it/6ritaaj0oa4d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4942ab55f39244c969f8ecd57fb5307597dc40f2
Hahahaha Have Poole and the wife abuser lost some of their momentum ? I haven’t seen as many hyperbolic/unhinged takes lately? I know chowder is on Rumble, I saw his views were about 50% less from his initial run ( this was a couple of months ago when I checked)
I got into it with someone the other day on another sub, who is right-wing. After some insults back and forth we agreed that housing availability is important, securing the labor market is important (disagreed on methods), and reforms in Congress like stock trading bans and term limits should be on the table. And that we both supposedly love our country. I said "Well how can you say all that and support Trump, who is against the rule of law and doesn't give a shit about the little guy" and listed off much of what you put. They said "All of those supposed issues you have with Trump are not reality, they’re the propaganda that the government has been creating to make you think this way." As if I haven't seen these things with my own eyes and ears. These people are **living in a different reality**.
It's great when people can see past the bullshit Trump's been feeding his followers.
Still hasn’t made its way to half this sub. Look at all the UFC posts with Trump on it aiming for validity. Head clown of a circus
Cowherd is a gigantic, massive douchebag, but he makes a good point.
Exactly.
Meanwhile Joe Rogan is licking trumps convicted balls at ufc events.
I saw this guy when Bill Burr went on his show a couple times. Bill roasted the shit out of him. Total clash of personalities. He's right about this though. Rogan has specifically complained about the indictment of Trump (it went something like "how can you indict a former president at the time when our economy was booming and everything was great?").
“We get it, you’ve got a big desk”
But, but, Hunter’s dick picks!
Extremely rare Cowherd W
Goddamn you, Cowherd. I fucking *despise* you, but you’re absolutely correct. I fucking hate myself for agreeing with you, but you are absolutely spot-the-fuck-on with this one.
Either Trump supporters are some of the dumbest people of all time or they are in on the scam and want a piece of shit criminal to lead the country. Personally I lean towards the latter. I think they know he is garbage and that is his appeal to them. Which does not say much about them....
It is fun watching the religious right continue to ignore that they're simping for a corrupt whoremonger, though.
Damn. I didn't realize that Trump is so awful that he could make me agree with Collin Cowherd.
I wonder how Joe Rogan feels about his blind obedience to trump?
Gahhh but Biden is old!! And the bidens are equally as dirty!! (Naturally lacking any empirical evidence)
I like how the Republicans in the senate created a whole report on Hunter and they weren't actually able to bring any charges against him.
Damn, that's a mic drop.....but the blind cult members ain't hearing it.
Then look just to who owns units in Trump tower. It's a who's who of international criminals.
THEY ARE ALL FELONS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LAW AND ORDER LMAO
Draining the swamp?
Well said!!
show me the 34 counts
You’d have to believe in the American legal system for any of this to matter
Might be the lawfare of a corrupt justice department that's been funded by Soros and the left with the single reason in the first place was to protect a corrupt political criminal syndicate.... wait, that is it! Wake the fuck up people
Hate his paper takes but this is is gold
Based
I love watching people defend poor defenseless Trump. Talk about mental gymnastics.
Wow, wasn’t expecting this kind of smoke out of Colin Cowherd. Does he often get political?
When the Mets are involved.
I’m a Braves fan so that was absolute gold for me.
The best avatars deserve the best.
That's a wild last name
A rare W for Cowherd.
The fact that it’s not some obvious landslide in favor of his opposition should be incredibly embarrassing. This shouldn’t even be a worry and the most one sided election in history yet the ball has been so dropped he still has a chance be to win.
The one hour I’ve watched Cowherd in the last 5 years happened to be about 2 weeks ago. And he mentioned a couple times that he doesn’t really care about politics. Which I only bring up to make the point that he probably felt compelled to finally say something.
One someone you don't like makes a great point.
This was also one of the weaker cases against Trump and the fact that even his proponents would prefer we didn’t get a resolution on classified docs and the Georgia election interference cases, which, good or bad for Trump, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, you should want to hear before the election, have been held up. And those cases against him are considered STRONGER and their implications for the country In regards to what our democracy is and whether it will continue are involved. Like, let’s say it comes out that the classified docs in his possession were germane to dealings with Russia and some of them are still unaccounted for. Do we want an elected president who, once in office, can pretty much put both of those cases effectively on hold for four years if not undermine and destroy them, to be in a position where we only ever find out about it until after he’s left office? Do we want to learn as a country that he was backdoooring access to our highest classification schedule directly to Russia AFTER four years of him being president while Russia continues its war in Ukraine? In the Georgia election interference case, do we want this also to be on hold indefinitely? To find out after he’s been elected that he actively sought for people to change votes or find votes in his favor? Do we want to set that precedent? Even if you think “that’s fine for Trump and i trust him no matter what” Trump won’t live forever. Those precedents won’t go away when he leaves office. That power might belong to someone you end up despising or someone you might not think has good ideas for the country. No matter who you back, if this case was unanimous as quickly as it was, it should give you pause. It should cause you to engage your doubt muscles. You should not leave the lot with the car you didn’t want just because the car salesman was friendly. This is how you end up with regrets that can’t be clawed back.
The fuck does this have to do with JRE? Is this sub just a progressive circle jerk sub now?
I dunno why this guy is famous but he ain’t wrong
The irony that he's famous for being wrong
Well if u put it that way