U.S. Presidential Election 2016 (Sponsored by Betty Croker's Hamburger Helper)

[Lewis]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Donald_Trump

The end of an era. Hopefully with a bit of space people will be able to admit that he was genuinely funny. It's why the entertainment whoppers took it all so badly. Robert De Niro would lean right into his side of the FEUD, and then Trump would go 'lol alright "Punchy"' and what can he do then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Crooked Hillary' and 'Sleepy Joe' were both brilliant, and I can sort of believe that he thought of them himself.

[Queenslander]

https://i.ibb.co/s5v31zV/23orb-super-Jumbo.jpg (https://ibb.co/q0M1gVr)
Don

[hfswjyr]

Incredible list. So many achievements in just four short years.

[Bernanke]

Low I.Q. Crazy Mika is a great one.

[Lewis]

That time he said he would see Elizabeth Warren on the 'campaign TRAIL' (TTH Style Guide capitalisation and all) deserved a mention. If anything his trolling her was too successful.

[Kikó]

Pocahontas was brilliantly cutting.

edit: lol at that timing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The dogshit rendering of Alaska on that globe has triggered me.

[Alex]

His "Mini-Mike" routine making fun of Bloomberg is one of my favourites. It was bordering on actual, top-tier stand up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

"I would like to spend 700 million dollars and end up with.....nothing". :D

[Queenslander]

That time he said he would see Elizabeth Warren on the 'campaign TRAIL' (TTH Style Guide capitalisation and all) deserved a mention. If anything his trolling her was too successful.

https://i.ibb.co/Rv7GQz8/trump-tweet-warren-fb.jpg (https://ibb.co/SsJDVRS)

[Lewis]

Another good one was when him and Hillary Clinton went to that pre-election charity dinner where they 'roast' each other, but he just called her bent and said she hated Catholics.

[Disco]

The dog was the best bit, that and lolling at him thinking the simplest cognitive test imaginable was somehow impressive.

[Spikey M]

4 more years!

[Ian]

I'd forgotten the cognitive test. Fucking hell.

[Pepe]

Lots of stuff, but my favorite is the Pocahontas stuff, just for how long it went.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55723476

When he turns up in his "Monster Ram Truck Limo" with his new 7 ft prison wife there's going to be hell to pay.

He wasn't on the list :(

Carole Baskin must have gotten to the President some how.

[Spikey M]

Maybe he only has Prime.

[Disco]

I will miss Stephen Colbert doing impressions of Eric Trump though.

[Kikó]

And the fucker has finally gone. :-)

[niko_cee]

Surely there's no beating the giant McDonald's spread. What a photo.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yep, it's Abe Lincoln going 'hmm' in the background that makes it.

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5c3e10b2f92c694343cc71b9/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/Rosner-Fast-Food-Trump.jpg

Sad to see an end to a truly classic content era.

[Lewis]

https://i.imgur.com/BdfrelS.png

Top spread that.

[Raoul Duke]

Poor BK not even getting their individual products getting called out. Bacon Double Cheeseburger for life, y'all

[Ian]

It was Trump and a load of college football players, there were way more whoppers than that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pizzas being at the 'Whopper End' should suffice. Sounds like something at the Adelaide Oval.

[Lewis]

You could almost reconcile yourself to Chinese hegemony watching this.

[Spoonsky]

'Crooked Hillary' and 'Sleepy Joe' were both brilliant, and I can sort of believe that he thought of them himself.

I think ultimately ‘Sleepy Joe’ was too harmless, almost endearing, to do any real damage. ‘Crooked Hillary’ was deadly though.

This inauguration is almost enough to make me wish I’d voted for Trump, we’ve had Lady Gaga belt out the national anthem and now J-Lo is on “This Land is Our Land.” Mon the insurrection.

[Kikó]

Joe's in 😎

[Spikey M]

Booooooooo(urns)

[Lewis]

No sign of the 'lifelong stammer' up to now. He must be titted up like Las Vegas Elvis.

[Shindig]

Has Trump tweeted out how much bigger the turnout was for his inauguration?

[Disco]

Well, no.

[phonics]

Well, no.

Lol.

[Lofty]

Covfefe was excellent.

[Kikó]

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[mo]

The gushing over the inauguration was sickening. One teacher I know of scrapped his lessons for the day and just decided each class would analyse the poem that was read and the story behind it. Sorry but, fuck that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I understand people being glad that Trump's out but all the stories of people (British people, this is) weeping and so on were incredible to me, as indeed is the level of interest people have in American politics generally. It's just glamour, isn't it, and we want it to reflect on us.

[CJay]

Is Joe ‘Joey’ Biden likely to be respected globally in his own right, or is he simply going to dine out on not being Trump for 4 years? He just doesn’t strike me as a strong leader.

[mo]

Agreed. Obviously a lot of it was for show.

I might just be jealous of people watching whatever they fancy of an afternoon instead of Hey Duggee (which isn't bad, but not my first choice of programming)

[Jimmy Floyd]

The most annoying aspect for me was loads of blue ticks doing clap emojis over that line about example of our power / power of our example, which was directly lifted from Bill Clinton.

[Kikó]

Is Joe ‘Joey’ Biden likely to be respected globally in his own right, or is he simply going to dine out on not being Trump for 4 years? He just doesn’t strike me as a strong leader.

He's been in the senate for 35 years and was the vice President for 8. I think he's going to be respected. He's an actual politician.

[CJay]

He's been in the senate for 35 years and was the vice President for 8. I think he's going to be respected. He's an actual politician.

I dunno, he didn’t really seem to get a lot of respect during the primaries.

[Lewis]

He's essentially the American John Prescott, and that was when his brain still worked.

[Dquincy]

He's essentially the American John Prescott, and that was when his brain still worked.

He's Alex Ferguson's Carlos Queiroz.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I understand people being glad that Trump's out but all the stories of people (British people, this is) weeping and so on were incredible to me, as indeed is the level of interest people have in American politics generally. It's just glamour, isn't it, and we want it to reflect on us.

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Fud.

[Don]

Isn't Biden academically thick as fuck? There's nothing there. Hopefully the Indian gets a promotion soon for lols.

[Lewis]

He's Alex Ferguson's Carlos Queiroz.

Carlos Queiroz was quality. More like Mike Phelan on interview duties.

[Pepe]

First woman? First Asian-American, African-American woman, mate. Historical moment.

[Lewis]

Isn't Biden academically thick as fuck? There's nothing there. Hopefully the Indian gets a promotion soon for lols.

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Obviously not that DEVASTATING to his campaign, but lol at 'his memory had failed him'. The detail in it as well.

[Pepe]

:harold:

Should compare his IQ to Tronnie's.

[Shindig]

How the hell does that hairline belong to the same bloke?

[Dquincy]

:harold:

Should compare his IQ to Tronnie's.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera....TV.

[Disco]

Never a bad time to repost this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URxHJD0Aww

[Queenslander]

Never a bad time to repost this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URxHJD0Aww

That is incredible.

[Yevrah]

Watching the new but hopefully not last part of the Trump show on the Beeb ('Downfall'), Trump, his dickhead son and Giuliani, should all be facing terrorism charges.

[Kikó]

Absolutely - it's genuinely astonishing that a certain amount of Americans think impeachment is not going to help the healing process. The president encouraged people to attack the capitol. I can only imagine if the same happened here, we'd be horrified for years not pretend it didn't happen.

[Spoonsky]

The one who think that are the ones who wanted it to succeed.

[Lewis]

There was nothing to succeed. They could have killed everyone in the building and Joeb Iden would still be the President today.

[Spoonsky]

Well, I agree; but the millions of poor devils who think the election was stolen (and that Mike Pence had the power to reverse everything) obviously view things differently.

[Lewis]

There also won't be a 'healing process'. They (including half the Republican Party) want to treat the past four years as an aberration, and impeachment is a big part of that. Once they do that they can double-down on every single thing that assisted Trump becoming a thing in the first place.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If nothing else it will be an interesting thought experiment for what might have happened here, had the remoaners managed to get Brexit overturned.

[Lewis]

They should have a series of indicative votes. Impeachment. Execution. Pardon. Nothing. I didn't see that on the side of a bus?!?!

[niko_cee]

It was a few days ago now but I saw that Biden had the small desk out for another comedy airing. What is it about that tiny table?

[Lewis]

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She believes that as well. :happycry:

[ItalAussie]

Apparently Trump's legal team quit, which has the potential to develop into something quite funny in a week or so.

EDIT: The rumour is that Trump is insistent on using the trial to lay out the details of his election fraud claims. So that could certainly be something.

[Lewis]

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[Pepe]

Lol.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Kikó]

Acquitted. 57-43 wasn't enough to indict him.

[Giggles]

Four more years.

[Yevrah]

What a bottle job.

Enjoy the carnage in 3 or so years time when he comes back.

[Foe]

And now Mitch McConnell is up there saying all the things the trial was accusingly. But he voted to acquit because he’s no longer president, because he delayed the trial until he’s not president.

Mental.

Green light to do whatever you want as president before leaving office as long as you do it late enough.

[Shindig]

I dunno, we let Blair get away with the Iraq bollocks.

[Mellberg]

Is he likely to be the Republican candidate next time? I fucking hope so.

What do been really want, deep down? Kerry/Dole regens, or Box Office Donald?

[Shindig]

Nah, he lost hard this time, even without the murder on the hill. They need to prime someone else. Hopefully it's not Trump Jr.

[Giggles]

Maybe he won’t see 2024.

9/1 though.

[Bernanke]

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Samurai futurologist. :D

[Shindig]

That's just given me a mental image of Donald taking the Yukio Mishima way out.

[Ian]

https://news.sky.com/story/south-carolina-adds-firing-squad-to-execution-methods-to-address-lethal-injection-shortage-12234370?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Guns. Is there any problem they can't solve?

[Spikey M]

It's surprising it hasn't always been their go to method when you think about it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm against the death penalty full stop, but even if you accept that it's there, the fact that they still use the electric chair is absolutely mental.

[Kikó]

The whole thing is medieval. Firing squad, lethal injection, electric chair. Aren't they meant to be the good guys?

[Ian]

They could let paying members of the public come in and do it to earn a little extra cash given keeping people on Death Row is so expensive.

Maybe have licenses for it like hunting.

[niko_cee]

Given the general demographic that South African giraffe woman would be all over it.

[Raoul Duke]

Again: America is just a 3rd world country with iPhones

[Shindig]

They could let paying members of the public come in and do it to earn a little extra cash given keeping people on Death Row is so expensive.

Maybe have licenses for it like hunting.

There's always an audience. Pay your way into that and make some money on the side. Not that America's prison system has any problem with generating revenue.

[Dquincy]

Biden takes a tumble on Air Force One steps

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12250839

[Ian]

So now at the next Dem conference he walks up two steps and mugs to a baying crowd, right?

[Shindig]

It's the way he slips but continues to barrel up the stairs. Like someone was telling him to really get a hurry on.

[Pepe]

He had to go to the bathroom.

[Disco]

As if anyone else who knows they're being filmed would react any differently. You crack on as if nothing happened then gingerly lift the trouser leg when nobody's looking to see how bad it is.

[Spoonsky]

Chauvin's trial starts today. It would be nice if he actually went to prison.

[Lewis]

The story about Trump crashing that wedding reception and going off on the border/China/Iran/etc. during his attempted toast is class. As if they (supposedly) voted him out.

[Don]

When's a verdict likely? I need to plan the all-nighter and possible scenes if justice prevails and he walks free. The thinking man's superbowl.

[Lewis]

Hopefully in time to get a Cameo video for the post-lockdown TTH Meet.

[Shindig]

Lads, did you have to pick that date for the Afghanistan withdrawal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56737563

[Lewis]

Internal assessments by Afghan intelligence officials suggest the government could hold out against them for a number of years, even without international assistance.

:harold:

What a waste of twenty years. There is something sort of lol about the Taliban. Obviously a right bunch of shits, pretty much ISIS without the publicity stunts, but they became popular by executing nonces and then let the country be invaded rather than break Islamic hospitality rules and hand the Al-Qaeda twats, who they could have rounded up in about ten minutes, over to the Americans. There is something there that speaks to me.

[Kikó]

Three counts. All guilty.

[Shindig]

Chauvin's crazy eyes in court when the verdict hit. :D

[Bernanke]

At the same time as the verdict was being read, cops shot a 15 year old girl in Ohio. :uhoh:

[Ian]

Presumably in some sort of ceremony.

[Lewis]

It looks like one of the most deserved shootings ever, and yet the response is the usual one, which makes you question what it is these mongs actually want.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a form of Marxism, so by definition, they won't ever be happy, the anger itself is the end goal.

[Lewis]

That prominent Black Lives Matter woman squaring calling herself a Marxist with her multi-million property empire by defining Marxism as looking after your relatives was a real lightbulb moment. They should re-run the Cold War under those conditions.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're not real Marxists, because the western world is far too materially comfortable now to harbour any kind of meaningful radicalism, but the intellectual process (overturn the power structures -> ??? -> ??? -> utopia on earth with me at the centre) is the same.

[Pepe]

I don't think that the current crop even has a utopia as a goal.

[Lewis]

The de-fund the police arguments are all bit utopian in thinking that a basic income and mental health support would confound everything from vandalism to the very worst noncery, and they don't even have an equivalent dictatorship of the proletariat phase to cover what happens whilst the social workers are being trained (Basic Leninism Matters). There is something very therapeutic about the whole thing, like the Corbyn tits whose socialism was their current circumstances plus a free flat.

[Queenslander]

4 cops who were involved in defending the Capitol have committed suicide.

Grim.

[Lofty]

As lol as it was to watch from abroad I bet it was hellish to be in that situation, especially finding out later Tronald sat on his hands regarding reinforcements whilst you and your colleagues were forced to either shoot people or get beaten by his fans.

[Shindig]

Cuomo somehow sounded more like a creep in his resignation speech. Good riddance.

[Lewis]

He should have just said I'm Italian and shrugged it off.

[phonics]

He literally did. I quote, “I’m not a pervert, I’m Italian”

[Lewis]

There is a meme doing the rounds saying that, but he didn't really.

[Queenslander]

The sleezy Italian is a good trope, it also works with the Greeks and Lebanese as well.

[Baz]

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Pardon my ignorance but why does everyone hate Biden?

[Kikó]

Because they're enthralled in the cult of trump.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think every one of the last x British PMs / US Presidents have been widely labelled 'the worst ever' by their detractors. The reality is no one knows about Andrew Johnson or Lord North.

[Queenslander]

It isnt even close down here Scott Morrison is easily the worst PM in our history. At least Howard reformed the gun laws.

[Lofty]

To be fair to Biden they are tarring him with the Afghan stuff which is on his watch but was a hand dealt to him by Trump. Surely if Trump thought it was going to be a guaranteed win he would have done it before the election scheduled it after.

[Lewis]

You can't blame Biden personally for all the Afghan bollocks, but you've got a glimpse of how useless him and all his people are without the largely pro-war media running interference for them since it happened. He looks every bit as shot to bits as he really is; that awful spokeswoman embarrassed herself at the first few difficult questions she's had to answer in six months; and the various defence/state stiffs they have put up have just been empty wankers.

[Bernanke]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCENi6_WEAwtT0J?format=png&name=large

Still got it. :cool:

[Yevrah]

Where's he released that? Onlyfans?

[hfswjyr]

I was never a user of twitter or any other of Trump's favourite platforms, but I've gotta say I barely see anything from him now. It's like he fell off the face of the earth for me after the election.
It's great.

[Shindig]

Now he's out of office, the media have stopped reacting to every stupid statement he makes.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58990330

TRUTH.

[Yevrah]

Jesus, I know I CAPITALISE THINGS for the lols, but he's actually doing it? :nono:

[Lewis]

His statement about Liz Cheney the other day was a classic.

[Lewis]

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[Lofty]

:D he did something similar while addressing The Boy Scouts of America apparently.

[Bernanke]

So Donald appears to have been stealing nuclear secrets for the Saudis or some such.

[Boydy]

So Donald appears to have been stealing nuclear secrets for the Saudis or some such.

What? :D

[Spikey M]

Well, I'd like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

[Spikey M]

What? :D

The FBI have raded his house looking for stolen government paperwork. No idea what the paperwork is though. Or if they found any.

[Bernanke]

What? :D

WaPo is reporting that the documents the FBI retrieved contained top level classified stuff on something related to nukes, as well as SigInt stuff, which is wild in itself.

If it really is the case and he refused for months to give that back until they raided him, I think he finally might be done for.

[Boydy]

The FBI have raded his house looking for stolen government paperwork. No idea what the paperwork is though. Or if they found any.
Yeah, I knew they'd raided his house but didn't know what they were looking for or if they'd found anything. Assumed Bernanke was telling us that was what they found.

[Boydy]

WaPo is reporting that the documents the FBI retrieved contained top level classified stuff on something related to nukes, as well as SigInt stuff, which is wild in itself.

If it really is the case and he refused for months to give that back until they raided him, I think he finally might be done for.

:D

Mental.

[Disco]

I'd be digging up his ex-wife who was cremated but still needed ten pall bearers, nothing is beyond this guy.

[Yevrah]

It's a continued disgrace that he isn't in prison already.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon if he went on TV and started skulling live babies with a chainsaw and scooping out their brains to eat, there would still be a non-trivial portion of his following who would say the babies had it coming.

[Lewis]

If I was whichever fanny the Democrats are putting up for 2024 I would much rather be running against Trump and his record than a more effective operator, plus Trump crying conspiracy from the sidelines, plus a seething 'Drain the Swamp' mandate. If it is a way of nobbling him before then, it's a pretty short-sighted move.

[Yevrah]

Will it definitely not be Biden?

[-james-]

Trump still bookies favourite for 2024. I presume mainly due to the absence of any other candidates but still pretty lol.

[Yevrah]

If he gets back in having given the Democrats eight years to have a look at him and figure out a strategy to beat him, there will be no words.

[Spikey M]

Other than "hilarious".

[Yevrah]

Well, yeah, that aside.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I was whichever fanny the Democrats are putting up for 2024 I would much rather be running against Trump and his record than a more effective operator, plus Trump crying conspiracy from the sidelines, plus a seething 'Drain the Swamp' mandate. If it is a way of nobbling him before then, it's a pretty short-sighted move.

They probably think they have to nobble him before then as even the more effective operator winning is preferable to DJT winning.

[Disco]

De Santis is a better bet for the Republicans, equally as objectionable as Trump but less obviously criminal and exponentially less likely to end up in prison.

[Bernanke]

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Even for him this is lol. :D

[Lewis]

I can't read it, but 'special facilities' presumably means locked cabinets rather than Area 51, and claiming that he declassified them is an interesting one. He surely has the power to do that, and he doesn't appear to have done anything with the information, so there isn't a lot to go with.

[Disco]

It's probably some of the stuff that is meant to be compartmentalised and only viewed physically rather than he nicked all the alien dossiers.

[Shindig]

Or maybe he had Hilary's emails all along.

[Spoonsky]

If I was whichever fanny the Democrats are putting up for 2024 I would much rather be running against Trump and his record than a more effective operator, plus Trump crying conspiracy from the sidelines, plus a seething 'Drain the Swamp' mandate. If it is a way of nobbling him before then, it's a pretty short-sighted move.

The Dems have a huge problem of thinking the problem starts and ends with Trump. I think his election really broke a lot of middle-aged liberal brains and they've never recovered.

[Bernanke]

Guess who's back. :cool:

https://i.giphy.com/media/3o7TKS4Ekm5QDnDDDq/200.webp

Donny on Biden in 2024:

https://i.giphy.com/media/ckIT1yCv6wIyk/200.webp

[Jimmy Floyd]

Murdoch's off the team apparently, so he might find life trickier.

[Lofty]

Surely the damp squib midterm result means he is doomed?

[Spikey M]

Fake news. Keep up Lofty.

[Disco]

I can't decide if winning or losing would be more amusing, unless you could guarantee he would would run as an independent then it's losing hands down.

[Disco]

Murdoch's off the team apparently, so he might find life trickier.

So are the Republican party, which would make it even funnier if he wins again and they have to hold their noses for another 6 years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How do other Republicans run against Trump without being branded socialists? Can you run against him from the right? The mind boggles.

[Ben]

There is no reason in the land of Communist Biden.

[Disco]

I would imagine DeSantis will paint Trump as a discredited distraction and a candidate of the past, compare his age to Biden etc. Although this inevitably splits the party somewhat because the frothing crazies haven't let go of their insane Trump obsession, I don't know how you combat that because I don't understand it in the first place and it doesn't seem to be rooted in any sort of reality.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63754702

Kanye 2024.

[Shindig]

Pledge 1: Fix wolves.

[Disco]

The guy is a crackpot, he'll probably win.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's somehow gone even more mental.

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He also got banned again on Twitter for posting an image of a Swastika in a Star of David.

[Lewis]

It's hard to see where the MELTDOWN goes from here.

[Ben]

Why's he got a stocking on his head?

[Shindig]

Because he’s massively unwell.

[Lewis]

It's hard to see where the MELTDOWN goes from here.

It has introduced me to this (https://twitter.com/teatheruler613/status/1598398757518942208) video so it has definitely topped out now.

[Giggles]

Has he been covering the head long the thick fucker?

[Shindig]

Alex Jones is probably shitting himself over another lawsuit after that. :D

[hfswjyr]

How do we think this all ends for him?

[mikem]

Most galling thing about all of this is that three of our proudest moments as a country in the last decade were Milo, Muse, and Piers Morgan washing up on our shores and us collectively shrugging our shoulders and laughing fuck off. Now, he’s bringing Milo back?

[7om]

How do we think this all ends for him?

I honestly would not be surprised if he killed himself when he inevitably goes on a massive downer.

[Shindig]

Or he winds up prison for shooting someone during his manic phase. The big problem is he no proper support around him. His mother was it and now he's surrounded by closeted internet gimps.

[Giggles]

Has he been going mad a while or is it a recent development? Is he the one that’s married to a Kardashian or Beyoncé?

[Shindig]

I think the divorce kicked it up a gear.

[Spikey M]

Most galling thing about all of this is that three of our proudest moments as a country in the last decade were Milo, Muse, and Piers Morgan washing up on our shores and us collectively shrugging our shoulders and laughing fuck off. Now, he’s bringing Milo back?

Similarly, ours is Alex Jones rocking up on the BBC and effectively being fuckwit banned from appearing on British TV ever again. Even our wingnuts thought he was a cunt.


https://youtu.be/znxWfhJOP0E

[Lofty]

You know you are off the reservation when you're saying stuff that makes Alex Jones wince.

[John Arne]

Trump mistook rape accuser E Jean Carroll for ex-wife, deposition shows

:D



Donald Trump mistook E Jean Carroll, the writer who accuses him of rape, for his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition in the case last year, excerpts released in US district court on Wednesday showed.

“That’s Marla, yeah,” Trump said, when shown a photograph. “That’s my wife.”

The mistake was corrected by a lawyer for the 76-year-old former president.

[Lofty]

The Ron Jeremy defence.

[Dquincy]

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Lols. Is he really going to last the full term.

[Spikey M]

Sometimes I think about visiting America, then I see the Yank replies to funny videos and remember why I haven't. Humourless cunts.

[Disco]

Biden is Mick McCarthy being scared by nothing but with a nuclear arsenal.

That Trump deposition is something else, having to do the whole thing must have been like having a fever dream.

[Boydy]

Looked up to see what her name is and, christ, it's not even close. :D

[Ben]

I'd laugh at the state of them but we had Johnson and Truss consecutively.

[Disco]

This Trump arraignment is quite funny, about 50 people turned up to support him and so far I have see both an Infowars flag and a man carrying a pigs head on a stick.

[niko_cee]

Do we need a new one of these?


https://youtu.be/BMWN0lEEpJs?si=9Xq7Jk8QuCzbXIju

:D

[Ben]

He's going to get back in isn't he.

[Giggles]

It's not even looking like a doubt at this stage.

[Yevrah]

He absolutely will.

[niko_cee]

I'm not sure he will, but it will be funny.

World really needs Biden to just die.

[Ben]

Ideally in office so the Democrats get the sympathy vote with the next one.

[Spikey M]

I'd vote for Trump. If there's no good options, you may aswell just vote for the funniest possible outcome.

[Disco]

He's a complete maniac who would be in prison already if he wasn't this particular guy. I don't think he wins but it will be funny watching him steamroll all the other republican ghouls then try and spin losing into a few more years of donations from all the mouth breathers. Double fun if he ends up in jail before the election, that might actually be his only chance of winning which makes all his delaying tactics all the more amusing.

[Don]

"If it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we're witnessing, that's practically never been like this. It's just so important. And I want to make that a very big part of our message. We're going to come together. It's going to happen soon too."

The geezer surprised me with the tone of those very sensible comments yesterday. In comparison to Biden, he very much is the more able and competent individual. And the lols I certainly have missed, those COVID briefings were legendary.

[phonics]

You sound like you'd cry if someone played the 'Got your Nose' trick on you to this day if you believe that.

[Boydy]

He's a complete maniac who would be in prison already if he wasn't this particular guy. I don't think he wins but it will be funny watching him steamroll all the other republican ghouls then try and spin losing into a few more years of donations from all the mouth breathers. Double fun if he ends up in jail before the election, that might actually be his only chance of winning which makes all his delaying tactics all the more amusing.
Why don't you think he'll win? Everyone seems to hate Biden.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He'll win easily.

[niko_cee]

Why don't you think he'll win? Everyone seems to hate Biden.

Didn't Biden actually win by quite a large margin last time? And whilst Trump's subsequent travails have led his base to double down, the vast swathes of not mental Americans aren't going to vote for him. Also, despite everything isn't America doing really well economically, so it feels like the stimulus for chaotic change is perhaps lessened.

He only just pipped Crooked Hilary before turning into a full-on loon FFS.

[Yevrah]

The fact that he's already being talked about as possibly winning and he's barely started on going after a Man, who, let's face it, is an OAP with cognitive functions that are visibly deteriorating on a daily basis tells you all you need to know about how this is going to end up.

[Lofty]

Young dynamic go getter, Donald Trump.

[Yevrah]

Didn't Biden actually win by quite a large margin last time? And whilst Trump's subsequent travails have led his base to double down, the vast swathes of not mental Americans aren't going to vote for him. Also, despite everything isn't America doing really well economically, so it feels like the stimulus for chaotic change is perhaps lessened.


Can't speak to the margins, but wasn't Trump massive favourite right up until he went full loon on Covid? That isn't an issue now.

[Don]

You sound like you'd cry if someone played the 'Got your Nose' trick on you to this day if you believe that.

It's not about the veracity of the statement but if you want to compare on that front, once again Trump > Biden.

[Yevrah]

Young dynamic go getter, Donald Trump.

It's basically a choice between an OAP riddled with Alzheimer's and an absolute psychopath, so not particularly great whichever way you cut it. How the hell it's got to that, two elections running, is the real question. Our system imploded because everyone even vaguely competent in government legged it after brexit/the other parties held a useless position, what's the US's excuse?

[niko_cee]

Can't speak to the margins, but wasn't Trump massive favourite right up until he went full loon on Covid? That isn't an issue now.

He probably would have won without covid, but that's because he was incumbent, things weren't that bad and he wasn't going to be facing some sort of paradigm shifting dynamo, quite the opposite. Now you have a different incumbent, albeit an uninspiring one, the country is doing well even if the world is falling apart around them, and Trump is an actual avowed on record maniac.

[Yevrah]

He probably would have won without covid, but that's because he was incumbent, things weren't that bad and he wasn't going to be facing some sort of paradigm shifting dynamo, quite the opposite. Now you have a different incumbent, albeit an uninspiring one, the country is doing well even if the world is falling apart around them, and Trump is an actual avowed on record maniac.

That's as maybe, but he's going to go in so hard on Biden being unfit mentally to govern that Joe won't know what day it is, if that isn't the case already.

And I know people don't like to admit this (as if doing so somehow absolves Trump of all his other crimes, it doesn't) but he's incredible at appealing to people. I mean, look at this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmNvpwAWR0

It's outstanding.

[randomlegend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmNvpwAWR0

It's outstanding.

Outstanding :D

Maybe to 9 year olds.

[Yevrah]

Outstanding :D

Maybe to 9 year olds.

You see, you're doing exactly what the left do, which is to write something off as they don't understand it or it doesn't appeal to them, completely ignoring the millions upon millions of people (who crucially are also voters) that it does appeal to. It's an incredibly dangerous approach and leads to bad outcomes. If recent past history is anything to go by too then they never seem to learn from this either. In a country that's full of tub thumping, flag carrying patriots, a scene like the one in that video is a massive vote winner.

People can deny that all they want, but it's true and they'll lose again by doing so.

[Yevrah]

Trump changed how politics worked in the US, now I'm sure most of us and a lot of Americans too would love it to go back to the way it worked before (and it may well do if/when he's served his 2nd term) but that's not the situation they face now and you simply have to play the cards you're dealt if you want to win. Not doing so is simply being shit at the game you're in.

[niko_cee]

He's a showman, and if he could run the same campaign as he ran in 2020 in a now covid free environment I'd say he'd be in with a good chance, but all of the insurrection stuff, all of the court scandals regardless of their merit, all of the righteous vengeance stuff is just going to have put too many people off, particularly if most Americans/middle America aren't doing too bad under sleepy Joe.

[Boydy]

He probably would have won without covid, but that's because he was incumbent, things weren't that bad and he wasn't going to be facing some sort of paradigm shifting dynamo, quite the opposite. Now you have a different incumbent, albeit an uninspiring one, the country is doing well even if the world is falling apart around them, and Trump is an actual avowed on record maniac.

Inflation's still hit them and everyone feels poorer. And interest rates went up too.

Biden's senile which puts people off him and parts of the left aren't going to hold their nose and "vote blue no matter who" any more because of Israel/Gaza.

[Kikó]

Trump is not banter really, he wants to dismantle US democracy and tbf, in a well functioning democracy he wouldn't be able to run considering he led an insurrection last time. But ultimately, Biden and Trump are both ancient and shouldn't be deciding the next 5 years of American policy - they could take a leaf from the French book.

[niko_cee]

Taking a leaf out of the French political handbook is probably the worst advice imaginable unless all you're after is machination, intrigue and backstabbing.

Look at the ongoing bantz between them and your adopted mob. It's like the ERM and the fight for control of the Bundesbank all over again. Germany to lose, again, whilst footing the bill for everything.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Biden will easily win pop vote but Trump could take the college anyway.

As for France, putting the 30 something gay mafia in charge strikes me as a good way to ensure FN victory next time, or whatever they're called now. En Marche! is a good fascist party name but that's Macron's lot.

[Kikó]

Still, at least Marine isn't 90 years old.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Trump is the odds on favourite right now.

[Disco]

If you're critical of Bidens age and mental faculties, which is fair enough, then you also have to look at Mr Woman Man Camera TV, fat fuck centaur dude in the same way. At which point you take the slightly doddery old guy over the obese head case.

[Yevrah]

I mean, as a voter you can do absolutely anything you like, no matter the rationale. If one even exists.

[Kikó]

Exactly. There's 3 years between them and Trump is misspeaks just as much as Biden. Despite the constant negative press, there are strong arguments to be made that Biden presidency has been massively successful.

[Don]

:lol:

[Pepe]

Do we need a new one of these?


https://youtu.be/BMWN0lEEpJs?si=9Xq7Jk8QuCzbXIju

:D

That's so good. :D

[Pepe]

Trump is not banter really, he wants to dismantle US democracy

Lmao.

[Kikó]

Good input.

[Spikey M]

Good input.

Lmao.

[Lewis]

I'd vote for Trump. If there's no good options, you may aswell just vote for the funniest possible outcome.

1743750274802397425

[Lofty]

The seethe if Trump dies before Biden :D

[niko_cee]

:D

9 months of absolute gold ahoy.


The seethe if Trump dies before Biden :D

Cage match!

[Spikey M]

He's just ridiculously likeable for an absolute scumbag.

[randomlegend]

Lmao.

What is "lmao" here? He literally tried to ignore/overturn an election result and just stay in power. Then incited an insurrection.

[Spikey M]

Lmao.

[Pepe]

He is not some mastermind trying to "dismantle democracy," whatever that might mean. He is just some idiot having a banter and loving the attention.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Think there are probably quite a few FSB men in his entourage, but he himself is just a rich prat who thinks (largely correctly) that he can do what he likes.

[Pepe]

Like, when a footballer/manager blames the referee for a loss, he is not trying to dismantle the rules of the game or overthrow FIFA or whatever. He is just salty that he lost. It was the same for Trump.

[Shindig]

There will never be another Trump, will there? His kids aren't on his level and whoever the Elephants pick next won't hold a candle to his car-salesman shithousery.

[Spikey M]

I can't work out if the trolling is just him being him or if he has just worked out the best way to appeal to young(er predominantly) men that don't normally bother voting.

[Lewis]

He is not some mastermind trying to "dismantle democracy," whatever that might mean. He is just some idiot having a banter and loving the attention.

Hypothetically, had the 'insurgents' taken over that building, then what? Would every state and institution have just shrugged and confirmed him the winner?

[Spikey M]

The Blue Hairs would have marched on them and there would have been the funniest civil war in history.

[Shindig]

He's turned it up. Probably something he's picked up from The Apprentice and ran with.

[Shindig]

The Blue Hairs would have marched on them and there would have been the funniest civil war in history.

Long live the covfeferacy.

[7om]

There will never be another Trump, will there? His kids aren't on his level and whoever the Elephants pick next won't hold a candle to his car-salesman shithousery.

Truly wouldn’t surprise me if the Trump faithful turned to Donald Trump Jr. He’s equally as mental as his father so can see it happening.

[Lofty]

Trump has charisma though, I think he genuinely has the ability to sway people in person because it's the only way he is able to keep stabbing people in the back after convincing them to bat for him. It can't be complete idiots all the way down.

I don't think his kids do, Ivanka has the most and that is just she is bangable, endorsed by her dad.

[randomlegend]

He is not some mastermind trying to "dismantle democracy," whatever that might mean. He is just some idiot having a banter and loving the attention.

Nobody said anything about him being a "mastermind". He's an idiot, but he's a dangerous idiot.

[Pepe]

There will never be another Trump, will there?

Probably not. Has there been anyone comparable? Chavez might come close, with his hours-long radio shows and whatnot, but then he started as a military man, not as a reality tv host. I think Tronald will be a one of a kind.

[Disco]

What I've never understood is what people see in him that makes them think that's the guy I want in charge of everything. He can't run a business, has the attention span of a toddler and spends half his life being average at golf. And that's before you get to his character, which is appalling. I can't see how anyone can look at him and think he cares about anyone's interest but his own which he has demonstrated a million times over. You'd like to think it isn't just his racism and misogyny that people have latched onto but if not that then what?

[Lofty]

The wider electorate maybe but he is an elite conman, as I said earlier I think one on one he would probably con a lot of people as just him being mental is quite disarming. I heard a podcast about some Aussie con man and people said he was like an illusionist that it worked if he focused on you but if you were spectating it you could see the con.

Trump has managed to distill his con for the masses, probably because he managed to convince a lot of those people through decades of being percieved as the world's go to rich guy (even Hollywood was once endorsing this, not just Home Alone 2 but Die Hard 3 - 'and I'm gonna marry Donald Trump!'). His brand is success and even though it's been exposed as fur coat and no knickers people don't care, a bit like how the guy from Catch Me If You Can was be proven to be full of shit and yet still gets booked to tell everyone his lies anyway.

It seems a calculated election move that the Republican southern states have been bussing border migrants to the northern states to increase pressure on the white house, who better to stop this than 'the wall guy' if that's your key issue?

I also think yanks are far less cynical and therefore more susceptible to this kind of hustle. A lad I know with no prospects or qualifications of note hustled his way over of the back of a one night stand and managed to get married, get a green card and get a job based on a presumably false CV because he is pretty senior at an IT company now. His brother has even gone over and repeated the trick. These are guys who were lolled out of interviews and rejected by any woman with half a brain here but they go over there and people just accept what they are saying without question.

[Boydy]

Yeah, they are a nation of bullshitters and they all believe each other's bullshit.

[Raoul Duke]

He's not a "con man" really. He's just proving how impossible it is to fail if you're given a load of money.

[Pepe]

Other millionaires have tried running with comparably laughable results.

[Lofty]

Other millionaires/billionaires would kill to be as popular as he is. Musk especially. Especially when there is a lot of evidence suggesting Trump was never really as rich as he claimed and a lot of his business deals and acquisitions were the rich guy equivalent of kiting cheques.

A bit like how Forbes described being invited over to the Kardashian mansion for soapy titwanks if they endorsed Kylie Jenner as the world's youngest self made billionaire and concluded afterwards there was a lot of accounting smoke and mirrors involved.