Let's talk about Trump

tempogain · July 9, 2021, 3:42pm

Jaysus. What did he do exactly?

jdsmith · July 9, 2021, 5:33pm

Blackmail mostly.

tempogain · July 9, 2021, 5:34pm

I got that part

jdsmith · July 9, 2021, 5:36pm

Mr. Avenatti’s conduct was outrageous,” said Judge Paul Gardephe said in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where he also sentenced Avenatti to three years of supervised release.

’He hijacked his client’s claims, and he used him to further his own agenda, which was to extort Nike millions of dollars for himself.”

“He outright betrayed his client,” Gardephe said.

“Mr. Avenatti had become drunk on the power of his platform, or what he perceived the power of his platform to be.”

Apparently, this behavior is frowned upon.

tempogain · July 9, 2021, 11:59pm

I read that too Was wondering if anyone knew more about specifics off hand.

Dr_Milker · July 10, 2021, 6:36am

https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1413252561449193481

Dr_Milker · July 10, 2021, 2:00pm

Mick · July 12, 2021, 10:12am

A tale of two polls,

Lisa Murkowski at 6% with Republicans, that’s pretty lousy.

In other news Youtube banned an account for running a speech where Trump talks about Youtube being sued for censorship. Seems like a bold strategy from Youtube.

In a statement, ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp said the group learned that its account had been frozen for seven days over a video from Friday in which Mr. Trump announces his class-action lawsuit against the Silicon Valley titans such as Google and YouTube.

Dr_Milker · July 13, 2021, 4:47pm

https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/author-of-the-mega-viral-thread-on

NOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD: On Friday, a relatively obscure Twitter user with fewer than 7,000 followers — posting under the pseudonym MartyrMade — posted one of the most mega-viral threads of the year. Over the course of thirty-five tweets, the writer, a podcast host whose real name is Darryl Cooper, set out to explain the mindset that has led so many Trump supporters to believe that the 2020 election was fraudulent and, more generally, to lose faith and trust in most U.S. institutions of authority.

Numerous journalists, including me, promoted the thread as one of the most insightful analyses yet published explaining the animating convictions underlying the MAGA movement. That night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted a seven-minute segment to doing nothing more than reading Cooper’s thread. At the CPAC conference on Sunday, former President Donald Trump explicitly recommended the thread using Cooper’s name. In the last four days, Cooper’s Twitter account has gained more than 70,000 followers. Clearly, this thread resonated strongly with that political faction as a true and important explanation of how many MAGA voters have come to understand the world.

For our Outside Voices freelance section, we asked Cooper to elaborate on his influential thread, with a focus on what led him to these observations about prevailing MAGA sentiments and why he believes they are important for people to understand. As Cooper notes, he does not share all of the perceptions and beliefs he is conveying, although he shares many of them. Instead, based on the recognition that most media outlets are incapable of understanding let alone accurately describing the views of a group of people they view with little more than unmitigated contempt, condescension and scorn, he believes it is imperative that people understand the actual reality of what is motivating so many Trump voters in their views, perceptions and beliefs — regardless of whether each particular belief is accurate or not.

We also believe this understanding is vital, which is why we are happy to publish Cooper’s essay. It should go without saying that, as it true of all of our articles published on Outside Voices – which we treat as an op-ed page – our publishing of this article does not signify agreement with all of its claims, but only our belief that it is a viewpoint worth airing.

jdsmith · July 14, 2021, 1:36am

Democrats may not have noticed all the work Republicans did for the black community, but black voters sure did. Between 2016 and 2020, Trump doubled his support among black women and received almost 20 percent of the vote of black men. No other Republican has come close to these numbers for decades.

In spite of what you may hear, black people do not want open borders, we don’t want to defund the police, and we don’t want higher taxes and more spending.

Entrepreneurship, innovation, skills training, economic sustainability, and generational wealth creation are equally as important in the black community as in any other in America. That is what Republican policies delivered and it can be the foundation of a truly multicultural middle-class party for decades to come.

Belgian_Pie · February 12, 2022, 8:33am

We can update the names for Trump:

‘The Orange Shredder’
‘The Orange Flusher’

tempogain · March 12, 2022, 3:07am

Mithrandir · March 12, 2022, 3:52am

I like and respect Sullivan, but his premise here is pretty extraordinary, and none of the five examples he starts off the article come close to demonstrating it actually exists. They whole piece is a bit meandering and doesn’t really make a point, nonetheless demonstrate one.

MikeN1 · April 18, 2022, 2:35am

Easter greetings from President Biden and Donald Trump
Joe Biden:
“As we reflect today on Christ’s Resurrection, we are reminded that with faith, hope, and love — even death can be defeated. From our family to yours, we wish you hope, health, joy, and the peace of God, which passes all understanding. Happy Easter and may God bless and keep you.”

Donald Trump:
“Happy Easter to all including the Radical Left Maniacs who are trying everything to destroy our country. May they not succeed, but let them, nevertheless, be happy, healthy, wealthy and well!”

MikeN1 · April 18, 2022, 7:55am

And Donald Jr’s message from the Prince of Peace

MikeN1 · April 18, 2022, 8:01am

Don’t see this message was split off from the Happy Easter thread. Was it that while Biden’s message was perfectly appropriate, Trump’s was that of a self-centered partisan anti-Christ wacko?

tempogain · April 18, 2022, 8:13am

Well, you wouldn’t have posted about it otherwise, so, essentially yes. But really because it’s politics

jdsmith · April 18, 2022, 10:06am

Now the guy is wacko because he doesn’t believe in the invisible man what gonna save us all? Sher

Dr_Milker · April 18, 2022, 10:08am

TDS works in mysterious ways…

jdsmith · April 18, 2022, 10:13am

A not a peep about Omar’s race, culture and religious baiting.