Trump's Card

[ad hoc]

I just want him to spend the rest of his life in jail. And not die any time soon. (his offspring need to be inside too, because that seems like it would cause him pain)

[Renart]

That would be nice, but it's hard for me to believe it will happen. We don't often punish the rich and powerful in this country, no matter what they do.

[WOM]

I'm still amazed they haven't found some compassionate reason to spring Phil Spector yet.


[Meant haven't and wrote have]

[Renart]

Phil made the mistake of having weird hair in court. Unforgivable.

[WOM]

They couldn't even bring themselves to trouble Robert Blake with a conviction.

[ad hoc]

Martha Stewart spent time inside (didn't she?)

(Dunno if she counts as powerful, but she sounded old money)

[WOM]

Yeah, she did a 5-month stretch in a tennis camp. Her biggest 'penalty' was what it cost her empire.

[ursus arctos]

An additional factor to consider with regard to 45 is that there is genuine doubt as to whether a sitting President can be indicted, let alone convicted, let alone jailed.

[WOM]

Hence the clamour for a Creo-splosion or even spontaneous human combustion*.




* may or may not actually be a thing.

[Lang Spoon]

Dying of a hemorrhage pulling one off in the Oval Office would be nice and undignified. Spooge and blood all over the desk. Bet that’s what really took Warren G Harding.

[Renart]

Martha Stewart spent time inside (didn't she?)

(Dunno if she counts as powerful, but she sounded old money)

Yes, true, and that was a surprise. The system has to claim a scalp now and then.

But she's just rich, not powerful, and not old money, really. (Middle-class Polish girl, née Martha Kostyra, from Jersey City.)

Anyway, I'm not saying Trump in jail is an impossibility. I just think it's highly unlikely. Sad!

[SouthdownRebel]

On the other hand, could he be easily goaded into being fired out of a cannon?

[Amor de Cosmos]

David Frum's compendium of fucked-up appointments (and non-appointments) is both depressing and extremely worrying. I didn't know, for example, that no ambassador to Germany had been appointed yet. I mean WTF doesn't even begin to cover it.

[Renart]

On the other hand, could he be easily goaded into being fired out of a cannon?

We need to get Obama to say that Trump is too chicken to fire himself out of a cannon.

[Renart]

No ambassador to Germany, and the ambassador to Panama has resigned because he can't work with the Trump administration. (No big deal, though, I'm sure. What role could tiny Panama possibly play in the world economy?)

And the ambassador to The Netherlands just keeps getting hilariously grilled by the Dutch press over stupid remarks he made.

[MsD]

It's starting to be fun, as long as it doesn't go on too long.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Given who he entertained, and given that he's a fucking billionaire, i shudder to think of the scale of depravity Jeffrey epstein must have been caught at in order to go to jail.

[Lurgee]

It's starting to be fun, as long as it doesn't go on too long.

Oddly, I've just reached the point where I want it over.

It's like he is trying to find out what he needs to do to get fired.

[Incandenza]

Today's news is that Trump paid hush money to a porn star in 2016 to keep her quiet about an affair he had with her years earlier, right after he married Melania.

[Renart]

Today's news is that Trump paid hush money to a porn star in 2016 to keep her quiet about an affair he had with her years earlier, right after he married Melania.

Classy!

This will surely make the white evangelicals who have supported him so fervently reconsider...

[San Bernardhinault]

While I know it's all the rage to think about the appropriate death for 45, I'd be just as happy for him to lose his job and money and fame and have to live out his remaining days somewhere nobody knew or cared who he was because he was broke and useless. Perhaps in one of those condemned houses in urban Detroit that you can buy for $10,000.

The people who really, really deserve long, nasty, excrutiatingly painful and utterly debilitating diseases, are all of his enablers, people who aren't as utterly fucking thick as 45 is, but have helped him and gone along with him in order to further themselves. Paul Ryan with ALS, Mike Pence with Smallpox, rapid onset Huntingdon's disease for Jeff Sessions, and so on.

[ursus arctos]

*Like*

[G-Man]

I love Botswana so fucking much right now. Their government has summoned the US ambassador to explain whether the US President regards Botswana as a shithole.

This is from the Botswana government's Twitter account:

[Sits]

Oh I'm re-tweeting that, wonderful.

[Satchmo Distel]

How long will it take for the US to recover its international prestige from this toxic, racist Presidency?