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This is Trump without the makeup, this is what he will look like in prison, minus the 'make assholes get attorneys' cap.

 

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I don't know what looks most artificial, the bare faced walking dead like Trump or the muddy brown Trump. But no matter what the idiot looks like it's still same old.

 

'Trump posts "72 hours until all hell breaks loose" ahead of hush money trial'

 

Same thing again, "people are extremely angry"

 

The only one extremely angry is Trump, and no gives enough of a flying to do anything. It's an attempt to replicate Jan 6th, "going to be wild, be there" which was an attempt to block the transfer of power.

 

This is a last ditch attempt to prevent this trial starting but will probably amount to nothing and just make him look even more of a complete tit.

 

Even the dumbest of the dumb trumpets now know starting riots for Trump he would never do himself and would never do for you gets you real jailtime. The very definition of all hell breaking loose, for you, you're going to Rikers.

 

 

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There has to be a response to the Iranian attack on Israel. Biden came out and said don’t you dare, they dared.

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On 13/04/2024 at 00:58, JFK-1 said:

This is Trump without the makeup, this is what he will look like in prison, minus the 'make assholes get attorneys' cap.

 

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I don't know what looks most artificial, the bare faced walking dead like Trump or the muddy brown Trump. But no matter what the idiot looks like it's still same old.

 

'Trump posts "72 hours until all hell breaks loose" ahead of hush money trial'

 

Same thing again, "people are extremely angry"

 

The only one extremely angry is Trump, and no gives enough of a flying to do anything. It's an attempt to replicate Jan 6th, "going to be wild, be there" which was an attempt to block the transfer of power.

 

This is a last ditch attempt to prevent this trial starting but will probably amount to nothing and just make him look even more of a complete tit.

 

Even the dumbest of the dumb trumpets now know starting riots for Trump he would never do himself and would never do for you gets you real jailtime. The very definition of all hell breaking loose, for you, you're going to Rikers.

 

 

Trump has such disdain for the American Justice system and American democracy.   Almost as much as the disdain he has for his own MAGA supporters.

 

Widespread use of "plants"  behind him at speeches ("Blacks for Trump") - and now this (ahem) "random" black girl showing up and getting a hug (yuck) from the orange slimeball.

 

 

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8 hours ago, Lone Striker said:

Trump has such disdain for the American Justice system and American democracy.   Almost as much as the disdain he has for his own MAGA supporters.

 

Widespread use of "plants"  behind him at speeches ("Blacks for Trump") - and now this (ahem) "random" black girl showing up and getting a hug (yuck) from the orange slimeball.

 

 


So Trump hugging a black person goes viral. That doesn’t surprise me, it’s akin to Hitler hugging a Jew, which would also ‘go viral’

 

But we would always know it was a setup, like this was.

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Lone Striker

Is it just  co-incidence that these 2 racists look vaguely similar ?

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Both racists, both dangerous political thugs, both pretending to advocate democracy while actively doing their best to subvert it.

 

Main  difference is that one is Russian, the other is American.

 

Our guy was a nutjob too, but not in the same league as Putin and Miller

 

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This won’t end well for Trump. This is a low IQ with toddler like patience. Let’s see the low IQ toddler sit quietly in a court room all day for weeks.

 

That  would be an ordeal for a toddler and for Trump too.

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Mikey1874

Re above its a high standard. Anyone with a hint of maybe possibly disliking or being a fan of Trump will be rejected. 

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Hard to find an open and unbiased jury when it comes to the most divisive figure in US history, likes.

 

Can we not just let ChatGPT do it?

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Mysterion
4 hours ago, Footballfirst said:

Seems more "sleepy Don" than "sleepy Joe"

 

 

 

Read that when leaving the court he stared out Haberman for this piece of reporting.  Clearly touched a nerve. 😆

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I think we're going to see a lot of Trump falling asleep in courtrooms. Trump has an exceedingly short attention span and that's for anything he has an actual interest in at all.

Now while you would think he would have a great interest in this case, most normal people in his position would, he's entirely uninterested, not listening and bored. Not that him taking an interest would change anything, this is an open and shut case and if his lawyers haven't told him that they're being unprofessional.

Some discussion here of Trump falling asleep, apparently he was really almost gone, the judge called for a break presumably to make sure everybody was awake.

Incidentally afterwards Trump whined that the judge wouldn't let him skip the trial to see his sons high school graduation. The same son who was being born while Trump was romping with Stormy Daniels, what a coincidence.

 

 

 

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Seymour M Hersh
15 hours ago, SwindonJambo said:

For the 1st time in many months, Biden is now the bookies' favourite by a nose, after lagging the toddler by a distance at times. 

 

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics

 

Trump is well ahead of Biden in 5 of 6 key swing States. Biden ahead in 1 by 1 point. 

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il Duce McTarkin
3 hours ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Trump is well ahead of Biden in 5 of 6 key swing States. Biden ahead in 1 by 1 point. 

 

Trumpy is going to skoosh this election.

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Watt-Zeefuik
4 hours ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Trump is well ahead of Biden in 5 of 6 key swing States. Biden ahead in 1 by 1 point. 

I will be back on my hobbyhorse that polls right now are largely meaningless. People are not paying attention to the election right now.

 

Obviously it's better to be ahead than behind by the margin of error for an April poll predicting November results is about +-10 percentage points, and that's on the conservative side..

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Watt-Zeefuik

Calls his opponent "Sleepy Joe."

 

Falls asleep in his own criminal trial.

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Seymour M Hersh
1 hour ago, Watt-Zeefuik said:

I will be back on my hobbyhorse that polls right now are largely meaningless. People are not paying attention to the election right now.

 

Obviously it's better to be ahead than behind by the margin of error for an April poll predicting November results is about +-10 percentage points, and that's on the conservative side..

 

But bookies odds are okay? 🤷‍♂️

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Watt-Zeefuik
24 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

But bookies odds are okay? 🤷‍♂️

 

I mean it's all "okay" because chatting about this on JKB is all just for shits and giggles anyway, but at the very least whoever's going to the bookies right now is actually trying to make a call about who's going to win in November, rather than just measuring the vibes right now.

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Mikey1874
3 hours ago, Watt-Zeefuik said:

I will be back on my hobbyhorse that polls right now are largely meaningless. People are not paying attention to the election right now.

 

Obviously it's better to be ahead than behind by the margin of error for an April poll predicting November results is about +-10 percentage points, and that's on the conservative side..

 

Polls say Trump loses with a criminal conviction. 

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6 jurors including foreperson agreed. 

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Watt-Zeefuik

"DJT" stock for Truth social down 75% from its peak last week. Closing down again today at $22 and still falling in after hours trading.

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Bigsmak

I hear rumours that he might be charged with Securities fraud as he has lied about the truth social company.  Its the first time he has a public traded one so he's never been in trouble with this before. 

 

That would be hilarious! 

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Mikey1874
1 hour ago, Mikey1874 said:

6 jurors including foreperson agreed. 

 

Who is the foreperson tasked with leading the jury?

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Kayla Epstein

Reporting from court

The foreperson in this historic trial of an American president is actually from... Ireland.

A foreperson is the lead juror charged with overseeing jury deliberations.

The juror, who now lives in Harlem, said he works in sales and previously worked as a waiter.

He is married and likes to spend his spare time outdoors.

It just goes to show that New Yorkers can come from all over the world.

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It's almost comical that Trump is such a buffoon and doesn't know it. I can't remember which but either the Mueller investigation or the impeachment trial for trying to strong arm Ukraine into telling lies for aid.

 

Trump wanted to testify because he doesn't know he's a total idiot and thinks he's a great speaker people will be persuaded by. No comprehension that you're not going to persuade a normally functioning adult with piles of fantasy shite, this is a rally. The lawyers managed to convince him otherwise and he apparently said to them "you don't think i'm a good witness"

 

Seems what he had said while they were trying to prep him would have landed him in jail inside 5 minutes if he had said it to a judge, and Trump is too dumb to know it. I have always said keep Trump talking, the moron will fess up to everything if you just let him ramble.

 

He's such a weirdo he said outside the court today the judge is a Trump hater which may actually be true. But even if so is irrelevant, the judge is a credible professional analysing evidence, Trump a fanatsising moron.

 

It's like Ted Bundy saying this judge doesn't like me, you can't try me unless you find a judge who is a Bundy fan. Trump too dumb to get the absurdity.

 

Trump accidentally CONFESSES to his OWN crime at trial

 

 

 

 

 

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Getting him on the witness stand has always been the key.

That idiot will talk himself into jail.

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Watt-Zeefuik

RIP to former Senator Bob Graham. Probably should have been the 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee, and probably would have won. An always grounded but still fierce critic of the Iraq War.

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Malinga the Swinga

I have no idea if Trump will win next election but I did hear that this trial is likely the only one that will go ahead prior to election taking place.

Presumably Trump will, if he wins election, put a halt to the other trials therefore does this one take on greater importance as it would be only one where he cannot bluster his way out of trouble by shouting and abusing his detractors?

If he takes the stand, I'd make effort to watch his testimony as it would not only be a historical moment in history but could be one of funniest moments on TV ever.

If he gets found not guilty, and it is possible, see the OJ case, then his momentum to election could be unstoppable. If he's found guilty, opposite is true.

Don't envy the jurors tbh.

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Ulysses
23 hours ago, Jim_Duncan said:

There isn’t enough popcorn in all the world for November. 

 

"I'm a Palestinian American and I'm gonna help hand the keys to the White House to Donald Trump in November.  And there's plenty of others just like me."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/17/as-a-palestinian-american-i-cant-vote-for-joe-biden-any-more-and-i-am-not-alone?CMP=share_btn_url

 

 

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Ulysses
33 minutes ago, Jim_Duncan said:

Twenty years ago I got a round of applause from a group of students at an American university when I suggested Americans need to focus less on the first and more on the second part of their hyphenated national identities. Those students were mainly of Hispanic origin. 

 

It's an odd thing, and it almost certainly derives from the fact that America is a country of immigrants and the descendants of immigrants. 

 

One way or another, when it comes to excuses or reasons for handing the White House to Donald Trump, empathy for Palestinians was not on my bingo card.

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The likelihood of Trump being jailed for contempt of court is greatly increasing, Glenn Kirschner thinks this judge will jail him before this trial is over. But Kirschner also thinks Trump is angling to be jailed, because it suits the victim card Trump tries to play plus it's another reason to ask for money.

 

Trump has now begun abusing the jurors before they're even all seated. Trump hating liars all of them, which he posted on his troof soshul after some Fox pundit told a lie about the jurors. and I wouldn't be surprised if he actually outs one of them despite the fact they have a privacy guarantee, his lawyers know who they are so will he through them.

 

Standard mob strategy of intimidating witnesses and jurors. Though even the mob typically don't try to go after judges and prosecutors plus their families, Trump does. And the mob typically don't have a mainstream TV channel making up their lies and disseminating it for them. Trump does.

 

 

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Maple Leaf
4 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

The likelihood of Trump being jailed for contempt of court is greatly increasing, Glenn Kirschner thinks this judge will jail him before this trial is over. But Kirschner also thinks Trump is angling to be jailed, because it suits the victim card Trump tries to play plus it's another reason to ask for money.

 

Trump has now begun abusing the jurors before they're even all seated. Trump hating liars all of them, which he posted on his troof soshul after some Fox pundit told a lie about the jurors. and I wouldn't be surprised if he actually outs one of them despite the fact they have a privacy guarantee, his lawyers know who they are so will he through them.

 

Standard mob strategy of intimidating witnesses and jurors. Though even the mob typically don't try to go after judges and prosecutors plus their families, Trump does. And the mob typically don't have a mainstream TV channel making up their lies and disseminating it for them. Trump does.

 

 

Does anyone actually believe that this is Presidential behavior? I can well imagine what this bitter, twisted individual will be like if he ever gets back into the White House.  It will be ugly.

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2 hours ago, Maple Leaf said:

Does anyone actually believe that this is Presidential behavior? I can well imagine what this bitter, twisted individual will be like if he ever gets back into the White House.  It will be ugly.

Unfortunately, Trump's unpresidential  behaviour is what has attracted a lot of his supporters in the 1st place. 

 

 

 

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Watt-Zeefuik

Ukraine aid may finally be moving, as of Saturday. In response, the most unhinged of the far right in the GOP House caucus are throwing the kitchen sink at stopping it, including a very likely motion to vacate the chair of the Speaker (again!).

 

Republicans, who have slowly made their entire party identity down to nothing except that everything that Democrats want is wrong, are starting to make private entreaties to Democrats as to what it would take to save Johnson. Jeffries has made it clear that in order to get Democratic votes, the Speaker has to share some small but meaningful amount of power with them, which is a non-starter in the current GOP's fevered state.

 

I have no idea how this ends and seemingly neither do people who are normally good at this sort of thing. But Johnson, to his (very small) credit, seems like he's done with dancing to the wingnuts' tune.

 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house-installs-new-speaker-yolo-johnson/sharetoken/xZyvtn87IReB

 

 

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cosanostra

Is he still denying even putting away Stormy Daniels in the first place? When this trial starts and he swears on the bible or whatever they do, won't he be perjering himself and open to all other kinds of criminal action?

Surely the first question will be putting up a photo of Stormy and asking "did you hit that bro?" but in legalese.

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Ulysses
3 hours ago, cosanostra said:

Surely the first question will be putting up a photo of Stormy and asking "did you hit that bro?" but in legalese.

 

:laugh:

 

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Canscot
7 hours ago, cosanostra said:

Is he still denying even putting away Stormy Daniels in the first place? When this trial starts and he swears on the bible or whatever they do, won't he be perjering himself and open to all other kinds of criminal action?

Surely the first question will be putting up a photo of Stormy and asking "did you hit that bro?" but in legalese.

I hope they ask her if there are any identifying marks below his waist that only someone who has been intimate🤢 with him, would know about. Then the judge forces him to drop his drawers in court to see if she is telling the truth😂

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il Duce McTarkin
7 hours ago, cosanostra said:

Is he still denying even putting away Stormy Daniels in the first place? When this trial starts and he swears on the bible or whatever they do, won't he be perjering himself and open to all other kinds of criminal action?

Surely the first question will be putting up a photo of Stormy and asking "did you hit that bro?" but in legalese.

 

:lol:

 

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All roads lead to Gorgie
44 minutes ago, Canscot said:

I hope they ask her if there are any identifying marks below his waist that only someone who has been intimate🤢 with him, would know about. Then the judge forces him to drop his drawers in court to see if she is telling the truth😂

I think everything below Trump's waist will be put under the microscope, literally 😉

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Bigsmak
1 hour ago, All roads lead to Gorgie said:

I think everything below Trump's waist will be put under the microscope, literally 😉

He would have to take his nappy off...  They best of Nappy's - Everyone says Trump only has the best Nappys - all the people, they want the nappys, but they cant have them.  He knew a man who was a cowboy and he knew about nappys.  I think he might have taught Clint Eastwood everything he knows.  What happened to him, sad, so sad.  

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Maple Leaf
2 hours ago, Canscot said:

I hope they ask her if there are any identifying marks below his waist that only someone who has been intimate🤢 with him, would know about. Then the judge forces him to drop his drawers in court to see if she is telling the truth😂

I have a vague memory of her saying something about his, er, anatomy a couple of years ago and said it resembled a mushroom.  Take your choice:

 

Mushroom Images – Browse 1,815,253 Stock Photos, Vectors ...

 

 

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Watt-Zeefuik
49 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

I have a vague memory of her saying something about his, er, anatomy a couple of years ago and said it resembled a mushroom.  Take your choice:

 

Mushroom Images – Browse 1,815,253 Stock Photos, Vectors ...

 

 

But to verify that would require him to stand at attention, as it were, and that's going to be impossible as I think it's against US policy to force a defendant to take medication.

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10 hours ago, cosanostra said:

Is he still denying even putting away Stormy Daniels in the first place? When this trial starts and he swears on the bible or whatever they do, won't he be perjering himself and open to all other kinds of criminal action?

Surely the first question will be putting up a photo of Stormy and asking "did you hit that bro?" but in legalese.


:laugh:

 

 

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Watt-Zeefuik

The foreign aid bills get through the procedural hurdles and make it to the House floor tomorrow for a vote, with Democrats lending rare votes to pass the rule out of the Ways and Means Committee. These votes are normally formalities, as it's just about what the terms of debate are going to be on the House floor, and by tradition all of the majority party vote for it and the minority party vote against it and it sets the stage for the actual debate and everyone goes on with their lives. But the wingnuts revolted and refused to pass it, meaning Johnson had to come to the Democrats for help, which in this case they did.

 

The first three bills at least are widely expected to pass the House tomorrow and are close enough to bills the Senate already passed that, barring crazy last minute changes, they will likely be directly approved then passed on to Biden, who has already said he'll sign them.

 

Ukraine aid is finally back on.

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Mikey1874

Fair play. Both sides conducted themselves quite reasonably. See what happens next week.

 

 

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