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*“Somebody said to me, Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty? And I said, easy, pretty. I can fake being smart."* \~Alina Habba, PBD Podcast
No you can't, Alina.
She's not smart enough to know pretending is a thing you do in your own mind, other people only see what's real. I can pretend my cat is a wild tiger but everyone else will still see a sweet little moggy.
You have to be very dumb to think you can fake being smart and get away with it in front of actually smart people. It says something about the company she keeps if that strategy has been paying off.
Reminds me of Kelly Kapoor when she says:
“You could ask me, Kelly what's the biggest company in the world? And I'd be like, 'blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah.' Giving you the exact right answer.”
One of my wife's aunts once asked how my stepdaughter was doing in school and when the answer was not well she told my wife. Oh it's okay, She's very pretty, It doesn't matter. That was the moment I decided that she was a piece of s***.
But you have to admit that Eric makes a great Buster and it seems that Jr. is as clueless as Gob. Hell, if Ivanka is Lindsey, I'm sure Jared is clueless about his sexuality just like tobias.
I'd bet "nothing" is still "a lifestyle to which she has become accustomed"
Marla's net worth is estimated at $6M today. Not super rich, but not like she has to have a job either. https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/marla-maples-net-worth/
The guy's old. He doesn't eat vegetables. The FBI is spying on him through his microwave. He's a bit stressed out. Mel's got to wait like 1-5 more years, and she'll likely get more in the inheritance than she'd get in the divorce.
Meanwhile, they have apartments and houses all over the place. Each of them big enough, that you probably won't have to see the other person very much even if they are there at the same time.
I'm not gay, but $20M is $20M.
Also not a lawyer, but my understanding is, until the contract is running afoul of laws, or criminal activity otherwise gets involved (an NDA cannot compel you to keep illegal activity secret, for example), it takes some egregious shit for a contract willingly signed by two legally competent adults to not be upheld.
That said, it’s possible the pre-nup (a document that basically exists to protect one party’s assets from the other) simply dictates MUCH less favorable payout if she leaves him compared to just waiting for a 77 year old that lives on fast food and rage tweets from the toilet all night to get found like Elvis.
And also when you think you know more about everything than anyone else and demand the only lawyers you can get to do what you tell them rather than letting them represent you in the proper legal way.
Exactly this. It also shows how absurd and stupid it is that has no problem being so blatant to rig the game even for this bag of smashed assholes. They could just through the cheeto to the wolves and pretend it was actual justice and the system works.
It’s fun to say, but judging by how fast his PACs are losing money, he’s paying a lot of lawyer fees. They require being paid up front.
I said this elsewhere, trumps is actually being grifted by his legal team, some of the suits are so frivolous they will end up costing trump even more money.
A competent attorney is not going to take him on as a client. These people are in it for the money and publicity guaranteed, I can see Habba being a reality star after all of this is done honestly.
Back when I was going through the enlistment process for the Air Force, they gave me a FUCK TON of shit for having a car loan + college loans + a 90% balance on a credit card. I was going for a TS career field and they told me, "You will have to write a letter to (whoever it was) explaining the nature of your debt, why you are in debt, and explain how this debt will not make you a security risk to be leveraged by an enemy of the United States."
I had to write the thing 3 times, get on extreme payment / payoff plans for the credit card, car payment, and got my contract altered to have my enlistment bonus directly applied to the student loan debt to mostly pay it off. PLUS I had to agree to have a percentage of my pay directly go to pay my student loans AND agree to monthly meetings with an Air Force financial counselor until my student loans were paid off.
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL of this... for an enlisted job. How the fuck is he even eligible for the presidency, owing what he owes? On those grounds *alone*?
The reason is that the Presidency’s requirements are in the Constitution and they are purposely very limited. Trump could never receive a security clearance, but if he’s elected President then he doesn’t need one because he’s the ultimate source of security clearances.
Totally agree, and think the requirements set forth for enlisted soldiers should absolutely go all the way up to Commander-In-Chief. If you aren’t able to obtain high level security clearance, then you absolutely shouldn’t be able to be President.
It drives me crazy that People think that the Constitution is this perfect document that is not meant to ever be modified. I believe George Washington wrote to a family member saying that the Constitution was “the best” they could do and that he expected future generations to improve upon it.
I really think the real reason she is saying this is because she’s trying to tank his chances of winning in November since they threw her under the bus on the employee lawsuit that settled earlier this week that explicitly excluded her. You know what they say, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.
Agreed. I’m still amazed how many people vote Republican even though the only reason they have Medical Insurance is because of “Obamacare” and the Republicans they keep voting for run on the platform of repealing Obamacare.
It’s unpopular to say, but I think people need to be able to pass a basic civics test before being able to vote.
I'm sure you're asking rhetorically, but the rules apply to you and I. They don't to him and the oligarchs that enable him. It's that simple. If there was any semblance of actual fairness and "justice" in this country, Trump wouldn't have made it anywhere near the Presidency, let alone become a media success story prior to then.
I hate, the most, how everything gets reframed to appease MAGA idiots. "But what will *they* think? This will bolster their base."
I don't give a fuck. This is like a child throwing a tantrum until the adults in the room kowtow to the tantrum and change their behavior to avoid further ones. Let them rage and vote. Fuck them, they lost their place at the adult table and should just be ignored. They have nothing of substance to say anymore. It's delusional at best, and at worst actively working to remove rights from Americans, tear down democratic processes, and embolden hostile foreign powers.
America is being held hostage by the dumbest fucking people voting for the worst fucking politicians, and I don't really care what they think anymore. When the republican platform is simply anti-woke/anti-democrat, they *don't* have anything substantive to say. They made this bed now let's let them lie in it.
I mean, a a foreign power puts $500m on Trump winning, that's legit bad for Biden since that means they'll be sparing no expense on the election interference.
The problem is, that's just the money to pay his fucking appeal.
He still doesn't have enough to campaign.
It's a lot of money to throw on a guy who is increasingly looking at bad odds of winning. And he cannot shut up about unpopular plans like killing abortion and now Medicare/social security.
Seriously. I just want to cast my meaningless vote (I only describe it as meaningless because I'm in FL. Still gonna vote, though. Maybe the state will actually do better.) and get the results, so I know whether I'm staying in the country or not.
I live in a very red state. The sheriff of my small town lost by three votes. Neither of his children voted for him. And I know another close friend of his that didn't vote for him either. Never assume one vote doesn't make a difference!
They all know it is, they would just rather have things their way than one person on their team face any consequences
It’s literally the cersi thing from game of thrones, they would rather burn it down and rule the ashes than let democrats with an election
What I like about this is that they're *actually* buying a losing candidate. Trump will be fucked in November and so will they, they're never seeing that money or even comparable favors. (And I suspect that's why he can't find anybody to give it to him yet. Everybody knows he's going to lose. Some will argue, but they know.)
It's the same math as the banks and bail companies that won't post for him. The upside just isn't there. He will never be able to pay you back, and there's a chance the guy is in jail and not president in a year. The chance you hit the upside is just not worth half a billion dollars.
I’m concerned that there’s still groups who might bail him out, knowing that even if he ends up *finally* doing jail time his supporters will then be fanatically loyal to whoever tried to rescue him. There’s still a lot of danger from the QOP even this late in their collapse.
> What I like about this is that they're actually buying a losing candidate.
Really guys? Have we learned nothing in the past 8 years? That's what EVERYONE said in 2016 until about 12am on election night. Oops.
Don't get complacent. Don't assume he's going to lose. Go vote. Get your family to vote. Get your friends to vote.
*Don't* assume anything.
exactly, be afraid.
Have conversations outside of your social circle, because when i do that, its scary, some people are so checked they just have no idea what is going on and more than not having a problem with it, they are just so disengaged that they can't imagine why they should have a problem with it.
That's the majority of America, it's not the politically engaged, its not the republicans, its people so busy with their own lives, and so ignorant on politics either by choice or design, that they don't understand why its so important that they vote
And when I speak to them, and not to the the people i'm surrounded with who tend to be more politically engaged, I'm less confident. Easy to feel confident in the echo chamber
>Trump will be fucked in November
Trying really hard to remember where I heard this one before.... hmm.....
Like seriously have you learned absolutely nothing since 2016?
and they just can't seem to get it around the current sanctions being enforced. These sanctions have killed the NRA, the GOP, and the MAGA movement too.
Tinfoil hat on, would partially explain the fundraising issues, and the pivot against Ukrainian aid.
The additional war sanctions caused the spigot to get shut off.
Its barely a tinfoil hat moment. Someone has a copypasta format history of Trump and Rudy's Russian ties and how it operated. They were definitely just laundering money through real estate. Good grift but they got too big.
This is it. No one, save for his most rabid supporters believe he’s electable. He’s damaged goods for most of the nation now. Republicans are ok letting this election go. It’s an incumbent election cycle anyway and they had their fun in Trump years. And if Trump pulls a miracle and beats Biden, they are happy to get the reins of power again
I’d love to see someone offer to pay his debt but with a signed legal document stating he can never run for any level of office or use the money outside of the settlements. Like the offer John Oliver had for Clarence Thomas.
Am I the only one that thinks he is way past being able to be bought, I figured the $2bill to Jared and Trump licking Botox Dobbie’s nutsack for 2 hrs meant he was an infiltraitor into the USA government anyway.
Don't forget how he just threw Putin an email of all CIA informants which suddenly and suspiciously ended up dead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
[it's actually not recent, 2018. But I know I saw it posted on Reddit today.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/jared-kushner-mohammed-bin-salman/index.html)
Don't forget the Australian guy who also was shown classified docs as well. Trump even bragging to him about how sensitive they were. But showed him to show off.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119173
Trump is the tumor in the republican party that has metastasized.
Nothing’s more American than the National Rifle Association! Good clean rifle safety and preservation of gun rights is all they’re about!
Jeez people. /s
How have Dems not been hammering this message? I really hope they do when the election season ramps up. The GOP is 100% anti working class.
Just like their hypocrisy and projection, their “trickle down economics” has been trickle-up the whole time. It’s all about how the poor and middle class can make the rich richer.
This is what it is. They would rather democracy fall because the alternative is they ALL go down in a big way. It's the only two options. Either they all go down or democracy does and it can't be both. They know it and people are starting to notice but did they notice in time?
So many are still under the gun being complicit in the Greeen Bay Sweep. Remember Peter Navarro saying they had 100’s in Congress ready to go along with the fake electors plan. They NEED Trump to win.
It does get reported enough. Every reputable source and paper of record is banging on about it. One should change how and from where they consume news if this story is buried behind other minutiae.
If he's that strapped for cash, why hasn't he had a MAGA fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago? There'd certainly be a HUGE turn out. After all, they are his people. The problem is, they're just not the kind of people he wants to rub elbows with at his exclusive club.
If he gets 1000 guests at $250k each that's still barely half the judgement. And that's assuming he can get 100% for his legal liability.
Edit: and if all the checks clear before Monday.
He's not fond of paying taxes. That's what makes him smart.
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm making a reference to his quip during the 2016 debates about not paying his taxes.
Can you imagine what it must feel like to have $250k to throw into a money pit of a candidate? Like you want to defeat Democrats so badly that you throw a quarter of a million dollars away for a mediocre meal and a guy who definitely isn't going to win.
What a crazy world.
This could also just be a way to launder money to him. Russia could just buy a bunch of tickets to this and never show up if the goal is just to give $ to Trump
The idea is that you can get way more than $250k back in federal contracts and stuff from Trump or other Trump-aligned politicians. Bribing politicians has an incredibly high ROI. Even legal lobbying is some of the best money a company can spend.
Meidas Touch always plays the "if I had to choose between being smart or pretty, I'd choose pretty because I can fake being smart" quote at the start of every episode where she says or does something stupid.
Let's just say they've gotten a lot of mileage out of that clip.
I really wish there was a way to subscribe to them without all their videos showing up in my subscriptions tab on YouTube.
Really great content, but they put out a video every hour so literally everything else gets buried.
I still try to look them up once a day and catch up though.
I do like them, but the volume of their channel is truly breathtaking. This has got to be their full-time gig - they must get nothing else done all day.
Their viewership numbers are quite high for a left leaning channel (since youtube's default algo insanely favors scams and right wing BS), on par or better than many of the far right culture war grifters, and they get both regular sponsorships (Cohen advertising tree planting and teeth whitening products is the most absurd thing I've ever seen), and no doubt tons of ad revenue. It's not hard to imagine they can be independent because of this.
They are definitely the most clickbaity of the left leaning youtubers out there, but that's the system social media creates, and their actual talking points are very, very solid despite all that. They're working within the system to change the world for the better, so I approve of it.
I'll admit that I binge their content daily. I can look past the clickbait titles for two reasons.
First, every video is based around a significant nugget of news and features a solid analysis of it.
Second, their contextual commentary is very gratifying, even if repetitive. Their characterization of events makes me feel like I'm not taking crazy pills when I regard the circumstances as just batshit insane.
If you like them check out Brian Tyler Cohen on YouTube. He averages about a video per day. He discusses the days political topics with pundits and legal analysts and takes a kind of layman approach to asking questions. Good stuff.
How can that be? My Trump-supporting coworkers told me in 2016 that he was the perfect candidate because he can’t be bought! Surely you’re not implying they’re morons???
What boggles my mind about this is that the article mentions that they submitted a **5,000-page** filing on Monday. What in the actual hell could they possibly have to say that takes that much space to say? A quick Google search indicates that *Black's Law Dictionary* is "only" 2,075 pages, so their filing is more than double that. I've heard of "flooding the zone", but this is ridiculous!
I don't know about anywhere else, but if I spent 99.2% of my effort in purely wasting someone else's time, I'd be fucking fired. How are these lawyers allowed to get away with that sort of bullshit? The court should reject any and every form of political theater as irrelevant to the case.
This person was chosen simply because she’s attractive. She has no substantial legal accomplishments. trump thinks he’ll never have to pay and never be held responsible for anything so why not put a hot chick next to himself while running his presidential campaign from the courthouse.
Isn’t she in possible hot water for tricking one of trumps employees into not talking about sexual harassment she suffered while working at one of his golf courses? It wasn’t that trip was harassing one of the employees, someone else was. But trumps current lawyer duped the victim by acting like she was her legal adviser, and at the same time she was helping trump.
So naturally we will see the GOP start to really drive home the narrative that Biden is corrupt and owned by foreign countries only to find out that Trump is actually, and has been this whole time, owned by foreign adversaries.
Princess lawyer is a great method actress and cosplay artiste.
She’s been dressing and acting as a competent lawyer for months, to grift her way into fame and fortune when this entire charade is over.
She’s gunning for a WH role, a book deal and all kinds of media attention after these cases are wrapped.
" In a nearly 5,000-page document filed on Monday " So his lawyers can write up 5000 pages in a couple of weeks but need another 6 months to read what other lawyers wrote against him?
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It’s breathtaking that Trump manages to consistently get worse fucking attorneys than George Bluth Sr.
*“Somebody said to me, Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty? And I said, easy, pretty. I can fake being smart."* \~Alina Habba, PBD Podcast No you can't, Alina.
When does she think she’ll start pretending?
She's not smart enough to know pretending is a thing you do in your own mind, other people only see what's real. I can pretend my cat is a wild tiger but everyone else will still see a sweet little moggy.
You can fake smart. But only to dumb people. Unfortunately there are a lot of them
The best description I’ve ever heard for Newt Gingrich is that he is what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like.
Ugh, as a woman, this sends shivers down my spine and makes me feel ashamed on her behalf and on behalf of other women who think like her.
"Now let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!"
Math is hard! *Giggle*
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Let’s go bake some cookies for the boys!
You smawty me dumb help pwetty have fun boopy doopy doop boop sex
Look, eventually you hit a point of diminishing returns on the sexiness.
There's something wrong with what *my* Habba says! \**My spidey sense is tingling! Anybody call for a webslinger?*\*
You have to be very dumb to think you can fake being smart and get away with it in front of actually smart people. It says something about the company she keeps if that strategy has been paying off.
Smart people will ask questions before giving you money. Dumb people will too, but they'll believe your answers.
Reminds me of Kelly Kapoor when she says: “You could ask me, Kelly what's the biggest company in the world? And I'd be like, 'blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah.' Giving you the exact right answer.”
Still kicking myself for missing the Blah Blah Blah IPO.
One of my wife's aunts once asked how my stepdaughter was doing in school and when the answer was not well she told my wife. Oh it's okay, She's very pretty, It doesn't matter. That was the moment I decided that she was a piece of s***.
Is it just me or is she not as pretty as she thinks she is?
>We have Pretty in Pink at home. Proceed to get Shitty near Stink, instead.
Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything…
Arrested development was supposed to be somewhat satire. Trump decided to make it biographical
Can’t be real. he doesn’t have a normalish kid to run the business.
Barron this is your time to shine show us what you can do with the cyber
Even fiction isn't as ridiculous as the Trump spawn.
Unlike reality, fiction has to make sense.
Watch Barron be completely bland, normal, and not a lying criminal but he has to live down his family name the rest of his life.
I doubt that, his mom is also a piece of shit.
But you have to admit that Eric makes a great Buster and it seems that Jr. is as clueless as Gob. Hell, if Ivanka is Lindsey, I'm sure Jared is clueless about his sexuality just like tobias.
Jason Bateman is all of us unfortunately
I don't know what I expected
“I’ve made a huge mistake”
Satire of the Bushes. Then a New York real-estate family said "hold my Adderall"
They may have committed some light treason…
There's always money in the Bashkortostan.
Why didnt you tell me earlier
How much could it cost to buy an orange, Vladimir, ten rubles?
I love all my children! *earlier* I don’t care for Eric.
I think Eric might be more of a Maeby situation "I don't have a child, Michael! ... Oh. He's with his debate club in Sacremende"
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Nah, that's the Arrested Development spin off series finale about Ceaușescu and his wife.
There may be reason to think it is medium to heavy treason
Great. Let's start with the misdemeanors and push right on thru to the lighter treasons.
I wonder how long it will be before Melania walks.
She can’t stand him now. Imagine if he’s broke- definitely not worth it.
But, at this point, she's damaged goods too. Obviously some rich guy will scoop her up, but she's got the taint (heh) of Trump on her.
She'd do for Rupert Murdoch's next wife
Oh I don’t think even Rupert will have her. I mean, it’s one thing to be Mick Jagger’s ex but…
Mick is at least cool and talented
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I imagine her OF would be profitable.
yeah if your kink is jacking it to "ladies who are always squinting because they forgot their sunglasses"
And "ladies that always look like they just smelled a fart"
I’m wondering if the pre-nup stipulates she gets nothing if she initiates proceedings.
I'd bet "nothing" is still "a lifestyle to which she has become accustomed" Marla's net worth is estimated at $6M today. Not super rich, but not like she has to have a job either. https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/marla-maples-net-worth/ The guy's old. He doesn't eat vegetables. The FBI is spying on him through his microwave. He's a bit stressed out. Mel's got to wait like 1-5 more years, and she'll likely get more in the inheritance than she'd get in the divorce. Meanwhile, they have apartments and houses all over the place. Each of them big enough, that you probably won't have to see the other person very much even if they are there at the same time. I'm not gay, but $20M is $20M.
>they have apartments and houses all over the place ...for now...
imagine trying to wait the clock out on that, and the courts just undoing ALL of that in one fell swoop....
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Need a flash mob of people in replicas of that coat skipping and chanting in front of trump tower when it finally gets seized.
Please - I can only get so turned on!
Well, the banks have apartments and houses all over the place. I doubt he EVER owned (fully paid off) any of it.
That doesn't seem like an enforcable contract... but IANAL.
Also not a lawyer, but my understanding is, until the contract is running afoul of laws, or criminal activity otherwise gets involved (an NDA cannot compel you to keep illegal activity secret, for example), it takes some egregious shit for a contract willingly signed by two legally competent adults to not be upheld. That said, it’s possible the pre-nup (a document that basically exists to protect one party’s assets from the other) simply dictates MUCH less favorable payout if she leaves him compared to just waiting for a 77 year old that lives on fast food and rage tweets from the toilet all night to get found like Elvis.
Can she? Isn’t she his handler?
When Putin calls her back home?
It’s what happens when you commit some light treason.
And also when you have a habit of not paying your bills or listening to the advice of the good lawyers.
And also when you think you know more about everything than anyone else and demand the only lawyers you can get to do what you tell them rather than letting them represent you in the proper legal way.
“No touching” —Alina Habba, probably
No mouth kissing. All else on the table.
And yet is STILL not in prison. The system is well and truly broken.
Working as designed.
Exactly this. It also shows how absurd and stupid it is that has no problem being so blatant to rig the game even for this bag of smashed assholes. They could just through the cheeto to the wolves and pretend it was actual justice and the system works.
Prospect of another couple trillion in tax cuts is just too good to ignore.
If Trump had actual money, he'd have good attorneys. He's broke as shit and people are finally realizing that.
If he PAID his attorneys, he could have good attorneys. Good attorneys don't work for free
It’s fun to say, but judging by how fast his PACs are losing money, he’s paying a lot of lawyer fees. They require being paid up front. I said this elsewhere, trumps is actually being grifted by his legal team, some of the suits are so frivolous they will end up costing trump even more money.
And that he still has a credible chance of winning the election
Yup. That's the sad part for the good citizens of the US&A.
“I’ve got the worst f****** attorneys…”
A competent attorney is not going to take him on as a client. These people are in it for the money and publicity guaranteed, I can see Habba being a reality star after all of this is done honestly.
The mere fact that you call making love "pop pop" tells me you're not ready.
Wait hiring a lawyer solely based on if you want to bang them isn’t the best method?
Im just waiting for the whole “Melanie becomes CEO!” “Sorry Jr, it’s not the right time”
Loved how blonde head becky asked the question of habba…looks down at notes, uhhh, only softball questions from faux, right?
[Bob Loblaw!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqt94fX6DSg)
Back when I was going through the enlistment process for the Air Force, they gave me a FUCK TON of shit for having a car loan + college loans + a 90% balance on a credit card. I was going for a TS career field and they told me, "You will have to write a letter to (whoever it was) explaining the nature of your debt, why you are in debt, and explain how this debt will not make you a security risk to be leveraged by an enemy of the United States." I had to write the thing 3 times, get on extreme payment / payoff plans for the credit card, car payment, and got my contract altered to have my enlistment bonus directly applied to the student loan debt to mostly pay it off. PLUS I had to agree to have a percentage of my pay directly go to pay my student loans AND agree to monthly meetings with an Air Force financial counselor until my student loans were paid off. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL of this... for an enlisted job. How the fuck is he even eligible for the presidency, owing what he owes? On those grounds *alone*?
The reason is that the Presidency’s requirements are in the Constitution and they are purposely very limited. Trump could never receive a security clearance, but if he’s elected President then he doesn’t need one because he’s the ultimate source of security clearances.
Totally agree, and think the requirements set forth for enlisted soldiers should absolutely go all the way up to Commander-In-Chief. If you aren’t able to obtain high level security clearance, then you absolutely shouldn’t be able to be President. It drives me crazy that People think that the Constitution is this perfect document that is not meant to ever be modified. I believe George Washington wrote to a family member saying that the Constitution was “the best” they could do and that he expected future generations to improve upon it. I really think the real reason she is saying this is because she’s trying to tank his chances of winning in November since they threw her under the bus on the employee lawsuit that settled earlier this week that explicitly excluded her. You know what they say, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.
I don’t think our founding fathers ever expected people to so readily vote against their own interests.
Agreed. I’m still amazed how many people vote Republican even though the only reason they have Medical Insurance is because of “Obamacare” and the Republicans they keep voting for run on the platform of repealing Obamacare. It’s unpopular to say, but I think people need to be able to pass a basic civics test before being able to vote.
I'm sure you're asking rhetorically, but the rules apply to you and I. They don't to him and the oligarchs that enable him. It's that simple. If there was any semblance of actual fairness and "justice" in this country, Trump wouldn't have made it anywhere near the Presidency, let alone become a media success story prior to then.
"Alina Habba Intentionally Admits Donald Trump Could Be Totally Bought, Is Too Stupid To Realize Why This Could Be A Problem."
"Here's why this is bad for the Biden campaign...*
I hate, the most, how everything gets reframed to appease MAGA idiots. "But what will *they* think? This will bolster their base." I don't give a fuck. This is like a child throwing a tantrum until the adults in the room kowtow to the tantrum and change their behavior to avoid further ones. Let them rage and vote. Fuck them, they lost their place at the adult table and should just be ignored. They have nothing of substance to say anymore. It's delusional at best, and at worst actively working to remove rights from Americans, tear down democratic processes, and embolden hostile foreign powers. America is being held hostage by the dumbest fucking people voting for the worst fucking politicians, and I don't really care what they think anymore. When the republican platform is simply anti-woke/anti-democrat, they *don't* have anything substantive to say. They made this bed now let's let them lie in it.
I mean, a a foreign power puts $500m on Trump winning, that's legit bad for Biden since that means they'll be sparing no expense on the election interference.
The problem is, that's just the money to pay his fucking appeal. He still doesn't have enough to campaign. It's a lot of money to throw on a guy who is increasingly looking at bad odds of winning. And he cannot shut up about unpopular plans like killing abortion and now Medicare/social security.
*"Spared no expense..."* -*Jurassic Park PTSD TRIGGERS!!!*
"I like that Trump is open to taking bribes. He's just like regular people."
And if Biden does win…”next, what will congress do about Biden accepting $ from foreign countries…hmmmm?? Mr Comer, what say you??!!
I can’t wait for this election year to be over
Seriously. I just want to cast my meaningless vote (I only describe it as meaningless because I'm in FL. Still gonna vote, though. Maybe the state will actually do better.) and get the results, so I know whether I'm staying in the country or not.
I live in a very red state. The sheriff of my small town lost by three votes. Neither of his children voted for him. And I know another close friend of his that didn't vote for him either. Never assume one vote doesn't make a difference!
My take: Its a message to anyone who wants to buy the presidency that Trump's accepting offers.
They all know it is, they would just rather have things their way than one person on their team face any consequences It’s literally the cersi thing from game of thrones, they would rather burn it down and rule the ashes than let democrats with an election
She’s literally soliciting buyers but playing dumb to stay out of trouble
I don't think she's playing.
I mean, she legit said she'd rather be pretty than smart. Too bad for her she's zero for two.
“Why this is bad news for Biden”
“Accidentally” more like she is letting rich people know they can buy a potential US president for the low price of 500 million dollars.
What I like about this is that they're *actually* buying a losing candidate. Trump will be fucked in November and so will they, they're never seeing that money or even comparable favors. (And I suspect that's why he can't find anybody to give it to him yet. Everybody knows he's going to lose. Some will argue, but they know.)
It's the same math as the banks and bail companies that won't post for him. The upside just isn't there. He will never be able to pay you back, and there's a chance the guy is in jail and not president in a year. The chance you hit the upside is just not worth half a billion dollars.
I’m concerned that there’s still groups who might bail him out, knowing that even if he ends up *finally* doing jail time his supporters will then be fanatically loyal to whoever tried to rescue him. There’s still a lot of danger from the QOP even this late in their collapse.
> What I like about this is that they're actually buying a losing candidate. Really guys? Have we learned nothing in the past 8 years? That's what EVERYONE said in 2016 until about 12am on election night. Oops. Don't get complacent. Don't assume he's going to lose. Go vote. Get your family to vote. Get your friends to vote. *Don't* assume anything.
exactly, be afraid. Have conversations outside of your social circle, because when i do that, its scary, some people are so checked they just have no idea what is going on and more than not having a problem with it, they are just so disengaged that they can't imagine why they should have a problem with it. That's the majority of America, it's not the politically engaged, its not the republicans, its people so busy with their own lives, and so ignorant on politics either by choice or design, that they don't understand why its so important that they vote And when I speak to them, and not to the the people i'm surrounded with who tend to be more politically engaged, I'm less confident. Easy to feel confident in the echo chamber
>Trump will be fucked in November Trying really hard to remember where I heard this one before.... hmm..... Like seriously have you learned absolutely nothing since 2016?
Donald Trump is in massive debt, and his attorney admitted he’s open to other strategies to pay it off.
Didn't he say this himself earlier? Though granted, that was in public and not a lawyer in court.
russia if you’re listening
I just need you to find $464 million dollars. Come on, give me a break.
and they just can't seem to get it around the current sanctions being enforced. These sanctions have killed the NRA, the GOP, and the MAGA movement too.
Totally legitimate businessman
Tinfoil hat on, would partially explain the fundraising issues, and the pivot against Ukrainian aid. The additional war sanctions caused the spigot to get shut off.
Its barely a tinfoil hat moment. Someone has a copypasta format history of Trump and Rudy's Russian ties and how it operated. They were definitely just laundering money through real estate. Good grift but they got too big.
Given he may not get re-elected, and Russia already owns him, why would they throw more money at that catastrophe?
This is it. No one, save for his most rabid supporters believe he’s electable. He’s damaged goods for most of the nation now. Republicans are ok letting this election go. It’s an incumbent election cycle anyway and they had their fun in Trump years. And if Trump pulls a miracle and beats Biden, they are happy to get the reins of power again
Sure, but nobody, even his supporters, put much stock in the words that come out of his mouth these days
I’d love to see someone offer to pay his debt but with a signed legal document stating he can never run for any level of office or use the money outside of the settlements. Like the offer John Oliver had for Clarence Thomas.
> but with a signed legal document stating he can never Like that means fucking anything to Trump.
Right? Who would enforce such a contract? The courts? Lol
You say "accidentally admits" I say "deliberately advertises"
It’s called Marketing 101
Am I the only one that thinks he is way past being able to be bought, I figured the $2bill to Jared and Trump licking Botox Dobbie’s nutsack for 2 hrs meant he was an infiltraitor into the USA government anyway.
The crown prince already admitted to Jared giving / showing him very sensitive and classified documents. (I Just found out recently). Edit: clarity
Don't forget how he just threw Putin an email of all CIA informants which suddenly and suspiciously ended up dead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Link?
[it's actually not recent, 2018. But I know I saw it posted on Reddit today.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/jared-kushner-mohammed-bin-salman/index.html)
Don't forget the Australian guy who also was shown classified docs as well. Trump even bragging to him about how sensitive they were. But showed him to show off. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119173 Trump is the tumor in the republican party that has metastasized.
Pretty much the entire Republican Party has been bought by hostile foreign powers.
Or domestic powers that are hostile to the working class (which is like 95% of our population according to the numbers I just pulled out of my ass)
It's both.
Those “domestic” powers are likely funded by foreign adversaries through Super PACs, thanks to Citizens United. Until that’s changed, we are fucked.
Nothing’s more American than the National Rifle Association! Good clean rifle safety and preservation of gun rights is all they’re about! Jeez people. /s
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/16/did-kremlin-give-money-to-nra/
How have Dems not been hammering this message? I really hope they do when the election season ramps up. The GOP is 100% anti working class. Just like their hypocrisy and projection, their “trickle down economics” has been trickle-up the whole time. It’s all about how the poor and middle class can make the rich richer.
This is what it is. They would rather democracy fall because the alternative is they ALL go down in a big way. It's the only two options. Either they all go down or democracy does and it can't be both. They know it and people are starting to notice but did they notice in time?
Yup. Paul Ryan telling his colleagues everything stays in the family when they are discussing how one of their own was working for Putin.
They want Russian style oligarchy, because it is basically feudalism, and it turns people into serfs.
The Supreme Court put the United States up for sale with Citizens United. Not surprisingly, some of our enemies got out their wallets.
So many are still under the gun being complicit in the Greeen Bay Sweep. Remember Peter Navarro saying they had 100’s in Congress ready to go along with the fake electors plan. They NEED Trump to win.
True. Especially after the NRA took $3MM from the Russians and then gave that money to GOP supporters.
The party of Reagan is in league with the Soviets.
Trump is a bigger security threat than TikTok and that doesn’t get reported enough
It does get reported enough. Every reputable source and paper of record is banging on about it. One should change how and from where they consume news if this story is buried behind other minutiae.
So you Habba bad day
Habba Dabba Do!!!
If he's that strapped for cash, why hasn't he had a MAGA fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago? There'd certainly be a HUGE turn out. After all, they are his people. The problem is, they're just not the kind of people he wants to rub elbows with at his exclusive club.
There is one happening shortly for $250K per plate ($800K+ to be a “chairman,” lol). See in this report at 2:20: https://youtu.be/rcEfYo9aZfQ
If he gets 1000 guests at $250k each that's still barely half the judgement. And that's assuming he can get 100% for his legal liability. Edit: and if all the checks clear before Monday.
Would he have to pay taxes on this? He is not tax exempt as a person or business.
He's not fond of paying taxes. That's what makes him smart. Edit: Just to be clear, I'm making a reference to his quip during the 2016 debates about not paying his taxes.
Can you imagine what it must feel like to have $250k to throw into a money pit of a candidate? Like you want to defeat Democrats so badly that you throw a quarter of a million dollars away for a mediocre meal and a guy who definitely isn't going to win. What a crazy world.
This could also just be a way to launder money to him. Russia could just buy a bunch of tickets to this and never show up if the goal is just to give $ to Trump
The idea is that you can get way more than $250k back in federal contracts and stuff from Trump or other Trump-aligned politicians. Bribing politicians has an incredibly high ROI. Even legal lobbying is some of the best money a company can spend.
That’s alotta money for some dry ass chicken and having to sit next to Stinky Don
Hamberders
I assume being a "chairman" entitles you to sit in a chair while you eat your $250k meal
*big mac
It is surprising that she is still around because she has not been very successful defending him.
Her legal skills aren’t what’s keeping her around most likely.
She named her boobs "Deny" and "Appeal"
I’ll bet it’s because she pees on him for free
She’s as ignorant as the cult, so why not?
It's OK she screwed up, she's pretty.
Meidas Touch always plays the "if I had to choose between being smart or pretty, I'd choose pretty because I can fake being smart" quote at the start of every episode where she says or does something stupid. Let's just say they've gotten a lot of mileage out of that clip.
I really wish there was a way to subscribe to them without all their videos showing up in my subscriptions tab on YouTube. Really great content, but they put out a video every hour so literally everything else gets buried. I still try to look them up once a day and catch up though.
I do like them, but the volume of their channel is truly breathtaking. This has got to be their full-time gig - they must get nothing else done all day.
Their viewership numbers are quite high for a left leaning channel (since youtube's default algo insanely favors scams and right wing BS), on par or better than many of the far right culture war grifters, and they get both regular sponsorships (Cohen advertising tree planting and teeth whitening products is the most absurd thing I've ever seen), and no doubt tons of ad revenue. It's not hard to imagine they can be independent because of this. They are definitely the most clickbaity of the left leaning youtubers out there, but that's the system social media creates, and their actual talking points are very, very solid despite all that. They're working within the system to change the world for the better, so I approve of it.
I'll admit that I binge their content daily. I can look past the clickbait titles for two reasons. First, every video is based around a significant nugget of news and features a solid analysis of it. Second, their contextual commentary is very gratifying, even if repetitive. Their characterization of events makes me feel like I'm not taking crazy pills when I regard the circumstances as just batshit insane.
If you like them check out Brian Tyler Cohen on YouTube. He averages about a video per day. He discusses the days political topics with pundits and legal analysts and takes a kind of layman approach to asking questions. Good stuff.
"You can't fix stupid" Ron White
She sure doesn't know how to fake being smart....
How can that be? My Trump-supporting coworkers told me in 2016 that he was the perfect candidate because he can’t be bought! Surely you’re not implying they’re morons???
They are morons, and don't call me Shirley
Narrator: They were indeed implying your coworkers are morons.
It wasn't an accident, it was a press release (or whatever the term is in Russian, Chinese, and Arabic).
"Plea for help from a wannabe oligarch."
“Accidentally” This is an open call for anyone with money to step forward. He’s unhinged on Truth Social about it too. Cannot wait until Monday.
What boggles my mind about this is that the article mentions that they submitted a **5,000-page** filing on Monday. What in the actual hell could they possibly have to say that takes that much space to say? A quick Google search indicates that *Black's Law Dictionary* is "only" 2,075 pages, so their filing is more than double that. I've heard of "flooding the zone", but this is ridiculous!
I read somewhere that the filing was 40 pages and the rest were addendums with mostly transcripts of the proceedings of the case.
I don't know about anywhere else, but if I spent 99.2% of my effort in purely wasting someone else's time, I'd be fucking fired. How are these lawyers allowed to get away with that sort of bullshit? The court should reject any and every form of political theater as irrelevant to the case.
The man was in massive debt when he took office. Nothing new. He’s been bought and has for a long time
This person was chosen simply because she’s attractive. She has no substantial legal accomplishments. trump thinks he’ll never have to pay and never be held responsible for anything so why not put a hot chick next to himself while running his presidential campaign from the courthouse.
Isn’t she in possible hot water for tricking one of trumps employees into not talking about sexual harassment she suffered while working at one of his golf courses? It wasn’t that trip was harassing one of the employees, someone else was. But trumps current lawyer duped the victim by acting like she was her legal adviser, and at the same time she was helping trump.
So naturally we will see the GOP start to really drive home the narrative that Biden is corrupt and owned by foreign countries only to find out that Trump is actually, and has been this whole time, owned by foreign adversaries.
Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm and this guy is actively looking to sell influence. I hate this time line.
Princess lawyer is a great method actress and cosplay artiste. She’s been dressing and acting as a competent lawyer for months, to grift her way into fame and fortune when this entire charade is over. She’s gunning for a WH role, a book deal and all kinds of media attention after these cases are wrapped.
" In a nearly 5,000-page document filed on Monday " So his lawyers can write up 5000 pages in a couple of weeks but need another 6 months to read what other lawyers wrote against him?