Tag: Donald Trump

So I was wrong about something…

The other day when it was announced that a certain former president of the US would indeed be indicted for various naughty things, I said I couldn’t envisage Lord Dampnut just going quietly. To my barely expressible surprise, that wound up being exactly what he did… and I’m damned if I can understand why. Cos he’s so full of bluster in his missives online, but come the big day and he just… gives in? I’m not getting it. News that he had in fact gone quietly came through just as I was finally going to bed last night, so I just did that and decided to see what had happened when I got up again. And, well, nothing much had in fact happened; there was some noise outside the court, but Chump himself seems to have basically just rocked up, gone through the formalities, said “not guilty”, and then pissed off back to Mar-a-Lago, whence he doesn’t need to return until December. Not entirely a non-event, but not far off in the end. Weird.

Oh, but I did like this when I saw it on Facebook:

We begin bomba in five minutes

In other Trump news…

DONALD TRUMP IS asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to him.
As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has been asking policy advisers for a range of military options aimed at taking on Mexican drug cartels, including strikes that are not sanctioned by Mexico’s government, according to two sources familiar with the situation.“‘Attacking Mexico,’ or whatever you’d like to call it, is something that President Trump has said he wants ‘battle plans’ drawn for,” says one of the sources. “He’s complained about missed opportunities of his first term, and there are a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities in a second Trump presidency.”
Trump lieutenants have briefed him on several options that include unilateral military strikes and troop deployments on a sovereign U.S. partner and neighbor, the sources say. One such proposal that Trump has been briefed on this year is an October white paper from the Center for Renewing America, an increasingly influential think tank staffed largely by Trumpist wonks, MAGA loyalists, and veterans of his administration.
The policy paper — titled “It’s Time to Wage War on Transnational Drug Cartels” — outlines possible justifications and procedures for the next Republican commander-in-chief to “formally” declare “war against the cartels,” in response to “the mounting bodies of dead Americans from fentanyl poisonings.”
In a nod to Mexico’s status as a sovereign nation, the paper calls on the U.S. to “conduct specific military operations to destroy the cartels and enlist the Mexican government in joint operations to target cartel-networked infrastructure, including affiliated factions and enablers with direct action.”
However, that “enlistment” of the Mexican government comes with a massive caveat: “It is vital that Mexico not be led to believe that they have veto power to prevent the US from taking the actions necessary to secure its borders and people,” the paper reads.

How very DARE a sovereign nation think it can tell the United States not to interfere in their business, eh… In saying which, I don’t know that the Mexican government would necessarily refuse such an offer. Depends on whether Trump expected them to pay for it, like his fucking wall…

Indict to excite

OK, I wasn’t expecting this news today, indeed I’m not sure I was expecting it at all…

A grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump in New York over a hush money payment made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
No former US president has ever been criminally indicted. The news is set to shake the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in which Trump leads most polls.
“This evening we contacted Mr Trump’s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan DA’s Office for arraignment on a supreme court indictment, which remains under seal,” said a statement from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s spokesperson. “Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected.”
Trump was expected to appear in court for his arraignment on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles said. At that point he would enter a plea on the charges. New York’s police have been told to all report for duty on Friday and be prepared to deal with “unusual disorder”, according to a memo seen by NBC.

Well. After Trump’s prediction about being arrested failed to pan out last week on the day he claimed it would, I suspect more than a few of us were thinking “well, so much for all of that” and wondering if anything would come of it after all; turns out Bragg and co were just waiting for us to think that and then carry out the plan when we’d stopped expecting it… As for “unusual disorder”, well, that’s already started by the look of it…

A Donald Trump supporter protesting the Manhattan district attorney’s probe of the former president pulled a knife on a family with two small children Tuesday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, according to a court official.
The man and woman with two children in strollers accidentally bumped into the Trump supporter while crossing the intersection of Hogan Place and Centre Street just after 4:00 p.m., three bystanders told POLITICO. The female protester, who held a sign that read “I support Trump, do you?” began arguing with the couple before she pulled out a blade approximately 6 inches long and waved it at the family, according to the eye-witnesses.
“Angelica Rucker pulled a knife from her right side belt hip area and began menacing one of the complainants with the knife as the verbal confrontation pursued,” a court spokesperson said.
Court officers, who were standing outside the building, rushed over, pulled out their guns and ordered the woman to drop the knife, the bystanders said. She was arrested without incident.

“Without incident” indeed. Only surprising that she had a knife rather than a gun; I feel she may have done more than just wave the latter around if she’d had one. The next few days could be interesting, depending on whether or not the people who think Trump doesn’t have the support he used to have are right about that, certainly at least one person was willing to cause trouble in the name of Glorious Leader today; I suppose it depends on how willing the rest of the cult is to do the same… Either way, I can’t see Trump surrendering himself like some commentators think he will; he’s made such a racket about the injustice of it all that I simply can’t envisage him going quietly or willingly. Which means they’ll probably have to take him, and I fear that’s where the real fun might happen. Interesting times, etc…

Trumped on Tuesday?

I still don’t know what to make of Lord Dampnut’s outburst from the other day:

… other than that I have a headache from trying to read all that shouting. The only verifiable thing in it that I can see is the bit about him being the former president, he is undeniably that… as far as I’m aware there’s been no actual confirmation that he will in fact be charged or anything like that in this case, and the “leaks” are probably from his own arse.

It’s the last sentence that bothers me a bit and makes me wonder if there’s going to be trouble in the next couple of days, and it’s not just me… and there is someone in that Newsweek article who reckons it won’t come to much cos Trump just doesn’t have the numbers like he used to, which seems to be true of his rallies at any rate… just concerned that he has enough ready to cause problems. I mean, when the January 6 uprising I can’t really say I was surprised that it happened. I am surprised, though, that there hasn’t been a follow-up to it yet, but I’ve been working on the assumption that the cult is waiting for the right moment…

Meanwhile, Mike Pence continues to inexplicably defend the orange dickhead:

“The idea of indicting a former president of the United States is deeply troubling to me, as it is to tens of millions of Americans,” said former vice-president Mike Pence, who is widely expected to launch a campaign for the Republican nomination in the coming weeks.

Personally speaking, the idea that a former president of the US may have committed a demonstrable crime and may get away with it cos the American legal system is too cowardly to do anything about him is rather more troubling, but that may just be me… certainly doesn’t seem to be Mike. Honestly, what the fuck is WRONG with him? I mean, Mike, I know you’re not exactly supporting Trump for 2024, but good grief, the cunt just blamed YOU for January 6… you remember that, Mike, that was the day a bunch of Trump’s cultists rocked up to the Capitol and called for your execution? Why are you standing up for that freak in ANY way when he fucking DESPISES you? I mean, no wonder he does, you’re a complete piece of shit and you should be despised, but goddamn man, have a bit of dignity…