US Elections and post-election V: A Trump that won't leave the room

[JesusAndYourBush]

I heard talk of what's going to happen to Trump's library.  I'm picturing a dozen copies of Mad Magazine and a roll of 'word of the day' toilet paper.

[idunnosomename]

he will go down in history as the most orange president lmao

[steve98]

I hope when the artist (Maybe that Garrison tit?)  Paints his portrait to put up on the WH wall, the demarcation line between the troweled-on orange gunk and the original shitty-pink is glaringly and absurdly obvious, just as it is in real life.

[rjd2]

You little tease Nikki.

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1350472323418251266

[Fambo Number Mive]

White House has published a handy list of 'Trump Administration Accomplishments.'
Some of it looks like Don's handiwork, it manages to mention the China Virus in the first sentence.

Under "Stood up against Communism and Socialism in the Western Hemisphere" is  "Won bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California", which seems an odd place to put it.

[ajsmith2]

Here's the condensed version:

1. Built no wall
2. Had a winky that was small

FIN

[Fambo Number Mive]

Washington Post reported as saying Ivanka may run for a Florida Senate seat in 2022.

[Sonny_Jim]

Great Healthcare for Americans
Empowered American patients by greatly expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability.

Protected our Nation's seniors by safeguarding and strengthening Medicare.

I mean, really......

[Phil_A]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/historians-having-to-tape-together-records-that-trump-tore-up

Whitehouse staff had to spend hours taping official documents back together as Trump insisted on tearing them up and wouldn't be told otherwise

As if the similarity to a giant toddler wasn't complete already. Stomping around the Whitehouse throwing tantrums, shitting himself in his nappy and tearing up important bits of paper.

[Fambo Number Mive]

There's a market for pardons now:

As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency, according to documents and interviews with more than three dozen lobbyists and lawyers.

The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Mr. Trump's presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers. Pardons and commutations are intended to show mercy to deserving recipients, but Mr. Trump has used many of them to reward personal or political allies.

The pardon lobbying heated up as it became clear that Mr. Trump had no recourse for challenging his election defeat, lobbyists and lawyers say. One lobbyist, Brett Tolman, a former federal prosecutor who has been advising the White House on pardons and commutations, has monetized his clemency work, collecting tens of thousands of dollars, and possibly more, in recent weeks to lobby the White House for clemency for the son of a former Arkansas senator; the founder of the notorious online drug marketplace Silk Road; and a Manhattan socialite who pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html?referringSource=articleShare

Allowing the President to pardon whom he likes just seems bizarre and totally against justice (not that there is much of that in the US legal system)

[sirhenry]

A rather vacuous article on the BBC site about Trump's financial woes (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55652310) includes this:

Mr Trump - who raised more than $200m from supporters after losing the election - can reach his fans via email or alternative sites.

Of course there's no citation for that $200m but it does make it look like he should have no problem raising the funds to pay off all the bank loans he has outstanding. If it's true.

[popcorn]

Does anyone have any suggestions for podcasts or other media with a thorough look at Q supporters and what they believe? I've encountered a couple of things here and there but I want a proper Theroux-style interrogation.

[Dog Botherer]

Does anyone have any suggestions for podcasts or other media with a thorough look at Q supporters and what they believe? I've encountered a couple of things here and there but I want a proper Theroux-style interrogation.

QAnonAnonymous but i'm sure you've encountered them before. there's also Will Sommer who is a reporter who's been on the Q beat for ages, he writes for the Daily Beast. he does the left podcast circuit so it shouldn't be hard to find stuff with him.

[popcorn]

QAnonAnonymous but i'm sure you've encountered them before. there's also Will Sommer who is a reporter who's been on the Q beat for ages, he writes for the Daily Beast. he does the left podcast circuit so it shouldn't be hard to find stuff with him.

Thanks. Hadn't heard of either.

[darby o chill]

This recent video is okay. No Theroux-style interrogations though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN42cZFcz8M

Today's NY Times article (mentioned by FerriswheelBueller in the other thread) is worth a read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html

[Dog Botherer]

Thanks. Hadn't heard of either.

oh in that case definitely get stuck into QAA. they've been on QAnon from the start and i don't think any of them ever expected their show to be relevant for more than a few months.

[popcorn]

oh in that case definitely get stuck into QAA. they've been on QAnon from the start and i don't think any of them ever expected their show to be relevant for more than a few months.

Scrolling through, I'm a bit intimidated. I don't want to listen to 400 episodes of a podcast or listen to one podcast about one specific thing in extraordinary detail. Just want a general overview kinda thing. Any suggestions for a good ep or two?

[Urinal Cake]

If you want interviews with QAnon look at their rally episodes like at Tampa, Washington DC, Save the Children etc.
Also the episodes on the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys etc about the similarities and differences they have with QAnon.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Scrolling through, I'm a bit intimidated. I don't want to listen to 400 episodes of a podcast or listen to one podcast about one specific thing in extraordinary detail. Just want a general overview kinda thing. Any suggestions for a good ep or two?

Robbie Martin from Media Roots Radio follows the QAnon stuff fairly closely, and this two-part explainer was pretty good as far as I remember:

https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/the-origins-of-qanon-follow-the-white-rabbit-into-a-deeper-layer-of-the-maga-cult-pt-1-of-2

https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/wwg1wga-along-with-a-psyop-qanons-grasp-on-the-woke-empire-baby-mind-weaponizing-satanic-panic

[checkoutgirl]

he should have no problem raising the funds to pay off all the bank loans he has outstanding.

He has enough assets to pay off that shit anyway. He just doesn't want to. Typical builder.

[Dog Botherer]

If you want interviews with QAnon look at their rally episodes like at Tampa, Washington DC, Save the Children etc.
Also the episodes on the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys etc about the similarities and differences they have with QAnon.

yeah you won't go wrong with that.

also the interviews with Frederick Brennan, the founder of 8chan, are especially interesting in that they provide a first hand knowledge of the guy most likely to be Q, Jim Watkins.

[JaDanketies]

I wonder if that guy who bet me Biden wouldn't be the next president because of widespread voter fraud is going to PayPal me the $100 on the 20th? It'd make me feel a lot better about my huge shopping cart on Bandcamp.

[ajsmith2]

Probably (hopefully?) a troll post although it says a lot that it's impossible to be 100% sure these days.

[The Culture Bunker]

Should have gone with that they'd done some kind of mind-swap operation, like in that episode of the Prisoner they made when McGoohan was off filming Ice Station Zebra. Face transplant isn't plausible because Trump is about twice the weight of Biden.

[sirhenry]

Brain transplant, however, is a different matter. Trump has already proven that it works, having spent a chunk of the 90's with his brain in Bill the Cat from Bloom County.

[Blumf]

Face transplant isn't plausible because Trump is about twice the weight of Biden.

Well, muscle mass is heavy. At least, that's what Ben Garrison says.

[thugler]

Probably (hopefully?) a troll post although it says a lot that it's impossible to be 100% sure these days.

There's now zero difference between trolling and genuine. Qanon basically means an endless stream of wacky theories many of the authors of which probably don't believe, and the masses decide which ones they want to believe. Qanon ust  provides the framing and a few core things with which the followers can keep going back to.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The fixation on paedophilia is interesting and reminds me of the UK far-right's obsession with it.

Once they have made everyone believe that only fascists aren't evil paedophiles it will be their turn.

[Fambo Number Mive]

The deep state can't be very deep if it can't prevent Biden from being arrested.

Don't people like Garrison think the deep state is everyone but Trump these days?

[Buelligan]

Heheh.  Because Trump is such a fucking bell of liberty.  I mean, fuck me, children in cages but he's the one stopping kiddie abuse.