Welcome to the TrumpWorld Kakistocracy

 

Did you know that being a deer in the headlights "Me and My Shadow" fig leaf for El Cofeve might get you a berth as head of Homeland Security? Yep. Kristi "We Also Kill Dogs" Noem has gotten a little promise from the ship of state she chose to barnacle on. I guess it is something she promises beyond supporting Trump in his momentary "Swaycation" from a rally where he momentarily found himself beyond words. I'm trying not to think it's because she put a half roll of quarters in his front pockets and offered to make change. 

You know, if right wing fuck for brains want to pretend Kamala Harris slept her way to the top, there is no end to the fucktacular permutations amongst RW personalities permissible--especially if they have already demonstrated being down like a clown. I presume Marco Rubio's exceptional capacity for supine boneless nuggetry has enhanced his likelihood for being chosen for Secretary of State. I can also foresee his being eventually "You're Fired'd" after giving up a guaranteed lifetime Senate seat. Compared to the other Sec of State possibilities he seems like the least worst--so there has to be a catch. 

TWGB: A Certain Persuasion

 

Trump: You have to really play the hand that your dealt. And then you had a jury that's from a certain persuasion, would have been hard to do no matter what. pic.twitter.com/K8sxVuvErw

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 2, 2024

Consider what that sounds like--roll it around in your mind. It really sounds like he's moving past saying the trial was "rigged" because Soros funded Bragg or because Joe Biden ordered a lawfare hit on him, down to saying the jury was biased against him: from a "certain persuasion." 

Dog whistle?  Air raid siren?

TrumpWorld has being saying this disturbing thing out loud for a minute: Russia and China aren't the real danger, people who oppose Trump are. MTG has endorsed the execution of prominent Democrats, for example. But take a look at who else gets burned?

Republicans like former Governor and current US Senate candidate Larry Hogan, who made what once would have been viewed as a completely reasonable statement:

Lara Trump Has Caveats

 

Color me skeptical these will actually happen.

“Lara Trump Insists the Debates Her Father-in-Law Agreed to Are Fixed” https://t.co/aQTJeya5R8

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) May 16, 2024

Very much agree--Trump will back out, and no sooner did he agree to debates than TrumpWorld is trying to plan an "out" for him. First, he tries to manufacture a Fox debate that Biden "has" to agree to:

And then right-wing commentators run with the idea that for some reason, Dana Bash and Jake Tapper are basically the Symbionese Liberation Army. But anyway, I do have to agree with Lara Trump (whose face is starting to become wildly distracting, like a funeral announcement in comic sans) that things are rigged politically against her father-in-law (who installed a family member as the head of his party so he could hork up maximum legal bill payments) because he is so wildly inappropriate and unfit for any office. 

TWGB: Wondering About His Super Seedy Ass

 

This could strike some as reminiscent of when Manafort obtained $16M in loans approved by bank CEO Stephen Calk, who was seeking positions in the Trump administration. Calk was convicted for that by a jury in Manhattan. Press release by DOJ ⬇️ https://t.co/WAFC0JBLQY https://t.co/TmGwu2K1s9

— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) March 8, 2024

It says a lot about Trump that when he finally does post a supersedeas bond to forestall collections activity in anticipation of appeal of the defamation civil case, instantly people go to work trying to find out the sketchy part: Who is the surety company? What's the catch? Does he have a cosigner? Isn't someone from that company a crony? Does that company have ties to Russia? Aren't they mentioned in his fraud trial?

So, um, yeah, there's something possibly sketchy in there--it's TrumpWorld. He wanted to waive having to put up a bond for this case altogether on the grounds that he was good for it, and then turned around and had paper filed in his fraud civil case implying no, he is not good for hundreds of millions of dollars. (You know, the one where he was accused of inflating his wealth and claimed he WAS SO worth hundreds of millions, liquid.) 

Lara Trump and the Real Priorities of the RNC

 

Reporter: Do you think paying for Trump’s legal bills is something of interest to Republican voters?

Lara Trump: Absolutely pic.twitter.com/BmEWJq0Ak9

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 22, 2024

I'm obviously not a donor to the Republican Party, but I can honestly imagine that if I were and thought the party would use all the donations for the cause of Donald Trump's legal bills instead of winning the Senate and holding the House, my wallet would magically glue itself shut. I mean, I get why the Trump Family Campaign needs another vault to loot but come on....

Now as a Democrat from the cradle, on the other hand, I think this is great for the RNC branding. Make the RNC Great Again. I mean, what have they got to lose? Elections? Credibility? 

And as for Lara Trump, if this RNC thing doesn't pan out, she will always have her nascent music career to fall back on. 

The interesting thing is--can Republicans actually tell the Trumps "No"?

TWGB: Running Interference

 

It's a funny old thing that Trump wants to scream "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!" with respects to his two lawsuits today. They are both actually election interference lawsuits, in that Trump took extralegal efforts to interfere with what happened in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. 

In the so-called "hush money" case that Trump lost his motion to dismiss today, the case really has to do with using his business funds fraudulently to cover up information that would tend to prejudice voters against him: that he had intimate relations with an actor in the porn industry while his third wife had just given birth. This kind of secrecy and coverup is a part of Trump operations in general: he has long been an avid user of employee NDA's (which were, as constructed, not a valid truth-quashing mechanism for political campaigns or White House administrations) , and used his friendship with National Enquirer exec David Pecker to "catch and kill" negative stories. 

Trump is really great at using funds. sometimes fraudulently, to cover up things. Some say he used Trump Foundation money to pay to Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi's political campaign org to stop an investigation into Trump University, (I dunno if it happened that way, but the results are the results.) Trump sued Tim O'Brien for pointing out Trump's numbers never did add up because he hated to be called out on what we could have should have known about his businesses. Was it worth it to give some of us a glimpse into what we learned later when his 2005 taxes were exposed--he's been drawing down his liability from a mega loss in 1995? (He still was benefiting from losses when his last six years got opened up later on.) He mightily fought to keep that tax data unknown. Because he was doing crimes. 

TWGB: The News Fox Doesn't WANT You! To! Know!

 

Lara Trump: “This J6 hoax. This is the biggest scam .. This is total nonsense that you’re gonna see on Thursday .. The Democrats know people do not care about this .. people are more concerned with the super high gas prices.” pic.twitter.com/o1EjRxboJ2

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 7, 2022

You'd never see Elon Musk go so far to protect a bullshit investment as Hotlips Trump goes to pretend that the insurrection her father-in-law started is not a biggie at all. It is hardly worth your time, she says. There is absolutely no plot under my sheet ossifer and I am anyway holding that for a fren. Her level of sincerity is written all over her face. 

And she isn't alone--the whole of Fox News is not going to do the thing where they show news to the mushrooms down on the farm. Take a look at Hannity, getting skeert people will pay attention to that little old thing where Trump tried to steal a whole election ineptly. They really are trying to beg their regular viewers off of knowing what really happened that day, aren't they?

Wow. Do the Fox viewers even wonder why that is? Is it to them already like the Mueller investigation (which did not exonerate him) and the spectre of Russian collusion, a thing so memory-holed they can't even find a vein of concern about it? Are they as convinced that the riot of 1/6 and the threat to democracy that day are as blameless for Trump as his "perfect" phone call to Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Are they so pacified by the pablum Fox News pukes into their little birdy brain-beaks that it has not occurred to them that what Fox News doesn't want them to see is the truth? 

Because if it is what the 1/6 Committee says it is, it's the next best thing to treason, and we know because the Secret Service and Trump probably definitely did want to march with his baddies that day.  That's some insane Caesar crossing the Rubicon stuff. Also, too, his campaign totally knew about the fake electors and tried to make them real. 

Trump's election lies keep signifying even today. But they are still lies. Trump lost. He lost. He did not win in 2020, he just found a lot of people willing to lie and lie with violence. 

Fox News doesn't want their audience to know that. It's very true and very sad. Why is Fox News so evil? Why is Lara Trump also pretty evil? These are things we will be asking for a while. 

Keep an Eye on This One

 

Lara Trump says people who live at the southern border should get guns and take matters into their own hands pic.twitter.com/2JL30va6nF

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 13, 2021

I know there are discussions from time to time about which one of Trump's kids is likely to follow up on his political "legacy" such as it is, with Ivanka being his favorite and Don Jr. being his, um...well. His namesake. But keep an eye on Lara Trump, because while, as Trump spouses go, Jared Kushner is pretty bad, she tries harder. And no, I don't think she is just a vapid bigot saying what amounts to "murder brown people" by accident. The Trump brand seems to be writing permission slips for violent right-wing fantasists. That is a very conscious choice.

Not Self-Aware, Nor Aware of Much Else

Lara Trump: Merkel Admitting Refugees ‘One Of The Worst Things’ In German History https://t.co/gph3BXqimL pic.twitter.com/f8Kh7QXKkM

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 25, 2019

There is a lot going on with Lara Trump, on Fox Business Channel, "explaining" that letting in refugees was one of the worst things that happened to Germany. The use of the words "downfall of Germany" is awkward not just because "Downfall" is the name of the movie that spawned all of the angry Hitler memes, but also because demonizing immigrants was one of the things Hitler did a lot of, and rejection of refugees was one of the most tragic things the US had done. Also, Fox is one of President Trump's favorite propaganda outlet. And if it were not for nepotism, we would not even know who or what Lara Trump is. And Angela Merkel is someone President Trump seems to like to shit talk about. (It is not adorable that the president of the US needs his kids and their spouses to say positive things about him and his policies on television.)

There's sort of self-parody level of too much Trumpness, but with a disturbing undercurrent of possibly not actually relating the refugee issue with respects to Germany due to mere ignorance combined with possibly not seeing a problem with fascism itself.

In other, not half-disturbing news, it's possible that Twitter hasn't banned Nazis because the algorithm would necessarily also ban some US (GOP) politicians. This certainly is problematic, but maybe it should be more problematic for the pols who say white supremacist things, than the platform that would prefer to exclude them?