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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] antidote101 45 points 5 months ago

We better hope he's a loser when it counts.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] middlemanSI 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

But he's always saying he's a winner, isn't he?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those Trump biased judges and the deep state!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He's very good at losing. He's so good at losing that he did research into him not losing and it proved that he lost worse.

[–] dyathinkhesaurus 1 points 5 months ago

Does that mean he's winning at losing? No one loses more than he does. He's the biggest loser!

[–] werefreeatlast 12 points 5 months ago

I only like expresidents who don't lose.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He should have been stopped by the Meuller Report. So many things, like an insurrection for example, should have made him ineligible for office. It is getting harder to put this all on Trump - people are enabling this. That he still has supporters is beginning to say more about them than it does Trump - we already know who he is.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My conspiracy suspicion is that the Mueller stuff was just to stop protests like the Women's March from happening. Huge grassroots protests went away as soon as Mueller was appointed because the liberals who make up those kind of protests had faith in the system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Took me so long to figure out what the word around the "removed" was. For others (using a symbol so it isn't removed again), I think it is "susp|cion"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's fine on my instance. We don't have many filters here. If you're referring to the third word in their comment then you are correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are words triggering comment removals? Can't imagine why suspicion would be one of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Specific strings of letters are filtered in some instances. So it isn't that word, it's the 4 letters that are being filtered out in the middle of the word. But apparently it's only on some instances.

[–] cashews_best_nut 4 points 5 months ago

LemmyWorld filters fagg-ot (e.g. removed) even though it's a fucking British food and it pisses me right off.

[–] scholar 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, the Scunthorpe problem

[–] homesweethomeMrL 61 points 5 months ago

Hey kids, let’s review those report allegations! Sure the pee tape is real, but what about the many, many examples of Russian government influence and hacking to support Trump not to mention monetary and advisory support.

He’s a traitor, a fraud, and a rapist. Of course the Republicans want to elect him. Jeniuses all.

[–] TenderfootGungi 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because he did not bring case in time. I was hoping for a more fun reason.

[–] ceenote 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm too conspiracy-brained (not even sure if that's the right term here) but bringing a nothing-burger to court and failing on technicalities so it'll get dismissed and you can claim "deep-state" seems like a pretty Trumpian thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never underestimate exactly how stupid Trump is.

He wanted to be a Manhattan big shot. Through his own arrogance, stupidity, and greed he managed to make the New York elites hate him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, he really has had that stupid look on his face his whole life, huh?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'm a native New Yorker, and I've been forced to watch his antics for decades. The funniest thing is that Donnie was Ivana's second banana when they started out. She was the star and Donnie was the rich clown who carried her bags.

[–] jordanlund 26 points 5 months ago

It's worth noting that the most salacious allegation from the Steele Dossier was actually confirmed by the Mueller report:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pee-tape-trump-mueller-report-823755/

"According to the report, on October 30th, 2016, Trump’s private attorney and fixer Michael Cohen received a text from a Russian businessman involved in the Trump Tower Moscow deal, in progress for more than a year. “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know….” Giorgi Rtskhiladze wrote to Cohen. Cohen told investigators he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze. 

Rtskhiladze later admitted he had been told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen, the report says. 

Rtskhiladze’s description of the tapes’ content tracks with the unverified information included in the Steele dossier, which claimed that Trump watched Russian prostitutes urinate in a Moscow hotel room in 2013. “Rtskhiladze said ‘tapes’ referred to compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia.”"

[–] UltraMagnus0001 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope the Mi6 officer gets some money back for frivolous lawsuits

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Barratry should still be illegal

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh! Is this the golden shower report?

[–] rustyfish 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. It’s when he drank piss. Sex worker piss. Trump drank piss. He had prostitute piss in his mouth and swallowed.

Sorry. But I just want to make clear this shitface hired sex workers to drink their champagne. His cultists have to know about this. Piss.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The accusation was that he watched them piss on the bed the Obamas slept in when they visited. Which seems in-character for someone as infamously petty as Trump.

[–] Rapidcreek 15 points 5 months ago

"Sex Act Dossier " sounds like a cutting edge avant garde band

[–] Grimy 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

ex-British spy

So, hes still a spy, but no longer British?