The Trump Presidency, Season 2

Dakota Tebaldi

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Assuming this is true - I can't fathom how low his supporters' self-respect must be if they actually go and take his polls or donate to him after getting an email like this. If an organization I fully supported with all my heart and soul ever sent me an email talking to me this way I would drop them so fast you'd think they were a slice of toast I just finished buttering.
 

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Assuming this is true - I can't fathom how low his supporters' self-respect must be if they actually go and take his polls or donate to him after getting an email like this. If an organization I fully supported with all my heart and soul ever sent me an email talking to me this way I would drop them so fast you'd think they were a slice of toast I just finished buttering.
Prove your loyalty, or else! 🔫
 

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Assuming this is true - I can't fathom how low his supporters' self-respect must be if they actually go and take his polls or donate to him after getting an email like this. If an organization I fully supported with all my heart and soul ever sent me an email talking to me this way I would drop them so fast you'd think they were a slice of toast I just finished buttering.
You forget to factor in just how absolutely idiotic and gullible his base are - there truly are people out there that would agree with the statement and actually give him more money.
 

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Assuming this is true - I can't fathom how low his supporters' self-respect must be if they actually go and take his polls or donate to him after getting an email like this. If an organization I fully supported with all my heart and soul ever sent me an email talking to me this way I would drop them so fast you'd think they were a slice of toast I just finished buttering.
The boilerplate isn't new, except the "Are you an illegal!?" part. But the rest has been blasted around for years by every anonymous right-wing phishing/scam shop. My mom gets a dozen a day of that kind of "You're a top {something} but we haven't heard from you, this is your LAST CHANCE to.. (pay/respond/recruit a friend/take a 'survey'/provide more exploitable personal information)."

Either way, rogue operation or directly authorized to communicate on behalf of President Shitzinpants... it's all grift.
 

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Assuming this is true - I can't fathom how low his supporters' self-respect must be if they actually go and take his polls or donate to him after getting an email like this. If an organization I fully supported with all my heart and soul ever sent me an email talking to me this way I would drop them so fast you'd think they were a slice of toast I just finished buttering.
It's in the Archive of Political Emails, which seems to be a serious and reputable organisation.


Also it was reported in NOTUS, which I think is pretty trustworthy

 

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Confused old man thinks Cuban missile crisis is ongoing and


Confused old man tries to destroy passenger air travel in US.

Cool. Good start for a friday.
 

Innula Zenovka

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Wakes up, yawns, shuffles off to find coffee, sit's down "Whats going on in the world today.....?"


Confused old man thinks Cuban missile crisis is ongoing and
the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat
How on earth is any threat currently posed by Cuba to the US any more "unusual" or "extraordinary" than it's been for the last 60 years?
 

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Don't worry I'm sure he'll explain his reasoning
His lawyers will have to when the eventual challenges are brought in court. At present the US courts, or at least some of them, are the only part of the US' so-called checks and balances that is still trying to function.
 

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Trying, yes, trying. His attorneys will have to answer in court after years of motions and delays.Then the answers will be vague and prompt another round of motions and delays before the court is patently ignored.

This has been our experience to date.
A lot will depend, I think, on the reasoning in the forthcoming Supreme Court decision on tariffs in general


Not forgetting TACO, of course.