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How is everything related to this man such a fucking joke and HOW IS HE SO POPULAR
I remember feeling like this in junior high. There was this group of athletic dudes who were mind numbingly offensive to everyone. Shoving people, locker stuffing, knocking books out your hand, tripping kids on stairs... Just constant abuse and scorn on anyone not in their group. And these guys were popular. I won't say every girl liked them because there were lots of smart girls. But a lot of girls liked them and guys thought they were cool, etc. It blew my mind that we weren't all ostracizing them for being obnoxious, abusive bullies.
It was junior high. I get it. I moved on.
But Trump's success brings that feeling back. There's no logic to it. It's a creepy mammalian subconscious need to stay on the good side of the bully so you don't end up targeted. Or maybe you see someone acting like you would like to act but can't get away with it.
I have no idea but I blows my mind every time I think about and I know it's what is wrong with the world. No question about that.
There is a logic to it. They demonstrate their power by behaving badly without consequence, and the worse they behave the more powerful they must be. The one thing Trump is right about is that he’s treated very unfairly by the courts.
How has trump been treated unfairly by the courts?
I think by not having his ass thrown in jail. Very unfair.
It’s unfair, but not unfair to Trump, it’s unfair to the rest of us.
Think about what would happen if you behaved like Trump and compare it to how the courts treat him. It's clearly unfair in his favor.
I have lost respect for many people in my life because of this, and their inability to see reality somehow when it comes to this one single issue.
I guess people see themselves in a dumb guy just coasting through and seemingly succeeding against all odds. Obviously, they didn't get billions of dollars from daddy to enable that.
I ask myself this almost daily.
No surprise, Trump famously said he doesn't hire people who are smarter than him.
I hadn't seen a picture of her until now, but it's really apparent that he hired her because she looks like Melania. I wouldn't be surprised if he's sexually assaulting her.
I think she might actually be dumb enough to consent.
I was going to make a comment about how hard it would be to find anyone that dumb and then remembered all the mouth breathing red hats out there.
And trump lies about absolutely everything without exception, so....
She's doing a horrible job at faking being smart.
Sometimes it's the imposter syndrome, and sometimes you are an actual imposter.
Maybe she just hasn't started yet! I'm sure this is all a big fake-out and she'll start to pretend to be smart any time now.
The only court Alina Habba is qualified to work at is the mall food court.
No she’s not.
There’s training requirements for how to handle food Safely. Like, ServeSafe courses and stuff
It's my constitutional right to have poop on my fingers while making your sandwich!
Ewww.
but I'm sure there's some people that would like that sandwich very much,
“faking being smart”
This is everybody connected to Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump.
If you somehow mix up the beginning of that acronym we could just call him SCOTT for short. Sorry, Scotts.
Sex Crime Offender Treasonous trump*
*I never capitalize trump’s name, he doesn’t deserve the respect.
I like it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Remarks made by Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba in a recent interview about “faking being smart” resurfaced after she endured two tough days in court during her client’s civil trial for defamation damages.
Ms Habba repeatedly clashed with New York judge Lewis A Kaplan in court on Tuesday and Wednesday, during the former president’s civil trial to determine damages for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll.
These included the response to repeated objections, and her failure to stand up when making them, as well as continuing to petition for a postponement of the trial so that the former president can attend the funeral of his mother-in-law.
Social media users were quick to return to a clip of Ms Habba during a recent interview on a 4 January episode of the PBD podcast, in which she said she would “rather be pretty than smart.”
Sharing the clip on Wednesday, Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of Meidas Touch, wrote: “Alina Habba proved in court today that this statement is categorically false.”
She later asked the judge “how should I proceed?” when questioning Ms Carroll about tweets she had received and then requested a mistrial on grounds that “evidence had been deleted” – which was immediately denied.
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