Things that made you Facepalm today (Political Version)

[Methais]

Awesome word play on sErAn there.

[Seran]

Demented man-child is somehow still a Conservative favorite.

Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch.


Kaplan, who has represented clients in high-profile cases against Trump, including E. Jean Carroll, said on an episode of the “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” podcast recorded Thursday that she rejected the former president’s request that they work through a lunch break because he believed the deposition was “a waste of my time.”


“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. “And he said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?’”


Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal teams.


“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch.


“He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina,” she said.

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/polit...ago/index.html

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Demented man-child is somehow still a Conservative favorite.

Such a socialist. Why is it his defense team's responsibility to feed stupid people?

[Parkbandit]

Shocker, Republicans are no longer the law and order party and at Trump's urging are now the lawless rebellion party.

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releas...nt-debt-relief

So after the Supreme Court said that Biden can't forgive student loans without Congress, he's forgiving more student loans without Congress.

[Suppressed Poet]

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releas...nt-debt-relief

So after the Supreme Court said that Biden can't forgive student loans without Congress, he's forgiving more student loans without Congress.

Also Biden administration: Why are you ignoring SCOTUS decision Texas?

[Seran]

Some Conservatives claim they want to solve immigration problems in the United States, but as we recently learned that was a lie. They only want to look like they're doing something so they can preserve the campaign issue. Here is one Conservative on the Senate floor describing threats he received for trying to do the job he was elected into.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Some Conservatives claim they want to solve immigration problems in the United States, but as we recently learned that was a lie. They only want to look like they're doing something so they can preserve the campaign issue. Here is one Conservative on the Senate floor describing threats he received for trying to do the job he was elected into.

I'd deflect too if I was getting 8-1 overruled in SCOTUS on if Trump can run. Talk about a mud stomping. Going to take you a week of constant pedialyte to replenish your electrolytes from all the tears you squirt out.

Edit to add: I said 8-1, but I suspect it'll either be 7-2 or most likely 9-0. I don't think Sotomayor will be a standout.

[Suppressed Poet]

Some Conservatives claim they want to solve immigration problems in the United States, but as we recently learned that was a lie. They only want to look like they're doing something so they can preserve the campaign issue. Here is one Conservative on the Senate floor describing threats he received for trying to do the job he was elected into.

You got it backwards bud.

Republicans for years have been pointing to the border saying it’s a huge problem. Biden & Mayorkas have repeatedly lied saying that our border is secure until very recently. Democrats controlled Congress for 2 years and did nothing. Now that it is an important voter issue a bill is being introduced in the senate that has 5x as much money designated to Biden’s proxy war mongering than it does on our border & the bill does very little to solve the core issue of border protection. You want to deflect and blame Republicans for Biden’s incompetence & bad enforcement of our laws? Get the fuck outta here… You may have the memory equivalent of an earthworm, but the American people remember.

You want that bill passed? Since your memory is shit, this is what I said:

I have an offer for you:

1) Remove from the bill all funding to Ukraine and any foreign aid.
2) Rewrite the bill to end the acceptance of immigrants solely based on political asylum claims.
3) Focus spending on additional provisions to keep people from illegally crossing our border.
4) Demand the resignation of Alejandro Mayorkas for his derelict of duty & treason to the Constitution. In addition he must apologize on live TV to the American people for 4 years of rape, theft, and murder.

Do that and Republicans will vote to pass this bill. Do it not and this bill will die in Congress.

I’M NOT FINISHED! Before the bill is voted on & Republicans bail out the current administration from their own terrible executive border policy which caused this crisis:

5) Joe Biden must walk onto the Senate floor, present himself before all of the 118th Congress, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own ass.

[Methais]

You got it backwards bud.

Republicans for years have been pointing to the border saying it’s a huge problem. Biden & Mayorkas have repeatedly lied saying that our border is secure until very recently. Democrats controlled Congress for 2 years and did nothing. Now that it is an important voter issue a bill is being introduced in the senate that has 5x as much money designated to Biden’s proxy war mongering than it does on our border & the bill does very little to solve the core issue of border protection. You want to deflect and blame Republicans for Biden’s incompetence & bad enforcement of our laws? Get the fuck outta here… You may have the memory equivalent of an earthworm, but the American people remember.

You want that bill passed? Since your memory is shit, this is what I said:

All that money for Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, but still $0 for Maui.

I hope Seran tells us more about what a great president Biden is.

[Seran]

You got it backwards bud.

Republicans for years have been pointing to the border saying it’s a huge problem. Biden & Mayorkas have repeatedly lied saying that our border is secure until very recently. Democrats controlled Congress for 2 years and did nothing. Now that it is an important voter issue a bill is being introduced in the senate that has 5x as much money designated to Biden’s proxy war mongering than it does on our border & the bill does very little to solve the core issue of border protection.

So a bill that allows closure of the borders against almost all entry , expedites removal, adds more border enforcement officers, narrows amnesty provisions, allow the use of remote monitors like ankle bracelets on those few granted entry pending shortened asylum hearing dates, and increased overall national security wasn't good enough now? Interesting, considering those were all Republican demands to begin with, guess as the Republican Senator pointed out, the political expediency of the MAGA contingent got in the way of getting anything done.