Trump Emigrates To Clown World

The 45th president of the United States, a man who aspires to return to the White House, has officially beclowned himself in a way that not even hardline MAGA folks can explain away:

It's hard to know what to say about this. The thing speaks for itself. Trump is a grown-ass man, a former president. And now he's grifting NFTs. Meanwhile, what's going on with his main rival for the 2024 GOP nomination? This:
The choice is clear. Oh boy, is it ever clear. It seems too that it's finally over for Donald Trump. When you're getting headlines like the one below (from this story), launching an NFT grift is not the thing you want to be doing to regain ground lost to a Republican governor and political rival who actually gets stuff done.
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(Sorry for light posting this week. I've been in Rome this week doing an interview, seeing friends, making pilgrimages to churches in the city, and having a little break before Christmas.)
At this rate he should restart his Trump multilevel marketing company. I am sure he could get millions to sign up and sell vitamins and drinks and clothes and investment strategies to his followers.
If you want clown behavior that has real world consequences, pay attention to the vile absurdities that the current President is promoting in statement and law this past week.
Please note that Governor De Santis is a firm supporter of escalating the war with Russia. Why isn't that important?
I recall that you considered voting for Joe Biden, and that family members did so. For the principles you hold, that seems a remarkable lapse in judgement.
You are a remarkable prophet in your public ministry of warning of the degradation and deceit of the country's misguided or worse elites. Yet the practical answers of how to effectively and successfully resist as you admit elude you.
And as for what constitutes news I think you are too influenced by the NYT overton window, which is paying zero attention to the lessons being exposed about Twitter. Those same algorithmic techniques of censorship have been in evidence with Disqus, formerly the commenting engine for TAC.
I have often disagreed with you Fran, but I used to admire your moral steadfastness. You seem to have lost that by the roadside if you are now on the Trump train.
that believable. Your own assessment of my bad character is just more along the "deplorables" meme sold by Clinton and her diehard supporters. As Alinsky put it, don't debate the facts or policies, make it personal.
Don't you recall the laser beam eye ads depicting The Big Guy with glowing red heat vision like Superman's, seeking out to destroy the evil super villain Putin, his sidekick the Wolverine Zelensky in his tight muscle T?
Over at his giant gas station lair, the dictator baits our heroes by insulting the righteous empire as a gay bar, a fools based international world order.
When you gonna grow up? Maybe in the sequel? Armageddon as entertainment?
Bottom line: it Donald Trump and his various idiotic cons, vulgarities, stream-of-consciousness blabbering, and political antics are the biggest problem we have in America, then we're doing pretty well. I still don't regret having voted for him two years ago. He wasn't a fascist then, he's not a fascist today. He's the same Donald Trump that George Bush the Elder incisively identified as presidential material so very long ago. Trump was a fully grown man once, although by now he's turned into a Grandpa Simpson. Hint, hint.
Make room for the next generation, and that goes for both Agent Orange and Skeletor.
Er, Ron DeSantis, who comes down more or less where that GOP base is at, but with the added virtue that he knows how things work and he gets things done and does not make an international laughingstock of himself in the process?
Bill Clinton won in 1996 despite all the Whitewater braying. And George GW Bush won in 1988 despite an actual real world scandal (Iran Contra)
Still not getting your devotion to the incompetent loser and your refusal to consider DeSantis who, as Rod has pointed out, is quite effective on SoCon issues.