Trump's Final Hours in Office Were Consumed With Fury at Snoop Dogg

My favorite part of this entire article is the author referring to Trump as a "former game show host."
- I like the one calling him Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny
- People keep calling him a "game show host" and I feel like I'm missing something. Are people calling the apprentice a "game show"? Thatt was reality TV imo, not a game show.
  
  I thought more game show than reality, like survivor. Apparently the genre is "reality competition"
  
  Can't the Venn diagram overlap?
  
  Game show is more accurate, given he's not a real businessman.
- I love that description of him. I've been calling him that since he threw his hat in the ring back in 2015. I forget who I first heard/read it from, but it's one of the nicer accurate descriptions of Rapey McTinyD.

Trump's Final Hours..
Yes!
...in Office
damn..
- It's going to be an international shit show the likes of which god has never seen. The conspiracy theories alone will be heard all the way to Mars. It could get violent too.
  
  I'll blast Ding Dong the Witch is Dead 24 hours straight on that glorious day.
  
  I just realized that I have a spare bottle of champagne at home, I hereby dedicate it to be drunk when Mr. Trump is gone.
  You should never wish someone dead, and I don't wish Mr. Trump dead, but I am going to celebrate when he is gone.
- Final hours in office so far.
  
  Aw man

So, when I read this, I can't help but think that that sounds like a miserable way to live, going from hatred to grudge to hatred as a continual state of being. Really nothing his actions could cause me to want for him is worse than being him. I wish he could go and get help instead of spending his time taking it out on everyone around him, but he won't.
- He never looks happy. At the rare time he smiles, it's clear from his eyes that it's false.
  He's a miserable old man and, regardless of the outcome of the election, he will die miserable.
  
  I can't always manage it, like when I think about what he wants to do to my whole family for existing differently in a way his base has been told to be angry about, but sometimes I do manage a sense of sorrow for the fact that he's spent his entire life like that, trapped in himself.
  
  I for one hope he is miserable every moment for the rest of his life.
- . I wish he could go and get help instead of spending his time taking it out on everyone around him, but he won't.
  I wish his anger would consume him and his entire body and he ends up all shriveled up like Voldemort in that one scene.
  
  That would probably be better for the rest of us, and more likely, but it's still a sad outcome compared to him recovering from the sickness he's suffered from his whole life.
  
  More likely "his anger would consume him and his entire body and he ends up all shriveled up like" Palpatine and he tries to take over the galaxy.
- Donald Trump has clinically diagnosable Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and living with NPD is hard. People with NPD aren't walking around saying "I only associate with the best people and have the best things" and viewing every single experience through the singular lens of how it affects them because they want to, but because they have to. It's the only way they know how to cope with the world around them.
  People with NPD who aren't born into money like Trump often struggle to maintain employment and relationships. Trump struggles just as much but can throw money and power around to get out of bad situations. Just look at all his failed business ventures and failed relationships. Trump is literally textbook NPD and it's terrifying he has so much power and is influencing such a large segment of society to be like him.
  
  Yeah, it's tragic for anyone in that situation. It also sucks extra hard that he's become our collective tragedy, but the universe is like that sometimes.
  
  I understand where you're coming from and it's refreshing seeing someone have the empathy you do for people suffering with NPD. Having any type of mental illness though isn't an excuse or good enough reason to treat people the way he does, or to damage or harm others like a lot of NPDs do. It's unfortunate their mental illness can screw up and damage the lives of so many other people around them. I find it difficult to sympathize with them.
  
  This is a perfect example of the Just World Fallacy in action.
  Just because you think he ought to be unhappy it doesn't mean he is.
- ....everyone around him being the entire country and then some, given the power this country has.
  
  Yup. It used to be a much smaller set, but then as a country we put him in office.
  On reflection, that has turned out to be a poor decision on America's part. I hope we continue to do better.
  
  Angola?
- That is exactly what I think when I spend time around some of the more conservative relatives. Envy, fear, anger, and ultimately hatred. So much jealousy. Over the years it’s shown me how so much of the suffering in the developed world is self imposed, and helped me change.
  
  It really is both saddening and enlightening. I still struggle with some of these problems, but the awareness has done wonders for my life. Actual effective threat assessment is like a superpower.
- Really nothing his actions could cause me to want for him is worse than being him.
  I mean...I could want for him to be him...but without the money and influence and power over others and enormous platform to spread his ideas and cult like following and 4 years as the leader of my country.
  He'd have to be one hell of a lot closer to a regular person before I ever wished anything positive for him.
  
  I want that for instrumental reasons like, "I'd really like it if I didn't have to worry about my family being herded into camps because "Joe Biden was just too old" or something," but yeah. It would be really good if people would get better about recognizing what he is and what it is he's selling them, like a cut rate Leland Gaunt.
  
  I’d like him to be him with external consequences to his actions. Plenty of people are miserable by their own making. That fact is the core principle of a major religion even.
  That said, yeah he deserves the misery he brings himself. His inability to enjoy what he has and those around him is pathetic. A power, prestige, and conflict addict suffering because he can’t accept what he is.
- When your life is just given to you, you earned nothing, and you get away with crimes for decades, the world takes on a much more cynical shade of brown. Trump has such thin skin from never having to truly work a day in his life that words literally wound him.
- It must be bad, yes, but it doesn't help that the draws the ire of others to himself
  
  He does, and that doesn't help, yes. The kind of person he is, is a kind of finger trap: the harder he tries to be cool, respected, etc, the more he steps on rakes, and the more rakes he steps on, the more he needs those things, so he tries, and steps on more rakes.

I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.
-Snoop, 2024
- I guess weed does make you stupid after all.
  
  Snoop wrote a song dissing him, talked shit about him for years, then worked him over and got him to pardon a bunch of dudes. Snoop's not dumb, he knows he played him and won, and that, for the sake of his friend that could possibly have his pardon revoked if the world's biggest narcissist gets a second term, needs to play it cool.
  Or, he literally is ok with dropping his beef now that the asshat is out of office, like an adult.

This is like that one time that Bush the Elder was so upset at Chuck D that he almost missed an important NATO summit. Or the time Bill Clinton had a months long feud with Tupac and stopped going to cabinet meetings. Oh and don’t get me started on George W and Jay Z. /s
- Missed a real opportunity with W and Kanye. Mike Meyers remembers...
  
  That look was priceless. The ye timeline would be fantastic if it were fiction.
- Or the Obama-Eminem battle that lasted 13 days and nights, no time left to find Bin Laden.

While the famous rapper and actor recently made headlines discussing his “love and respect” for the ex-president, he bitterly feuded with Trump early on in his presidency, before his feelings softened.
...At least one Trump aide quickly started googling for other derogatory, profanity-laden Snoop Dogg quotes that were directed at the 45th U.S. president. The examples were compiled, and some of these officials personally saw to it that Trump was shown how the rapper had felt about him in recent years.
This immediately enraged the Republican president, who had apparently forgotten about the depths of Snoop Dogg’s past hatred.
Snoop was trying to get clemency for a Mr. Harris.
- Michael "Harry-O" Harris was a co-founder of Death Row Records. He was also a gangster and a drug kingpin and was once charged with attempted murder, although that charge was dropped. He is an instrumental figure in the history of hiphop. He also does not deserve a pardon.
  https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/la-stories/2022/07/17/michael-harry-o-harris-the-untold-story-of-death-row-records
  Which is kind of why I'm surprised Trump didn't give him one.

Snoop is listed at 6’4”. Trumpf claims to be 6’3”. Hmmm. Looks a little bit more than 1” diff, but even without the spacing…. Maybe that’s the reason he was upset?!?
- So you're saying Snoop is higher than Trump?
  
  Obviously!
- It’s because Trump is 5’11
  
  I'm 5'10". Trump is still taller than me. 😕

You know, given how angry Trump was at Snoop Dogg, I wonder how much the pardon cost?

This is the best summary I could come up with:
In late 2020 and early 2021, Snoop Dogg secretly worked to influence the White House on executive clemency for federal prisoners — including for the rapper’s close friend and Death Row Records figure, Michael “Harry-O” Harris.
Near the end of Trump’s administration, Snoop Dogg and several others had been working diligently behind the scenes for weeks to secure a presidential commutation for Death Row Records co-founder and ex-kingpin Harry-O.
“I don’t give a fuck, I tell ’em straight up, motherfucker: If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin’ racist,” Snoop Dogg said about Trump, his MAGA fans, and the president’s pal Kanye West in 2018.
That paragraph caught the attention of certain individuals and administration officials close to Trump, several of whom were extremely skeptical of his past embrace of moderate criminal justice reforms and some of the clemencies he had granted in his term.
“I was aware that the [Daily Beast] article caused a problem for Mr. Harris’ clemency petition, and I was asked by someone close to the White House to send a clip of a previously recorded message from Snoop where he commended Trump’s efforts on criminal justice reform,” Angelos confirmed to Rolling Stone.
Among those listed were Harris (who received a commuted sentence), Trump’s former top strategist and White House adviser Steve Bannon, rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, and former prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy.
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You almost got me, rolling stone.
- They really that bad?
  
  just look at that headline. who the fuck cares if ConFed is (or was) mad at the Snoop?