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You know the best part of this whole sordid Trump mess (Original Post) jmowreader Dec 2017 OP
Irony MontanaMama Dec 2017 #1
And an extra helping of irony for... Pluvious Dec 2017 #23
Indeed! MontanaMama Dec 2017 #24
Irony AND Schadenfreude NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #27
Oh the possibilities!! MontanaMama Dec 2017 #34
That would be so poetic justice! Kath2 Dec 2017 #2
I know, right? pnwmom Dec 2017 #4
I call it sweet karma onetexan Dec 2017 #6
It's downright O'Henry-esque. NanceGreggs Dec 2017 #3
I feel we are living Ransom of Red Chief. I would be willing to pay Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #16
The Gift of the Mad Guy??? N/T flotsam Dec 2017 #21
Hello Jmowreader syringis Dec 2017 #5
There may not be a good French translation for this phrase, but it fits perfectly jmowreader Dec 2017 #8
I'm agnostic but for once... syringis Dec 2017 #13
Good Ones! Paka Dec 2017 #10
Hello Paka syringis Dec 2017 #14
Watch, the idiot' & his people will now claim the emails are fake onetexan Dec 2017 #7
Yup, since of course Obama's Deep State embedded in GSA cannot be trusted wishstar Dec 2017 #11
drumpf should have had a private email server in his basement. democratisphere Dec 2017 #9
he does mercuryblues Dec 2017 #20
I think that's the one connected to Alfa Bank jmowreader Dec 2017 #32
What!!! mercuryblues Dec 2017 #35
MB, MB, MB... jmowreader Dec 2017 #36
As my brother likes to say mercuryblues Dec 2017 #37
more- LIEING. pansypoo53219 Dec 2017 #12
I was just thinking the same thing! rainy Dec 2017 #15
Sweet irony TEB Dec 2017 #17
"Russia, if you have the missing emails," MoonRiver Dec 2017 #18
Freaking perfect malaise Dec 2017 #19
Delicious irony! mcar Dec 2017 #22
Irony Alert BadGimp Dec 2017 #25
After the Old Post Office fiasco it makes me a lot less embarrassed to admit 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2017 #26
His emails. Demtexan Dec 2017 #28
Hillary is chuckling, maybe even Motley13 Dec 2017 #29
Specifically, that the GOPers were all over Hillary and her private emails, The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #30
Yep! raven mad Dec 2017 #31
I'm giddy about the possibility. TomSlick Dec 2017 #33

Pluvious

(4,328 posts)
23. And an extra helping of irony for...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 02:12 PM
Dec 2017

The "LOCK HER UP" cheerleader Flynn getting LOCKED THE FUCK UP !!

Demsrule86

(68,735 posts)
16. I feel we are living Ransom of Red Chief. I would be willing to pay
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 07:52 AM
Dec 2017

New York to take Trump back or maybe Russia.

"Gentlemen: I received your letter about the ransom you ask for the return of my "Donnie"[sic]. I think you are a little high in your demands. I hereby make you a counter-proposal, which I believe you will accept. You bring "Donnie" [sic] home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night because the neighbors believe he is lost. And, I could not be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back."

Very respectfully,

"Bill Di Blasio [sic]."


https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/a-23-2009-06-12-voa1-83142177/117086.html (O'Henry)

I have changed the names in the excerpt in order to name the guilty (Donnie Trump)

syringis

(5,101 posts)
5. Hello Jmowreader
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 05:35 AM
Dec 2017

It is exactly what I was thinking


Some French expressions came to my mind, I'm not sure of the translation :

- L'effet boomerang / boomerang effect

- Réponse du berger à la bergère / answer of the Shepherd to the shepherdess

- Tel est pris qui croyait prendre / Now the hunted becomes the hunter

- La parole est d'argent, le silence est d'or / Words are silver, silence is gold

- Rira bien qui rira le dernier / He laughs best who laughs last


jmowreader

(50,569 posts)
8. There may not be a good French translation for this phrase, but it fits perfectly
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 05:54 AM
Dec 2017

"Payback is a bitch."

For the past year and a half all we've heard from that orange bastard is "Hillary's emails," "lock her up," "Hillary is evil."

Fuck this.

When that son of a bitch gets taken down by his fucking emails, I want him to go to prison for the rest of his life. I want him RICOd and I want all his properties - AND all of Kushner's - sold at auction and the money to go to the Treasury. And then I want all his adult children, AND his evil son-in-law, to suffer the same fate.

syringis

(5,101 posts)
13. I'm agnostic but for once...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 06:25 AM
Dec 2017

From your lips to God's ears


I wish Comey would have STFU ! Maybe all this mess wouldn't happened.

Idioms are not easy to translate. Sometimes it is simply not possible. I have seen many idioms which equivalent in a foreign language is completely different.

wishstar

(5,272 posts)
11. Yup, since of course Obama's Deep State embedded in GSA cannot be trusted
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 06:08 AM
Dec 2017

Must investigate those biased anti-Trump GSA'ers in cahoots with Mueller's biased agents

jmowreader

(50,569 posts)
36. MB, MB, MB...
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 06:43 AM
Dec 2017

InfoWars is an absolute authority on being crazier than a shithouse rat, but that's about it.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,924 posts)
30. Specifically, that the GOPers were all over Hillary and her private emails,
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:26 PM
Dec 2017

claiming she used a private server instead of .gov emails - because she knew .gov emails are not protected and can be obtained by other government agencies.....

And now they're claiming the Trump transition team's .gov emails are private and privileged.



This is such delicious irony.

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