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The Idiocracy of Donald J. Trump


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18 hours ago, romad1 said:

I think he missed that he was given a chance.  But not showing up in person, giving his own defense of sexual assault if done by celebrities, and telling in his deposition that he wouldn't rape the defense counsel because she wasn't his type might have hurt his chances, no?

I’m with you on all this, but really, does it even matter? All he has to do is just say he wasn’t given a chance, and that’s good enough not only for the hundred million or so bamboozled red hats, but, distressingly, also for tens of millions of others who know him only as an ex-President—just like Obama is—and who don’t follow any of this even the littlest bit. It’s not as though any of them are going to fact-check this online and be horrified into setting or changing their minds.

And the latter category—those who don’t really know or follow—that’s the real prize, because they could decide to vote for him at the last moment knowing nothing more about him than the thing he said the day before the election.

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5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’m with you on all this, but really, does it even matter? All he has to do is just say he wasn’t given a chance, and that’s good enough not only for the hundred million or so bamboozled red hats, but, distressingly, also for tens of millions of others who know him only as an ex-President—just like Obama is—and who don’t follow any of this even the littlest bit. It’s not as though any of them are going to fact-check this online and be horrified into setting or changing their minds.

And the latter category—those who don’t really know or follow—that’s the real prize, because they could decide to vote for him at the last moment knowing nothing more about him than the thing he said the day before the election.

The reaction of the GOP Senate right now is interesting.  There have been some interesting defections.  The foghorn leghorn bull**** artists who are in on the MAGA grift are gone forever to reason, but the few normals indicate that the Trump support in the suburbs among women and sentient men has cratered. 

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1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Trump was given a chance to testify, in fact he was given several chances but opted to go on vacation to a golf course in Scotland. 
 

If Trump was going to blame someone maybe it should be one of his vast team of law school dropouts.

That c- legal team knew they had to keep the random noise generator off the stand.   He's already incriminated himself enough.  

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1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Trump was given a chance to testify, in fact he was given several chances but opted to go on vacation to a golf course in Scotland. 
 

If Trump was going to blame someone maybe it should be one of his vast team of law school dropouts.

lol if Trump was going to blame someone

Who would he ever not blame? Is even Ivanka untouchable now?

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7 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

 

Why am I just a little surprised that rather than ”request a meeting at [his] earliest convenience”, they didn’t simply demand that Garland immediately come to Mar-a-Lago alone for a little chat.

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19 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

Trump will use EO to change constitution, just like Madison intended

 

It doesn't matter whether he does it. It matters only that he says he's going to do it. His only interest is in getting elected, not in governing.

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1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I would bet my life savings on Trump NOT getting elected. No way he gets the EC ever again.

This is so dangerously wrong.

Trump beat Clinton by less than 80K votes across 3 states; Biden beat Trump by less then 45K votes across 3 states. If the DNC get out the vote was just a little stronger (or if Comey does not kneecap her), Trump is never President. Similarly, if Trump is just little less disgusting in his first term, he would have tied Biden at 269 and the House would have re-elected him.

Trump absolutely has an EC path in 2024, narrow as it may be,

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2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

This is so dangerously wrong.

Trump beat Clinton by less than 80K votes across 3 states; Biden beat Trump by less then 45K votes across 3 states. If the DNC get out the vote was just a little stronger (or if Comey does not kneecap her), Trump is never President. Similarly, if Trump is just little less disgusting in his first term, he would have tied Biden at 269 and the House would have re-elected him.

Trump absolutely has an EC path in 2024, narrow as it may be,

Dangerous, of course.  Trump is pushing that 3rd way candidate via Bannon and company as a way to bleed off votes from normals.   That is why groups are working so hard to make sure people don't waste vote on these candidates and concentrate on the main foes of democracy. 

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It will be interesting to see if Ken Paxton rolls on his comments that he manipulated the Texas election results on Trump's behalf. 

That would be very interesting.  Might be too much for the system to absorb but it needs to come out. 

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53 minutes ago, VegasTiger said:

In 2020 Trump had more votes than anyone in history not named Biden. In 2020 after 4 years of his idiocy! Don't think for a moment it couldn't happen again.

Yeah - this is exactly the kind of "Euwww, but Biden is old and wrinkly" democratic party apathy election that could put us right back to the 2016 disaster. The other elephant in the room is that the Dems would also apparently rather lose than replace Harris on the ticket. I haven't seen a VP get less love from their own party since Dan Quayle.

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8 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I'll just go back to the Nixon movie: "What if Kennedy don't run?" 

I think the likelihood of him being in jail is equal to him being the GOP nominee. 

The two are not mutually exclusive.

How many states do you suppose actually bar a candidate in jail from the ticket?  If they don't, it won't make any difference. And actually pretty sure they couldn't anyway -- states can't set requirements for Federal office holders and the Constitution doesn't say anything about disqualification for being locked up. Unfortunately, despite it being pretty obvious now, the Founders failed to anticipate that half the nation's electorate might someday go insane.

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