The sucking up is so gross.
WHAT ECONOMY?? He let COVID run out of control and wrecked everything!
Oh, and our foreign policy is so great that Putin has no fear about putting bounties on U.S. soldiers.
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The sucking up is so gross.
WHAT ECONOMY?? He let COVID run out of control and wrecked everything!
Oh, and our foreign policy is so great that Putin has no fear about putting bounties on U.S. soldiers.
A smart Republican with future hopes for a presidential run themselves would be doing everything they can right now to keep their distance from Trump.
Glad to see Nikky Haley tie herself to the 50 ton anchor that is Trump as he's sinking to the bottom. I'm sure her future opponent will remind everyone that she will forever have the Trump stench on her when she and every other Republican tries to claim they never supported him.
Glad to see Nikky Haley tie herself to the 50 ton anchor that is Trump as he's sinking to the bottom. I'm sure her future opponent will remind everyone that she will forever have the Trump stench on her when she and every other Republican tries to claim they never supported him.
But endorsing someone isn't usually going to convince his fans to run out and vote.
They vote for him, not people he talks about. Him not being on the ticket himself gave them no reason to vote. It makes a difference.
It's entirely possible that trump continues to hold great power in the party even if he loses. His supporters are effectively cult members at this point, and their loyalty is to him, not to the republican party. I can see him playing kingmaker in the party.
This article encapsulates a lot of my frustration with (and I'm sure many of you feel the same way) with our political system. Millennials make far less than Boomers and Gen X's of the same age, and came to age during the 2008 Great Recession and the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. And what's most infuriating about it is that those same Boomers who claim to be against big government are the ones who benefit the most from government largesse - e.g. Social Security, Medicare, and the mortgage interest deduction while being opposed to universal healthcare, a minimum wage, dealing with the student loan crisis, and making it more affordable for millennials to buy a home.
OK Boomer, We’re Gonna Socialize You
The pandemic is turning Millennials into socialists. We must make them a better offer.www.bloomberg.com
I love seeing Bloomberg, WSJ, etc. sweat over this stuff.
I hear he was hated by NYC residents. But outside of The Apprentice, I doubt I ever gave Trump enough mindshare to even Wikipedia him and form an opinion.
How can House campaigns say they need more money when most of them haven't even spent a dime at Trump properties yet? I'd bet they don't even have Trump family members on payroll as consultants either.
I hated him since the late 80's and I've lived in MD my entire life. He always came across as a scumbag.
Actually, hate is a strong word. I didn't hate him until 2015. I disliked him and thought he was a conman.
Edit: Oh, I remember my parents taking me to visit my uncle who lived outside Atlantic City and he wanted to take us to a brand new casino called the Taj Mahal. LOL
It was the tackiest place I've ever been in my life - fake gold leaf as far as the eye could see. I also got to ride in an elevator with an ancient man and his "daughter". Thanks mom and dad. What a treat.
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I encountered him first on TV back in the late 80s. 13 year old me thought he was a blowhard then. 13 year old me was right.
Around 2009 I had a coworker who was from the Chicago suburbs and absolutely hated Donald Trump. I'm kind of curious to see if that would have changed if he were still alive when Trump was running for president being he was the kind of right wing racist asshole that makes up Trump's base.
The dude was a massive outspoken Birther in 2011 and then Romney had to kiss his ass and got an endorsement for president in 2012.
People outside of NYC absolutely knew who he was.
'The Call' going down the way it did, is certainly better than it going as per Trump and Barr's plan, for sure.
We're probably close to the same age and that's around the time I became aware of him as well.
last smart thing Haley did was take down the confederate flag, I am now thinking that was pure accident.
For sure, but a lot of people only thought of him as that billionaire from NYC with the weird orange hair that might be a wig, and nothing else. A big part of why 2020 doesn't look like 2016, is because way more people know him better now.
yeah going from the guy that had the wacky catchphrase to maybe the reason grandma died will change perceptions
There's a reason scammers will target people they've already scammed over and over. Meet Michael Sheehan:
Yep, watch any documentary on big scams. The victims alwyas try to make excuses. Hell watch the fire festival hulu documentry. Dude was back to scamming the same people a week out of court from the fire festival shit
Holy fuck I just cannot even begin to handle this guys stupidity and psychosis
This is what cultism does to you. Unbelievable
Until the next far-right GOP populist is swept into office in 2028 that is.
Yup.
I saw a GOP strategist talking about this after Obama got reelected. About how they have to change course. Then all the stars aligned and Trump won *inspite* of his racism, and the message they took was that he won *because* of it.
Maybe if he loses very narrowly. That way he can claim fraud and all of his cult will believe it's possible. But if he gets blown out by a massive margin like it looks like he will they'll all pretend like they hated him all along.
The thing is, no other GOP candidate in 2016 followed the 2012 autopsy advice. The entire field was filled with racists who were intent on limiting voting access to brown people and making immigration and citizenship more difficult.
People can point to Trump as the sole racist in that primary, but they all were.
I wish he'd just use his money to give his wife more shitty acting roles instead of using it to damage the country, like he did when she appeared in Xena Warrior Princess:
Republican lawmakers might want to, but their voters wont. They worship the man, and they will claim any loss, big or small was rigged against him.
The problem is that Trump is a symptom of one of the major diseases plaguing 2020's old people. All too many of the extremely hateful ones are also those who are hopelessly addicted to cable news and social media, which Trump is a part of. He isn't going to go to the ranch and paint like GWB, he's never going to shut the fuck up. You can't memory hole someone who keeps yelling at you.
That... wouldn't be possible. In order for for that to happen, the GOP has to change in order to match and meet the changes of their once solid strongholds. But contradictory, a GOP populist is becoming anathema to these places. That's the 'problem'.
It seems like people forget but, as the article points out, Trump won on a technicality. 70k votes across 3 states. Against a historically disliked opponent. Who still won the popular vote. And who probably would have won the Presidency (and Senate) had it not been for an open investigation by the (then) respected FBI Director who was appointed by a President of the same party as her. As much as I like and respect Hillary, it's becoming increasingly obvious that literally any other Democrat probably hands Trump his ass in 2016.
The national GOP is facing a problem where what the Primary GOP voter likes is becoming toxic to the other 66% of the electorate. And that's a problem because in the best case scenario, it's like running Kobach in Kansas. Even in the best of conditions, the person most liked by the GOP Primary voter is going to struggle in a General.
TLDR: for them to win, they have to change. Not in 2016, Maybe not in 2020, or 2024 even. But sooner or later, they have to pay the piper. Problem is, the current GOP base doesn't want that. Ergo, they have a pretty big problem on their hands.
I would say that most of the 30-40 people in this group would know trump and hate him. He was on tv consistently through the end of the 80's as the king of business and 90's as the fool.
it's interesting heard one podcast call it the trump crest where people liked the asshole business man and they were the movie hero. Think nothing but trouble where Chevy pays a hero rich guy.
it's interesting heard one podcast call it the trump crest where people liked the asshole business man and they were the movie hero. Think nothing but trouble where Chevy pays a hero rich guy.
It'll be 2024 and they'll claim any economic recover that possibly will have happened for themselves.
I really would feel better if this stuff was posted if/when biden wins. I would gladly dance on the grave of the GOP, but this stuff always feel like inviting bad mojo
I'll get just as much satisfaction if Susan Collins loses as Trump losing in a landslide.
leading them into a box canyon
I've never heard the phrase but I like it
They're losing because Trump is historically unpopular and they basically rubber stamped everything he wanted. Senate races (aside from Joe Manchin, who has magic powers in WV) are increasingly nationalized.
That's the psychosis of a degenerate gambler:
"I may have lost the rent money on poker and cheap booze, but if I can just win one big one I can move on and feel whole again."
At least she didn't last that long.I wish he'd just use his money to give his wife more shitty acting roles instead of using it to damage the country, like he did when she appeared in Xena Warrior Princess:
Getting random text messages I didn't sign up for. I wonder if the local Dem offices gave out their volunteer list.
If Tulsi ain't in this survey, I don't want any part of it /s
If Tulsi ain't in this survey, I don't want any part of it /s
If it makes you feel better, I get daily text messages from the Biden campaign, and random texts from various other Democratic candidates. Apparently it's the price I pay for donating to Democrats across the country.Getting random text messages I didn't sign up for. I wonder if the local Dem offices gave out their volunteer list.
If Tulsi ain't in this survey, I don't want any part of it /s
I read Cracked.com a lot several years back, and they'd have articles about Trump fucking with neighbors and just being an awful piece of shit, so I hated him long before he ran in 2016.
I am old enough to remember seeing Trump on TV a lot in the late 80s and early 90s, and my impression of him at the time was that he was a rich celebrity who some people took seriously and others thought was a buffoon. He always came across as a buffoon to me and that only increased over time.
Both socialism and capitalism are losing ground, it's time for America to embrace the glorious Third Way. /s
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