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I firmly believe that if any other candidate, in a primary or general election, either republican or democrat, had said this, it would end their campaign.
We have become so accustomed to Trump saying outrageous bullshit, that this will be forgotten in less than a week, and most voters will never even hear about it.
Trump has steadily pushed the limit of what a politician can get away with for years. He is a master bullshiter devoid of any moral capacity to feel shame and bullshited his way through everything. No low will ever be too low for him.
Idk I loved hearing about him muttering "I won" over and over to himself when he lost the 2020 election.
And if that was bad, losing to a brown woman... My God.
I can only HOPE that there are lows too low for him. He's surely speeding towards that finish line.
If we're lucky hearing that he lost to a brown woman will literally break his heart and it'll be done with.
That would basically end the fucking cult.
:Losing won't assuage the endless need Herr Drumpf has - only death will.
Probably shouldn't say that
He is the water, the world is the frog
I'm not sure why the senate shouldn't subpoena him, and have him appear before them to explain just what he means by this. He wouldn't show, of course, and end up in contempt of congress. Of course, this would make him even more popular with his cult, but we already know who they'll vote for.
Really, he keeps doing shit that would get anyone else arrested. It's time to arrest him.
Nah, don't even give him a platform. Let him fade away into our terrible history.
He has a platform. He needs repercussions.
So wrong. Confront bullies. never appease!!
It's easily forgotten because he'll say something new and outrageous again next week. Even his voters don't know what he intends to do. They just get caught up in whatever word salad they attach to. In reality, he will probably not do a fraction of the bullshit that he spews as promises. He has never kept a promise in his life anyway. He's not starting now.
Last time he was president all he did was golfing while letting bad guys run wild. He's enabling "chaotic evil" by being an idiot.
For instance, the pathetic half-assed wall didn't solve the immigration issue at all. The real evil were the stooges organising ICE to encage children.
It is not random. He has a group of people doing a deceptively good job crafting the message for each region. Just like he did in 2016 with Cambridge Analytica.
He, himself, is a barely coherent idiot, but I think it allows their message to be received by people who also don't have that good an education.
E.G. find one of his speeches from the rust belt. They're all fairly similar. Will hit notes of corruption, proud people, fight the NYC and California democrats that did this to them, anti-trade and protectionism, etc. Then go find one like this one that was to bible belt extremists. Completely different. Will still hit some common notes(NYC/Cali), but the underlying message and theme are miles apart.
Edit: to be clear, its all bullshit lies that are telling people exactly what they want to hear.
there was also that time when he tried to stage a coup
Other people organized, staged, and enacted that coup. When he realized it was happening, he decided the coup stagers were "loyal" to him, so he was on board from that point on.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/trump-2020-election-steal-presidency-coup-inside-story
The way it works is that when some kind of scandal is unveiled (like project 2025 in this case) he goes with it openly.
His base hears it and take it that he is just "playing libs and doesn't really mean it, and even if it does it wouldn't be a bad idea"
His base is clearly hopeless, but hopefully it won't affect independents.
Within a matter of hours there was already a swarm of apologists going "here's what he actually meant".
And in the same breath "I like him because he says what he thinks".
He really could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his voters would love him for it.