• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He can plot all he wants, but he’s not the president anymore.
    I don’t know why news outlets insist on headlining their articles like he has some kind of presidential power when he doesn’t even have the power to keep his speeches on topic.

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      1 year ago

      As a warning?

      Granted, I’d word it a bit differently: “This burned-cheese looking sack of rotten assholes would upend all national security, destroy NATO, and allow Putin’s Russia and the CCP raw-dog-rape the rest of the planet while he becomes another pathetic fatass watching military parades like Kim Jong Un. If you refuse to adore him, his regime will murder and/or rape you. Now tell us again why you would vote for this moronic dumpster fire of unrealized liposuction profits because he’s only three years younger than the guy spending his remaining years on this planet unfucking what this #1 blue-ribbon gold medalist of Shitshow Olympics and rapist already did to the country.”

      Er, something like that, anyway.

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      He can plot all he wants, but he’s not the president anymore. I don’t know why news outlets insist on headlining their articles like he has some kind of presidential power when he doesn’t even have the power to keep his speeches on topic.

      Because there is a very real chance he can become president again. He is not one of the fringe candidates like Tim Scott or something that have no realistic chance of becoming the nominee, let alone POTUS. Trump is the front-runner for the GOP, and the criminal charges laid out against him have only boosted his popularity. And right now, he’s pretty much neck-and-neck with Biden.

      And it’s important that people understand that a vote for Trump is essentially an endorsement of the Trump revenge tour at the very least, if not a direct march to authoritarianism. If you think his first term was bad, what do you think his second term is going to be like when he has four years of absolutely nothing to lose and nothing standing in his way of doing whatever he wants? I don’t understand how any “swing voters” could exist and not know the chaos a second Trump presidency could bring, but apparently they are out there, and we need to at least try to inform them of what they’d be voting for.

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        And all that’s needed is Biden to fall ill with no credible back up available. It could be that simple.

        I am not enjoying a lot of what I see. I hope, however, people understand what’s at stake - or that they will.

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          And all that’s needed is Biden to fall ill with no credible back up available. It could be that simple.

          I don’t think there’s even a realistic situation where a Dem sits in the White House in 2025 if Biden drops dead or something. Harris has all the personality of sandpaper and is about as popular, and there are absolutely no Democrats coming up the pike that would be able to get enough support and survive the Trump Hate Machine. MAYBE Sanders or Warren, but that’s a hell of a long shot. Plus, she herself is 74. Sanders is 82. Which means even they would end up having to overcome similar baggage: They’d be perceived as simply too old, and it would quickly devolve into “Look what happened to Biden. Why would we want to vote for another Democrat who’s just as old and probably living on borrowed time themselves?”

          Make no mistake: If anything happens to Biden, Trump is President in 2025. And if Trump himself drops dead or is disqualified, it’ll be another member of the GOP. I do not see a realistic scenario where Democrats retain if Biden dies.

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            You’re absolutely right.

            Can’t be Sanders: the centrist and corporate Democrats won’t allow that. Plus, he’s a party outsider. As the dems just showed with Laphonza Butler’s appointment, being tight with the party machine matters more than any other qualification. Even living in the state you’re supposed to represent.

            Can’t be Warren: the GOP has a hate machine on standby for “Pocahontas” if she were to ever be in the national spotlight again. Plus, corporate Democrats won’t allow her due to her work creating the CFPB. She interferes with too much profit.

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      1 year ago

      There are 70 new Trump articles this morning. Dude is a train wreck of bad ideas and they make headlines.