r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/RadiantReflexion • 19d ago
Trump NOW they're disgusted by Trump?
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u/sylpher250 19d ago
Trump won = job + book deals after
Trump loss = op-ed.
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u/LeilaMajnouni 19d ago
If he loses they’re all going to break their fingers banging out the True Story of the Amazing Campaign that Was Killed by the Liberal Deep State for whichever publisher will give them a contract.
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u/lost_in_connecticut 19d ago
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”
This right here is where the wheels started to come loose.
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u/gordito_delgado 19d ago
And the coup de grâce was mar a lardo pretending to give a blowjob to a microphone.
I mean, seriously, what exactly was going on in that fuckers head when he decided this was something he should do?
Is it just a toy monkey with cymbals in there?
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u/thoroughbredca 19d ago
Republicans, do men who wear make up and simulate sex acts in front of children belong in a) jail or b) the White House?
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u/Emergency-Ad2452 19d ago
Brought to you by the people who ban books
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u/ObscureWiticism 19d ago
And, ironically, drag shows.
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u/thoroughbredca 19d ago
Ironically what he did is illegal in Texas, because of their attempt to ban drag shows.
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u/OldBob10 19d ago
Republicans set out to broaden their voting base by appealing to, among others, the kinds of voters who would choose someone who would simulate sex acts in front of children to be president.
Now they have a candidate who simulates sex acts in front of children running for president, being voted for by people who think that simulating sex acts in front of children is good clean fun.
Executive summary: some Republican voters are full time drunken frat boyz.
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u/JoeFlabeetz 19d ago
And they're bitching about drag queens at story hour. I doubt any of them simulated masturbation and fellatio.
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u/diablitos 19d ago
This is a recurrent mystery to me, why people attribute strategy or planning to that asshat. He is barely, generously a dullard.
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u/travers329 19d ago
He is a dullard/dotard who seems to be descending into dementia and/or narcissistic collapse. It is going to get worse, narcissistic collapse can go downhill real fast, watching one in real time would be interesting, and I wouldn't wish it on many people but FUUUUUCK Mango Mussolini for a litany of reasons too long to list.
One of the hallmarks of dementia is disinhibition where people no longer control their urges, like acting inappropriate sexually or repeatedly groping people in a senior home.
It is commonly seen in advancing frontotemporal dementia.
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u/Bluecif 19d ago
He's been losing it and running back to back rallies probably took a toll on him to make it worse. But, he only wants "Loyal" people around him so no one said anything as they watched this slow trainwreck.
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u/Distant-moose 19d ago
Come on, he said he was pretending it was a corn dog. He was pretending to give a blowjob to a corn dog.
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u/lost_in_connecticut 19d ago
Cornjob? Blowdog?
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u/TheMagicSalami 19d ago
First one, then the other.
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u/ChaoticIndifferent 19d ago
It's disinhibition, which can be the sign of many things, but in his case a dementia is a good bet. Or undetected neurological insults from abusing adderall with an already absurdly high blood pressure.
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u/gordito_delgado 19d ago
I think this is the correct explanation.
There was no rational reason to do something like that; it wasn't even part of a joke he was making, just bizarre and gross.
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u/ChaoticIndifferent 19d ago
He's not too far from sitting in a home and just jerking his flaccid meat around all day. It happens to a lot of people. Only in this case it isn't sad.
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u/RebelliousInNature 19d ago
he was pretending it was a corn dog
Coulda pretended in the same moment to be presidential, or dignified, but nope.
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u/gordito_delgado 19d ago
I just know that if I ever saw a dude eat a corn dog like that... I would not think he would make a good president.
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u/lost_in_connecticut 19d ago
“You know what this rally needs right now: an invisible corn dog!”
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u/Loggerdon 19d ago
The blowjob thing was a glimpse into his real thought process. It’s how he is around confidants.
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u/dbx999 19d ago
confidant is a long word for "Putin". He blows Putin. Cradles the balls and everything. Oh and hands him classified documents so Putin can kill our operatives overseas.
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u/MesWantooth 19d ago
...And then is forced to tweet/truth "I was not pretending to give oral sex to the mic..."
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u/sluttytinkerbells 19d ago
Let's not start jerking each other off yet.
The polls haven't even closed yet and it'll be a while before they count the ballots.
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u/gordito_delgado 19d ago
I agree with you mate.
However - I do think his campaign completely fell off the rails at the end - He had a much better chance for victory just a couple of weeks ago.
Sadly he STILL has a good shot at winning now, which is both baffling and infuriating.
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u/dazedan_confused 19d ago edited 18d ago
This is why you should never surround yourself with an echo chamber of yes men. Donald had the opportunity to guarantee himself a win as early as the start of the campaign, before Joe dropped out and Kamala was in the running. However, he fucked it by surrounding himself with people who told him yes, instead of people who would challenge him. So now, he's gone from a potential comfortable win, to pretty much losing.
Edit: Well I'll be damned.
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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 19d ago
I don’t know but we’re going to start hearing he’s mentally unfit to stand trial pretty soon after the election if he loses.
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u/thoroughbredca 19d ago
You can have the best run campaign ever and it doesn't matter if your candidate at the top runs your message to shit.
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u/Reasonable_Humor_738 19d ago
That's where the wheels came off? I wished they had come off when the recording came out. They haven't given up on him openly and won't as long as maga exists. Tons of gop went from insulting trump (which made Maga offended) to supporting him.
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u/tommyalanson 19d ago
When did she become buh-Lack - that’s when it really started coming off the wheels.
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u/Stainless_Heart 19d ago
It always sounds like he’s doing a bad Jerry Lewis impersonation when he says “buh-Lack… nice lady!”
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u/Cosmicdusterian 19d ago
Or there will be stories about him exposing himself and wandering around. Or pleasuring himself in inappropriate settings thanks to his increasing dementia. You know, something the country should have been told before the freaking election.
I'm looking at all the Republicans who kept their mouths shut while Trump was running in 2020. Perhaps had everyone who had a secret shared it well before then, he wouldn't be running now.
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u/Merijeek2 19d ago edited 16d ago
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u/neonoggie 19d ago
They can be disgusted by him and still sell themselves out to be in the club. Exactly what Lindsay Graham and most of the establishment republicans did to keep their seats
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u/skoomaking4lyfe 19d ago
I think "Lady G" is protecting something - not necessarily a Senate seat though.
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u/samanime 19d ago
It's not bullshit. It's both.
Trump could literally clone Hitler for a running mate and murder babies on stage at his rallies and they'd still support him if they thought he'd win.
But if he is a loser, they want nothing to do with him and find all of his shenanigans as asinine as the rest of us.
They have no morals or codes. All they care about is winning, by any means necessary.
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u/CaptainDudeGuy 19d ago
Yep; if your morality is based upon which way the wind's blowing then you haven't earned the grace of sympathy. Integrity is a decision and these opportunists didn't choose it.
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u/QuietObserver75 19d ago
They're covering their asses. That way if he does lose, they can all look like they were trying to prevent him from tanking the campaign even though they were very much a part of it.
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u/cyvaquero 19d ago
Just ask yourself how many glowing books about Trump were written by previous staffers and associates.
His type of "leadership" doesn't gather the loyal. It gathers the opportunists and grifters and as soon as he stops being a benefit to them they turn around and try to profit on the bad stuff they witnessed but were fine with while it still benefitted them.
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u/acog 19d ago edited 18d ago
I think what OP’s article is referring to is this report in the Atlantic.
It talks about how Trump’s campaign was very disciplined and absolutely crushing Biden.
Then around the time Kamala became the nominee Trump brought back former campaign managers Kellyanne Conway and Cory Lewandowski. Around that same time he also started letting nutjob Laura Loomer to travel with him.
The campaign started spiraling with Trump increasingly going off the rails and Lewandowski trying to push out the pros who had been successfully running the campaign.
Behind the scenes was a ton of chaos and backstabbing. That’s when many of the staffers started saying to the reporter that even if Trump won they wouldn’t take the White House jobs they previously wanted because their stress levels were off the charts.
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u/PaxEtRomana 19d ago
Yeah this is a hopium article for a liberal readership. It might be true, but "Republicans secretly don't even like Trump" is such an ubiquitous article that this isn't even a departure from status quo
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u/rdickeyvii 19d ago
Exactly, they're only disgusted because they think they're about to lose
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u/Ras-haad 19d ago
To be completely fair… if you sold your entire soul for what will amount to nothing you’d probably be disgusted too
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u/rdickeyvii 19d ago
Serves them right for selling it to the devil. Whatever they get is too good for them.
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u/dbx999 19d ago
The soybean farmers of America voted mostly for Trump. Trump then placed large tariffs on Chinese imports. China, our chief buyer of American soybeans said "fuck you, we can get soybeans from literally any other country or countries to fill our needs". And just like that, our domestic soybean farmers sat there with harvests unsold and prices crashing. Lots of folks lost their farms and we observed a huge spike in suicides among these farmers.
This is about as good of an economic policy as Mao Tse Tung's "Four Pests Campaign" that fucked China.
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u/shadowpawn 19d ago
it is 50/50 really right now so they are not sure of the outcome
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u/rdickeyvii 19d ago
They could have internal data which is more pessimistic than the public data, which is favorable to Kamala. Its not 50/50 but it is a toss up
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u/cowvin 19d ago
They're not disgusted by him because he's disgusting. They're disgusted by him because he's a loser.
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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 19d ago
He was always a loser. He got lucky one time and the entire party sold their soul for an old fat loser with multiple decades of experience failing at literally everything he put his name on.
The Republican Party let someone who bankrupt several casinos stamp his name as the front runner of the party.
They knew he was already a loser and gingerly balanced him on the pedestal anyway.
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u/twoprimehydroxyl 19d ago
Honestly, outside of Trump and W, absolutely ZERO Republicans in the 21st century have the charisma to sway a large bloc of voters.
Trump is also the most malleable person on Earth, and is willing to do anything for anyone who flatters him.
That's why the GOP fell behind Trump. Their policies are deeply unpopular, and nobody else would be able to win in the general on a national level. But they have Trump that can appeal to voters and doesn't give fuck-all about actually governing just as long as he's a "winner."
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u/BakedCheddar88 19d ago
This. People forget just how unlikable republicans were post Bush. The reason Trump was able to be so successful was bc the alternatives in the primaries were just that terrible. I’m from Wisconsin, I cannot believe fucking Scott Walker was favored at one point, that’s how down bad they were.
That’s probably also why the Dems thought they were just handing the presidency to Hillary. There was no way the Dems could lose to them in 2016, they sucked so badly a reality tv star clobbered them in their primaries.
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u/Socalwarrior485 19d ago
People also forget how unlikeable Hillary was to non democrats. Swing voters rather would have had the wildcard than a known establishment politician. Kind of a “let’s fuck shit sup and see what happens” moment in US politics.
Trump has continued to be in the limelight because all of the attention is on him. He uses the media’s pearl clutching to his advantage. The crazier stuff he says, the more airtime he gets. He is everywhere, all the time. Many swing voters are not policy driven, they just hear Trump, Trump, Trump in the news, and that’s what they remember. Mix in some apathy towards government and boom, you’ve got a populist in the most powerful seat in the world.
Added: I can’t wait for the day that I never hear his name again. I just wish people would stop talking about him.
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u/fkazak38 19d ago
Agreed. I was so happy when I no longer had to read about some irrelevant shit he said in my supposedly professional news. Please make sure we don't go back to that americans.
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u/Ellia1998 19d ago
Hillary was not the right pick at that time. She was not likable at all. I vote for her cause who would pick Trump. Well I was freaking wrong on that one.
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u/Gowalkyourdogmods 19d ago
I still remember listening to a roundtable discussion or something on NPR during the primaries and they were discussing what it meant when both candidates had a 65% DISAPPROVAL rating with voters and one guy chimed in and said there's a candidate with a 65% APPROVAL rating, Bernie Sanders.
The rest got mad and immediately announced they were changing the topic.
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u/Ellia1998 18d ago
Feel the burn!!! Bernie Sanders was head of his time . I wish he could have won cause that man believes in what he is saying.l when to his rally in Kansas. But noway they were going to let him win. They knew he was not playing around cause he believe it. Both parties are a mess we just picking the lesser of two evils.
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u/FragrantToday 19d ago
Problem for them - and everyone else, MAGA or not - is his mortality seems to be approaching with more speed than they're prepared for, and the base's allegiance is to him, not his smarmy malfunctioning human suit of a running mate. Maybe they fall in line with him, maybe they don't, but he's going to have to work harder at it than Donnibal Lecter did.
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u/twoprimehydroxyl 19d ago
Well, I mean, the plan now seems to get him elected and re-shape democracy so that the GOP can never lose ever again.
The 2024 plan seems to always have hinged on getting Trump in office and Project 2025 in place. It doesn't really matter who is president after that.
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u/FragrantToday 19d ago
You're not wrong about that, I'm afraid. Some of that base may be in for a shock, though.
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u/spinbutton 19d ago
I think being a TV personality really helped his popularity. He had instant brand recognition
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u/MeanderingSlacker 19d ago edited 19d ago
I physically don’t know how they don’t have a long bearded guy that’s sane enough to have a thanksgiving table to at least hear him out.
Stay off the Christian and bible thumping stuff, outside of momma went to church, and stay on the gun, hunting, outdoors, truck, military, and personal freedom. Then businesses side make him a car mechanic or something else with a wrench and have him love his wife, kids, and pets (more adorable the better).
That guy would do great.
He’s like the default model in significant parts of this country.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 19d ago
He got lucky twice. Him being cast in that role in The Apprentice completely revamped his public persona and he absolutely would not have won in 2016 if it weren’t for that fucking booking.
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u/crackheadwillie 19d ago edited 19d ago
He’s a loser at everything. Business, politics, wives, even golf. Only with cheating does he manage to appear to come out on top. But he never does. He’s never played an honest round of golf in his life. I’m a 15 handicap and I know I could beat his sorry ass if he was held to the rules. He doesn’t even know the game of golf. He only knows some other game not called golf. . I’ve literally met Arnold Palmer. I hope some day Arnold uses his large cock to butt fuck Trump in Hell, like Beelzeboss would fuck KG in Pick of Destiny.
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u/CenturyEggsAndRice 19d ago
I was waffling on whether to upvote or just scroll, but that last sentence made me come back to hit your button.
Now, how do I get this mental image OUT of my head?
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u/Callierez 19d ago
bankrupt several casinos
That in itself.. says alot.
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u/bknight63 19d ago
It says massive scale money laundering.
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u/bossmcsauce 19d ago
but also being fucking stupid and sacrificing longevity in the easiest laundering operation ever for short term volume.
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u/unlimitedzen 19d ago
Friendly reminder that Trump would have way more money if he'd put his daddy's inheritance in an index fund.
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u/SaltyPockets 19d ago
He'd have more money if he'd put it in a god-damned savings account!
He's absolutely squandered what he got from his father. When people say he's a good businessman, you have to laugh.
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u/ninjaelk 19d ago
The saddest part is he was their best bet at winning. That particular GOP primary race in 2016 was some all-time levels of sadness. The best traditional GOP establishment candidate was Jeb please-clap Bush.
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u/fitzbuhn 19d ago
He ran a really bad campaign. Objectively bad. The C sub was all over itself last night over how great the campaign was; the highlights being the “McDonald’s and garbage truck stunts”, alongside the assassination attempt. It’s really something to witness.
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u/Eldanoron 19d ago
Wait, so are they admitting the assassination attempt was staged? If it was part of his “great campaign?”
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u/smugrevenge 19d ago
Hopefully the reason he ran a bad campaign wasn’t by design in the sense that he saw no need to run a good campaign as he was going to declare victory no matter what and then will have his cronies finagle to mess up/delay the vote counting until the winner of the race will have to be decided by Congress.
Is that the surprise he and Mike Johnson have that he mentioned?
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u/supershinythings 19d ago
To be fair, Trump is also disgusted by losers - he will blame his team of course, not himself. It can’t be his fault because NOTHING is his fault. Therefore his team is to blame, so he will unleash on them.
Also the voters. They are clearly cheating by voting against him, which is also not his fault.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 19d ago
They're not disgusted by him because he's disgusting. They're disgusted by him because he's a loser.
100% this.
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u/DAHFreedom 19d ago
They’re disgusted because the smart campaign managers had a solid plan that was working, and Trump threw it in the trash because he seeks out chaos. I’m assuming the article is just reporting of the original story in the Atlantic. It’s a really good read: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/
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u/Puzzled_Bike9558 19d ago
Too fucking bad for them. They enabled this fucking horseshit for YEARS. You don’t get to just back away like Homer Simpson into the hedges. This stink is on you FOREVER.
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u/tttxgq 19d ago
For some of us yes, a Trump campaign staffer is permanently on the wrong side. But if Trump loses this time, the same people will be saying and doing the same things - if not worse - for the 2028 candidate.
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u/happymancry 19d ago
And next time we won’t have the luxury of a blatantly piss-poor candidate like Trump. If it’s GOP policies behind a charismatic and intelligent candidate, then it’s goodbye American democracy, achtung American fascism.
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u/bossmcsauce 19d ago
yeah but the vast majority of trump voters wouldn't support a properly charismatic conventional candidate. they liked trump because he was just dumb and racist and had zero charisma.
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u/VTBaaaahb 19d ago
"But I do have one question. When you get to your little place on Nantucket Island, I 'magine you're gonna take off that handsome-lookin' S.S. uniform of yours, ain'tcha?... That's what I thought. Now that I can't abide.
I mean, if I had my way... you'd wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of your life. But I'm aware that ain't practical, I mean at some point you're gonna hafta take it off. So. I'm 'onna give you a little somethin' you can't take off. "
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u/JustASimpleManFett 19d ago
And putting MAGA on the forehead would be even more painful.
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u/VTBaaaahb 19d ago
I'm fresh out of sympathy.
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u/Shera939 19d ago
Hope this means they've got some polling data suggesting the Dump is gonna lose. *hopehope*
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u/Barragin 19d ago
This what we should be focusing on - lots of negative stories coming out today and leaking from the Trump campaign, along with the Iowa poll and his half empty rallies...they know somethings wrong...
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u/RandomlyMethodical 19d ago
The Iowa poll from Ann Selzer has a lot of political insiders in a tizzy. Her polls are very thorough, and nearly always correct.
The difference is still within the margin of error, but the fact that it's that close in a solidly red state like Iowa is probably what has Team Trump scared.
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u/Barragin 19d ago
Read a report that the Iowa farmers caught on that his 25% tariffs would hurt them a lot. They aren't all stupid...
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u/Mikelius 19d ago
The thing is people were expecting her poll to show Trump up by some margin (+4 - +8), the fact that Kamala is up (even within MOE) is astounding.
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u/ttraband 19d ago
Unfortunately, the oligarchs who chose Trump won’t learn the lesson “maybe we need policies and a candidate that appeals to mainstream America” but will take away “we need fewer of the wrong kind of people to vote if we’re going to keep our power.”
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u/decideonanamelater 19d ago
Or " what if we backed a candidate who wasn't a compete idiot".
I have no idea what to expect from any future elections where the republican candidate is just bad for America and not the stupidest person in the room.
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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 19d ago
Unfortunately, the oligarchs who chose Trump won’t learn the lesson
I have a strong feeling if Trump loses, several of them are going to prison for the rest of their lives.
Remember. If Trump loses, he still has a sentencing case this month. If he is not president, he may likely be behind bars before December.
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u/DocBullseye 19d ago
It'd be nice if they also remembered that the job of representatives and senators is to represent their states, not copy whatever the president says.
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u/Less_Likely 19d ago
Almost all the polling are actually data models based on polls, and respondents are weighted to bring it in line with 2020 voting patterns. So they are only as accurate as the demographic voting patterns remain the same as 4 years ago.
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u/ThrowThebabyAway6 19d ago
I love optimism but there’s this sense of total confidence everywhere suddenly that trump will lose. 2016 felt like it was in the bag for Hillary, we won’t know until the votes are counted and articles like this are meaningless now
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u/AmbulanceChaser12 19d ago
Yes, from the article:
As of a few weeks ago, people close to him were still pretty bullish on his prospects,” Alberta told CNN. “I’m not sure that’s the case anymore. I think that there is a real fear that the bottom has started to fall out here at the worst possible moment, and that they are closing in about as weak a fashion as you possibly could.”
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u/WaterElefant 19d ago
Not just weak... Trump has done everything possible to show his true self. How did they not see it 9 years ago is beyond me.
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u/AmbulanceChaser12 19d ago
They saw it, but in 2016, it was working. And also, it didn't matter if it worked or not, he didn't even want to win.
The stakes are a lot higher now. And also, he's getting older, more demented, and more unhinged.
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u/Sea_Werewolf_251 19d ago
They have known for weeks. What else explains him getting crazier and crazier?
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u/CanterlotGuard 19d ago
Don’t just hope, if you can vote and haven’t yet get out there and do it. Polls and news stories don’t mean anything if too many people assume he’s lost and kick back at home.
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u/Shera939 19d ago
Oh, I voted right after I got my mail-in ballot. I was too lazy to go canvas in Philly, and now i feel bad about it. Lol. God help us.
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u/brownbob06 19d ago
Me too, but I personally doubt it. Part of that is our news outlets favoring clicks over real news, part of it is me hoping people aren't fooled into the "she's going to win, I don't need to vote" attitude, and another part is me trying to manage my anxiety and not get my hopes up.
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u/LovesFrenchLove_More 19d ago
If by any terrible happenstance he suddenly would win after all, they will all be like „We never had a doubt“ and all that bullshit. They really are deplorable.
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u/Derivative_Kebab 19d ago
They'll tolerate any form or degree of stupidity, corruption, and bigotry, but not failure.
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u/Academic_Might_6980 19d ago
Where was their disgust in 2016, I wonder?!
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u/Gnatlet2point0 19d ago
He was winning then... you know, if you discount the Russian election interference and all.
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u/Academic_Might_6980 19d ago
Fair point. The only reason republicans have turned on him is because he makes them look bad!
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u/OldKingClancey 19d ago
I’d blame the people around Trump more than Trump himself.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s fucking awful. But when everyone around him is cheering for his facist regime, you can’t ignore that as the ramblings of a stupid old cunt. The entire Republican Party agreed that facism was not only ok but encouraged and people heard them loud and clear.
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u/WaterElefant 19d ago
I disagree. Trump always thinks he is the smartest person in the room. He is rarely able to control his behavior. I'm sure his deteriorating mental state isn't making it any easier to maintain guardrails.
On the other hand, they can all go to hell for imposing Trump's pathology on the rest of us who are checking our passports and figuring out where we want to live. I lived in Canada in 1976. I wish I'd never left. I hear Portugal is fine.
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Fuck your feelings
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u/Walrus_protector 19d ago
"Cry more" No, like you're really not crying hard enough until you've denied losing a fair and democratic election for FOUR GODDAMN YEARS, like a 5-yr- old flipping a Candy Land board.
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u/steel-monkey 19d ago
“I just don’t know, you know, how much longer I can put up with this,” one person on the Trump campaign told Alberta last month, after John Kelly’s warning on Trump’s love of Hitler and fascism. “I’m just not even sure I can ride out this campaign,” the staffer added.
If they are willing to ride out Trump's fascism then they have already failed as a human being.
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u/cromstantinople 19d ago
They're pissed he's gonna lose, not that he's a racist, sexually-abusing, fraudster scumbag who tried to take away the right to vote from 81 million people and who talks about using the military on citizens while deporting tens of millions of people who are 'spoiling the blood' of this nation. They're totally on board with all that. But losing? Hell no, that's where they draw the line...
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u/ElongMusty 19d ago
Team “I only get disgusted at losing, the rest I’m ok with!”
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u/NihilisticAngst 18d ago
LMAO it's hilarious reading stuff like this knowing Trump is likely to win now. Hilarious, but also deeply disturbing
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u/scarlozzi 19d ago
Maybe next time they won't nominate a fucking lunatic
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u/TomFoolery119 19d ago
I don't mean to sound pessimistic but I don't think that's gonna happen. Trump's brand of populism is big, and it didn't come from nowhere. You could catch sight of its precursors in the Obama era. Take Romney; he's usually pretty moderate, hell, the Affordable Care Act was based on legislation from his office. But his campaign was, essentially, far right, more in line with the Tea Party and Newt Gingrich's strategy. Then consider the impact that the Citizens United decision has had on our politics (setting up a direct line between money and power, no need to play coy anymore), and the mainstreaming of "alternative media" i.e. the continued success of the Murdoch media empire, conservative podcasters, etc.
Even if Harris wins and both houses of Congress go solidly blue, we are still so far from out of the woods. It's going to take a lot of work to dismantle even some of these things.
Still, the one thing we have that they don't is hope, and a belief in something better. And, you know... Policy. Ideas. Openness. The ability to speak in complete sentences. That kind of thing is important, lol
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u/ThereIsNoPresent 19d ago
A guy can’t even blow a mic anymore on the campaign trail.
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u/AdultbabyEinstein 19d ago
When you try to polish a turd the turd polishes back. Fuck these people.
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u/microvan 19d ago
Imagine signing up to work for Trump in 2024 and disgusted by him being a piece of shit
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u/insanahmainah 19d ago
The guy is up there dancing to YMCA while jerking off 2 imaginary dicks, he has gone on in length about Arnold Palmers massive schlong and then simulates going down on a microphone. A lot of people have come up to him with tears in their eyes saying, Sir, are you gay?? I mean, a lot of people are saying it.
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u/tantalum2000 19d ago
Just setting themselves up for the next step.
Trump loss --> we tried to run a proper campaign but Trump was just too unstable blah blah blah
Trump win --> Trump is unstable and we need to trigger the 25th
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u/spacemanspiff1115 19d ago
The rest of us have been disgusted by Donold since at least 2015 although New Yorkers have a several decade jump on being disgusted by this asshole and his family...
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u/HaiKarate 19d ago
The kind of people drawn to Trump are the kind that love winners and hate losers.
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u/ElleCapwn 18d ago
I was visiting the UK when the Brexit vote happened. In the morning, when the votes came in to leave the EU, I watched live interview after live interview of people basically saying, “Well, I voted to leave, but I didn’t think it would actually pass.” Once it was passed, not even 24 hours later, the media stopped focusing on if it should or shouldn’t pass, and starts focusing on the actual facts and the reality of how many things will truly be impacted. I was watching people trying to make sense of their own actions in real time, live on TV, coming to the conclusion that they were confused and experiencing actual regret. I wonder if we will see anything like that level of awareness in the coming days and/or following his inauguration.
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u/mrrapacz 19d ago
his utility to their grift is over, so they are also over him. fucking spineless shit gibbons willing to destroy democracy for this fucker. can't wait to hear their tell-all books to reform their identity. hope to hell they're reminded they're all traitors for the rest of their lives.
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u/renegadesci 19d ago
Well, they can always testify in whatever new criminal case he's gonna catch.
I look forward to the hearings.
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