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SithDrummer posted:Sounds like a very strategic aim at getting the VP nom He might be thinking along those lines, but it won't work. Trump is the most childishly petty rear end in a top hat ever to live and will never forgive DeSantis for daring to challenge him. At absolute best, he'd end up this cycle's Chris Christie, turned into an errand boy and humiliated at every opportunity until he quits.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Ron DeSantis - in his new more relatable and human form - is having his wife give interviews to stress his humility and compassion. One thing I don't think gets brought up nearly enough is that DeSantis was personally involved in the Guantanamo torture project, advising among other things about how best to force feed prisoners. He's a monster and in a sane country (I know, I know) he'd be kept in close confinement because he genuinely poses a threat to other humans. VitalSigns posted:Wasn't he Trump's lapdog in 2016 to the point of being nicknamed Reek since everyone was watching Game of Thrones? Fat Reek, specifically. Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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FizFashizzle posted:Be interesting if he hadn’t been septic during that television debate and managed to best Kennedy in 60. A President Nixon during the Cuban Missile Crisis might rate a bit more than just "interesting."
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Mustang posted:Sure, but they didn't live in a time with a 24 hour news cycle that puts presidents and presidential candidates on air all the time. In TR's case though, it wasn't for a lack of trying on his part. The man loooved him the spotlight* and sought it out at every conceivable opportunity. *IIRC one of his daughters coined the phrase "he wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral" in response.
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AtomikKrab posted:With it seeming like Vivek is pulling ahead of any of the Non-Trump primary Candidates, does he have a good shot if for whatever reason Trump ends up not being the nominee? I just can't see the GOP nominating a non-white, non-Christian candidate at this level, or increasingly at most others given how unashamedly and openly bigoted the party is these days. Magic Underwear posted:Perceived decline is the same as proven decline. He's old, he stutters and he has a few on camera gaffes, that's enough. And he's tripped a few times, which those looking to portray frailty upon him claim proves he's a shambling wreck one stiff breeze away from falling completely apart.
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Morrow posted:I mean, is there really any point to the whole primary at this point? Trump refuses to show up to the debates, no one will discuss the real news which is his n+1 criminal indictments, and he's gonna win handily. Most of the also-rans are betting on him landing in prisoner sooner rather than later and so need to keep the act up until that point, except Christie who seems to just want to throw molotovs at Trump.
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Oct 5, 2023 20:00
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Civilized Fishbot posted:My guess is that he might've actually been 6'3" at one point, but, being a perfect metaphor for his country, he's unable to acknowledge his decline over time. I was 6'3" at age 27 so I must be at least that tall 50 years later. He also has the incentive to lie about his height as it facilitates lying about his weight.
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Nov 3, 2023 18:48
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Dubar posted:There is a perfectly good chance that Trump becomes president, but there's basically zero chance that he or his merry band of chucklefucks suddenly become competent enough to undo the country. "The United States will in some form continue to exist" is precious little comfort for the various already-vulnerable minority groups who get unpersoned and crushed in the interim should this come to pass.
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Zwabu posted:So what is Vivek’s endgame here? I think it is mainly a profile-boosting endeavor for a future in conservative/conspiracy* media, perhaps with additional vague intentions to run more seriously for some other office in the future, and while I agree he's already done enough to accomplish that I think he's gotten addicted to the attention and will keep going as long as it's fun and he gets to be abusive in public without consequences. *If there's even any light between them anymore.
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Gyges posted:Trump will ramble on in every direction no matter what the question, but I think you guys are really overthinking his thought process. Dude's a product of the Northeast and has zero curiosity or brains. He'll say it was slavery, and then enter his typical word salad where he may brag about how he would have won the war so fast or he might just start ranting about how everyone is so uncivil to him now. There is also a good chance he'd go onto a tangent about that property of his that he insists was the site of an important civil war battle despite that being categorically false, to the point where he commissioned his own historical marker for it.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Never forget the fallen at the River of Blood *Wipes away tears as I salute a cemetery momument, only for the camera to pan around to reveal it's blank*
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Dec 29, 2023 04:15
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, i mean the segragationism poo poo was always just under the surface and the fact that kirk is now screaming it shows its popular again. It's basically undeniable at this point that that one of the main goals of the right is to roll back civil rights for anyone who isn't white, male, straight, and Christian* to achieve (what they imagine) either the early 1950s or 1850s to be. *Under whatever arbitrary definition they're using today.
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The Artificial Kid posted:To be fair there are usually long periods of boredom+pain during labour where the partner may or may not be even wanted in the room. If the patient is happy with the partner on the other side of the room playing WoW then so be it. It's the same guy who ditched his two dogs because he didn't want to waste raid time on taking them for walks and stuff, and tried to mask it as a mournful but necessary surrender of pets for some other reason.
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Uglycat posted:I still find it near impossible to believe that the GOP would run an ancient unstable loser whose closets have been flying open and skeletons are falling out. You're making the mistake of thinking that the GOP is still a political party pursuing its own self interest. It's not. The GOP is now a personality cult blindly following Dear Leader as even those who recognize what's happened are too scared of the zealots to break ranks.
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Pants Donkey posted:Will Haley win a state? Stayed tuned. She's got a shot at Vermont. The state party by and large hates Trump, as does our governor.
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Phlegmish posted:Could be, even the ones that didn't switch parties are presumably still old (ancient) school Republicans compared to the rest of the country. They might see even vaguely evangelical Haley as being preferable to Trump. Yeah, a significant percentage of VT Republicans are pre-Gingrich holdouts (sometimes literally; we're an old state) and even a few remnants of the long-defunct Rockefeller wing. I agree that Trump will spin it if it happens and he remembers we exist.
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