• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    This fucking guy. I hope he gets soundly defeated in November and I never have to hear or read about some dumb shit he said ever again.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      You’re making a mistake.

      He’s not the disease, he’s only a symptom of something we’re otherwise able to ignore.

      There are vast oceans of his supporters who love him because he “tells it like it is”, ie he helps them speak more openly about their own bigotry.

      Trump going away will only give us someone else, and honestly, they’ll probably be moderately competent.

      Trump is a godsend, because he is so absolutely, perfectly stupid and incompetent, a real operator would be devastating. Use this opportunity to gain resistance to their form of plague before it’s too late.

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      I would personally enjoy the only article about him ever reaching headline status again being his obituary.

      But we all know that even if he loses he will try and run again if he isn’t locked up. He will cry about stolen elections til the day he dies. Even of the Republican leaders try to divorce themselves from him, he will run independent. And a significant amount of the maga movement will follow him there.

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        I would personally enjoy the only article about him ever reaching headline status again being his obituary.

        We need another seven for his convictions and sentencing.

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        2 months ago

        Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but with the amount he seems to have declined in the last few years both physically and mentally, I can’t imagine he will be capable in any capacity of running again.

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          I agree, but I also thought so 8 years ago.

          Man, so much faith in so many things lost in 8 years…

          Edit: like, I thought - apparently completely mistakenly - that even if we disagreed on a lot of things, the majority of Republican voters had some form of morals that they followed, some amount of integrity. Fucking sucks that they absolutely don’t.

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        Assuming he actually loses in November (which we all have to hope for to protect US democracy), this scenario, and especially him constantly running as a third party candidate till the day he dies, would lead to a lasting split in the GOP for the foreseeable future - I’m actually not against this outcome in any way!