They're only worried that it will happen before the election.
Well, they probably also realize that if it happens after he wins, and he can't continue in office, then no couch in the country is safe.
Vance's first presidential decree: All couches shall from now on be referred to as loveseats
I am worried about his homosectional agenda.
Oh that's fucking hilarious
You struck gold with this one, lol
Admittedly, I've waited like three days for the right moment.
he can't continue in office
Based on Reagan's second term, nothing short of actually being dead would meet that criteria.
Headlines like this have existed for the entire time Trump has been in the political spotlight.
Do not trust conservatives will see this and agree. Do not get complacent. Vote. Encourage friends and family to vote.
At this point the people who are already Trump supporters will not be swayed. He was always nuts, he was always weird, he always spewed out nonsensical word-salad. The fight is for independents who are still on the fence, and everyone on both sides considers them gullible idiots, and campaign strategy will reflect that.
Everyone correctly considers them gullible idiots when it comes to politics.
All those people will have other areas of individual expertise as well.
My concern with Harris running is all the positivity will get people complacent due to the polls.
It's called a Narcissist Shame/Rage Spiral.
There's only a handful of people in the world trump could beat in an election...
And he never imagined Biden would actually get out of the way, so he has no idea what to do now that it's not Biden.
I am absolutely convinced that Trump's entire election strategy was to just coast to victory on "Biden old" and "I got shot". By the time of the republican convention he was confident that he had it in the bag and didn't need to keep trying, so when Biden dropped out it completely shattered his plan and he's got nothing to replace it. He does not have the cognitive ability to pivot against Harris/Walz and his ego is way too big to actually listen to his campaign strategists (if he even has any that aren't just yes men).
* this should not be interpreted as complacency. It is definitely not a sure thing that Harris will win
Harris isn't a guaranteed win, but she'd have to royally fuck up to blow this election.
trump just isn't as popular as he used to be. The last two elections there was trump shit all over my red state. I haven't seen a single trump bumpper sticker. Not even old ones from prior elections.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, though, it's to never underestimate the ability of a Democrat to royally fuck something up.
I get the rage but shame? That's not a thing Trump has
narcissists don't shame themselves, they try to shame non-loyalists.
If he wins, his legal troubles go away. If he loses they come back with a vengeance.
Looks like this weird old man is starting to get nervous and lash out.
Please continue.
Finding out the Supreme Court isn't going give him unlimited power might've blown a gasket.
On top of what you said if Harris wins a prosecutor who Trump constantly insults will be president, and Biden, who Trump also insults and put his son in prison, will have 3 months to do whatever the fuck he wants. Lol
All true except Biden had nothing to do with his son being prosecuted. At most, Biden will allow him to go to prison by leaving office without pardoning him (which I believe he will do, because it's the not-corrupt thing to do.)
No, he absolutely should pardon Hunter. He should acknowledge the hypocrisy in a public statement, though. He should note the broad power the Supreme Court has given him to take Official Actions like this with impunity, and double-dog dare Congress to do whatever it takes to rein in abuses like that.
This would actually be pretty cool, and might even work to restore some balance to the scales of justice. Alas, I don’t think Biden has the requisite cojones.
They forgot that this is exactly how he operated in 2016. My amateur theory is that he decided the safe and respectable route is what cost him 2020 and is going to cost him 2024, so he’s going back to what he believes ultimately made him win.
Meanwhile the Republicans are looking at the last eight years of near nonstop national defeats but don’t have a way of dealing with this bull in their party-equivalent of a China shop
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham
"Took fucking long enough"-me
Has his behavior changed? Trump seems to be spouting the same kind of nonsense he always has. This just seems to be more of the same weird rants.
The behavior hasn't substantially changed, but the narrative is shifting. Trump took office on the back of a wave of sardonic, nihilistic memes. He was constantly excused for being bigoted and unintelligible because his dork enlightenment cronies could cynically spin everything as nine dimensional water backgammon. The fact they weren't making sense was a plus, not a minus.
Biden dropping out and team Kamala stepping up so hard so fast on the meme front has completely taken the right by surprise. They weren't mobilized to defend against this. So now they're on the back foot, the memes from the mainstream left are sharper and meaner than Trumpworld has ever had to deal with before, and the messaging is laser focused.
Spouting nonsense only works if it looks like you're winning by doing so. Don just keeps showing how old, tired, and weak he really is, so the cracks are forming. Just think of all the political capital he's spent trying to make diapers cool, and then he makes a VP pick who Snopes has confirmed literally fucked a couch on live video.
Didn't click the link, but I really really hope it's Rickrolling....
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XcQ, link stays blue
The best time to wake up to that Donald Trump is a weird racist who should be ignored was 1988. The second best time is now
It's rich that he is claiming she has a low IQ when he got gentlemen Cs while at Penn. One of his professors called him his worst student ever.
He said "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had"
Missing some inflection
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."
-Dr William T Kelley, numerous times over the course of 3 decades.
Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”
How about this: instead of a debate they both take an IQ test created and administered by a neutral party. Recordings of them taking the test will be released to the public once they are both finished.
For a conservative, only a conservative qualifies as "neutral". Everyone else is "the extreme left".
Trump would boast that he managed to colour inside the lines "and they were very small lines!".
Test administrator's response: "Sir there was no coloring portion on this test."
I want them to take a test on basic US history, and/or the intelligence test from idiocracy.
I'm actually pretty curious about how trump would do with matching the shaped blocks to the corresponding holes.
.... But they will vote for him anyway, because doing otherwise is basically admitting you were wrong all along, and they would never do that.
Theoretically, what would happen if this close to the election, the stress causes a blood vessel to burst and Trump just strokes out?
I mean, besides the post-jedi levels of celebration, would Vance just be inserted into the ticket if it's too far along to have a new primary?
Is being alive a qualification to be elected? I have no doubt Trump's people will try to pull an Air Bud "there's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball" move.
A bigger question is, how could we tell that even happened?
Edit: I mean short of him dying or becoming a drooling vegetable. The man is already deeply deranged and exhibiting significant mental declind
Once the individual state filing deadlines have passed, it's likely that Trump/Vance would have to remain on the ballot. But this is one instance where the Electoral College helps, because the election is not for the candidates themselves, it is for electors who support the ticket. And the final certification of electors is up to each State Legislature.
So, if God exercises His Ultimate Veto on Trump's Presidency, it will be commonly understood that Vance would take over the ticket. He will pick a new VP, and any former Trump/Vance electors would likely cast electoral votes for Vance/Chesterfield instead. While it is possible that State Democrats might challenge this, it's also absurd to force electors to vote for someone who can no longer take office, so it's likely that States would give their blessing to the substitution. Particularly if Harris is the overall winner regardless, and the Republican EC votes are simply for the historical record, and have no effect on the outcome.
Cry baby snowflake felon is little cry baby snowflake felon - big shocker here
“Donald Trump is losing his marbles”
Yeah, that’s been obvious for a while.
I wonder if the republicans want to do a copycat switcheroo of the Dems replacing Biden and replace Trump with someone younger and more quietly fascist. But oh well, this is the monster they created. They’re stuck with him.
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