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In my divorced-from-reality headcanon that's exactly what's going on. Trump has just toddled from one disaster to another, completely impervious to any fallout. There's no way in hell he doesn't have plot armour. Which begs the question; who the hell is writing this slop, and how do we get out?
Like, Clinton sexually assaulted a secretary and that stained him and his wife.
Trump has
Not to mention his first disastrous term in office!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056
He's spent his entire life falling up the stairs.
Quick! Somebody watch old Mr Magoo tapes! Maybe there's something in there we missed where Mr Magoo unknowingly plots a coup on the capitol building, or tries to downplay a global pandemic in real time as the director of health completely contradicts literally everything he says, as he says it, on national television while she's standing right next to him, or maybe Mr Magoo........aw fuck it. Mr Magoo didn't do any of this stuff! He was an innocent old man who had zero self awareness. Trump is just an evil man who's intentionally doing this. Now we gotta figure out how he's getting away with this. It's like last night when I was playing Legend Bowl watching a CPU vs CPU game of Cincinnati vs Chicago. Everytime Cincinnati had the ball it was the same play. Get your blockers in place, quarterback backs up, delaying the blitz, waits until the blitzers are closing in, and then drops a long bomb like 40 yards downfield to a wide open reciever. Whys he wide open? Because Chicago is blitzing with everything they've got. But the blitz never sacks, because the quarterback gets space, delays the blitz, teases them, and then gets the pass off in time. And yet every play Chicago blitzs. Yet Chicago never figured out how to contain the passing game.
Well it's like that. The democrats have to figure out what to do to get consequences to stick to trump. Except instead of a blitz, the democrats are doing a different stratagy. They're just kind of sitting around doing nothing, and wondering why the republicans keep taking ground.
pokes the democrats with a stick
C'mon....do something.....
i think you might be expecting more than what is there. it doesn't take intelligence, competence, morals, or any of the other things that you'd need for 99.999% of jobs in order to start a cult. in fact you need the opposite of all those things. people love trump for the same reason they love jerry springer and bullshit reality tv-- shouting, conflict, controversy, idiocy-- the proles can't fucking get enough, and when you blame their shitty lives on the things they already hate because they're fucking ignorant, well you pretty much own them now
Clinton was a Democrat, and Democrats have morals. Republicans clearly do not