This was inevitable. For a GOP voter, to vote for anyone but Trump is an admission that the libs were right. More indictments or any other consequence will only heighten the contradiction and make them more committed.
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he's also a charisma blackhole. trump on the other hand is a top-tier poster.
he's also a charisma blackhole.
He's like the Mayo Pete of the republican party lol
It's over, man! 
I will officially change my avatar when he slips below 2nd place in at least three polls.
I've seen your pfp almost every day and I somehow never realised it was meatball man
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This emote is amazing, the reversing loop is 
I can't even tell which direction is forward. It's seamless!
Some other thoughts;
- Every day the idea of DeSantis as a "competent fascist" grows more and more funny.
- I don't think Trump is going to win in the rematch, but it's going to be an "unexpected" nailbiter like 2020. If Biden does kick the bucket and they have Kamala running, then yeah Trump is going to win by 5 points or so even if it's from prison.
He'll lose the popular vote but win the electoral college again, except this time it will be because of some GOP voter fraud fuckery, or a chud judge in like Ohio or Michigan will throw out their state's electoral votes in favor of Trump. Then after he wins there will be a bunch of investigations, another media circus, some low level scapegoats will go to jail, the Democrats will impeach Trump again, and then literally nothing else will happen and he'll continue to be president until he dies of a heart attack. Calling it now.
I don't think Trump is going to win in the rematch, but it's going to be an "unexpected" nailbiter like 2020. If Biden does kick the bucket and they have Kamala running, then yeah Trump is going to win by 5 points or so even if it's from prison.
idk, Biden barely won in the first place, and that was before inflation went out of control and people stopped being able to afford anything. he's also done nothing, so maybe people voting in the 4 states that actually matter stay home instead of go out to vote.
It could go either way. It does appear that there is a real swing towards the democrats in key states like Michigan and Wisconsin, so looking at the electoral college I don't think there's gonna be a lot of difference compared to 2020. Abortion rights are still a massive sticking point and the GOP touting a federal abortion ban is probably all that's keeping Biden afloat. Honestly, it's anyone's game at this point.
yeah totally agree, people don't really talk about how close the last election was. on any given day, you probably could have had a different result.
he's also done nothing
that's not true. he bargained away the student loan pause during the Deal of the Century, flubbed the perennially shrinking student loan forgiveness order, and interest rates went up 7200% kicking the tech platform enshittification cycle into overdrive & injecting superglue into the lock protecting the housing market from normal humans.
as usual it's the DNC's race to lose, and i have no doubt they are going to have some real doozies for us this time.
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Every day the idea of DeSantis as a "competent fascist" grows more and more funny.
We probably shouldn't laugh it off it entirely given what his governorship has been like.
If Biden does kick the bucket and they have Kamala running, then yeah Trump is going to win by 5 points or so even if it's from prison.
If he dies it will not be Kamala running to replace him. It'll be a governor or maybe Sherrod Brown.
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forget ronball who is BURGUM
edit: just looked him up he's the most boring opportunist trump wannabe you can imagine
The 0.5% support is people who thought that said Burger.
My kind of president
burgum from burgerland
who is BURGUM
The name on the first door of the grim reaper meme once Hutchinson clenches the nom.
lol libs actually believed he wouldn't become even more popular after the indictment
If they send him to prison he'll be elected president.
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Meatball is neck-and-neck with Harambe and Deez Nuts
meatball on toast
at this point even if Trump dies or is imprisoned, DeSantis won't be the candidate 
When a super-charismatic cult leader dies - things can get ugly and they can get ugly very fast. It would be pretty funny if Trump clinched the nomination and just a few days after that he died. His VP choice (whoever that is - Haley?) would say "I'm the nominee..." but there would certainly be a nasty and perhaps prolonged power struggle.
since the US and UK always have the same 'type' of freak in power, I think we're due for someone who no one likes and has gotten 0 votes, so that sounds about right
Kinda like how Biden won the Dem nomination 
No maddow-loving lib has hoped Trump is made ineligible to run for office harder than Randy Santis
The only thing that could make him ineligible for the presidency is being impeached & convicted by the senate or becoming dead. Otherwise, he can run from prison and is going to see a floor of 45%.
Back in November of 2021, I remember predicting in a political discussion that Trump would run again, that Biden would run again short of death, and that Trump would defeat Biden handily. I think the prospect of Trump running under indictment or in jail only would make his base more enthusiastic about voting for him. Everyone frowned, and the only real response was, "I hope not."
I think Biden is going to coast into the election the exact same way that Hilary did: perfectly set up to be the worst candidate, perfectly clueless about Trumps chances.
It sucks, and I hope I am wrong. Also, never in a million years would I ever contemplate voting for either of these two bourgeois crooks. The election is meaningless except that both Trump and Biden will spend the better part of a year trying to outdo each other on: nuclear war with china, imperialism more generally, supporting police brutality and expanding the carceral state, removing the social safety net (being fiscally responsible), anti-communist scapegoating/witchhunting, and inventing new ways to be racist (particularly to immigrants)...
I used to think that Trump would win in 2024, but watching the gop drop the ball on the midterms changed my mind about that. I think Biden has it pretty easily as long as
- neither candidate has a major medical issue. Or a minor one in October.
- republicans don't find a better strategy than trying to rile the hogs up about trans people
- no major economic shift happens between now and the election. Just high inflation with low wage growth isn't enough to tip the needle imo
Obviously any of those are all reasonably likely to happen and who knows where things will end up when they do.
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It won’t happen but I’d love to watch the RNC ratfuck trump like the DNC did to Bernie
Not the least because chuds would absolutely positively lose their fucking minds
There would be at least one bombing.
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I really want to know who the fuck is out there supporting Chris Christie. Or any of the other loser candidates that everyone knows don't have a chance. Do they not see how much fun the trump people are having?
my hypothesis is that they fool themselves into believing that they're too good and respectable for Trump's antics and then crawl right back to him at election time to stop the gay ultra-communist marxist dictator that they've been told the Democrats have made their candidate
as you say, basically the rightwingers who revel in not having fun and treating politics "seriously". what a horrible existence. every election I'm writing in Lenin and having a blast
Nate Silver is a dork, but its nice to finally have some proper statistics for my sport teams
What a surprise.
The more people see of Desantis, the more they hate him.
The more Trump speaks, the more he gets into his groove of pushing all the Republican buttons.
Turns out nobody cares if he's indicted. I suspect that if they find him guilty Republicans will still vote for him and he'll get some kind of suspended sentence to be able to keep campaigning.
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