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Let me be candid and honest here my man. I cannot be sympathetic to your comments because this is how adult life has always been. From the moment I stepped out of my home and headed off to college I h

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There has also been a bit of eye-rolling for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who has put out two recent statements chastising what he describes as the corrosive turn that national politics has taken. Notable in those statements was condemnation for Trump and nary a criticism for Biden.
“You hate to see it, but having been on Capitol Hill, one great way to get attention is to speak against your own party,” said former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), who has for years served as an official Trump surrogate. “Ben Sasse is an intelligent guy and I’m sorry he’s decided this is the time to bolt, [but] I don’t know how it helps swing-state [Republicans] either…But you still don’t see the ideological people breaking. If Ralph Reed said, ‘OK I’m out of here,’ that would be different.”
But those signaling that they’re ready to jump ship do include some major players in conservative politics. One of the president’s most powerful and influential confidants, billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been telling associates that he thinks Biden will win in a landslide, as The Daily Beast reported last week, and that he’s repelled by the president’s management of the COVID-19 crisis.
Sources familiar with the situation say Trump and Murdoch have not talked in several weeks. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on this story, but Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement: “President Trump won in 2016 without the vocal support of the political insider crowd and he’s going to do it again. The President enjoys the support of over 90 percent of Republicans, and our rally data shows that about a quarter of rally registrants are not even registered as Republicans.”
The knives aren’t just out for perceived Republican turncoats. Within the broad universe of GOP operatives working to re-elect the president, blame casting has already begun for the state of the campaign. One senior Republican official who has consulted with the campaign said that while staff were still confident that the president could win, they were also increasingly alarmed by—what the official described as—the “gross incompetence with how things were being spent.”
“I think there is a reality where this is what happens in a campaign. This is the point where people start to figure out who takes the fault,” the official said. Asked who would take the fault, the source added: “There is no question that [former campaign manager] Brad [Parscale] will take a large part of it because that is easy. But anyone with a brain who looks back at this will point to Jared [Kushner]. Jared can’t be both the mastermind and blameless.”
Inside broader GOP circles, a bit of cold realism has taken hold about Trump’s prospects. Few, if any, are pollyannaish. The optimism that does remain is tied to two features of the race: that the president faced a similar skepticism (including from within his own party) four years ago and still won; and that, this go around, the Trump campaign has invested substantially more in voter turnout than he did in 2016.
“He's not winning but there's always been a sense that he was in this position in [2016], that it will tighten, and that we have this ground game that will put us over the top,” said a GOP official involved in the re-election effort.
But even that official conceded the limits of the spin. “A ground game is a field goal in a close game,” the official said. “It's not three touchdowns.”
Among Republican operatives, there has been an expectation that Trump’s polling deficit vis-a-vis Biden would close as the election neared. But the tightening has not happened as quickly as they’d hoped, and among the explanations for it include the president’s combustible debate performance, his infection with COVID, and the fact that he’s been outspent on the airwaves.
There’s also a growing consensus among the GOP consulting class that Trump has lost some of the political instincts that made him both unorthodox and effective in his 2016 run. Back then, Trump closed the campaign by largely keeping to script, doing rallies, and posting only mundane tweets. This go-around, he’s embraced wild conspiracies—such as the Osama bin Laden raid being staged—and put up more Facebook ads attacking Hillary Clinton than going after Biden on trade.
“I guess it's difficult when you're in the White House, but it's different than 2016,” the GOP official said. “They just have no message discipline. It's totally off the rails all the time.”

 

Brings to mind Saddam rounding up all the Ba’ath Party leaders and leading them off to execution.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-25363857

Still some of the creepiest footage I’ve ever seen. 

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If you could boil down why dotard is a shitty president, ignoring all of his horrifying behavior and actions, it really is because he had no intention of ever actually governing.  He literally has done nothing.  All he did was ride the Obama economy and hope that nothing came along that derailed it while he stuffed his pockets with as much tax payer money as possible.  Then Covid happened and exposed it to everyone else that wasn't paying attention.  It's not that his response to Covid was bad.  It's that he had no response.  He literally did nothing, just like the rest of his term in office.  

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If you could boil down why dotard is a shitty president, ignoring all of his horrifying behavior and actions, it really is because he had no intention of ever actually governing.  He literally has done nothing.  All he did was ride the Obama economy and hope that nothing came along that derailed it while he stuffed his pockets with as much tax payer money as possible.  Then Covid happened and exposed it to everyone else that wasn't paying attention.  It's not that his response to Covid was bad.  It's that he had no response.  He literally did nothing, just like the rest of his term in office.  

The only action he’s taken is spiteful action. It’s an understatement to say that a potato in his chair would have been an improvement across the board.

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  It's not that his response to Covid was bad.  It's that he had no response.  He literally did nothing, just like the rest of his term in office.  

If he had only done nothing, we’d be far better off. He politicized reality and actively worked against any kind of response.

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If he had only done nothing, we’d be far better off. He politicized reality and actively worked against any kind of response.

Yep. The only reason we have a huge anti-mask movement here is because we have a president who encouraged it. Had he done the right thing from day 1, anti-maskers would be few and far between and in the same corner as anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers, where they should be.

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Except -

People with Covid
Black men
Trans women of color
Immigrants in cages
Kids shot up in schools
People burned to death in California

Fuck the fuck off you deranged repressed evil pilgrim.

You're missing some people.  Would be easier to just list the human lives he does care about:

 

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On 10/17/2020 at 12:38 PM, Brisketexan said:


Yeah, there’s no civil war left in the GOP. The unbelievers have been purged, it is only cultists now. Failure to bend the knee will cost you support of the Trumpist base, and you can’t win without it. As a GOP candidate, there is only one path to securing the base, and it will stay that way for a generation: now to Trump.

You know this isn’t true. The only reason trump might lose is because he is literally the stupidest person to ever hold a major office. He just barely overplayed his hand with the conspiracy stuff and lies and hateful rhetoric and bungled Covid just badly enough that a handful or republicans might stay home or vote the other way since Biden is an old white guy who is fairly conservative for a democrat. You realize trump is still going to win several states and garner 60million+ votes. Without Covid I think he would win about the same as 2016. If he loses, they’ll be done with him and will still have a million wedge issues (abortion, gays, “socialism,” etc) and will rebound by 2022.

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You know this isn’t true. The only reason trump might lose is because he is literally the stupidest person to ever hold a major office. He just barely overplayed his hand with the conspiracy stuff and lies and hateful rhetoric and bungled Covid just badly enough that a handful or republicans might stay home or vote the other way since Biden is an old white guy who is fairly conservative for a democrat. You realize trump is still going to win several states and garner 60million+ votes. Without Covid I think he would win about the same as 2016. If he loses, they’ll be done with him and will still have a million wedge issues (abortion, gays, “socialism,” etc) and will rebound by 2022.

I agree with all but the first part of your last sentence (I agree that they will rebound by 2022).  None of what I said is inconsistent with that.  They are the party of Trump, will remain the party of Trump, and will remain a viable threat under that banner for the foreseeable future.

The Trumpublican party is a thing, it's going to stay that way, and it's going to keep winning a lot of races, and being nationally competitive.  Not IN SPITE of its Trumpism bonafides, but BECAUSE of them.

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If you could boil down why dotard is a shitty president, ignoring all of his horrifying behavior and actions, it really is because he had no intention of ever actually governing.  He literally has done nothing.  

I don’t know.  I think it’s much worse than “nothing.”   He’s actively sabotaging and destroying institutions that are needed to effectively govern.  Like departments of education, energy, and housing. He’s trying to rip healthcare from 20 million people who get it from the ACA, without any plan whatsoever to put a new system in place.  

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"We're like a rocketship."  With a propulsion system, invented not by faggy scientists, but by creepy sex offenders and octogenarian economists, dammit!  

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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

I wonder if Trump had a realization that pandering to these freak rubes was all he had left for his entire life?

 

"And I'm gonna pray the shit outta that prayer, Lord!"  

-David Cross 

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I wonder if Trump had a realization that pandering to these freak rubes was all he had left for his entire life?

 

He is counting every second until he can get the ever-loving fuck out of there.  You know how pissed he is having to pass up a round of golf for this shit...

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Oh....that list is being made.

A list is also being made of people/businesses who supported Trump. They should be boycotted and made to suffer for what they have done to us and our country.

That fact should be published far and wide: “do not frequent XYZ dry cleaners - they sent monetary support to Trump and continue to support Trumpublican candidates.”

I’m dead serious. We have stopped spending money at several places, including some relatively small, neighborhood businesses, that would send some of the money we spend to support evil. They picked their poison....now they have to drink it.

the pain needs to be levied upon Republicans far, wide, and hard, and for a long time to come.  

the only Republican politicians - at the federal, state, and local level who should not be targeted are those who have openly, loudly, and consistently rejected and spoken out against Trump and Trumpism and everything they stand for.  

since that list of Republicans is comprised of ... [check notes] .... nobody, it should be pretty easy to keep track of.  

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7 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:

the pain needs to be levied upon Republicans far, wide, and hard, and for a long time to come.  

the only Republican politicians - at the federal, state, and local level who should not be targeted are those who have openly, loudly, and consistently rejected and spoken out against Trump and Trumpism and everything they stand for.  

since that list of Republicans is comprised of ... [check notes] .... nobody, it should be pretty easy to keep track of.  

John Kasich fits that description. 

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I don’t know.  I think it’s much worse than “nothing.”   He’s actively sabotaging and destroying institutions that are needed to effectively govern.  Like departments of education, energy, and housing. He’s trying to rip healthcare from 20 million people who get it from the ACA, without any plan whatsoever to put a new system in place.  

Agree. None of that is “governing”. It’s just destroying. 

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i'll say it again.  if he fell into a coma last december, the covid response would be far better, and fewer people would've died.  if he fell into a coma in feb 2017, he would probably have a better chance at reelection than he does now.

i've said it too, he doesn't actually 'do' anything.  he doesn't think he needs to, and he's fucking lazy.  he doesn't want others to do things either.  he didn't want ukraine to investigate biden.  he wanted them to announce they were investigating him.  he announced the wall, the healthcare plan, the covid plan.  i mean, he announced that he would announce them.

it's all just barking.  twitter is fucking perfect for him.  i'm shocked he uses all 280 characters.

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34 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

and he's fucking lazy.

That's basically it. He likes being president but doesn't want to BE president, or at least do the "working" part. He's a trust fund kid who fell ass backward into being the leader of the free world.

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1 minute ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Something, something falconry.

Something, something nose dive.

Something, something Trump poll numbers

IDK, man.

The 2020 writers are getting absurdist in this thing and I’m starting to think that South Park might have been onto something.... and we’re in a simulation being ‘written’ by manatees.

 

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