I think he might just have a fetish for losing.

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    Gonna try and pull a Putin with Trump?

    Take Trump as his running mate, then if he wins resign so Trump can be President again.

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      That is against the constitution. The 12th amendment says if a person is ineligible for president they are also ineligible for VP

      Only thing possible is running for congress and then being speaker of the house, then both VP and President resign.

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    Iran war didn’t go well, now he planning to be the boss? Well, let’s see how it goes for him.

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      Didn’t Putin allegedly get a little mad at this situation ? Trump couldn’t mentally survive not being officially the big guy for a day.

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        That is likely true. I can’t imagine him calling anyone else “sir” or “Mr. President.”

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    Oh fuck, I need to keep my wallet closed. Last time a person who obviously cannot get elected became the GOP candidate, I bet a lot of money against his win. :(

    Fortunately, I did the same 4 years earlier when the same happened :)

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      I just have a hard time believing they can keep him both alive and sufficiently lucid enough to be viable for 2028. He’s struggling to hold it together through an entire Nazi rally now.

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        Sanity and competence are not requirements. As long as he’s hurting the right’s designated scapegoats du jour, they’ll support him even if he’s no more than an amorphous blob of protoplasm in a jar.

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      That’s gonna be a hard sell to a lot of people. I’m moderate and I wouldn’t vote for either one of these dudes. They need to pick someone sane? Or is the insanity the selling point, and I’m just out of touch?

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        Or is the insanity the selling point

        Yes, why would you vote for a politician who is just going to line their pockets when you can vote for a lunatic that says it’s okay to say slurs who is just going to line his pockets? I mean, what’s life if you can’t say slurs to people? Other people in my trailer park need to know they’re lesser than me and Nancy Pelosi stock trades gender fluids transmission imported beef participation trophies nobody legal wants to work and all the illegals are not working and taking all the jobs and welfare for $9 lattes avocado toast. I will either hang myself from my F350s lifted trailer hitch or vote for Trump. What’s it going to be, liberal?

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    Just hand him a beer and he’ll forget when he’s supposed to be running. Daft cunt.

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    Ok so that’s the plan… Shithead who is obviously better (lol) than orangeshit is gonna run. That guarantees that we’ll have another 4 years of the orange shit.

    This is terrible. Will there be any businesses still solvable? Any economy still alive?

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    Guy who lost a war with Iran wants to be president.

    Must be the type who has failed upwards his entire life.

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      There’s no “war with Iran”. When did it begin? When did it end?

      In reality it’s been decades/centuries of genocidal imperial terrorism in an attempt to violently control the region, the people, and resources there.

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        Hmmm.

        You make a good point.

        On the other hand, look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president. Literally, back to Washington.

        The US isn’t like Japan where the LDP wins consecutive elections for decades on end.

        The republican candidate was GOING to win in 2016.

        We are now in a time of chaos. I feel Dems will probably sweep the midterms and maybe win in 2028, but it’s unclear. We’ve only had one nonconsecutive president before.

        I wouldn’t put money on James (Vance).

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          Remember when the Supreme Court interfered in the presidential election because of hanging chads and effectively kept Gore from winning, thus leading somehow to the death of Harambe and bringing us to the bad place dimension where everything always gets worse and almost always in the worst way possible?

          Yeah… like you said, history likes to repeat itself.

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            Oh yes; I remember the Brooks Brothers riot.

            Begging the question — was Al Gore a particularly popular vice president?

            Having lived through it, I would say no.

            Which doesn’t mean Dubya was wildly popular. Only that Al wasn’t.

            Whether Dubya won legitimately, the national mood wasn’t four more years of Clinton.

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              Trumps approval rating when he was elected the second time was 47%. Al Gore’s approval rating when he lost the 2000 election was 62%.

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              Should’ve called it the Brook Brothers coup. Because in retrospect, that’s what it was.

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          look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president

          No it doesn’t.

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          Not really though, post civil war there was a 40 year pause where no democrats were president iirc until Wilson won due to Teddy Roosevelt splitting the vote

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            Yeah because the Dixiecrats were traitors… Then the democrats held a tight grip on congress after the depression and FDR was president for 10+ years.

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          That’s because both sides are shit and just keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful, in exchange for money.

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            This is the shit that is put out there to keep people from being involved in politics because “why bother if both sides are the same?” and to deflect blame from the fact that the right is objectively worse in every fucking way. The Democratic party has a lot of problems and is in need of of a huge pull to the left, but it is better than the alternative. Dismissing it this way solves nothing.

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              Well we could always keep doing like the past dozen decades and endlessly have the population flopping back and forth between two parties and always pissed and screwed but never doing anything real about it other than “you have to vote guys. That will fix everything”. The system is corrupted. Voting isn’t going to fix it.

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        Right. Standing up there and yelling “there’s that f__ talk again!” as some kind of response, ala Idiocracy would be a huge selling point for the Tribe That Rub Shit In Their Hair. The pig people loooove that kind of stuff - they are intimidated by competency, expertise and people that are smarter than them. An idiot like donnie or Petey are their idea of “common sense” politicians.

        That, combined with enough of the apathetic staying home as well as the armchair “leftists” that love to tell everyone how it is useless to vote, (at least to actually vote for a candidate that can actually win) and you’ll get Petey in office…