• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    He doesn’t give a shit. He firmly believes that the fix is in and regardless of what happens, he’ll just win with slates of fake electors from trump states, or failing that, the court. He (and his people) don’t honestly believe that the actual vote means shit.

    And the sad reality is is that he’s got a good shot at being absolutely right about that.

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      8 months ago

      Unfortunately, his “I don’t give a shit” demeanor literally endears him to his voters.

      They vote for him because they firmly feeeeeel that gubmit is holding their rugged individualism back and needs to be destroyed.

      Of course their throats would be coughing up blood from all the screaming the millisecond one of the government services they don’t appreciate or even realize they receive all day every day stopped happening.

      But having abandoned, or never having had, basic critical thinking and reasoning skills, they’d just blame all the out groups they despise for the consequences of their own votes.

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    8 months ago

    Trump is a deep cover Democrat trying to force conservatives to be gay through the music of the Village People.

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    8 months ago

    Trump […] answered a handful of questions from supporters before pausing the town hall due to the attendees requiring medical attention. At some point, Trump joked, “Personally, I enjoy this. We lose weight, you know. No, you lose weight. We could do this — lose four or five pounds.” He added, “Would anybody else like to faint? Please raise your hand.”

    Whaaaat the fuck is he talking about? Glibness about his fainting attendees’ health and barely veiled annoyance at them aside, what does that even mean? What did this have to do with losing weight? Is he losing weight by having to stand longer while people are medically attended to? If that’s what he meant, it’s a weird way to flex, implying that you are fat from sitting all the time, but ok.

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      I think maybe it’s because the fainting was presumably because it was hot? And if you sweat enough, you can lose a couple pounds or something? Still, pretty gross.

      Kinda want to displace “weird” with “gross.” Weird can be good. Gross is never good.

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        8 months ago

        Somehow that’s even worse than “won’t be fooled again”

        At least Bush could think to the end of his sentence, even if it takes half the sentence to get there. Trump has to say it out loud before he can think about it.

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          To give Bush his credit, he said that “won’t be fooled again” line because he realized he was about to say “shame on me,” and that would have been used against him for the rest of his presidency.

          It actually showed real on the spot adaptability.

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            8 months ago

            hence my entire comment? He realized halfway through what he was going to say and changed it. Trump said the dumb thing, THEN corrected afterward.

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    8 months ago

    I go to Rallies with presidential candidates to listen to music and form my political opinions by listening to DJs.

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    8 months ago

    He is clearly mentally checked out and can still end up winning on coasting. It is wild I haven’t seen his base angry about him ducking debates.