Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

also, if i had to watch a victim of intra-faction violence burn (and painfully), trump or cruz, i'd actually enjoy cruz more. i can think of at least one reason. but who and what reasons are yours, lol? fwiw i'm not sure i'd even care about desantis. should i change that position? should i really enjoy his imagined destruction more?

Yeah maga a maga is very good

I don't want a goddamn dumpster fire. Stop it.

I want them both to die.

Don't make me choose

Any kind of "horserace" encouragement is evil and I'm gonna call it out. Whoever wins the nomination will have earned it for being more hateful, malevolent, and fascist than any candidate in a putative democracy.

Kids will die because of this nominee

da ghost of morbs

y'all, i regret that self-satifying last post of mine. actually sorry. i try to be better, and at the very least, i try to stfu if that's impossible. failed there. stay well and remember soto's post, it's real.

No apologies necessary. The horse race is addictive. But Neanderthal and I live in Florida, and this shit's real.

name a potential republican candidate who won't lead to dead kids

that's my point

i just remembered john huntsman

he liked Yes!

wait - i don't know this reference. remind me please!

xxxp, yes; i'm agreeing with you.

Point taken, Alfred, I will govern myself accordingly

I want them both to die.

all three, surely?

tbc I'm not gonna police the thread, and as 2024 approaches it's inevitable that we/I turn our/my attention to the horse race; but when we turn to who's-up/who's-down in the Chuck Todd manner, devoid of morality, my stomach turns.

I think, at this point, we’re worrying about which of these chuds we will be up against in 2024. It’s telling that the press is largely giving DeSantis a pass on his horrible actions mainly because they don’t want Trump as the nominee again.

I am not exactly breaking new ground here, but he is clearly mentally ill, possibly as a result of, or made worse by, extended drug use.

xp Are they though? From my vantage point in Minnesota, Florida is the state whose politics I’ve seen the most coverage of in the last few years. Way beyond the former champ, Texas.

And, to be fair to Florida journalism, our local papers have extensively covered -- editorialized about -- DeSantis' horrors

I feel like the coverage I see is a lot about political positioning

centrist dem pundit class not really caring about book banning is i guess not surprising but upsetting none the less particularly considering their enthusiastic coverage of the politics of higher education

Ron DeSantis Is Not Scott Walker

His support among Republicans at this early stage of the primary cycle puts him in rare company.

By Nate Cohn
Published Feb. 13, 2023
Updated Feb. 15, 2023

xpost that's national political press, though, a cloaca in the best of times. Flipping through channels last week, though, I caught "Morning" Joe denouncing a (dismissed) proposal requiring teenage girls to disclose their menstrual status.

yeah cant speak to the florida press but nationally the desantis coverage while voluminous hasnt been great

It’s possible I’m in my own self-structured echo chamber. What I’m seeing stops just short of putting trans students and their parents in public stocks and giving everyone else a mandatory stone

My hometown paper's opinion page: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/

And, to be fair to Florida journalism, our local papers have extensively covered -- editorialized about -- DeSantis' horrors

I was visiting my dad in the Tampa area last week. There was a scathing op ed in the Times (I think) about DeSantis's racism. It was, if I recall correctly, on the front page.

Good thing no one reads the dying lamestream media.

The failing Tampa Times

I almost posted “the MH. how many divisions do they have”? but after libations, i post it. lol i’m sure negronis would have afforded better judgment to me, blee me mine were not that good. 🙂

he's slightly modified his "joke" about the n-word

Trump: "You have two n-words, neither of which should ever be mentioned ... you know what the one is, but the other is the nuclear word." pic.twitter.com/vBYmX5nRdh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 21, 2023

more than once, he has told it more along the lines of "we all know what the n-word is, right?", and then he waits for everyone in the crowd to laugh at the really funny question, before eventually clarifying that he definitely mean nuclear

I hope he runs and I hope he is absolutely obliterated, and I don't mean metaphorically

I hope the chuds turn on them both.

Trump claims the US has surpassed socialism and is now a Marxist communist country pic.twitter.com/Jz12XFVryv

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 21, 2023

also extraordinary.

They’ve gone along beyond that what they’re going

You know, I was just thinking that while on my way to work in a collective farm where the means of production is owned by the proletariat

i'm going to take a massive dump and ensure it is evenly distributed amongst Trump and the rest of the GOP

I avoid videos of trump but maybe I shouldn't; watching that clip, it's nearly impossible to imagine him getting anywhere near the white house again.

love him to be getting near back seat of hearse. like come on his cholesterol is through the roof even w/ a statin

Every time a famous person dies that is younger and more healthy than him, I get kind of frustrated ngl.

Every time anyone who dies who isn't him, I get kind of frustrated agl.

I avoid videos of trump but maybe I shouldn't; watching that clip, it's nearly impossible to imagine him getting anywhere near the white house again.

He seems really disinterested, for someone motivated by spite and desperation

Hope he wrecks the rest on the way out!

From your mouth to the ears of the gods.

Ya this version of Trump has like 20% of the energy of 2016 Trump and none of the charisma, which is to say he still looks more electable than desantis

Oooh, pass the Bactine!

Trump's thought/conversational patterns were always circuitous and rambling, but he now sounds exactly like James Austin Johnson's impression of him. He's become the parody.