The schadenfreude at seeing Trump decline publically is real, but the opening paragraphs about “Biden’s Rise” were everything he said about Pecker several paragraphs later. I’m not impressed that the president can clap back when he is co-signing a genocide.
Acting like he is some heroic figure rising to the occasion is garbage when he seems like he’s trying to work his way up to being Blue Dubya. He’s a slightly less decomposed corpse, but he’s just not even close to adequate for the state of the world. I kinda wish something would fall on both of them before the election so we could choose someone actually good, but it feels almost certain that the DNC would just kingmaker an even more feckless husk channeling the spirit of a Raytheon executive.
What a bizarrely titled article. The entire thing is an opinion piece but I do think there’s some legitimacy for thinking that Trump’s deteriorating mental state will become harder to hide but to get him effectively off the ballot that slippage will need to be widely recognized before the RNC convention on July 15th. In the unlikely event that he’s generally perceived as a gibbering idiot by that date there’s pretty much no chance that Lara Trump nor Michael Whatley would consider a super-delegate style override of the primary results… if it was still in the hands of establishment GOPers that might be possible but would still be highly irregular and unlikely.
I am curious to see how public perception of Trump shifts but given the electoral system Trump will be on that fucking ballot in November unless he’s literally dead - to do anything else would result in vote splitting that’d guarantee a democratic victory (which would be nice - but GOPers aren’t likely to go for it).
If Trump was publicly committed to senior care, openly announced his dementia and endorsed some other candidate (all highly unlikely given the narcissism) he’d still get 20% of the popular vote from the paranoid and low information voters.
If Trump was publicly committed to senior care, openly announced his dementia and endorsed some other candidate (all highly unlikely given the narcissism) he’d still get 20% of the popular vote from the paranoid and low information voters.
Dont tease me.
In the unlikely event that he’s generally perceived as a gibbering idiot by that date there’s pretty much no chance that Lara Trump nor Michael Whatley would consider a super-delegate style override of the primary results
They can’t, like legally and literally. The RNC rules are setup without super delegates and they can’t backport those in right before the convention.
Literally the only thing that would keep him off the ballot is if either he dies (which will be a HUGE clusterfuck) or a court ruling finds him ineligible to hold office (which, he just won cases keeping him off the ballot so that’s really unlikely).
He could be drooling on stage while actively shitting his depends, he’s still going on the ballot. That was 1000% on display with Dianne Feinstein, for literally years, she showed very clear signs of dementia/Alzheimer’s.
And the scary thing is that none of this will stop Trumpers from voting for him. They’d write his name in even if he does die.
“Can’t” is a word you should never use when it comes to politics. It’s all about costs and while there may be customs and norms and charters and rules… they aren’t laws and can be bent - just at a cost. There are no laws about how political parties nominate electors and recent history should tell you that even laws can be bent.
Otherwise, yea, I totally agree.
Each day in court brings that reality closer. Trump can’t run. Trump can’t hide. Trump can’t do all the things that have enabled him to thrive as a despotic grifter his entire life. His mind is slipping, his grip on the world is weakening and at the end of the day Donald Trump recognizes it. You can see it in his eyes. His last cogent thought may well be the recognition that he’s the world’s largest loser and everything he’s done his entire life has led to utter failure.
Emphases mine in case anyone needs a little not-quite end of week pick me up.
I don’t care if he ever thinks that thought. At the end of of his days he will have left us with a horde of lunatics empowered by his ideals. We are stuck with Trumpism.
Yeah, but the cons have been doing everything possible to manifest someone just like donnie. If it wasn’t him, it was clear it’d be someone like him. Just look at Palin…
I wouldn’t call it “Trumpism”; it’s been the core of the cons and the Republican Party for years and years.
I don’t think he will ever consider himself a loser. He’s done everything he’s wanted and pretty much gotten away with it. Even if he’s convicted of 100 felonies, he will at the worst have to spend the rest of his life at his Florida mansion tweeting and still doing whatever he wants.
If he doesn’t see the inside of a jail cell, there is no justice in the world.
I took tomorrow off to recover my mental health, so your emphasis is very much a boost I needed
This is all wishful thinking.
We’ve had politicians with clear signs of dementia still being elected years after those signs show up. Ronald Reagan was said to have very clear signs of dementia in the run for his second term.
The only thing that will keep Trump off the ballot at this point is his death. He could be catatonic in a wheel chair and he’ll still be on the ballot. There’s simply no mechanism the RNC could pull even if it wanted to to keep him off the ballot.
