I think he will, but there might be a real primary challenge.

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I’m leaning towards “no”. His fragile ego will have taken two nasty blows in a row. Plus in four years he’ll be even older and more fragile, and it’s already pretty bad.

If I’m right, I’m sure he’ll endorse some other maga-clown instead.

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Considering how many failed businesses he has under his name, I doubt failure is enough to hurt his ego. He’ll just make something up so he can pretend he’s still a success. Like how he claims he won the last election despite it being yet another failure to add to the pile.

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Narcissists don’t know how to recognize their own failures

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Yeah, while the cluster b two axis graph of opinion of self and opinion of others is useful it’s important to remember that narcissism is often rejection of acknowledgment of personal flaws. They don’t actually like themselves

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32 points

Donny Jr hoping for daddy’s approval.

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He might have his endorsement, but never his approval.

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Jesus Christ, that’s brutal.

Like you’re stabbing a corpse at this point good sir.

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I don’t think he’ll endorse anyone except maybe for pay. And I don’t think anyone will want his endorsement. Most of his endorsed primary candidates failed (as I recall, valid to double check that). It may not be a mark of death, but it doesn’t look like it helps.

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I can’t be arsed checking/verifying your claim about the endorsement failure, but I do remember something similar, so it’s probably right.

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I think he’s really good at compartmentalization and it wouldn’t surprise me if deep down he does think the election was stolen from him. I also don’t think he’ll be satisfied being on the political sidelines so he’ll run as long as he’s able.

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Website someone who isn’t him? I doubt it.

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He will continue running until he wins or dies.

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In other words, until he dies.

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Unfortunately for us the worst people live the longest. Just look at henry kissinger

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I think there’s a bit of bias there. History’s worst are considered as such because they died “a bad person,” which is of note to us, whereas most of humanity is good or at least complex.

Not only is news more sellable when its negative, but our books record the moments of tragedy more than peace, even the human genome favors “remembering” the negative in order to survive.

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9 points

I sure hope that he won’t win

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8 points

I feel like he would continue trying even after his turn limit if he won

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7 points

No cap 50/50 odds he tries a postmortem run. Can’t put odds on whether it’ll be in spirit or “Weekend at Bernie’s”-style.

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68 points

I don’t expect his health to last that long. Cholesterol!

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Unfortunately he has made a habit of doing unexpected things!

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I didn’t expect him to live to 2024, but he’s still here. Kept alive by pure rage.

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2 points

Only the good die young

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3 points

Too many hamberders.

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No because in a video I just saw when he was speaking to a group of christians he said this is the election you need to vote in because when he is president there will be no more voting. He said this three times just to reinforce it.

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Obviously just locker room talk. People are just taking his comments about ending democracy and becoming a dictator on day one out of context. He’s speaking metaphorically.

–“Centrists” still voting for Trump, probably

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I’d like to believe that congress would never allow him to change the constitution and subvert due process, but you just never know what might happen with this guy.

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He’d just do it and the supreme court would tell any legal challengers to fuck off

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Andrew Jackson did something similar during his own presidency, but it was the supreme court he told to fuck off.

Essentially, he wanted to relocate all the native Americans west of the Mississippi river. Well, the native Americans did what every other American does and they sued the U.S. Government. When the court ruled in favor of the Indians, Andy Jackson basically said, “fuck you, I’m gonna do it anyways.”

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Hopefully he’ll actually be in prison before then.

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I was gonna upvote but your comment has 45 upvotes and that seems appropriate so I’ll leave it there

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