His key fund has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised, and is sitting on less than $4 million, according to the latest numbers available. He’s already dug into his fund for 2024 ads, and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia. And some of his allies are begging for donations, saying he won’t pony up.

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And some of his allies are begging for donations, saying he won’t pony up.

HE NEVER DOES! How do these idiots not know that? He’s famous for not paying what he owes.

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Obligatory: why would the leopard eat MY face??

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It’s like people who buy lottery tickets every week except at least those people have a minute chance of a payout.

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At least that money goes to schools and roads and stuff. This is butt wipe money

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And if they buy again, they have a second chance of payout. And if they all chip in, they have an (h)our chance 🤣

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How ironic. “Running out of other people’s money” is a term that Trumpers use to describe communism.

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It’s a communism for one person.

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So capitalism.

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Formally, capitalism is only economic and not political system, while communism is both. Democratic capitalism is quite different from dictatorial capitalism and anarchism-capitalism, for example. Countries like Sweden, China and Iran, they all have capitalism, but political systems are very different.

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I think it’s hilarious that he’s supposedly a billionaire yet the RNC and their various related PACs are willing to go broke for him even though he is unpopular enough that the candidates he endorsed lost in the midterms. He’s losing them elections left and right and yet they still can’t stop themselves from throwing money at him.
He’s like King Midas but everything he touches turns to shit.

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he packed the court, he personally killed roe, and he gives americans they hate the most, women/brown people/homosexuals nightmares. he is their god. they don’t care about anything else. racists would throw their own children into fire if it meant mud people might get it worse than they have it now. it really is that simple.

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you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.…

Lee Atwater, on how the Republican party wins the votes of racists without appearing blatantly racist

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King Mierdas

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Ne’er a more apt moniker, so good.

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In reverse. Everything he touches goes to shit.

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“Mierda” is Spanish for “shit”.

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I don’t get the reverse part?

“Everything he touches goes to shit.” That is literally what it means.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The Mierdas Touch

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“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey “Spineless” Graham.

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[5 minutes later…]

“I should go suck trumps dick, just to hedge my bets…” - also lindsey graham

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But you see, he’s only broke because the very very mean libs stole the election from him which forced him to try to overthrow the government. Then they led all kinds of witch hunts against him after he tried to show that he was right and expose election fraud. None of this is his fault!!! He’s innocent! He averted nuclear Holocaust!! /s

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King Shidas

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“No word from Trump,” Johnson wrote. “Nothing to defend these people who worked so hard for him. Not a dime of his money to fund their defense. Nothing. He has thrown all of them under the bus to prop himself up.”

No waaaaay, shock pikachu face

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He has thrown all of them under the bus to prop himself up.

That is his nature, it is his core identity. Any common moron could see that starting in 2014. Whatever happens to all those people who worked for him and are now under the bus…they deserve everything that happens to them now that he’s used them up and cast them aside.

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“My son Eric is much more involved with it than I am,” Trump said.

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“My son Eric is much more involved with it than I am”, Donald Trump throwing his son under the bus.

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They didn’t think the orange leopard would eat THEIR faces!

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Hell, he threw his sons under the bus in the New York case, you think he cares about these other people?

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What the fuck I thought Super PACs were not allowed to coordinate with the candidate…right? …right? It’s paying his fucking legal bills how is that not a violation? Oh that’s right because it’s a fucking corrupt bullshit concept. The supreme court’s awful Citizens United ruling completely fucked over this country.

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It’s a violation, but at this point they’re openly flouting campaign finance laws. Usually, a campaign and their PAC will have “secret” places to publicly share documents that are technically public but only known to the campaign and the PAC. For example, they might have a site called Artichoke-And-Orange-Juice-Recipes dot com which would have various recipes posted. However, if you go to /recipes/other/political/campaigns/2023/abcd-5678-totally-public-stuff/ one side would post documents for the other side to grab. It’s technically not coordinating since anyone could grab those documents, but only they know about that URL so practically speaking it’s coordinating secretly. However, for the debate, DeSantis’ PAC posted debate prep notes openly for DeSantis to use.

Also, a DeSantis PAC has been paying for stuff like a campaign bus for DeSantis which shouldn’t be allowed.

Meanwhile, Republicans want to loosen the regulations so that PACs could coordinate openly with the campaigns with no restrictions.

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