untermensche
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He's going to look very slow even if he is in great shape.
He's going to look very slow even if he is in great shape.
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Jimmy Higgins
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Trump not running in 2024?
It is interesting, it is a single comment in an article that presumes he is running for President, but the comment made by Trump reminded me of two things.
1) Trump filed paperwork to run in 2020, in February 2017. His first campaign event was too in February 2017
2) Sarah Palin's bus tour in 2012, which became a bit more and more awkward as she wouldn't say what she was doing. (Bilking idiots that supported that paperweight of a politician/person)
What did Trump say?
It is interesting, it is a single comment in an article that presumes he is running for President, but the comment made by Trump reminded me of two things.
1) Trump filed paperwork to run in 2020, in February 2017. His first campaign event was too in February 2017
2) Sarah Palin's bus tour in 2012, which became a bit more and more awkward as she wouldn't say what she was doing. (Bilking idiots that supported that paperweight of a politician/person)
What did Trump say?
That sounds exactly like he isn't running, because if he says he is running, the money he begins to raise likely falls into different categories. The fact he hasn't held any events implies either an empty account and debt or he is squandering the money. Of course, Trump could be trying to angle a money showdown like Lebron had with ESPN and where he was going to play. Though unlike Lebron James, the money from that wouldn't go to charity.Donald Trump said:
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Trump's drawing power is dropping faster than an 80's hair metal band did after grunge hit. He used to fill stadiums, and it won't be long before he'll have trouble filling the pavilion at your local state fair.
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Unlike Trump, he considers himself the President for *all* Americans.
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Pure class. Can you imagine how Trump would have reacted in a similar scenario?
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Trump would have had the Secret Service remove the kid and have the IRS look into her parent's taxes.
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Well, the mentioned rally may have been a bust, but Clownstick wasn't going to be there, so it is hard to say how much of the fail is tied to him.
Trump's drawing power is dropping faster than an 80's hair metal band did after grunge hit. He used to fill stadiums, and it won't be long before he'll have trouble filling the pavilion at your local state fair.
A recent Clownstick rally with himself there had maybe 45k people:
https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/how...in-alabama-secret-service-gives-estimate.html
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I'm in northern Ohio, and only a few die-hards are flying their Trump flags. One guy drives his little pickup with a giant Trump banner past the football field when we have a home game. There's barely a MAGA hat to be seen. I'm sure it's worse south of here. You can probably calibrate the degree of Trump psychosis by a county's covid numbers.
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I've been driving through neighborhoods in Scottsdale, Arizona since April as part of my job, and I've seen exactly one Trump flag outside of a house, and the very rare big pickup truck with a big Trump flag. Of course, we're (still) going through the stupid "audit," but even some Trump-supporting GOP politicians have been like "jeez, give it a rest, already."
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Right. As much as I despise Trump and am bewildered by anyone on this planet supporting him (outside of his demon spawn children; that I could understand), I can sympathize a bit with the muted, somewhat dazed affect of The Base, because I know just how I felt in 2017.
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There are at least two nearby ranches with adjacent US highways where those highways were lined with Trumsucker flags for stretches of a half mile to a mile. Now they're lined with dozens of huge American flags, in gauche displays of displaced nationalism. I feel for our ranchers, but despair that they don't even try to get out from under the blanket of right wing propaganda that has them still in thrall to The Big Lie.
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Trump is the rally point, not the movement. It is a very very weird movement because Trump isn't even part of the movement, but rather the perceived head of it.
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My wife and I passed a Trump rally going on this past weekend. Maybe a dozen people in attendance.
My bird was in clear view as I passed.
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Trump is the rally point, not the movement. It is a very very weird movement because Trump isn't even part of the movement, but rather the perceived head of it.
You say that like he wasn't actually at the Capitol with the rioters like he said in his speech that he would be.
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Like I said, the rally point. Trump only cares about Trump, he isn't remotely part of any movement. Yet, the movement rallies to him as their leader.
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The movement is best described as nationalist anti-intellectualism. It's full of people who are scientifically illiterate and literally wish they could get away with every crime in the book.
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literally think they deserve to get way with every crime in the book. Or that it shouldn't even be a crime.
Like 'stand your ground' laws written so that cops can't even inconvenience you investigating a shooting.
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A bumper sticker I see now and then: GOD GUNS AND TRUMP. (As opposed to, I guess, GOD GUNS TRUMP AND COLLEGE DIPLOMA.)