Lol, this is a dumb article. It like saying, we’ve found the culprit in the wife beating, and it’s the wife’s fault. She wouldn’t have been hit if she just kept her mouth shut.
And I urge people to go watch Ron DeSantis talk for more than a 30 second clip, the dude is weird.
Please don't. Can't we just have normal, moderate, Yount candidates from both parties? Has our political system really become a nasty game like this where we champion poopy doopies for eternity?
I would also like it if political campaigns lasted less than two years. A lot of countries have strict laws against campaigning outside of a specified election season.
Only because he’s successfully captured the hearts of the Republican base. DeSantis probably could have successfully maneuvered his way into the nomination if he’d waited for Trump to either die or leave politics on way or another. But he got greedy and wasn’t willing to wait for Trump to step aside, and now he’s made himself unelectable at the national level.
We’ll see what this does to his re-election in Florida. I’m not crying at the thought that he could get primaried.
Yes, but the anti-anti-Trumpers need some kind of scapegoat to explain their predicament. And the Democrats are always a popular target for their base.
They have to blame somebody and they certainly can’t accept responsibility for it themselves. Scapegoating is a time-honored tradition with these people.
Honestly, I would love to see him put away in prison for the rest of his natural life, and see the fruits of his grifting utterly destroyed. But if I can’t have that, death by natural causes also works.
Nixon was the most important criminal prosecution that should have happened. I fully understand the Ford wanted Nixon out of the headlines so he could move on to governing. But at the same time, it established a glow of immunity (even impunity) around even former presidents. In so many ways, Nixon paved the way for Trump, with Reagan and Iran-Contra extending the principle.
Trump sucked but the tactics the media uses to make Trump supporters look bad only serves to push them farther away from what the author considers “good conscience”
Daytime reality TV drama following orange man’s prison escapades incoming. Just kidding, he won’t go to actual jail. More like a gated retirement home with all the perks.
The president in particular is very much a figure head - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership, but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a fascinating character. On those criteria Donald Trump is one of the most successful presidents the US has ever had. He has already spent 4 of his 8 potential presidential years being investigated for fraud.
It’s not that qualities like leadership and morality are required for the Presidency, it is the implicit understanding that the American people, as a whole, would filter those men and women with the best qualities among the populace to the top. However, instead, we have a hijacked political system where only 2 lobby-chosen candidates do not need to convince the populace of their leadership skills, only that they’re not as bad as the other guy. The 2 party establishment killed the presidency.
…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.
Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]
STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.
He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.
US governments should be tried for war crimes and other hijinks. Trump and his golf buddies Hillary, Obama and George and their respective Governments should be tried for drone bombing, civilian massacres (called Collateral damage when US military does it), concentration camps, carpet bombing, corruption on global level, one-sidedness in media reporting, history revisionism and similar fun activities. All paid by a bizarre, medicated, clueless, propaganda-fed nation that thinks a media-run and industry-sponsored dictatorship can be called an Empire, even though it has no cultural identity worth spreading or remembering. All the while calling it Democracy during the Superbowl halftime show while they sell you cheap shitty products and feed you industry high-grade sugar while you sing your national hymn and jerk off to Beyonce’s twerking… while saving the Amazon Forest and Hong Kong… and saving the Kurds and Palestinians (RIP)…
That would be the most important one. And a fun one!
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