I totally agree- How is trump even a contender in this election?

[EleanorR]

I remember when two people died of ebola, and pundits and republicans were all but writing Obama's political obit.

Link to tweet

[qazplm135]

1. we don't know that he is

not yet anyways.

If there's a blue wave coming, LV screens aren't going to catch them.

[SharonClark]

2. No Democratic President would have survived what

Trump has done because Democrats are patriots while GOPpers are amoral, unpatriotic assholes.

[BKDem]

3. And the COVID nightmare is on *top* of all the other madness and criminality.

[malaise]

4. If he had one ounce of shame he would have withdrawn

I have asked that several times.

By the way the website I use has passed 190,000 deaths

[brush]

7. 190,000 now and 1000 a day means 220,000 by Oct. and 250,000 by election day.

If the nation still elects the orange monster we will deserve it. It'll be fascism-r-us with his thug troops immediately into the steets.

I have a little more faith in the nation to think that will happen though.

[CaptYossarian]

8. I'd say he should "pull a Johnson", but people might take it the wrong way.

At least LBJ was smart enough to do the right thing. He even cried when hearing about the deaths of our troops. Trump doesn't care about Covid or the Russian bounties on our children who didn't fake bone spurs.

[malaise]

10. LBJ had shame and empathy

This really thinks he's special and given all the shit he has gotten away with his entire life, he may be right. He should have been in prison ages ago

[CaptYossarian]

12. His mishandling of the pandemic and inaction on climate change might put his trial

at The Hague. These have global implications. The kidnapping and separation of Hispanic families from Latin America fits in too. Now we're talking crimes against humanity.

Barr, Mitch, and Moe-Ron Johnson can't save his ass overseas. They'll be regarded as co-defendants.

[malaise]

18. Should

but we know that won't happen

[Deuxcents]

5. Wondering the same thing

This impeached p*resident running on law n order is the most ruthless, corrupt n dangerous person ever seeking a second term. If we survive his term n all our traditions n norms aren’t shredded, the next president has a lot of cleaning up to do. We have to fight this good fight n vote him away. Then, let the courts have at him.

[Progressive Jones]

6. The ignorant, poorly educated, low quality citizens just don't care, that's how. nt

[empedocles]

9. The disastrous Hoover, at [near] bottom of the Great Depression, got 39'6% of the vote in 1932.

[JHB]

11. 50 years of radical conservatives working to overthrow the New Deal...

...heck, to overthrow every populist economic and regulatory measure enacted since the late 19th century.

They want the Gilded Age back. And they spent decades pushing hot buttons to get people white-hot mad about single-issues or small clusters of issues so that the people who had their buttons pushed would prioritize those things when voting. And conservative politicians would pay lip service to those issues while working to tear down every measure under government control that pushes against wealthy people using that wealth as leverage to run roughshod over anybody who gets in their way.

They turned the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Salome. Salome is the base, and she grew increasingly pissed that the establishment Herods weren't bringing her the heads she'd asked for.

They turned the Party of Abe into the Party of Ahab. Ahab is the base, who if their chests were cannons they'd shoot their hearts out like cannonballs to trigger the libs.

Trump is the guy who promised them all-you-can-eat White Whale steak dinners for life (and the hagfish will pay for it). And blames the Deep State for the dearth of heads.

[malaise]

13. THIS

Great post

[betsuni]

32. +1

[triron]

14. Partly because too many think they want a cristofascism (but are too stupid to

have any idea what that means).

[Karadeniz]

15. Democracy isn't for lots of people...and govt. teaching obviously stinks.

[mnmoderatedem]

16. too many Trump Davidians

too many who will believe everything he says no matter how absurd. It truly is a cult.

[ecstatic]

17. This guy instructed his supporters to vote TWICE. He knows

he's not a contender, but he's going to cheat to win, right in front of our faces--knowing that nothing will be done about it.

Or so he thinks.

I hope we prove him wrong.

[sandensea]

19. Because he's what Wall Street wants

As long as this remains the case, Cheeto remains a contender for a second term - even a stolen one.

[jalan48]

20. Right wing media props him up daily.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Or marched to the Hague.........NC

[TomCADem]

22. If Fox News Was a Political Ad, How Much Would It Cost?

Put another way, if Joe Biden wanted to run a 24/7 political ad on a cable news network, how much would that cost?

[liberalmuse]

23. Some Americans are horrific human beings.

They chose to listen to right wing media for years because they were told it was okay to be an asshole. Rush Limbaugh, Gingrich and the like have been mocking compassion, mercy, decency and kindness for decades.

[jorgevlorgan]

24. The power of propaganda

Its all artificial. As soon as he is out of office and the country hasn't entirely imploded, everybody who supported him will pretend they never did.

[warmfeet]

25. Welcome to new America.

Wake up and smell the death, corruption and decrepitude.

Might be time to do something.

The repiglicans are all on board. I am not. I am going to fight this.

Nip it! Just Nip it!

[Illumination]

26. The only reason why he's a contender in the upcoming election, is because of FRAUD FRAUD

& more FRAUD! His Republican buddies lied because they wanted to be "loyal" to him. Never mind about the American people! He's been impeached by the House & should be given no consideration for further ruination of our country!

[richdj25]

27. Trump is still a contender, because

of good old American racism. Easy as that.

[Missn-Hitch]

28. Religion

I grew up in this bull shit, right-wing, moralizing, jackassery. Whenever you see those mega-churches, know they are filled, JUST FILLED with idiots of the highest order.

That's why he is a contender.

[GodlessX]

36. Especially true for me too

There’s just so many of them. Even if I’m hopeful, I fear their numbers.

[Missn-Hitch]

37. No fear, GodlessX. That's a no-no.

I see more people out and about, enjoying their Sundays, having cocktails and doing yardwork. They are getting old and will be dead soon.

Have a great weekend.

[3catwoman3]

29. How the hell was he a contender...

...the first time?

[Auggie]

30. It's tribal

[kacekwl]

31. Numbers 26-27 & 28 posts

are all correct.

[Orrex]

33. He's an idiot racist fuckhead worshipped by a cult of idiot racist fuckheads

They could catch him in the act of forcibly sodimizing their children, and they'd still happily vote for him.

No tragedy so trifling as a grotesquely mismanaged pandemic could sway them from their worship.


Today I saw a house that looked to have been built from shipping palettes and tarpaper, and it had a big new MAGA flag on a pole in the front yard. I did a job in a trailer court two weeks ago where 9 out of 10 lots had Trump signs.

They are a cult of idiot racist fuckheads. As long as the fuckhead in chief makes them feel good about their idiocy, their racism, and their fuckheadedness, they'll happily snuffle at his taint until they die. He confirms their delusions of persecution, and they adore him for it.



As always, my lurking readers from the various online KKKonservative cesspits can go fuck themselves individually and collectively.

[TrollBuster9090]

34. It's very simple, really. TRIBALISM and the authoritarian personality.

It's because the Republican Party has, for years, been cornering the market on low information voters with authoritarian personalities, who stick to their TRIBE and follow their TRIBAL LEADERS. Just like Saddam Hussein and his Tikrit clan, the people Donald Rumsfeld called 'dead enders.' They have no ideology, no morality, no paradigms for how government should work. They don't CARE how government works, as long as THEIR GUY is in charge of it.

For the last three decades Republicans have CLAIMED to care about free trade, small government, obeying the Constitution. And we all suspected they were hypocrites. But Trump's election has PROVEN it beyond any doubt.

IT LITERALLY DOESN'T MATTER what he does or doesn't do. They literally don't CARE if Russia meddles in an American election, as long as they help THEIR guy win. They literally don't CARE that he breaks the law, as long as he's THEIR tribal leader breaking it. He's the leader of their TRIBE, and they'll support him no matter what. Generally, the Republican 'tribe' is middle class, white, rural voters. In 1980 their tribal leader (Reagan) said "Russia is bad, and free trade is good." And they followed him. Then in 2020 their tribal leader (Trump) said the opposite. "Russia is good, and free trade is bad." And again, they followed their leader.

The fact that the GOP didn't even publish a platform this time around is further proof of this. They just said "we're for whatever our DEAR LEADER is for."

Democrats, on the other hand, are the exact opposite. They have so many policy ideas that they can't agree on anything, and sometimes have trouble supporting any single candidate. I'm hoping that will change a little this time around.

[Raine]

35. Incumbency nt