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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Seems to be a bad strategy for them. Doesn't that risk separating the critical conservative demographic of Insurrectionists between two presidential candidates (RFK Jr and Trump)?

Nevermind, forget I said anything.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake; it's bad manners" -Napoleon Bonaparte

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I believe they think it will take democrat votes away bc he was running as a D for a minute. I think it will have the opposite effect and draw votes from dumb conspiracy nut Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The right has started to eat itself alive. Only the most "ideologically pure" remain, and ideological purity in MAGA terms means not trusting anything except whatever they make up in the moment, which leads them to not trust each other. This is making it really difficult for them to agree on much of anything, which is why they have no political platform and do nothing except obstruct

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I won't be surprised if we find out he was a Scientologist all along.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Or a Mormon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Just saw an article where he hasn't "looked into the details" but "smart" people have said to him that Jan. 6th might not have actually been an insurrection, just a riot (that started as a "protest").

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

The man said COVID restrictions were as bad as Anne Frank hiding from Nazis. This comes as no surprise.