LMAO. That's not going to happen. I would love it but there's a better chance of snow in August.
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He should have dropped out 8 years ago. He didn't then and he won't now.
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He's now barred from owning a gun, but people want to give him the nuclear football? 🤔
No, they are depending on him just passing it along to Putin.
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according to 538 he's polling ahead of Biden: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/ why would he drop when he's ahead.
Those are polls from before the verdict. We'll know if the conviction changed minds in a few days.
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Donald Trump has never once in his life put anyone else's needs ahead of his own greed.
He cut his own nephew off from medical care.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-cut-medical-benefits-his-nephews-infant-child/
It would be hilarious if he does get elected from prison. All of his meetings with foreign leaders would need to be by Zoom or equivalent, and that's if he's able to get special privileges to do so. If not, he'd have to do it all in a 15 minute phone call once a week like the rest of the prisoners. And he might have to eat Nutraloaf lol.
At least the cost of running Air Force One would go down to zero.
Downvoted not because I disagree, because this might be the most pointless set of words ever written.
Why would he? His followers keep throwing money at him. He got richer because of the conviction.
I mean, duh.
He should have dropped out when he was found to have raped someone.
Hell, he should have dropped out when the "grab them by the pussy" tape came out. How did that work out?
Go vote for Biden if you can, is my point here.
Walking into dressing rooms because they "just let you"
... of children.
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He won't. His goal at that point is to avoid the consequences of his actions and abusing presidential powers is the best chance he has for that.
If you think that the last election was a mess, wait to see the next one. Trump has nothing to lose anymore and will reach new lows in hopes to save his own selfish ass. He has demonstrated again and again already that he lacks the moral capacity to do otherwise.
I'm waiting for the whole "Our founding fathers were criminals, and we elected them to represent us, so what's wrong with me" type of argument.
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He can't. It's his only chance of staying out of prison.
The irony is if either candidate steps aside...
Their party is almost guaranteed to win.
If it's not trump, there goes the most convincing reason to get people to vote for Biden as president since 1988.
If it's not Biden, and literally anyone else who hasn't been openly pissing off his voters as much as Biden himself has lately, trump doesn't stand a chance.
If either one of these 80 year old powerful white men put the country above their own ego, the other is fucked.
But it'll never happen.
They're both running no matter what
Best case scenario for me would be Biden should run, win, then immediately step down due to health concerns. Won’t happen of course.
I'm been fantasizing about Biden passing away from some clearly age related issue, simultaneously opening the race up for Anyone Else (D) to step in and highlighting how it's a bad idea to put ancient people in critical offices.
Hah. No.
There is zero way that a different Dem candidate would win this if Biden dropped out. Zero. The MAGA goons alone would be hammering how much of a disaster they are and bragging about it all the way to the White House. And that's before you have to deal with the right wing media.
The MAGA goons alone would be hammering how much of a disaster they are and bragging about it all the way to the White House. And that’s before you have to deal with the right wing media.
What?
You think they're not saying that about Biden right now?
No one that will ever vote D gives two shit what right wing media says.
But Biden is actually funding a genocide..
He is pushing for trump's border policies to be modified into the law...
And then all the things voters do want that he says he can't do.
Anyone not named Joe Biden doesn't have that substantial baggage, while maintaining Biden's biggest selling point: not being trump.
But regardless of who it is, rightwing media will say they're the devil. Which is why no rational person takes what they say into consideration
Anyone not named Joe Biden doesn't have that baggage by way of not being President at this very moment. Trump would have that baggage, for sure. So would any other Dem.
And yes, whatever arguments right wing media are using against the Dem candidate do matter. Outside the tiny, itty-bitty bubble of leftist social media, where people who actually decide elections live, that is a thing that happens.
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We’d like that. Something tells me that both people who read Washington Monthly aren’t going to inform his followers.
Yes, but he’s not going to.
This article is a waste of electrons.
I wasted electrons with your mom last night.
(I had no business trying to beat her at Mario Kart)
Believe me👐, the best campaign managers have told me, everybody's saying it👆, they're, saying, "Donald, drop out of the race". 🖐That would be an absolutely beautiful election move. 🤚Just terrific. 👋It's true! ✊️Nobody could drop out of a race better than I could☝️
Not bad Trumpspeak, but you’ve got one glaring error in there. Any time he quotes someone, that totally-not-made-up person calls him “sir.” Nobody would dare refer to the god-king by his first name!
Also he needs to add some slurs.
The "bad dentures" kind or the "racist bigot" kind, dealer's choice.
alternative title: career criminal should have integrity
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And money should grow off trees! And monkeys should fly!