Can you believe they put that thing in writing?
Absolutely.
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Can you believe they put that thing in writing?
Absolutely.
I mean they do seem like a Saturday morning cartoon villain just monologuing their evil plan because they think they have the hero down for the count.
Acting openly horrible has been hugely successful with their base. Maybe it’s gone far enough that all the low information voters out there will start seeing how crazy things have gotten. I know the women in my social circle are pissed, and they’re pretty much all white suburban moms. That’s a group that could have a big effect here.
I know the women in my social circle are pissed
I'm curious. About what specifically? That "MAGA Manifesto" is huge.
I haven’t exactly interrogated them about all the details, but there is a lot of anger about all the stuff specific to women for sure. I think the Roe overturning primed many women (and people in general) to see that this shit is serious and not just the empty political talk they’re used to mostly ignoring. They are worried it will continue to get worse and make their health care more difficult in general, not just for abortions.
I’m legitimately curious how many people have actually read their document. I just started the other day and I’m about 100 pages in. I’m glad to see people are starting to realize the amount of coordination going on within the far right. Straight up playbook for stacking the cards and consolidating power to the executive branch. Borderline unconstitutional type stuff.
I'm confused.... They did it on cameras on Jan 6th.. why are some Americans still blind to it. Do they know they can listen to the trump tapes!?
They either don't care or ignore it. As long as their side is on top they shrug it off.
But it's not... Republican side isn't anyway.
The only 'side,' that wins out of ignoring Jan 6th is people who genuinely want trump to be king.
people who genuinely want trump to be king.
It is my unscientific and wholly unsubstantiated hunch that some people are okay with that because they have no idea how limited the office of the President is supposed to be, and how that keeps the train on the tracks. They might have thought they were electing a virtual king this entire time.
They think they get what they want out of it. They are brainwashed. There is no turning back for some. There is a sunk cost fallacy that you gotta just watch them do it and hope some find their way.
So now that Project 2025 is unpopular and Trump is trying to distance himself from it, has anyone else found Trump's lack of campaign promises kind of strange? Leading up to the 2016 election he made a ridiculous amount of promises. Mexico building a wall, bring back coal, lock up Hillary, repeal and replace Obamacare, balanced budget. This time around it's very different. I can't think of any promises he's made. Could it be he doesn't want to mention the promises he failed to delivered on or maybe Project 2025 is exactly what he has in mind?
It doesn't matter. His voters believe that he's the guy that somehow kept all the promises he made.
Reality doesn't really matter.
I’m starting to think that he doesn’t care whether he wins or loses. He has a horde of sycophants following him that he can continue grifting off of from now until the end of his days.
I think he cares more about humiliation than almost anything else, and he sees winning as the only way to avoid not only the humiliation of losing the election but also the humiliation of facing any consequences at all for his many crimes.
Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him. He could be pulling wads of poo out of his diaper and flinging them at the audience during his rallies and this wouldn't change. They're rooting for their team good season or bad.
I think when people are in that little private booth, there will be more republicans that vote for Kamala. The only thing they have to run on anymore is immigration, but thats not working as well as everyone thinks, IMO.
Yeah. It's just too bad the democrats are adopting the republican stance on that to somehow show republican voters that their representatives aren't actually committed to keeping those promises so much as being contrarian to democrats, as if they need any more proof of that fact and will suddenly see the light, rather than simply challenging them on their outright lies and winning over the people that actually value evidence-based rhetoric.
I'm sure he cares. If he wins he can make many of his problems go away. On the other hand win or lose he can share his stake in DJT and be a billionaire. Doing so would screw over a lot of people so I doubt he will do that if he wins.