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It is endlessly funny to me that a half-senile 77-year-old who:

-Has a terrible recruitment record,
-Has a terrible midterm record,
-Has lost as many elections as he has won,
-Is incredibly unpopular with his own party's institutions despite being one of the most popular among his party's base
-Ran literally the most inept, disorganized administrations in modern American history,
-Achieved practically none of his party's goals during a time when they had a friggin' TRIFECTA,

is somehow just going to win and cancel democracy. The GOP does not sh!t these kind of bricks over Biden, s'all i'm saying.

Because Biden has never attempted to overthrow democracy and Trump has.

If you don't understand why people are fearful of Trump's return, then you've been asleep since 2015.

I dislike Trump but some of the language here makes me think people view reality as a Star Wars movie. It's a bit funny. "Fearful of Trump's return" like he's Palpatine or a cartoon villain. It's hard to take such hyperbolic language serious after 8 years. I was assured back in 2016 that there would be death camps by the end of his first term.

You know what's gonna happen if he wins? The rich will get tax cuts. The poor will continue to get and be poor because no one in Washington truly cares about them. The middle class will continue to shrink as it has done since 1970. The economy will boom for a short time and then hit a horrible bust, possibly leading to a depression because that's what happens under Republican presidents. Climate change action will be stalled or reversed, but that doesn't matter because we're screwed anyway. Life will go on.

Here's another esoteric Shia joke

In 1445 A.H, a nascent Shi'ite offshoot emerged — the Raʾīsiyya — proclaiming that Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was in fact alive and healthy, discreetly roaming the mountain ranges of Dizmār following his helicopter crash. Though it has been several decades since his demise, adherents to this cult adamantly reject such claims and proclaim that the former president is fine and well and that he is the only rightful ruler of Iran, nay, the rest of the Muslim world. His sustenance, they believe, is from two rivers of milk and honey that miraculously sprouted from the ground after the crash. They commemorate its anniversary by embarking on a pilgrimage to the mountain range where they cry aloud begging for his reappearance.
 

Would not be surprised if the impeachment is within the first six months of a second term. Or if people in Congress didn't start drafting articles of impeachment before or immediately after January 20th.

Drop out of running for president, or go to jail.

Would that be legal/constitutional?

 

You realize that would make all the claims that the charges are political lawfare immediately seem valid right? And that forcing the opposition to either 'drop out' or go to jail is basically banana republic type crap?

You know, FDR 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/trump-at-nra-convention-floats-a-three-term-presidency-00158786

Cant wait to be gaslit for the next four years about how he’s “only joking” and “just being Trump,” only for him to stay in power past January 20, 2028 due to election “irregularities” and defending a third term on the basis of an obscure interpretation of the 22nd amendment.

Idk the wording here makes it sound like he's considering 2020-2024 as his second term

[First Debate Preview]

First Debate Preview

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7KNVDLgFP6/

To be fair they're both better in math than I am. Math outside of the practical day to day stuff always sounds like space language to me.

I wonder if Anderson Cooper will start crying again and yelling at people if anyone laughs at Trumps jokes.

No live audience.

Folks, you know people say I'm funny. Really funny. I mean, you saw what happened with Peter Kay at that big stadium in Manchester they're building. They had to cancel it because it wasn't ready. They should have asked President Donald John Trump to present there instead. I would do my performance anywhere. I'd do it in a half-built stadium in Manchester, England. Or Mozambique, or Zambia, or in front of the Herbert Hoover Library or anywhere. And I'd attract so many people. So many people. All of them legal, ticket-holding citizens. And I'd make them laugh. Every single one. Hell, I think I might even be able to make old Joe Eighty-Million laugh. But we'll see.

Is that a real quote? I can never parse Trump quotes from the parodies....

But if he moved to Mozambique that would bother me none.

Without alternative candidacies or objections, both officers are returned unanimously.

Now for location nominations. Per the bylaws, the convention must be held in the south.

I don't know any Biden/RFK supporters but I know a few Trump/RFK supporters. I think it'll end up being close to the same, slightly more from Trump.

Looks like they figured something out, so good, but good lord a lot of the reactions in this thread were basically "let's make people's lives worse so we can feel good about ourselves"