Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
I still find it amazing that he run in an election he cannot vote in.

But hey, he's got more charges coming, and his guilty verdict means even more people will not vote for him. Please keep in mind folks: he barely won in 2016, and some of the place he lost 2020, specifically the swing states, were only handfuls of people. He's always had tight margins and republicans have been programmed to absolutely hate on criminals. There's going to be more than a little cognitive dissonance in the cult in the coming days.
 

Axaday

Well-known member
Citizen
I had wondered if the sheer historicity of it would hold jurors back. I think I would feel that in the jury room despite not liking the guy and feeling the case was very clearly against him. To whatever extent that is important, this jury surmounted it and his next jury won't have to think about it so much.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
And keep in mind: this case was the weakest of the ones currently against him. This one was a complete wipe against trump: the rest are slam dunks if they can ever get started.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
Citizen
They're going to continue sucking up right until he loses, then drop him like the bag of rotting jive he is. Because they know how vindictive he is and the don't want to be seen going against him if there's any chance he gets back in power.
 

KidTDragon

Now with hi-res avatar!
Citizen
But if they cut ties and kick him out of the party, he doesn't get the Republican nomination, so he's got no chance of becoming president again, so he won't be able to use the power of the office to retaliate. And then he'd run independently and pull votes away from whomever the R's would end up nominating which would guarantee a win for Biden ohhhhhh, now I get it.



That's a lot of words to say "Because the dummy would've perjured himself.".
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
If the republican party dumps trump and nominates someone else: they lose the cult and the election.

They can't win the election WITH trump either: he's already pissed away all good will with every other voting block outside his cult, and the cult does not have the volume needed to win on their own.

It's basic math: so long as the majority of everyone not in the cult goes and votes in november; republicans lose. Trump is their best option, and it's still a loss. Even with their cheating and vote culling: they can't win.

So stay motivated, and vote blue down the ticket.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
Citizen
Unless he's actually incarcerated for one or more of the things he's charged with and no longer has a public soapbox, Trump can continue to hold the GOP hostage after the election indefinitely. Even if he loses in November. It doesn't matter to his cult. That's why it's a cult.
 

Axaday

Well-known member
Citizen
This seems like an ideal time and an ideal excuse for the GOP to break away from Trump. Are they going to take it? I think you know the answer.

The trouble is the way he plays the game and the simple situation of career politicians. I can't right off name a single Washington, DC politician whose top priority isn't keeping their job or getting a better one. A lot of them don't mind helping out our nation as long as it lines up with the main priority. Republicans could start restoring some trust and dignity in their party by jettisoning Trump, but the dignity of the party is not worth as much to any individual as their career is. And if Trump gets jettisoned, he is taking their careers with him.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
I mean: if an actual conservative walked into a lesser race TODAY, had no affiliation with trump or even the republican party in general, they might be able to pull enough independents and disillusioned conservatives to take a seat. I doubt it would happen very much more than 1 or twice though.

But we've yet to see any individual maga-ists do anything but suck trump harder. They can't dump trump because they've already burned their bridges. Everyone else can still find archival footage of most of the current crop of long standing cultists decrying trump. Hell, I saw a clip this morning of rubio being almost prophetic in his words... and then yesterdays footage of rubio doing his best impression of a hoover upright.
 

Axaday

Well-known member
Citizen
If they believed they wouldn't lose their own job, they could probably successfully pull off the "Trump really seemed like he was wonderful for America, but then we found out the truth" without enough people looking at how far they stayed on his side. Not too many people watch archival footage and I think the majority of those who do vote Democrat. Remember, Trump regularly tells his own crowd that he built the wall and they are so glad that he did, because imagine how much worse things would be now if he hadn't.
 

Spin-Out

i cant take it anymore im at my limit
Citizen
And in other news related to the Mango Menace: ""Apprentice" Producer's NDA has expired, he has a lot to say about Trump"

i don't know why i'm surprised this Nazi wannabe piece of jive brought up genes to a Jewish contestant, called a black contestant the ******* n-word and fired both of them because they were Jewish and black, but somehow i am.

i hate this man.
 

Anonymous X

Well-known member
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I don’t get how a certain section of his followers seem to idolise him as proper traditional masculine man, an alpha male, when he’s such a self-pitying, self-obsessed wanker.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
i don't know why i'm surprised this Nazi wannabe piece of jive brought up genes to a Jewish contestant, called a black contestant the ******* n-word and fired both of them because they were Jewish and black, but somehow i am.
There should absolutely be a law making this sort of thing an exception to NDAs. Remember how WAY BACK IN 2016 we were like "Come on, somebody release the tape of Trump saying the N word. We know it's out there somewhere. That's what it'll take to ruin him." We could have avoided his whole damn presidency if they could have done that back in 2016.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
You are right.

Trump would have also had his "fortune" at that point, and sued that dude to oblivion and back for breaking the NDA. Unless someone managed to figure out a way that particular NDA was illegal or illegitimate, trump would have had an a major axe to grind.

I mean: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. But that one dude that did the right thing for the right reason is blacklisted, broke and incapable of rebuilding under your hypothetical.

At least trump was the close call that woke up a lot of the american populace to the threats, and not someone competent or skilled.
 

G.B.Blackrock

Well-known member
Citizen
You are right.

Trump would have also had his "fortune" at that point, and sued that dude to oblivion and back for breaking the NDA. Unless someone managed to figure out a way that particular NDA was illegal or illegitimate, trump would have had an a major axe to grind.
This is Trump, even if the NDA was illegal or illegitmate, there would have been a lawsuit that he'd have pushed for as long as it took to drain the guy dry.
 


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