Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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I only use it to get screen caps off my PS4 and sometimes Switch, and I see no reason to engage with it any more than that.
For that matter, I only use Facebook to follow a couple of local hobby stores for posts about new Gundam deliveries.
I dip my toes in social media, but no more than that.
For that matter, I only use Facebook to follow a couple of local hobby stores for posts about new Gundam deliveries.
I dip my toes in social media, but no more than that.
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Former Pentagon chief Mark Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
www.axios.com
Let's see a show of hands, who's surprised? No one? Okay.
Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to ‘Destroy the Drug Labs,’ Esper Says
It is one of the moments in his upcoming memoir that the former defense secretary described as leaving him all but speechless.
imagine if ANY of these fuckers had spoken up when it MATTERED instead of waiting to sell a book.
Just this week Republicans had primaries in Indiana and Ohio. Trump endorsed 22 candidates. A solid 22 out of 22 won. Trump's grip on the party is apparently as strong as ever.
Do understand that this one is the exception: every other candidate in every other race he's endorsed has lost, AND has driven up funding for the competition.
Right, I mean the Republican nomination field here in Ohio was pretty stacked. Of the two, Josh Mandel and JD Vance has the strongest marketing campaign. I didn't know whether either of them were Trump-endorsed and the spread between the two was less than 88,000 votes. Vance only got 33% of the total vote, Mandel got 23% and the rest was divided up among the remaining candidates.
I don't see this as Trump grip as much as a marketing campaign, and *as a marketer* I feel Vance's beat Mandel. I'm not saying he's the right Senate choice for Ohio, but that between the two, Vance's felt more successful.
I don't see this as Trump grip as much as a marketing campaign, and *as a marketer* I feel Vance's beat Mandel. I'm not saying he's the right Senate choice for Ohio, but that between the two, Vance's felt more successful.
Vance was definitely Trump-endorsed (and by nearly all accounts, it absolutely made the difference in Vance's campaign). It's actually a pretty convoluted story, as Vance was a "never-Trumper" back in 2016.
So wait, how many states had primaries? How did 100% of Trump-endorsed candidates win in two states and then 0% of them win everywhere else? That feels... suspicious.
This is what farron cousins has been saying for months now, but looking it: seems like trumpers are generally doing quite well. So I don't know what to ******* believe any more.
I want to point out something from this article and then maybe you guys will understand Trump's "successes" in some of these primaries.
www.politico.com
Ok you ready? You ready for the really important part?
IT'S PRETTY EASY TO WIN WHEN NOBODY RUNS AGAINST YOU!
Ironbite-jesus.
Here are the Trump-backed candidates who won Tuesday's primaries
Donald Trump's endorsement record was unblemished in the Ohio and Indiana primaries.
www.politico.com
Ok you ready? You ready for the really important part?
IT'S PRETTY EASY TO WIN WHEN NOBODY RUNS AGAINST YOU!
Ironbite-jesus.
And regardless it's hardly news that Donald Trump is incredibly popular among Republican voters. But he's extremely unpopular with the electorate at whole. So it remains to be seen how these endorsed candidates are going to do in November.
Yeah, unfortunately it's a toss-up whether the Democrats have a better chance against the Trump fanatics who are a turn-off to the general public, or against the moderates who are a turn-off to the Trump cult itself. But hey, we have some of each, so maybe we'll find out together.