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Originally Posted by Rockstar
What’s repulsive is how anyone can still support the Democrat Party. A Party that took advantage of & abused an old man with failing mental acuity unable to defend himself for their own personal gain. And now that the Party is finished with the old man is being driven out and his legacy will be that of a laughing stock.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
While Democrats get their news watching late night comedy shows and the unelected swamp filled with Karen’s use and abuse a defenseless old man so they can stay in power.
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Oh, Geez, Camille, stop clutching at your pearls over your sensitivity regarding elder abuse; or is it just you trying to get your money's worth out of that "Sincerity 101" course you took at Trump University...
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Watching the news about Biden's run for reelection, I wondered if Biden's move isn't just a bit of a 'rope-a-dope' against the GOP; Biden announces he's running, the the Trumpettes push for the GOP to nominate Trump, a very weakened candidate at best, and, once Trump is locked in, Biden and the DEMs find some reason for Biden to drop out and run another DEM in his place; as I said almost anyone can beat Trump in his current condition, and the GOP would be faced with having to replace Trump as a countermeasure only to then face Trump as a 'spoiler' if he decides to 'get even' with the GOP; the GOP should look long and hard at they way they intend to select their nominee in 2024...
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The above quote is from a post i made back on 04/25/2023, over a year ago
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...postcount=5633
The current situation plays very much into what I had postulated at that time; Biden will absolutely drop out of the race, but, I believe, not until after the GOP has finished their convention in the next week; at the end of the convention, the GOP will have locked in Trump as their candidate, whoever he picks for VP as a co-candidate, and will have formalized and locked in the GOP Party Platform; the GOP leadership is visibly anxious to have Biden drop out now
before the GOP convention starts so they can see who the DEMs will put up as a candidate (and the VP pick) so they can tailor their response while the convention is still running; everything the GOP has been planning and preparing for since 2020 has pivoted on the assumption Trump would be facing Biden in the November Election, but all that is now going out the window; getting 'cast in stone' with their candidate and policy platform and then finding out who their DEM opponent will be will most likely put a huge strain on the GOP; the GOP is already showing signs of the stress they are facing; the GOP has announced they are softening their hardline positions on abortion and same-sex marriage, as well as seeing top GOP leaders and Trump suddenly openly disavowing the Far Right "Project 2025" 'master plan', an open acknowledgement the hardline 'my way or the highway' Far Right stance just isn't going to fly with the voters...
RNC panel approves new Trump-backed platform softening abortion and same-sex marriage language --
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/polit...ion/index.html
Trump’s Sleazy New Project 2025 Disavowal Scam Blows Up in His Face --
https://newrepublic.com/article/1837...cam-blows-face
So, basically, Trump, and the GOP, don't really know who will be the DEM nominee going into their convention next week and they also don't know what the final DEM platform, with a new candidate, will be formed around and finalized; the "rope-a dope" is on and Trump/GOP are punching out at a candidate who won't be there soon and trying to make election policy in a void...
I personally don't think Harris will be the ultimate DEM candidate; the worst case scenario for the GOP is if the DEMs pick a substantially younger candidate with a broad party backing; the GOP would be left with having to deal with and defend their doddering old sociopath and trying to make him palatable to the majority of the voters; considering Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by 2,868,686 votes and then in 2020 by 7,052,770 votes, the trend doesn't seem to be in Trump's/the GOP's favor; in2016, Trump only got the White House by a combination of Clinton's negligence is shoring up the battleground states and Trump's gaming of the Electoral College; in 2020, the DEMs paid attention to the battleground states and turned out voters in droves to defeat Trump by a margin nearly 2.5 times larger than in 2016 and took the Electoral College in a landslide; Trump is scarcely a more palatable candidate now than he was in 2016/2020, so it looks like a real uphill fight for the GOP...
Imagine if the DEMs put up younger substantially candidate, with the mental acuity to deal with issues and command; will the voters begin to really seriously look at the hot mess that is Trump and ask the GOP "Is he really the best you've got to offer this country?" If the DEMs really do come up with a young, capable candidate, I can pretty much bet that Trump will not be engaging in a second Presidential Debate before the Election...
BTW, I just yesterday saw an excerpt from an upcoming interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom where he emphatically states he does not want the DEM nomination to be President; one of his stated reasons is how invasive the whole campaign process is given the intense scrutiny of candidates by the press, opposing parties, pundits, etc., at the Presidential level; it is rather sad that some candidates who actually might have something to bring to the office in the way of new ideas, methods, and policies are dissuaded from seeking office owing to the onerous trials of campaigning; I am particularly thinking of Republican Paul Ryan who may have been one of the best hopes to save the GOP, if the hardliners hadn't backstabbed him spectacularly; he is someone I probably would have voted for...
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