• RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    The truth lies in the actual quote. She’s only saying that they need a backup in case he gets arrested or goes completely senile.

    Its more akin to, ‘our evil as shit old guy is getting a bit too old to keep doing all the evil shit we want, we need another younger fascist dictator in play’.

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      Sadly for her, the only younger fascist they had in play was a complete dud and the rest of them were even more laughable.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah the thing is trump is and was laughable until he was sworn in. Americans love to flirt with fascism, especially males for some reason. And if they are not countered we will end up with trump again or someone even worse.

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        It will never not be fucking hilarious that American Hitler was done in by rumors of him wearing lifts.

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            He loves the smell of the lotion he uses, he just doesn’t realize it’s tanner.

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        DeSantis went too hard on being a fascist too quickly. You have to trickle in the evilness to fool the republican voters.

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          That and he’s just weird. He’s just a weird person with weird habits. Kind of hard to recover from eating pudding with your fingers.

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          I don’t think you have to fool Republicans in the voting for a fascist. They seem pretty comfortable with the concept.

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      Problem is I don’t think Trump will run a VP that’s a threat to him. Once they have a viable backup they’ll throw Trump away and let him go to prison or impeach him to pretend to have ethics. So desantis or Nikki Haley won’t be chosen.

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      11 months ago

      From the article :

      While speaking to Beck, Kelly said she believed the Republican party needed to have an “undercard” in case Trump ends up jailed or unable to run due to his ongoing legal issues.

      It’s interesting that you agree with a conservative commentator…

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        Yes, only stupid liberals would fall for agreeing with things like ‘if Trump isn’t the Republican frontrunner, someone else will be.’ What a gotcha you caught them in!