I don’t buy that argument. That would only make sense if Republican voters actually care about “dirt” and would not vote for a politician who was tainted. But obviously we know that’s not the case. Republicans who have been accused of everything from embezzling money to grooming children have done just as well in their elections, because their voters would still prefer a crooked Republican over the most saintly Democrat.

I used to work a couple blocks away from Trump tower. Right across the street is UN plaza. I have thought for a looong time now that Trump put cameras in rooms to get dirt on powerful people.

Putin owns the dirt. Trump was shown just enough to keep him in line and he’s the primary conduit through which the GOP is controlled. Look at Lindsey Graham’s flip to Team Trump. I believe that Trump showed some of Putin’s kompromat to Graham and Lindsey decided to switch allegiances both to keep his career and further his own goals.

Even if they were the same people lol

You know what happened to Republican candidates that took a stand against him?

They got primaried, and lost.

That’s the joke ;)

I think there are two distinct groups of people:

About half of Trump supporters just love him. They share some of the same personality traits. They believe in conspiracy theories. They’re mad at the world. They want to “own the libs”. They’re not very educated, they’re very tribal.

The other half do not like his personality at all, but they don’t care because he’s effective and they like his policies. He’s a means to an end. These are the ones that are hurting the country so much more. They know that he’s destroying the political system and they don’t care, because they’ll get what they want. They support Trump over DeSantis not because they like Trump as a person, but because they think Trump has the best chance of winning.

“He makes the left mad, so he must be doing something right!”

That’s not hyperbole, that’s the literal smoothbrain logic of Republican morons. So long as he irritates liberals, he’s in the conservative good books.

It’s a lot to do with his brashness and no fucks given.

Probably says more about the electorate than Trump. The fact that “no fucks given” is a value worth celebrating and condoning tells you a lot about how sick this country is at the moment.

The gravy seals are not going to do shit. The army of boomers are not going to do shit. The only thing that will happen is small groups and individuals will engage in straight up terrorism under the guise of civil war. Alt-right terrorism is virtually ensured.

Fulton County will put him in jail, that is unless the state steps in to stop it. But its a small enough, local jurisidiction that isn’t playing large scale politics, only the small scale of being liberal and black in the south.

I’m sorry but were we watching the same ad? It was not witty in the fucking slightest. It looked like a bunch of zombie lizards wearing human skin reading off teleprompters

Hey everyone, this poster likes entertaining fascists!

intensely so; top tier politicians in texas and florida publicly state that their version of voter suppression is the only reason why they keep winning elections on tv, radio and internet.

it also works because the centrists/moderates only shake their head in disgust when it happens and do nothing else. martin luther king defined the phenomena best:

the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”

Really, it’s only about 1/3rd of the population, it’s just that it’s near 100% of Republicans and 1/2 of voters.

The key is getting non-voters off their asses and to the polls, that’s what terrifies Republicans more than anything else, it’s why they fight motor voter laws, and vote by mail, and why they want to block people from voting at every turn by limiting voting locations, or voting hours, or making it illegal to bring food or water to people standing in line.

30% of the population will believe damn near anything.

In a sane world, we’d mention that this is why you must always doubt your own assumptions because only a fool is always confident, but fortunately for us the other side is babbling about Zombie JFK Jr and Jewish Space Lasers so it’s pretty easy to figure out who is at least less wrong.

Its indicative of the decline of christianity, as cults get smaller and smaller they tend to weed out the moderates until there is a small core of hard core extremists who amount to essentially terrorists. This process has unfolded in many other countries and is just hitting the US now, it 20 year it will be all over, religiosity will be under 50% in the general population by that time.

It’s hard and disingenuous to equivocate the population to the electorate. Over half of the U.S. population didn’t vote at all.

Trump is there anyways. He’s not going away.

Better for Trump to be the GOP nominee and (HOPEFULLY) lose resoundingly to Biden, rather than some other more likable GOP candidate that squeezes out a victory. Republicans are still going to pull the same sleazy election tricks. They are still going to make the same attacks against the Democrats. They are still going to make the same lies.

At least if it is Trump doing the attacks, we know he has no support from a huge chunk of the country.