Between rising prices and gilded ballrooms, Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads for Democrats.
You can’t lose the midterm elections if the world ends before they start.
Sometimes I think his goal is to figure out what in the hell he has to do to finally get someone to stop him
I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
Or maybe he is actually Ozymandias all along, giving the world a villian to rally around.
And Democrats will find a way to lose again.
But ramming some annointed leader down our throats.
They aren’t worried about elections because they believe the fix is in. Free and fair elections are over. Disenfranchisement, intimidation, backdoor access to vote tabulators, and straight up claiming fraud and refusing to swear in Dems that win are all part of the plan.
This is true, at least in the minds of the far reight. (spelled that way purposefully, not a typo)
Well, I’d say he is behaving exactly like someone whose goal is to ruin his country
Trump doing more for dems than what dems are currently doing for themselves lol.
I already can’t wait for this community to flood my inbox about Newsom in 2028, and then cry when he inevitably loses to a revived zombie hitler in 2030.
No, he’s trying to end the midterms.
Putin’s Orange Sock Puppet giftwrapped the USA to Russia and China. The Democrats that continue to fail to help the lower class, improve income distributions and ignore socialized medicine will continue to fuck the USA in a nicer way.
You have to keep in the front of your mind the fact that he’s a strong narcissist. Things like truth and reality don’t matter, and the only thing that’s kind of true to him is whatever he believes, and that’s what he believes right now, and that’s that he’s the best, and everyone loves him except for crazy people.
So in answer to your question, no, he is not trying to lose because in his brain he isn’t losing and he couldn’t possibly lose.
Strong narcissist is a severe understatement. He doesn’t think other people are capable of agency at all. Which is why he’s constantly flying off the handle any time someone breaths in his direction
Then we need a new word, because narcissist is the closest we’ve got. I think he’s just such a distilled pure case that it seems different when it’s just the prime example.
Extreme solopsist?
I think it takes a narcissistic personality to consider solipsism with regards to one’s own behavior and moral standards. ie I think solipsism is a symptom or narcissism.
What about “Trump Derangengement Syndrome” ? defined as “being as deranged as Donald”.
To me the real TDS has always been looking at him and thinking he’s a good smart strong “leader”. That’s the actual derangement at play imo, and it includes Trump looking at himself.
Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads
When you’ve gerrymandered all the districts and you’re threatening to federalize state elections? When Silicon Valley owns all the venues those oppo ads would run? When your response to every defeat is to deny it is happening and double down on the military?
I just don’t think Scary Voice Ads during the Late Show With Not Steven Colbert Cause He’s Fired are going to make a huge difference.
Like, I’m not a doomer. I don’t think “Democracy is Over!” Because, if Trump had the means to make Democracy Go Away, he’d have done it during the 2025 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. But it’s crazy to think Ad Buys are going to be what decide the next election cycle.
he’ll try and use the elections as a rally cry for a coup. Worked last time.
In the sense that it specifically didn’t work.
A coup doesn’t have to succeed in order to destroy a republic… All that has to happen is they aren’t tried for high treason and hanged, and sooner or later the rules stop mattering.
Still scary with how far/close it got. Also the willingess of some of those that participated.
Still scary with how far/close it got.
I’m still not clear what would have happened if rioters had actually beaten Congressional Reps to the door.
Let’s say Mike Pence really did get lynched. And Nancy Pelosi had to watch her desk get crapped on. And then the capital building is surrounded by the DC police. And there’s a high profile hostage crisis, while whomever did get out reconvenes to decide what to do next.
Does anyone believe Joe Biden doesn’t still get sworn in?
This is the Presidency not a game of tag. Who is still going to take orders from a Trump admin on these terms? Everyone - Republicans included - wanted that asshole gone by the end of 2020.
And yet… here he fucking is.
I didn’t think J6 would happen, but it did. If more congressional republicans would’ve went along with the fake electors, then yes maybe. Some republicans may want him gone, but he still maintains a tight grip on their party. Kevin Mccarthy went to swear fealty to their dear leader only days after. The current one defers all powers to him.
If more congressional republicans would’ve went along with the fake electors, then yes maybe.
The problem with American democracy is that half of your allies are just in line for your job. Especially in the Senate.
They weren’t going along for the ride because they weren’t interested in the destination.
I think the biggest problem is relying on “the norms”.
Really…who is president and how many insurrectionists are in jail?
Maybe he knows the fix is in.
This is what I worry is the case. Either he is drinking his own kool-aid and doesn’t realize how unpopular these policies are, or he knows there will be no real election. Either scenario is very bad
We can assume there will be, at a minimum, highly visible armed ICE agents “guarding” the polling stations. This is why trump is trying to ban mail-in voting, so that only the “right voters” will make it inside.
We can also assume that will be supplemented with lawsuits, intimidation, reduced numbers (or none) of polling stations in risky areas, and extreme levels of gerrymandering.
Trump will declare himself the winner before the results are counted, and the paperwork to check that will all mysteriously disappear.
And the media will call it a “Miracle Red Wave.”
And the dems will still lose because they’re hopeless
Donald Trump thinks he can shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, and still not lose the midterms.
Which means he’s going to cheat.
Do your part. Sign up to be a poll worker.
Might not even call it. One way or another, I get the impression he doesn’t give a shit.
Like everyone is saying, no need to try to win if you just cheat.
No need to try to win if you just annihilate humanity so that you will have been the last president ever
