If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn't, that will be weird.
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It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we've found ourselves in, though.
Call for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.
Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)
Wants to fuck his own daughter? "Well hell yeah, I'd fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!" - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.
But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.
Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he's doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.
Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.
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At least the daughter-fucking thing is very biblical.
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Dude might lose his presidential run because he pissed of Taylor Swift fans. This time line is nothing but weird.
Not really. His followers revere him because they believe his is so strong. Pretty much the only strategy that can work against him is to make them believe he is failing or is becoming a joke. When they become embarrassed about him.
The king came back and said not today orange turnip.
IDK Elvis was an overweight sweaty creepy fuck, so...?
Or Elvis after he died.
So Trump is zombie Elvis with a fake tan and a comically bad comb-over...
Still nowhere near as crazy as many of the Qanon consist theories over heard
I was gonna say, I can see a mild resemblance to the Elvis before he died, but even then Trump is a lifelong 4 or 5 and fat Elvis was still an 8.
Sheeeyit, even dead Elvis ranks above a peak Trump, and both were fucking wastes of meat.
With each passing day we march further and further into “no reasonable, rational person would vote for that man” territory.
How fucking brain damaged is this country?
Anyone still claiming to be undecided at this point is a liar or a moron
AND a nazi.
Bingo! I've got a bingo!
Probably both if we’re being honest
Unfortunately the Republican strategy for a while has been voting with courts in mind. When the only thing you care about is appointing judges, the game becomes "our team at all costs"
It's a winning play in a first-past-the-post voting system. I don't see it changing without voting reform.
Meanwhile, the left believes pragmatism is a dirty word for some reason.
Literally any Republican would shove conservative justices in the court, so that doesn't explain the fixation on Trump at all.
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This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.
He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.
I can't think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don't look.
Idk, the dude has been showing signs of advancing dementia for a few years now.
I think we're at most a few months from him sundowning on live TV. If his heart lasts that long, that is.
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STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.
BUT HE'S THE FRONTRUNNER FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Its not like Trump just goes away if you stop paying attention to him.
I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.
That worked as a punchline to anthropomorphic ad monsters doing spoofs and goofs in a cartoon. It isn't advice that's neatly transferable to chief executives in positions of immense power and privilege. I can't ignore Donald Trump any more than I can ignore Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, because I am constantly surrounded by the consequences of their decisions.
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Maybe compared to what Elvis looks like now.
That first one looks like he runs Argentina.
... Have we seen them in the same room?
Maybe he gave up on winning in 24 and decided he'd fuck up another country instead. Why do you think Argentinas economy is tanking?
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If you want to destroy him, double-down on these delusions.
Why stop at Elvis? Get him talking about his theory on aliens, ask him to compare himself to Jesus and whether he'd do a better job of spreading Christianity than the big man himself, get him to discuss how to split Gaza to make everyone happy, ask how a successful coup of the whitehouse would look like, maybe even ask if Rosa Parks was being reasonable by not getting up out of her seat.
You don't destroy people like this by pointing out how stupid they are, because those die-hard followers will still worship him if he answers all the above. Where he'll be destroyed is in having those on the fence go from "he's a bit crazy, but he'll do something, so I'll vote for him" to "he's fucking nuts, he'll do something crazy, so I'll vote for Biden".
It wouldn't destroy him, though. His cult members are olympic caliber mental gymnasts.
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No fucking shit he's demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it's from rawstory, and it's in quotes?!
Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he's got dementia. He's also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners' instructions.
Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I'd be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can't be destroyed fast enough.
You forgot that he is also responsible for at least part of the 1 million Covid related deaths in the USA. His unscientific bullshit had a huge impact on people who believed that Covid is nothing more than a common cold.
He's also a spy.
I'm pretty sure he's not a spy. He's not competent enough. They're happy with him being a highly suggestible useful idiot.
an asset if you will, I like plant.
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I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.
Dont. Don't give me hope.
It's so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity or ability to form and communicate coherent thoughts...I would say there's a trail of breadcrumbs of much more damning statements going back as far as you're willing to look, but it's more like a trail of roach-infested bakeries.
Turns out that even mental gymnastic experts who can rationalize an imsurrection attemt as simultaneously benign and a false flag attempt, while saying that Trump did nothing wrong AND trying to say "why didn't media care as much about the BLM protests", have to admit that this MF ain't no Elvis
I mean, look at him. Is that supposed to be a...face? It's just plain tragic.
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They both like(d) underage girls at least.
The mistake here is thinking that his supporters will care, if they even hear about it.
They won't.
As long as he is hurting the right people, they will excuse anything.
The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.
He'd like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.
He'd none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It's transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.
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