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I am not in the slightest bit complaining but:
If he had just been able to even pretend to give a shit about covid, he would have won. He would have been a war time president for all intents and purposes.
republicans gonna fasc, but it still just boggles my mind that they are rallying behind such a complete and utter loser of a candidate.
The thing is: the guy doesn’t want to do the job. He doesn’t read security briefings, doesn’t pay attention in meetings. He had a unified congress in the first two years and barely got anything done. No long-term planning, just sugar-high tax cuts. He just enjoys the title and authority that comes with it. To him, it’s just a competition to beat the Democrats.
I don't think it is even The Democrats
It is Obama for ribbing him (after all the accusations of being an illegal immigrant...). Hilary for being a woman. And Biden for clearly and definitively beating the shit out of him in every single interaction (watching trump "back down" during their debate when Biden thought he heard an attack on Beau is beautiful).
Actually, he's trying to stay out of prison now.
And avoid having to pay judgements. He doesn't want to pay a single penny toward the various suits he's losing, he wants to keep them eternally in progress if he can by submitting bonds and then appealing.
Look at the Carroll judgements. Not that this is any kind of definitive evidence, but he just defamed E. Jean Carroll again even as he is waiting for bond approval from that judge after losing the second trial. Here it is a bit more clearly worded from the NYTimes:
Just days after Donald J. Trump posted a $91.6 million bond in the defamation case he lost recently to the writer E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer on Monday suggested she was considering filing a third defamation lawsuit against the former president.
The lawyer raised the prospect of a new lawsuit after Mr. Trump in recent days repeatedly lashed out at Ms. Carroll, using the same kind of disparaging language that led to the huge judgment against him in January.
Lol, that's what his strategy is to avoid post-litigation payout forever: keep offending, losing, bonding out and appealing. Lather, rinse, repeat, make his heirs pay up if there's anything left.
Every new case is a new case, it has no effect on the timeline for decided cases. Of course, I don't expect Trump to understand that.
it has no effect on the timeline for decided cases
It can, if his lawyers plead it and the judge is accommodating. His lawyers have absolutely motioned in the past for a specific judge's planned schedule to be changed to accommodate another judge's planned schedule, and that to not do so would present an undue hardship. He generally gets these delays, on the whole.
My pet theory is he knew he was losing the Romney Republicans hard. So he knew he had to juice his support amongst his actual base: the crazies. COVID was therefore the perfect wedge issue for Trump and Trump alone. Any other candidate would listen to the doctors, put them on TV, and win. Yes, think Bush in 2004.
But he was in a bind because his rabid supporters hated being told what to do.
So he tried to play both sides like always. He invented the vaccine, but you didn't have to take it. COVID is fake, but I'm blocking people from China (weeks too late). Etc.
So how did his vote count increase from 2016? I think a bunch of alcoholics and people who don't know how to have fun except taking their kids to Applebee's voted for him. They desperately wanted the rules and the closures to be done so they could leave the house. That simple. He juiced a little more of the rabidly selfish people who rarely vote, whereas a lot of his "hold your nose" voters voted for Biden or stayed at home.
He'd really painted himself into a corner on listening to experts.
That was the weirdest part to me... it would have been SO EASY for him to monetize... red facemasks with "Make America Great Again". How hard would that have been?
Instead? 1,000,000 dead Americans.
He was expecting COVID to be worse in cities than rural areas, and therefore hurt (kill) more Democrats than Republicans.
But but but look how many people died while Biden was president. It's not like Trump told everyone the mask mandates don't work and then told people about bleach and hydro blah blah blah. Also how own constituents booed him when he told them about the vaccine he actually helped get funded but the damage was done at that point.
Yeah. Been saying this since 2020 as well. His choice to go with the worst option in nearly every situation that year, and purposefully further the country's political divide over a national crisis was so, so stupid, though so very on brand for him. He could've easily swept up a second term by even just pretending to care about the nation as a whole, but it's him, so of course he didn't.
Probably the most indicative moment of the whole thing was at a press conference:
Following questions about Trump's promotion of chloroquine
Alexander: So, what do you say Americans who are scared, I guess? Nearly 200 dead and 14,000 who are sick and millions as you witness who are scared right now, what do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?
Trump: I say that you are a terrible reporter, that’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question. I think it’s a very bad signal that you are putting out to the American people. They’re looking for answers and they’re looking for hope. And you’re doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Concast – I don’t call it Comcast I call it Concast. Let me just, who do you work, let me just say something.
That’s really bad reporting. And you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let’s see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I’ve been right a lot.
Asked to reassure the nation and just resorts to lashing out and name calling. What a dumbass.
He's the only one that can appeal to their core audience of morons. None of the other fuckers has that talent.
Yup, correct answer right here. He's a demagogue, a natural con man and charmer, and the rest of them have all the charisma of questionable leftovers from the back of the fridge.
Seriously. Look at the GOP candidates these days. Funny how spending all a person's time thinking hateful thoughts and constantly self-basting in rage and wounded entitlement ends up showing on their face.
People say he's a good conman, but he couldn't be farther from it. The dude is a total loser, a complete buffoon, and he only got as far as he has by having the stupidest marks in human history.
I mean, rolling back 40 or 50 years and he/His People very quickly keyed in on the idea that it was more important to be a brand than to actually have money. And considering that most of his support base haven't had an original thought in 30 or 40 years, it makes sense. They were "taught" that "donald trump is good business man" and just stick with that regardless of the vast amounts of evidence to the contrary.
We STILL see similar in pro wrestling where people insist that (rapist piece of shit) vince mcmahon was a savvy business man rather than someone who more or less just got real lucky that WCW killed itself. The TV told them so it must be true.
Trump lied about the size of Inauguration crowd on his first day of office, and embarrassed the whole country on his second day.
Reminder: All of Trump’s ~~Last~~ Years in Office ~~Was~~ Were a National Nightmare
“...our country was coming together.”
Said the twice-impeached insurrectionist.
I kid you not but only a few days ago someone here on lemmy argued that you can't take anything he says at face value... Because you know... He lies. Especially if he only said it once.
Yes it was supposed to be a pro-Trump argument because Trump said he'd want for Israel to finish the job (in Gaza) and that guy argued, he'll vote for Trump because Biden is complicit in genocide.
I'm tired of hearing people victimsplain away the terrible things their malignant narcissist abusers do.
I can assure you I'm better of today than I was for years ago. I have had the highest pay raise for CoLA than any other year, My union rights aren't at risk (federal worker), my gender status is respected at the federal level, and I'm not afraid of WW3 at them moment.
My only real issue is that the administration needs to cap utility price hikes. My electricity bill doubled because they are upgrading their infrastructure which to me is bullshit. I'm contacting my governor for that too.
Does everyone forget that the first few days of 2020 after Qasem Soleimani was assassinated, Iran almost went to war with us? Trump bragged how all the other Presidents before him never tried to take him out. There was a reason. But then covid happened.
The country did come together, enough to vote the fucker out. I really, REALLY hope they do so again. It would be nice if they also gave the boots to the ones that enabled and shielded him in the other branches of the executive too.
I remember being very worried about Trump’s presidency in the year before and directly after the 2016 election. I also remember people saying the US was ripe for a widespread pandemic circa 2014 or so. I would never have imagined a more wildly destructive event than those two things combined.
Plus the death of RBG in the midst of it was the triple play of "we're fucked"
God I'm still pissed at her for not stepping down
Did I not see corpses being stored in refrigerated trucks and long lines of cars for food? Nightmare?
echoing Ronald Reagan: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
Yes, very very much so. Undoubtedly and in nearly every way. And I work in one of the industries that’s been hit hard by the recent layoffs (info Tech).
The economy under Trump’s leadership was burning bright because he lit the candle on both ends and doused it in lighter fluid.
NYT pretending to progressive by hiding in the opinion section