Donald Trump Should Drop Out
Donald Trump Should Drop Out
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Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthly
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I mean, duh.
He should have dropped out when he was found to have raped someone.
Hell, he should have dropped out when the "grab them by the pussy" tape came out. How did that work out?
Go vote for Biden if you can, is my point here.
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Walking into dressing rooms because they "just let you"
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... of children.
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Morally should he drop out? Yes
Politically should he drop out? Honestly, not sure. I genuinely believe that him being found guilty will not negatively affect his supporters. Somehow I reckon it might even get him more if he can spin it right - talk about it being some sort of conspiracy directly from Biden to suppress right wing voters or some shit. He's such an effective figurehead that I don't think other republican candidates could compete with his pull.
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him being found guilty will not negatively affect his supporters
Yes, but they were going to vote for him anyways. Trump needs to win more moderates/alt leftists. His betting odds (which are generally much more reliable than polls) dropped 3% after his verdict landed: https://electionbettingodds.com/
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Yes, but he’s not going to.
This article is a waste of electrons.
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alternative title: career criminal should have integrity
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Believe me👐, the best campaign managers have told me, everybody's saying it👆, they're, saying, "Donald, drop out of the race". 🖐That would be an absolutely beautiful election move. 🤚Just terrific. 👋It's true! ✊️Nobody could drop out of a race better than I could☝️
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I wasted electrons with your mom last night.
(I had no business trying to beat her at Mario Kart)
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No he won’t.
The irony of which is that; if he did, and Hailey ran instead, she likely would win over Biden. IMHO
But crazy gonna crazy. So here we are.
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I think there's a nontrivial number of voters with the opinion "anyone but these two" so if either side put up a fresh candidate, they'd probably win. They won't, but you know.
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We’d like that. Something tells me that both people who read Washington Monthly aren’t going to inform his followers.
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Yes, the sky is blue and water is wet
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But water isn't wet.
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He won't. His goal at that point is to avoid the consequences of his actions and abusing presidential powers is the best chance he has for that.
If you think that the last election was a mess, wait to see the next one. Trump has nothing to lose anymore and will reach new lows in hopes to save his own selfish ass. He has demonstrated again and again already that he lacks the moral capacity to do otherwise.
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I'm waiting for the whole "Our founding fathers were criminals, and we elected them to represent us, so what's wrong with me" type of argument.
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I'm kinda hoping that with an actual American in the White House this time any and all rioters that attempt to enter the Capitol building this coming January are met with volley fire and bayonets.
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Downvoted not because I disagree, because this might be the most pointless set of words ever written.
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LMAO. That's not going to happen. I would love it but there's a better chance of snow in August.
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Anyone remember Al Franken?
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Al Frankens political career got fully William Wallaced in public view for nothing while Donny Two Scoops raised millions after becoming a convicted felon.
I hate this country most of the time these days.
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Does anybody remember the 1980's being the "Al Franken decade"?
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Sometimes I think about how different this country would be if he was never forced out. I wonder if he would have run for president in 2016.
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If only.
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He can't. It's his only chance of staying out of prison.
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And money should grow off trees! And monkeys should fly!
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Donald Trump has never once in his life put anyone else's needs ahead of his own greed.
He cut his own nephew off from medical care.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-cut-medical-benefits-his-nephews-infant-child/
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Grifter gonna grift. He'll use this to his money making advantage till he is forced out.
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He should have dropped out 8 years ago. He didn't then and he won't now.
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I'd say it's probably more than 8, but you're still not wrong.
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This guy ain't gonna let go of anything and will happily drag the entire world into the fire just so he has something to sit on while he burns. You, personally, are his absolute last consideration
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It would be hilarious if he does get elected from prison. All of his meetings with foreign leaders would need to be by Zoom or equivalent, and that's if he's able to get special privileges to do so. If not, he'd have to do it all in a 15 minute phone call once a week like the rest of the prisoners. And he might have to eat Nutraloaf lol.
At least the cost of running Air Force One would go down to zero.
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Why would he? His followers keep throwing money at him. He got richer because of the conviction.
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Precisely why he won't
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I guess with 6 months left him dropping out would be better, yeah. Other Candidates won't be able to fill the game in time.
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The irony is if either candidate steps aside...
Their party is almost guaranteed to win.
If it's not trump, there goes the most convincing reason to get people to vote for Biden as president since 1988.
If it's not Biden, and literally anyone else who hasn't been openly pissing off his voters as much as Biden himself has lately, trump doesn't stand a chance.
If either one of these 80 year old powerful white men put the country above their own ego, the other is fucked.
But it'll never happen.
They're both running no matter what
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Hah. No.
There is zero way that a different Dem candidate would win this if Biden dropped out. Zero. The MAGA goons alone would be hammering how much of a disaster they are and bragging about it all the way to the White House. And that's before you have to deal with the right wing media.
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The MAGA goons alone would be hammering how much of a disaster they are and bragging about it all the way to the White House. And that’s before you have to deal with the right wing media.
What?
You think they're not saying that about Biden right now?
No one that will ever vote D gives two shit what right wing media says.
But Biden is actually funding a genocide..
He is pushing for trump's border policies to be modified into the law...
And then all the things voters do want that he says he can't do.
Anyone not named Joe Biden doesn't have that substantial baggage, while maintaining Biden's biggest selling point: not being trump.
But regardless of who it is, rightwing media will say they're the devil. Which is why no rational person takes what they say into consideration
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Best case scenario for me would be Biden should run, win, then immediately step down due to health concerns. Won’t happen of course.
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I'm been fantasizing about Biden passing away from some clearly age related issue, simultaneously opening the race up for Anyone Else (D) to step in and highlighting how it's a bad idea to put ancient people in critical offices.
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according to 538 he's polling ahead of Biden: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/ why would he drop when he's ahead.
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Yes. So should Biden.
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I prefer that he gets locked in syndrome for a few years. A taste of hell before he goes to the real one.
Personally, I'm hoping we can strip the family of enough wealth that they're all left destitute. Anything less will just encourage copy-cats.
Like what happened to that dude from Metallica's "One"
Nothing but his own internal monologue and no interaction with the rest of the world? That's basically a campaign rally for him. He'd love it.
Saying this on Reddit would literally get you a ban. Wild. I love Lemmy.
Shortly before I left completely, I had gotten a permaban for saying "I concur" on a post of a woman in a shirt that said "punching Nazis is not a crime." Neither the post itself nor its poster were removed or banned. I appealed like 20 times before it was reversed but it made the decision to leave altogether so much easier seeing first hand ADMINS, not just moderators, defending Nazis.
I’ve seen comments removed for saying this here on lemmy. I think it depends on the context and the mod.
Sometimes you have to get creative. I once suggested the idea of doing an impression of Lyudmila Pavlichenko and nobody said anything.
There are some lemmy communities/instances that are very pearl clutching / boot licking. There'll be a story about like a billionaire eating live puppies or a cop murdering someone and getting away with it, and anything along the lines of "maybe someone should forcibly stop them" is removed.
Or glitch like mitch
Personally, I'm hoping he shits himself to death on live television at the convention.