rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

when i think about my own life, a lot of times i think about a writer named robert walser. a lot of y'all probably know him, i probably know about him from ilx. folks here have a level of literary knowledge far beyond that of anybody else i know. he wrote these... delightful little short stories. if there's anybody i'd like to be like, as a writer, it's walser. he didn't have an easy life, though, and he wound up in an asylum. it was a nice asylum, though, and he did these really fascinating little miniscule... like, incredibly tiny writing, almost impossible to decipher. anyway later on they transferred him to another, less nice asylum, and he stopped writing. he said "i am not here to write, but to be mad." the way i think of it was that it was a vocation, like writing, his _job_ was to be mad.

being mad is the job i'm most qualified for. being mad is even less valued as a job than writing. it's really hard to get into that field, and once you do, people treat you like shit. even aside from that, the job is unpleasant, and the working conditions are terrible. my dad, after he got divorced, worked hard for years and eventually landed a job being mad.

when i look at trump voters, i do see people who are doing the job they're qualified for.

you're not wrong, though he has surrounded himself with a lot of Stephen Miller types who are going to hit the ground running and will probably have figured out exactly how Trump can abuse this SCOTUS ruling. but yeah I feel like if he's gonna abuse the justice system to go after his enemies it won't be popular progressive figures it'll be people like Liz Cheney and Morning Joe

― frogbs

certainly those people could do a lot of damage, assuming he doesn't sack them within the first three months of his presidency in various fits of pique, or drive them to quit through similar fits of pique

the thing that makes dictators dangerous is that they _don't take counsel_.

i mean i could be wrong. i'm just going by what he did last time he was president!

my dad is 89 and has voted 100% democrat his whole life. his father was a connecticut republican from the old school. a yankee republican because of the conservative money thing. taxes. the stock market. my dad was on all the boards in my town when i was a kid. planning board. school board. etc. he hates trump. thinks biden and kamala are great. he would totally be happy to vote for kamala. he loves strong women politicans. the only tough one for him would be if tom selleck ran for president as a republican. he might be torn there. he loves his Blue Bloods so.

Shit, *I* might have to consider GOP candidate Tom Selleck

He’s 79!

We haven't had a mustachioed president since Taft

79% sexy moustache, yes

so weird that magnum is 79.

Whom would Tom selleckt as running mate? James Garner is dead.

it should have been burt reynolds. rip burt reynolds

Larry Manetti or nothing

The mustache is the running mate

Selleck/‘Stache 2028

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/b6/fd/d7b6fdd949229b40abd0656f6fd8b6e8.gif

Tom Selleck will pay off the national debt with a reverse mortgage on Yellowstone.

Jon Voight to appease the Q crowd

James Garner is dead.

Garner was a huge lefty pothead who hated Reagan.

My kind of people

Garner was a huge lefty pothead who hated Reagan.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)

Maverick out here looking at John McCain like...

The other maverick seems more likely these days (yes I know not born in the us it’s still a good joke) (yes I know there is another other maverick who is in a cult and has slaves equally a good joke)

Hey don’t say that about Madonna

President Dirk Nowitzki

I remember Madonna endorsing Wesley Clark in 2004

he's FOUR STAR GENERAL Wesley Clark to his friends

Yeah but it’s a light 4

despite that all of Clark's friends still stand erect and salute crisply when they see him

Calling her record label “Maverick” was one of off-brand for her. It always made me think of the Ford Maverick.

“Kind of” off-brand

James Woods showed up in my feed today, and I was like: oh, right, Selleck/Woods ‘24

did robert mueller investigate trump's connection to epstein? it seems that might have been another channel for "kompromat," although not connected to russia

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/epstein-documents-trump.html

i think the answer is no. he was scrupulous in not going beyond his mandate iirc. but it's very bizarre. the "katie johnson" allegation (i think that is a pseudonym) was from 2016, so while trump was running for prez (suspicious maybe) but before epstein was a household name.

Now our only hope is Biden dies.

think positive, they could both die

at least there is one positive to gerontocratic degeneracy!

think positive, they could both die

Been predicting this for a year! Or at least that they would both be incapacitated before November. It would be surreal to have Harris v. Vance or whoever in just a few months.

The only fun now is waiting to see how they blame the left for Trump's win.

Gerontophobe Berniecrats (wait...) just refused to turn out for Joe etc..

think positive, they could both die

Surely this can be arranged?

Idk, I wonder how many signatures you could get on an open letter saying “will no one rid me of these turbulent candidates?”

Surely there's no glory or real sense of victory in beating an old ailing man, though, is there, Donald?

"Hi - we know you did the Tylenol Murders several decades ago. No, no, put your hands down. You're not under arrest. If you're willing to earn back some of your freedom, there's a McNugget supply we need your help with"

Well....

just a week off the anniversary of the July Plot to kill Hitler!

Lotta MAGA Smugness over on FB rn...

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LOL this thread

Trump can't even win the wet t-shirt contest.

The regular politics thread was like Oprah yesterday morning, better post this here. John King had his big map out last night. He had Biden with one or two very narrow paths to 270 or 271; Trump had multiple paths to 270-plus. He pointed out a bunch of states that were Biden's last time and close right now, and that if they all broke for Trump he could get as high as 330. I'm pretty sure everything was still based on pre-shooting polls.

Lots of time left, but I'm feeling pretty fucking void of hope at the moment. Every single thing seems to break his way and the Democrats are a flaming pile of garbage that did absolutely nothing to prevent this very obvious and inevitable position they've been aimed in for 4 years.

I should balance that with something their other poll guy, Harry Enten, said: that he puts Biden at 25%, which sounds bad but just means flipping two heads in a row--happens all the time. That's about where Nate Silver had Trump in 2016 (when most polling gave him no chance).