rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

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).

To be fair, I'm putting almost zero faith in polls at this point, no matter what they say. I'm just disgusted that this is even close on any level.

I'm settling back into my acceptance of a likely Trump win that I had reached prior to the debate and the brief sense that there might be some other possibility on the ballot. Acceptance is nice, I don't get freaked out about polls because I already figure Trump's going to win. I'm not saying I won't entertain hopes along the way if circumstances warrant, and of course I'll still have fingers crossed on Election Day, but I refuse to be shocked and shook by another Trump win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0S_MebzyzQ

We (as in America) have only given one other president a second, non-consecutive term, and no one really showers Grover Cleveland in glory these days. I remain, if not serene or confident, fairly certain that — as I've said many, many times — Trump is not winning over new voters. Him getting shot registered not as a national trauma but as a disappointment — fuck, we were almost rid of this asshole. Vance will certainly not help him; Vance seems fixated on driving people away. He lives by Pat Buchanan's Nixon-era idea that "if we tear the country in half, our half will be bigger," and his personality is DeSantis/Cruz-level wretched.

FiveThirtyEight still shows a 50/50 chance, with Biden slightly ahead - though the polls themselves favor Trump: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

The only advantage Trump gets with Vance is that he hasn't been in politics long enough to rack up negatives with normies. Also too Machiavellian to go off script or fuck up.

I dunno, I think Vance can turn people off at lightning speed.

If there's any political calculus to Vance at all (beyond "He will definitely violate the Constitution if I need him to"), I assume it's a Midwestern play for Michigan, Wisconsin, Pa. Go to the hard-luck towns, tell his own inspirational hard-luck story. If he weren't so creepy maybe that would seem like a good move.

I do think it would be hilarious if Trump realized how much of a charisma suck Vance is in about a month and "fired" him.

unlike Trump's last vice presidential nominee Vance would stab Trump with a toothbrush handle through the eyeball if he thought it'd make him president. He's a little schemer.

He also had a big Hollywood movie about him, which a friend of mine pointed out was likely the decisive factor in Trump's eyes