I think he might just have a fetish for losing.

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    Just hand him a beer and he’ll forget when he’s supposed to be running. Daft cunt.

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    Iran war didn’t go well, now he planning to be the boss? Well, let’s see how it goes for him.

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    Oh fuck, I need to keep my wallet closed. Last time a person who obviously cannot get elected became the GOP candidate, I bet a lot of money against his win. :(

    Fortunately, I did the same 4 years earlier when the same happened :)

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      Didn’t Putin allegedly get a little mad at this situation ? Trump couldn’t mentally survive not being officially the big guy for a day.

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        That is likely true. I can’t imagine him calling anyone else “sir” or “Mr. President.”

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      That’s gonna be a hard sell to a lot of people. I’m moderate and I wouldn’t vote for either one of these dudes. They need to pick someone sane? Or is the insanity the selling point, and I’m just out of touch?

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        Or is the insanity the selling point

        Yes, why would you vote for a politician who is just going to line their pockets when you can vote for a lunatic that says it’s okay to say slurs who is just going to line his pockets? I mean, what’s life if you can’t say slurs to people? Other people in my trailer park need to know they’re lesser than me and Nancy Pelosi stock trades gender fluids transmission imported beef participation trophies nobody legal wants to work and all the illegals are not working and taking all the jobs and welfare for $9 lattes avocado toast. I will either hang myself from my F350s lifted trailer hitch or vote for Trump. What’s it going to be, liberal?

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      I just have a hard time believing they can keep him both alive and sufficiently lucid enough to be viable for 2028. He’s struggling to hold it together through an entire Nazi rally now.

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    The difference between Trump and Pete the drunk is for all Trumps faults, he is a charismatic speaker (threw up in my mouth a little saying a nice thing about him)

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      I’ve never understood why people think that. Most of what comes out of his mouth makes absolutely no sense. If I was to act completely impartial, and forget everything I know about the monster, listening to him wouldn’t make me think “What a charismatic guy”. He sounds like he’s 2 brain cells away from having a stroke.

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        Yeah I don’t understand it at all. Dude has the charisma of a used cars salesman (way too confident and energetic) with the eloquence of a toddler and somehow that makes him a demigod to his base ? (and I do have several examples of people I politically and/or personally despise who actually have charisma)

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      There’s no “war with Iran”. When did it begin? When did it end?

      In reality it’s been decades/centuries of genocidal imperial terrorism in an attempt to violently control the region, the people, and resources there.

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    You guys laugh, but there seems to be enough wannabe-macho small-penis dudebro idiot voters that could get the loser elected. Do not assume it won’t happen.

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      I’m not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic? I find Trump totally repulsive, however I can understand his “charism” that attracts people to vote for him when he’s there mumbling his rampts and narcistic histories. So far, since 2025, that I can remember, anytime I saw any video of Peter Hegseth speaking he seems to have the same charism as a door.

      This, would, of course, be important for a presidential candidate If there is any “democracy” left during the election time, since Trump’s popularity is decreasing, his government does not seem too promising on having “good results” to show when the election time comes, therefore the transfer of charism and therefore votes that Trump would be able to execute would be limited, and the new candidate would have to work on his own.

      Given the current state of affairs, as an external observator and not too familiar with USA real politics dynamics, I find it’s easier for Trump and republicans to continue the rampamt breaking of laws and just really push for a 3rd term, as he’s been publicly “teasing” since his 2024 campaign…

      P.S.: Just to finish up, there’s also the fact that Trump is old as f*, and seems to be becoming more senile by the minute (i.e.: his almost at the age his dad was diagnoses with dementia iirc), so maybe the thing is they would just be forced to move on from him and the “3rd term” thing would really just not come to fruition due to bad timing (Trump going full demented, dying, etc…). Or maybe if his popularity keeps going down, who knows if the democracts can obtain any majority in the midterm elections and put up an impeachment on both houses this time, this would also chance the outlook of things and force the republicans to choose a new candidate sooner than later.

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        He’s not charismatic, he just spouts hateful fascist ideology that hateful fascists crave.

        None of these guys are. Elon “Nazi Salute” Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Bannon, Bezos, and the entirety of Trump’s cabinet. They are social idiots and have zero charisma.

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        The only thing hegseth has going for him is his ‘TV look’ and willingness to eat shit if it owns the libs (our conservatives have no shame, and love embarrassing themselves to get a reaction from ‘the left’)

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        Hmmm.

        You make a good point.

        On the other hand, look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president. Literally, back to Washington.

        The US isn’t like Japan where the LDP wins consecutive elections for decades on end.

        The republican candidate was GOING to win in 2016.

        We are now in a time of chaos. I feel Dems will probably sweep the midterms and maybe win in 2028, but it’s unclear. We’ve only had one nonconsecutive president before.

        I wouldn’t put money on James (Vance).

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          look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president

          No it doesn’t.

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          Remember when the Supreme Court interfered in the presidential election because of hanging chads and effectively kept Gore from winning, thus leading somehow to the death of Harambe and bringing us to the bad place dimension where everything always gets worse and almost always in the worst way possible?

          Yeah… like you said, history likes to repeat itself.

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            Oh yes; I remember the Brooks Brothers riot.

            Begging the question — was Al Gore a particularly popular vice president?

            Having lived through it, I would say no.

            Which doesn’t mean Dubya was wildly popular. Only that Al wasn’t.

            Whether Dubya won legitimately, the national mood wasn’t four more years of Clinton.

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              Should’ve called it the Brook Brothers coup. Because in retrospect, that’s what it was.

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          Not really though, post civil war there was a 40 year pause where no democrats were president iirc until Wilson won due to Teddy Roosevelt splitting the vote

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            Yeah because the Dixiecrats were traitors… Then the democrats held a tight grip on congress after the depression and FDR was president for 10+ years.

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          That’s because both sides are shit and just keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful, in exchange for money.

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            This is the shit that is put out there to keep people from being involved in politics because “why bother if both sides are the same?” and to deflect blame from the fact that the right is objectively worse in every fucking way. The Democratic party has a lot of problems and is in need of of a huge pull to the left, but it is better than the alternative. Dismissing it this way solves nothing.

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        Right. Standing up there and yelling “there’s that f__ talk again!” as some kind of response, ala Idiocracy would be a huge selling point for the Tribe That Rub Shit In Their Hair. The pig people loooove that kind of stuff - they are intimidated by competency, expertise and people that are smarter than them. An idiot like donnie or Petey are their idea of “common sense” politicians.

        That, combined with enough of the apathetic staying home as well as the armchair “leftists” that love to tell everyone how it is useless to vote, (at least to actually vote for a candidate that can actually win) and you’ll get Petey in office…