All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Tero]

[Seabass]

Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It
The problem with a fraud as big as this president is that once you start collaborating with him, it’s impossible to get out.

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Trump’s superpower isn’t great vision or great leadership but rather that he is so tiny. Taking him on for transactional purposes may seem like not that big a deal at first, but the moment you put him in your pocket, you become his slave. It is impossible to escape his orbit without having to admit a spectacular failure in moral and strategic judgment, which almost no one can stomach. Donald Trump’s emptiness is simply a mirror of the emptiness of everyone who propped him up. It’s that reflection that becomes unendurable. This pattern, as Mary writes, “guaranteed a cascade of increasingly consequential failures that would ultimately render all of us collateral damage.”

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because she was ousted rather than being forced to remove herself—that allows her to see clearly why everyone else stuck around. And what she reveals is a devastating indictment of all the alleged adults who stick around Donald Trump, who came together to fail America, to leave vulnerable populations to fend for themselves, and who continue to lie and spin to pacify his ego. They do it because they can’t admit the payoff is never coming, and to save themselves from the embarrassment of having to admit they were catastrophically wrong.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... blers.html

[Animavore]

They do it because they can’t admit the payoff is never coming, and to save themselves from the embarrassment of having to admit they were catastrophically wrong.

Yep. Sounds like 42 alright.

[Tero]

[Seabass]

It's good to know the Trump administration has its priorities in order even during these difficult times. I mean sure, there's a deadly global pandemic, unprecedented unemployment, a looming depression, widespread civil unrest, etc, but at least we're bringing back federal executions, which is something that we all desperately needed.

U.S. carries out the first federal execution in 17 years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-lew ... 020-07-14/

[Scot Dutchy]

The Trump supporters who changed their minds: 'I'd rather vote for a tuna fish sandwich'

Frustrated, some Republicans have become anti-Trumpers: ‘This guy couldn’t lead his way out of a wet frickin’ paper bag’

The anti-Trumpers are at it again – only this time, they’re Republicans.

Kevin, a lifelong Republican voter and pastor from Arizona, says he voted for Trump in 2016 “with high hopes for the future”. He knew that Trump didn’t have the same political experience as the other contenders, but he was optimistic he could grow into his new role.

Now he says: “I’ve seen how he has tried to divide our country and that is not something I want, nor what our country should have … This man is an absolute danger to our country.”

Kevin’s experience – of voting for Trump and then quickly realizing he’d made a mistake – is one of many being used by Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), which wants to boot Trump out of office later this year. The group is seeking testimony from former Trump voters through its website, which displays the best quotes so far with pride. (“I’d vote for a tuna fish sandwich before I vote for Donald Trump again,” reads one.)

[JimC]

Is there a way for Trump to be replaced as the Republican presidential candidate?

[pErvinalia]

By a tuna fish sandwich..

[Scot Dutchy]

Is there a way for Trump to be replaced as the Republican presidential candidate?

Who pays the piper?

[JimC]

I was actually asking for an informed opinion from l'emmy or others who actually know how the odd US political system works...

[rainbow]

By a tuna fish sandwich..

...without the bread and fish. A sort of white-ish sauce, not unlike jizz?

[pErvinalia]

I was actually asking for an informed opinion from l'emmy or others who actually know how the odd US political system works...

This is Ratz.

[JimC]

I should have known better...

[Sean Hayden]

Until the never-Trumpers make headway he's the face of the Republican party.

[Svartalf]

Is there a way for Trump to be replaced as the Republican presidential candidate?

can't swear to anything, but unless he himself gives up and has to be replaced in extremis, this is extremely unlikely.