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Cool now what trump does or doesn't do well be on them. And now they can look back at all the violence in Gaza under trump and saynorodulyni did that. I'm responsible for it and feel good about themselves.
I disagree that it's on them. This and '16 should have been easy elections. Instead of running their best and brightest against a man they've framed as an existential threat to the state, they decided it was a good opportunity to push (and don't you fucking tell me they don't have a thumb on the scales in the primaries) the most unelectable candidates in living memory. I think Kamala could have won, but as I recall it, a lot of the excitement around her began to fizzle out around the time it became clear that she endorsed such exciting policies as addressing climate change with more fracking, shrugging helplessly as we hand Nettanyahu more bombs, making some minor adjustments to healthcare, and offering some tax rebates to people who want to start businesses.
People are fucking drowning. They know shit's broke and we're in desperate need of change. The democrats misread the room and decided both in '16 and '24 that not really trying to do anything meaningful was fine, since what are voters going to do, vote for that guy? And now they've got the gall to blame the voters, which I guess just means that in 2027, we're going to have cyberTrump vs Hillary Clinton (it's really her turn this time you guys). When you start blaming and finger wagging the voters, that's always a recipe for success. It's cool, learn nothing, change nothing, just shuffle a little more to the right, tell us with words and not actions that cyberTrump is an existential threat, and everything will definitely work out this time.
Oh shit, just gave me the best idea. Let's start the conspiracy that Trump is Hillary's puppet.
I'll get us started:
*Bill Clinton used Epstein to drum up compromat on all his political rivals
*Trump was put in place to dismantle democracy so that when Hillary took power her power would be absolute
*Trump was a Democrat most his life
*Trump is a NYC elite
*The true Republicans like Dick Cheney, Jon McCain and Mitch McConnel oppose him
I'm sure we could drum up some policies he has and tease them out to be actually liberal policies
Let me know if anyone else wants to spur on some MAGA infighting
Good luck, man. Trump could pardon Hillary and his base wouldn't give one shit. Sure, you'd get the "WOAH REPUBLICAN VOTERS FELL FOR IT AGAIN, LOOK AT THEM BEING UPSET ON TWITTER" articles and Twitter screenshots and shit, but outside those, like, six people, nobody's going to really care. These folks voted for a dictator to come in and magically make everything better (for them specifically, fuck everyone else), there's nothing, and I mean nothing, that can break the cult fever dream around him. Trump could literally institute unironic communism (which would be the funniest thing ever) and they'd go right along with it.
True, but if we spread it enough and be insistent it would be lots of fun watching them refute everything. I'm still down, if anyone interested, hit me up.