Elections; 2024
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In his recent book "Thank You for Your Servitude", my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarized his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: “We’re just waiting for him to die.” As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration.
Ha! Good luck with that. Consider this:
• Donald Trump has a Filet-O-Fish–centered diet, exercises only by playing golf, and employs some of the least trustworthy-seeming doctors to have ever been associated with the medical profession.
• He did not take the threat of COVID seriously at all and actually got COVID himself just before the last election.
• He’s 76 years old.
• He nonetheless recovered fully from COVID and has had no known health problems since. He looks fine. (He looks less frail than the Democrats’ likely 2024 nominee, for one.)
Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human.
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Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human.
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Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human.
I know you think that's witty, but it isn't.
When Trump dies the atoms that made him up will make something else. Just like yours will. Just like all of ours will.
Also, so will Velveeta when it goes bad...
https://www.groceryshopforfreeatthemart.com/recall-notice-velveeta-oce
an-spray-and-silk-soymilk-sold-at-walmart-is-being-recalled/
https://gobadornot.com/velveeta-cheese/
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Koch to make sure Trump loses.
tick tock
T 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-apparent-rebuke-to-trump-ko
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Koch to make sure Trump loses.
tick tock
T
We know, Ted. You LOVE Koch.
In your mouth. Up your ass. In your ears?
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The Kochs are always trying to fuck Trump.
You want me to dig up posts where you were shit talking the Kochs before, Ted?
All somebody has to do to make you idolize them is shit talk Trump for 30 seconds.
You are the dumbest of dumb people.
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Donald Trump threatens to use his core skills against the GOP.
It’s begun to dawn on Republicans that they face a potentially catastrophic political problem: Donald Trump may lose the GOP presidential primary and, out of spite, wreck Republican prospects in 2024. That unsettling realization broke through with the release of a Bulwark poll earlier this week.
https://www.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Republican_Presi
dential_Primary_Toplines.pdf
The survey found that more than a quarter of likely Republican voters are ready to follow Trump to a third-party bid. Two days after the poll results were released, Trump was asked in an interview whether, if he lost the nomination, he would support the GOP nominee. Trump answered, “It would have to depend on who the nominee was.” Translation: no.
In such a closely divided nation, a third-party campaign by Trump would cripple the GOP in 2024, because almost all of Trump’s votes would come from people who would otherwise vote Republican. In some key states—Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan—that could make all the difference. (In a handful of other states, “sore-loser laws” might bar Trump from the ballot.)
But even if Trump doesn’t run as a third-party candidate, he could ensure that Republican presidential and congressional candidates lose simply by criticizing them during the campaign, accusing the Republican Party of disloyalty, and signaling to his supporters that they should sit out the election. That course of action is more straightforward, and perhaps even likelier, than a third-party bid, but it would be just as devastating to Republican prospects.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/trump-arsonist-turns
-his-own-party/672956/
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Yup.
That's why I said a year ago that DeSantis needs to sit the fuck down and wait his turn. He's my age and has plenty of time.
1/4 to 1/3 of the states won't even hold a primary anyway.
The GOP has nobody else who can run against Trump.
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Trump is the latest Republican to avoid his most notable success
Trump pointed to Operation Warp Speed as his most impressive accomplishment — right up until that became politically untenable as Republicans turned against vaccines with a vengeance.
Feb. 6, 2023, 11:57 AM CST
By Steve Benen
The first sign of trouble began, oddly enough, in Alabama. In August 2021, Donald Trump headlined an event in the ruby red state he won by 25 points, and the former president briefly encouraged attendees to get Covid vaccines. The booing was audible and immediate.
In December 2021, it happened again. The Republican appeared at an event in Texas, where he acknowledged having received a booster shot — a comment that again generated booing from his ostensible supporters.
By last summer, Trump had clearly been browbeaten into submission by his own base. During a rally in Alaska, the former president described vaccines as “that I’m not allowed to mention.” He clearly wanted to brag about his record, telling the crowd that “nobody else could have done” what he did, but the Republican nevertheless grudgingly concluded, “I’m not mentioning it in front of my people.”
Trump clearly wanted to brag about the development of the lifesaving vaccines, reminding everyone that they’ve been enormously effective and deserve to be seen as a once-in-a-generation miracle. But he was also scared of getting booed by his own acolytes, so he avoided any explicit references to the “v” word.
This year, as the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination starts to take shape, the former president’s approach to vaccines has been overhauled. Instead of bragging about their development and urging people to protect themselves from a dangerous contagion, Trump is now trying to use the right’s hostility toward vaccines against potential GOP rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In a sign of how toxic the conversation about the coronavirus vaccines has become within the GOP, Mr. Trump’s allies are building a file of “opposition research” on Mr. DeSantis that consists of videos of him praising the vaccine in its early days.
When Trump spoke with reporters between recent rallies in New Hampshire and South Carolina, the former president added, in reference to DeSantis, “He promoted the vaccine as much as anybody in this country promoted it.”
Soon after Trump used his social media platform to call DeSantis “a RINO GLOBALIST,” before reminding voters that the Florida governor “loved the Vaccines,” as if that were a bad thing.
It’s worth noting for context that DeSantis’ line on Covid vaccines has followed a related trajectory: The governor supported the shots before moving in a ridiculous direction, culminating in his recent declaration that those who get the Covid bivalent booster are “more likely to get infected,” which is utterly bonkers.
But it’s Trump who’s scrambling to keep up, eyeing the vaccines developed on his watch as a cudgel to be used against perceived intraparty foes.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-latest-repub
lican-avoid-notable-success-rcna69345
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