Elections; 2024
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The Coming GOPocalypse
by David Frum
https://web.archive.org/web/20230426121650/https://www.theatlantic.com
/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/
The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it.
There was no secret to a more intelligent and intentional Republican plan for 2024. It would have gone like this:
1). Replace Donald Trump at the head of the ticket with somebody less obnoxious and impulsive.
2). Capitalize on inflation and other economic troubles.
3). Offer plausible ideas on drugs, crime, and border enforcement.
4). Reassure women worried about the post-Roe future.
5). Don’t be too obvious about suppressing Democratic votes, because really blatant voter suppression will provoke and mobilize Democrats to vote, not discourage them.
Unfortunately for them, Republicans have turned every element of the plan upside down and inside out. Despite lavish anti-Trump donations by big-money Republicans, Trump is cruising to easy renomination. Rather than capitalize on existing economic troubles, Republicans have started a debt-ceiling fight that will cast them as the cause of America’s economic troubles. Worse for them, the troubles are fast receding. Inflation is vexing, but the recession that Republicans hoped for did not materialize: Instead, Joe Biden has presided over the fastest and steepest unemployment reduction in U.S. economic history since he took office in January 2021.
The big new Republican idea to halt the flow of drugs is to bomb or invade Mexico. Instead of reassuring women, Republican state legislators and Republican judges are signaling that they will support a national abortion ban if their party wins in 2024—and are already building the apparatus of surveillance and control of women necessary to make such a ban effective. Republican state-level voter-suppression schemes have been noisy and alarming when the GOP plan called for them to be subtle and technical.
It’s early in the election cycle, of course, but not too early to wonder: Are we watching a Republican electoral disaster in the making?
Biden’s poll numbers are only so-so. But a presidential election offers a stark and binary choice: this or that? Biden may fall short of some voters’ imagined ideal of a president, but in 2024, voters won’t be comparing the Democrat with that ideal. They will be comparing him with the Republican alternative.
An American must be at least 36 years old to have participated in an election in which the Republican candidate for president won the most votes. An American must be at least 52 years old to have participated in two presidential elections in which the Republican nominee got the most votes.
Despite this, over the past 30 years, the GOP has succeeded in leveraging its smaller share of the vote into a larger share of national power. That same 36-year-old American has lived half of his or her adult life under a Republican-controlled Senate, and even more of it under a Republican-majority House of Representatives. Through almost all of that American’s adult life, Republicans have held more than half of all state legislatures. Conservative dominance of the federal courts has become ever more total in the past two decades, culminating in the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Some of the Republicans’ leverage can be explained by the American electoral system’s tilt against metropolitan areas. Some of their success is due to luck. The GOP’s big year of 2010 also happened to be a redistricting year, so one successful election translated into a decade of more comprehensively gerrymandered state legislatures. (Democrats have not had a big win in a redistricting year since 1930.)
But the tilt is not infinite, and the party’s luck is running out. Republicans have suffered a series of heavy defeats since the rise of Trump: loss of the House in 2018, loss of the presidency in 2020, loss of the Senate in 2021, losses at the state level in 2022 (Democrats won net two governorships an
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Quote:Trump at Risk of Being JAILED for BRAZEN Behavior Surrounding Trial
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If you're too fucking lazy to go to ZH and follow the link to the original article, I included the link for you.
The federal judge overseeing the civil trial in which Donald Trump is accused of rape admonished the former president for a social media post in which he called the lawsuit “a made up SCAM.”
Trump could be “tampering with a new source of potential liability,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told one of Trump’s lawyers in court on Wednesday.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/judge-trump-rape-trial-scam-t
ruth-social-00093940
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump will be fine. 
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:Overall, 64 percent of U.S. adults said they do not want to see Trump become president again. That includes 92 percent of Democrats, 68 percent of independents and 27 percent of Republicans. At the same time, 34 percent of U.S. adults (including 71 percent of Republicans) want to see Trump get elected for a second term as president.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump will be fine.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/as-biden-runs-for-president-agai
n-4-in-10-americans-say-hes-done-a-good-job
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.
None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.
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Quote:It is NEVER TOO SOON for you to predict that Trump will win despite the Democrats' cheating. I am already hearing that from the Trumptards in Texas. They are also making dark threats, but keeping their voices low, of doing something violent, like blowing up Federal buildings and FBI offices. There is an angry-poor-white-trash revolution coming in 2024! The South will rise again in rebellion against the Libtard Yankees and George Soros and the Climate Change Hoax!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.
None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is NEVER TOO SOON for you to predict that Trump will win despite the Democrats' cheating.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.
None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.
Oh honey... That's not what I'm doing here.
I know the Democrats are going to cheat using the en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud / ballot harvesting system they set up during Covid and exploited during the last two election cycles. EVERYBODY knows that the Democrats are going to cheat using the en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud / ballot harvesting system they set up during Covid and exploited during the last two election cycles.
But now that you've set it up for him and Trump has finally embraced it, it's going to be jammed so far up your asses you'll be gargling on it.
You were warned. Now it's too late for you.
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Trump explains why he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln — who was assassinated
For the second weekend in a row, Fox host Mark Levin continued showing videos of his conversation with Donald Trump. Among the things Trump thought the Fox audience needed to know is that he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was killed before leaving office.
Trump began by saying that former President Andrew Jackson was treated very badly after he broke previous treaties, stole land, and forced the march of Native Americans to "Indian Territory." That land was then taken from the Native tribes and became known as Oklahoma.
"Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going on," Trump educated Levin. "But Abraham Lincoln was just vilified. But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all."
He never explained who "they" were.
"Because what they did was come up with phony stuff. Russia, Russia, Russia. It was all hoaxes. The Mueller witch hunt, which turned out to be 'no collusion.'"
That isn't what Mueller found. He never looked into Trump's potential collusion with Russia. What he did document were at least ten instances of obstruction of justice, which Trump has never been tried over.
"And they had the laptop, they could have figured that out because on the laptop, if you look at it, you could have figured that out easily," Trump said.
It's unclear what he was talking about, as there was never a "laptop" that belonged to Trump that was part of the Mueller probe. It's possible that it was classified information, but it never made it into the Mueller report. He might be confused about the laptop that was just seized from his staffer involved in the classified documents scandal.
Lincoln was reelected in his second bid for president, unlike Trump. It was the following year that he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth.
See the clip of the interview below or at the link here.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-life-worse-than-lincoln/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Fox News Legal Analyst Pans Trump 2024 Bid: He ‘Can’t Win’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-legal-analyst-pans-tr
ump-2024-bid-he-can-t-win/ar-AA1aDeUL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20406f4dd8914089b96df345cfb06861&ei=113
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Originally posted by THG:
Fox News Legal Analyst Pans Trump 2024 Bid: He ‘Can’t Win’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-legal-analyst-pans-tr
ump-2024-bid-he-can-t-win/ar-AA1aDeUL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20406f4dd8914089b96df345cfb06861&ei=113
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That's what they said in 2016, and Hillary Clinton was a much tougher opponent than an 82 year old Biden* who is already suffering from visible signs of dementia will be when we're in the middle of Great Recession 2.0.
What happened to your trials, dummy? Didn't work out the way your Legacy Media Masters told you that they would, huh?
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