Make Donald Drumpf Again II: The Tremendous Sequel

The sad thing is that MAGA`s would be fine with that.

Two reasons:

- She's hanging in in the hopes of swooping in in the event that he's convicted of a felony before the convention in August. So far, the Stormy Daniels case has a decent chance of that, and many independents that lean to him and soft righties have said that they won't back him if he's actually convicted.

She's hoping she's got some name recognition and avenues of support in the event of a brokered convention. And she probably would have establishment support.

- She's trying to present herself as a "reasonable Republican" for 2028.


The plus side is that scenario #1 has a snowball's chance in Hell of happening.

The bad news for her is that her political career is doomed, now, in '28, and to the end of time.


She's doomed because MAGA owns the primaries, no question. If she won a brokered convention, she goes from August to November getting absolutely torn up by the MAGAts and other conspiracy nutters. They'll stay home. Without them, she loses to Biden in a landslide.

I don't think DeSantis or anyone else fares much better because, when conspiracies are all you see, everything is part of one. No matter who won a brokered convention, they will somehow become a part of the plot to remove their orange God so that they could "steal" the nomination, so they'll stay home.

I don't think anyone but Trump retains the MAGAts.

And the MAGAts will never forgive her for what she did to get this far, so she'll never be in real contention for anything again.

But it's good that she's running just because it tears at Trump, and it shows me he's weak in a general election. He's winning by great margins, but he's not running away with it either. He's not doing the 80/20s, 90/10s that Biden is.

He won SC 60/40. That means just about half of the base (which is who shows up for primaries) don't want him there.

As far as I'm concerned, she should stay in as long as she wants.

Not sure how much legs she has now that the Koch folks have ended financial support.

I wonder if she REALLY thinks that Trump's gonna drop out of the race because that's not gonna happen (I know she knows that, but I'm still wondering if she thinks there's a tiny chance still). He'd run his campaign from a jail cell if he had to, and his cult would vote for him, no questions asked.

Trump couldn't jog or bike to save his money.

(Money being the only thing he cares about)

I do appreciate that she's giving some moderate(?) Republicans someone else to consider. In some ways she's somewhat doing the same thing as Liz Cheney. Just not as overt. But as we see it's not working. She hasn't won any of the contests so far and simply won't win any. That 'moderate' part of the GOP is dead and this is the last breath of that ilk. Even if they don't like Trump they'll still vote for him rather than stay at home. 

Trump is practically the GOP presidential nominee despite everything we've seen of him. He's never gonna see the inside of a jail and I'm quite convinced he'll be president again. 

I think the odds are probably 65/35 that he gets convicted of SOMETHING in relation to his 91 indictments.

Him serving a sentence in a federal or state facility in relation to that sentence is something else.

Never gonna happen.

My quick take of the SotU...Biden hit it all well. He did everything he was supposed to do and then some. It would have been a successful address no matter who delivered it, but he did great.

And the success of it was amplified a thousand fold for the simple fact that, for the last 6 months, the GOP has set the bar for Biden at 'cadaver.' So, when he comes out there as not one, he wins, and they lose more. There was a reason the GOP ran for the exits after it was over.

And Britt's SotU response? Holy fork.

I'm pretty sure he'll find an underwriter pretty fast for this one.

If he can't, he's way closer to broke than it even looks like he is.

     ^ This.    And I can never wear me Big Red Chewing Gun hat either, because it looks too much like a MAGA hat. Not my Coca-Cola hat, nor my McDonald's hat. He's ruined all red hats. 
      I can't shop Sharper Image anymore, I don't want people thinking I'm buying Trump Steaks. 

Last year(?) I went to a Joe Satriani concert. This is sort of niche instrumental guitar stuff. I noticed right in front was an older white guy with a red hat. I couldn't believe that in the San Francisco Bay Area someone would wear one of these so openly and boldly. To me, it's like you might as well be wearing a white hood.

On the way out, I noticed he was indeed wearing a MAGA hat......Make America Guitar Again.

Just when you think that Trump can't sink any lower, he drags us to a new bottom... In my opinion one of the aspect of democratic systems that are worth fighting for is the separation of church and state, and this week gave us one of the most disturbing caricature of our current state of affairs. We should get the whole picture inside our heads: A former president and current official Republican candidate is putting out ads selling bibles with political documents and his signature!!! Guys, this is a really bad omen, we should not wave this away as the new normal. The dangers of theocracy should not be underestimated. Poor Jefferson is turning on his grave. Any Republican of intelligence and good conscience should be outrage by this antic.  

That's just it. Nobody is outraged anymore by what Trump does. He has made his style of communicating and acting the new normal. That's what every cult leader does. Make outrageous things look normal and/or offer your own truth as an explanation.

Yes. That's the Republican's strategy right now: obfuscate, delay and play the fear card. Republicanism as a socio-political project is death.