Summary

Tim Alberta of The Atlantic reports low morale and mounting frustration within Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, with some staff expressing “resentment” and even “disgust” toward the candidate.

Once optimistic about Trump’s chances, aides are now worried as the campaign appears to be unraveling in its final stretch. Alberta shared that senior staffers feel exhausted by Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, with one high-ranking insider admitting they partly hope for his defeat.

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      As long as they continue to help him overthrow democracy, it’s performative bullshit.

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    “Hard to overstate how terrible morale is inside of this campaign — and how much anger/resentment is felt toward the candidate.”

    Aha. And you still ended up helping him. Shut up.

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      “just following orders” all over again.

      There’s only one thing trump has yet to steal from Hitler, and it’s killing the leader of the fascist movement.

      Here’s to hoping 🍻

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      Yeah there’s no way they’ve just realised what a piece of shit he is.

      Pretty much on day one of his initial run he was caught on mic talking about sexually assaulting young women.

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    GOP: picks the most disgusting candidate possible

    GOP when they get an abhorrently disgusting candidate:

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      Someone will have to daily remind Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruise, and a lot of others that they still smell like his asshole every time they disavow him.

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            Texas is no punishment for (wealthy, connected) guys like him. But I’m ok with it if we put him on house arrest so he can’t fly to cancun the next time people are freezing to death in his state.

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          You know Cuban Canadian Rafael Tedward Cruz would be deported under the second Trump administration. Does this mean we’ve finally rid ourselves of him?

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    with one high-ranking insider admitting they partly hope for his defeat.

    Let us oblige them.

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    Jeez I sorta feel bad for these people who are helping him lie, cheat, and steal his way into one of the biggest seats of power in the world.

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      I still can’t believe Trump cultists wore diapers to his rallies and carried “Real men wear diapers!” signs after it came out that Trump is incontinent. Trump 2024 is truly the weirdest and most unhinged political campaign in US history. You can buy the fucking merch because these people are deranged and this is how they spend their money: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305576950729

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        After the ‘garbage’ comment last week, magats were talking about wearing garbage bags for Halloween costumes.

        Somehow dressing in a garbage bag is a step /towards/ sanity.

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    The only thing that makes sense happening in his rallies, is everyone laughing, people dying from laughter.

    This should already have happened after his first speech.

    How can someone hear 2 hours of his bullshit and seriously come to the conclusion:

    Yeah, ok - sounds good, he has my vote.

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    They’re clearly not loyal enough to serve him.

    They’re not the best people for the job and he only works with the best.

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    Well that much is obvious, if I understood the situation correctly, he basically brute forced his way into being the primary candidate. They tried to run a different person and he more or less said “fuck you I’ll just run anyway” and threatened to run independent/third party which would have split the republican vote and would have meant a loss for the republican party.