I love how the media keeps pretending the GOP base might actually choose somebody other than Trump. Recently Christie has been floated as a possible Trump alternative. He’s at a stupendous 2.3%. That’s 0.3% above Scott who already dropped out.

RealClearPolitics - Election 2024 - 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination

I put a very bad Halley/Meatball joke in the title but I removed it. [CW: sexist]

Halley coming for Meatball.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    7 months ago

    theres a mfer out there trying to become president named fucking burgum? that’s what i would call a silly trump stand-in in a novel.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I can’t resist telling this dumb joke again. He should have spent tons on ad buys where he’s eating fast food and the narrator says he has “Burgermentum” and then he says “My last name is Burgum…” and then they playfully argue. As it is - he’s a generic white guy that nobody will ever remember.

      -–

      There’s also a pastor in Texas who is running but I think he’s been at basically 0%.

      Ryan Binkley is the president of a mergers and acquisitions firm and the pastor of a Texas church. He has never held or run for elected office before.

    • impiri@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      Burgum has major “Mississippi governor” vibes. Was surprised to see he’s from North Dakota

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16·
    7 months ago

    It’s mind-blowing how many old people thought someone like Christie was viable and could “talk tough” on Trump because the TV told them so. They all forgot the last time he ran against Trump and had to humiliate himself only to be rebuffed from being attorney general by Jared Kushner.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      The media really wants there to be a horserace because that gets page views and clicks. But there isn’t one. An argument could be made that in January-February even though the 2024 election was a million years away - a minor discussion about DeSantis’s chances was merited. But the media “forgot” about Trump’s unstoppable ~40% base of support that I think he’s been at since ~2016. They pushed their silly horserace narrative. I have to admit - I fell for it like an idiot.

      Then Trump started to rise and DeSantis started to fall and the media ignored him as they do anybody who isn’t Trump.

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9·
        7 months ago

        I believed in the horserace too for a second. Especially when I met people IRL that supported DeSantis. I actually thought he was going to ride persecuting queer people all the way to the White House for a second and make it a national policy. Then I heard his voice and realized he was a carb-obsessed Republican version of mayo Pete.

          • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            7·
            7 months ago

            I know right. I was saying that about his voice like a couple of weeks before Chapo did. Also saying “It’s sugar man” in that voice has become my new diabetic slogan for carb cutting. At least he was a bit entertaining.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              7·
              7 months ago

              I’ll never understand what’s going on in the brains of political publishers, editors, and some reporters. When people didn’t know who DeSantis - they published long “think pieces”. And they never thought about the elephant in the room - his fucking voice? Yeah, it would be better if people focused on the issues, etc. But we don’t. Some reporters must have wanted to share the wonders of his voice with the world but got overruled.

              I read one of the “think pieces”. It must have been ~3,000 words. What a waste of my time. He sounds like a Hanna-Barbera character villain with his own show that was so hated and ridiculed the series was cancelled on the third episode. Besides DeSantis’s voice - he’s creepy. When he smiles - he looks like a lizard creature man. There’s no way Mr. Off-putting Whiny Voice is going to become president. Spare me the fucking “think pieces”.

              Maybe voters in Florida are strange or he got lucky or both. The state has to be at least a bit strange. Hello, Rick Scott.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    There’s something beautiful about them being so mad about Trump not showing up to the one debate and it not mattering at all to anyone. Like the amount of effort they probably put into being ready to be on stage, the make up, etc. The amount of workshopping they did for the owns that they were going to use was all for nothing. I could have told you and anyone else could have told you that it would have been for nothing. The fostered a crowd of bloodthirsty hogs who truly don’t care if it’s they themselves dying of COVID, austere healthcare, or getting doinked by some freedom fighter with a Shinzo Abe-style makeshift weapon.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Sane countries have elections that are months or even weeks long. I assume most debate situations are sane. There might be some craziness. But things are basic. A few days before the debate the media talks about it, then the debate happens, after that there’s then analysis and spin. And that’s it. There’s no multi-year insanity where debates are covered like championship sports games. Who won?! Who lost?! Who got the best soundbite?! Who… - every single time after a few days the American public has entirely forgotten everything anyway. But the pundits will keep breathlessly talking and writing about debate stuff for weeks (if not months) more anyway.

      I bet a pundit couldn’t recall much of anything Hillary said in 2016 during her debates. Even they forget because it’s like trivia about who won a particular qualifying heat at the Olympics. And this is the actual news…

      They fostered a crowd of bloodthirsty hogs.

      If Trump dies in the next five minutes of a massive heart attack - I assume Nikki Haley will be the nominee much to the chagrin of liberals. They can’t yell and scream Trumpian fascism is coming to get people to vote. Also - they may or may not admit that they like her because she “respects norms”, etc. Maybe they’ll even hope she’ll be what Trump never could - presidential.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      There’s something beautiful about them being so mad about Trump not showing up to the one debate and it not mattering at all to anyone.

      Unironically the single greatest thing Donald Trump has ever done is prove how the debates are at best meaningless, and at worst counterproductive to producing anything meaningful. His entire political career he has only won debates by appealing to the worst narcissitic cruel aspects of humanity, and of the debates he’s lost or abstained from he’s wound up winning in spite of them (2020 not withstanding).