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.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 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·
      10 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·
      10 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).