The GOP is about to nominate an old man who can’t remember his 3rd wife’s name who is facing 91 federal charges.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Not just some old man. An old RAPIST.
Honestly at this point I don't think you can get the GOP nomination WITHOUT being a rapist.
The GOP doesn’t have a problem with that.
Who enjoys walking into the dressing rooms of underaged pageant contestants and also was friends with a serial pedophile who didn't kill himself
Who, more importantly, is literally a traitor to our country and attempted to overthrow democracy (albeit a pitiful halfhearted attempt via his angry lapdogs)
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This cognitive debate between two geriatrics is just sad to see. I'm not American, our politicians aren't qualified for other reasons, but I'm so curious to see one of them die in office and the mayhem it's gonna cause when it happens. My stock market play would be completely different LoL.
Dying in office won't produce mayhem. We have a well established process for that. The VP takes over and fights with Congress over who gets appointed as the next VP. The only drama will be who fills that role.
Dying just before the election? Now that will be a clown show. If the vacancy happens after the party convention the ballots likely wouldn't be able to be changed. However, as you likely know we are not voting for President and VP directly, we are voting for a slate of Electors pledged to the candidates. Many states bind those electors to vote according to the popular vote, and those states would need to pass quick laws changing that process.
If it's the winning side whose candidate bites it, there needs to be a ton of coordination to all this. Because there is still a process to counting those EC votes. If some votes come in for the deceased candidate at the top of the ticket and some don't, they will likely be counted separately and as a result no one would technically have the majority.
We do have a weird way to resolve that, though: if the EC has no majority, the House votes on the President and the Senate votes on the VP. But the House vote has an additional wrinkle, in that each State's delegation gets one vote. So, all 50+ of California's members get 1 vote, and Wyoming's Lone member also gets a vote. The math there favors the Republican candidate, even if Democrats control the House.
It could also result in the Republican choice being President while the Democrat becomes VP, which would make for the world's most awkward Peformance Reviews.
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Probably another porn star he cheated on his (then) wife with.
You're assuming he ever got told their name by the fixer before the poor girl was sent into the room.
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The guy who gave his daughter plastic surgery treats women as objects. It's not even shocking. It's not news. It's nothing. It's obvious. The weird part is, that people like him for it.
I usually manage to call my possessions by their correct names. Trump has dementia.
The number of people who don't seem to get that is staggering. He's shown clear signs of cognitive decline since at most 2020. I know mental health and elder care professionals that were noticing it as early ad 2016.
Just watch his interviews from around 9/11. He's still a stupid, pompous, narcissistic, lying piece of shit with delusions of grandiosity, but he could speak coherently and form complete thoughts.
It's likely only a matter of months before he finally sundowns with cameras on him, although I'm sure his handlers are trying their hardest to keep that from happening.
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They like him for it because they wish they could do the same.
I'd like to believe that most of his voting base don't want to fuck their kids. Donnie was just raised in a... special environment, which produced his ah bigly brain
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I mean, it doesn't make it better, but he got confused because he was talking about Mercedes Schlapp earlier.
This context is pretty important. I'm in my 20s and my brain would do this too
Context is important: this is trump so it's not going to impact his candidacy. If the context were Biden, however, ...
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Makes perfect sense.
Trump probably regards her as an acquisition, like a luxury car.
Nah Occam's razor.
He's fucking someone named Mercedes.
I'm getting this really disturbing mental image of someone using spray tan as lube.
One lobotomy, please.
Nah Occam's razor is that he's senile
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Is his brain even going to last the nine months til the election? It feels like in just a month or two he will have degraded to saying the n-word on stage while talking about how bad he wants to fuck his daughter.
What are the odds that we just learned what he has been calling her at home for years?
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Weird flex.
You people are overthinking this would your talks of dementia and objectification. Have you even considered that Mercedes could be her "stage" name ... or the name of wife number 4!
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