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Oh no. We can't have that

Because it's understanding history and seeing all the flashing warning signs that an ongoing effort to up end democracy is being repeated here, now, in the United States and understanding that thwarting that effort is more important than policy differences is what makes you a "complaining lib" it seems.

Yep that border looks wide open. What's that big fence looking thing with the barbed wire on the top?

https://clinecenter.illinois.edu/coup-detat-project/statement_dec.15.2022 Cheers y'all. Thanks to Orange Bad Man, the greatest country on Earth has joined the list. Well done Trump voters. Like you couldn't see that coming. List of coups since 1945 https://clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/research-themes/democracy-and-development/coup-detat-project/freq-table

I could see him winding up at MLB

Ok where's Maine, where's New Hampshire, where's Vermont, where's Connecticut, where's Delaware on that list? All states with older average age or close to the same as Florida, you know. Maybe a leader should consider his constituents age

"I have relatives that are saying" is not anecdotal evidence? Ok. The link below shows in the latest 11 national polls listed that Trump is polling ahead of Desantis in 8. 8 out of 11. He's consistently above 35% and usually above 40 to 45%. Which makes my point. The fact that even after his crime sprees, his continuing assault on democracy and the constitution, his overt racism/antisemitism he still has even that much support shows he has a cult following. That's a problem for the Republicans. Combine that with his malignant narcissism and I go back to the question I asked you before. As a strategist what would you do to solve the problem of him potentially doing what narcissists do, destroying anyone and everything that they can't control, not whether or not he will win the nomination? Just hope he plays nice and bows out gracefully if Desantis wins the nomination? If you can't answer that's understandable. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/

Does this mean we aren't running the option?

Jackson State goes down

This poll would disagree with your anecdotal evidence https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/americans-want-compromise-but-expect-gridlock-from-the-next-congress-poll-shows

So answer me this:. Using your vast political acumen, if you were a Republican strategist how would you solve the Trump quandary? You know the little sticky issue that he's a narcissist, will never cede his position of power within the Party and thus will very possibly take his large cult following and run as a third party candidate just to burn it all down. Maybe he won't do that but as a strategist wouldn't you need to be at least be brainstorming for that possibility? Would you just hope he's charged, convicted and barred from reelection under the 14th amendment?

Is it though? The whole idea of an unqualified, racist, xenophobic, grifting con man was out of left field in 2016 but here we are. Besides it would solve the MAGA split that's inevitable if Desantis wins the nomination.

Are you sure Desantis might not find it more, let's say, "lucrative" to be his running mate?

Celebrate

Whatever he did and whoever bought these beauts, including possibly himself, one thing is sure ...that money is squeaky clean now.

The level of revisionist history here hurts here sometimes. We weren't dealing with Delta or Omicron and their levels of virulence and contagiousness at that time. It wasn't considered airborne at that time The virus has mutated such that to say we knew what we were dealing with before these mutations arrived in the scene is really out there. Vaccines weren't developed yet. We weren't able to fully open up until they were unless, I guess if you think 3 or 4 million US death would have been cool. Treatments like paxlovid weren't available. Ventilators we're considered essential but turns out they may have caused more harm than good in some cases. Hand sanitizer was impossible to get because it was thought that spread by contact was a significant risk. We still have essentially no clue what's going on with Long Covid and how to treat or prevent it. Nobody talks about it but that's going to be a drain on our health care system for years or decades to come. And it doesn't just affect the old. Besides a good portion of the public still doesn't understand what it's dealing with as seen by the anti-vaxxer/anti-masker campaign and how many people regurgitate that as fact. How many times did we hear "it's just a cold", "eat Ivermectin", "hydroxychloroquine", "inject bleach", "shove a fluorescent tube up your a$$", "Fauci did it", or that Omicron was going to be the savior because it was going to be a milder way to usher in herd immunity? Remember herd immunity? Yeah, we knew what we were dealing with in May 2020