• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Trump's gonna get a January 6th bump.

    Trump attorneys have been told to expect an indictment against former President Donald Trump.

    Nitter

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        1 year ago

        The democratic establishment is able to rake in the most money and garner the most cultural clout when things are in a state of manufactured crisis. If Trump needs a boost to be enough of a threat to push that crisis dial up they'll do it. Sorta like tickling the dragons tail.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's a rock and a hard place. If you let Trump do whatever he wants with no consequences, he'll do more bad things because there are no consequences. If you try to prosecute him for bad things, he'll milk his base's persecution complex to empower him to do more bad things.

        Democrats have no way out of this jam because they can't run an actually good candidate (even Bernie was intolerable to the party) and 50ish years of fetishizing bipartisanship means they've ceded the ability to really go hard.

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The easy solution is to just declare Trump a terrorist and hit him with a drone strike when he's in another country.

      • RonJonGuaido [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        again, they know it helps him. they want him to be the nominee. he's their best chance, he's gonna suck shit in the general. everyone understands this except for terminal-2016-brained chuds and leftists.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          terminal-2016-brained

          ironic to be throwing this around while advocating for a replay of the pied piper strategy

            • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Yeah, it really depends on how energized the whole election is. Biden is weird because he tends to do better with lower turnout. But I really think that the Supreme Court kinda fucked the dog for Trump here. We'll see where the whole thing is by next year, but right now they've really shot themselves in the foot giving up on the abortion football and trying to go in on trans people. It's really starting to lose people in the Midwest swing states.