I think he might just have a fetish for losing.
Over trump’s dead body (literally).
Trump is not planning to willingly leave in 2029.
So this is his Dmitry Medvedev?
Oh that’s a good one!
Gonna try and pull a Putin with Trump?
Take Trump as his running mate, then if he wins resign so Trump can be President again.
That is against the constitution. The 12th amendment says if a person is ineligible for president they are also ineligible for VP
Only thing possible is running for congress and then being speaker of the house, then both VP and President resign.
Wow. Cocaine really is bad for you, huh?
Hey you leave cocaine out of this.
Postponing release of Epstein files as long as possible for the pedolord
Wonder if he and Trump are going for a Putin/Medvedev situation.
Didn’t Putin allegedly get a little mad at this situation ? Trump couldn’t mentally survive not being officially the big guy for a day.
That is likely true. I can’t imagine him calling anyone else “sir” or “Mr. President.”
That’s why the felon in chief flew off like a gigantic baby before President Biden was ushered in.
The delicate flower couldn’t even deal with it for a few hours because he’s a terrible human being.
Oh fuck, I need to keep my wallet closed. Last time a person who obviously cannot get elected became the GOP candidate, I bet a lot of money against his win. :(
Fortunately, I did the same 4 years earlier when the same happened :)
Please be the republican nominee.
Keep in mind that is exactly what I thought when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.
Nominees don’t matter anymore. They won’t let anyone who will make a meaningful difference in. If someone meaningful gets in, they’ll be blocked from making any changes.
we lack the pitchforks and the will to do jack all about anything.
Hmmm.
You make a good point.
On the other hand, look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president. Literally, back to Washington.
The US isn’t like Japan where the LDP wins consecutive elections for decades on end.
The republican candidate was GOING to win in 2016.
We are now in a time of chaos. I feel Dems will probably sweep the midterms and maybe win in 2028, but it’s unclear. We’ve only had one nonconsecutive president before.
I wouldn’t put money on James (Vance).
Remember when the Supreme Court interfered in the presidential election because of hanging chads and effectively kept Gore from winning, thus leading somehow to the death of Harambe and bringing us to the bad place dimension where everything always gets worse and almost always in the worst way possible?
Yeah… like you said, history likes to repeat itself.
Oh yes; I remember the Brooks Brothers riot.
Begging the question — was Al Gore a particularly popular vice president?
Having lived through it, I would say no.
Which doesn’t mean Dubya was wildly popular. Only that Al wasn’t.
Whether Dubya won legitimately, the national mood wasn’t four more years of Clinton.
Between the two, you had one that constantly made shit up like “I made the internet” and one that couldn’t pronounce nuclear.
The fact that it got down to the chads are a better indicator to our split as a country.
At the time climate was a hot topic and we pushed hard to get gore in as best we could.
IIRC the chad was in Florida, which is pretty handicapped red.
Trumps approval rating when he was elected the second time was 47%. Al Gore’s approval rating when he lost the 2000 election was 62%.
Should’ve called it the Brook Brothers coup. Because in retrospect, that’s what it was.
look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president
No it doesn’t.
Not really though, post civil war there was a 40 year pause where no democrats were president iirc until Wilson won due to Teddy Roosevelt splitting the vote
Yeah because the Dixiecrats were traitors… Then the democrats held a tight grip on congress after the depression and FDR was president for 10+ years.
That’s because both sides are shit and just keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful, in exchange for money.
This is the shit that is put out there to keep people from being involved in politics because “why bother if both sides are the same?” and to deflect blame from the fact that the right is objectively worse in every fucking way. The Democratic party has a lot of problems and is in need of of a huge pull to the left, but it is better than the alternative. Dismissing it this way solves nothing.
Well we could always keep doing like the past dozen decades and endlessly have the population flopping back and forth between two parties and always pissed and screwed but never doing anything real about it other than “you have to vote guys. That will fix everything”. The system is corrupted. Voting isn’t going to fix it.
Are you taking up arms for the coming revolution then?
Right. Standing up there and yelling “there’s that f__ talk again!” as some kind of response, ala Idiocracy would be a huge selling point for the Tribe That Rub Shit In Their Hair. The pig people loooove that kind of stuff - they are intimidated by competency, expertise and people that are smarter than them. An idiot like donnie or Petey are their idea of “common sense” politicians.
That, combined with enough of the apathetic staying home as well as the armchair “leftists” that love to tell everyone how it is useless to vote, (at least to actually vote for a candidate that can actually win) and you’ll get Petey in office…
I was about to say just that.
Never ever ask the universe to do something funny. It was already going to, and now it’s irritated.
Hegseth in a debate. Now that I’d like to see. What a putz.
Iran war didn’t go well, now he planning to be the boss? Well, let’s see how it goes for him.
Guy who lost a war with Iran wants to be president.
Must be the type who has failed upwards his entire life.
I mean so far that has been very true
There’s no “war with Iran”. When did it begin? When did it end?
In reality it’s been decades/centuries of genocidal imperial terrorism in an attempt to violently control the region, the people, and resources there.
You guys laugh, but there seems to be enough wannabe-macho small-penis dudebro idiot voters that could get the loser elected. Do not assume it won’t happen.
I’m not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic? I find Trump totally repulsive, however I can understand his “charism” that attracts people to vote for him when he’s there mumbling his rampts and narcistic histories. So far, since 2025, that I can remember, anytime I saw any video of Peter Hegseth speaking he seems to have the same charism as a door.
This, would, of course, be important for a presidential candidate If there is any “democracy” left during the election time, since Trump’s popularity is decreasing, his government does not seem too promising on having “good results” to show when the election time comes, therefore the transfer of charism and therefore votes that Trump would be able to execute would be limited, and the new candidate would have to work on his own.
Given the current state of affairs, as an external observator and not too familiar with USA real politics dynamics, I find it’s easier for Trump and republicans to continue the rampamt breaking of laws and just really push for a 3rd term, as he’s been publicly “teasing” since his 2024 campaign…
P.S.: Just to finish up, there’s also the fact that Trump is old as f*, and seems to be becoming more senile by the minute (i.e.: his almost at the age his dad was diagnoses with dementia iirc), so maybe the thing is they would just be forced to move on from him and the “3rd term” thing would really just not come to fruition due to bad timing (Trump going full demented, dying, etc…). Or maybe if his popularity keeps going down, who knows if the democracts can obtain any majority in the midterm elections and put up an impeachment on both houses this time, this would also chance the outlook of things and force the republicans to choose a new candidate sooner than later.
is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic?
In the sense of making me want to punch him in the face, yes.
I find Trump totally repulsive
Likewise. I had to be streetwise to survive when I was young, and I can spot a wrong 'un from a mile away. Everything about Trump sets my red warning light blinking.
But Trump’s character and appearance and Hegseth’s bellowing imbecility function like the typos in a 419 scam email. The gullible and oblivious ignore the warning signs.
I’m not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic?
Not at all. Even the military personnel I’ve spoken with think he’s an absolute moron with no charisma or leadership ability. Officers who are ardently non-partisan have made semi-public remarks that have been critical.
He’s not charismatic, he just spouts hateful fascist ideology that hateful fascists crave.
None of these guys are. Elon “Nazi Salute” Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Bannon, Bezos, and the entirety of Trump’s cabinet. They are social idiots and have zero charisma.
The only thing hegseth has going for him is his ‘TV look’ and willingness to eat shit if it owns the libs (our conservatives have no shame, and love embarrassing themselves to get a reaction from ‘the left’)
wannabe-macho small-penis dudebro idiot voters
USA in a nutshell.
We do seem to have a lot of those. Must be something in the water.
Hilarious, because we all know it’s just going to be the orange pedophile again.
I just have a hard time believing they can keep him both alive and sufficiently lucid enough to be viable for 2028. He’s struggling to hold it together through an entire Nazi rally now.
Sanity and competence are not requirements. As long as he’s hurting the right’s designated scapegoats du jour, they’ll support him even if he’s no more than an amorphous blob of protoplasm in a jar.
That’s gonna be a hard sell to a lot of people. I’m moderate and I wouldn’t vote for either one of these dudes. They need to pick someone sane? Or is the insanity the selling point, and I’m just out of touch?
Or is the insanity the selling point
Yes, why would you vote for a politician who is just going to line their pockets when you can vote for a lunatic that says it’s okay to say slurs who is just going to line his pockets? I mean, what’s life if you can’t say slurs to people? Other people in my trailer park need to know they’re lesser than me and Nancy Pelosi stock trades gender fluids transmission imported beef participation trophies nobody legal wants to work and all the illegals are not working and taking all the jobs and welfare for $9 lattes avocado toast. I will either hang myself from my F350s lifted trailer hitch or vote for Trump. What’s it going to be, liberal?
Completely normal for a genocidal empire that murders schoolgirls with impunity.
With running mate, Lumpy Pillows, will win bigly!
The very large, genocidal side thinks nuking people is great.
Isn’t he tied to the Seven Mountain Mandate insanity?
Dipshit probably believes in that Left Behind bullshit, too.
Every noteworthy member of the executive branch is now a seven mountains mandate Christian dominionist at this point.
