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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Fortunately for them, they can just tell themselves that he didn't lose, the Democrats stole the election from him through voter fraud. So no introspection will be required as a result of this.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Kinda both now, as I said repeatly, trump crow and him are in this mutal parasitism typical of populism and polariziers, as long trump can give them "victories" they will remaind with him and he didnt most of all, is why he kept doing rellies.
At lot of people have this ideas that people who vote trump are someone fact resistent and will kowtow to him or any GOP just because while there is a weird parasocial relationship with trump that it cant be reasly replicate.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I confess that I think that doesn't fly but I admit to being biased as my family knew the Bush family personally. It was weird watching the country legalize torture and the Patriot Act while my friends went off to war but just pass by portraits of dad and George H.W. hanging out.
Frankly, I think people who believe the above don't understand how religion intersects with vocation in the South.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 24th 2020 at 4:20:15 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.There's a non-zero chance Mitt could be the next Presidential candidate again depending on whether Trump is in jail, Russia, or dead from stress.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I mean, even back then, I don’t know if Romney was the WORST Republican. Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum ran for President too.
(Though compared to Bachmann, Santorum has been remarkably reasonable these past couple weeks. I suppose being a CNN contributor demands SOME level of sanity.)
Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Nov 24th 2020 at 7:26:57 AM
Oh God! Natural light!Frankly, I think people who believe the above don't understand how religion intersects with vocation in the South.
The report I was talking about is from here, by the way
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Suskind and I were very puzzled by this phenomenon, and over the next several months we continued to talk about it, never figuring out the Bush conundrum. Suskind wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine, just before the election in 2004, summarizing our conversations. He quoted me saying that Bush’s faith was the key to understanding him: He had a “weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do,” I said in the article.
Continuing, I told Suskind, “This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he’s on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence. But you can’t run the world on faith.”
@KZN 02: We've talked about the idea of a "competent Trump," and the short of it is that it's not possible. The MAGgots demand someone who makes big, meaningless promises that sound truthy, and have declared open war on all fact-based professions and the concept of facts itself. Someone who could attract that base would by definition have to be an incompetent President.
@Charles, I'm not sure Romney is that viable in 2024. The Trumpists will hate his guts (and they rule Republican primaries in most states), he'll be an old and uncharismatic guy possibly up against Harris or a younger Democrat (at best he's up against an entrenched incumbent who knows how to govern), and there are personal factors at play to (his wife is terminally ill, yes she had MS back in 2012, but this will be 12 years later and who knows what her condition will be then).
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Nov 24th 2020 at 9:13:57 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I find it hard to believe Romney was ever the worst Republican in the party at any point considering even before the Tea Party the Republicans also had literal segregationists and theocratic evangelicals in their midst. Them and also Mitch Mc Connell. He may be a craven slimeball, but Romney is still ideologically far away from the most fascist Republicans and thus it'd take a lot for him to be anywhere near the worst.
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Edited by AlleyOop on Nov 24th 2020 at 8:19:38 AM
If they choose that Trump is right, then they can no longer trust those high profile Republicans, which may lead to some chaotic future events. But if they choose that those Republicans are correct, then Trump has been lying, which shatters that mindset of theirs that Trump has been right about everything.
Edited by ScubaWolf on Nov 24th 2020 at 9:29:28 AM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"Romney will lose hard in the primary in 2024 should he make the attempt. He's the only Republican senator to vote for impeachment. Come on, guys, this one's a no-brainer.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Nov 24th 2020 at 9:29:43 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Yes, people who passionately love trump love Trump because he's an argument that expertise, politeness, diplomacy, compromise, and facts are relevant to being a President. They think, "If Trump is President then everything nasty and bad about myself is gold."
Him losing is nasty because they have hitched their bandwagon to these qualities completely.
Him losing means that it was all a lie.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.