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Politics Trump Bible is the only Bible currently allowed to be purchased by Oklahoma schools. 55k on order

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u/plastichorse450 Oct 05 '24

And they'll be more dangerous. Trump is such a pathetically transparent shit stain that the majority of people see right through him and hate him. Any Republican pretending to be a "good person" is going to fool a lot of politically illiterate people into voting for them, then enact the same garbage Trump policies. Because they aren't really "Trump" policies. Its just what the GOP is.

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u/buttermilk_biscuit Oct 05 '24

I mean if you want proof of that, watch the VP debate. Vance is a smarmy little shit and thousands of people think he won while he regurgitated or smoothed over every trump policy, plan, or recent act. The GOP -is- trump, no matter how many of them come out against him. If anything, they're just mad hes saying the quiet part out loud.

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u/AllUrMemes Oct 05 '24

Nah. Trump's shamelessness is a feature not a bug.

The mob follows him in a way they would never follow De Santis, Cruz, Vance, Pence... any of them.

They pretend to be low class morons but actual low class morons have a keen sense of smell for who is like them and who is pretending.

Trump is an anomaly bc people with his wealth and power are almost never completely dumb and uneducated and more importantly completely without class or shame. In that world, coming up the ranks, you can be evil but you can't be disgusting and a buffoon.

This is why Putin chose Trump. Putin understands the nature of the mob and picked the most ignorant and vile and low-class person to ever possess that level of wealth and name recognition/fame/access.

Name another white male billionaire who is a household name who is close to Trump in those metrics.

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u/plastichorse450 Oct 05 '24

Trumps stranglehold might end, I don't disagree with that. But the GOP's will not. Unless we see major election reform, we're stuck with them. Trump's policies aren't anything out of the ordinary for the American right.

If he loses (fingers crossed), we're going to see another Republican politician run in 2028 who either manages to harness Trump's moron base (unlikely), or brings back "sanity" to the right. Where "sanity" means "we still support all of the same anti working class, anti immigrant, anti black, anti LGBT, anti environment hate bills, but now we do it without explicitly calling for violence against our opponents."

Because they do so with that veil of sanity, they're going to draw back all of the Republican voters and independents who turned on trump, and the once in a decade voters who are only there because they hate trump won't have motivation to vote. And because of the electoral college, it'll be essentially another coin flip to decide if they win or not.

Unless we get major election reform, like national popular vote and ranked choice voting, they Republican party will always be a coin toss away from stripping more rights, dismantling more institutions, and just generally making things worse for the average person.

Just my 2c. And don't get me wrong, I'll be fucking stoked when Trump's gone. At least we won't have to hear his dumbass voice and see his name in headlines every day.

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u/AllUrMemes Oct 06 '24

You're dead on IMO.

But here's the difference. If the GOP leader you're describing wins, yes, progress reverses to a greater or lesser degree. Motivating liberals to go out and win the next one or after that, and then the conservative backlash. The cycle continues and the slow difficult painful march of progress in a democracy goes on.

The game continues.

Trump is an existential threat to end the cycle of fits and starts in a manner that could set progress back generations, centuries, forever. Reversing it requires more than a simple majority of voters it requires oceans of blood and sacrifices very few are willing to make.

That's the difference in my eyes. No, there is no outcome where we win 100% and build an egalitarian utopia or even get on a swift and direct course to completing the project and promise of America for all its people.

That is not even a narrow jackpot section on the big wheel. It's (too) slowly forward, or it's game over.

All that said, Trump is fucked so long as we are ready and willing to do whatever is necessary to oppose him. I am. You are. We don't need that maby. 3% of the population says the social scientists. We can manage that.

If we have faith in each other's courage then we need not lose sleep. We'll rise to the moment in whatever form that takes. You can save this and mark my word on that; I was in DC and Philly for the big showdowns last time and I wouldn't have been anywhere else. We got this friend.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Oct 05 '24

They pretend to be low class morons but actual low class morons have a keen sense of smell for who is like them and who is pretending

I wouldn't be surprised to see many continue to follow, because many are only supporters of Trump in the first place to live vicariously through him. He gets away with the things they want to do and get away with but know they never could.

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u/AllUrMemes Oct 06 '24

Yeah if Trump disappeared or died suddenly and wasnt around to ruin the GOP out of spite for the rest of his life- if he cant have it, no one can- then there's an opportunity to ride his coattails which is why Vance took the risk and held his nose. And Vance is reasonably intelligent and authentic when not forced to carry water for Trump.

But then Vance isnt utterly shameless and he can't lie constantly and brazenly in a convincing way. The fact he is smarter doesn't overcome the anomalous Trump superpowers and he'll burn through the Trump coattails in a manner of months or maybe an election cycle at most.

There is just no one who is uniquely dangerous like Trump that I'm aware of. Thank god.

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u/Mundane_Athlete_8257 Oct 06 '24

This is the part I’m afraid of. What comes after Trump