You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall

[Nostra]

Another IQ2 thread fail.

 

[Mac1958]

Pumping the brakes on Trump’s craziness is enough to sway at least some voters.

But the opposing party often doesn’t have to offer that much, historically.

We're in a period where the best thing both parties have going for them is the other party.

Which explains our quick and obvious decay. We have to expect better, but we're not.

 

[Meister]

Pumping the brakes on Trump’s craziness is enough to sway at least some voters.

But the opposing party often doesn’t have to offer that much, historically.

And you are admitting that your tribe doesn't offer much.

 

[Marener]

And you are admitting that your tribe doesn't offer much.

If that’s how you want to read it, be my guest.

You seem to be whistling past the graveyard.

 

[Meister]

Midterms are a referendum on the president. That’s how it’s been for some time now.

Trump is not very popular.

Hmmm, I would have thought this seat would have flipped listening to you.

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[Dorian Mode]

Your Cult is less popular, Moroner.

What is the Dimwinger plan for America?

I rally don't think the dumocraps even have a plan at the moment. The only thing they have to offer the people is But TRUMP!!!! But Trump is getting much needed things done, even if they sometimes aren't popular with the right, while all the dumocraps can do is complain about everything. The trillion dollar question is "What can they actually do that is better?" They don't even know. But I know what the dumocraps are damn good at: Wasting taxpayer money on fraud.

 

[Hafar1014]

We're in a period where the best thing both parties have going for them is the other party.

Which explains our quick and obvious decay. We have to expect better, but we're not.

So why are millions leaving democrat states and moving to GOP states

 

[BluesLegend]

Remember how Tater tried to get Putin to not invade Ukraine?

“Don’t”

What a perfect obituary for the obsolete Democratic party.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

you just showed us here why you guys lost to trump twice...thanks gabe you did your party a solid....

I voted for Trump, twice, dick beater.
The difference between me and you is I voted for policy, you voted for rhetoric.
Your side is getting more, in spades. Unfortunately, the Jews are getting al of the policy decisions.
Trump only exists to serve ONE group...

 

[dblack]

Time is running out for Trump. People are turning on him. But the problem is only going to get bigger because Trump has the power of the presidency, and as he begins to lose control, there is no telling what a man who tried to overthrow the government because he lost an election will do. Is this the beginning of the end for MAGA?

Time will tell.

You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall
A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time. But eventually, reality catches up.

The presidency of Donald Trump is now officially in collapse. His war is … not exactly a disaster, but it sure isn’t the cakewalk he envisioned when he sprang it on the American people and the world with no notice on February 28. His firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because she wasn’t sycophantic enough indicates a man who is utterly incapable of understanding anything about how democracy is supposed to work. His economy is a wreck and may well get worse. His proposed budget, especially the half-trillion-dollar increase to the Pentagon, is wildly out of whack with the priorities of the public.

I could go on—and on. But on top of all that, Trump’s purchase on reality, tenuous at the best of times, is slipping fast. Think about what it takes for the “leader of the free world” (a phrase we are now obliged to tuck inside irony quotes) to wake up on Easter morning—the day of the resurrection of the same Jesus Christ in whose name “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth says we are killing Iranians—and post this unhinged and inflammatory comment on social media: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

The sentence with the three expletives will catch the notice of most Western eyes, but I have a feeling it’s the next one, and its schoolyard-level sarcastic mockery, that will get the lion’s share of the attention in Iran and across the Muslim world. And that wasn’t even his low point of the past week. His speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday was an embarrassment, rife with conspiracies, self-pitying grievance riffs, tasteless “jokes,” and bile spewed at the usual targets—again, on a venerated day on the Christian calendar, Maundy Thursday, the last full day of Jesus Christs’s mortal life. Trump rendered a supposedly solemn occasion profane in the way only he can do.

A rickety house often stands longer than we imagine it will. The support structures are surprisingly sturdy. But finally one day, something comes along—a hard rain, a mighty wind—against which the beams and foundation are no match.

Trump has survived as long as he has in politics—indeed, he succeeded in the first place—because his support structures were unusually durable. The percentage of people in this country who not only were fine with nativist, authoritarian politics but openly embraced it shot Trump to the top of the GOP polls in late 2015 and has remained basically steady all these years. Millions of people still believe, with White House “spiritual adviser” (we have to put irony quotes around nearly everything these days) Paula White, that Trump is basically Jesus. The right-wing propaganda networks for whom he can do no wrong are still out there, marveling over his infallibility as fulsomely as ever. And of course the Republicans in Congress, with just a few exceptions, still praise him to the heavens.

These were and are Trump’s four pillars (there is considerable overlap between the first two groups, but they’re somewhat different). They have sustained him in and out of power for more than a decade, and they’ve proven stronger than the two things that in theory have the power to bring Trump down: the political opposition and plain reality.

But take a good, contemplative whiff of the zeitgeist right about now, and you’ll smell change in the air.

You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall

A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time. But eventually, reality catches up.

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"We got him now!" ?

 

[Marener]

Hmmm, I would have thought this seat would have flipped listening to you.

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Your “thinking” is quite narrow. Republicans won the House in 2024 by a razor thin margin. Dems need to shift the electorate only slightly to win it back.

You don’t have to win them all.

 

[Meister]

I voted for Trump, twice, dick beater.

Oh brother.....Lackie is a fisherman with some tall fish tales.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Because your team lost bigly, right?

Oh Jesus You fkn boomers are nearly as demonic as the Jews you suck off.
How you like $4 gas buddy? Guess what comes next? Higher, much higher, EVERYTHING.
For what? Nothing. Some Zio whackos and Shia nutjobs can fulfill their end times fantasies.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I voted for Trump, twice, dick beater.
The difference between me and you is I voted for policy, you voted for rhetoric.
Your side is getting more, in spades. Unfortunately, the Jews are getting al of the policy decisions.
Trump only exists to serve ONE group...
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im sure you did gabe,but you answered me just like a real lefty would....i said we know you hate trump....give some ideas to counter trump....what did you do gabe?...did you say your right they have no better counter policies.....instead you went right into trump....just like they do.....

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Oh brother.....Lackie is a fisherman with some tall fish tales.

2016 and 2024. Serving in Turkey the first time.
You boom tards need to wke TF up.

 

[Meister]

Oh Jesus You fkn boomers are nearly as demonic as the Jews you suck off.
How you like $4 gas buddy? Guess what comes next? Higher, much higher, EVERYTHING.
For what? Nothing. Some Zio whackos and Shia nutjobs can fulfill their end times fantasies.

How did you like 4 dollar gas under the Tator regime?
Yeah, that was okay, huh?

I'll deal with a temporary 4 dollar a gallon gas, its
better than what your lord was giving us.

 

[Meister]

2016 and 2024. Serving in Turkey the first time.
You boom tards need to wke TF up.

WTF???
Not sure what this commie's point is, other than the top of his head.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I think very few will ever say "I was wrong, I blew it, he fooled me, I fell for the con". What I'm seeing so far is "he's being controlled by somebody" or "I like him except for this one thing".

This isn't political for them, it's their identity. Even to the exclusion of family. Admitting they were fooled would wreck whatever self esteem they have. Psychologists call this "Identity Fusion".

Well - I was wrong, I blew it, he fooled me. I was never really a die-hard MAGA person even in the past, but there was a time where I was strongly supportive of him. It didn't get me anywhere.

 

[Nostra]

If that’s how you want to read it, be my guest.

You seem to be whistling past the graveyard.

What is the Dimwinger plan for America?

 

[Mac1958]

Well - I was wrong, I blew it, he fooled me. I was never really a die-hard MAGA person even in the past, but there was a time where I was strongly supportive of him. It didn't get me anywhere.

I sincerely hope people listen to you.

This isn't about politics, it's about who and what we are as a country.