That would be great news, if we were ever going to have elections again.
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Nepal has taught the world that you don't need your government to have an election.
That's cool that some people are (finally) figuring out what a total clown Orange Jesus is, but....did Hitler's poll numbers really mattered after he seized power?
He's not Hitler. He's Louis the 16th.
RATINGS DON'T MATTER ANYMORE. Stop posting this shit.
I feel bad for the citizens that voted against this. But every protest sitter outer, and person that did vote for this can't say shit.
It's an attempt to keep up morale from people that think we'll get midterms
The man tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the USA and Americans still elected him into office. Approval rating doesn't mean shit.
Elections happen every 2 years. Approval polls are taken every 2 weeks. Things change.
And the voters have an even shorter term memory. Trending downward is nice, but I doubt the shit we're dealing with now will be in most people's mind when they vote in 2026 and 2028.
We'll probably have worse things on our mind by then...
No shit. He probably will have nuked San Francisco or something by then.
If in March he announces an end to the tariffs and prices have a sudden relief, then the GOP can sail in on the realization of lower prices.
It's easier to make things better when you deliberately make them worse first. There's the lovely strategic thing of the non-election year.
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great, he is not planning on their being another election so it really doesn't matter.
I recently started following a guy on YouTube who's answer to the doubt over whether we'll be able to vote again is, "I'm not asking. I'm voting". I've decided to adopt that mentality and I encourage others to do the same.
Bingo. Trump isn't Hitler. He's Louis XVI.
This is the correct response. All that matters is what you intend to do.
You don’t get points for correctly predicting defeat, calling out other’s inaction, or lamenting how unfair the fight is.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but only cowardice tries to spread it among comrades in the midst of the fight.
But he had all those "Trump 2028" hats. Surely that means he plans to run again. He wouldn't just troll people for the sadistic glee, right?
Nah if his BK special oldddd ass body doesn't give out on him by then he will definitely "run"...
... in a "fair" election
Pro Wrestling Style election you know how it goes.
Pretty sure the election was stolen and all those swing states anyway. It’s statistically improbable that he won all seven swing states. Not to mention the election tampering, Starlink, etc.
Donald Trump has cheated at literally EVERYTHING in his life: he cheated on every wife, he cheats at golf and wins every tournament at all of his courses, he cheats on his taxes, he uses bankruptcy as a money laundering strategy, etc. He cheats in every aspect of his life, but the Democrats want us to believe that he won "fair & square," and millions of people in the swing states voted straight Democratic tickets, except with Trump at the top. They've never produced a single one of these Democratic Trump voters, which only exist in the swing states, apparently.
According to Democratic leadership, the one election that he absolutely HAD to win, in order to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison, is the ONLY time that he played it "fair & square," and didn't cheat. Does that sound the Trump we've all come to know?
Don’t tell him which states, cause he’s gonna invade those and start meddling
Does not matter when votes won't happen...
They'll surely find an excuse.
People have the memory of a goldfish. In 2028, the democratic candidate is going to have some obscure flaw that'll be pushed to every media station and social network that caters to the party that punishes opponents, and most Americans will forget the past 4 years and focus on this one flaw.
“Yes Hitler McRacismCEO is a fascist, but Steve NotANazi clears his throat weird. Both sides are the same. Don't vote.”
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Cool. May he keep dropping til he falls back to hell
If he is still alive in 2028, there is no chance he allows fair and free elections, so this does not matter at all.
He thinks swing states will see him punish blue states, and that will motivate them to go Republican so they're not targeted...
Instead of the rational response from anyone with a shred of empathy: stopping maga from doing it again by voting blue
Everything trump is doing is setting up a progressive Dem to win in a landslide, and neo liberals lost their death grip on the DNC, so there's nothing to stop a progressive in the primary either.
stopping maga from doing it again by voting blue
We did that with Biden. Good thing he took his responsibility seriously and went after Trump for attempting to overthrow the government. Whoops, I guess he forgot that part of the plan.
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From your lips to.... well I'm not religious so whatever, I guess your hips or something, but I hope this happens.
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I dont know why this is relevant. Either he prevented from running, in which case this doesnt matter; OR he IS running in violation of the law, in which case this doesnt batter because if he is willing to break an established precent and law then he would not leave his third term open to chance by having free or fair elections.
... or they just don't have elections.
He's already spoken about it. If there's a "war" they don't need elections.
The worst part is that there’s no actual law about that anywhere. He’s looking at Ukraine’s suspended elections, but that was only possible because Ukraine’s constitution specifically states that elections can be suspended during war. The US constitution doesn’t have any such clause. But I’m sure he’ll try anyways, and the current SCOTUS will let him.
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I wish I had any confidence polls meant anything to him or the GOP.
Trump is saying we are "at war" eith our own cities, cartels, and probably Venezuala sooner or later. And if we are "at war" no way to have elections right guys? I mean Ukraine did it so he can too.
Makes sense. He looks like he's been underwater himself
Yeah well fuck those states specifically, I hope they lose everything.
Hey man, swing states are at least trying. Go yell at Ohio or Florida. They used to be swing states and gave up.
I know the feeling, but I think the reliably Republican states are much worse.
There's probably not a single president that cared about approval ratings in their second term. Regardless of what they may think about a particular candidate at this point between elections, they will vote according to their needs on election Day
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Approval rating doesn't matter if we never get to vote again and even if we do, he's a lame duck anyway.
So? He doesn't care
The cabal playing him like a fiddle approve.
Too late, thanks to the dumbfuck voting population.
Most Americans only care about themselves and their cost of living. It's going up with him in office so they'll likely swing their vote the other way yet again.
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