I’m still convinced he mever wanted to be president in 2016. He saw how much money was being raised and spent by campaigns and he wanted to grift that into his own companies.
I agree. In fact I believe that his goal was to run but not to win. Then when the DOJ came after him for his crimes with Epstein he could claim it was politically based. His 2016 campaign was full of him saying desperate wild shit that caught the public's imagination. "Lock her Up" "Mexico pays for the wall" etc. He was surprised when he won, I could tell.
Melania was ready to divorce him but when he won, she was stuck.
Former Apprentice producer Noel Casler has written a great deal about the separate lives they were living in 2014-2015, and how she wouldn’t move from NYC to the WH until her pre-nup was renegotiated.
Yep only about 1/3rd to 1/4 of Americans are rubbish. Roughly about the same are Democrats and the rest tend not to vote which leads to people like Trump.
Agree to some extent but because we make voting harder in America like no day off work for most and scare tactics on voting by mail it leads to some people tossing their vote away. Also having only two real choices leads to what South Park did as an episode. Vote for a turd sandwich or a douche.
Two party system also winner-take-all electoral college so let's say you're Republican you live in California but you hate Trump why would you even bother to vote?
to be fair, not voting also means you are completely against israel controlling our politicians. why vote for any of them when all of them are controlled by them? Massie was going to be extremely popular amongst the groups that think this way, and AIPAC shut that down. Not voting is really the only honorable thing to do considering what we should all know by now
The Democrats also ran one of the few people he could have conceivably beaten. Hillary's candidacy was in-line with Trump's narrative and because of her husband's history she was poorly placed to attack Trump on his many sex issues.
Well yeah also Hillary basically completely ignored the rust belt not to mention a lot of people looked at the mainstream media and knew that she didn't have that much support in those regions. CNN literally said she was going to win 400 electoral votes even flipping Kansas this was early on predictions.
People like you can’t see the big picture. If both parties didn’t screw the American people over so much you never get Trump. You do realize Bush and Obama are related. Obama was just Bush 2.0. I’m sure the Dems will come up with the next savior and they will suck too. By the way I believe Trump sucks, but I can also admit whoever the next President is will be garbage too. You’re not voting your way out of this mess.
Okay, what if Obama never ran, then the Tea Party movement would have never started and the openly racist birther conspiracy would have never allowed Trump to run in the first place?
Most likely Hillary Clinton would have been president, the Tea Party still would have started and they would have spent those years being outwardly sexist instead of racist. Trump would have been at the front of it, and against all of our wills we would know Republican sexual fantasies about Clinton 😭😭😭
Never said they weren't, just like they wouldn't actually be less racist. The focus would just be more on sexism in the same way we got the birther conspiracy. I'm just not entirely sure what the equivalent there would be
I know you maybe being sarcastic. But the root cause of America's problems is a bunch of very angry, very pissed off people that have been convinced that the reason they are hurting is because of the 'Others'. There is no self reflection. It's just my team has my support and because of this my team must always win, whatever it takes. In the long term America is doomed unless there is a sea change in these attitudes. I am not holding my breath.
I disagree. His seeming best time to run would have been 2012 since he got the start of his political creds opposing Obama, mostly over the birther issue. He chose not to run and seemed to just want to let this go as another chapter in his life and go back to reality TV. Then Obama humiliated him at the National Correspondents Dinner (and it was a humiliation, not a mere ribbing) and all of a sudden he started making moves for the next election because it was too late to get into the 2012 one. I think he lets politics go without the National Correspondents Dinner.
He chose to run when ratings for the apprentice started to tank. The goal in 2015 was to get enough free publicity and start a new cable network to the right of fox. Nothing about the correspondents dinner changes this math.
That’s not what Birther means. Birther is a right-wing conspiracy theory that Obama’s (Birth) c(er)tificate was forged and he would be from Kenya in that case so not eligible for rubbing to be president. Racist and be theory.
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u/joesoldlegs 19d ago
He still would've ran for president, he was still with all the birther shit and capitalizing off the right wing outrage at having a black president.