There's an election going on innit

Sweeney Tom

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it's tricky to evaluate because one consistency in the GOP voters is that they love strongmen, but hate losers. it's why they have to have so many conspiracy theories about stolen wins

It's harder because "winner in Florida" is what people are using to say DeSantis is #theguy going forward for them, when

https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1592705521907564544?s=20&t=XWAxFYENaSS9l7rkG8qSBA

Jeb, in case you didn't want to click through for the replies/comments

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desantis at a minimum can play the hate game a lot better than Moldy Jed

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i tried to combine jeb and bread and it just didn't work

Styrofoam Sammich

DeSantis is going for the presidency and he'll be able to take it from Trump because donors and "normal" republicans like him and he can show the chuds that he can win elections and Trump cant.

DouglasDanger

I'm so not ready for 2024 election bullshit

JayKaos

The only prediction I feel comfortable making about any part of the 2024 election is that it will be absolutely insufferable

Juggernut

The other thing is Trump is now a known entity. He had some plausible deniability as an unknown dark horse in 2016 but now you know you're getting 4 more years of absolutely nothing. He couldn't even get wins when he controlled most of the government. He definitely won't with a Dem senate.

So basically he's already DOA as far as actually having an agenda if he wins. I'm not saying it's in the bag because I have learned never to hope but he's facing a much steeper fight to win this time.

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Yeah like obviously never count him out, he's a fascist and you take them seriously, but it's not the same game it was last time. GOP hopefuls, people who want power, watched and learned, and they're going to be better fighters than the joke of a field that they had in 2016.

Captain Inertia

Love a good HamNo/Scocca tag-tweet

AngelHedgie

Well, the Murdoch clan has tossed their marker in on the side of spite:



Just...wow.

(The New York Post (a.k.a. The Sun Sans Tits) is a NewsCorp owned paper, and that is the front page for today. Note the bottom of the page.)

DouglasDanger

Our best hope is trump Desantis fracture the republicans badly enough that Biden or Harris can win by being democrats

I really look forward to all criticisms of Biden and Harris being heresy again

Madican

DeSantis taking the nomination is the worst case scenario for me, because if anybody can take Trump's control of the right wing lunatics it's him. And he is unfortunately far more competent at the fascism than Trump. Trump was the GOP's own worst enemy during his presidency, DeSantis would be the kind of extremist tempered with actual leadership that could cause all the Never Trumpers to get on board with fascism. Or be cowed into it.

Magic Pink

so what did florida man say anyway

Magic Pink

DouglasDanger wrote: »

Our best hope is trump Desantis fracture the republicans badly enough that Biden or Harris can win by being democrats

I really look forward to all criticisms of Biden and Harris being heresy again

there's no way biden's running again is he???

Captain Inertia

Both Biden and Trump are running again

Magic Pink

oh fuck me forever

Sleep

Yep It’s gonna be Trump v Biden 2 they’re both older than the boogaloo.

Madican

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Both Biden and Trump are running again

I can't find the image but there's a screenshot of some anime that goes along the lines of, "The old generation has no right to create the new age."

I think about that line periodically.

Styrofoam Sammich

Madican wrote: »

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Both Biden and Trump are running again

I can't find the image but there's a screenshot of some anime that goes along the lines of, "The old generation has no right to create the new age."

I think about that line periodically.

@Lanz you're up

Ladai

For what it's worth a year before the primaries even start, nearly every post-midterm GOP primary poll that includes both Trump and DeSantis now has DeSantis leading, both nationally and in several individual states (including Iowa, New Hampshire, Texas, Georgia and obviously Florida): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/

Literally anything can happen between now and then, but as of right now it seems like these midterms may actually signal the end of widespread GOP support for Trump.

That said, no one ever went broke betting on the Republican base rallying to Trump against the wishes of the party leaders.

DouglasDanger

Desantis is absolutely as evil and bigoted and misogynistic and white Christian fascist as trump, but he's more competent and younger, a Desantis win is definitely worse than a trump win

If Desantis wins, we'll be in camps by the end of his first term

RedTide

There's a reality where 9/11 never happens, Bush leaves office after two terms as the new Republican messiah and in 2016 when Jeb! runs he still gets absolutely pantsed by Trump.

minor incident

I can’t imagine a single reality in all of the infinite multiverse where Jeb Bush doesn’t get absolutely wedgied to death trying to run for President.

Maybe if there’s an Oops! All Jebs! universe.

Depressperado

but he gets out there, god bless him

Lanz

Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Both Biden and Trump are running again

I can't find the image but there's a screenshot of some anime that goes along the lines of, "The old generation has no right to create the new age."

I think about that line periodically.

@Lanz you're up

Lanz

Bonus:

durandal4532

I'm pretty comfortable not predicting anything. I don't have any fucking clue what any subsection of voters are going to do. Primary voters are very weird. And in the general we added a special extra nonsense step that can invalidate a huge swathe of the population's preferences regardless.

The pertinent fact is that anyone nominated has a distressingly high chance of winning so we should do what we can to make sure that the Republican nominee is officially one of those dog mayors.

Depressperado

Lanz I love you but WEBP?

makin' me hit print screen? like an animal?

Depressperado

I just hope we get one or two more generations outta this great experiment (we failed), so we can have like, the first openly cool-indie-adult president

like, fuck these grandpas, I want the president to be the uncle that I'd buy weed off of sometimes. the one who gave me those Pavement albums. took me to see Modest Mouse and shit.

I have never once had a president that I could trust to be cool if I called them in the middle of the night to come pick me up because I was too drunk or this party was a bad idea

I bet you it's like, 20/80 narcs on the president list

George Washington all "I cannot tell a lie!" FUCK YOU UNCLE GEORGE

edit: Lincoln would be totally a bro, though. and can you imagine the feats of strength you'd witness if your uncle was Abraham Lincoln?

Juggernut

I'm just trying to get good at bullshit punditry so I can get one of those gravy jobs on daytime TV news networks

Madican

In slightly brighter news Villanueva of the LASD lost his election and will thus be booted from the position of sheriff. He leaves behind a legacy of terrorism against civilian oversight, de facto sanctioning of cop gangs, and a culture of gratuitous murder without consequences.

Vaya con dios you slimy fuck.

Captain Inertia

Depressperado wrote: »

I just hope we get one or two more generations outta this great experiment (we failed), so we can have like, the first openly cool-indie-adult president

like, fuck these grandpas, I want the president to be the uncle that I'd buy weed off of sometimes. the one who gave me those Pavement albums. took me to see Modest Mouse and shit.

I have never once had a president that I could trust to be cool if I called them in the middle of the night to come pick me up because I was too drunk or this party was a bad idea

I bet you it's like, 20/80 narcs on the president list

George Washington all "I cannot tell a lie!" FUCK YOU UNCLE GEORGE

edit: Lincoln would be totally a bro, though. and can you imagine the feats of strength you'd witness if your uncle was Abraham Lincoln?

Splitting rails left and right

Gvzbgul

The Presidents would narc on you because you're a little person. They regularly hang with/are upperclass amoral drug addicts.

Depressperado

You'd be out choppin' wood with Uncle Abe and you stop and wipe the sweat from your brow and he's leaning on his axe, looking at you sort of distantly.

"you know... Willie'd be about your age."

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Gvzbgul wrote: »

The Presidents would narc on you because you're a little person. They regularly hang with/are upperclass amoral drug addicts.

in this scenario they are your uncle.

Lanz

Depressperado wrote: »

Lanz I love you but WEBP?

makin' me hit print screen? like an animal?

Weird, the iterations on my phone are JPEG and PNG

is vanilla converting to WEBP when I attach them?

Depressperado

it says jpeg and png and then when I go to save them it wants to save them as a webp

I dunno, it's been happening lately!

FCD

Same thing's happening to me. When I inspect the images, they're jpegs. When I try to right click save them, they're webps. Dunno what's up with that.

Crippl3

Depressperado wrote: »

Lanz I love you but WEBP?

makin' me hit print screen? like an animal?

https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/1464069317092327425

Sassori

Depressperado wrote: »

it's a tired joke by now, but I went to Wawa this morning and on my way, drove behind a truck with a thin blue line sticker, a Punisher thin blue line sticker, and a Don't Tread on Me

like, okay A) if someone were to do the treading it would be the cops and 2) it's gonna be hard not treading on you when you're down there suckin' the polish off those boots.

I remember the good old days when having a Don’t Tread on Me bumper sticker just meant you were an early American history major/nerd.

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