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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Nothing is disqualifying for a Republican candidate for president.

Except maybe, I dunno, having a plan for healthcare or housing affordability or something.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Those will all be coming 2 weeks after Election Day I’m sure.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was infrastructure week.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

No, that was infrastructure weak.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He has no plans at all except to bloviate like an idiot at any given opportunity, take massive dumps in his depends, avoid prison because he's the president again, start up some concentration camps if he can stay off truth social that long, and cheat at golf.

If there is another crisis in the next four years (which is almost guaranteed because he's also a moronic crisis generator and so are the dimwits that he'll nominate to cabinet positions), he will handle that just as poorly as he handled COVID.

He'll also probably die in office. In fact, I think the odds of him dying in office are far better than the odds of him coming up with a healthcare plan or a plan to increase housing affordability.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The orange arsewipe can be easily lead like Homer Simpson "Ohh, piece of candy. Ohh, piece candy. Ohh, piece of candy".

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is zero evidence he has that much attention span.

Also, that was James Woods.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not just Republicans, but Republicans are notorious for their universal double standards that only one without shame can have.

To varying degrees, every single person has things in their life that they like, and no amount of accurate, undeniable, objective, information about it being bad/wrong/inefficient etc will change their mind unless they decide they want to.

There's plenty of disqualifying traits for Republicans, which is a large part of why they now have a God king who wears diapers and has more fingers than functional brain cells.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There’s plenty of disqualifying traits for Republicans

What are they? This guy literally tried to overthrow the government. He openly courts Russian influence in elections. He openly admits to being easily corrupted and persuaded by individual campaign donors to the point of changing his entire position on the basis of what companies they own. He has been convicted of felonies. He has been convicted of fraud. He has been found in court to have sexually assaulted women. He had his charity organization shut down due to fraud. Many of his attorneys can no longer practice law because of the things he had them attempt in courtrooms. He conspired to bring fake electors to Washington DC. He sent love letters back and forth with a North Korean dictator. He bragged about assassinating a murder suspect in the Pacific Northwest. He's incontinent. He's unintelligible. He was impeached twice. He said "we'll take the weapons first and then do process later". He said of John McCain "I like people who weren't captured". He fucked a porn star while his wife was pregnant and then he paid the porn star off to cover up the story during the election. He mocks disabled reporters. He smells like a full diaper. He said he can "grab women by the pussy" because he is a star. He sold beans from the oval office because a Goya executive said they supported him. He called Nazis "very fine people". He told the American public that "they're looking into" injecting disinfectants in order to cure COVID. He refused COVID testing and then went on-stage for a planned debate with an active case of it. He wanted a military parade. During the passage of his meager working-person tax cut, he forced the US treasury to attach his signature to the checks. He's fundamentally weird and never appears to laugh or ever even tell a coherent joke. He rarely even smiles. He likely gave secret documents to the Russians. He and his family used private email servers continually despite pretending that his political opponent deserved to be in jail for doing so. He complains constantly about the state of the country whether or not he is leading it. He does not appear to have a single friend in the world. Everyone who works with him winds up regretting it. He goes on strange rants where he speaks as if "the late great Hannibal Lecter" is or was an actual person that died. He lies about his mental and physical health. The list goes on and on and on.

Yet despite all of that....HE IS THE GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.

The guy is a walking version of "the aristocrats" joke.

As far as I can tell a disqualifying trait for the Democratic candidate for President is looking too old or letting out a "BYAAAAW" at a campaign event. So this isn't exactly a "both sides" type of thing. One party's candidates have to walk on water to barely win, while the other's continually rack up absolutely absurd would-be dis-qualifiers and continue to be taken seriously by the media, the government, and the public.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A Republican isn't gonna read that wall of text and neither am I, because it doesn't matter.

Everything and more you listed Trump does doesn't matter to his voters, because he's gonna be super racist and super pro Christian and that's literally the entire Republican voter Christmas list, so anything else is irrelevant.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

he’s gonna be super racist and super pro Christian and that’s literally the entire Republican voter Christmas list

He's going to be pro-industry, pro-oligarchy, and pro-rich people. He's going to do whatever the moneyed interests in the country (and the globe for that matter) want him to do.

That's the entire Republican Christmas list. As long as he does that, they don't care about what he says or does and they'll paper over all of it on their news network.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're confusing rich Republicans who benefit from Trump, and the poor/middle class who get absolutely nothing but racisim and Christianity.

The super wealthy bankroll everything and get all the rewards + power.

But the votes that put him in office are 95% from people who will be hurt by deregulation, crushed by increased taxes (that pay for the racisim and forced Christianity), and want the freedom to openly hate anything they don't like (which they believe was woked away from them).

The idiots who will be crushed by Trump the hardest are his biggest fans.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You’re confusing rich Republicans who benefit from Trump, and the poor/middle class who get absolutely nothing but racisim and Christianity.

And you're confusing "the base" with people whom the Fox News and rich people apparatus more generally don't have any control over.

The federalist society and other "think tanks" decide the actual agenda. Trump is just the talking head at the center of it. When he's dead and buried it's not like they're going to start advising people to vote for Democrats.

The reason none of these (sometimes very serious) things sink him is because the media constantly gives him a pass on all of it.

He's their mascot. He's shown himself to be friendly enough to corporate interests that he's allowed to continue being that mascot. They still need one that's at least popular enough to enliven some of the dead as disco voter demographics they need to get into office and obtain power.

Once he's elected again their plan is to "fix it so good" that nobody will have to ask for votes anymore, because at least what they want (and they might get it) is to be able to disenfranchise, cheat, and abuse their way to victory and extinguish democracy altogether.

Look at the states they govern, for example, North Carolina is already considered "not a democracy" by some international watchgroups because of the gerrymandering and other tactics used to control the outcome of elections there. They want to go national with that.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Making any decision that helps citizens at the expense of the corporations and the wealthy would be disqualifying.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’s had a plan for healthcare (dismantling it) for nine years and did jack shit.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He has concepts of a plan.