Spends months talking about how trump is incompetent, then endorses trump
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To be fair, other than the subtext created by running, I don't think he's ever criticized Trump.
He hasn't. With a handful of obvious exceptions, the entire Republican leadership has spent the last four years running a clinic in cowardice, pathetic boot-licking and groveling.
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I'd imagine in a dark and dystopian future, the dictatorial and dysfunctional trump dynasty will simply imprison any challengers to the throne, like their daddy Putin does.
This ain't gonna happen. Trump couldn't run for two terms in a row. Do you know why? Because the majority of Americans don't want him.
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Ah yes. The Lindsay Graham
Sick of the hypocrisy by the politicians. Hedging, walking back statements, playing down etc are all held up as skills and being 'shrewd' or 'having savvy' about the game. To the rest of us, it just reeks of having no spine, no integrity and having none of our interests at heart.
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saw that coming from a parsec away, probably trying to suck hard so he can get that VP position and be the next to be almost murdered by Trump.
Hey now, have optimism. Maybe he'll be the first to be actually murdered by Trump
He will shoot him in the middle of 5th avenue and then claim presidential immunity
If only Florida was that lucky.
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You mean Pence isnt available?
Mother said no
She thought Donald was a bad influence on Mike
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Remember when he was widely being portrayed as the intelligent version of Trump we should all be afraid of?
I admit I fell for some of that. Thought he could be a more dangerous version. Didn't realize when he got in front of people he has the charisma of a rock and a brain not much better.
We can't keep relying on the fascists being cartoonishly bad politicians. Trump's cheese brain and buffoonishness hurt him, Desantis's completely alien personality hurt him, but these limitations have just been happenstance. The fascist movement is ready and willing and out in the open, and sooner or later they're going to find someone who doesn't have these ancillary flaws. There are plenty of smooth talking sociopaths out there who can feign human emotion and string together complete sentences while being a generic white guy under the age of retirement, we're just lucky they haven't risen to the top yet, because we're kind of squeaking by already.
The openly racist fascists are weak little turds in reality.
Don't get complacent and remember to vote.
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So, he was able to make Florida pretty awful for non cis het people; he actually cared to forward the culture war and people get hurt in war. I became less afraid of him as a candidate when Disney stripped the power from the board he took over and he very obviously with his dick in a vise opted to tighten the vice.
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I thought he would stay in the race longer. Kind of shocked to be honest.
He ran out of money prematurely, and the campaign came to a screeching halt. He could have tried to limp along to the primary but he would look very bad doing so and every reporter would mock him, or he drops out early.
I'm also surprised but his campaign was dead.
He invested heavily into a weak second place win in Iowa. Sure he got more delegates than Nikki, but only barely. Additionally he didn't win a single county, all but one went to Trump, the last going to Haley.
His prospects in New Hampshire were near zero, leaving an uphill battle leading into Super Tuesday. He'd need to beat Nikki in South Carolina, which wasn't going to happen.
A second place flail wasn't going to work long term and only likely to cause damage. I'm aware he endorsed Trump, but that's just to ensure the position is available in 2028. If Haley wins in a LOOOOOONGSHOT he is done. If Haley loses, he can jump back in. If Trump wins/loses he can jump back in. Technically Trump could lose and come back in 4 years but everyone is just waiting for him to die. Most probably expected it to happen by 2024, but no such luck.
(To clarify, this isn't me wishing Trump dead, he's just an unhealthy old shitbag that father time is likely to get sooner rather than later.)
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Probably the worst campaign that's ever been ran in recent history
Didn't last as long as Jeb! but nothing that quite reaches the "please clap" moment sadly
Mmm, hungwy!
Yes, it's bad lip reading not real, but it's real in my heart, dammit!
Dude opened up so many "war on" fronts. He really waged a war against WOKENESS as a vague term that nobody could explain what it meant, then attacked major corporations like fucking Disney.
What a god damn moron.
What a cock sucking, man sized pussy. IMHO.
Trump will make him walk out without his lifts just so he can look taller
Lol what an absolute chump
Loser
Oh and asshole? It's Thai food
Bruh, what’d I miss?
Ooof, that's so... Self-debasing, the word pathetic isn't remotely strong enough. The embarrassment I involuntarily feel for such a fascist piece of alligator shit.
Wow.
What a pathetic cunt.
Imagine spending all that money and time to get crushed and fold like a piece of paper.
Sack of shit.
Fucking pathetic lmao, especially after his pathetic little speech after his ass beating in Iowa
What a spineless piece of work....
OK so what does it mean for Haley?
Now she's going to lose.
She was going to lose before, but she still is.
She can ambitiously strutt across stages for a few more months
Hopefully like this:
Edit: how do I get gifs to play in a comment?
No no. This is perfect. That’s exactly how I see her when I turn off my TV.
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Pathetic twat
He got his participation trophy. I think thats all he really wanted in the first place.❄️🏆
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