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cgod  ·  1233 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration' - Pompeo

I'm wondering why you think people who are backing Trumps claims are ruining their political careers?

I think running on the idea that this was a stolen election is going to be a big winner for many republicans over the next two cycles and the harder you fought to "save" the election the higher your standing will be with portions of the republican electorate.

It'd be nice if this wasn't the case but I'm feel pretty sure that I can see the future on this one.





am_Unition  ·  1232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. I just wanted to tell myself, "This time! This time, GOP leadership has gone too far, and the base will erode rapidly."

Thanks for reminding me not to do that. It's only the 13,048th time I tried, and the other 13,047 times? I was wrong.

cgod  ·  1232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hahahaha!

I was really hoping you were going to convince me that I was wrong.

This shit is hopeless.

am_Unition  ·  1232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck, what can we do, but laugh, right? I just keep coming back to trying to channel that against these dipshits. Maybe more tactically, tastefully, or at least more grassroots than SNL.

By my count, there's been a total of something like 4 GOP senators and about the same number of GOP house reps who have either explicitly or implicitly acknowledged that Joe Biden won. That's insane. When I made my comment, I thought we were about to finally see a shift. Lol.

What Trump is doing right now, with delegitimizing our electoral process, is the worst thing he's ever done. It's worse than covid. It really does feel like the beginning of an undoing, the acceleration of societal collapse, or at best, a transformation into something worse, closer to civil war.

It does feel hopeless. The uncertainty kills me, too. At least with Biden, you know what you're getting.