What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

You know it's bad when you make Nixon look decent and upstanding by comparison. At least when Nixon was caught dicking around, he went with a relative minimum of fuss. He had a bit of decorum and respect for the institution. Trump just does not give a bollócks about anything. There's no limit to how muddy and base he'll get if he thinks it will help him in any way.

All very true. Though I think that Nixon was basically ready to do the same, when the Senate Republican leadership met with him to let him know that they wouldn't be backing him. The House was getting the article(s) of impeachment ready for a vote, and they were convinced that it would pass. And they let Nixon know that when it came to the Senate he would be convicted. So while Trump is certainly even worse than Nixon was, the current crop of Republicans as a whole are also worse than their counterparts from the 1970s too. No matter how bad Trump gets, they continue to back him.

I've been blue in the face saying it, but the Republican party cannot quit Trump until enough of the voter base turns on him, which hasn't happened yet. We thought it was about to happen back in November when Trump's surrogates crashed and burned and Ron DeSantis seemed to shoot up in the polls. Now, Trump's numbers have rebounded, and all the right-wing American news media who were fixing to cut Trump loose have to essentially pretend they still back him.

The difference between the 70s and now is that you now have people in completely separate lived realities, thanks to the information bubbles which thrive on social media, whereas back in the 70s, people were pretty much consuming the same mass media. For better or worse, enough people were on the same page that common rules could be agreed.

I saw a report last night that Gen Z voted 77% Democrats, 21% Republicans (I assume the other 2% was independent) in the midterms.

The ratio for millennials was not as big but still favoured the Dems.

The other thing to note is that the baby boomers are the ones that favour Republicans. Still, the Gen Z and Millenial vote combined is larger than the baby boomer vote and likely to only get bigger with all the shenanigans going on with Republican states.

This is apparently from PEW research.

Well it was not nice knowing you Ron, the absolute donkey

In recent campaign statements he said he thinks he’s quashed democrats in florida, I think he has no clue.

they must find that brilliant, hating both companies for being far too large and exploitative both. Both Walmart and Amazon keep their workforces on food stamps while their megastores shove all other competition out of the space. Heck Bernie still routinely rails against Bezos and the Waltons. Why would democrats be unhappy when they’re taken down a peg?

This is what awaited Trump on his return from his deposition yesterday.

Lots of tears in support of him I see.

That signing was in the middle of the night and in a closed session. Nail on the head, the governor of Florida is most afraid of sunshine ironically.

Damn straight?

Anyone ‘member Parler?

the “Uncancellable free speech platform” going on indefinite hiatus after nobody used it. Bought up by a right wing media broker for cents on the dollar

Aww remember how it was used to identify exactly who was part of the Jan 6th inssurection because all those dumb dumbs posted on it with their locations attached