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

I've always found it a very strange thing when people declare absolutes about a political situation. Politics is very fluid and can turn on a dime, and within American politics we've seen it twice in the space of a few short years. People were confidant about Hilary Clinton's incoming victory in 2016 and saw that confidence come to naught when Trump won. Likewise Trump fanatics had to eat their own humble pie when he lost to Biden in 2020. Of course the most extremist of Trumptards will swear blind that he didn't lose and, somehow, the democrats pulled off the greatest conspiratorial endeavour in the history of mankind.

Frankly though, anyone calling shots over a political outcome is opening themselves up to some serious egg on face eventualities and such declarations are, at best, ill advised.

The woke agenda tends to be one of the most vague and unclear things ever. Just gonna list some things that are classified as part of that agenda.

1. Sex education that is relevant to changing times so teens don't end up endangering themselves or others.

2. Gender, sometimes people's brains don't match the body they're born into. The reason the right are going after this group is because they've failed with DOMA etc. Next target is trans people plus they get to link it back to gay people when necessary.

3. History, an honest history of the slave trade. This has resulted in the likes of DiSantis pushing retelling history from the perspective of why Slavery was good for black people.

4. Disney - This is one of the weirder ones cause it's pretty broad. Putting a warning at the start of a movie to say values have changed and there are racist elements etc. (That's used by most studios and it is grand) Then there's casting. So a black woman getting cast as the little mermaid had people imploding and more recently, Snow White is using a diverse group instead of dwarves. That one is because plenty from that community have objected to the older portrayal. This is not ruining anyone's life by adapting. Casting women in prominent roles get to them too, I'm sure the barbie success hurts.

5. Books - This is my last one, there's loads more obviously. It slightly links back to number one in some cases. Books that give sex education that is relevant to the times rather than sex education that's specific to straight teens. But it's not just those books. Gay portrayals in general tends to be to be too woke. The right wing response to handling books.... Book bannings in schools across Florida. Only authorised books are allowed and that's a very limited amount of books.

6. MeToo - actual last one, just popped into head. Discrimination in general is something the right pride themselves on. The issue of consent and educating young people on it is bad according to them but they claim to want to safeguard minors. Then there's how they'll come out in defense of the right kind of people when they commit a sexual assault.

So the above is the anti woke crap that Trump and DiSantis are pushing. The movies one they can't influence at all but it'll rile up their fans. In summary, much of it relates to the spread of information and how it no longer aligns with their perfect antediluvian vision of the world. But in summary, this anti woke thing is more a refusal to accept a rapidly changing world. One that's improving in most of the above aspects in spite of the effort of the right.

You don't expect Trump supporters to be rational, do you?

He is seriously blaming the US women's team being knocked of the the World Cup on Biden

Once again the meaningless woke strawman, makes a tedious appearance.

Ah you would have to have been really rocked to close to the wall for that.

You would like to think so, except the cult is strong-Reminds me of those end of the world preachers, when the date passes without incident, the faithful still believe as another date is set by their leader

They need to get him on the stand under oath at one of these trials and ask him directly if he actually believes the election was stolen and he tried to change the results or he has to admit under oath that he is lying to his supporter base.

So he either lies under oath or tells the truth to his supporter base that he is lying to them about the election and all the money he has asked for from them was from a lie and he knew the election was fair and vaild.

And if he pleads the 5th we all know what that means.

Donald J Trump

If Trump's support is holding steady while being under several federal indictments and civil cases, while also being a big factor in the Republicans failing to win a comfortable majority in the last midterms, then how do you think that his support is going to melt away after a verbal shellacking from Chris Christie? That's like predicting the T-1000 is toast after taking a whack of a baseball bat, after just surviving a massive shoot-out with the LAPD. It's not happening.

With respect, I don't know how people keep on thinking this or that event will be thing that finishes Trump. Are we living in Groundhog Day? His support has ticked slightly upward since the indictments, if anything.

Regarding debates, Trump has no particular need to attend. If he does attend, there'll be no points of policy discussed. It will just be rage. Trump can just call Christie a 'fat nobody who'll never be president' and that'll be the end of it. Chris Christie can talk tough, but everyone remembers that he was a complete toadie for Trump only a few years ago. This completely undermines the hard man act he is now trying to do. To one extent or another, everyone who would face Trump on a primary debate stage is this way. They have to simultaneously agree with pretty much every point of rhetoric or policy which has been espoused by Trump while simultaneously saying why he shouldn't be nominee. It doesn't work. It's a fundamentally weak position to argue from.

Erm, that article cites how the national guard didn't get deployed... Guess who was responsible for that..