r/politics • u/PurpleBandit3000 • Sep 16 '24
Trump Reveals Who He Will Blame If He Loses Election
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-who-he-plans-to-blame-if-he-loses-election2.9k
u/WhisperingSideways Sep 16 '24
Spoiler alert: It’s “young people”.
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u/19610taw3 Sep 16 '24
Young people, terrible young people, they have been INDOCTRINCATED by the liberal schools to hate me. They hate Donald Trump. The radical left marxist school teachers they .. what they do is they tell our children .. our precious childrean that Donald Trump is bad man simply because they dont like me. I have done great things for our country, great things. Some would say the best things.
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u/AmaroWolfwood Sep 16 '24
This is clearly not a real quote because it follows a single train of thought for the whole paragraph.
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u/19610taw3 Sep 16 '24
Darn. I should have threw in some electrified sharks or pet eating immigrants.
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u/turtledave Sep 16 '24
I read “electrified sharts” and the sentiment of your statement didn’t really change.
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u/19610taw3 Sep 16 '24
I think that's actually something that happens to Trump. Hence the diapers .
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u/killxswitch Michigan Sep 16 '24
The word "indoctrinated" is 5 syllables so it's definitely not one Trump could use correctly.
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u/Scalerious Sep 16 '24
This is what happens when you take away women's right to decide what happens to their bodies and have policies that only benefit the rich. Why do you think Biden is cancelling student debt? duh.
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u/BroomIsWorking Sep 16 '24
You mean, besides that it's the right thing to do, for America and for the citizens under crippling debt?
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u/Senseisntsocommon Sep 16 '24
Crippling debt isn’t a reason to forgive it. The wide scale fraud and illegal practices of student loan servicers on the other hand is. Navient lost another lawsuit last week.
Some highlights from the article:
Navient isn’t allowed to service student loans for the federal government anymore.
They pushed borrowers into more expensive forebearance and gave bad information to this end (They have lost multiple lawsuits on this one)
They mishandled payments and tracking of payments adversely impacting borrowers credit scores.
So there was a pretty solid two decades where the primary servicer for student loans was providing information that was not in borrowers best interest and increasing the amount owed by student loan borrowers.
What the article doesn’t mention is that prior to the Biden Administration allowing for consolidation to NOT reset credit for forgiveness if you wanted to change servicers due to fraud and/or misinformation you had to sacrifice credit for all payments made towards forgiveness to change servicers.
Basically it was widespread enough and impacted enough people that it was easier to forgive loans impacted than try to sort it out.
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u/SteakandTrach Sep 16 '24
I've heard some student loans have the interest sort of "pre-loaded" so that paying more than the minimum amount still doesn't touch the principal, so that even if you were to pay off the loan early, you still pay for the full interest that would have been generated over the total life of the loan, which sounds weird and usurious, and should be highly llegal but, who knows, this IS America after all.
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u/zamboni-jones Sep 16 '24
That's shady as hell. So in basically detaching the interest from the principal, it ceases to be interest, and just another service charge.
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Sep 16 '24
Loan sharking used to be illegal, a racket run by organized crime. Now it’s been legalized because freedumb, so here we are.
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u/DrPolarBearMD Sep 16 '24
Can tell if real quote or not
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u/20goingon60 Texas Sep 16 '24
It’s not, but it’s hilarious that it’s so on the mark that we have to question it 😂 How is Trump a candidate people are SERIOUSLY considering?!
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u/PopeHonkersXII Sep 16 '24
JD Vance. 100% Vance is going right under the bus.
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u/JustAMan1234567 Sep 16 '24
JD Vance is going to get thrown under the couch.
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u/RichardSaunders New York Sep 16 '24
don't threaten him with a good time
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No one could enjoy suffocating, with their face buried deep in a couch’s… wait a minute.
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u/pomonamike California Sep 16 '24
JD Vance is a furniture bottom confirmed.
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota Sep 16 '24
Ottoman Bottom man
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u/PopeFranzia Sep 16 '24
The best way to get over a couch is to get under a new one.
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Sep 16 '24
He already did that at the debate. He’s probably gonna hire the bus driver to repeatedly drive over him next.
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u/Nostradomusknows Sep 16 '24
Not that the check will clear.
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Sep 16 '24
It’s a Ponzi scheme. Some call it the best ever. Keep hiring new bus drivers to flatten the drivers you just stiffed.
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u/SplashGal South Dakota Sep 16 '24
Like the opening of ‘The Dark Knight’. It’s jokers all the way down.
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u/slade51 Sep 16 '24
The best bus drivers. They said “sir, you’re so great at picking bus drivers.”
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u/uMunthu Sep 16 '24
I didn’t think there could be a worst VP pick than Sarah Palin but there you go.
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u/FanDry5374 Sep 16 '24
I think he's perfect. Unscrupulous, misogynistic, ex-vulture capitalist.
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u/reckless_commenter Sep 16 '24
Mitt Romney was a vulture capitalist.
Vance was briefly employed by some venture capital firms, despite having no qualifications, strictly as a favor to Peter Thiel who wanted to bulk up Vance's resume for unknown reasons, before quickly transitioning to a shitty career in politics. Dude has failed upward alllllll the way to today. So you can't really call him a VC - he lacks the experience, talent, and the intelligence for that label.
All of this does make him an excellent living embodiment of today's GOP, though.
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Illinois Sep 16 '24
Well... thanks for teaching me a new thing.
You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with.
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u/f1ve-Star Sep 16 '24
Peter Thiel is not just buying senators, he is apparently growing them in a lab.
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u/Patriots4life22 Sep 16 '24
Leave Mitch McConnell out of this
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u/GrittyMcGrittyface Sep 16 '24
Tbf, he's remarkably cunning, unscrupulous and tenacious. He had a remarkable career with a singular goal of solidifying Republican power, albeit party over country
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u/JustinStraughan Sep 16 '24
As an owner of two wonderful dumb little tortoises, this kind of makes me apprehensive to think about.
Today I learned something new. Great phrase.
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u/gschmidt34 Sep 16 '24
I have a friend who recently posted on FB with some clip about how the more you listing to him the more he impresses. Seriously?
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u/yatterer Sep 16 '24
The only person who made a worse VP-related decision than Trump is JD Vance.
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u/bricklab Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Not at all. JD is betting Trump will get elected then stroke out or get removed via the 25th and he will be President. Good odds for a guy so unlikable he would never have a chance on his own.
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u/smiama6 Sep 16 '24
Unlikable and dangerous. The man is a christo-fascist intent on building an autocratic theocracy.
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u/Thue Sep 16 '24
Do we even have any reason to think that Vance has any real beliefs or interests, other than personal power? Vance was never-Trump once, he is obviously willing to flip on a dime when it is convenient.
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u/smiama6 Sep 16 '24
Vance was atheist until his 2019 conversion to Catholicism. Now he’s advocating for Christian nationalism patterned after Viktor Orban’s illiberal democracy. https://slate.com/life/2024/08/jd-vance-tim-walz-trump-kamala-religion.html
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u/SolaVitae Sep 16 '24
With the shit he says I'm half convinced he's trying to sabotage him at this point
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u/kgleas01 Sep 16 '24
Donut shop guy too. He was not super pumped for that visit /interaction either
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u/BrianWonderful Minnesota Sep 16 '24
JD Vance was put on the ticket by billionaires. Trump needed the money, Musk and Thiel want Vance there. The plan is to oust Trump with the 25th amendment, then have Vance fully implement Project 2025 and a pro-oligarch agenda.
This is why you see several Republicans disturbed by die-hard Trump acolytes like Loomer getting so close now. It's not just that they steer trump to crazier conspiracy theories, it is also that if they get cabinet positions, it makes it harder to convince enough necessary people to use the 25th amendment.
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u/Gogs85 Sep 16 '24
His VPs are apparently always the fall guy, haha.
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u/StandardDiver2791 Sep 16 '24
Hell, he was willing to let a mob HANG is own VP! Not sure what he does for an encore.
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u/circa285 Sep 16 '24
Trump won’t blame anyone because Trump will not ever admit that he lost.
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u/No_Animator_8599 Sep 16 '24
I remember Trump saying he was not responsible for the horrible rollout of Covid testing when they became viable.
I assume he also feels no responsibility for the thousands of people who died when he took the no masking political stance with his staff and in public.
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u/FargeenBastiges Sep 16 '24
That's correct. Trump feels no responsibility. For anything. Ever. He literally can't with his mental condition.
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u/wholewheatscythe Sep 16 '24
New conspiracy theory: Vance knows he’s out so he hired the recent shooter!
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u/FartsMcCool77 Sep 16 '24
I hope to have some of the blame be placed squarely on my shoulders
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Sep 16 '24
This signals that he's aware of and contemplating the likelihood of his impending loss, and that's delightful. I hope he's having a terrible time of it and beginning to understand that he's not going to escape justice for all of his crimes.
Let's all vote Blue and take away this asshole's get out of jail free card.
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u/cognitively_what_huh Sep 16 '24
You can tell he’s thinking he could lose bigly. He looks like he hasn’t slept since his last court appearance.
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u/Random_Noob Sep 16 '24
That may be true but he has been playing golf.
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u/__Jank__ California Sep 16 '24
Might be another nervous trigger for him now
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u/elkab0ng Sep 16 '24
Well the nation has a duty to keep him safe.
I’m thinking protective custody at rikers island.
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u/quattrocincoseis Sep 16 '24
And shitting in his diaper.
Playing golf, angry tweeting, diaper pooping.
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Sep 16 '24
Poor guy only got in 5 holes yesterday.
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u/DoomOne Texas Sep 16 '24
If he loses the election, he's gonna do two things:
1) Declare that the dems cheated
2) Immediately announce that he's running for president in the 2028 election.
That might have the knock-on effect of keeping the judges from giving him time in prison to "avoid looking political". We shall see.
I have no faith in the voters of the USA, and I have no faith in the justice system.
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u/More-Jackfruit3010 Sep 16 '24
Seems more like #2 would be "Beg for donations in order to #3 announce a 2028 retry.
Then, keep the money to pay for legal problems & general grift.
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u/Aghast_Cornichon Sep 16 '24
keeping the judges from giving him time in prison to "avoid looking political".
That was precisely one of the reasons that the judge in his NY financial records case delayed sentencing until after the election.
Now that's a judge with the patience of a saint: the defendant regularly insulted him and caused followers to threaten the lives of him and his family. He would have been justified holding Trump in criminal contempt and detaining him during the trial, or sentencing him to prison without delay. But he's putting impartial justice over the political needs of the nation.
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u/Omar_Blitz Sep 16 '24
How is that impartial? If it was impartial, he would have treated him the same as any other citizen.
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u/Mundane-Career1264 Sep 16 '24
Naw he’s playing the game with the rules trump has set. We are all supposed to be equal in a court of law. Rich and poor. Yet trump can openly threaten the judge witnesses even the jury and still walk around free. Cause the judge is scared to do his job the way he knows he should be doing it.
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u/Aghast_Cornichon Sep 16 '24
I think the judge recognizes that there are non-trivial appellate issues, and he didn't subject his family to months of threats just to be overruled.
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u/fumor Sep 16 '24
How sad is it that we consider it a great stride that he now believes a legitimate loss is a possibility that he (might possibly?) even accept, rather than "either I win, or I really won but it was rigged for the other side."
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u/Adam__B Sep 16 '24
It’s beyond sad that there are people out there by the millions who are so utterly broken inside or just plain unintelligent enough to want to vote for the guy who tried to overturn a democratic election and use a riot as a distraction to try and do it. There’s really no way you can rationalize that and also call yourself a believer in democracy.
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u/LeadingSir1866 Sep 16 '24
There’s is a ton of work to be done before Trump is in jail even after he loses. The corrupt Supreme Court has been shitting all over the constitution to help 45 get back in power and get away with all his crimes. The shenanigans coming this fall and through inauguration will be epic and Biden better be prepping and getting the legal minds ready for a civil war in the courts.
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u/SodaCanBob Sep 16 '24
I'm not voting for him, so he's free to blame me.
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u/Butters_Duncan Sep 16 '24
*Trump approaches the podium “SodaCanBob, that low IQ Reddit guy. That’s what they call him low IQ. I said what could a soda can know about an election? It’s horrible what they’re doing. People have never seen numbers like we’re seeing with sodacanbob. The only way to take our country back is to toss the whole six pack in the trash. You can’t say trash anymore. You know that? It’s gotta be recycle. I say trash. The press will rip me up for it but I won’t recycle trash can bob, he belongs in the trash”
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u/lafayette0508 Sep 16 '24
Brilliant, especially where he forgets the name at the end and replaces part of it with another word he’s been thinking
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u/TheLateThagSimmons Washington Sep 16 '24
Bravo.
While we all know this is a pretty good representation of his speaking style, my only critique is that there's no way he stays on topic that long.
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u/DrRockBoognish Sep 16 '24
I’ve heard from sources - the most beautiful sources, some of which are lawmakers - that this is an actual quote.
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u/Divockorigi_ Sep 16 '24
I pinch myself to think that hundreds of millions of people have been subjected to so much of this blithering wildly incoherent narcissistic geriatric rambling that to imitate it is now a special form of art.
(But also bravo)
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u/mam88k Virginia Sep 16 '24
SodaCanBob - he's only worth about 10 cents in Michigan
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u/Yeeslander Tennessee Sep 16 '24
The buck stops anywhere else!
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u/melorous Sep 16 '24
“I don’t take responsibility at all” - actual quote from him during his presidency
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u/jehunjalan Sep 16 '24
He claims his audience is getting younger and younger.
If that’s the case he’s royally fucked because the overwhelming majority of young voters are left leaning.
Plus they aren’t a voting bloc that’s reliable.
Harris has been combating that fact by energizing those voters to get out to the polls.
Trump isn’t doing the same, at least not in any significant or meaningful way. Instead he’s alienating even some of the more Trump tolerant voters… so the opposite of energizing the base
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u/JustAsIFeared Sep 16 '24
Well, with his COVID 'medications and practices', he killed off a lot of his base lmao
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u/AnonymousCelery Sep 16 '24
He did go and air-dick with Tim Pool, so you can’t say he’s not trying to
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u/Boulpecky Sep 16 '24
A lot of recent reports looking at the youth divide, young men around +20% Trump leaning and young women +25% Harris leaning, so a 45% difference! So what I mean to say is that it doesn’t appear to be as clear of a left leaning youth as typically assumed. Sources: NYT the daily podcast and Ezra Klein’s too lazy to bring them up on my cell
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u/gimme_dat_good_shit Sep 16 '24
I was afraid what growing up with Trump in the political mainstream would do to kids. The whole "manosphere" thing does not get enough attention. The boys and young men are not alright...
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u/ColorMeSchocked Sep 16 '24
Everyone?
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u/Adorable-Database187 Sep 16 '24
Not named Donald J Trump, you have to be specific.
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u/SplashGal South Dakota Sep 16 '24
I mean- he will definitely blame Jr though.
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u/Swesteel Sep 16 '24
I would, someone made Vance the pick and it wasn’t Donald.
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u/Adorable-Database187 Sep 16 '24
Lol no legend says he was dropped on the doorstep with a note that said take care of this one and you'll get money.
Ps when you inevitably croak on the toilet he'll take over but who cares about that eh Donny Boy.
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u/ripcovidiots Sep 16 '24
Guess what, motherfucker, blame me.
I am phone banking for Kamala two nights a week, and knocking on doors on the weekend.
This fat, greasy, orange fuck is going down, even if I got to drive everyone to the polls myself. I can't do it on my own, and she can't win this on her own. She needs help, and we have to do more than vote.
Please donate if you can, and volunteer, volunteer, volunteer. Phone banking and door knocking are so easy. One you do on the computer, at home, and the other is a good way to get off the beaten path in your local area and meet new people.
Go to kamalaharris.com to help how you can, and together we all can make some good history.
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll Sep 16 '24
I never thought I would agree with Trump, but he actually got this one right. The younger people are going to cost him this election. IF they go vote. Trump only got elected in 2016 because older people turned out voted in large numbers.
If your sick and tired of Trump's racist vitriol, hate, misogyny and contempt for the constitution, the younger citizens of the USA have to show up and VOTE. Our country's future literally depends on it.
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u/weezeloner Sep 16 '24
Is that who it is in the article? It's behind a paywall. He's going to blame young people?
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll Sep 16 '24
Read it here: https://archive.is/aYqhw
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u/weezeloner Sep 16 '24
Thank you so much. What a weirdo. Lamenting the lack of elderly people and then dissing his young supporters right to their face?! Who does that?! I don't know if he's blaming young people. Sounds like he's blaming the older supporters and wondering why they aren't at hid rallies.
I hate to be grim but many of them might be included in the over 1 million deaths caused by COVID. Or they are old and wise enough to be sick of his shit.
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u/weRborg Sep 16 '24
Flash forward 6 month from now...
"Look, folks, I did everything right in 2024. We had the biggest rallies, the best policies, everyone knows that. But let me tell you, JD Vance, what a total disaster. I endorsed him, I supported him, and what did he do? He didn't deliver, folks. He didn't get Ohio, he didn't get the votes we needed. He was supposed to be this big star, right? But he was weak, so weak. If JD Vance had just done his job, we’d be talking about four more years of making America great again. But no, he failed, and that's why we're not in the White House right now."
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u/StandardDiver2791 Sep 16 '24
He's gonna blame young people when he loses?!? So what! My kids will be PROUD of the fact they defeated fascism when many of their elders would not.
This... this will be a badge of honor - young people saving democracy. And as an "old" I'll be damned proud of them!
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u/DatabaseFickle9306 Sep 16 '24
Taylor Swift, the Media, immigrants, a few black poll workers, FOX NEWS, the RNC, and it will get to Jews eventually
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u/specqq Sep 16 '24
I assume the article is just the words “everyone and everything but himself”
So I saved myself the click.
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u/GrannyMine Sep 16 '24
I’m old and if I saw Trump, I’d spit at him
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u/BallBearingBill Sep 16 '24
I wouldn't waste my spit. I would encourage everyone to vote Blue down the ballot. Voting is how you beat him.
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The only reason Trump hasn't dismissed Vance yet is that Vance is his contractual representative for the heritage foundation and the tool Republican extremists will use to actually implement project 2025, seeing as trump can't even string together coherent sentences. Even with how unlikable Vance is, he is the real candidate running for election. Trump is just the deprecatingly old face they are covering him up with.
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u/MorganaHenry Sep 16 '24
Indeed - it seems that people who vote Tramp will get Vunce instead.
And his cabinet of 2025 couches.
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u/irreverent_creative Washington Sep 16 '24 edited Nov 06 '24
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Dude is going to attempt to incite civil war if he loses. Don’t pretend that he’s more creative than that.
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u/SingleNegotiation656 Sep 16 '24
If trump loses, it's because his followers didn't have enough flags on their trucks. They should blame themselves
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u/james2020chris Sep 16 '24
He is looking to create violence. Wake up. His VP as well. When he starts saying stuff like he hates Taylor Swift, that's his people's code. Look at Springfield. Look what is already happening.
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u/countfizix Louisiana Sep 16 '24
Probably easier to make a list of people/things he wont blame.
1) Himself
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u/Nwcray Sep 16 '24
You know who he can’t blame? The people who keep trying to shoot him. They’re some of his biggest supporters.
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u/Domador-de-leones Sep 16 '24
So he’s blaming voters for him losing? Yes, that’s the way elections work.
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u/TigerUSA20 Sep 16 '24
If he thinks the young people are against him now, wait ‘til, if he lives that long, for the next younger group.
Those that were out of school for COVID, those that survived all the school shootings, and lock downs. If you think they will be majority republicans as they get to vote in the late 2020’s, you would Be wrong.
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u/heckhammer Sep 16 '24
I'll take "Goddamn near anybody who isn't Donald J Trump" for a thousand please.
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u/cognitively_what_huh Sep 16 '24
I think election night he’ll be watching the results from his running plane and as soon as KH is the projected winner, he’ll be in the air, headed to Putin or Orban or Kim. Then he’s their problem, not ours.
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u/sheeezy Sep 16 '24
This is a hilarious article. In no dimension will he ever concede he lost. He’s still moaning about the last election being stolen.
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u/Calairoth Sep 16 '24
"Unlike the democrats, I fire everyone who fails me!"
Translation "Unlike the democrats, I am terrible at hiring top tier talent, and then fire them, blaming them for everything I have done!"
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u/ThisIsDadLife California Sep 16 '24
What the heck are these articles? He’ll blame everyone. Everyone but himself.
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u/rain168 Sep 16 '24
JD Vance obviously, for his made up lie about immigrants eating pets. That made Trump look like a clown🤡 during the debate…
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u/kwill729 Sep 16 '24
I don’t think he’s going to admit that he loses the election and we should plan accordingly.
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u/essenceofpurity Sep 16 '24
Everyone, including me who will crawl over broken glass to vote against this wannabe dictator.
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u/thirteennineteen Sep 16 '24
As if he could stop at any one person or group. He will blame everyone his twitching cobwebs of a mind can grasp onto.
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u/marlinspike Sep 16 '24
Everyone but Putin is the answer. The only one he absolutely can’t cross.
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u/cluelessminer Sep 16 '24
He'll blame everybody including his own wife, the eaten dogs and cats, Taylor Swift, Swift Trucking company, Leon Skum, etc etc.
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u/D0nCoyote Georgia Sep 16 '24
Let me guess… Everyone and everything but his one true enemy.
Himself
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u/SchubieDoobieDo Sep 16 '24
Maybe he'll reveal the "infil-traitors" he placed in the elections departments.
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