There is an advantage to Trump thinking 2024

[exboyfil]

He would have to know any wholesale pardons would be damaging to that effort. He also probably believes he has done nothing wrong. Could he roll the dice and not get out the old pardon pen?

[Clash City Rocker]

1. I hope so, but deep thought isn't a strength with that guy

[Bucky]

7. As Obama said, Trump's not a "plans sort of guy"

[grumpyduck]

2. Well, I for one would like him to run in 2024

from inside a Federal prison.

[Mystery sage]

3. I don't think you'll be thinking about this at all..

He will be more or less thinking about what mcconnell takes to stay alive because he wants some of that in bulk.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

4. Nope. This election has proven he can do ANYTHING

and still have the cult vote for him. The man could destroy a deep red rural neighbourhood with a military drone, laugh about it, blame Obama for putting him in a bad mood and his numbers would go up.

[Coleman]

11. 2022 will be his big test if he is interested in 2024

Can he deliver the cult and support the Rs running for Congress and Governorships. I still say that he is going to setup a dark money super PAC, keeping some if not most of the money for himself. Jr or Princess is going to run for Governor of NY.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

12. NY?

That would be a ticket to a catastrophic landslide humiliation. KY, on the other hand...

[lunatica]

22. Trump's numbers never go up

But to everyone’s consternation, until some brain autopsies are performed on MAGATs, his numbers don’t go down either.

[TwilightZone]

5. He's not looking to 2024.

He knows that it's now or never. The GOP will bail on him if he loses and there's little chance he'd win the nomination in 2024.

They won't make the same mistake twice. We won't see two dozen candidates in the 2024 R primary if Trump is one of them.

[W_HAMILTON]

9. I was thinking of how we could combat his horde of brainwashed zombies...

...and it finally hit me last night: Biden should play Trump like a fiddle, just like Putin and Jong-un has. Biden should play nice with Trump in private and say things like, "man, it's wild how you did so much for Senate and House Republicans and they turned their back on you just like that! I would have never guessed it..."

Play into his narcissism to get him to direct his crazy cult to turn on the Republican Party for abandoning their leader.

[TwilightZone]

14. I think Trump is going to lose interest.

I know I'm in the vast majority with this opinion, but I think that once he loses, he's going to lose interest in the fight. He'll still call in to Fox News and whine like he always has, but without a specific goal (other than staying out of prison), I'm not sure that I see him putting in the effort. I think even Trump knows 2024 is a pipe dream. I don't think he has any interest in "leading" the party or creating a new one.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. He loves the attention and he loves the chance to make money off them.

We'll be hearing from his ass till he dies, so, we might as well manipulate him to focus that anger on the Republicans that used him and discarded him rather than having that anger directed at us.

Just look at how his zombies are chanting "Fox News sucks!" outside of those vote counting locations.

[TwilightZone]

16. Sure, but he can do the same thing doing what he was doing before he ran.

The worst thing that ever happened to Trump was winning the presidency. He just wanted to pump up the brand, but once he was elected, he really had no choice but to go through the motions.

"Fox News sucks" was because they called AZ early, not because Trump has convinced them of anything. They'll be right back to watching it next week. They're probably back to watching it now.

We put way too much emphasis on small events that are meaningless in the long term. A bunch of buffoons showing up to protest isn't unexpected. It would be more unexpected if they didn't. These are the same clowns that run boat parades. They organize on social media and show up because they like attention and to intimidate people.

[W_HAMILTON]

19. Trump is their new pied piper -- not Fox News and not Republicans.

Trump has no loyalty, especially to those that have had no loyalty to him.

It wouldn't take much to get him -- and thus, his cultists -- to turn on Republican politicians for abandoning him. Hell, all Biden probably has to do is point out to him that most of the Republican Senators kept their jobs while Trump lost his.

[exboyfil]

20. There is something satisfying about the creature

turning on its creator. I like it.

For one thing he is going to go both barrels at Fox News. That can't be a bad thing. It is kind of like Stalin and Hitler fighting.

[yellowcanine]

6. You are giving him a lot of credit for thinking things through. No evidence he ever does that.

Just sayin.'

[procon]

8. It would be difficult for Trump to run a campaign from

his prison cell. Given that Trump is facing a long list of state and federal charges it's unlikely that he will be able to avoid jail time on all of them when so many of his cronies are now serving long sentences for doing far less.

[LisaL]

10. Trump possibly thinking 2024 is the last thing in the world I worry about right now.

NT

[Meadowoak]

13. Trump probably won't live till 2024.

[exboyfil]

17. I don't so much care about 2024

but 2020 and early 2021 (up until Biden is President). He knows the Marc Rich pardoned damaged Hillary Clinton. He he truly believes that he can run a competitive campaign in 2024, then he is delusional enough to know that wholesale pardons would be risky. They are the actions of someone who does not have a political future.

[lindysalsagal]

18. Thread winner.

[samnsara]

21. so he can pad his pockets with re election donations no doubt