That is a good point, but politics is all about the last news cycle. (Reply #133)

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Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:08 PM

yardwork (52,388 posts)

133. That is a good point, but politics is all about the last news cycle.

When the Senate voted not to convict, they didn't believe that COVID-19 was going to tank the stock market, put millions out of work, and oh yeah, kill 125,000 and counting Americans.

Trump screwed this up so badly it's been impossible to spin, and it isn't over.

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148 replies	Author	Time	Post
I don't want Trump to drop out. [View all]	yardwork	Jun 2020	OP
I know how you feel	PJMcK	Jun 2020	#1
+1 nt	Fresh_Start	Jun 2020	#3
I know. Still, it will be worse if a Republican gets in the White House.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#4
No doubt	PJMcK	Jun 2020	#9
He can be forced out. He's obviously unwell.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#44
Let's be real. If trump drops out whoever replaces him will lose too.	brush	Jun 2020	#64
No they wouldn't automatically lose.	live love laugh	Jun 2020	#65
Wouldn't automatically lose? What does that mean?	brush	Jun 2020	#67
They Cannot Win: Too Many Disasters!	McKim	Jun 2020	#89
I actually think this is beginning to be a real possibilty	DonaldsRump	Jun 2020	#2
It is a real possibility. It's obvious.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#6
NY AG will use those pardons for toilet paper	aeromanKC	Jun 2020	#59
IMO trump will lose badly. And won't it be great when he is...	brush	Jun 2020	#96
That would be glorious.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#140
Way too late for that...	lame54	Jun 2020	#5
I hope you're right. Because that spells doom for the Republican Party.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#10
There are only 4 months left...	lame54	Jun 2020	#60
That's my thinking also. Too late in the game to replace COVID-45.	sprinkleeninow	Jun 2020	#86
Stealing COVID-45!	yardwork	Jun 2020	#107
Help yourself to it! 😃	sprinkleeninow	Jun 2020	#138
Only person I can think of who isn't tied to trump is	Laura PourMeADrink	Jun 2020	#100
It's pretty funny though	C_U_L8R	Jun 2020	#7
Graham has no chance, but Romney could win.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#12
But it will be a cluster fuck and take media way from Biden's campaign.	LakeArenal	Jun 2020	#30
Romney can't win	jcgoldie	Jun 2020	#38
I hope you're right.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#43
You also have to consider that even if Trump dropped out...	jcgoldie	Jun 2020	#54
none of these situations fit reality and you overestimate their popularity	JI7	Jun 2020	#80
I think that's very possible.	wnylib	Jun 2020	#99
Romney is their ace in the hole. He is on record as strongly anti-Putin	delisen	Jun 2020	#121
They still have to get deplorables to the polls to have a chance	jcgoldie	Jun 2020	#128
They are willing to not win because they can stall change anyway	delisen	Jun 2020	#129
Trump's base	mindfulNJ	Jun 2020	#42
I want them all to go down and go to prison.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#46
Same.	mindfulNJ	Jun 2020	#51
We said - and they ALL said - no way they would support Donny Bodybags either. They will	Squinch	Jun 2020	#74
Romney isn't going to run. He would lose and is hated by most Republicans	JI7	Jun 2020	#77
I think you will see that	pwb	Jun 2020	#8
I hope so!	yardwork	Jun 2020	#13
I Do	ProfessorGAC	Jun 2020	#11
Revenge is not enough.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#17
If He Drops Out, Republics Lose	ProfessorGAC	Jun 2020	#49
The followers are Trump followers, not Republican followers	sweetloukillbot	Jun 2020	#81
Agreed!	ProfessorGAC	Jun 2020	#103
Yeah well	jcgoldie	Jun 2020	#14
There is risk either way, but I think he's finished.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#26
No, I want him dropped out, reason below:	Brainfodder	Jun 2020	#15
He'll be replaced and we might lose the White House and Senate.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#19
This late? Nah, unless it's cooked, again.	Brainfodder	Jun 2020	#50
NO we won't. Why do you continue to overestimate Republican popularity ?	JI7	Jun 2020	#82
Right.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jun 2020	#16
All those Lincoln ads we love will get turned on us.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#24
no they won't	JI7	Jun 2020	#83
That's what I'm worried about anyway. Having a woman, ANY woman on the ticket is going	BComplex	Jun 2020	#53
I'm a little nervous about the unforeseen consequences but I do believe	Mike 03	Jun 2020	#18
I hope you're right.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#21
Maybe I'm being too optimistic.	Mike 03	Jun 2020	#36
I love it.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#41
I don't think he is going to, so don't worry.	LisaL	Jun 2020	#20
You are correct that pretty much any other Republican improves their chances, but...	TreasonousBastard	Jun 2020	#22
It would be a catastrophe. They won't fix anything. They'll keep the corruption.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#31
It's up to all of us	Hstch05	Jun 2020	#23
+1000	yardwork	Jun 2020	#39
Agreed, but the only caveat for me is we know Putin literally owns rump...	Eliot Rosewater	Jun 2020	#25
Yes, Putin will work hard to elect another Republican.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#37
The enemy of our country fears Hillary and Joe and I have relatives who served	Eliot Rosewater	Jun 2020	#52
Decades of literal brainwashing. It's a tragedy for our country.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#58
I think Putin fears Romney who considered Russia our enemy in 2012	delisen	Jun 2020	#120
I agree with your assessment.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#122
I agree, but not for all of the same reasons.	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#27
The Trump opponents will turn on us.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#32
That is part of my fear. n/t	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#45
lol, true trump believers will walk away and see it as deepstate GOP ouster of trump, that works for	beachbumbob	Jun 2020	#28
That could happen. That might be good.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#35
Its a very likely outcome. The ideologues are what they are and they will stay home from voting	beachbumbob	Jun 2020	#143
I Don't Want To See Trump Drop Out Because....	global1	Jun 2020	#29
Dreamy!!!!	LakeArenal	Jun 2020	#33
Precisely. I want to see him humiliated...	3catwoman3	Jun 2020	#71
It would take years for the GOP to re-brand itself.	Thunderbeast	Jun 2020	#34
Never underestimate the stupidity and venality of rich Americans.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#40
There is no way in hell his narcissism would allow that to happen...	SKKY	Jun 2020	#47
You have nothing to worry about	awesomerwb1	Jun 2020	#48
I agree completely.	DenverJared	Jun 2020	#55
Thanks!	yardwork	Jun 2020	#61
Me neither. To quote some Nixonite (Haldeman?), I want him to twist slowly, slowly in the wind	dawg day	Jun 2020	#56
Yes!	yardwork	Jun 2020	#62
Yes.	jeffreyi	Jun 2020	#57
I Want It Tonight	Me.	Jun 2020	#63
At the end of the day they're all the same.	OrlandoDem2	Jun 2020	#66
They don't believe that racism, sexism, and homophobia are wrong.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#109
"Trump is a sociopathic megalomaniac...	alterfurz	Jun 2020	#119
Noam is spot on.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#123
I want him to drop dead.	SoonerPride	Jun 2020	#68
In a million years I would never have thought I would ever agree but ...........	marble falls	Jun 2020	#69
Who could Reps possibly get who isn't either so obscure that no one knows who they are...	MrModerate	Jun 2020	#70
John Kasich	True Blue American	Jun 2020	#114
People used to think that Trump...	MrModerate	Jun 2020	#145
I know what Kasich did in Ohio.	True Blue American	Jun 2020	#146
And charter schools got a big boost from SCOTUS today, as well. n/t	MrModerate	Jun 2020	#147
This is why I don't applaud Steve Schmidt, Lincoln Project, etc, this is EXACTLY what they are	BamaRefugee	Jun 2020	#72
I think you're right. They want Trump gone so they can salvage the election.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#110
He will not drop out	Roc2020	Jun 2020	#73
+1 Distraction. And to rally his idiot base	flibbitygiblets	Jun 2020	#79
Totally, it's a big shiny object	Roc2020	Jun 2020	#117
Actually he's quit over and over again in his life. He would rationalize it.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#111
I think the best course of action now would be to be what the democrats seem to be doing	Salviati	Jun 2020	#75
Excellent strategy!	yardwork	Jun 2020	#112
Reasonable Republicans will NOT WIN in today's Repiblican party	JI7	Jun 2020	#76
This! Their only real option is pence..he will never win	Thekaspervote	Jun 2020	#94
I just want him to die.	mountain grammy	Jun 2020	#78
No Republican is winning at this point	budkin	Jun 2020	#84
ROMNEY AND MCCAIN FUCKING LOST	JI7	Jun 2020	#85
If Trump resigns now we get President Pence until January at least.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#113
I agree!	Blue_playwright	Jun 2020	#87
That's my thinking. No more cover ups.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#118
two things: 1. Trump won't drop out, 2. there's no "reasonable" conservative who could win if he did	0rganism	Jun 2020	#88
FUCKIN' A right 'yardwork'	dem4evah	Jun 2020	#90
Thank you, and thank you for fighting.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#124
If Trump drops out, we will lose Presidency, Senate, and House	Dopers_Greed	Jun 2020	#91
Just the opposite. Repugs can't run away from 250,000...	brush	Jun 2020	#92
If we lose it will be because of fearmongering Democrats who drown everything	JI7	Jun 2020	#101
K & R	BadgerMom	Jun 2020	#93
I believe that some Republican leaders are testing this strategy.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#130
Totally agree	bucolic_frolic	Jun 2020	#95
Like 400 years of slavery, genocide and oppression.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#131
It doesn't make a whole lot of difference right now.	Warpy	Jun 2020	#97
I agree but it's remarkable how the very rich have kept this going.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#132
All it took was one fucking idiot who was willing to print money	Warpy	Jun 2020	#136
I hear you. Me too.	Joinfortmill	Jun 2020	#98
If Repukes had someone they would have voted to convict	Laura PourMeADrink	Jun 2020	#102
That is a good point, but politics is all about the last news cycle.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#133
Trump Dropping Out	JGug1	Jun 2020	#104
I go back and forth on this	DIVINEprividence	Jun 2020	#105
I see your point.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#134
Tribunals	dai13sy	Jun 2020	#106
It is absolutely imperative	nevergiveup	Jun 2020	#108
Absolutely agree! Imperative.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#125
I think it would be great if Trump drops out.	Silent3	Jun 2020	#137
As the saying goes,	Music Man	Jun 2020	#115
I totally agree. Someone like Romney would step in.	Fla Dem	Jun 2020	#116
If trump drops out, he will still be president until 01/20/2021.	madinmaryland	Jun 2020	#126
One nice thing - any would-be-replacement for Trump won't be able to demagogue like him.	backscatter712	Jun 2020	#127
I don't think Trump humpers will be keen to vote for a replacement	Skittles	Jun 2020	#135
I want to thank everybody who replied in this thread.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#139
Millions of lives are on the line, so he needs to go as quickly as humanly possible.	ecstatic	Jun 2020	#141
Agree...	Mike Nelson	Jun 2020	#142
I want him in office until he leaves in disgrace	Progressive dog	Jun 2020	#144
He won't	book_worm	Jun 2020	#148

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