Granny Danger Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 26 minutes ago, Bob in Denny said: Labour? Murdoch media , Fox News, The New York Post and the Wall St Journal has been pushing the time to dump Trump narrative.. Rupert playing king maker again? DeSantis anyone? It looks like DeSantis could become favourite. I can’t say I know much about him but there’s a suggestion that he’s a pretty poor performer under pressure. If so he could get destroyed in the primary debates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 DeSantis is a bit of a weird one - he campaigned for the statehouse very much on a Trump ticket - down to a truly execrable advert that had his kid 'building a wall' out of Lego. Then his first 6 months or so in charge, he governed fairly neutrally - signed off some protections for the Everglades and refused US Sugar growing land there - to the point where (very, by US standards) left wing friends in Miami were telling me 'maybe this guy isn't so bad'. Then he went off the deep end - then he tried to be 'moderate' again, and only signed an abortion ban after 20 weeks, leading to a lot of speculation to lots of clinics being built in the FL panhandle to service the more extreme neighbouring states. Now he's won re-election, the first thing he's said is that abortion bans will be tightened up. And we've seen how much of a winner that was in places like Pennsylvania. He didn't do well in this year's gubernatorial debate against Charlie Crist. Crist's a nice old guy, but he's run more races than Carl Lewis, there's no enthusiasm for him. This doesn't bode well for him going up against anyone young, hungry and with a modicum of ambition left. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 He will run again but the republican party machine will get behind desantis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 21 hours ago, doulikefish said: He will run again but the republican party machine will get behind desantis Wonder if Trump would then go independent? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 11 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said: Wonder if Trump would then go independent? Lots of better political folks than me are predicting that, but I dunno. He's lazy as f**k. I think he'll certainly threaten them with it, but whether he carries thru would be an issue of what staff he could get. If it's just Stone, Rudy and Jason Miller then they couldn't organize a lodge night in Larkhall, so it'd be doubtful they could run a full campaign. Even if Fox have moved on, he'll still get plenty TV coverage tho, both interviews on the zoomer networks and then reportage of said on CNN and Sinclair-affiliate local stations, so he could be a pain in their arse for quite some time without having to do a whole lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 19 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said: Wonder if Trump would then go independent? I think he will, he just loves the rallies and getting worshipped by morons, and he'll make sure he turns a profit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 47 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said: Wonder if Trump would then go independent? Definitely. He’s a stable genius with all the best words. He’ll go Independent bigly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 I think if he manages to win again he'll spend the whole time in Mar-a-Lago, not bothering to turn up for anything, and concentrating on pardoning himself for all past and future crimes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, AyrshireTon said: Wonder if Trump would then go independent? I don’t think his ego could handle losing again 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 I think they should wait awhile and then tell Trump he was right about the election being stolen and officially he is President-in-exile with Biden occupying the White House illegimately. Naturally Trump would be delighted. Until it is pointed out that technically this then counts as two terms as President which automatically excludes him from ever standing again. Just a thought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) With the defeat of the appalling Kari Lake that's now every single election denying Trump endorsed nutter now lost. Popcorn at the ready now for the GOP tearing itself apart as Trump goes up against DeSantis for the GOP nomination. Likelihood is that If Trump gets it the GOP will lose. If DeSantis gets it Trump will run as an independent and sink the DeSantis by biting into the Republican vote. And there will be another 4 years of tantrums from the bloated orange skinned tit. Edited November 15, 2022 by AndyM 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) 20 minutes ago, AndyM said: With the defeat of the appalling Kari Lake that's now every single election denying Trump endorsed nutter now lost. Popcorn at the ready now for the GOP tearing itself apart as Trump goes up against DeSantis for the GOP nomination. Likelihood is that If Trump gets it the GOP will lose. If DeSantis gets it Trump will run as an independent and sink the DeSantis by biting into the Republican vote. And there will be another 4 years of tantrums from the bloated orange skinned tit. The BBC are claiming that, across the piece, at least 125 pro-fascists (because let's call them what they are) won their election, including Marjorie Taylor-Greene and (likely) Lauren Boebert, so they'll be free to make screaming self-promoting c***s of themselves for another term. I've been delighted to see a bit of common sense prevailing in Arizona over the past few years, considering that it was a long-term Republican stick-on when I was there. I'm told that, naturally, the right-wingers are blaming those dirty Mexicans who claim to be "Americans" despite every right-thinking Arizonan knowing that they're foreigners, so expect to see them make deeply disturbing attempts to limit voting rights for non-Caucasians as much as possible (although naturally they'll phrase it as innocently as possible, because they're cowards). Edit: it'd be interesting to know how many of the fascists ran unopposed, because that happens disturbingly often in the US, across a variety of elected positions. "Democracy", eh? Edited November 15, 2022 by BFTD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, BFTD said: Lauren Boebert Likely going to a recount as it's so close. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Likely going to a recount as it's so close. Aye, she seems to be ahead by a couple of thousand with around three thousands votes still to count. I'm not enough of an optimist to hope they they've put her out on her arse. The entitled screaming will be fucking hilarious if she comes out on top, only to lose on the recount 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, BFTD said: Aye, she seems to be ahead by a couple of thousand with around three thousands votes still to count. I'm not enough of an optimist to hope they they've put her out on her arse. The entitled screaming will be fucking hilarious if she comes out on top, only to lose on the recount Frisch is catching her up, only 1100 votes in it now.. Edited November 15, 2022 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DeeTillEhDeh Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Frisch is catching her up, only 1100 votes in it now..Curing is still going on as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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