• Donald Trump contributed $6,000 to Kamala Harris when she ran for California attorney general.
  • Trump donated $5,000 to her 2011 campaign and $1,000 in 2013 as a private citizen.
  • Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday and endorsed Kamala to replace him.
  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    People forget that Trump wasn’t a Republican until like 2012. The only reason he ran Republican was that someone convinced him that was the only way he’d ever win. Remember, winning at all costs is literally the only thing Donald Trump cares about.

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      Honestly, he’s never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He’s always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.

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        4 months ago

        Absolutely true but he will give these fucks what they want in exchange for adoration

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          Will he actually, though? Or just say he will?

          I think the only way that could happen is if it just happened to be something he wanted.

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            4 months ago

            I read that the project 2025 people were ecstatic since he delivered on like 75% (or more?) of their policy goals for his first term. Roe v Wade wasn’t an accident, for example

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              I don’t believe that’s why he’s doing what he’s doing. Unless it’s like a sick compulsion or something. He’s a 78 year old billionaire. Why whore yourself for money when you’ve already got enough to last you a lifetime? I think the power and whatever is more of a motivator.

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                4 months ago

                Idk, ask that to every billionaire CEO giving themselves bigger and bigger raises. I agree that power is the main motivator, but I feel like the money and power go hand in hand.

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                He’s a deeply malignant narcissist. He just likes being called president trump, and is jealous of Putin and Kim Jong Un because they permanently rule an entire country.

                Trump can’t stand anyone having something he doesn’t, so trying to take over the US is his next step to being “the best” and in what he perceives to be the big boys club.

                Narcisstic people are motivated by some petty shit. It’s mind boggling but true. Just look at the shit Elon Musk has been pulling and how petty it is.

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      4 months ago

      That’s not entirely true, his turn to republicans was a little sooner. Trump was the “Long Form Birth Certificate” guy all during the Obama years.

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      4 months ago

      i’m skeptical. but i think i’ll enjoy spending the next 3 months thinking about republicans flying into a blind frothing rage over losing to a black woman

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        She’s not much better than Biden. She doesn’t even have age as an excuse.

        Our imagination might be the only place she wins.

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          It would be more effective, the spreading of misery, if you went to the local pool and took a large shit in it. You could ruin several people’s day instead of like 3

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            You sell me short. I’ve got 15 down-votes already!
            Reality is miserable. Ignoring it is a bad idea.

            She’s not a forgone conclusion.
            There’s a good chance for an open convention. Pelosi is pushing for one.

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                THAT is certainly true. We agree there.
                But in this case, she’s pushing for a good thing, so I have no trouble agreeing with her.

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                At this rate, I’ll beat that in another 2 hours.
                Got 20 down-votes now! Lets Go People!

                Edit: There we go! 42 down-votes in 2 hours. Thank you everybody.

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          After all this pushing to call Biden too old, the 70 year old rambling old man is gonna look really bad to their own base when he’s up against someone who isn’t even old enough to retire.

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            4 months ago

            That’s possible.
            I’d hope that’ll be the case.
            She might be able to be coached away from these rambling nonsensical answers.
            We’ll see.

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          4 months ago

          Man, you try public speaking every single day without making mistakes or stumbling. It happens to everyone.

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            Sure. Mispeaking a word would be normal.

            But what she was trying to do was talk about something she doesn’t understand, and wasn’t preped on. Rather than saying some version of “I don’t know”, she starts making up whole sentences of nonsense.

            That’s why I think she could probably be coached out of it. It’s not a brain fart, it’s a choice to try not to look stupid. But it backfires.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      he might not have been a republican but he was a paleoconservative who ran for president in 2000 under buchanan’s party