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  Honestly might be a good strategy. Republican voters are not a monolithic group and there are plenty among them (probably mostly women) who are pro choice. This position will help him stand out in the primaries. Terrifying as it is, this might work.
context: I guess he forgot that he said he would appoint judges that would overturn roe. notice how he is always the victim >
  
  Yes, you are correct that he always plays the victim card but he's still right about the extreme restrictions being harmful to the GOP in the midterms. >
  
  Sometimes the only way to learn a slope is slippery is to fall down one yourself.
  Besides, the motherf*cker is clairvoyant. He shoulda seen this one coming. >
  
  I remember one slippery slope, my left ankle never was that same after that. But I never made that mistake again. (Steps, yes; slope, no.) >
  
  My family had a German exchange student when I was young. That winter we got a lot of snow - which was unusual - and we lived on the best sledding hill around. There was enough snow and cold that we were out of school for more than 2 weeks.
  On the first day of sledding, the German broke her ankle (her foot was sticking over the sled's side and caught the ground on a bump). She was so annoyed. >
  
  So did you learn what the German word for "being annoyed by the fact that you broke your ankle on the first day of sledding while being an exchange student in a foreign country" was? >
  
  These next two years are going to be about him flipflopping all over the place like a dying flounder on land. He’s looking for the hooks and shotgunning campaign ideas to help get a foothold. Anything to help him build up support to either run for President or run from the authorities. >
  
  This is why I'm convinced he has no chance of being re-elected. He won by the skin of his teeth the first time, and that was with no record to stand on and a LOT of people giving him the benefit of the doubt (remember how he was supposed the "pivot" after taking office). He is now probably the most hated man in America. >
  
  I don’t know. In 2020 he was the second candidate to get the most votes ever (more than in 2016). If the Dems don’t go out and vote in force, we’d have him again or Death Santis >
  
  Wouldn’t it make sense that every election there’s more voters. Because of population growth ? >
  
  Trump got more votes in 2020 than Hillary got in 2016, and lost by a wider margin. >
  
  So… yes? >
  
  He got the Evangelican vote to seat anti-abortion judges on the SC. He put three there and Roe got overturned. He doesn't think it was his doing? >
  
  He probably doesn’t. Let’s be real here, Celebrity Apprentice did not pick those judges. The Federalist Society and Focus on the Family picked them and Trump went along with it because someone told him that the base would love it. 
  From the eternal victim mentality that Trump clings to, I don’t doubt for a second that he sees this as someone else’s fault. >
  
  
  I don’t doubt for a second that he sees this as someone else’s fault.
  
  This is Trump's defining characteristic - it is NEVER HIS FAULT.
  He even knows it and admitted that he takes no responsibility for anything. >
  
  When he was interviewed on his 'faith' in late 2015-2016, he said he had never asked God for forgiveness, because why did he need to? He hadn't made any mistakes that needed to be forgiven. Then he talked about how popular he was among Protestants to try to change the narrative.
  And the Trump family attended church when he was a child. 
  Donald Trump's fear of admitting he was wrong was so great that he flubbed the question.
  Even Rudy Giuliani said that Trump wouldn't admit he was wrong. Instead Trump would say "My father probably wouldn't have done that." 
  July 10, 2020 Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himself
  "Barbara Res, a former executive at the Trump Organization, said that when she worked for Trump, he interpreted nearly everything in deeply personal terms."
  “Whatever bad happened, no matter what it was, it was always against him, always directed at him,” Res said. “He would say, ‘Why does everything always happen to me?’ ” >
  
  
  Instead Trump would say "My father probably wouldn't have done that."
  
  "My dad owns a dealership!" >
  
  Trump has no real feeling about abortion rights one way or the other. It's just a bargaining chip to him. That should, in theory, make his supporters furious. But what are they going to do? Go vote for Hunter Biden's penis? Not likely. >
  
  He bragged on Howard Stern that he wanted to abort Tiffany. >
  
  He treats her the same way now. >
  
  She doesn’t care as long as her credit card bill and car loan are paid every month. Money solves everything. >
  
  Tiffany married a billionaire.  She doesn't need her dad's money. >
  
  need, she'll never need. now enjoy the convenience on the other hand, rest assure she very much does. >
  
  He is a twice divorced ex Democrat with a mail order bride. He got a pass from the evangelicals on this and the "grab em by the pu$$y" outrage because his carnival barker act worked on the TV and traveling circus circuit. People on the right are waking up to the fact that the emperor has no clothes. >
  
  Well said, but his evangelical supporters rather follow him to hell than admit they were wrong. >
  
  That's because the church has historically been hijacked by people who commit several of the cardinal sins. It's business as usual. >
  
  He’s not wrong. The RNC wants to blame Trump entirely for the midterm results, but the RNC’s extremist stance on abortion played a large role as well.
  Let ‘em fight. >
  
  Conservative will never admit that they were wrong about anything, ever.
  Tell them that Vietnam was a mistake and they'll go on a screed about how it was absolutely vital to the USA that we fight there, and that we never actually lost any battles, and and and... >
  
  
  Conservative will never admit that they were wrong about anything, ever.
  
  Everything good that happens is because of Republicans, and everything bad that happens is because of Democrats.
  It just happens to be the exact same stance they take with religion.  Good things are because of God, bad things are because of the Devil. >
  
  
  good thins are because of God, bad things are because of YOU
  
  FTFY.  The devil is only blamed for making awesome music and wizard schools… evil in the world is because a woman made her husband eat an apple and now everything bad that happens is because people deserve eternal damnation for trying a new food. >
  
  In the movie version of MASH Frank was a good surgeon. People hated him because he would take credit for the saves and blame everyone else for the ones who died >
  
  And imagine if that same character was in a modern retelling of MASH. In the present day television landscape Frank could very well be one of the most popular characters. That behaviour would most likely be written to reflect Frank's growing personal trauma of being forced over and over again to patch up someone so they can go back out to fight or send them home irreparably damaged or they die. The time a modern series could spend on this talented surgeon alienating everyone around him as he faces three terrible options every day doing the thing he once loved. >
  
  There's a scene where a patient in the ward starts going down and Frank tells an 18 year old stretcher bearer to get him 10 cc's of epi.  the kid has no idea what Frank is talking about, but Frank blames him for the soldier dying.  Naturally, the kid takes it heart, because Frank is a doctor.  
  Good metaphor for the 10 year old kid they stigmatized for needing an abortion. >
  
  Trump said- Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again. - the issue the hardline republicans don’t seem to understand is that their voters didn’t disappear, they weren’t as hardline as their representatives were. The politicians were pushing for restrictions that only some of their voters wanted and lost close elections because of it. >
  
  Honestly, bet he secretly supports abortion.  Have you seen Eric? >
  
  Donald J Trump has no convictions. Anti Roe rhetoric was good for him in 2016, so Trump was anti Roe. Now it’s bad for him (personally and politically) so he supports Roe. >
  
  
  Donald J Trump has no conviction
  
  Soon to change.... >
  
  Coming soon to a media outlet near you… >
  
  What’s especially sickening is seeing how quickly Republicans turned to infighting over Dobbs as soon as it proved to be a political bomb that went off in their own faces. It just shows that this whole cloth ripping away of reproductive rights was unnecessary, cruel and that there was no integrity undergirding it; this decision was purely a political one, and now an entire generation of resentful mothers without resources or choice will be forced to give birth while its cheerleaders can’t even stand behind what they did. >
  
  Truth. >
  
  I hate to say it, but he's at least partly right.  He was a huge part of the problem, and the Roe decision itself is on him since he campaigned on it.  But he's right again that the idiots on his side who push for zero exceptions are hurting the party as well.  If those people had any brains they'd realize that they could probably pretty easily massage the issue and pass a 99.9% abortion ban without as much blowback.  But they relentlessly hammer that .1% of cases and insist on making that a HUGE issue, which turns a lot of people off.
  Lots of people: "OK, I suppose we can go along banning most abortions.  But what about this 9 year old girl, she was raped by her father, can we just let her have one?"
  Republicans: "NO! This 9 year old girl had sex and deserves what she gets! She WILL have that baby, even if it kills her!"
  Lots of people: "And what about this woman?  Her fetus isn't viable, it won't survive outside of the womb.  It WILL die no matter what.  If we make her carry it to term, she might die too."
  Republicans: "Too bad! She had sex, that's what happens.  God could still save this baby with a miracle.  If she dies, it's god's will."
  If they had pivoted, "given in" on that tiny percentage, and played up the love, compassion aspect of it, they could have probably won the battle for peoples hearts and minds by "compromising" and talking about how much they truly care about women in awful situations.
  In the end of course, I'm glad they are idiots, since they have managed to somehow pull some defeat from the jaws of victory. >
  
  Funny, he campaigned to abolish abortion, promised to elect supreme court justices to overturn it, gloated that he fulfilled that promise, and now he's a victim that the overturn was a republic mistake. OK dude, you enabled it every chance you took. >
  
  It was his fault; his Supreme Court picks lead to overturning Roe vs Wade. >
  
  
  his Supreme Court picks
  
  They weren't his.
  Not that he was remotely capable of the task. >
  
  So he floated the idea of running third party and someones coaching him about campaigning:
  
  "It was the 'abortion issue,' poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again." >
  
  
  Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again
  
  Not true. Now they're on to birth control, banning books and drag queens reading to children. >
  
  And accusing lgbt and their supporters of being "groomers" and "pedophiles". Gotta keep that hate stew bubbling. >
  
  
  Gotta keep that ~~hate~~ projection stew bubbling >
  
  Trump doesn’t understand that other people mean what they say. 
  Whatever you think of the position, a lot of pro life people firmly and strongly believe their position is right and important.  
  I don’t think trump can grok believing something outside of its perceived effect on one’s own power, attention, and popularity. >
  
  
  Donald Trump has blamed the Republican Party's disappointing midterm 
  performances on the "abortion issue" rather than the failure of his 
  endorsed candidates.
  
  But who appointed the Justices that made abortion an issue? >
  
  I might be a prophet. >
  
  Called it >
  
  
  "It was the 'abortion issue,' poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again."
  
  He's not wrong. The GOP equated the majority of their supporters not liking the concept of abortion to them wanting to ban it outright with harsh punishments. Turns out the most vocal anti-abortion people were a minority on their side, and they were too blinded by their platform being based on hate to realize it.
  Of course, this is Trump pretending to have realized this on his own while acting like he didn't contribute, but it doesn't take away from the fact that Republicans have lost abortion as a talking point. Overturning Roe v. Wade was the only thing their base could agree on, so now they can't run on going further because it's too much of a split issue. >
  
  This looks a lot like my parents' divorce.
  I like it. >
  
  Spineless turd. >
  
  Trump would rather chew off his tail, like a corner rat, then admit that he’s wrong >
  
  Bruh who did you appoint to the Supreme Court? >
  
  I laughed so loud when I read his twit yesterday about this! I can't believe he still has any supporters left after all the whip lashing he has caused!! >
  
  He doesn’t >
  
  Don't venture much outside the city?
  Get 50 miles away from a major metro area--doesn't even need to be in the South--and the MAGA-swag starts popping up.  75 miles and you might see an occasional "Q" logo.  100 miles and I'll bet a paycheck you find at least one of those rolling tributes to idiocy, the brotruck with 10 Trump flags in the bed.
  They are out there.  They've always been out there.  They're just easier to identify now because someone as simple and selfish and myopic as themselves made it to the White House, and there's no undoing that.  Sure, they'll deny an association when it's convenient (See also: Libertarians) but if it's brown and floats, it doesn't matter whose ass it came from. >
  
  For the record, the entire Republican Party needs to be aborted. This cluster-fuck mess created by fundamentalists, Tea Party conservatives, corrupt politicians, crazy Q-people, false-prophet-patriots and megalomaniac Trump is overdone linguine and needs to be tossed in the scrap heap of history.
  Either rebuild from the ground up using original platform of less government intrusion in our private lives or perish. >
  
  Trump appointed the judges that turned the court into crushing Roe.  Of course it's his fault. >
  
  If I had a hundred bucks for every abortion trump has likely paid for in his lifetime…. >
  
  The sad part about this is the fact that he probably never paid for any of them… The women paid for them themselves while being muzzled by a NDA. >
  
  “It’s not my fault”…. The antithesis of good leadership, and the foundation on which Trumpism is built. >
  
  I don’t want to read shit from the one who nominated judges that would end up overturning Ro. >
  
  If he really thought Republicans were going too far with abortion bans, he had months to say so before the election... >
  
  He kind of did. He just privately said it would be bad for Republicans in summer of 2022. >
  
  His Truth Social posts always sound like they were written by Chris-Chan.... >
  
  As a little girl once said: “Why not both?” >
  
  Don’t care. Stop posting him. >
  
  He's a populist -- so he just goes with what's the most popular position.  He's a jellyfish.  He doesn't give a shit either way. >
  
  I feel like deep down Donald Trump doesn’t give a flying fuck about GOP or Dem issues. He’s probably encouraged numerous of his exes or current wife to get abortions for all we know. He just wants to keep milking money out of campaigns. >
  
  Duh >
  
  What was the point of your comment >
  
  This is a widely known thing, basically a fact at this point  :) >
  
  This is the single most intelligent thing out of his mouth I’ve ever seen lol wow >
  
  Then he did not write it >
  
  People forget Trump was a democrat and friend of the Clintons. His psychopath arc was purely self driven, not driven by some mantra to turn America back 100 years in time. Trump cares about Trump and the election stuff comes out of a place of fear about legacy and legal trouble, as well as impending bankruptcy. Desantis is far more dangerous because he actually wants to turn America into a theocracy. Trump despises trump supporters. >
  
  Wow some true word out of Trump's mouth..if he & the Republican had not stolen a Supreme Court seat, Trump might have won re-election and then we would have never got him out of the White House >
  
  I hope there is a day in the future when the verbal vomit this man produces is just completely ignored. Just another right wing racist wack job spouting off crap no one cares about. >
  
  Let them eat eachother alive >
  
  Trump is finally realizing he was being used. >
  
  then: the destruction of roe is all thanks to me.
  6 months later: 'it's not my fault' republicans overturned roe.
  so on brand. >
  
  It may be accidental, but Trump is actually right. The loss of women's rights is what caused the blue wall to stop the red wave. 
  The fact that Trump appointed 3 of the 5 SCOTUS judges who overturned Roe is lost on him, but that is what caused democrats to do so well in 2022. >
  
  I wonder if this is strategically linked to his alleged desire to announce as a third party candidate. >
  
  Trump reportedly paid 8 women on the 80s and 90s to have abortions. >
  
  Trump cares about Trump.. His supporters are nothing more than ego boosts to him and a way to get millions from. He could care less about them or this country... >
  
  The media is still giving Trump a megaphone by turning every minor social media post into a full blown news story like this. >
  
  Reddit still is but many others like the Murdoch owned ones are ignoring him