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  STATE'S RIGHTS TO DO WHAT!!!??  TO DO WHAT!!??  they never finish the goddamn sentence!
context: Wait I thought he won and it was stolen? >
  
  Something definitely got stolen: Republican campaign donations. 
  They knew he was a snake when they took him in, etc. >
  
  Irony: Trump’s greed and never ending grift is a major factor in the USA avoiding a 2nd Trump term. >
  
  Literally all he had to say was "masks are patriotic; everyone should wear one" and boom he's got his second term. >
  
  And sell MAGA masks (as abhorrent as those would be). >
  
  Yes!!! Exactly! He was thrown a political softball with Covid. He also had a vaccine in 9 months!!! All he had to fucking do was say “we’re going to get this amazing vaccine to everyone! Wear your masks! And we’ll get our economy roaring back!”  He was just too stupid to realize people care about dying more than being rich. >
  
  Yep, Covid was Trump's ticket to a 2nd term.  The lord looked down upon The Chosen One, saw him pathetically floundering away, and threw him a softball.  When Covid first broke out, I thought this was a game changer for Trump politically, now he's going to be seen as sorta a war-time President.  All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and follow the recommendations of his own experts. >
  
  No, seriously. This flies in the face of the “trump is actually a genius strategist and orator” argument.. 
  Denying the existence of covid, thus turning it into another rightwing culture war issue, was 100% the nail in the coffin for a second trump term. >
  
  Yea trump is just the right kind of sociopath for the GOP when he won. He lucked into being the right personality at the right time. But once in the game he had no insight. >
  
  Kellyanne continues to live in an alternate universe. No wonder George walked.
  Of course the Trump family grifted - that's what they do. But Trump wasn't going to win anyway, because he was massively unpopular across a big chunk of the electorate. To blame campaign strategy for his loss is ludicrous. >
  
  Did he really leave her? I heard this awhile ago but tried to find sources and couldn’t. >
  
  I read an article about George a few months ago that said that they were living separately, but no one has filed for divorce. >
  
  Sounds like a deliberate ploy.  They benefit from playing both sides. >
  
  Depending where you live if you want a no fault divorce and have a kid (edit: under 18, if your kid(s) is/are 18+ they don’t worry about that anymore) you need to live separately for up to a year first. If they’re comfortable dividing assets or at least feel they can come to agreement that might be what they’re doing. >
  
  A coworker from North Carolina was telling me for her divorce the judge ordered 8-weeks of marriage counseling, after that he was still convinced the couple could reconcile and ordered 8 more before they were finally granted a divorce. >
  
  Yes, I got divorced in NC as well and one year separation and required marriage counseling is necessary before you can even officially complete the process. >
  
  Wtf? How can judges order that shit when you have 2 adults saying this isn’t working and we want to separate? Marriage seems like way more of a hassle than it’s really worth. I can buy a fancy expensive ring just as easily without the legal bullshit involved. >
  
  Right but insurance, parental rights, and even the right to access your loved one in the hospital are dependent on marriage here. >
  
  Exactly they force you to marry now. Me and my fiancée have been together for 10 years. She was in the ICU May 2021 and I was lucky enough to step in and sign a RO; still having hope.
  Her family just responded to my calls with an annoyance and “just sign a DNR” as if they couldn’t be bothered. The entire ICU couldn’t believe their responses. So they let me step end. 
  Everyday they said I should make preparations but she came out of there alive eight days later. We were very lucky. It’s made us now push more to moving up our marriage date since she has epilepsy and her family is total shit. >
  
  In what universe does Trump win in a blowout? Trump had the consistently worst approval ratings of any modern president. He was extremely popular with his base, but his broad appeal has always been limited.
  She's either delusional, or deliberately lying, and probably both. >
  
  Exactly that. Both. >
  
  Hell, she made her political career out of lying for him. There are 6 years worth of it, easy to find, in print and video all over the internet with her blatantly lying. >
  
  Shit she was trashing him on Fox just the other day >
  
  This is totally trashing him in their world. >
  
  So egomaniacal conman would have won election if he just hadn’t used his campaign funds for personal profit and inflating his own ego? Makes sense, I totally get why you like this guy /s. >
  
  It's a huge pivot from election fraud to, Donald Trump is incompetent. They've turned on him, he's done. >
  
  Sadly it's not even because they decided this on their own or came to their senses, Murdoch news sources just stopped covering for him and started providing negative coverage. >
  
  Lol when he wins the primary it will be a whole different story. Even if doesn't win we KNOW they would turn on a dime for him no consequences. >
  
  Thats what I figure too.  He will totally blast the shit out of fox and they will stop if his base goes to oan or whatever.  I could see him plugging truth social too non stop >
  
  What a cute whitewash that completely ignored the attempted coup. >
  
  "But he stole the funds I tried to raise. I'm personally affected" >
  
  Trump being a horrible president for four years had a little something to do with it too. >
  
  Honestly, he was gifted just about the PERFECT thing to practically guarantee his re-election, a Global pandemic. If he was smart, all he had  to do to win reelection was to take this seriously from the beginning, ask Dr. Fauci/other experts what the best response is/would be, follow their advice, go on nightly/regular TV appearances, a la FDR’s Fireside Chats, say that we are going to get through this, by doing X Y & Z, and he would have almost certainly have won. He was granted the best possible opportunity for his reelection, and all he had to do was to take it seriously, at least in public and he would have won. And he did just about the worst possible things to do in his situation  and he STILL ALMOST WON, despite his stupidity, his murderous actions and behaviors.
  Edit: a few words and spelling. >
  
  Well said. 
  He wasn’t shooting his own voters on fifth Avenue but the survivors still voted for him. If he hadn’t killed so many he he may have still squeaked by. 
  It’s frightening to me that so many millions of Americans clamor for his type of “leadership”. >
  
  It is not frightening to me. I am beyond frightened. I am terrified by the stupidity, ignorance and just plain mean spiritedness of many people in this country. The people who are willing to vote for their own injustice and harm, as long as “Groups  X, Y, and Z” has it “Worse” is terrifying to me. Don’t they understand that if they don’t have millions in the bank, that these issues will also affect themselves, and negatively as well? They know that and are still ok with it. Hate is just about the most powerful emotion there is, since you will do terrible things to yourself/your best interests, as long as you think that someone else is “Getting it worse”. >
  
  GOP candidates are great at telling stories to poorly educated white people and “bootstrap” voters that blame the worse off for them being exploited by capitalists and megachurch millionaire preachers. >
  
  I do believe that was the basis for the Roberts Court to allow unlimited money into politics.  Money is speech.  The people with the most money are the loudest.  Even if all their speech is propaganda. >
  
  This is why the GOP is so anti-education and anti-science.  The more educated you are, the less likely you are going to blindly believe propaganda and more likely you are to vet your information. >
  
  Not only do they spew propaganda, but they immediately call anything that strays from their worldview propaganda and indoctrination. 
  Schools teaching about how gay people exist and that that’s okay? Evil gay agenda trying to convert your children. Learning about America’s systemic racial and wealth inequality and ways to help fix it? Clearly communist CRT that should be banned.
  Taking down Confederate propaganda statues because we shouldn’t glorify people that literally fought to keep others enslaved? HOLY SHIT YOU’RE TRYNA ERASE THE SOUTH’S RICH HISTORY AND ALSO THE CIVIL WAR WASN’T ABOUT SLAVERY IT WAS STATE’S RIGHTS!
  State’s rights to…?