CardinalBacker

I don’t know… I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that Trump did something else that was basically thumbing his nose at the establishment. But wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing was an political hit piece, either. I guess the big difference between me and so many others is that I prefer to withhold judgement until more is known. My “lock him up” wasn’t literal… it’s just a jab at his supporters.

Lock him up! Lock him up! It ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun, lol.

Livingston’s Dunbar.

Trump did for America what pantyhose did for (insert joke here)

It's comical how this morning all of the Trumpkins are calling for Congress to defund the Justice Department and FBI... Defund the.... where have I heard that before? Listening to the red-hatted fools is like mining for cartoon gold.

Why do you keep saying this when you know it’s an impossibility? Even if they wanted to run together, they can’t win without FLA.

We agree… I don’t want to live in a country where we prosecute former leaders for political reasons. That’s some third-world garbage. Thats why I thought it was extremely dangerous when Trump promised to do it. And those folks in the middle aren’t going to rally to trump over this. They’re all still just tired of the whole mess. The good news is that if the media continues to focus on trump, they’ll have a lot less time to hone in on the rest of the 2024 GOP presidential candidates.

All of y’all were at Trump rallies chanting “Lock her up!!!! Lock her up!!!!” and now you’re all crying like a little girl with a skinned knee. The karma and irony are delicious. Do y’all remember me saying that Trump was gonna spend the rest of his life in courtrooms? I’m just surprised it took this long. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Y’all never figured out that “America First” was just a slogan to entice weak-minded voters (easily identified by their red hats) into electing a guy who was actually all about wanting the power that money can’t buy-the Presidency.

There are a lot of guys that would make a decent President. There aren't nearly as many skirts that could take on that role. Political beliefs aside, Hillary had the best credentials of any female candidate up until now. Still didn't want her as president, though.

I never knew this. You learn something every day, I guess.

They already are... if you processed more than $600 on an app last year (Venmo, Cashapp, Paypay) they're supposed to report those amounts to the IRS now. I know a kid that hustles stereo parts... he literally buys/sells thousands of dollars a year with other kids and most of it goes through apps. He would technically have to itemize his costs of goods sold or face paying taxes on 100% of his revenue. While they might not raise the little guys' tax rate, they'll definitely be looking to make sure that he's paying taxes on his side hustle... no counting the fact that the cost of everything we buy will go up further when they increase taxes on the big guys... they're going to pass their new, bigger tax bills on to us. It's so easy to predict.

Oh, I know… I just enjoy messing with Eagle Fan.

We're not gonna talk about the fact that Newton built public housing and sucked all of the life out Burkeville?

Your statistics are garbage, and I'm disappointed that you can't see that. Trump is a force.... he drives people to the polls. Unfortunately, he drives more of them to vote for the OTHER guy. He's the exact opposite of Mitch Romney, the guy who put everybody to sleep. Nobody felt like they needed to vote Obama to keep Romney out of office-that's how you end up getting re-elected while losing votes like Obama did. And the weak-minded people are the ones who overlook abhorrent behavior because the candidate is "on their side." Trump signed up to play the game (politics). He asked us all to tune in (vote). And after he lost the game he wants to cry about the rules. It's a politics, not show biz. All publicity isn't "good" publicity. And nobody can win without wooing the middle. Except for Joe Biden, of course. Trump drove the middle to Biden by being a clown. Do you know what's a perfect example of insanity? Trying the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. What's gonna happen in 2024? Trump will act like a petulant child and a Democrat will get elected and all of y'all will blame the process. It's a likability contest, not a performance review. So why do you idiots want to keep talking about Trump's performance?

It's also amazing to see the lengths of mental gymnastics one will put themselves through to justify the bad behavior of their Lord and Savior, Donald J. Trump. And that's not funny, it's actually pathetic.

I don't think so... I think that any decent R candidate has a really good shot to beat whoever the Dems put out there EXCEPT for Trump. Desantis doesn't generate the same opposition that Trump does. I think that just about any R except Trump would have beaten Biden in 2020, but I doubt that Biden/Harris would have garnered 70 million votes without Trump on the other side. I also think that Trump losing in the Republican primaries (which I'm not confident anybody can beat Trump in the Republican primaries) would lead to all of the red hats staying home in November and still guaranteeing another democrat win. My opinion is that the day Trump announces his candidacy for 2024 you can book your bets for whoever the D candidate turns out to be. I voted Cruz in the 2016 primary here in Texas.. I held my nose and voted Trump that November. I had a much harder time voting for Trump in 2020 because his behavior was so repulsive-and that's coming for a guy who has never voted Democrat. But that sums up the entire Trump problem in a nutshell... if the guy can't even inspire people who SHOULD be voting for him to do so, what do you think is happening with the undecideds? You know, the only people whose vote really counts?

If Democrats winning presidential elections is what is best for the country, keep supporting Trump.

Did you miss what I said... It's politics 101. Your plans and your record don't mean squat if you can't get elected. Pointing at his record and ignoring his behavior is just typical Trump supporter fodder. It's what y'all keep doing over and over. He needed to make it easy for people to vote for him and hard for people to vote for Biden. He convinced 81 million people (a record, btw) to go out and vote for the other guy. But then again, y'all were so excited to have a guy with zero political experience. You can't be upset that he went out there and fumbled away the presidency like a person with zero political experience.

Go back and watch that first debate. He went out of his way to be a complete and total jerk with the entire lot of undecideds looking on. That wasn't the media making it seem like he was a two year old... it was Trump himself acting like a two year old. He didn't win a single vote with that performance and I'd be willing to bet that he forever lost a TON of people whose minds weren't made up. Now, that doesn't matter to the diehard Trump guys because he can do no wrong in their eyes... but that whole sordid performance was just another example of Trump throwing up a big double middle finger to anybody who wasn't wearing a red hat and it cost him (and us) dearly.

The media is the media... Trump got elected without them. Heck, he got elected in spite of them. My problem is that Trump kept playing to his base...and that's nowhere the majority that he'd need to win. He made it impossible for anybody on the left to vote for him and any undecideds/moderates in the middle would have to swallow a whole lot of moral objections to even vote for the guy. Long story short is that Trump's supporters, like he said, would still love him even if he shot somebody walking down the street in broad daylight. People like me (socially and fiscally conservative, but NOT a die-hard Trump guy) had a really hard time supporting him. People in the middle broke left just to be done with him, and nobody on the left even considered breaking right even though their ticket was horrible. And it all comes down to pure personality. The same thing that all of his clingers here adore is the same thing that turned off so many others. Instead of recognizing "I've got all of those MAGA hat wearing mouth-breathers on SETXSports in the bag, I should really focus on drawing in the undecideds and maybe even picking off some lefties" Trump just kept throwing Molotov cocktails so that his diehard supporters would cheer for him. It was dumb, it cost him the election, and it really put a good screwing on all of us. It doesn't matter how good of a job a man does as a president... he was too stupid to recognize that he needed to focus on people NOT wearing red hats, But he, like most of y'all, fail to recognize that his supporters are still a minority.

I only use the 81 million figure because so many cite that number as “proof” that the election was stolen- “there’s no way that Biden got 81 million votes… that’s more than George Washington got. It had to be cheating!”

Joe Manchin is the Democrat Rand Paul.

Just seeing this topic. Trump vs. Biden today? I'd still vote Trump as I believe that he's the least undesirable of the two.... He still sucks, though. Unfortunately, Biden won't be on the ticket in 2024 and those 81 million "no votes" are still gonna vote for whoever is running against Trump. Nobody has "learned their lesson." Not even Trump.

It's a polarizing issue, and I'd bet the underinformed pro life voters just heard "oh, Roe V. Wade was overturned" and assumed that there wasn't anything to vote about. But I also like the fact that (thanks to that crybaby Donald Trump), anytime an election yields an unfavorable result, the underinformed voters will yell "it was cheating, just like when my daddy lost in 2020." Facts don't lie... there was no widespread election fraud in 2020.

I don't think that I would have given special consideration for her employer in this case, either. If he set out to do her in because she was a cop, of course. But this wasn't intentional and I don't feel like her employment status (because thats the only difference between her and some other civilian that he might have hit) should make a difference. Kinda like I don't feel like a person of this shade should receive a more harsh punishment for killing a person of that shade, simply because they aren't the same. If the murder occurred specifically because of their race, then ok.... but not just a general "white on white? 10 years. White on black? Hate crime, 40 years." Especially when the prosecutions are specifically targeted one way, not the other, even though the "victims" kill many, many more of the "oppressors." But y'all ain't ready for that conversation.