Donald Trump

[stevebrooks]

Illinois judge rules Trump is ineligible to run for President;

[stevebrooks]

Trump doesn't have the money to put up bond and may have to sell some of his properties to raise the money, oh I don't know, surely he can go to the bank and raise money as a loan using those properties as collateral.....oh lol, I made myself laugh!

[stylofone]

Another portent of the looming apocalypse.

The Democrat apparatchik's response was to broadly dismiss the accuracy of polls, and that's a credible proposition, but the situation is scary AF. A Trump victory is always unthinkable, but then the result of this poll is unthinkable, and here it is.

Biden seems to epitomise the decrepitude of neo-liberalism. The Dems love to point to Biden's record on job creation and economic recovery, but the economy no longer works for most people. Economic success favours the rich. Having a job is better than starving, but jobs are tedious and underpaid, no-one is thanking him for it. It's not the economy any more, stupid.

Americans really need someone better than Biden, but it's highly possible that they are insane enough to once again choose someone much much worse instead, i.e. the orange clown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-BB1jdGK5

[pipbarber]

The betting markets all have Trump as favourite. Sportsbet was $1.80 to Bidens $3.10. Not sure it means much though, Michelle Obama is 3rd favourite at $10 and Taylor Swift is $500 to 1.

[stevebrooks]

The "black Conservative" event where Trump reckoned he could only see black faces because of the bright lights!

[stevebrooks]

Nikki Haley won the District of Columbia primary by by 63% to 33% no doubt leaving Trump frothing, stand by for accusations of cheating!

[pipbarber]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rump-polls

The article contains a list of recent polls, which make for alarming reading. However, as is constantly noted, polling is woefully unreliable for many reasons and there is still 8 months to go and anything can happen, especially given Trumps legal issues. Against that tranquilizing reflex is that fact that Trump only needs to flip 4 or 5 states. He probably only needs to gain a couple of hundred thousand votes in the purple states and he'll win.

[stevebrooks]

Honestly looking at recent rallies and Trump's performance I don't think he will even be able to form sentences by the time the election is on, the deterioration in his speech isn't just a minor thing, it seem to get worse with every rally he holds, he won't be mentally capable of much at all come the election, if the Repub's win it's his VP that everyone needs to be concerned about because he will be out of it by then;



The other thing is, polls are all very well, but they have become misleading in a major way, they haven't adapted to the changes in technology of the last few decades, if you run a poll over a land line then you will only get land line holders replying....obviously, and about 20% of the US population still hold land lines as an important part of their communication infrastructure, which means of course 80% don't, and I am guessing those 20% are older voters. A better guideline would be to look at fund raising, because that would be spread across the demographic, and guess who can't raise funds anymore? You guessed it, the Republican party. While totals in fund raising have been roughly equal up to 2022 for each side, suddenly the Republican's in general are broke running up to the election, and I think that's a better indication that the voters are in a major decline for them than phone polls. Unless they change the way polls works they will always be hitting a small part of the voting public, and the older demographic which is becoming less relevant as technologically literate young people start turning into technologically literate older people.

[stylofone]

Honestly looking at recent rallies and Trump's performance I don't think he will even be able to form sentences by the time the election is on, the deterioration in his speech isn't just a minor thing, it seem to get worse with every rally he holds, he won't be mentally capable of much at all come the election, if the Repub's win it's his VP that everyone needs to be concerned about because he will be out of it by then

He's also so unhealthy and overweight, and this will combine with his arrogance, and his entourage of sycophants who won't filter any of his verbal effluent. Plus the demands of the campaign will weigh more heavily on him than they did 4 and 8 years ago. When his cognitive decline really accelerates, it could be spectacular. One problem though, is that even in his prime he was fucking deranged, so maybe people won't be able to tell the difference.

[stevebrooks]

One problem though, is that even in his prime he was fucking deranged, so maybe people won't be able to tell the difference.

It will get to the point he will just lose the plot entirely when on stage and just stand there wondering what he's doing, and some babysitters will have to walk him off, there are enough time now when he just goes on weird ramblings and audience doesn't know what to do and just sit there silent because he's making zero sense, that will just get worse as time goes on to the point where he suddenly has no idea what he is doing or even where he is. As many qualified people have said on social media, the problem he is having with words is just an indicator of far deeper problems. People having problems with words has always existed, malapropisms, spoonerisms and etc and these aren't necessarily an indicator of brain deterioration, but it's the type of problems Trump is having that are significant, and it seems to be getting worse almost daily.