Comments on: Trump, DeSantis, and COVID (plus the entry of Christie and Pence)

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 08:16:13 +0000

Although Chris Christie will greatly widen the field, he wouldn’t be in the race without the urging of fat cat donors.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:43:15 +0000

M J R
Let’s not forget his imbecility in taking on the family of a dead Gold Star soldier. I thought Trump’s “Jump the Shark” moment was the Ted Cruz’s father was involved in killing JFK. I share your disdain for Donald Trump and find he is an apalling candidate and man.

neo
I liked Carly Fiorina but felt that her running for president without ever holding political office was an overreach

By: neo

neo — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:00:27 +0000

M J R:

The oddest thing about Trump’s criticism of Fiorina was that she’s a relatively attractive woman, especially for her age. She also has a very nice figure. Of course, she’s no supermodel. But very few people are.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:56:56 +0000

The favorite thing for politicians other than being in office is running for office. Indeed, it might be the very favorite thing — all the perks and no real responsibilities. You get all the attention you want and a paying “job” for one or two years. All your travel free. All your meals too — and that’s quite a perk for Chris Christie. If you’re a politician and you aren’t getting attention, you’re like a fish out of water. You’re also probably terribly bored if you aren’t active. You’re acting out campaigns in your mind all the time, so why not bring them to the real world (even if you know you don’t have a shot at winning)?

Trump doesn’t have a focus anymore. He doesn’t have a monopoly on his issues any more and he isn’t the big new thing anymore. Voters are getting tired of him and many want him to go away. So he’s distracted by any shiny object that comes in his way. He needs somebody to give him structure and discipline, but he’s not getting the right advice and wouldn’t take it if it were offered.

By: wolfwalker

wolfwalker — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:51:02 +0000

“(3) Trump believes all attention is good attention, and this brings him attention.”

I think I go with this, plus the fact that Trump doesn’t understand his own appeal, and possibly never did. He seems to think people raced to support him in 2015-16 because he was Donald Trump and because he was being a pugnacious son of a bitch. That’s not true. People raced to support him because he was being a pugnacious son of a bitch toward the correct targets — meaning the Democrats.

I also think that Trump has lost a step mentally since 2020, and is acting and reacting with a lot more emotion and less reason now than he did in 2015-16. I think he doesn’t understand just how bad this kind of behavior looks to a lot of voters.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:13:29 +0000

I don’t find that as important as $2.00 gas, no dead casualties in afghanistan, a functioning supply chain, you know real world issues,

By: M J R

M J R — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:56:29 +0000

miguel cervantes,

To be plain, I have absolutely no use for McCain, but Trump’s mocking of McCain . . .

“He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

. . . had to have been among the most moronic things ever said by anyone.

I did like Fiorina at the time, but that was beside the point; what Trump was mocking were her *looks*:

”Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”

For me (maybe not for some others), that was unforgivably boorish. What kind of imbecile vomits out stuff like that? [Answer: a Donald J. Trump kind of imbecile.]

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:30:13 +0000

I think I spelled out my objections in the primary re the attacks on cruz, which apparently were sourced from the fusion gps chum bucket

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:13:02 +0000

mccain has been waving the bloody shirt since 2005 thereabout when he decided to push mccain feingold, the promoters of which were all over the lawfare against trump and guiliani, the pretext for the surveillance that served the aspen table top exercise, his attack on the interrogation programs that provided some use,

I don’t think of Carly either way, except like the losing candidate for senate in 2010

By: M J R

M J R — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:03:51 +0000

West TX Intermediate Crude (8:56 am) said:
“Trump’s trashing of Kayleigh was his jump-the-shark moment for me.”

For me it was his despicable trashing of Carly Fiorina’s looks in early 2016, along with his silly mocking of John McCain as a non-hero because the latter was captured.

I readily acknowledge that Trump did many good things as president, not the least of which was showing us deplorables how to have a spine and fight back*.

* but pleeeeze, intelligently; not in that juvenile, fifth-grade manner of his

I’m just saying, those two antics were when Trump jumped *my* shark. The man is a jerk, a liar, a boor, and a turd**, not necessarily in that order.

** [ got any more four-letter words I can insert? ]