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‘January 6 never ended’: alarm at Trump pardon pledge for Capitol insurrectionists
(www.theguardian.com)
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He's going to win, and it's going to happen.
I'm not sure why everyone's so aghast at this. The man literally sold the resolute desk for ad space. There were zero meaningful repercussions for his choice to drum up a mob to attack the Capitol.
The real problem is that the next attack will undoubtedly be worse.
Lol. He's not going to win. Not because he's dangerous and Democrats will stop him. He's not going to win because he's fat, smelly, and BORING. That's the ultimate sin in entertainment.
He's not new anymore. No Democrats are going to vote for him to "shake things up". He's older and can barely make rambling jokes anymore. Being president takes a lot out of you. It's going to be obvious that he just doesn't have what it takes.
Sure, he's completely unqualified for the office. But he was last time too. A lot of people didn't vote based on how qualified he was, they voted on "he tells it like it is".
That's what they said. But they don't really want that. They want a powerful person to be entertaining and validate their beliefs about the world. Reagan was that person for a while, GW Bush was, Rush Limbaugh was too. The main qualifications are being entertaining, powerful, and validating.
Trump is losing his power through massive legal trouble. He's not as entertaining as before. He's older and fatter (probably smellier too). His fans will not vote as hard as they did before. They will just complain about the "deep state" and drink a beer.