‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said
Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.
The former president has made a number of insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”
New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.
“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.
Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’
No, Trump is just preparing his insanity defense for when he loses.
Theoretically, what would happen if this close to the election, the stress causes a blood vessel to burst and Trump just strokes out?
I mean, besides the post-jedi levels of celebration, would Vance just be inserted into the ticket if it’s too far along to have a new primary?
His cult would still vote for him if he’s got a pulse.
Once the individual state filing deadlines have passed, it’s likely that Trump/Vance would have to remain on the ballot. But this is one instance where the Electoral College helps, because the election is not for the candidates themselves, it is for electors who support the ticket. And the final certification of electors is up to each State Legislature.
So, if God exercises His Ultimate Veto on Trump’s Presidency, it will be commonly understood that Vance would take over the ticket. He will pick a new VP, and any former Trump/Vance electors would likely cast electoral votes for Vance/Chesterfield instead. While it is possible that State Democrats might challenge this, it’s also absurd to force electors to vote for someone who can no longer take office, so it’s likely that States would give their blessing to the substitution. Particularly if Harris is the overall winner regardless, and the Republican EC votes are simply for the historical record, and have no effect on the outcome.
Vance/Chesterfield
First VP with a sexual harassment claim against their boss?
A bigger question is, how could we tell that even happened?
Edit: I mean short of him dying or becoming a drooling vegetable. The man is already deeply deranged and exhibiting significant mental declind
after the Yub Nub festival, presumably Vance should step up, but, given his shocking unpopularity, the RNC could nominate someone entirely different.
nobody knows. it has never happened before, so it would be new territory.
Based on what I’ve seen Republicans claiming online, prompted by recent changes in the Democratic ticket, such a change would be very dangerous to our democracy and therefore we should go forward with Trump being President despite the minor setback of being dead.
Is being alive a qualification to be elected? I have no doubt Trump’s people will try to pull an Air Bud “there’s no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball” move.
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Could just be his old man dementia finally surfacing. He’s fucking old, the oldest presidential candidate for sure. He’s done, he should just drop out, it’s pathetic. #donewithdementiadon
Donold Trump.
He’s way to old to be running for president. He should drop out
Would have been interest if Nikki Haley was the Republican candidate.
That means a person of color woman would be president of the US with almost a 100% certainty. Also the for first Indian American.
Yeah but Haley would have a serious problem getting the Republican nomination, because she isn’t white or a guy.
Pretty sure he lost his marbles years ago, if he even had any to start with…
How would you be able to tell?
At least 20 years too late on that “worry.”
Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”
How about this: instead of a debate they both take an IQ test created and administered by a neutral party. Recordings of them taking the test will be released to the public once they are both finished.
Just have them read an essay on camera and then write a short summary.
Nah fuck it have the test fully made by the opposing party and “Kamabla” would still whoop him
That… Might actually be a better option. They could throw whatever nonsense at Kamala and she’ll still do well, and he’ll get basic questions relevant to government and fail abysmally.
Question 1: “Who legally won the 2020 US presidential election?”
Even better: after both parties submit their questions, they are told the candidates will have to answer both tests.
I want them to take a test on basic US history, and/or the intelligence test from idiocracy.
I’m actually pretty curious about how trump would do with matching the shaped blocks to the corresponding holes.I’m like 50/50 on if Trump knows the year, just the year, the US was founded on. Even if he gets the tip ‘‘Philadelphia has a Basketball Team’’
I mean, that’s kind of ambiguous. 1775, 1776, 1783 and 1789 could all be argued to be the founding year.
How about a one question test: have you ever tried to overthrow the government of the United States?
I wonder how one would find an actual neutral party with one of the most polarizeing people in history involved.
As long as they were provided with the same test, the same answer key was used, and we are able to watch each of them take the test, it really shouldn’t matter. Even if the test was “name Trump’s children” Kamala would score higher.
Doesn’t matter, it’s not like he’d ever agree to publicly displaying his actual, measurable, level of intelligence.
True that.
There aren’t any people who are neutral on the politics of the most powerful country in the world
Not even Russia? I’m SHOCKED!!!
For a conservative, only a conservative qualifies as “neutral”. Everyone else is “the extreme left”.
For some Republicans, even some other Republicans are “the extreme left”.
Trump would boast that he managed to colour inside the lines “and they were very small lines!”.
Test administrator’s response: “Sir there was no coloring portion on this test.”
But I brought my own markers!
Mental instability should be automatic disqualification from federal service
A lying psychopath would pass the test while an honest anxious person would fail. More rules on who we can elect will work just as well as the age minimum does.
How come when this guy has a public nervous break down it’s big news, but when the rest of us have one it’s “suck it up and get therapy?”
I want people to get worried about the country when I have a nervous breakdown.
How is your nuclear engineering? You could potentially make folks quite nervous, indeed.
I have no certifications, but I do understand more than I need to about PWR and BWR plants. I mean, I couldn’t run a plant myself, I don’t know what all the buttons do, and I don’t know the various smaller parts and components.
I mean if you gave me time and low enriched nuclear fuel, a machinist, an electronics technician, and some money to buy other components and generators I could probably get one built. Would it be safe? Unlikely, but it would work.
But that’s also sort of the same lines as, yes technically I’ve worked on a flight control computer for commercial air craft, or heart pumps. I’ve definitely been capable of working on missile control systems but I decided I didn’t like the idea of building weapons.
So I mean, in all, how worried I make other people is entirely dependent on what makes people worry.
Being commander in chief seems to make a lot of people worry without a lot of effort
Had Trump not regularly insulted people who seek out therapy there might be a bit more sympathy for the situation he finds himself in.
Hasn’t this already been happening for the past 8 years?
He never had any marbles to lose. He doesn’t read and has a short attention span. He’s only interested in enriching himself and gaining power, he doesn’t care about anyone else, he doesn’t care about this country. He doesn’t care about people’s beliefs, they are just a tool he uses as a means to an end.
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Headlines like this have existed for the entire time Trump has been in the political spotlight.
Do not trust conservatives will see this and agree. Do not get complacent. Vote. Encourage friends and family to vote.
At this point the people who are already Trump supporters will not be swayed. He was always nuts, he was always weird, he always screwed out nonsensical word-salad. The fight is for independents who are still on the fence, and everyone on both sides considers them gullible idiots, and campaign strategy will reflect that.
Also the supporters who aren’t diehards. Most races are won largely by just how motivated likely voters are to show up.
Largely why Hillary lost.
Everyone correctly considers them gullible idiots when it comes to politics.
All those people will have other areas of individual expertise as well.
They’re not wrong, it’s just that being in a breakdown/meltdown state is normal for him.
My concern with Harris running is all the positivity will get people complacent due to the polls.
Polls don’t mean shit. Get out and vote. Tell everyone to go vote.
The Republicans will cheat, swindle and intimidate to win this election. They will break every rule they can, and they don’t even need the popular vote in order to win. Trump might be shitting the bed but this is still far from over. The only way to keep him out of the white house is if people vote against him in vast enough numbers to counteract their cheating.
Cry baby snowflake felon is little cry baby snowflake felon - big shocker here
Remember when Amber Rose said she would back Trump because he was a “real man”?
Lol
It’s almost always just power plays imo. On both sides.
I think a big problem we have is that our populace is so large. We have a lot of culture and lifestyles to embrace, so politicians in order to appeal to the broad audience wash out most of who they actually are and end up with these surface level generalists who still have personalities below that we won’t see.
Hard to be a singular representative for a large populace and stay popular.
What exactly is “both sides” here? You’re getting pushback because that’s a loaded phrase and is basically never used in good faith. But show us this is an exception, if you can.
I was just expressing that I believe shallow politicians can exist on both sides, and do to some extent. Not drawing any specific statistics. To be clear, that means I’m also not saying both sides exhibit this characterization at an equal rate of occurrence, just that it is and has been happening on both sides.
Politicians, like it or not and regardless of party lines, sometimes are just in it for the power and the glory.
Again, this doesn’t happen at an equal rate on both sides, and I’m sure it does happen at a disproportionate rate, but it’s an overall problem that comes with positions of power and authority that I think should be tackled outside of party-specific focus. You could argue burning houses as rationale to target, but if there’s fires in both houses and you’re able to, you should take both out or the other will be just as bad at some point.
both sides
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Just trying to understand - are you saying that it’s not both sides?
I personally think that republicans are more likely to go back on their word, but dems do it as well
To address the problem we need to have the problem in full in front of us if we’re to eradicate the problem and not just swing a pendulum back and forth endlessly until the planet boils us alive
Person A quietly swipes a pen off your desk.
Person B robs a bank at gunpoint, and it goes bad, murdering 12 people in the process, including kids.
“Obviously both sides must be talked about with the same weight of seriousness.” “That was my favorite pen, how dare he!!!” “They’re both thieves, and there’s no difference between them.” “They’re both the same.”
Fuck that.
