• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    I think some R lawmakers are realizing this administration is beyond the pale of “surely, they wouldn’t do x”. Because the way they are justifying this, would be how they could justify a whole myriad of heinous and murderous acts. They could blow up everyone onboard a Caribbean cruiseliner and say they suspected some drugs and there were some terrorist connected individuals on it. Who’s to tell them otherwise if there are no survivors and the media keeps sanewashing this maniacal administration?

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      Also midterms are less than a year away and Trump’s rock solid 39% won’t help many of them if his name isn’t on the ticket to drive voters to polls. Picking a couple headline issues like these ensures likely voters see them as mostly Trump, but not crazy because they did x, y, or z that one time.

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        Trump has only ever been “good” for the party when he is on the ticket. When he endorses people and he isn’t in the election, it tends to tank them. Maybe they’re finally realizing Trump is poison for the party.

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          To go further, Trump has never been good for the party. He wins elections because the Dems are able to consistently run worse campaigns.

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              I’d attribute that to people voting straight ticket. The typical American doesn’t put that much thought into who they’re electing, you’re not gonna see that many people voting for a Republican president and then voting Democrat for their senator.

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                Yet Trump and AOC both won on the same ticket… And here in Wisconsin Evers the democratic governor and Ron Johnson the republican senator both won on the same ticket.

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          Maybe they’re finally realizing Trump is poison for the party.

          They said about the party currently controlling all 3 branches of government.

          If that’s poison then I will happily take some.

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            Right, because you ignored the rest of my comment and the other statistics. His party got crushed in the 2018 midterms, under performed in the 2022 midterms, and they’re about to get smoked again in the 2026 midterms. Hence them trying like hell to gerrymander and rig the election. He’s poison when he is not on the ballot and he’ll never be on the ballot again.

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    Been saying for 2-3 weeks now (feel free to check me), the GOP rats are bailing off this sinking ship.

    Trump cannot win new converts. Been saying that for years. His dementia cannot be ignored any longer. The media may be quiet, but we all see it, Congress does too. The cult leader is months away from not being allowed in public. His temper is boiling over faster and faster. FFS, he can hardly walk.

    Oh, and there’s the whole Epstein thing. Notice how the GOP went on full lock-down over it? We all know how bad those files will be.

    Couple that with a drunken “kill 'em all” Department of War Secretary, ordering illegal strike on civilian vessels, and everything else

    Been watching the headlines lately? Keep watching. This isn’t, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” bullshit. See it. Believe it. The tide is turning fast.