Donald Trump’s discredited election fraud claims are reportedly losing state Republican parties’ key donors.

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    Everything Trump touches goes bankrupt

    I’m shocked that the US made it out of his presidency intact.

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      You could argue pretty convincingly that it didn’t. We’re in a much worse place than we were, and the damage is far from over.

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          Hitler spent 6 months or something in jail for his treason. Trump hasn’t even been indicted for it yet.

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      He was handed the reigns of the pretty stable and steady Obama-era economy and by the time he left the US economy was in fair shambles.

      Which was, of course, significantly caused by a certain global pandemic that he outrageously mismanaged.

      Hard to say what would’ve happened absent COVID. There’s plenty of precedent of the cycle of neoliberal Democrats getting the economy all roasty toasty then losing an election to a Republican who immediately puts out huge tax cuts for the extremely rich that is followed quickly by some kind of financial crash.

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        There is an argument that the Trump Administration was the cause of the global pandemic by recklessly dismantling healthcare watch teams in China and not acting to close U.S. borders when the outbreak occurred.

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          I don’t agree that he caused it, but much like Russian election interference, his choices and actions were nearly indistinguishable from ones a pro-COVID death cult leader would have made.

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    Everyone has been losing money ever since he became a “politician.” The dude grifted and fleeced America.

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        I don’t think he or his loyalists care much. He’s rich, and they helped him get there. That’s all that matters to any of them.

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        I believe that for the next 400 years the worse insult that politicians can throw at each other will be to say that their opponent is like Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump.

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    Periodic reminder that before the election happened Steve Bannon confessed the conspiracy to Start the Steal

    https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

    …audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

    Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]

    STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.

    He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.

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    Its a shame that such a large voting block in the US constantly votes against its own self interests just to own the libs?

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        40% of voters is both large and the threshold where fascism is most likely to take hold.

        Much less than 40% and they’d lack the required support. Much more and they’d have a majority, and hence, no need for fascism.