What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Johnson gets the gig. Go n-eirí leat, bucaill!

A man that believes the world is 6000 years old. God help America.

The Judge saying, 'he's not a credible witness', really shows where Trump is.

Also probably the type of person who trusts in god, but still has to run for public office, just in case you know god doesn’t do what he likes.

But really what is the point of a $10k fine? It will just come out of GOP funds or whatever Trump is using to pay.

He has been given plenty of chances, way more than any other defendant would be given.

I think it's about building up to something more substantial.

The judge will be able to justifiably throw the book at him at some stage, if trump persists.

I think trump's reaction means he will comply.

19 defendants become 10?

The results of decades of underfunding of education

Go get'em Jack!

That's it, it's not really the amount of money it's making a man who won't even pay his own lawyers make a decision so if he pays that fine he loses face and if he refuses to pay well he ends up behind bars even if it's for a few hours and as much as he puts on the big show about being willing to go to prison there is no way he wants to end up behind bars.

It's a celebration of ignorance.

I don't care what those egg-heads say, it's raining outside right now so there is no such thing as Climate Change.

I didn't go to college, I'm grassroots. Can't trust some poindexter.

Look, I put my spirit-level on the ground. Those nerds are saying the earth is a globe.

Take bleach and shine lights inside to get rid of Covid

So you vilify education. You belittle and even threaten scientists and scientific experts. And anyone who DOESN'T do this is one of the "Elite". One of "Them". And that's how you get and rule your cult "Oh that poindexter? What does he know?" It's not limited to the US. You had Michael Gove during Brexit period: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong".... How did that work out?

But it is a consistent trait that the educated are amongst the first targeted because cult leaders do not want people who question. And ironically they market this to their cult as being informed. How many times have you heard some flat earther or anti vaxxer or trumpist call someone sheep because they believe a proven fact? People willing to question can review a situation, analyze facts and even change their opinion based upon new evidence. I'm sure many non-cultists here have believed a situation, liked person/celebrity/whatever only for new facts to emerge which changes their entire opinion on such a situation or person.

However with cultists, this is not possible: There is a person on the political "humour" thread who posts NOTHING but anti-Biden images. Usually with comment such as "Democrat scum" or something. Almost daily. Sometimes many a day. Then they post an image with: "Oh trump still hasn't been convicted. He's living in your head rent-free". And posting images about people having concerns with trump as being deranged... All without irony. There are many other posting on that thread, from many here, unrelated to trump or biden or the US at all. But not so with this poster.

We all get it: trump was the protest vote against Clinton and the perception that there was an entrenchment or the same old same old in US politics. And, it must be said, it wasn't 100% wrong. 300 million people in the US and it was going to be another Clinton in office? Then what? Another Bush? Another Obama after that?

But anyone with an ounce of critical thought is rightly horrified by what trump and his cultists represent and accept.

• Celebrating serial sexual assault
• Support of White Supremacist groups
• Support of insurrectionists
• Support of dictatorships and nations hostile to the US
• Hatred of the American Prisoners of War
• Support of assassination of political rival
• Election tampering

ALL of the above from his own mouth. In addition to below which are still pending or which didn't come from his own mouth

• Conviction of sexual assault
• Theft and exposure of top secret documents
• Fraud
• Additional sexual assault

But his cultists will not accept anything above. Even the stuff from his own mouth they consider "Fake News". They are now limited to "But hunter's Laptop" (How's that going, anyway?). We even had some here celebrating that he was "only" convicted of sexual assault and not rape. Imagine the mind of such a person. Someone who thinks that being found guilty of Sexual Assault instead of Rape is somehow a good thing.

Being found guilty of Sexual Assault is NOT A GOOD THING

But harping on about it is "Fake News".... It is no coincidence that trump mouthpieces invented the term "Alternative Facts"

Edit: Fixed a typo.

Eugene Debs ran five times for President. William Jennings Bryan had multiple runs, three times as the nominated candidate. If Trump is defeated by Biden for a second time, will he run again? He'll be 82 on election year 2028, a year older than Biden if and when he hypothetically wins the election next year. The GOP is Trump's, it's now becoming political suicide within the party to oppose him, or even not to be visibly seen to support him. Ronna McDaniels is stepping down from her RNC Chairperson role at the end of the current term, I suspect to sidestep the absolute chaos that will ensue in the following years of another election loss for Donnie T and I can't imagine her being replaced by a moderate, it'll most likely by a MJT level MAGA-Meathead. The anti-trump faction of the GOP are now so weak, they'd have no voice in trying to dissuade the party in letting him have another run, that's even if they aren't replaced by then by MAGA substitutes in their states. TIL, Ronna is Mitt Romney's niece. I never knew that.

There was a time I thought the same, but at this stage the implosion of the GOP is extremely destructive to his chances.

Couple that with the monumental legal troubles he has, I'm thinking he is toast.

I sense that when he (fingers crossed) loses the election to Biden and eventually drops permanently his re-election ambitions, if the next GOP nominee is a Trump clone, like Ramaswamy, I can see a large swathe of moderate republicans who saw Trump as a temporary phase in their party, switch parties or abstain from voting in elections. It’s easy to start believing that MAGAs make up almost the entire Republican vote, but it’s more believable that even though the support of the MAGAS has definitely increased in decibel levels since his election, the blind support for him has definitely decreased in numbers.