youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:19 am
Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:27 am
Here is a video, specially made, of the Coup Plotter promising to free and pardon everyone who heeded the call for the attempted Putsch, just a few days after unapologetically dining with a white supremacist and a guy who posted a swastika inside the Star of David on twitter:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 9781600260
The problem is obviously Hunter Biden.
I wished we could actually chat over a dram or two and not via a forum thread. Seriously inquiring here, and no, I am not pro-trump.
What is it you think Trump is searching/seeking in his continual bid for a second term, after being investigated more than any other person in US history, impeached 2x, and he still comes back as if all that was just water off his back? Otherwise, why would he continually risk his fortune....and mindfully consider it is not just him...it is his entire surrounding staff/family. His martyrism, for lack of a better term, certainly seems to be driving him despite all that has gone on.
I know you're not pro-Trump, and that you would like, as much as me, if he would just "go away." That's a euphemism for anything it takes, dropping dead, going to Danbury, slipping into a ditch while playing golf and inexplicably being run over by Don Jr.'s and Kimberley's golf cart, etc. For my part, I would welcome a GOP that trafficked in policy choices and deal-making rather than the default these days of: own the libs to placate the kook-base; investigate the President and his family to grind governance to a halt; and fish aro9und for tax loopholes for our friends.
Your question is really related to the psychology of this guy and his family. It is a good question, and I don't have a clue what animates a 76-year old man to keep doing the things he does, placing his life and freedom and his family's "reputation" at risk. Most folks seem to think the gambit is almost all about obtaining the office in order to divert all of these investigations and questions through the Presidency, together with an insatiable thirst for authority. So...I don't know; you're guess is as good or better than mine.
I do think he has considerably more destructive voltage left in him, and his basic, sociopathic selfishness will lead him to keep dragging the GOP through the mud of his bad judgment (Dinner with Nick and Ye!!, etc., etc.), at least for a while. And this, really, is bad for all Americans. For heaven's sake, I would like to actually see a candidate choice again, like we had here in Maine (when I lived there) and New Hampshire. But now, it's all Democrats for me, because the GOP candidates for the House and Senate here were still in thrall to the Malevolent Orange Creature. I did vote for a GOP County Attorney and a GOP Register of Deeds, who are both excellent at their jobs and good people.