Why are Trump supporters silent when it comes to Trump?

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  1. Bowerbird

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    Yeah! Because that is the equivalent of sharing secrets with foreign nationals and just random who walked near his office
     
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    Pieces of Malarkey Well-Known Member

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    Taylor Swift isn't running so that comparison is pointless.
     
  3. Pieces of Malarkey

    Pieces of Malarkey Well-Known Member

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    So far he hasn't been convicted of anything important or relevant.

    Y'all keep trying though. Eventually you'll give up.
     
  4. Pieces of Malarkey

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    This time we'll have Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo for liberals to melt down about.

    That should be fun.
     
  5. Bowerbird

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    Yet

    He hasn’t been convicted yet.
     
  6. Bowerbird

    Bowerbird Well-Known Member

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    Yep because the Collapse of the Cod fisheries was never a “thing” that happened

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  7. Joe knows

    Joe knows Well-Known Member

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    Call me uneducated that’s fine. But anyone who believes a man can become a woman shouldn’t be making real world decisions little lone talking about education at all. So bidens got to go and if it’s Trump that’s running against him, it will be Trump.
     
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  8. Pieces of Malarkey

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    No clue, huh?

    Eh, just as well.
     
  9. Bowerbird

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    Maybe she should!
     
  10. Bowerbird

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    Well - YOU inform ME then - won’t hold my breath about it being backed by anything though. But so far all I can see of the SCOTUS decisions is smoking holes in Republican feet

    Bottom line - to win elections you have to get the independents voting for you. Soooooo - what is the GOP and SCOTUS offering the independents?
     
  11. Bowerbird

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    Lols!
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    And his base will still worship him
     
  12. Pieces of Malarkey

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    If Chevron deference falls, the Deep State and the entire progressive con game of the last 50 or 60 years falls with it.

    It's exactly what Trump promised to do when he ran in 2016. All bets are off at that point.
     
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    eventually, he will die. until then justice must be persued.
     
  14. Polydectes

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    Well because there can be no real criticism of him.

    If I start a thread talking about how I disliked his banning of bump stocks because it was Draconian and pointless. Nobody will talk about. The orange man bread crowd will just do their standard orange man bad nonsense which at this point I just completely tune it out. Or they'll start talking about why we needed the band bunk stocks and how that was good that Trump did that.

    The reason why there is not a thread of trump supporters criticizing Trump and I have a few things I would criticize him on is because we don't do that here it can't be civil.

    So until people quit ripping your hair out bouncing around like Daffy duck at the mere mention of his name calm down quit telling me all these things he said that I don't care about, it can't be discussed.

    I can think of one or two things Obama did that I like. And this is how people are the same regardless of what side they fall on. If I point out that I liked the way Obama abandoned his reduction of energy toward the end of his presidency I'll just get crap about birth certificates and that's the same thing as the orange man bad people. It's tired it's pointless everyone's heard it and only the people that care will ever care
     
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  15. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Here's the reason.........."But the recording also explains the former commander in chief’s undimmed appeal to GOP base voters for whom rule breaking that horrifies Washington elites is a major justification for granting him a second term.
     
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    I think one must acknowledge that pro-Trumpers will vote for him and anti-Trumpers against him no matter what. That since we’ve entered today’s modern political era of polarization, the great divide, the super, mega, ultra-high partisanship, someone like Trump was bound to happen. I think there’s one big reason for this. Why we’re in today’s modern political era, why Trump still has a load of support.


    Could Trump win in 2024 despite what you think of him? Yes, he could. If you’re going by today’s polls, Trump and Biden are in a basic tie, considering the MOE of plus or minus 3 points.


    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html


    Maybe one should be asking the question, why is this? The Republican Party’s base makes up no more than 30% of the total electorate. Yet the polls are showing Trump at 44%. Trump must be getting support from more than Trumpers or his avid MAGA followers. That support must come from those non-affiliated, the less to non-partisan group we identify as swing voters or independents. The one’s for the most part that aren’t hardcore pro or anti Trump, although most of them dislike Trump, the man, the person, the individual. There’s a reason for this also. Why they would consider voting for a man they dislike.


    Which leaves me longing for the pre-modern political era days. When politics made much more sense. Trumpers may be silent and remain silent on all his legal problems. To them, Trump’s legal problem is a Democratic Party political vendetta against him. But their loyalty to and support of the man will remain firm. Those others, those non-affiliated, less to non-partisans will also remain silent. They’re not going to shout and holler their political views or how they view the current state of this nation’s politics from the top of the mountain. Ranting, raving, hollering and shouting are left to the hardcore ideologues and partisans. They’ll silently go into the voting booth and vote. For who? Only they know although the polls can give us an idea. A rough, ballpark figure.
     
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    Trump is so over-analyzed he gets in trouble for stuff he didn't do (Fine, that 50 year old woman he allegedly raped in public "froze" and didn't make a peep while he raped her. He would have had to known she wouldn't make a peep, which just isn't credible.) while Biden has the intelligence community and corporate media covering up what he actually does do. The guy should have been impeached and convicted. That they'll cover for him makes him much more dangerous than a guy that made mean tweets.

    That anything is finally coming to light (of course the laptop was real. Biden took millions from foreign powers. Without Trump's authority, he took secret documents as a US Senator and then as VP and so much more) I think maybe someone signaling him to not run again in 2024 but that nothing has been done tells me, the Democrats just don't have an option. They'll do what they can to get him re elected, then let him retire a month or so into office and we'll have cackles as POTUS.
     
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    I understand that being a left-leaning independent can appear extreme right from the point of view of the extreme left. I get called a liberal in other threads.
    I voted for Jo.

    Trump is an awful person and should have never been elected in the first place. His support is the result of results the other party is producing. Both parties are thieves. Dems just steal a bit more. That makes him the lesser of evils.
     
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    Deep State? That is make believe stuff.
     
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    As dim as he may be, the results your party is producing makes him shine.
     
  21. Pieces of Malarkey

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    OK. Then you've got nothing to worry about, don't you?
     
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    Out of curiosity, what do you think the term "deep state" means?
     
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    Silent about what?
     
  24. Sandy Shanks

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    Huh?

    How can one be silent about something?

    Are Republicans providing the reason for their silence about their party and their party's leader?

    In any case, they are carrying on. Still nothing about Trump.
     
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    Not sure what you don't understand here
     

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