It doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to explore a world where Donald Trump takes his Big Lie orientation into the next arena of political combat, the 2024 Republican primary and then refuses to live with results that don’t suit him. Such a thing may indeed take place and it might make the 2016 GOP primary look normal by comparison.
This is from a blog called The Halfway Cafe and all I can say is many a true word has been spoken in jest.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decides to run against Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination because he smells Trump’s political blood in the proverbial water from the plethora of criminal investigations by the Department of Justice, the State of New York, and the state of Georgia, among others. [….]
All the candidates tread lightly at first to avoid pissing off ultra MAGA voters still loyal to Trump as he gives them childish nicknames and attacks them personally, until Ron DeSantis, who is not a total Trump brown-noser like all the others, turns up the heat and expands his vote share to being tied with Trump. Meanwhile, Pence, Pompeo, Hawley, and Cotton all drop out when they get less than 1% in Iowa, and even less in New Hampshire, while Ted Cruz and Nikki Haley start fighting each other in the background and the media to be selected as the eventual Vice President candidate.
Happy that DeSantis is a fighter, and annoyed by Trump’s endless unprofessional and petty bitchiness, voters start swinging toward DeSantis. Trump declares that he got cheated in Nevada and South Carolina because he should be winning with 95% of the vote, and, when DeSantis wins the majority of delegates on Super Tuesday, Trump declares he’s quitting the primary and starting his own political party called the “Freedom Party” or some other stupid name.
Trump refuses to give up because he knows he must become president to stay out of prison and pardon himself, and will sabotage the DeSantis presidential campaign and the GOP rather than admit he lost fair and square. At the Republican National Convention, Trump tells all his supporters to attend a “Stop the Steal” rally outside the chosen convention center because “it will be wild.” Trump actually walks with the protesters inside as they brawl and chant “Hang DeSantis” until the police arrest him and supporters en masse.
When his Freedom Party polls at only 15% of the electorate in the general election, Trump will accuse both parties of rigging it against him, and demand all his loyal MAGA supporters boycott the election. Then Democrats win in a massive blue wave big majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Hey, I like the ending! Works for me! Or, alternatively, the Freedom Party, composed of the most virulent MAGAs, decides to move on Washington, D.C. to physically reinstate Trump in the White House, by body surfing him from the Delaware border all the way to the White House lawn.
Or, Trump does get indicted and decides that before he gets arrested it would be a great time to actually build Trump Tower Moscow and so he goes to Russia, but he finds the going rough because there isn’t a McDonald’s hamburger to be had in the entire country and the wifi is so shot that he can’t post on Truth Social.
He is forced to eat borscht and exercise, because golf carts were conscripted by the Russian Army and driven to Ukraine years before, where they became scrap metal. Going into junk food withdrawal and walking a mile a day, with no access to social media, proves to be constitutionally too much for him and he collapses on the steps of the Kremlin and dies of a broken heart. His last words are “Twitter, Twitter.”
His Russian followers put his corpse in a nearby baby carriage, but they lose control of it. It lurches down the steps, gaining speed and flies out into traffic, in the path of an oncoming bus. BAAMMM!
Vladimir Putin does a deal with Ron DeSantis whereby DeSantis fundraises off of the remains of the wreckage and MAGAs build shrines to their fallen Marmalade Master and pay exorbitant funds for Trump relics. One of his golf shoes goes for a million bucks and is encased in glass and ends up, eventually, in the Louvre next to the Mona Lisa.
This is assuming DeathSantis (or as my mom likes to call him “Sanchez”) even gets that far. My guess: he’s going to peak early and then some fairly unknown quantity will get the nomination. At which point, screams of “Rigged!” and “Fraud!” will be yelled out by the losers, disrupting their unity and letting the Dems coast to victory.
You lost me at the golf shoe going for $1 million. Most MAGAts don’t have that kind of money. And let’s face it, there will be a million of them sold for the low, low price of $19.99 plus S&H, all w/ a certificate of authenticity, on late night METV following the MyPillow ads.
Satire is taking things to absurd lengths and that was aa absurd as I could make it. That, and the golf shoe ending up in the Louvre next to the Mona Lisa. :))
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Some of that is some weird shit but the truth has proven in the past to sometimes be stranger than fiction. I do think it’s more than a small possibility that Trump forms his own political Party but not under some name like Freedom Party. This is Trump we are talking about. If it gets to that point I’m not sure he’ll even settle for MAGA Party even though he’s what everyone thinks of first when the term MAGA comes up. If things do go that far I think his ego won’t allow it to be named anything other than the TRUMP Party. (in gold letters of course!)
If he believes he can make money off of the Trump Party, there will be a Trump Party. Remember, this is the man who just wanted Trump TV and subscriptions of $9.95 per month to several million people. He might get that, and more, from his own party.
It mentions the magats getting tired of former guy’s unprofessional and petty bitchiness but I’ve got ask “what, only now”? diaper don has been unprofessional, petty, and bitchy all his worthless life and especially when he thought about and then entered the political arena. I find it hard to believe the lemmings who voted for him in 2020 are suddenly going to abandon him because of his, let’s face it, only qualities.
If you knew this crowd like I do, you’d know better. High or low, if you are no longer useful, you are cast aside. Trump passed that point sometime last week for them, if not before. Why else talk about “Trumpism without Trump” despite the fact that the latter is still breathing?
It could well be heading for another party – Trump and the GQP Rump.
When you consider that all his fund raising has been for himself, with the GQP paying his legal fees, that the RNC is going to be very short of funds come November as their small donation base dries up and they are forced to rely on the big money donors (and that is also going to be split with a portion going to Don John
They’re BOTH rumps, honestly, fighting over the Reagan Coalition scraps while the world moves on without them. No great loss.