I don’t mind admitting it, sometimes my mind works in  strange and mysterious ways. And tonight I heard something on The Last Word that I’ve heard before, and even written very successfully about, for some dim switch flipped in my brain, and I saw the situation in a brand new light.

I wrote a couple of days before about Trump issuing a public statement on his own campaign letterhead, stating that if the GOP writ large didn’t get its head out of its ass, and resolve the issue of the 2020 fraud charges, the Republicans would not be showing up to vote in 2022 or 2024. This was clearly a signal from Trump to every GOP controlled state to continue the Big Lie or he would not only order the sheeple to sit out the 2022 midterms, he would order them to sit out the 2024 Presidential election as well.

As Joan Rivers used to say, Can we talk? The 2022 midterms are one thing, and the GOP desperately needs to at least win back the House in order to set the stage for a House refusal to certify the results of the 2024 election if Trump is once again a loser. That’s Trump’s pressure point to the GOP to toe the Trump line.

But what about the second half of the threat? Trump swore that if he wasn’t coronated most riki tik, his base would sit out not only 2022, but 2024 as well. Well, the last time I checked, GOP polling showed Trump as the prohibitive front runner for the 2024 nomination if he chose to once again throw his curly-whirly into the ring. Standard reasoning is that everybody else in the GOP would clear out if he announced another run.

But Trump threatened that if he wasn’t anointed to return to the White House immediately, his base would sit out both 2022 and 2024. Which means that he was officially threatening that his own base would sit out the 2024 election, when he was the GOP candidate, because the results were already rigged against him! Sweet Jesus! How fucking stupid can one human being be?

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Just remember he’s a pathological liar. Nothing he says stands the second he utters it. He once said. “I stand by nothing”. May be the only true statement he ever said. Hope ur right, but as he always said,” we’ll see”. Wait til his sycophants start whining to him. I’m hoping biology catches up to his lifestyle. Depositions do raise one’s blood pressure.

  2. Another thought on how stupid can he be; I was thinking back on the Woodward revelation that Trump knew Covid was spread through the air. Then, why for heaven’s sake, would he not only refuse to wear a mask, but make his staff remove theirs in his presence? My guess is ego is bigger than smarts in his book.

  3. Trump won’t declare his candidacy for 2024 until the last possible moment. The reason is simple: he’s running a lot of, what are basically, campaign rallies as well as ‘donate generously’ fund-raising events (he’d directly run the same on Facebook and Twitter if they’#d let him back). As it stands, there’s no oversight on the millions he has, basically, scammed from the sheeple who think that is is to fund a campaign, BUT, once he actually declares his candidacy, the FEC start to take an interest in what happens to the funding – at present he can more or less spend the money on what he wants – lawyers’ fees for his current (and upcoming) court cases and anything not actually involved in the costs of a presidential campaign. Once he actually declares and officially accepts the nomination, that stops and the FEC starts watching.

    Stupid and arrogant he may be in almost everything, but he’s not stupid in separatimng the rubes from their money.

    Pushing the Big Lie is simply another money-making scam

    • The problem for Trump, though, is that he can’t wait too late to declare because states need to print ballots for the primary elections (including the party’s candidate/s and their assigned convention delegates) a couple of months BEFORE the date of the election. Per the “US Presidential Election News” website, Super Tuesday 2024 is tentatively scheduled for March 5, 2024 with (by my calculations) roughly 1/3 of all GOP delegates up for grabs (states listed for that date are AL, AR, CA, CO, ME, MA, MN, NC, OK, TN, TX, UT, VT and VA with 834 delegates up; GA, LA and NY’s primaries aren’t listed on the schedule yet, but those three states have another 217 at stake). If Trump’s name isn’t on the official GOP ballots by–most likely–mid-January at the latest, he can only get write-in votes and would have to rely on a handful (at best) of “uncommitted” delegates in each state; any “committed” delegates would be required to vote for the candidate to whom they’re pledged on a first ballot (of course, the GOP Convention rules committee could just wimp out and announce “delegates may vote their conscience”). But since the state Party organizations don’t print the ballots (that’s the State’s job), a candidate who wishes to appear on the ballot has to make a formal request of the Party to appear on the ballot, generally with the Party paying for the ballot access fees and paperwork. But as NO candidate in recent memory (especially not since the start of the modern primary process) has gone into a national convention without at least SOME committed/pledged delegates, the very legality of the convention just “coronating” a candidate without having received a sizable number of delegates could come into question. The parties, of course, do set their own rules but they’ve typically operated under the notion of democratic principles (which means a candidate must run and win on his/her own merits rather than just expecting to get the nomination handed to them).

      • Yep – but he’ll keep stalling as long as possible, but regarding ‘democratic principles’ – the Republiqanons are as democratic as our local, born-again, bible thumping, flat-earth, ‘Democratic’ Unionist Party (which is in cahoots with the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association) who are making dire predictions about ‘violence erupting’ if the Brit government doesn’t abrogate the international treaty regarding Norn Iron.

        Well Boris does sort of model himself on Florida Man

  4. Murf, I am a big fan of you and Ursula. Y’all help me make it through the madness.

    BUT, the former guy didn’t literally launch a torpedo. Come on. It’s getting old – the literally vs figuratively word/term usage.
    Let’s consider dropping those comparisons.

    GO BLUE!

  5. He’s an idiot but he’s probably got some stupid scam in mind to pull on his supporters, the GOP, or both. It looks like he knows he’ll never get re-elected so he’s come up with some stupid scheme that he thinks his supporters will like and fall for.

    Earlier I read an Ammon Bundy article where Bundy compared Trump to Hitler but I think he’s more like Mussolini, a fascist dictator wannabe.

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