Donald is in trouble

[Hydra009]

Well, Trumpadumpagus won in Iowa, and Ramaswampy is out.
Anyone surprised?

Out of the state's ~752k voters registered Republican, ~111k voted in that primary (for every Republican who voted, six stayed home) and ~53k voted for Trump (a little over half of those who showed up)

But most stayed home.

[Hydra009]

Some interesting polls from the few Republicans who actually bothered to go:

59% want a nationwide ban on abortion (the majority of the antiabortion vote choice - a strange phrase in this context - went to Trump)
64% say Trump is fit to be president even if convicted of a crime (what's a little light treason among friends?)
65% say Biden didn't win "legitimately" (when asked the same thing to just Trump voters, that went up to 88% with 7% somehow admitting that Biden won fairly while simultaneously still voting for Trump, who lies about that constantly.  The remaining 5% apparently don't know how to answer a very simple yes/no question, which is also kind of on brand)

Trump allegedly did well in the demographics department - of people who showed up, who weren't much, because most Republicans didn't show.

[Hydra009]

While we're on the topic of the "stolen" 2020 election, it turns out that Biden was actually shorted 4000 in Virginia's Prince William County

Trump incorrectly received 2,327 extra votes, while Biden was shorted 1,648 votes

"The reporting errors were presumably a consequence of the results tapes not being programmed to a format that was compatible with state reporting requirements. Attempts to correct this issue appear to have created errors," said Eric Olsen, director of elections for the county.

Biden won Virginia with 2,415,216 votes versus 1,960,103 for Trump, so it's not like this revelation changes anything for that election.  Still, it's somewhat alarming that these byzantine voting systems used by the states have problems like this, especially when the elections are often nail-biters in some states.

[Unbeliever]

Iowa Republicans sucked Trumpadumpagus's caucus! 🤣

[ferdmonger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzfhU8t5i8

The box is where Trumpers are living right now. I hope Nancy Pelosi... er, I mean Nikki Haley. will understand the box they're living in right now.

[the_antithesis]

"Greatest Hits" WTF?

[Unbeliever]

Keyanne Conway said Trumpadumpagus has been "gracious" about his wins in the caucuses!
I guess he's been 50 shades of gracious...

[ferdmonger]

Will Donald have the courage to testify in the E. Jean Carroll trial today? He will either chicken out saying the whole thing is rigged or he won't be able to help himself and will begin spewing more nonsense which will anger the judge and probably the jury as well.

[Unbeliever]

I hope he does testify, but I doubt that he will. If he does, I expect him to testilie.

[Hydra009]

Hearing Trump complain that Nikki Haley is being a sore loser by...*checks notes*...not immediately quitting after losing two states with a combined total of less than 2% of the US population, well that's quite something.  Especially since she now polls not too far behind him and currently has about 7 votes for every 10 he gets - maybe not enough to win, but definitely enough to be serious challenge.

Imagine if there was some guy - a real loser - whose loss enraged him so much that he set a mob on the Capitol in an attempt to destroy American democracy and people actually died because of it.  And then he ran again like nothing happened and he didn't do anything wrong.

[Dark Lightning]

The sumbitch has/had enough money, and people want it. They'll say and do anything to get a slice, including committing crimes. He's been surrounded by sycophants for so long that even he believes his own bullshit.

[Hydra009]

The sumbitch has/had enough money, and people want it.

That I can understand.  But the far more common scenario is that they're the ones handing over wealth to him.  That's why Trump loves milking Republicans so much - because it's so lucrative.  So many people give and give to this guy and get jack all for their efforts - I wish I could say that this is some abrupt shift from normal Republican operating procedure, but it's not.

[Dark Lightning]

I'll clarify. It's the people who work for him, not the suckers who send it in.

[Hydra009]

I'll clarify. It's the people who work for him, not the suckers who send it in.

Even then...  Did he even pay Giuliani?  So many of them were tossed aside or went to jail or otherwise lost favor.  Afaik, the only people who actually made out like bandits were all in his family.  With lots of Republicans, it really does seem like it's some perverted form of "loyalty" and sunk-cost fallacy rather than rational self-interest.

[ferdmonger]

Three minutes of testimony, and the man contained himself enough not to actually again defame E. Jean Carroll again.  Amazing.