Is It Finally Game over for Trump?

Friday, August 16, 2024

Max Burns: On Saturday, The New York Times's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan described Donald Trump's recent run of bad polling and rough outings as "the worst three weeks" of his campaign. That's putting it lightly.

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Too soon to tell.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-15 02:36 AM

Republicans should show democrats up by dumping Trump and selecting Nikki Haley.

She'll push through Project 2025 just as he would have.

That's the end goal.

Limiting, aka destroying, the federal government and allowing states to act as independent countries.

Weakening the entire United States.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-08-15 02:46 AM

"When former President Trump's campaign plane suffered mechanical problems en route to his Montana rally this weekend ... ."

Sooooo lucky I was able to grab the joystick, no, the real one this time, and steer us to safe harbor at Port Stanley. The passengers - who included Rocky Marciano, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, and Pinky Lee - gave me a standing ovation. Which was the least they could do before I gave Tom Swift control of my joystick and we blasted off for Tralfamador faster than they could all shout, "Thank you, Sirrrrrrrrrrr!"
~ Donnie Demento

PS Person ... woman, man ... camera ... TV!!!!

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-08-15 05:28 AM

Too soon to tell.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

Yup.

MAGA is k=like the Japanese in the caves of Iwo Jima. They won't give up until they're burned alive.

Don't feel pity for them. They're the ones who decided to go to war with their own country.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-15 07:42 AM

Too soon to tell.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

Yup.

MAGA is like the Japanese in the caves of Iwo Jima. They won't give up until they're burned alive.

Don't feel pity for them. They're the ones who decided to go to war with their own country.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-15 07:43 AM

"Trump is now the sole remaining actor in a play American voters are eager to stop watching. Given the choice, voters are clearly ready to vote for the only candidate who can offer them a break from their 2020 nightmare flashbacks"

After my bit of sobering realism, this is entirely true. Donald Trump is a broadly hated man. No one as generally reviled as he is going to be made president again so that he can act out his resentment towards that hate in the ways that history teaches that all dictators do.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-15 07:50 AM

She'll push through Project 2025 just as he would have. That's the end goal.
Limiting, aka destroying, the federal government and allowing states to act as independent countries. Weakening the entire United States.
#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-08-15 02:46 AM

I am truly puzzled how you came to this conclusion.

#7 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-08-16 10:36 AM

That's the goal of the GQP. They want to destroy the US as we know it and turn what's left into a theocracy.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-08-16 10:54 AM

The United States is a money-making machine. I don't think the GOP wants to destroy it. They just want to own it.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-16 12:16 PM

He isn't even trying anymore. Now that he is officially the nominee, what happens when he gets sentenced to jail time in his NY fraud case? He clearly doesn't want to win, and his whole campaign was based on beating Biden. All those voters who wanted neither geriatric candidate now have an option, and the only way he wins is by cheating (which could still be the plan, hence his low energy, bonkers campaign).

The Nikki Haley ship already sailed...she sold out by endorsing him. MAGA will go down with the ship. Maybe their only option is violence at this point.

#10 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-08-16 12:25 PM

Every voter who dislikes Der Dotard or likes the VP more needs to show up and vote in November. Only a decisive victory will foil the many unfounded and cockeyed challenges that will come. Everyone in this country knows that the election will be challenged and unless the results go beyond the threshold for an automatic recount the election will be thrown into local or federal courts for months. Vote as if the future of our democracy is at stake. Please ...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2024-08-16 12:42 PM

WHen the game is completely rigged against democrats, it's never game over for any republican.

If the contest for power were fair, repubs would have been out of power since 1992.

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-08-16 01:10 PM

Yeah. America should be so lucky.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-08-16 01:17 PM

Is it finally over for Trump?

You'd think so. He acts now he's just going through the motions. But as LAMP's #1 says, "Too soon to tell."

All I can add to that is, Noone's been killed yet. And desperate people do desperate things for desperate reasons.

#14 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-16 02:36 PM

Thank God not everyone has lost their marbles.

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-16 02:43 PM

His Maga army of election officials in swing states will mount a coordinated attack uncertifying results to have the Maga House and Maga Scotus install him as dictator.

#16 | Posted by AlternateFacts at 2024-08-16 03:09 PM

Election denier Maga Mike Johnson speaker of the house already is carefully plotting and planning to not certify the results in a Trump loss, repeat 2020, instead this time Maga controls the House.

#17 | Posted by AlternateFacts at 2024-08-16 03:13 PM

ALTERNATEFACTS

When you say, "this time Mega controls the House," you forgot to mention how desperately slim that margin is and some of them are Moderates. This is an election year for every member of Congress and with Trump flailing like a fish out of water, the down tickets for that slim margin are in imminent danger. At times like this, everybody is looking out for themselves, not Johnson.

In fact, Trump is the only one looking out for Johnson and as Trump's numbers slide backwards, so goes his power to influence.

#18 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-16 11:49 PM

Landslide victory for Harris. It's already set in stone my friends. Trump will start to crash more over the next few weeks. In the end Harris will win by 8-11 points.

#19 | Posted by NOTGOINGBACK at 2024-08-17 07:49 AM

There only a few things that will put Trump's campaign on the back burner as the days tic-tock down.

Overwhelming poll numbers for Harris in swing states that guarantee 270+++

Loss of support in both Houses of Congress as they read the tea leaves.

Loss of financial support from mega-doners as they contemplate the odds.

*As of today, August 17, 2024, Kamala Harris has 80 days to make all that happen.

#20 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-17 08:49 AM

Weren't we supposed to ignore Maggie Haberman as a snake in the grass?

#21 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-08-17 03:40 PM

Check out what pollster Frank Luntz had to say on CNBC Wednesday.

It isn't good for Trump. At all!:

www.youtube.com

#22 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-08-17 04:30 PM

Short answer: in any normal country, yes. But in Dumfuqistan, with our fractured and antiquated education system and dumbed-down Kardashian populace: maybe, maybe not.

#23 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-08-17 06:26 PM

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