Something is not adding up

[ecstatic]

What am I missing here?

Why is a party coalescing around someone with 91 felony charges and trials that are set to begin in the spring?

Do they know something that we don't? Or is it extreme denial of reality?

Even if trump were to "win," nobody is getting sworn in until January 20th 2025. Is the plan to inaugurate him from a prison cell and then he pardons himself on day one? That is crazy AF!

[Orrex]

1. They will worship him until the last of them has died

The party doesn’t want to lose his KKKultists’ votes, so they happily prostrate themselves before him.

[Hugin]

7. It's a death cult.

The only bright side being that like all autocratic authoritarian societies. An heir is never part of the plan.

[spanone]

2. As a thread said last week, we are living in THE TWILIGHT ZONE

[LakeArenal]

4. Biden is going to win so it's moot to me.

[Deuxcents]

5. Tfg and his followers are acting like he's a president in exile.

He directs his loyalist how to vote on issues, he tells his opinions on how diplomacy should proceed and his followers don’t believe Biden is the president as it’s all been rigged.

[Quixote1818]

6. It ads up to this

They drank the Kool-Aid

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[ecstatic]

14. Omg! I still don't get it though. Not all of them are brainwashed

Ok, after typing the title I was able to answer my own question:

They're either brainwashed or, with regard to politicians like tiny d, they're putting personal ambitions above the well-being of the country.

It's still mind boggling though. It's possible to be a selfish gop fuck while still making sure that the country you live in and claim to love isn't wrecked by a madman. Why set the bar so low?

Back to square one.

[getagrip_already]

8. minority rule....

lets face it. this is what it boils down to.

They realize they are a minority in this country and they cant handle that. They will do everything they can to seize power, similar to what the whites n south afrika did. they dont care theleader is corrupt as long as they are in power.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Karl Rove laid out how to achieve permanent Republican rule in 2010. That has been the goal all along.

If Republicans had wanted to get rid of Trump, they had the perfect opportunity with his second impeachment trial, but they refused to find him guilty and bar him from any future public office. Why? I don’t believe that it was solely fear of what Trump would do to them, as Romney claimed. I think they see Trump as their ticket to gaining control again and passing to make it impossible for Democrats to win enough elections to control Congress or win the WH. Changes in voting laws and access, for example, can eliminate Democratic voters.

Trump can be manipulated through his greed and his need for constant praise. Several foreign leaders easily figured out how to do that during his term in office. Those behind Project 2025 and the tech billionaires who want no regulation of their industry back Trump because he will give them whatever they want. Republicans want Trump as their candidate because they think they can control him, which may get even easier as he slips into dementia and no longer understands what he has or has not promised. In other words, if Trump is elected, the country will be run by an extremist right-wing cabal of people determined to end democratic rule forever.

[getagrip_already]

13. lots of different goals.. allboiling down to minority rule

For the rubes though, that in itself is the driving force. They want to feel like they are in charge and the others aren't.

As for the billionares, they really need to take a hard look at russia. Putin sees their wealth as his, and is reclaiming it rapidly.

Russia also just passed legislation wherein if you criticize the govt, they can seize all your assets - home, money, everything. They don't just jail you, they take everything from you and your family.

That is the rule of despots.

[Xoan]

9. Insanity isn't supposed to add up.

[claudette]

11. MAGATS are

immoral and insane

[Elessar Zappa]

12. It's because the cult still votes for him.

It just comes down to that.

[czarjak]

15. "I Shall No Be Moved"

An old hymn sang growing up in our church. They're dug in, and won't budge. In Jesus' name of course. So, it's all good to them.

[themaguffin]

16. It's not hard. It's a cult. The vast majority believe the Big Lie.

[hlthe2b]

17. He has enough detestible sycophants around him planning that my guess is they know he will be

the "useful puppet" to the designs/plans/schemes of the likes of Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, and the worst of his ilk.

Had Hitler not already lost the war, those who ended up with him in the bunkers and later on trial at Nuremberg would surely have continued despite his mental meltdown at the end. That was the plan. Hitler got them where they wanted to be--after that Hermann Göring was fully prepared to helm going forward.