It's not the last of Trump once he loses

[JuJuChen]

That's the part that depresses me the most, until he's unalive or incarcerated this is far from over

[Johnny2X2X]

1. He will run again in 2028

And he'll easily win the Republican nomination.

[unblock]

4. Good. He'll be babbling and drooling even more then.

[2naSalit]

14. And...

Attempting to run from his deathbed?

He's not gonna last that long. Losing this time will kill him, and I'm fine with that.

All the more reason to vote for Harris-Walz.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Agree

I think after the loss this November, the GOP heads will make an earnest effort to finally cut him loose, but he won't let them go and his cult of voters is certainly doing whatever he asks. They're stuck with him until he dies.

[central scrutinizer]

25. Especially if there is a down ticket blue wave

Democratic Party candidates should tie their opponents to TSF and Dobbs and Project 2025 and hammer them.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. From prison?

He will be in a Federal penitentiary for Sedition for the rest of his miserable as well as possible treason.

Kamala Harris wins in November, the Federal cases against him are back on the docket.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. Unfortunately

I don't think he'll d serious time, 12 months at most.

[Bucky]

21. ☹️

[getagrip_already]

9. He will never stop runnin, ala 2020...

Court challenges, scotus appeals, trying to get it to the house through certification blocks.

Then a bigger lie, ongoing grifting, more campigning, more friendly interviews, etc.

He will just grify on and on.

The election will just be a speed bump.

[NJCher]

11. Here, you need this

Never underestimate the need for this emoji.

[Lonestarblue]

15. He will announce that he's running again so he can keep grifting from his cult.

But I think Republican leaders will finally dump him if he loses again. Besides, by 2025 or 2026 he will either be in jail or in an assisted living facility for Alzheimer’s patients.

[wryter2000]

28. I don't see how they can dump him

As long as his idiot horde keep voting for him in primaries.

[JI7]

53. Which Republican leaders ?

[Oopsie Daisy]

26. Lord, I hope so.

[GaYellowDawg]

27. If that happens, I don't think he'll be alive.

I think if he loses again, it'll kill him. Maybe his sons can bury him in a sand trap.

[OLDMDDEM]

51. He'll be 82 years old then. I doubt he would get the nomination, especially if he loses this year.

[GreenWave]

60. It will give our gang a great chance to pad their lead,

[ALBliberal]

2. And I would add even his demise doesn't

end the scourge of Trumpism in our country.

[unblock]

5. Yup. The media will still have a strong right-wing bias and billionaires will still fund the march toward autocracy

[Jerry2144]

6. And that's what's so depressing

The Trumpanzees will still be there and still muck things up.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. I Think It Calms Significantly

I think it's pretty clear the is a cult personality & it's not that easy to retain the commitment & passion when the original personality is gone.
The dictators of WW2 are a pretty good example.
The Italians right wasn't as motivated after Mussolini. They were still there, but far less proud of being & as vocal about the fascists.
The Germans who were all-in on Hitler wasn't accepting of a replacement after Hitler iced himself.
The Japanese people weren't looking for a replacement leader after Tojo was gone.
Think of Mao & Stalin, as well.
Replacing a cult leader to the satisfaction of the followers is not as easy as we'd think.

[North Shore Chicago]

3. This is a most depressing thought.

[tetedur]

7. For some reason he makes me think of this song. "I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees

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I started a joke
That started the whole world crying
But i didn't see...
That the joke was on me
I started to cry
That started the whole world laughing
If i'd only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
I fell out of bed
And hurt my head from the things that i said

I finally died
That started the whole world living
If i'd only seen
That the joke was on me

[Traildogbob]

30. Ha!!!!

a girl broke my heart as a teen when this came out.
But now…….this makes me laugh like hell instead of shedding tears back then.

[Torchlight]

10. I think his post-political career will be a weekly series of

unintentional impressions of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Tom Cruise as he 'addresses' his melting base asking them for their money.

My guess is the GOP has another season of molting to go through after November, and that snake will be shedding a LOT of different skins to get rid of trump's stench.

[Bucky]

22. Need golden socks to go with those golden chucks

To keep the big goldbrick covered slathered in the yellow stuff

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Traitor Turd might not make it to November.

Guy's sinking to the bottom of the GOP Porta-Pity-Potty cesspool as we speak.

[NJCher]

13. who will replace him?

name a few leaders who have the appeal to the crazies that he does.

Please. I'm waiting.

Tap tap tap.

[Cartoonist]

29. Tucker Carlson

Joel Osteen
Harrison Butker
John Voight
Alex Jones

[NJCher]

40. re Carlson

He will have some heavy baggage to overcome. Women are already organized and ready to vote against trump due to Roe. Here's what Carlson has said about women:

snip

Carlson found himself under intense scrutiny recently, as he insulted female soldiers, saying that having pregnant women fighting in our wars is “a mockery of the U.S. military.”

“So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars," he said on his Fox News program earlier in the month, referring to newly developed standards in the Army and efforts to create a flight suit for pregnant military personnel. “It's a mockery of the U.S. military. While China’s military becomes more masculine as it’s assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.”

snip

I'm not saying this will be unacceptable to republicans, but the female vote may be seen as just too powerful for him to gain any traction.

I don't see the female vote receding, even if Harris is elected. It's here to stay.

Another problem with Carlson is his demeanor: his perpetual scowl. He is not associated with lightheartedness or being upbeat as are Harris and Walz.

We are entering a new era and I think any future prospects from their position will have to take that into consideration. Carlson has the look of perpetual confusion on his face, which is not a good look when you're coming off of a confused figure like trump.

We're not going back: not to smallness, not to meanness, not to ugly behavior, and Carlson has all that in his background. As a public figure, it is easy to document.

Furthermore, he has the Putin problem (interview). Things do not look good for them on that front, either.

They can nominate him; they just won't be able to win with him.

[Cartoonist]

41. Maga approves

You wanted examples of assh0les that repubs could get behind.

[NJCher]

42. that was acknowledged

with caveats in my post.

[Zoomie1986]

46. Jon Voigt? Please.

He's 85 years old right now.

[NJCher]

55. yeah, and I didn't know who one of them even was

a football player? Really?

Won't the repubs be sick of bain dramaged candidates by then?

[birdographer]

54. His only appeal to them is his authoritarianism

They will submit to and follow any dominant white male authoritarian as long as he hates who they hate (non-whites). I imagine they would actually prefer someone younger and less demented.

[Aristus]

17. When a black man became President, the repukes lost their shit, and foisted Trump on us.

I can't even begin to imagine what loathsome, semi-evolved simian they're going to groom for the nomination in 2028 if Kamala Harris is President,

[keithbvadu2]

20. Dotard said if Biden won in 2020, we would never hear from him again.... Just another lie.

[Dan]

23. And the blessing of Trump (which we should all appreciate) is

That he is destroying the Republican Party and their reputation for all time.

They the GOP will never be able to get rid of the stain of Trump, like a skunk’s spray - it sticks to you. No amount of ketchup will remove the stench.

[Sogo]

24. After November 5, he will only be known as "Defendent Trump."

nt

[Scrivener7]

31. I don't know about that. He has two kinds of followers. There are a few billionaires

who vote for him because he helps them hoard more money. But the majority are people who feel inferior and he tells them they're not. And because he's a guy with a lot of money, they think that when he tells them they're not inferior, that's true.

But Harris/Walz are showing what a laughingstock he is. They're making it clear that he's a loser. They're showing his followers he's just a peculiar, weird, incoherent worm of a man. And that makes people who have made him their savior into weirdo losers too.

Once that truth steeps into the red-hat seas, they won't be able to run away from him fast enough. There will always be a small number who don't get the memo, but I think in a few years, it'll be hard to find someone who admits to being an enthusiastic follower.

[Arne]

32. I'm wondering how well mantained

Jeffery Epstein's old jet is.

[B.See]

35. No doubt he and his

pedo pal Epstein had many a p-grabbin' good time aboard.

Of course Trump's now flying around in Epstein's old junker is purely coincidental.

[Turbineguy]

33. Maybe his new strategy is to be declared.

incompetent to stand trial.

[XanaDUer2]

34. He'll never go away

Unless unalive or imprisoned.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. I would not be surprised to see TFG flee the country if he loses

[Zoomie1986]

48. Why do people keep trotting out this stale nonsense?

He's now a convicted felon, so few countries will let him hide out with them. Some of them won't even let him set foot in their lands for that alone.

He can't abide people who 'talk funny,' and he's too old and stupid to pick up a foreign language as many countries require to live there.

Nearly every country that doesn't extradite to the US is brown and/or Muslim. He's alienated nearly all of them, one way or another, so they have zero interest in taking on the hassle he'd be.

Other countries aren't as enthralled with him as moron Americans are, so they won't give him the attention he thinks he's due.

Worst of all: Other countries have real journalists who will not kowtow to him or fluff him. He will not be able to bully them, so they will ask hard questions and demand followups and clarity from him. He can't stand that.

Anyone who thinks he's leaving is missing some fries from their Happy Meal.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. TFG talked last night about fleeing to Venezuela if he loses

TFG is running for POTUS to stay out of prison

TFG last night discussed fleeing to Venezuela if he losses

Link to tweet

https://www.alternet.org/trump-musk-venezuela/

Legal experts jumped on Trump suggesting a trip to Venezuela, especially given his status as a convicted criminal awaiting sentencing.

“Trump is a convicted felon to be sentenced in a month and he’s talking about fleeing to a country that refuses US extradition requests,” observed MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg, a former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief. “Anyone else would be in jail. Trump is showing yet again that he isn’t amenable to Probation’s supervision and must be sentenced to jail time.”

There are countries where TFG could flee which do not have an extradition treaty with the US

Link to tweet

If TFG loses, TFG will do what he can to avoid jail.

[ColinC]

37. Even when he's incarcerated he will still try to keep his ugly face in the news

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Wiping him out electorally won’t completely get rid of him but it would be humiliating enough to at least maybe not see anything from him for a few months.

[Zoomie1986]

49. He can try all he wants to get attention from jail

But good luck with that when he won't have a cellphone for social media, won't have unlimited computer access, won't have unlimited phone use, and won't have unlimited access to reporters, because prisons usually limit who can visit a prisoner to family and lawyers.

If he's not dead before he gets locked up, prison will kill him. Guaranteed.

[Brainfodder]

38. I see him in prison starting 9.16.24 so IDKWYATA!

[WarGamer]

39. from 2025 to the pine box, he will be the Godfather of the GOP.

[BlueTsunami2018]

43. Nope, until he drops dead, he's never going away.

He’s not going to jail, he’s not fleeing the country, he’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

This asshole will haunt us until he keels over.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. TFG says he'll flee to Venezuela if he loses the election and invites Elon to visit him

Link to tweet

[Sky Jewels]

45. The GQP will be done with him.

Even they’re not stupid enough to nominate him again.

[RidinWithHarris]

47. As long as what's left of Trump haunting the news...

...is the story of Trump's world crumbling around him, ending with him serving time (even if no more satisfactory than house arrest), and dying in confinement, that's hearing about Trump that I can live with.

[GoodRaisin]

52. It will be the last of him as a candidate for president

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which is all I really care about. He’ll hang around in the news for prosecutions, incarceration, or fleeing the country - that kind of stuff. But he will no longer be relevant politically.

[Straw Man]

56. It has been said ...

... that everything Trump touches dies. This may turn out to be true of the Republican Party as well. If they stick with him after a 2024 loss, it's effectively a kamikaze mission.

[lame54]

57. He's Venezuela's problem now

[dalton99a]

58. He'll announce his candidacy for 2028 shortly after the election.

[Metaphorical]

59. President of Venezuela?

Seriously, I think his kids will do him in, assuming Putin doesn't get him first, or Iranian assassins, or the drugs, or deranged MAGA kids, or just his own failing cognitive abilities. Suppose he does have Alzheimer's (and I think he does). In that case, he's also at risk for strokes and brain haemorrhages, a major coronary infarction, or any number of other potential medical conditions.

I think the reality is that even the MAGAts are struggling with him at this point - he's not extreme enough, and they are likely also coming to the same realization about his age and mental capacity. If he loses, he'll be 82 in 2028. Even if he wasn't showing fairly obvious signs of "early" onset Alzheimers, he's not going to lead their revolution.