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Karen Sams's avatar

I agree and I live in Florida! Would hate to lose him early but you gotta look at the big picture.

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Keahi's avatar

The big picture. You know, I'll say it. I love Trump to pieces, I would vote for him again no question, I would follow that man on a suicide mission, but I can't help wishing that God would move his heart. And he would see the big picture and put his ego and need for approval aside for the good of the country, let DeSantis take the lead, with him as the wise councilor at his back. Otherwise it'll be a shitshow. You know it will be.

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TiredofThis's avatar

If you followed Trump on a suicide mission, rest assured it would be your suicide but never his.

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Keahi's avatar

Yeah, that's almost always the case, isn't it. The Charge off the Light Brigade comes to mind.

I've told myself a million times to cut out the hyperbole.

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Karen Sams's avatar

I agree. Love the man but I think too many don't. Question is will DeSantis try if he knows Trump wants it? The last thing we need is Gavin Newsome at the helm.

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Keahi's avatar

Which is exactly the plan. I wonder if Trump will listen to someone, who will tell him the straight truth, that people will back away from him from sheer exhaustion. They'll be sick of the bloodshed. And his base cannot carry the day, he would need absolutely everyone behind him and then some, to fight the forces that would be leagued against him.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Trumps asinine juvenile comments in the last 48 hours have lost him , I would guess, most independents. Now more than ever, we need Presidential... not a repeat of the 2016 Primary. To me, itтАЩs almost like intentional self destruct... or his ego protects him from his idiocy.

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

тАЬOut of the heart, the mouth speaks.тАЭ

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Keahi's avatar

He does speak from his heart, and I'm afraid his mouth does run ahead of his brain at times. But many people love him for it.

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

This is truly puzzling to me. While he did some very good things early in his term, he totally betrayed the people with his handling of Covid. Letting Fauci and Birx be the leaders of the pandemic response, demanding and signing the biggest spending bill in our history, тАЬoperation warp speedтАЭ for an unneeded vaccine since there were numerous effective treatments, just to make a few.

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Karen Sams's avatar

Agreed. I suspect he thought he was doing the right thing, though. He trusted the so-called medical professionals. Lesson learned by him and all of us.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

So much this!

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ModelYManiac's avatar

The sad thing is that RINO GOP operatives - Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan - are working with the big GOP donors to lock Trump out, install DeSantis in his place and *apparently* DeSantis is going along with it . . . That means they have someone they can control. Clearly DeSantis was allowed to run Florida as he wished, but the ONLY REASON they would be putting him into place for 2024 would be because they believe they can control him and he apparently is leading them to believe that. That means war, at the least, and WEF control potential. NOTICE THAT FLORIDA WAS STRANGELY SPARED ANY UNEXPECTED DEM WINS. They are GROOMING him. https://twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1589075990076325888

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Paul Ryan?? I thought Eddie Munster had gone away.... he is the Poster boy for Neocons... more depressed now learning this.

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ModelYManiac's avatar

Yes, this is why NO ONE should be advocating for Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker - a disaster! I've seen Republican Reps who understand this is a disaster, talk about it, and are in disbelief that so many other GOP Reps are just shutting up about it - I expect McCarthy is tied to the big donors somehow, so they are all afraid to touch him.

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Keahi's avatar

DeSantis may be playing their game to play the game, but I don't think he can be turned. He is a decent, good man and means to beat them at their own games.

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