Summary
Tim Alberta of The Atlantic reports low morale and mounting frustration within Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, with some staff expressing “resentment” and even “disgust” toward the candidate.
Once optimistic about Trump’s chances, aides are now worried as the campaign appears to be unraveling in its final stretch. Alberta shared that senior staffers feel exhausted by Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, with one high-ranking insider admitting they partly hope for his defeat.
Never let them distance themselves from him. Let maga be a tattoo on their forehead for the rest of their life. Like Nazi tattoos.
I can forgive people for changing their minds once they’ve learned and experienced more. However, at this point, I don’t think that there is actually any excuse for not learning or experiencing enough to not know who or what they’re supporting. MAGA should be carved into their foreheads à la Inglourious Basterds. Make them advertise forever that they were dumb enough and hateful enough to fall for helping the most obvious con man imaginable to become a fascist dictator. At least the oligarchs have legitimate reasons to believe that they could benefit from him having power through cutting regulations and taxes for them. What the fuck do the millions of peasants in shacks in flyover states have excusing their donations and votes?
Yep, and that includes all these chucklefucks cozying up to Dems (even though Dem leadership seems thrilled to get more conservatives in the party) now that the ship is sinking. Every one of these “I’m a former Trump voter who is voting for Kamala” commercials gets that same reaction from me - where were you when he still had a grip on the party? Was all his bullshit too much for you then? Were you writing letters to your representatives then to ask them to stop inviting all the crazies in and stop moving towards facism and white supremacy?
If not, then I hope you help Kamala get in, but I give no shits after that. You were happy to let all the “right” people be hurt by Trump’s policies all the way up to now. You were happy to lie in that bed until it was clear the ship was sinking, and all you really seem to be doing now is bringing echoes of the same shit to Democrats as Kamala and the rest welcome you to pull the party even further right in the name of votes.
The man might be president elect tomorrow. Don’t get ahead of yourself with this kind of “sinking ship” talk. It might be true but it doesn’t help anyone to talk about until the election is behind us.
Zero people are going to change how they vote today based on anything I type here right now. His ship is sinking whether his basket of deplorables still has enough bread in it to pull off an unlikely win today or not, and that’s why (some of) the rats are deserting the ship. The man can’t put two sentences together, and was frankly every bit as bad as this (and worse than Biden) when Biden dropped out.
The scary part isn’t what will or won’t happen to Trump. The scary part about Trump driving out all the not-entirely-batshit Republicans is that now Democrats are becoming even more conservative as they pander to them.
Everyone dogpiled the guy who posted the ratchet meme a day or two ago, but he was spot on. Trump destroying R had the net effect of pulling D to the right, and pushing progressive goals even further away for all of us. I will openly wear my disdain for what these shitstains have done to the country and to our near-future until old age takes me.
As you should. Trump and his supporters are the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime at minimum. Still, your original post seemed to be getting awfully close to discounting the possibility that they might win and that’s not assured. If that’s not what you were getting at then by all means, carry on.
All good, I get your point. They might win. I don’t think they will, but they might. If they do, I’m not going to waste a second about having publicly presumed they would not though. There will be bigger fish to fry. 🙂
Where is Lt. Aldo Raine when we need him?
The only quality of gangrene that matters to me is that it’s growing.
A nazi is a behavior, not a person.
As long as they still plan on voting for him, this is performative bullshit.
As long as they continue to help him overthrow democracy, it’s performative bullshit.
“Hard to overstate how terrible morale is inside of this campaign — and how much anger/resentment is felt toward the candidate.”
Aha. And you still ended up helping him. Shut up.
“just following orders” all over again.
There’s only one thing trump has yet to steal from Hitler, and it’s killing the leader of the fascist movement.
Here’s to hoping 🍻
GOP: picks the most disgusting candidate possible
GOP when they get an abhorrently disgusting candidate:
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Someone will have to daily remind Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruise, and a lot of others that they still smell like his asshole every time they disavow him.
They’ll try their best to
blend back into the woodworksell their book.There we go.
with one high-ranking insider admitting they partly hope for his defeat.
Let us oblige them.
All the Trump cunts can eat shit and die. All of them.
Jeez I sorta feel bad for these people who are helping him lie, cheat, and steal his way into one of the biggest seats of power in the world.
Always has been.
Such a classy venue that four seasons
Rats leaving the sinking ship. Just like there were no Nazis in Germany after 1945.
They’re clearly not loyal enough to serve him.
They’re not the best people for the job and he only works with the best.
The only thing that makes sense happening in his rallies, is everyone laughing, people dying from laughter.
This should already have happened after his first speech.
How can someone hear 2 hours of his bullshit and seriously come to the conclusion:
Yeah, ok - sounds good, he has my vote.
The original piece Alberta wrote for the Atlantic is actually amazing. There are a lot, “Trump aides secretly say [blank],” articles that seem like hopium, but this is incredibly detailed and well sourced.
Well that much is obvious, if I understood the situation correctly, he basically brute forced his way into being the primary candidate. They tried to run a different person and he more or less said “fuck you I’ll just run anyway” and threatened to run independent/third party which would have split the republican vote and would have meant a loss for the republican party.
