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    10 months ago

    Breaking News: Convicted Sex Offender, power mad megolomaniac, and very disloyal American neofascist scum Loser Trump wins Iowa before going on to lose the GOP the general election again.

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    10 months ago

    Trump wins Iowa Republican caucus.

    He hasn’t won the state.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t think anybody who read the headline was confused and thought he won the Iowa Democrat caucus.

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        10 months ago

        This headline wasn’t so bad, but I literally saw “Trump wins Iowa” earlier.

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          Well that would also seem OK too. It’s major news and while I don’t known where you saw it, it’s likely for an intended audience that’s been following events thus far so it’s not exactly misleading since it can be reliably predicted that people reading it, like yourself will understand what was won.

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            10 months ago

            I understood this one, the “Trump wins Iowa” had me wondering.

            Not that Sky News is anything of a respectable source.

            I’d also question whether this is “major news” given that everyone saw this outcome coming months ago. Trump is the leading Republican, by far, the real question is whether he can legally be President again, or whether he can win the vote without a massive increase in the kind of fraud his party undertook in the last election.

            The real problem is outside the votes, unfortunately. Even if Trump loses, there’s a bunch of people who think their decision is more valid than any majority. Civil war is looming.

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            10 months ago

            I agree with what you’re saying, but remember that a lot of new-to-politics people are starting to pay attention, and they might now understand how the Iowa stuff works.

            Shit, I barely do and I’ve been following politics since early 2020.

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    10 months ago

    what a surprise

    this is in no small part because, i think, he’s the only guy in the entire race who’s actually an entertaining speaker. he’s literally an entertainer, he just does riffs for an hour rather than droning on like every other politician ever. i know he’s also evil, but it’s a brilliant strategy. no one cares if you got the minutae of the 1994 pipeline marginalization act correct, people want to have a good time! simple as that

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      10 months ago

      It’s natural for him. He couldn’t read a speech and sound good at all, and he sure as hell couldn’t talk about policy for a couple hours. The content of what he says is jingoistic, self-aggrandizing, vindictive, often nonsensical and generally awful, but that works great for his target audience, who have been raised on pastors saying nonsensical crap and outlets like Fox who were talking nasty nonsense years before Trump was a politician.

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        I hate hearing people like Hannity or Limbaugh more, or whatever wretched people they have on Fox now whose job is to make nasty faces when they mention Democrats, but have definitely been sick of Trump’s shit for quite a while now.

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      10 months ago

      Americans can see entertainers everywhere else if they wish to. But now, it’s time to choose a good president, not a clown. So, if they do otherwise, well, too bad for them.

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        10 months ago

        Too bad for us all. However, it’s not just the entertainment. People are miserable and scared. They want to blame someone for it. No one wants to blame themselves. So, who are you going to blame? That guy over there. Trump is not afraid to point fingers and he’s happy to tell people it’s not their fault, it’s the fault of specific other people AND that they are better than those other people. Just as ue blames everyone else and thinks he’s better than everyone else.

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      10 months ago

      people want to have a good time! simple as that

      Watching this farce, I am just straight up not having a good time. Please tell them to cancel this.

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    I think this is very telling of the RNC political apparatus. Trump has largely operated outside of the official Republican platform, you know the actual Republican committee chaired by Ronna McDaniel. Largely avoided debates and the other political machinations. And has dominated the party.

    Which if Trump can do that outside of the RNC it absolutely begs the question, what the fuck does anyone need the actual governance of the GOP political party’s official arm? And the answer seems to be from this, nothing at all. Which to me signals a massive erosion of power from the actual RNC.

    If Trump leaves politics for whatever reason, the power vacuum thereafter is going to be absolutely mind numbing. There’s zero strength left in the RNC itself.

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    10 months ago

    Wait hold up. Am I seeing this right? Only around 100k people voted in the primary? That feels… incredibly low. I would assume that’s even higher than most GOP primaries in the state, but this one has had unparalleled attention. I would have expected at least double that

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      It’s not a primary, it’s a caucus and the process is very different.

      If you check the Megapost, it’s got numbers from 2020 and 2016, it’s fairly consistent.

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        10 months ago

        Ah! I see. It doesn’t seem to be nearly as accessible as a state ran election

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          10 months ago

          It really isn’t. There are movements to end caucuses, but too many people hold on to it “because it’s tradition!”

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      10 months ago

      It was almost a foregone conclusion Trump was going to win. If you supported him, there was almost no need for you to show up and vote.

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        10 months ago

        Plus it’s below zero in Iowa. I would have stayed home too.

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          Cold, but not too uncommon in the Upper Midwest this time of year. Anyone who has lived there a while or is from there is used to it.