• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    Makes sense. Biden wasn’t able to keep up with a demanding campaign schedule either, it was one of the big reasons he needed to withdraw. Trump is around the same age, and frankly it’s just a lot to ask of an elderly person.

    It’s not like he’ll cancel his rallies, he recreationally enjoys those. So the interviews are what get dumped.

    edit for grammar

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      2 months ago

      Biden was also in far better shape, mentally and physically than Trump.

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      The rallies also offer no challenge. Interviews, potentially, have tough questions or a hostile audience. He enjoys the rallies because it’s just bunch of people propping up his ego without giving one shit about what he says.

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    I wonder what the chances are of him living just long enough to see Harris inaugurated before his rotted brain gives out on him.

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      At this point, the rest of the GOP is hoping for this. They’re sycophants who probably to a person don’t believe in Trump or MAGA at all, but each secretly thinks they’re the smart one who will win the game of thrones and be positioned to either manipulate Trump for their ends, take the crown, or both.

      Vance, Noem, Haley, Murdoch… the list goes on, but they have all tested and repeatedly compromised every limit they have, thinking “ok, sure, he’s a dementia-addled toddler, but this is how I win and I am the smartest person.” They want to put the crown on their own head before Trump’s body is cold.

      Being un-self-reflective narcissists themselves, they don’t realize that Trump is the one entirely using them, this is narcissistic sociopathic limit-pushing 101, they are not original or special freethinkers but exactly the opposite, and their compliance weakens them.

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        I think you’re right but I also think that Heritage and the other rightwing think-creeps area really scared of losing Trump because he gives them a lot of cover with his antics distracting the base and the opposition. If he disappears they suddenly have Vance and a shitshow of unlikable uncharismatic bootlickers because Trump ruined the party and forced out anyone with even a shred of political promise.

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      President Vance. Jesus buttfucking Christ.