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chneu parent
CEO doing it to get quick cash from Trump.

Any company large/influential enough to get in front of trump right now is gonna be in the news saying this stuff. The entire admin runs on "the last person to convince trump".

Trump pardoned a bunch of criminals, drug dealers, and other trash people because the right person talked to him at the right time.

This is exactly what people said would happen. It's open season for bribery

pjmlp
Watching from this side of the Atlantic, and being from a country that was under dictorship, I think anyone hoping they only need to hold on to some future elections, haven't paid that much attention during history classes.
dummydummy1234
The hopeful side is that he is old, and most people voted him in because they did not like inflation and he promised he would bring prices down on day 1.
pjmlp
He might be old, but isn't alone, if authoritarianism isn't fought, others will carry on the work.
jfengel
Has anything changed their minds? Given the opportunity, would they vote for him again? Or his chosen successor?

His popularity has decreased somewhat, but given a choice between him and the opposition, I suspect that they would continue to do the same thing.

He may indeed pass but I'm not so sure that would change much.

lupusreal
Trump isn't running again and he has a notoriously poor track record of picking political allies so his "chosen successor" is DOA. After 2028 it will be normal uniparty American politics as usual, with the MAGA/MIGAs going the way of the Tea Party, absorbed and homogenized into the political machine.

The hyperbole about 2024 being the last election in American history will seem silly in retrospect to most, but those who really believe it now will for the most part never admit they got swept up in hysteria and will instead pat themselves on the backs and credit themselves for America narrowly avoiding disaster. A generation or two later, young people will just roll their eyes when their parents talk about any of it, one way or the other, like millennials did when their parents rambled on about Reagan or Nixon.

pjmlp
The hyperbole is based on history with similar events.

Being from 70's generation, with family that had to their encounters with PIDE/DGS, and took part on the liberation forces, I see the supposed hyperbole with different eyes.

Hopefully I am wrong.

kevin_thibedeau
The MAGAs are creating a lot of institutional rot at state and local level offices where they are out of the limelight and can continue doing damage after the felon is gone. It is impossible for a rational Republican to get on the ballot because they have to face primaries against the shameless narcissists who've been shown how to con their gullible members.
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uncletammy
Citation needed
lupusreal
It came to me in a dream.
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engineer_22
There's a lot of reasons. From my perspective VP being a terrible candidate seems to be #1
jazzypants
Nah, the real problem was the old guy that promised to step down, then refused to do so until the last minute leaving us without the time to choose a real candidate.

Not to mention the fact that we refused to hold the person who tried to overthrow our government accountable for doing so.

bigfatkitten
> Not to mention the fact that we refused to hold the person who tried to overthrow our government accountable for doing so.

If the Germans had taken the same approach in 1945, the Nazis would’ve been back in power by 1950.

hiddenfinance
yeah, nepotism has always being around, it is just more obvious now, before one would need laundry money through some what seemly acceptable foundations.
lostlogin
I see this argument where I live too. I think it minimises what’s going on. Saying ‘they did it too, but more it was more subtle’ is a defence, and a ‘whataboutism’.
euroderf
It's not bribery. It's lubricating the machinery of government...
speed_spread
To slide downhill.

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