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      I mean, do you see his old ass running for President… a fourth time? He’ll be 86, right? He’s already had a huge mental decline, and we’re liable to see it get worse over the next four years (regardless of whether or not he becomes President).

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        I can 100% imagine him running for as long as he has a pulse. And even then, it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if he didn’t have a pulse and republicans used a deep fake to keep him campaigning. He’s basically all they have at this point.

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            I was thinking like Herman Cain, when they used his likeness and account to promote party messaging after his death, but this works too.

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              God, I hadn’t even thought about how many Trump deepfakes are going to be swindling conspiracy theorists out of their money for years after he dies.

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                During the Iraq War, there was a brief moment where a camera crew just happened to be in the right place at the right time to show the world a live broadcast of a perfectly healthy Saddam Hussein out in the wild, being greeted by his troops as a hero. Except the guy really didn’t look much like Saddam Hussein at all. It was the kind of cheap fake that you would think people could never fall for.

                Since then, we’ve seen time and time again what people will fall for.

                So, yes. Not only are you correct, you are probably more correct than people would want to admit.

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        he probably won’t, like, survive for 4 more years. Or at least, he wouldn’t if it weren’t for the amazing healthcare package he gets for having shat all over democracy for four years.

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        he’s 78 now, will be 82 next election.

        but if he loses a 2nd time i feel like there will be more pressure to push him out. but maybe that’s wishful thinking.

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      to be fair, with the way he seems to be going, he might not be physically capable of doing something as presumably stressful as political campaigning in 4 years. And if he loses this, coming back in 4 years would also put him in the position of losing his party the election for 2 elections in a row. He’s got a cult following, sure, but a lot of the rest of the party might not want to go along with trying him yet again after such a thing. The worry for 4 years from now, if Harris can beat him this election, are all the followers of his that have gotten into national politics by being just as or even more crazy as he is.

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    “If I lose to him [Biden], I don’t know what I’m going to do. I will never speak to you again. You’ll never see me again.” - Donald Trump, September 20th 2020 at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina

    Same empty threat as last time. If he loses and somehow doesn’t manage to get the Supreme Court to overturn the results, he’ll go right back to campaigning for 2028. He’s going to be running for president for the rest of his life.

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        If he’s still alive, not in prison, and capable of doing more than drooling? Of course he will run again. He has way too much power with the people that vote in Republican primaries; politicians that don’t give him lip services don’t survive primary runs. And, in turn, that’s infected the whole party.

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    That’s because he’ll be in fucking prison for the rest of his miserable life unless he just flees the country to the arms of his Slavic lover.

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    Doesn’t matter what he says, it isn’t like he tells the truth about anything.

    The progression of dementia will be why he doesn’t run in 2028.

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    In four years this man is going to be legally braindead one way or another. Either the dementia will get him, or the hamburders will.

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      Most likely Ivanka. Either that or Ron “DeSanctimonious” will finally get his chance to be just as terrible as Trump while not being as incompetent as Trump. I sincerely hope the Republican party has it’s reckoning and turns around to how they were before Trump. I mean sure they were still absolute garbage but at least they weren’t worshipping a wannabe Hitler.