He chatted about it in his Truthyiness thing back in the early part of the month, when the guest list was first announced:
The Law Offices of “Rigged & Stollen”.
He’s just getting in touch with his German roots: Stollen - Wikipedia
That’s one of the tests to see if he really wrote the post: in addition to all-caps, there has to be at least one grammar or spelling mistake.
Great replies I have read: (Not mine)
“I hope he goes to prisson.”
“Arresst him now!”
The title of this thread may have taken 10 years off my life.
It’s still early, but I think it’s telling that the other declared Republican candidates, including the next person likely to announce they are running (Tim Scott), are all minorities. The conservative cis-hetero white Christian males that make up the bulk of potential candidates are sitting on the sidelines so far. IMHO that likely means they think Trump is going to be difficult to beat in the primary and they would rather not risk pissing him off in a losing effort.
One poll has Trump favoured over DeSantis. If so, the party will be divided.
Not much real campaigning by either of them yet, at least not that’s being mentioned on MSM. And I’m not following what goes on the darker corners of the RW propaganda-sphere.
So this sounds a bit like assessing the leader in a horse race while the horses are still walking into the starting gate machinery, the jockeys are adjusting their seating position, and the horses are setting their footing.
I’m still more than 50% certain Pence and Pompeo will get in the race before too long. Sununu, Hogan and Youngkin are not as clear to me.
And former AR Gov. Asa Hutchinson has been spending a fair amount of time in Iowa which is usually seen as an early indicator.
It doesn’t matter if 4 or 5 people run during the primaries, and divide the Party.
Each of the minor candidates will fall out of the race eventually, after getting 3 or 4 percent of the votes in the primaries. And maybe DeSantis will win 30%. But all that leaves Trump- and only Trump- with the ability to take 51% of the votes at the convention.
And after the convention, the Republican party will no longer be divided. All the R congressmen, senators and governors will shout their full support of Trump.
And 70 million voters will join them.
Can the Dems get 71 million? I doubt it.
More like getting saddled up in the paddock.
Last time Trump ran the Dems got 81 million and change.
Against Trump? it’s possible, not certain but possible.
Moderating:
I’ve not viewed this as a P&E thread since its inception. Far more suitable for the Pit. I was recently on the cusp of closing it because it served no real P&E purpose and both P&E co-mods agreed.
Some have been trying to address the actual topic, but many have not. I’m cautioning those who are not to keep this in mind when posting going forward. Make sure your post has something to do with the Trump campaign. We already have lots of Pit threads to deride Trump. If it carries on as it has, it will be closed.
It matters if Trump decides to run as an Independent out of spite if he does not get the Republican nomination.
The actual F***?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars/index.html
Commuters, meanwhile, could get around in flying cars, Trump said – an echo of “The Jetsons,” the classic cartoon about a family in a high-tech future society. Work to develop vertical takeoff and landing vehicles is already underway by major airlines, auto manufacturers and other companies, though widely seen as years away from reaching the market.
“I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility,” Trump, who announced his third bid for the presidency in November, said in a four-minute video detailing his plan.
He said he would launch a contest to charter up to 10 “freedom cities” roughly the size of Washington, DC, on undeveloped federal land.
“We’ll actually build new cities in our country again,” Trump said in the video. “These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American dream.”
I kept looking for some sign or hint that this was some ludicrous Onion-style parody but haven’t found any evidence of such. But I’m sure he’d love to have a bunch of new cities with his name and image splattered all over them, and he’s always been great at promising his fans anything without ever considering the practical issues involved.
If it’s a woosh, well, they got me.
Maybe they could build a freedom city where Portland used to be before BLM burned it to the ground. I’m not up on my political theory, but these freedom cities sound socialist, and maybe just a little woke. I do want my flying car, but no doubt regulatory agencies wouldn’t exist, so the aerial fenderbenders should be spectacular.
You know, if it wasn’t Trump proposing it, I’d kind of be in favor of such a thing. But, of course, everything Trump touches turns to shit.
A new city, built with new technologies, and a better understanding of what makes cities work, that could be used as a platform for deploying new technologies in real-world settings so they can be further developed and refined, actually sounds kind of cool. We could even have competing cities with different philosophies, to see what works best. Have one focused on the “15 minute neighborhood”. Have one focused on well-designed mass transit options. Have one focused on self-driving cars. See which one works best, which one makes people happiest.
But flying cars? Come on, man.