# To Trump or not to Trump? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 18, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905 "2022-08-18T19:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/41 "2022-08-20T09:18:53Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > God help us all if DeSantis … was to run and win. Gawd help you if DeSantis runs and loses … the “If we’d nominated Trump we’d have won” legacy will hang over the US for another decade. The way this aberration is cautorised is for Trump to run and get his orange head kicked in. Of course, and alas there is a reasonable chance he might win which case, bugger it “Let all the poisons that lie in the mud hatch out”. ---
**Author:** ![EDOK9Trainer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@EDOK9Trainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EDOK9Trainer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/42 "2022-08-20T09:30:04Z")
And I got “warned” by a mod for being critical of a post someone made? Not seeing the difference here. That said. No fan of DeSantis but he is no Trump at least. I voted for Trump and I eventually realized it was the dumbest thing I’ve done in my long life. No doubt Reagan is losing his mind in his grave over the fact the US put a clod like Trump in the office. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/43 "2022-08-20T15:57:07Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Trump 2.0 wouldn’t make the same mistake and would immediately fire any part of the government who didn’t swear absolute fealty. See, I don’t think DeSatanis is that stupid. He knows what runs the machinery of government. Trump doesn’t. He’d fire everybody then wonder why the country is in flames because nobody got their Social Security or military paycheck. He’d rant about disloyalty while the country slid in bankruptcy because nobody was _taking care of business_. As a “businessman” CFSG never understood, or tried to understand the jobs of the “little peons.” He just thought it all occurred by magic. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/44 "2022-08-20T15:57:14Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > That is, which would be worse at this point: Trump reelected as President in 2024; or a just as authoritarian but shrewder and more competent Republican? I suspect the latter would be worse, or at least has the potential to be worse. Trump is at this point a known quantity, at least to those who are willing to know. Trump’s presidency was awful, but it could have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/45 "2022-08-20T17:58:35Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > DeSantis is not shrewder or more competent. DeSantis is shrewder and more competent than Trump. It’s a really low bar. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/46 "2022-08-22T00:55:12Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Trump 2.0 wouldn’t make the same mistake and would immediately fire any part of the government who didn’t swear absolute fealty. I got a fundraiser email from his nibs just yesterday bragging about [Schedule F](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment). He said, “As your President, I implemented Schedule F so that Presidents could have the ability to FIRE federal employees who were BYPASSING democracy for their own benefit.” I put it more as the ability to fire anyone who didn’t do as he said. It was unclear exactly what they were going to do with the money contributed to the Official Drain the Swamp Fund but the fine print at the bottom said something about _Paid for by Save America JFC, a joint fundraising committee on behalf of Save America and the Make America Great Again PAC._ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905/47 "2022-08-22T05:53:57Z")
Why did I read _JFC_ as _Jesus Fucking Christ_? _Narrator_: Because that’s what most sane people said on a daily basis whenever Trump tried to be presidential. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-or-not-to-trump/969905.md?page=2)