I think he might just have a fetish for losing.
President Kegsbreath…
The boy ain’t even fit for T-ball.
Guy who lost a war with Iran wants to be president.
Must be the type who has failed upwards his entire life.
I mean so far that has been very true
You guys laugh, but there seems to be enough wannabe-macho small-penis dudebro idiot voters that could get the loser elected. Do not assume it won’t happen.
I’m not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic? I find Trump totally repulsive, however I can understand his “charism” that attracts people to vote for him when he’s there mumbling his rampts and narcistic histories. So far, since 2025, that I can remember, anytime I saw any video of Peter Hegseth speaking he seems to have the same charism as a door.
This, would, of course, be important for a presidential candidate If there is any “democracy” left during the election time, since Trump’s popularity is decreasing, his government does not seem too promising on having “good results” to show when the election time comes, therefore the transfer of charism and therefore votes that Trump would be able to execute would be limited, and the new candidate would have to work on his own.
Given the current state of affairs, as an external observator and not too familiar with USA real politics dynamics, I find it’s easier for Trump and republicans to continue the rampamt breaking of laws and just really push for a 3rd term, as he’s been publicly “teasing” since his 2024 campaign…
P.S.: Just to finish up, there’s also the fact that Trump is old as f*, and seems to be becoming more senile by the minute (i.e.: his almost at the age his dad was diagnoses with dementia iirc), so maybe the thing is they would just be forced to move on from him and the “3rd term” thing would really just not come to fruition due to bad timing (Trump going full demented, dying, etc…). Or maybe if his popularity keeps going down, who knows if the democracts can obtain any majority in the midterm elections and put up an impeachment on both houses this time, this would also chance the outlook of things and force the republicans to choose a new candidate sooner than later.
The only thing hegseth has going for him is his ‘TV look’ and willingness to eat shit if it owns the libs (our conservatives have no shame, and love embarrassing themselves to get a reaction from ‘the left’)
Hegseth / Lindell. A true dream ticket if there ever was one.
Actually, I hope he does run. He would make it easier for progressive to win because everyone hates him.
What are you talking about? You do realise this is the country that elected Trump twice, right?
He got us involved in an extremely dumb and pointless war and lost. If that doesn’t scream prime Republican presidential nominee material; I don’t know what does.
If I was a bettin’ man he’d be on my 2028 shortlist.
American politics is so fucking whack, but I’m still gonna say he has no chance and if I get egg on my face I get egg on my face.
Big part of how Trump one was playing both sides with the tough guy act but also lying that he’d stay out of foreign entanglements. Hegseth is pure tough guy act, and also started and lost a war with Iran, so he has absolutely no ability to court the libertarian/isolationist-minded people on the right who felt burned by Bush. It seems like he’s just delusional and has bought into his own propaganda.
Right but imagine you are a hardcore MAGA supporter and found that Trump won’t be running for a 3ed term, where can you find someone shittier than Pete to elect?
You can’t win with just that one type of guy, is what I’m saying. There’s the macho nationalist type of guy on the right, absolutely, but there’s also the libertarian type that’s generally “anti-war” on the basis that war is the government doing stuff and the government doing stuff is always bad.
In 2000, Bush ran as being more isolationist than Gore and staying out of foreign conflicts (after the failure in Vietnam, nobody wanted to be associated with that), then as soon as he got ahold of power started and lost pointless wars of aggression. So then Bush became unpopular on the right and Trump ran as an “anti-establishment” type (after the failure in Afghanistan, nobody wanted to be associated with that) claiming to be a “peace” candidate, and he won, and as soon as he got access to the levers of power he started bombing Syria but nobody really noticed or cared for some reason so then he just repeated the same lies and got into power again and immediately went and bombed Iran, and going forward nobody’s gonna want to be associated with that.
There’s plenty of figures that are positioning themselves to step into that role next, like MTG, Tucker Carlson, and Tulsi Gabbard. The sorts of people who bought into Trump being a peace candidate are dumb as rocks and lack basic pattern recognition so they will absolutely just keep falling for the same trick over and over again. But they do need to be tricked and lied to for the right to have a winning coalition.
It is kinda exciting on some level, like, say Tucker Carlson got his hands on the levers of power, he’d obviously start another war of aggression somewhere, but who really knows where it’d be? And when that war proves to be a hopeless debacle, who will be the one on the right to say that, unlike Tucker who just loves getting into pointless destructive conflicts (who could’ve predicted it?), they actually… you know what, I can’t do this, it’s not exciting, it’s literally just rebooting the same plotline over and over, and I’m gonna be forced to watch it until I’m dead in the ground.
Point being, my prediction is that the Republican nominee will either be someone who has some pretense of being able to distance themself from the Iran War, or they will lose.
Please be the republican nominee.
Keep in mind that is exactly what I thought when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.
Hmmm.
You make a good point.
On the other hand, look at the history of presidents and their parties. It ALWAYS swaps parties unless there is a particularly popular vice president. Literally, back to Washington.
The US isn’t like Japan where the LDP wins consecutive elections for decades on end.
The republican candidate was GOING to win in 2016.
We are now in a time of chaos. I feel Dems will probably sweep the midterms and maybe win in 2028, but it’s unclear. We’ve only had one nonconsecutive president before.
I wouldn’t put money on James (Vance).
Not really though, post civil war there was a 40 year pause where no democrats were president iirc until Wilson won due to Teddy Roosevelt splitting the vote
Remember when the Supreme Court interfered in the presidential election because of hanging chads and effectively kept Gore from winning, thus leading somehow to the death of Harambe and bringing us to the bad place dimension where everything always gets worse and almost always in the worst way possible?
Yeah… like you said, history likes to repeat itself.
Oh yes; I remember the Brooks Brothers riot.
Begging the question — was Al Gore a particularly popular vice president?
Having lived through it, I would say no.
Which doesn’t mean Dubya was wildly popular. Only that Al wasn’t.
Whether Dubya won legitimately, the national mood wasn’t four more years of Clinton.
That’s because both sides are shit and just keep the rich and powerful, rich and powerful, in exchange for money.
I was about to say just that.
Never ever ask the universe to do something funny. It was already going to, and now it’s irritated.
Right. Standing up there and yelling “there’s that f__ talk again!” as some kind of response, ala Idiocracy would be a huge selling point for the Tribe That Rub Shit In Their Hair. The pig people loooove that kind of stuff - they are intimidated by competency, expertise and people that are smarter than them. An idiot like donnie or Petey are their idea of “common sense” politicians.
That, combined with enough of the apathetic staying home as well as the armchair “leftists” that love to tell everyone how it is useless to vote, (at least to actually vote for a candidate that can actually win) and you’ll get Petey in office…
Hegseth in a debate. Now that I’d like to see. What a putz.
We all thought the current president was going to lose in 2016 when he was dicking up the republican primaries. Don’t discount these hacks. RFK would be the strongest challenger if not for his speech impediment, how is he going to run a nazi rally with that voice?
Vance won’t get it, Rubio won’t get it.
Isn’t he tied to the Seven Mountain Mandate insanity?
Dipshit probably believes in that Left Behind bullshit, too.
Every noteworthy member of the executive branch is now a seven mountains mandate Christian dominionist at this point.
Translation: he wants money, pweeez
Does he ecpet trump to be dead?
Is this about avoiding prison again?
Bro can’t bench 135.
Do it! Dems need any help they can get.
Isn’t that what they thought they were doing when they talked about Trump so much? Turning the joke candidate into this
He should be happy he’s not in prison by that time.
