(Apologies for yet another Trump post.)

But given his court appearance Thursday, just funny how he’d start joking about this. I wonder if he actually would, and what would follow. I mean, how would he try to spin it?

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    I mean, him running away to Russia would split Republicans even more. He’d still have his dedicated followers, but it would cause even more of a fight regarding DeSantis and others.

    I’m trying to decide which would be more chaotically beneficial for the rest of us, him going to jail or fleeing.

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      Him going to jail is the better scenario as he can still run even if he is in prison and he’ll split the R vote down the middle. But if he flees the country they’ll strike his name off the ballot and you get a DeSantis on the ballot as the official nomination. I still think the R’s would lose, but it would be a closer contest.

      These trials are going to take forever so I don’t think he’ll flee until after he loses in 2024. At that point he has no reason to stay anymore.

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      Their position on Russia is one of the more ridiculous contortions for Trump fanatics. They claim to hate communism and love freedom and yet their daddy sold out to the Kremlin so they have to find ways to act like they wanted us to be Russian apologists all along.

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        There’s no inconsistency in hating communism and loving Putin’s Russia, since Putin and today’s Russia have nothing to do with communism.

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        The crazy thing is that the reason why communism sucks is that (at least currently) it requires totalitarianism to implement it. And that comes with a lot of issues. Communism in theory looks like utopia. Russia no longer is communist, but it absolutely is totalitarian, but according to them that’s somehow good.

        Also what I noticed is that those tankies on lemmygrad, aren’t really pro communism, they are pro totalitarianism.