Seriously? He might be annoying and very good at ignoring the obvious to point out everyone else's foibles, but he hasn't done anything worthy of a ban.
I'm not typically advocating bans, but Herdfan's one-sided arguments while ignoring everything else is either pure ignorance (as in he is ignoring all the facts regarding Trump, although he is repeatedly confronted with them in this discussion) or simply trolling.
In a different thread I made a pretty long posting, because I couldn't take his shit anymore (I forgot what the actual trigger was). I predicted in my posting that he would ignore the relevant facts. He ignored the whole post, so I blocked him, because it just isn't worth reading the same lies over and over again.
This is a tech site, which means we argue about facts. If someone is repeatedly selectively ignoring very specific facts, then what's the point still interacting with them?
Is Biden too old? Absolutely! I was of the opinion before he got elected in the first place. But Trump is too old as well. If that's Herdfan's
only argument against Biden, then this should exclude Trump as well, but for him it doesn't.
Is Biden better than Trump? A thousand times yes!
If you asked Trump why he wants to be president again, you'll probably hear "to make America great again" (ironically this would include more than the US, which he certainly doesn't mean, but I guess "MUGA" doesn't sound as good). He already had four years to do that. So what was the great thing he did for "America"?
* Tax breaks for the rich?
* Removing migrant children from their parents and putting them in cages?
* Tariff wars that cost the US more money? (But he is the one with the infallible business acumen...)
* Botching the COVID-19 response, which caused thousands of deaths?
* Trying to replace ACA, but failing, because who could have known that such things are so complicated?
* Building the wall? Which isn't really a wall, wasn't complete, and is already falling apart?
* Temporarily blocking travel from certain Muslim countries, but excluding Saudi Arabia, where the majority of the 9/11 terrorists came from, because he has business ties with the Saudis (and his son-in-law later received $2 billion)?
* Pardoning a Navy Seal, who killed unarmed civilians and was accused by his own team?
* Suggesting to nuke hurricanes?
* Suggesting to bomb migrants coming from Mexico? (His argument was that Mexico wouldn't even know where the bombs would come from. I guess he really is this stupid to believe that!)
* Inciting a riot against the Capitol to "stop the steal", although there has been plenty of proof that he knew he lost, and about 50 courts, including judges he appointed, ruled against him?
* I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a lot of stuff...
From my point of view Trump wants to be president for three reasons:
1. He would be immune to prosecution for another four years, and he'd find a way to become "Emperor of the USA" in the meantime. Also he'd be sure the GOP wouldn't impeach him for anything, because as Susan Collins put it (although she meant it in a different way) "he learned his lesson" twice already.
Why do I know this to be true? An innocent man would try to prove his innocence in court as soon as possible. But all he and his lawyers do is delay, delay, and delay, because this is the only defence he has. Unfortunately, he is aided in this but Judge "loose" Cannon and the Supreme Court.
2. He wants to harm anybody who is against him or who he thinks "wronged" him in the past with the full power of the DoJ.
I don't really have to prove this, you can simply take that from utterances made during his rallies or interviews with him.
3. He absolutely craves the attention and adoration from his followers, otherwise he would feel as insignificant as he really is, and that's something his narcissistic ego just cannot take.
Apparently, he was really miffed when Judge Merchan addressed him as "Mr. Trump" not "President Trump". (BTW, that's a really odd thing to still address an ex-president as "Mr. President" or Giuliani as "Mr. Mayor", despite no having been a mayor for years, What's up with that?)
When he tells his stories about people approaching him, in his own words they always address him as "Sir". While that might have been the fact (although some of his stories are either absolute lies or over exaggerated, especially when they often have "tears in their eyes" -- unless that's due to his allegedly strong body odour), for the story he tells this is a superfluous addition, which means he really wishes to be approached like a king.
Long story short, Trump is a monster who will cause another riot if he doesn't win, and even more harm if he does, because he will transform the USA into a dictatorship and then screw up the whole world.
But Trump is just the most apparent symptom of the real disease, because he was enabled by most of the GOP (they had a chance to impeach him twice and didn't) and millions (as Herdfan stressed) of nutters, who for some reason think he's their saviour, although he wouldn't even pee on them if they were on fire.
