You can't humiliate someone that doesn't have the capacity for humility. I think if he had even 10% humility of the average man, things wouldn't be so bad.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Humility, empathy, shame. If Trump (and his Republican enablers) had any of these things, the world would be a much better place.
MAGA don't actually pay attention, especially not to things that aren't covered by the National Fox News broadcasts. It doesn't matter that he only raised $1,800 for his run and did essentially no campaigning.
He won because "Thomas Smith" is a whiter name than "Amir Hassan" or "Al Lemmo".
It’s because Fox News, CNN, and Twitter have all been overflowing with “Hasan said America deserved 9/11” talking points and CONSERVATIVES ARE ALL DUMB BOTS WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ANY OF THE WORDS THEY HEAR MEAN
What a glorious fucking dumpster fire.
It gets better. The candidate who won had dropped out to campaign for the candidate who came in 3rd place.
Literally zero useful polling done in this race. And they're going into the general against a Dem incumbent during a blue wave year, so it hardly matters either way.
Even Trump is no match for Republican voters' fear of a middle eastern looking guy with a muslimy sounding name.
Why did Smith drop out early if he was facing such a weak field? Was there some personal scandal?
He dropped out because he was the weak candidate. He actually threw his weight behind a third candidate and tried to get people to vote for them, because he didn't want Hassan in office. The attack on Hassan was that he was a Trojan horse for the democrats, and that if he won he'd just keep the state Blue like it has been. Couple that with the name 'Amir Hassan' and you've got a recipe for riling up the inbreds to cast a vote against the one that looks different. Unfortunately, he dropped out after the deadline to have his name removed, and so he was still on the ballot. When you see Amir Hassan and Thomas J. Smith, and you hate anyone that isn't white, you vote for good ol' Tommy Boy.
He dropped out because he was the weak candidate.
How did he assess that, though? Especially when the candidate he told his supporters to vote for instead only got 16.4% of the vote compared to his own 50.4%.
He raised something like $1600 vs Hassan's $700,000. That's hard to look at in a positive light.
Wouldn't everything be so much better if we could just opt to vote for an empty seat in the first place?
I don't want to not vote for anybody, I want to vote for nobody!