A new Politico/Ipsos survey finds 36 percent of independent voters saying they would be less likely to vote for disgraced former President Trump in the likely event he is convicted at trial in Manhattan for paying $130,000 to pornstar Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election to stay quiet about a roughly 45 second sexual encounter that had occurred a decade earlier.

Another 9 percent said they’d be more likely to support him, but that’s not like a net 25 percent because there’s zero chance those fuckers weren’t just going to vote for him anyway. Similarly 9 percent of Republicans said “less likely” though again you can probably assume that they’re either lying to themselves or the pollsters or they’re “RINOs” who weren’t going to vote for him anyway, just as you could say the opposite about the 34 percent of GOP voters who said “more likely.”

However to make those assumptions one would also need to take the whole thing seriously and we kind of don’t, as much as we want to welcome anything and everything that ends up eating into the fat fuck’s support. We can’t speak to the possibility of Trump being sentenced to prison for it or that he would somehow end up getting incarcerated before November other than to say it’s extremely remote. Even before that what the hell does this say about voters that they need a jury to conclude what’s already been known for years about the Orange Slob and his election interference?

Why would this suddenly be a game-changer but not January 6th and the goddamned COVID pandemic and the Dobbs decision and all the other plagues the Pharaoh hath wrought? Why should we think anything other than that these respondents are not serious voters and simply won’t turn out either way, irrespective of what 12 New Yorkers decide in two months or so?