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Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

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SchrodingerC

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entremet said:
Anyone gonna miss Trump for the entertainment value alone?
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Absolutely not. The news media has been saturated with every bit of Trump news for nearly 2 years now. They have given the Orange parasite enough attention to last a lifetime, and once Trump loses the media should ignore him.
 
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saelz8

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Those tweets just show that Trump doesn't believe in his cause as much as his followers do. He just loves the attention and the prospect of power. If he doesn't get the power, it was a waste of time.

Unfortunately his bigotry will live on and in that sense you can say he was a success. He gave the deplorables a voice and that won't merely blow into the wind once this is done.

We gotta beat him tomorrow.
 
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water_wendi

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saelz8 said:
Those tweets just show that Trump doesn't believe in his cause as much as his followers do. He just loves the attention and the prospect of power. If he doesn't get the power, it was a waste of time.

Unfortunately his bigotry will live on and in that sense you can say he was a success. He gave the deplorables a voice and that won't merely blow into the wind once this is done.

We gotta beat him tomorrow.
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Best case scenario would be if Trump got into it with his own supporters after losing bigly. "You didnt do enough! Youre all losers!"
 
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Mammoth Jones

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SchrodingerC said:
Absolutely not. The news media has been saturated with every bit of Trump news for nearly 2 years now. They have given the Orange parasite enough attention to last a lifetime, and once Trump loses the media should ignore him.
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If this happens my life will have improved.

This is the worst election of my life. I want it to be done.
 
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Zen_Arcade

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entremet said:
Anyone gonna miss Trump for the entertainment value alone?
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At this point, no. He was a joke that was funny for a while, repeated so often that it got old, repeated even more until it was funny again, and then repeated even MORE until he became a God awful boring subject for people to make fun of anymore.
 
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KiN0

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saelz8 said:
Those tweets just show that Trump doesn't believe in his cause as much as his followers do. He just loves the attention and the prospect of power. If he doesn't get the power, it was a waste of time.

Unfortunately his bigotry will live on and in that sense you can say he was a success. He gave the deplorables a voice and that won't merely blow into the wind once this is done.

We gotta beat him tomorrow.
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This is perhaps the worst thing about Trump and his shitty campaign. They throw up all this pompous bile about starting a movement and spreading a message, when it is so clear that he's only in this race for the possible validation it can give his ego. I think Trump doesn't even believes anything that comes out of his own mouth; he says whatever he thinks will rile up his base the most, regardless of the damage it does to the country.
 
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Lightning_Roller

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Loxley said:
As Mitt Romney said in that Netflix doc about his campaign - if you lose a Presidential election, you're branded a loser for life - with a big "L" on your forehead. That's your legacy.
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My goodness, Trump loses this tomorrow, he is gonna be hanging his head in shame for a loooooong time. Good.
 
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Tom Nook Sawyer said:
Is it worth watching?
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It covers his entire campaign in 2012 from start to finish, and it's an interesting insight into what that process is like. The most poignant moment of the whole documentary is, while sitting in a hotel room surrounded by his family and campaign team, when Romney realizes he's lost the election - you can see it in his eyes. It was genuine surprise, shock and sadness all at once.

I found the whole thing fascinating for that one moment alone. Like, losing the presidential election, I can't imagine what that would feel like. After all that money spent, all those rallies and speeches, for nothing. Your name will go down in the history books as "the dude who lost". That's gotta sting.
 
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Loxley said:
As Mitt Romney said in that Netflix doc about his campaign - if you lose a Presidential election, you're branded a loser for life - with a big "L" on your forehead. That's your legacy.
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i guess he'd have to be branded, he certainly wouldn't be able to hold the L with his tiny little hands
 
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Loxley said:
It covers his entire campaign in 2012 from start to finish, and it's an interesting insight into what that process is like. The most poignant moment of the whole documentary is, while sitting in a hotel room surrounded by his family and campaign team, when Romney realizes he's lost the election - you can see it in his eyes. It was genuine surprise, shock and sadness all at once.

I found the whole thing fascinating for that one moment alone. Like, losing the presidential election, I can't imagine what that would feel like. After all that money spent, all those rallies and speeches, for nothing. Your name will go down in the history books as "the dude who lost". That's gotta sting.
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what i was fascinated by in that doc was how much he trusted his family meetings with big decisions. like, i'm sure they are nice folks and all, but what the heck do they know about running a campaign?
 
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Netherscourge said:
It's not just Trump.

Pretty much all of his supporters 'outed' themselves this year. If Trump loses the election, all of them are going to have to answer to their opposing friends and families for years.

They'll have to wrestle with the fact that they supported a man who has said and done terrible things, who is a terrible role model, who doesn't honor contracts, who is a misogynist pig, who may also be guilty of raping a 13 year old at a sex party years ago...

How can anyone live with themselves after that? Especially if he loses the election?

Company CEOs who support him are going to take a hit on their brands - even his own daughter is concerned about her father's scandalous background.

Trump is going to leave a lasting stigma on all of his supporters, win or lose. But MUCH more if he loses.
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Why after? Why during? This is all unacceptable at any time, full stop.
 
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Tom Nook Sawyer

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Loxley said:
It covers his entire campaign in 2012 from start to finish, and it's an interesting insight into what that process is like. The most poignant moment of the whole documentary is, while sitting in a hotel room surrounded by his family and campaign team, when Romney realizes he's lost the election - you can see it in his eyes. It was genuine surprise, shock and sadness all at once.

I found the whole thing fascinating for that one moment alone. Like, losing the presidential election, I can't imagine what that would feel like. After all that money spent, all those rallies and speeches, for nothing. Your name will go down in the history books as "the dude who lost". That's gotta sting.
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Just watched it on Netflix--you're right, it was good!

Man, I hope someone's following Trump around with a camera right now...
 
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Ayato Kanzaki

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jufonuk said:
My theory , he and Clinton worked this out, he would become the main opposition and keep screwing up and Clinton would take it , but over time he got corrupted by power he now has turned and actually wants the job.
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I tried to believe that as well, but then I found out of Trump's racist past. The man is a genuine moron.
 
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Loxley said:
It covers his entire campaign in 2012 from start to finish, and it's an interesting insight into what that process is like. The most poignant moment of the whole documentary is, while sitting in a hotel room surrounded by his family and campaign team, when Romney realizes he's lost the election - you can see it in his eyes. It was genuine surprise, shock and sadness all at once.

I found the whole thing fascinating for that one moment alone. Like, losing the presidential election, I can't imagine what that would feel like. After all that money spent, all those rallies and speeches, for nothing. Your name will go down in the history books as "the dude who lost". That's gotta sting.
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So wait, he actually thought he was going to win till the very end? How? Did he not see the polls?
 
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Dai101

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jufonuk said:
My theory , he and Clinton worked this out, he would become the main opposition and keep screwing up and Clinton would take it , but over time he got corrupted by power he now has turned and actually wants the job.
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It was a silly conspiracy anyway, but especially now that we know how insecure he really is. There's no way he'd deliberately set himself up for a loss. Never.
 
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Vormund

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Dash_Riprock said:
So wait, he actually thought he was going to win till the very end? How? Did he not see the polls?
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He didn't even have a concession speech written up.

I kind of felt that was the case at the time, since it took so damn long for him to come out to concede, and it felt like it was slapped together in 10 minutes.
 
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Village

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jufonuk said:
My theory , he and Clinton worked this out, he would become the main opposition and keep screwing up and Clinton would take it , but over time he got corrupted by power he now has turned and actually wants the job.
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What is this metal gear plot you got a hold of
 
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the pre-debate talk in that Mitt doco... how far we've -- uh -- come
 
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NealMcCauley

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Just read the tweets. Reminds of Narcos humanizing Escobar. Yeah he's human, but he's still a piece of shit.

Dash_Riprock said:
So wait, he actually thought he was going to win till the very end? How? Did he not see the polls?
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IIRC Romney's team went all in on a computer program/model that consistently said he was going to win by a healthy margin. Never paid attention to any other polls.

Personally I always thought the people who designed the model were just fucking with him and collecting easy paychecks.
 
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gofreak

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Just another sign of his self-centredness and narcissism that he views a loss purely in terms of his own 'waste of time' rather than anything about the wider group he's brought along with him. I mean usually in a situation like that you're supposed to offer your followers some hope, thank them, show your appreciation for them, but...nope...for Trump, he can't see past his own personal loss.

I imagine if he does actually lose that someone will shove a concession speech in front of him and basically force him to hit all these other notes that he wouldn't naturally incline towards himself.

While I'm sure his camp have been preparing for all outcomes, I wonder if he's had any hand in preparation for both eventualities or if a concession scenario would be completely seat-of-his-pants stuff for him personally. From the article in the OP I wonder if anyone's had the balls to put anything like a concession speech in front of him for review 'just in case', or if he's just too fragile for it, and would be left completely unprepared if it does happen.
 
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Seik

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Yeah that's right, live in your little perfect world, Donald.

I'm convinced reality will hit him REALLY fucking hard tonight., at least I hope he'll lose by an important margin. Anything near Hillary's results will convince him to go on and try again in four years..
 
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