Puppet Shadow
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"We took a shot, but came up short of the basketball ring."
With Trump's Indiana Win Can he Be stopped?
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~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
well now, Hillary Clitooohhahahahahahahahahaaaa oh what a terrible election season.
#Bernie
#Bernie
yanipheonu
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CBC NEWS just said that he officially is dropping out.
JordanN
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Look at the rise of Hitler. Trump is exploiting people's feelings so he can get into the whitehouse.
"You see those Mexicans? They're rapists and criminals! Only I, a President Trump, will get rid of them."
"Oh noes, did you see that terror attack in Europe? Well once again, I, President Trump, will protect you."
Shake Appeal
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Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president.
Try saying it out loud a few times. It's pretty strange!
Try saying it out loud a few times. It's pretty strange!
Hexa
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The primary is over. Trump reigns supreme. Now on to November. At which point we'll finally have to say good bye to his over the top antics.
Till then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSemARaqGqE
Or maybe not.
Till then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSemARaqGqE
Goro Majima
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Yeah I think she probably wouldn't want any part of that dumpster fire. Unfortunately at 61, this is probably her last chance if she wanted the VP job and then also a chance at the presidency someday.
Trump is in a weird position where he probably needs to make a splash for a VP candidate but he's angered most of the establishment already.
old manatee
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The Trumpest move of all would be to use his acceptance speech at the Republican convention to announce an independent run.
CharminUltra
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Silly GAFfer. You can't stump the Trump.
Pop-O-Matic
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When did you change your username?
And the Trump and the alt-right will blame those downticket senators and representatives running away from him as the reason why they lost, and thus rise up out of their murk to ravage the dilapidated remains of the party.
His unfavorability among Hispanics and minorities in general will be his downfall - but the DEAD HEAT narrative will keep liberals from being foolishly complacent, and so I will thank Wolf Blitzer for his work.
Pop-O-Matic
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Nah, all it takes is Trump calling him a commie once to sink Sanders. Unless the second coming of Jesus comes and takes the Democratic nom, I honestly think we're locked in to Trump being elected and humanity being wiped out in thermonuclear armageddon before the end of his first term.
Probably not. Hopefully Hillary can beat his coalition, but we'll see. What are the chances Kasich sees this through?
Maybe, but there's a real risk of his socialist label killing him in the general. Bernie Sanders' policy solutions are pretty moderate, but could still scare some Americans. But the guy is or once was a legitimate socialist, and while I'd love to see somebody like that in the White House, most Americans would not.
Maybe, but there's a real risk of his socialist label killing him in the general. Bernie Sanders' policy solutions are pretty moderate, but could still scare some Americans. But the guy is or once was a legitimate socialist, and while I'd love to see somebody like that in the White House, most Americans would not.
EnthronedReaper
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*bernie* "people of earth share your energy with me so I can destroy this evil!"
friskykillface
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Trump train at max power
welp
welp
You should ask Nate Silver how his polls are doing.
Pop-O-Matic
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There's too much free food in this for him to stop now. Kasich's gonna look like Christie by the time of the convention...
All according to the kakuritsu!
People keep saying "Trump's going to pivot any minute now!" and then he doesn't.
And even if he does, the damage is done. I really, really don't think women and minorities can just forgive him for the shit he's said.
Netherscourge
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Trump's voters are embracing the "Brewster's Millions" philosophy:
Push the least qualified guy to the front of the line and then just watch him burn it all.
Push the least qualified guy to the front of the line and then just watch him burn it all.
Spring-Loaded
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Fair enough. 538's estimates are usually good, Silver just stuck with his poor theorizing waaay too long.
Regardless, this is very unique cycle and I think historical indicators are very unreliable.
My bet is that Trump will win a huge percentage of the white vote (over 60%), and could come quite close in the popular race, but will be destroyed through the electoral college. He's going to inflame a lot of middle class and working class whites in northern states with high minority populations, but will probably not be able to turn many blue states red.
Trump could win Florida, but the increasing liberalization of our Hispanic population (mostly due to Puerto Rican transplants outnumbering Cubans), this seems less likely.
How do you rationalize this? Trump is legitimizing white nationalism and wants to position all Muslims and Mexican immigrants as enemies of the state.
Ninja Scooter
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Clinton is a sure thing. It won't even be close. Donald Trump is un-electable.
AstroNut325
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We need to reflect on how we got here. I wonder what NeoGaf was saying about Trump's chances in September/October?
j_k_redtail
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Well, I was wrong. I thought Bush had this, was sure Trump would flame out, said that he'd "jumped the shark" sometime in November, etc. Having my serving of crow tonight. I still don't think he'll beat Hillary though.
I don't think anyone is going to argue that a lot of people are surprised Trump's made it this far.
Doesn't change the fact that the primaries and the general are two drastically different things and Trump had a bunch of things in his favor in the primaries that don't apply now, particularly the GOP's refusal to acknowledge Trump as a credible threat and rally behind a single establishment candidate until it was far too late.
We all know Trump is a threat now.
Which the establishment is perfectly fine with as long as they retool their message for 2020 to better appeal to minorities and replace those votes and then some. Get the poison out and let the Tea Partiers and the rest of the alt right go preach their deranged message somewhere else.
September/October was around the time everyone still thought he was an outrageous novelty who would fizzle out once the real candidates starting getting their shots in. I don't think anybody could have accurately predicted just much of a couple of wet noodles both Jeb and Rubio would end up being in the debates.
I picked him as the Republican nominee back in October, though I did recently falter and give the GOP a possible chance of stealing the nomination after his loss is Wisconsin. More because I incorrectly felt like I was being too hard on them and wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt towards their competence with their party on the line than anything else.
The problem is, as demonstrated by this primary, the majority of the Republican party base IS the alt-right, or at least they align themselves with it. And the Republican brand is too tarnished at this point for them to successfully modernize themselves without both losing that majority of their supporters and failing to attract a similar amount of centrists.
I don't think they'll even try in any meaningful coordinated fashion, just like they didn't try in 2012 and didn't try in 2016.
Yep...He is going to get destroyed.
I don't think he can be stopped. Republican voters will eventually come around to him, since he is their only shot. Bernie has done a nice job in dividing the Democrats, and Hillary isn't nearly as likeable as Obama was in 08. This seems like something that should be so cut and dry, to be able to beat him in the general but I'm just not too optimistic it'll happen.
Don't understand why people make comments like this like it's a sure thing.
Everyone seems to ignore the fact that Trump is actually far more disliked than Hillary on average. Not sure why this is always overlooked.
eu pfhor ia
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I don't know, but I wish I could let the repub. politicians out there blathering about "rebuilding our dwindling military" just how much I want them to fuck off and stop lying.
I just listened to an interview with the JCS where Chief of Navy Ops John Richardson said something along the lines of "Yeah, I wish they'd stop saying that. The Navy's fleets are increasing in number, not shrinking"
I just listened to an interview with the JCS where Chief of Navy Ops John Richardson said something along the lines of "Yeah, I wish they'd stop saying that. The Navy's fleets are increasing in number, not shrinking"
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