"Now, there IS a possibility that Trump will manufacture some bizarre reason to drop out. And though I don’t think that is probable…the chances of it happening seem to be increasing daily. "
I agree with you. I can’t imagine him staying in the race if it’s clear that he’s going to get shellacked. His pattern is that he cuts his losses and declares victory. The important thing is that he doesn’t drop out before the convention. If he did and the Repubs nominated Paul Ryan? We could be in trouble.
Gotta wrap this one tight around his neck and keep it there all summer long.
Who is left to insult? Let’s get a list together and send it to him. I’ll start:
Boy Scouts of America
Girl Scouts of America
Red Cross
Doctors without Borders
Quadriplegics
YES - AGREE … fear the Trump wheels will be coming off in spectacular fashion way too soon (… really want to see the Trump hook irretrievably ‘set’ deep in the belly of the big GOP fish so deep it can’t be pulled out & they have to crawl to November with this hideous boat anchor around their neck).
… however
for the Republican nomination - 1,237 delegates are Needed to Win
and Trump has 1542 delegates … and none of this "Super -Delegate - stuff " so that’s
1542 “bat-shit-crazy-loving-the-Donald-cause-I-really-dig-this-crap-he-says” delegates - and few will waiver because they are infected with the Trump virus - they want him to say all this crap - (even if 300 abstained he still wins) - and virtually all will go MEGA-BALLISTIC and invoke total destruction if their choice is manipulated out of what he has ‘won’
Well, whats even worse, is there is no overarching strategy tying his increasingly bizarre comments together; no worldview or ideology that anyone can say “Yeah, I can step into those shoes”.
His response to the Orlando shooting was a hodge podge of self congratulatory backpats and telling everyone to be very afraid of the world out there…followed up with accusing the military of being a bunch of untrustworthy thieves.
When Americans get afraid, they look to a strong military to keep them safe. That is WHY one plays the fear card, its a scary world, but trust me and I will use our superior might to keep you safe.
Trump is trying to make people afraid and ripping away the safety blanket they turn to at the same time. Its a scary world, and your can only trust me…my orange hue and small fingers alone will keep you safe. Nobody buys that, and if you make people afraid without offering them the safety blanket…they reject you entirely.
I’m going to agree with Davey’s camp on this one, for two reasons. One is that the current nominee has no ground game and no funds. A normal person would have been working on that for the last two years. It’s hard to believe any other candidate could make up a fraction of that much lost ground. And secondly, I don’t see how you hit a reset button, how you swap out a candidate like a set of spark plugs and expect things to be good again. The GOP nominated this guy and told the world, however mumblingly, that they supported him. It looks horrible now and if he’s forced to drop out it looks worse. They just don’t have an escape hatch for this IMHO.
ETA I just remembered at the first news conference after the great Trump-Ryan summit, Ryan had smooth answers for everything but a question about Trump’s personality. He said in this stammering, stumbling, obviously ungenuine way that Trump had, uh, he had a good personality, yeah, that’s the ticket. If you put that in an ad it would be crushing. I think Ryan’s particularly tainted with this whole traitorous capitulation.
Why jes flip yer ol’ channel selector over to Faux Nooze . Alternate Universes provided every day free of charge.
I am enjoying beyond words watching them twist into pretzels try to spin this megalomaniac asshole into something posiitive
But, I think that’s what @daveyjones64 is getting at. At this point in time, it doesn’t matter. They could nominate Jesus with a AK-45 in his hands and it wouldn’t matter because the damage is done. Whoever is supporting Rump at this point, is all in. And, I agree with @misterneutron that there would be actual death at the convention. No doubt in my mind because Rump sees his followers as acolytes who he can give orders to.
(trying not to go Godwin here…)
Dumping on every other group in the country wasn’t enough for trump. Now he has to trample serving troops.
edit for transparency:
Mrs darr is a Navy veteran. My family have served since the Revolution. I do not think any of my ancestors or my wife would appreciate being accused of embezzlement in a war zone.
Lol he backtracked too quickly. The asshole was actually right.
Not to mention that the American military is one of the bedrock foundations of support for the GOP (more upper echelon not really the enlisted).
Now Rump is saying that they’re basically criminals? Well, that’s gonna do great things for enlistment, yessiree…
Spend some time around a Trump fan, or even your garden variety Republican for that matter. They’re cruel, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, fascist nuts. People bemoan our polarized society, as if it’s a mystery, not the way things should be. I don’t find it odd at all. I mean seriously, do you want a Republican in your home, for any reason? Would you go on a cross country drive with one to share a long awaited, well earned sight seeing vacation? We all endure them at our workplaces, we have little to no choice, we need the paycheck and changing jobs wouldn’t fix the problem in most cases. But in all other aspects of life, the parts we have options, can someone tell me why a person would voluntarily associate with a Republican? If in some theoretical world they wore identifying bracelets I’d have to think twice about calling 911 if I saw one having a heart attack in the grocery aisle. Wouldn’t society be incrementally improved somehow if we just walked around the chest clutching fallen?
I am more than happy to be wrong about this one. Anyhow this is just a worst-case scenario. I think it’s highly unlikely that Trump will drop out before the convention. Though if it’s September and he’s way back in the polls? At that point the odds of a (no doubt) bizarre Trump withdrawal go way up.
Agree. What’s the point of making that comment? What is Trump’s upside in broadly accusing US military personnel of corruption? There may well be some truth to this, but this is only going to alienate some veterans, members of the military and their families who might otherwise vote for Trump.
Cross that one off - He already went after the Handicapped
I know some people that are wondering whats the best way to remove the ‘Trump’ bumper sticker that they unwisely sticked to the metal.
I agree completely. The people who now self identify as Republicans and are Rump supporters don’t just have a different political ideology. It goes WAY beyond that to a form of violent insanity.
Wish I agreed.
As long as he hates others even more and promises to “BUILD THE WALL” he’ll still garner a good portion of their support.
To take your automotive metaphor a step further -
Trump’s wheels are wobbly - wacky scary -all over the place - and will become terrifyingly far far worse
They don’t take cashier’s checks in Afghanistan?
No,they would be in trouble…serious trouble like we have never seen in modern American politics.
First, as I indicated, there is no alternate to Trump, nobody that the GOP base and establishment can point to as…“He’s our guy”
Second, there is less that zero organization, fund raising or campaign plans for another candidate. Not that there is any of that worth noting for Trump,but its literally so much worse for any other candidate…especially someone like Ryan who didn’t even run a campaign.
Thirdly, there just isn’t time for any other candidate to “make his case” or “get his message out there”. Yes, it could be agreed that they don’t like Trump’s messaging…but what do they want in its place? That question becomes seriously complicated because…Trump does have the backing of the majority of people who voted in the primaries. So which parts of his message do you include? What parts dont you include? How do you deliver this new message…which clearly isn’t the new candidates given the selection process just outlined…with zero primary time before the GOP faithful? Cut off 4-6 weeks of the General election to do a condensed version of what took over a year for everyone else? That’s 4-6 weeks that Hillary is making serious hay over the GOP chaos, btw.
We are fine is he drops out either before or after the convention. The GOP is truly and thoroughly screwed no matter what Trump does now. The only outstanding question is which path does the unbalanced mind of Trump see as most beneficial/less damaging?