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Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

mannerup posted:

ends up the Trump primary was only the opening act :getin:

If you want blood... You got it!

The Only Strategy For Hillary Clinton Is To Scorch The Earth

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unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

CortezFantastic posted:

Oh it will be a fight, but unless someone disastrous happens and people just decide not to vote at all, the election is not favorable to Trump. There is a argument to be made that Trump has already hit his ceiling on who will vote for him or not. He is not like other Republicans where if their guy lost the primary, they will still vote for the other guy. This time the other guy might be Trump and that changes a lot. But this election has been quite the anomaly so you may end up being right, who the gently caress knows.

I think you way underestimate the effect of tribalism.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Mister Macys posted:

So? What do they think is going to happen? That people won't buy Cubs tickets?

Do they think he's got the same influence Oprah did when she said she wouldn't buy beef during the first Mad Cow scare, or something?

that they will face personal embarrassment and attacks instead of the adoring deference they are used to, it's not a money thing

cyberbullying is basically what will happen they will get a virtual wedgie and face a loss of status

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Mister Macys posted:

So? What do they think is going to happen? That people won't buy Cubs tickets?

Do they think he's got the same influence Oprah did when she said she wouldn't buy beef during the first Mad Cow scare, or something?

The guy made the pope back down.

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Out of all the "primary to general" changes coming, I'm most looking forward to what happens when a candidate gets to talk about Trumps little nazi squad without worrying about losing their own little nazi squads votes.

I see a lot of "why isn't the press covering this?" when the answer seems obvious to me. This is a race for the king of rear end in a top hat-land and no one is really that shocked that the winner so far is a loving rear end in a top hat. This is what Republicans are, that's what they want.

If that's what the rest of the country wants too then cest la vie, but I doubt it.

yet everyone expects hillary to gladly enter the shitpit and sling aside all civility

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

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Mister Macys posted:

So? What do they think is going to happen? That people won't buy Cubs tickets?

Do they think he's got the same influence Oprah did when she said she wouldn't buy beef during the first Mad Cow scare, or something?

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/672926510924374016

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
pretend the "trumps ceiling" gop shills are the Z fighters at disbelief this is only friezas first form.

just replace namek with earth and goku doesn't even bother showing up

Kindergarten Camp
Nov 27, 2015

Did Joementum post the Nevada G.O.P. results in this thread or did someone else happen to be the one who did so? If you know, where?

Kindergarten Camp fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Feb 24, 2016

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

The guy made the pope back down.

Did you expect the Pope to get into a Twitter argument or something with Trump?

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
Rush Limbaugh is now calling Rubio #2, and his pet name for Donald Trump is now Donaldus Maximus.

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
CNN lady asking Bullet Necklace about racy Melania photoshoots. Is some idiot rival campaign whispering in the media's ear about that now? If so Trump's gonna lose his poo poo.

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib

I was telling my friend this today. Trump is going to win Texas. There's no way to keep him from 1237 anymore, so what's the RNC's move?

A theory we proposed: RNC needs to just yank the band-aid off, gently caress Trump over now and force him to run third party so that we have 7 months to the election and maybe the "the RNC hosed trump and rubio is the emperor with no clothes" storyline drops off by then. The only way to do that is to blatantly gently caress Trump over right after Super Tuesday. Is there any way they could go to the state parties of the later states and change the winner-take-alls to proportional this late in the game? Just something where it's really obvious they're loving Trump and that forces him out fast.

CubsWoo
Aug 17, 2005

Where the big boys RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH FUCK YOU

rear end cobra posted:

CNN lady asking Bullet Necklace about racy Melania photoshoots. Is some idiot rival campaign whispering in the media's ear about that now? If so Trump's gonna lose his poo poo.

Breaking news: Donald Trump has pretty wife with a body people will pay to see naked

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

I like how the idea of Hillary running a negative, scorched earth campaign is considered shocking enough to merit its own article, while the idea of Donald Trump running a negative, scorched earth campaign is pretty much treated as a given.

InsanityIsCrazy posted:

yet everyone expects hillary to gladly enter the shitpit and sling aside all civility

Well yeah, if it's going to be a dirty campaign, I'd rather see her fight than just sit back and take it like Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, etc.

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Logikv9 posted:

Did you expect the Pope to get into a Twitter argument or something with Trump?

We went from 'trump isn't christian' to "Trump called the Pope a “wonderful guy” and, of course, blamed the media for blowing everything out proportion." in like 2 days. There's some space between twitter fights and folding like a deck of cards.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

The guy made the pope back down.

"Well, the pope kinda had it coming" - a thing I have actually heard from Trump supporters irl

CubsWoo
Aug 17, 2005

Where the big boys RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH FUCK YOU
I wonder if the UK sites will take bets on whether or not Trump triggers Hillary into a seizure or stroke at their debates

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

rear end cobra posted:

CNN lady asking Bullet Necklace about racy Melania photoshoots. Is some idiot rival campaign whispering in the media's ear about that now? If so Trump's gonna lose his poo poo.

Beck and some others were pushing a story that Melania Trump did lesbian porn. So this is most likely out of the Cruz camp.


pathetic little tramp posted:

I was telling my friend this today. Trump is going to win Texas. There's no way to keep him from 1237 anymore, so what's the RNC's move?

A theory we proposed: RNC needs to just yank the band-aid off, gently caress Trump over now and force him to run third party so that we have 7 months to the election and maybe the "the RNC hosed trump and rubio is the emperor with no clothes" storyline drops off by then. The only way to do that is to blatantly gently caress Trump over right after Super Tuesday. Is there any way they could go to the state parties of the later states and change the winner-take-alls to proportional this late in the game? Just something where it's really obvious they're loving Trump and that forces him out fast.

Trump is starting to see endorsements from sitting GOP officials so we are getting closer and closer to the reality that the GOP is just going to let this happen.

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

pathetic little tramp posted:

I was telling my friend this today. Trump is going to win Texas. There's no way to keep him from 1237 anymore, so what's the RNC's move?

A theory we proposed: RNC needs to just yank the band-aid off, gently caress Trump over now and force him to run third party so that we have 7 months to the election and maybe the "the RNC hosed trump and rubio is the emperor with no clothes" storyline drops off by then. The only way to do that is to blatantly gently caress Trump over right after Super Tuesday. Is there any way they could go to the state parties of the later states and change the winner-take-alls to proportional this late in the game? Just something where it's really obvious they're loving Trump and that forces him out fast.

It's over and they are beginning to accept it.

He has way too much support from large parts of the party for any sort of ratfucking to not blow up in their face. It's not like he's just winning big in one group, he has broad support from evangelicals to the business wing.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

pathetic little tramp posted:

I was telling my friend this today. Trump is going to win Texas. There's no way to keep him from 1237 anymore, so what's the RNC's move?

A theory we proposed: RNC needs to just yank the band-aid off, gently caress Trump over now and force him to run third party so that we have 7 months to the election and maybe the "the RNC hosed trump and rubio is the emperor with no clothes" storyline drops off by then. The only way to do that is to blatantly gently caress Trump over right after Super Tuesday. Is there any way they could go to the state parties of the later states and change the winner-take-alls to proportional this late in the game? Just something where it's really obvious they're loving Trump and that forces him out fast.

Trump will win anyway even if they try to gently caress him.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

Montasque posted:

Beck and some others were pushing a story that Melania Trump did lesbian porn. So this is most likely out of the Cruz camp.

As if that's some kind of negative. Jesus, just look at her. If TRUMP promised that every fourth of July she'd do a cam show to raise money for disabled veterans I'd vote for him.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


rear end cobra posted:

CNN lady asking Bullet Necklace about racy Melania photoshoots. Is some idiot rival campaign whispering in the media's ear about that now? If so Trump's gonna lose his poo poo.

Donald Trump gets to act like the bigger man while everyone talks about how hot his wife is.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/702533179597574144
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/702541126994153472







thread title?

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

Kindergarten Camp posted:

Did Joementum post the Nevada G.O.P. results in this thread or did someone else happen to be the one who did so? If you know, where?

The magic number of times you have to ask is 7, keep going

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

evilweasel posted:

Rubio wants to be Governor of Florida. Losing this won't kill him too much because he wasn't always expected to win and can easily blame Bush for the Trumpenreich.

Rubio wants to be mayor of Maimi. Losing this won't kill his prospects, as he always has his foam party friends to fall back on.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

Pretty sure pulling his clothing line wasn't the reason Macy's went into freefall--they went into freefall because they're a lovely department store and they keep putting $2 surcharges on your account every month, even if you don't buy anything from them.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

TheScott2K posted:

As if that's some kind of negative. Jesus, just look at her. If TRUMP promised that every fourth of July she'd do a cam show to raise money for disabled veterans I'd vote for him.

Yeah, I highly doubt slut shaming Melania Trump in the primary let alone in the general, is going to work. Also there's no evidence she did porn, but whatever, like that will stop idiots like Beck.

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

CubsWoo posted:

I wonder if the UK sites will take bets on whether or not Trump triggers Hillary into a seizure or stroke at their debates

I would legitimately go as high as 5 cents on this not even joking (over all 3 debates, right? Does the spin room count?)

vrath
Jul 6, 2015

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At regent college town hall right now. So loving Trump right now.

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Trying to pre-emptively ratfuck Trump will be as bad as a convention ratfucking and people will come out in droves to vote for him if they do it before the primaries are finished, because it's an ironclad guarantee that he's the anti-politician politician.

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Alter Ego posted:

Pretty sure pulling his clothing line wasn't the reason Macy's went into freefall.

Did something else happen about that time? Honestly curious what caused it.

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

DaveWoo posted:

I like how the idea of Hillary running a negative, scorched earth campaign is considered shocking enough to merit its own article, while the idea of Donald Trump running a negative, scorched earth campaign is pretty much treated as a given.


Well yeah, if it's going to be a dirty campaign, I'd rather see her fight than just sit back and take it like Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, etc.

It was the framing. "Republican primaries on rear end in a top hat island, it's what they do!" Compared to what exactly? Hillary's campaign tossing bernies electorate to the twitter wolves as misogynists?

We've been living in rear end in a top hat-land since, well, forever. It's time to accept that.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

Did something else happen about that time? Honestly curious what caused it.

They started taking a lot of poo poo for a crappy business practice--they apply these little $2 surcharges to your account, even if the balance is zero, then they threaten you with bill collectors if you don't pay it.

Kindergarten Camp
Nov 27, 2015

sharknado slashfic posted:

The magic number of times you have to ask is 7, keep going

Is there a problem with my question or something?

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Pon de Bundy posted:

pretend the "trumps ceiling" gop shills are the Z fighters at disbelief this is only friezas first form.

just replace namek with earth and goku doesn't even bother showing up

Jeb: Krillin
Rubio: Gohan
Cruz: Piccollo
Trump: Goku
Carson: Master Roshi
Kasich: Bulma

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

Montasque posted:

Yeah, I highly doubt slut shaming Melania Trump in the primary let alone in the general, is going to work. Also there's no evidence she did porn, but whatever, like that will stop idiots like Beck.

If Ted Cruz wants to have any positive impact on the world he better dig up some video of Melania Trump and Shione Cooper getting glazed by 17 Bosnian war vets on a giant vinyl lazy susan in some Slavic capital city in 2007.

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

My Imaginary GF posted:

Jeb: Krillin
Rubio: Gohan
Cruz: Piccollo
Trump: Goku
Carson: Master Roshi
Kasich: Bulma

Kasich is Yajirobe dude, cmon

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

quote:

In his most extensive remarks yet on the 2016 race, Mitt Romney on Tuesday said he shared the feeling of many Americans that Washington has failed them and urged national leaders to take on big problems, including issues that the GOP has rarely put at the fore during in the past year such as climate change, poverty, education, and income inequality.

“We’re just mad as hell and won’t take it anymore,” Romney said of the national electorate in an appearance at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., where he harshly criticized “the failure of current political leaders to actually tackle major challenges, or to try at least, or to go out with proposals.”

“Think for a moment about the major challenges you believe this country faces and tick them off in your mind and ask, ‘Are we making any real progress on any of them?’ Romney said, striking an exasperated tone as he turned to the crowd.

Romney then listed a range of topics that are priorities for Republicans and Democrats, from the national debt and the “scale of entitlements” for the former to “global warming” and poverty for the latter, and argued that little to nothing has been accomplished on those fronts in the past few years.

Romney said it is time for members of both parties to say, “Here’s what we’re going to do finally fix education, here’s what we’re going to do to end generational poverty,” adding that addressing the “income gap” should also be high on the agenda.

If only there was some kind of Republican elder statesman who could bring that pitch to a general election...

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

vrath posted:

At regent college town hall right now. So loving Trump right now.

Did he mention how proud he was to be invited to speak at the fifth-best 4-year college in the metro area?

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TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Kindergarten Camp posted:

Is there a problem with my question or something?

Whatever page is around midnight eastern time in the sticky NV thread, maybe an hour or so before if you want to see reactions to initial polls being released.

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