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Necc0 posted:I'm dead-loving serious with this question: How are all of the establishment Trump supporters able to sleep at night? How the gently caress can they look at themselves in the mirror and not immediately stick a shotgun in their mouth? With Pence, Trump has proven that he will stack the SCOTUS with whatever Heritage sockpuppet is presented to him. That's a fine enough reason alone. And sure, he's the embodiment of the worst impulses of your base, but what's the alternative? Stand on principle and set yourself apart from your core constituency?
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Cleveland is an acceptable sacrifice to save humanity. Putin nukes Cleveland, wins Nobel Peace Prize unanimously, and he's given a ticker tape parade in NYC
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Agronox posted:Here lies the United States. We broke it because we got bored. This is how the United States ends, not with a bang but with a "hey, wouldn't it be hilarious if"
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Necc0 posted:I'm dead-loving serious with this question: How are all of the establishment Trump supporters able to sleep at night? How the gently caress can they look at themselves in the mirror and not immediately stick a shotgun in their mouth? They think they can control him. They can't control him.
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Patter Song posted:Ron Johnson must have really just given up all hope of reelection. He's the only endangered Senator on the speaking list, but his reelection bid is effectively a lost cause anyway. He's also dumber than a box of rocks.
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Necc0 posted:I'm dead-loving serious with this question: How are all of the establishment Trump supporters able to sleep at night? How the gently caress can they look at themselves in the mirror and not immediately stick a shotgun in their mouth? Trump has no interest in governing and aside from a few pet projects he will probably just go along with whatever the republican house and senate want to do. This is a great thing for the establishment supporters. They just need to figure out a way to survive the next few months.
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Would it be considered insider trading for republican politicians to massively divest in the USD before tanking it
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MadJackal posted:With Pence, Trump has proven that he will stack the SCOTUS with whatever Heritage sockpuppet is presented to him. That's a fine enough reason alone. And sure, he's the embodiment of the worst impulses of your base, but what's the alternative? Stand on principle and set yourself apart from your core constituency? This is what makes me nervous; there will basically be no checks and balances. With the SCOTUS vacancies you will potentially have a heavily lopsided, conservative court, a GOP led congress, and even the best case scenario is a President Trump doing whatever the GOP wants as long as they keep congratulating him, with the worst case scenario being him loving everything else up.
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Al! posted:Would it be considered insider trading for republican politicians to massively divest in the USD before tanking it Ah, the Ron Paul portfolio. Nope!
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Joementum posted:Most of them are avoiding the convention and just trying to survive the year. Those who are at the convention are just going to give fifteen minute speeches about the need to cut taxes, never mention Trump, and gently caress off. When this is over, they'll try to bury him. They don't see where this is headed? I'm no kind of professional and I can see how it ends for the GOP. They either have to change or die along with the Boomers.
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Zeroisanumber posted:They don't see where this is headed? I'm no kind of professional and I can see how it ends for the GOP. They either have to change or die along with the Boomers. That was their conclusion from 2012.
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Karl Sharks posted:nobody reads it more, in fact In fact, many people, many many people, have come up to him and have said, "Mr. Trump, nobody reads the bible as much as you." Nobody. It's true!
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Jul 18, 2016 04:19
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Tainen posted:Was this actually in the interview or is it made up? whoaaa
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smell this posted:end justify the means i suppose Personally I think handing Donald Trump the keys to the most powerful military the world has ever seen and a literal doomsday device seems sort of like a means that could easily become its own end but whatever nothing matters.
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Zeroisanumber posted:They don't see where this is headed? I'm no kind of professional and I can see how it ends for the GOP. They either have to change or die along with the Boomers.
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zen death robot posted:The Boomers will be around for another 20+ years tho In a diminished capacity. The oldest are what? 70? The youngest pushing 55?
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Vertical Lime posted:happy convention everybody quote:Put on the spot, Zwick tried to ad-lib a way out. “I don’t know why you’re raising money at all,” he tried, musing that in 2012 he’d always regretted how much time Romney had to spend schmoozing fat-cat donors. Zwick proposed that Trump forget all about raising money for a while and “come out really hard and strong” with a pledge that he wouldn’t waste any time on the campaign trail sucking up to donors.
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rawrr posted:This is what makes me nervous; there will basically be no checks and balances. With the SCOTUS vacancies you will potentially have a heavily lopsided, conservative court, a GOP led congress, and even the best case scenario is a President Trump doing whatever the GOP wants as long as they keep congratulating him, with the worst case scenario being him loving everything else up.  could always use more help
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zen death robot posted:The Boomers will be around for another 20+ years tho Republicans are not known for excellent long term planning
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Zeroisanumber posted:In a diminished capacity. The oldest are what? 70? The youngest pushing 55? It doesn't take a lot of capacity to vote.
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No one understands the Bible like me. God came to me - great guy, God, not as rich as me but still great - and he said "Donald, you're the best with the Bible," and Jesus - real good guy, just a great guy and a friend of mine - he said "If anyone else says they know more about the Bible than you Donald, they're lying." And you know, Hillary, or as some call her Crooked Hillary, she doesn't get the Bible like I do. Or America. And we're going to make the Bible great again, and we're going to make America great again, and no one is better than me to do that.
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oh my god it gets even better quote:Trump’s tirades against the “donor puppets” would become one of the most compelling elements of his primary campaign message — that of the blue-collar billionaire who couldn’t be bought. More to the point, Zwick was off the hook. (Zwick declined to discuss the details of his meetings with Trump.)
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Vertical Lime posted:happy convention everybody Jesus Christ, if he somehow becomes president and the nation turns on him, he'd burn the entire place down. He's running on equal parts ego and pure spite.
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I put the convention "schedule" (such as it is) and a link to C-SPAN in the OP, for reference.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:If the demographics don't favor the GOP, the demographics can be changed. Gerrymandering and voter suppression are already propping them up as a nationally viable party, and they can just keep running with that That made me imagine a dystopian future where Rush starts hiring alum from Hutu Power radio.
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C-SPAN is starting their coverage at 1pm ET tomorrow, by the way. The afternoon of the first day is typically used for voting on the reports of the committees. They'll gavel in the convention, say the pledge and some other ceremonial stuff and then the chairman of each committee will present their report(s) to the convention for formal adoption. This includes credentialling (which delegates are seated), platform, and rules. So if there's going to be any drama, it'll be tomorrow afternoon. But there (probably) won't be, given how the votes in the committees went.
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Tainen posted:Was this actually in the interview or is it made up? Am I the only one who thought Trump was actually saying it was okay for Pence to think Trump went too far re: McCain?
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MadJackal posted:Jesus Christ, if he somehow becomes president and the nation turns on him, he'd burn the entire place down. He's running on equal parts ego and pure spite.
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Tainen posted:Was this actually in the interview or is it made up? At the risk of tamping down Trump's inanity, he seemed to mean "you can say yes [that comment went too far]." May be an overly generous interpretation, but that's the way it seemed in context.
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MadJackal posted:Jesus Christ, if he somehow becomes president and the nation turns on him, he'd burn the entire place down. He's running on equal parts ego and pure spite. It's about time that America had a president that represented its values.
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Fun fact: tomorrow's speakers include not one, not two, but four mothers who lost their sons suddenly and violently
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Am I the only one who thought Trump was actually saying it was okay for Pence to think Trump went too far re: McCain? I watched it and I think that's exactly what he was saying.
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McKay Coppins said on BuzzFeed's podcast today, in advance of that article, that Trump was legit worried he'd gone too far with the McCain gaffe. He'll never admit it publicly, of course, but he's probably fine with Pence saying so.
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DaveWoo posted:This is how the United States ends, not with a bang but with a "hey, wouldn't it be hilarious if" I believe the correct formulation is "hold my beer and watch this-"
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Republicans are not known for excellent long term planning why do people keep saying this? the right has literally spent decades gradually and systematically undermining trust in the media and support for abortion/unions/etc. the GOP has been so much better at long-term planning than the democrats to an absolutely comical extent over the last 40 years
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Al! posted:Would it be considered insider trading for republican politicians to massively divest in the USD before tanking it If I remember right, insider trading rules literally do not apply to members of Congress.
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