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Seeric posted:Speaking of desperate attempts to make Trump sit down for a minute and stop pulling his entire campaign ever deeper into a swirling vortex of schadenfreude, did that 'intervention' a few Republicans were planning to have with Trump ever actually happen? I honestly wouldn't even bother if I were them. It's pretty clear at this point that one of the quickest ways to make Trump mad is for anyone, anywhere, to imply that they know more than him about anything. There's no kind of intervention you can have with him because the second you say "Hey, this isn't working, what if we try X" he starts raging out that anyone else is daring to tell him what to do. I'm honestly not sure how the Republicans can salvage what's happening, if at all. If there's a big, concentrated party-wide pushback against Trump to send a message that he's not what the GOP is about, they lose the racist, rabid base they need to win elections. If they ignore him, he piledrives the party into irrelevancy as he continues to be pretty much The Worst Politician Ever. The only way I see them saving any face is if Trump has an actual, legitimate, epic public meltdown (like, hysterical sobbing on Fox News or something) that's such a turn-off to his macho racist base they dump him for being a loser and wander off, and it happens in a way where the GOP can keep their hands clean. The only actual line of attack that might work on him at this point from the party itself is if they flip his winner narrative on him and everyone goes in hard on the idea that Trump is a loser, based on the amount of states that are rapidly flipping blue, although even then most of the Republican base is already convinced all the polls are completely fabricated so that probably won't work either. Sucks to be them, I guess. 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I can honestly see Trump not meaning to call for judges or Hillary to be assassinated, but after everything else he has said the media will not let that pass as such. I would actually feel bad for Manafort today if he wasn't a worse scumbag than Trump in some respects
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How's that crow taste all y'all saying Trump would tone down and not go past the baby thing?
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DemeaninDemon posted:How's that crow taste all y'all saying Trump would tone down and not go past the baby thing? I feel like nobody could have seriously predicted Donald Trump would call for the murder of his political opponent while also suggesting she murdered a supreme court justice. Like yeah that's excessive even for Donald Trump.
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I love Elizabeth Warren
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Roflan posted:Punctuation means something. "We need some money, guys." is different from "We need some money guys". 'We need some second amendment, people' implying use of the second amendment and therefore a threat vs 'We need some second amendment people' implying people who advocate the second amendment, implying they vote for him. Since that part of the speech was clearly from the top of the trumphead, there is no definitive punctuation around. But for the record, in my opinion, he clearly said "But with the second amendment, people, maybe there is." Basically the "people" is an exclamation mark in the middle of the sentence to raise attention. He does that a lot. It's the same reason a lot of people randomly spout the word "literally".
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I love Elizabeth Warren Yeah she's Cool
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Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/763110016152928258
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Senator of my heart.
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Yeah, Trump called for the assassination of his political rival, but did you know that Hillary pushed for scheduled debates at AWKWARD TIMES??
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on I am honestly shocked if they decided to take that tack.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on Just like gangsters used to tell people to pay protection or something unfortunate COULD happen to them. Perfectly reasonable.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on Cross posting from another thread:
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ImpAtom posted:I feel like nobody could have seriously predicted Donald Trump would call for the murder of his political opponent while also suggesting she murdered a supreme court justice. Like yeah that's excessive even for Donald Trump. Yeah me neither but that wasn't my point. Trump's only predictable factor is his ability to find new depths of poo poo headiness none thought possible.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on Boy, that "Trump was talking about voting, not shooting" defense didn't last long, did it?
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on Holy loving poo poo I didn't think they could surprise me anymore
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I don't see how you can possibly spin this as 'but I meant the ballot box'. The context of the sentence was 'if she gets to pick judges, there is nothing you can do', which implies we're discussing AFTER the election.
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Seeric posted:did that 'intervention' a few Republicans were planning to have with Trump ever actually happen? It almost certainly did, but what they pressed on him was "For God's sake, quit attacking your fellow party members and go after Hillary!" And so he did!
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You'd think they would have done a group huddle first, to get their story straight, but nope, every Trump surrogate is leaping heroically into the fray with a wildly different "obvious" interpretation.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on Trump's people are trying to stay on point here, but with him saying whatever his tiny brains thinks about straight away, it's hard to know what that point might be.
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I really can't wait for the first debate. It's going to be loving Christmas
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I see Dennis Reynolds is running the Trump campaign now Because of the implication
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Aug 9, 2016 23:04
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I wonder just how far Trump is gonna go after this? Call her a bitch to her face in the debates? Ragequit and leave the republican party hanging? Is this the world's greatest performance artist or just a clueless idiot?
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Earlier! Baldasaro doubles down says clinton should be put in firing line shot for treason. Kevlar under a pantsuit would be hot as hell.
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Roflan posted:Punctuation means something. "We need some money, guys." is different from "We need some money guys". 'We need some second amendment, people' implying use of the second amendment and therefore a threat vs 'We need some second amendment people' implying people who advocate the second amendment, implying they vote for him. This is exactly my point. It was obviously a threat, even if just a bad joke, and all this " second amendment people " is clumsy covering.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Yet to be confirmed, but: it looks like the pivot is back on So now the argument is, "if we don't win, someone from our side might do something extremely terrible. Of course we don't want this to happen. The only choice is to win." That's straight up extortion.
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This 2nd amendment gaffe is a great chance to point out something thats been bugging me all election. What trump says, how i take it, and how its taken. Direct Trump quote:Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. [/quote] What i heard: "Someone willing to risk their life and fortune to subvert the legal immigration process is likely to be someone who would be weeded out by it, we should enforce our borders better". What you heard: All mexicans are rapists, white power! Direct Trump quote:"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people—maybe there is. I don't know." What i heard: Hillary is going to gently caress the second amendment sideways, if you care about this vote against her. What you heard: Someone please shoot hillary. (Frankly "What i heard" could just as easily be "What he should have said", but really, what do you expect from a candidate from queens) MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I wonder just how far Trump is gonna go after this? Call her a bitch to her face in the debates? Ragequit and leave the republican party hanging? he has a strong, crippling personality disorder that he's never had to deal with because he was born rich
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MattD1zzl3 posted:This 2nd amendment gaffe is a great chance to point out something thats been bugging me all election. What trump says, how i take it, and how its taken. no
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Trump is already acting Presidential as hell. Presidents reach out to unfortunate victims of hate crimes, right?
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MattD1zzl3 posted:This 2nd amendment gaffe is a great chance to point out something thats been bugging me all election. What trump says, how i take it, and how its taken. this is because you're a dumb racist though
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I'm sure Hillary is seriously considering Trump's "let me win or you're going to die. No, I'm not saying I'm going to kill you, that's ridiculous. Just know that someone is going to shoot you" proposal. Probably going to drop out soon
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MattD1zzl3 posted:This 2nd amendment gaffe is a great chance to point out something thats been bugging me all election. What trump says, how i take it, and how its taken. What you hear is your brain doing a wishy washy "I'm still a good person, I'm not hateful and racist" but you are and you just can't cope otherwise.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:This 2nd amendment gaffe is a great chance to point out something thats been bugging me all election. What trump says, how i take it, and how its taken. Source your quotes
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Popular Thug Drink posted:this is because you're a dumb racist though
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Only way this could be better if she ended it 'losing to a girl with bigger hands'.
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MariusLecter posted:What you hear is your brain doing a wishy washy "I'm still a good person, I'm not hateful and racist" but you are and you just can't cope otherwise. Yeah, look @ my av I know this is whats happening
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