vorebane posted:

I had my fingers crossed for USPOL Oct: The vindication of Prester Jane by the Corncob Donald Trump, but Trumpelthinskin is nice.

HPanda posted:

Wait for November. It should be the grand finale.

Epic High Five posted:

Hillary's social media team are rising rapidly through the ranks and will be a terror for decades to come

Grundulum posted:

It would also shatter the coalition between religion-motivated voters and economics-motivated voters. The GOP would be straight-up annihilated at the national level if white evangelicals stayed home on Election Day. Giving up the culture war is not a winning strategy, as it's provided the incentive for a ton of single-issue voters over the last decade or more.

JosefStalinator posted:

I really don't understand the optimism on Hilldawg's chances at another term - there's still a lot that can happen in four years, but most importantly, not much will happen at the federal level beyond the appointment of Scalia (and probably RBG's) replacements. Unless Hillary shocks everyone and turns Trump's defeat into a chance to work with the Republican congress on a number of major issues that they generally oppose (healthcare, criminal justice, environment, taxes, etc), then it's going to be four years of doing nothing.

Remember that voters are morons. While the Republicans do not have demographics on their side, running a not-literally insane person like Trump can easily attract a good number of women voters and possibly even hispanic voters if the economy takes a turn for the worse or some other international crisis occurs. There WILL be another recession, and the Democrats will be blamed for it if they are in the White House, because voters are dumb and will ask "Why didn't the Dems do anything, they've been in charge for 12 years!" Memories of Trump's racisms might help keep hispanics behind the Dems, but the lack of Trump will likely just exacerbate the enthusiasm gap of young voters and hispanics who suddenly don't have a boogeyman around to scare them into supporting the Dem, causing them to just say "meh" and stay home. 2018 will be a preview of this.

Voters have the memory of goldfish, undecided voters are morons, and lol nothing matters. This election should be a testament to this more than anything!

That said, the Republicans may totally nominate Cruz and suicide, but I'm arguing that it's not a given. 2020 will end up being a far more consequential election in the long run (avoiding fascism aside), as it will decide whether the house is finally back in play for the entire decade from 2022-2032.

Lightning Knight posted:

I mean, we basically have two main long-term problems. The most immediate one is that we're basically guaranteed a recession soon. That doesn't necessarily mean it will be a big gently caress off one like 2008 that destroys Hillary's presidency but it's not helpful and voters are too stupid to make any other conclusion than "Democrat is president, ergo recession is Democrat's fault."

The more long-term one is that climate change is still going to bend the world over a rail and nobody is doing nearly enough about it. Usually I don't like moral weight arguments, about whether or not this or that issue of the Left is more important, but climate change has basically reached the point where it actually does matter more than everything else and we kind of need to fix it now. I don't know how we accomplish that when most of the country doesn't even believe it's a problem, but...

canepazzo posted:

https://twitter.com/TheMichaelMoran/status/781943960575041537

Courting that women vote!

skylined! posted:

The 4th dimensional chess game actually being played by Putin.

Xae posted:

Hannity is on the way out and he knows it. The Murdoch boys aren't big on Ailes and his toadies.

I'm betting as soon as his contract is up they'll part ways after being unable to reach an agreement and Hannity will retreat back to Talk Radio. They'll blow through a bunch of generic establishment conservatives in his time slot for a few years until they find one that works.

Covok posted:

Apparently, Trump has decided he hates transgender people now. Probably always did and the bathroom was an anomaly. He complained about "our PC military accepting transgender soldiers."

Voyager I posted:

Holy poo poo that's like a solid page of replies in 10 minutes about what President Trump means for your gay friends.

I hope this gets the point across.

bobjr posted:

Has Hillary even said anything about video games recently? I've heard a few people around my age mention that as a reason they aren't voting for her, but they're also manchildren who complain about the evils of feminism so it's not like I'm surprised.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Come on now

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

To be really honest I suspect his new cuddly demeanor is brain damage from the alcoholism relapse. I dunno I just don't feel that white-hot hate for him anymore. There's too much going on in the present.

Wiccan Wasteland posted:

Did he dye his eyebrows? There's so much going on here.

Lightning Knight posted:

They left him behind on Virmire so that Ashley "Space Republican" Williams could stay until the third installment.

IAMNOTADOCTOR posted:

Fox news just had a segment with the host Shepard Smith asking a WaPo journalist what Trumps hidden motive is for not trying to win the election, and if the rumors were true that he's going to start a tv-channel with the breitbart guy and is using the election as a method to get an audience.

No link, unfortunately.

bad boy in the boy band posted:

There's plenty of shitheads who will still watch Fox News religiously. They'll just lose the shittiest of the shitheads.

Phone posted:

OK, the Blaze just failed which was, wait for it, a grifter's attempt to pull viewers from Fox News that didn't work.

So Trump Breitbart """News""" Network is different how? They're both grifters and they're trying to get that sweet Fox News viewership. It's going to be a pump and dump like everything else in the RWMsphere, but it's the same poo poo with a bad spray tan of paint on it.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

they also have kane from the brotherhood of nod

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Sephyr posted:

Joe Scarborough is so bizarrely dishonest and snippy. Does he even get ratings? It feels like he's a remnant of MSNBC's experiment with wingnuttery (they hired Michal freaking Savage at one point trying to be Fox II) that people forgot to clean up because he doesn't start shouting about black helicopters.

Now Kellyanne, I get. It's her job to spin anything to Trump's benefit. He could light himself of fire on the debate stage and she'd say it shows his resolve and fortitude, that he was emulating buddhist protesters and famous superhero Human Torch, and why are you prejudiced against pyro-americans?

BUG JUG posted:

There is a section in that NYT article where the author says something like: Trump saw his name in print as being special, and denied to other people. The first thought that came to mind: this guy is literally Tom Marvolo Riddle. Christ.

Donkwich posted:

So basically what every alt-right type tells themselves.

BROCK LESBIAN posted:

I lost my virginity to one of those really tall water slides.


This dude uses twitter but doesn't know firearms progressed past the musket?

Venuz Patrol posted:

Additional question for Hillary supporters: when did you stop beating your wife?

Wikkheiser posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv0MXhgLgXQ&t=3200s

While catching up to McMuffin at the Texas Tribune fest, I noticed this in the Q&A: It's the most articulated explanation from a candidate about why Donald Trump will easily blow past Congress and the Supreme Court and pose an authoritarian threat to the United States.

cant cook creole bream posted:

I'm starting to like this guy. And that's not good.

lozzle posted:

So basically he's the new John Huntsman.

paperwind posted:

Modern Republicans have become so loving awful that a Republican in the traditional mold actually sounds halfway reasonable these days. Did they really have any shred of intellectual consistency back in the day or am I just too young to know any better?