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On August 10 2016 10:33 Slaughter wrote: Its just Texas being Texas.
Yeah but I feel really, really bad for the college students and professors who are already at Texas universities. If a university offers you a scholarship as a student or a tenured track position as a professor, there are some good reasons right off the bat to consider going there to learn or work. And now they have to deal with this gun shit. Ugh.
On August 10 2016 11:00 Nyxisto wrote: why are they even doing this, are they really so confident that Trump can win? If he's going to lose the dissenters will look like the sane ones.
You guys are being silly, what Trump is clearly saying is that when Hillary starts the Fourth Reich, the Second Amendment Team will be the only group capable of stopping her.
On August 10 2016 11:00 Nyxisto wrote: why are they even doing this, are they really so confident that Trump can win? If he's going to lose the dissenters will look like the sane ones.
Ted Cruz, sane? What are you, crazy??
Well he's still a religious nutjob but at least he doesn't seem to be advocating violence as a political tool. Also I don't think that the Republican party would reorient itself towards a radical candidate but rather a centre-right one in 2020.
They will never win an election again if they continue to screw over all but one demographic in the US, they must notice that at some point. Their voterbase is literally dying out
Should be taken with a grain of salt, but I believe this to be really interesting. I didn't know that, in some states, private organization manage the voting database. Scary.
On August 10 2016 11:00 Nyxisto wrote: why are they even doing this, are they really so confident that Trump can win? If he's going to lose the dissenters will look like the sane ones.
Like it or not, there is now going to be a "Trump Party" within the Republican Party. If they disown him then they lose his supporters too.
“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.” - Jason Miller, Senior Communications Advisor
(That's the whole release, not a snippet, if you don't want to follow the link.) It looks like they are switching to ignoring rather than engaging media scandals. I think that's the right move. I don't think a Republican can ever win again if they let the media control the conversation.
Wikileaks wants to solve the murder of this guy, in case something fishy were going on? Seems like flirting with conspiracy people, but anyway, interesting times we live in.
On August 10 2016 11:00 Nyxisto wrote: why are they even doing this, are they really so confident that Trump can win? If he's going to lose the dissenters will look like the sane ones.
Ted Cruz, sane? What are you, crazy??
Well he's still a religious nutjob but at least he doesn't seem to be advocating violence as a political tool. Also I don't think that the Republican party would reorient itself towards a radical candidate but rather a centre-right one in 2020.
They will never win an election again if they continue to screw over all but one demographic in the US, they must notice that at some point. Their voterbase is literally dying out
It's the great gamble for them, do they leave the pro corporate extremes along with the catering of the far right and try and attract moderates Ala try and return to the roots of Teddy Roosevelt.
On August 10 2016 11:06 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Ted Cruz is now a mortal enemy of Trump and Co. His non endorsement was that and also political.
Paul Ryan is looking towards 2020. Mitchell McConnell is just corrupt. Reince Priebus is just desperate to save his job.
The Ryan/Walker sub-primary will be fun. Which gets the establishment blessing? I'm not sure you can have two Wisconsinites running. Not enough space!
Also Trump doing what he does best, making sane people (supporters of second amendment rights who are worried about Democrat appointed justices overturning Heller) look dumb. It should be obvious by now that Trump speaks for himself, but apparently we will all get branded with it, because it's convenient.
On August 10 2016 09:30 Doodsmack wrote: I guess Trump is still in total "get the media spotlight through controversy" mode, which is one thing that propelled him through the primaries, because he just gives a middle finger to the media. But it would seem that by now, he would have already exhausted that supply of voters who hate the liberal media and support Trump for that reason. The media frenzy was more a primary strategy.
Is someone who has such little competence in a presidential campaign after the primaries a viable President? Especially when primary turnout was like 15%?
I think you're overestimating the chances that drumf ever had to win the presidency. He was never a viable candidate and anyone who said he was doesn't understand how us elections work.
On August 10 2016 09:34 IgnE wrote:
On August 10 2016 06:29 Sermokala wrote: I think Trump might be starting to go down the rabbithole of beliveing his own shit. Hes lost so much ground from the DNC. the khan family may have saving the country in their blood.
"saving the country"?
ie saving us from a populace that thinks he has a chance to be president.
Before the conventions he was winning in many polls. If he had shut up and just run a normal campaign it is entirely possible that he would have won. Instead he couldnt resist shooting himself in the foot and then doing it again and then shooting the other foot for good measure just to make sure there was no way for him to win.
The only time Trump was winning in the poll average was between conventions. Before his convention the race tightened somewhat, but he certainly wasn't winning.
On August 10 2016 11:12 WhiteDog wrote: Should be taken with a grain of salt, but I believe this to be really interesting. I didn't know that, in some states, private organization manage the voting database. Scary.
Why take with grain of salt,it makes sence what he says and I do not think he is making things up. This is very disturbing tbh, but it does not seem to bother any of the americans here. Wonder what is needed to open the eyes of some people. Or maybe they just don't care because its in favor of the candidate they support.