Wouldn’t mind chiming in if one popped up, but I only brought it up as a critique of Trumps approach and lack of understanding or at least his ability to communicate on what should be his strongest issue. To loop it back to the thread topic, Trump uses these issues because they ring a bell with a disenfranchised voter block, not because he has principles regarding them or a solid plan to address them.
It definitely galvanizes the hardcore trumpets to his cause but I still think it creates second thoughts in those that were starting to seriously consider Trump as a serious candidate.
Do you think that Cruz can still be seen as being outside of the establishment enough to be a viable pick in a brokered convention?
I don’t see any other pick that doesn’t feel like it’s being forced on the Republican party.
A silver lining might be that if Cruz does pull through either by Delegates or brokered convention it will take a lot of wind out of Hillary’s sails. She isn’t going to be inspiring anyone into the ballot box so her biggest edge is rallying against Trump. Normally she may have the same edge against Cruise due to his ideology but I think compared to Trump Cruz wouldn’t come across as much of a threat in a general election.
Except that immediately following the week in which prominent GOP officials began (very gently) calling these spades what they are, Trump had his worst day since Iowa. So maybe the whinging of the special snowflakes (who, exactly like the analogous invertebrates on college campuses, appear to believe that they are not supposed to be subjected to an unpleasant, insulting reality even when the insults are objectively correct and unassailable) don’t have much of a case after all. Maybe to be able to prove empirically and beyond doubt that these “ordinary Americans” supporting Donald Trump are indeed “a lesser intellectual and social breed” – which they unquestionably are* – is enough. It will certainly be enough in a general election. Whether or not the same can be said about the GOP primary is an open question – and it’s one over which I won’t be losing a second of sleep.
- And they know it. That’s why we’re hearing so much pussified, PC-style whining about the terrible meanies in high places and their feels-hurting factual accusations: because there is some very real sense in which a not-insignificant number of Trump supporters both understand and regret their status as low and stupid garbage-people. And there’s nothing worse than being insulted by someone while knowing with certainty that that someone has a much better life than do you.
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Smh, It seems like you feel like you are part of that superior upper tier. Is that a correct observation?
If it is, what separates you from the lower class? Breeding, education, etc? What exactly is it that gives you license to spout such venom about millions of people that you actually don’t know anything about?
So there you have it…
It was my feeling the the Romney stuff was going to have the opposite effect. (It CERTAINLY was just going to make Trump double-down).
If Trump wins big over the next few weeks…he should be the nominee.
(By the way; Rubio won one…Puerto Rico…)
I’m expecting that he must be some top level social engineer/architect with a couple of ph.D under his belt.
If not that, then he’s just an itchy, miserable cunt with a bad attitude and an internet connection.
Yep, I am (along with most Americans).
The list of things that separate us is very long. I’ve gone into much of it over the course of this thread, and though some people didn’t like it (for reasons having nothing to do with its veracity), nobody so much as tried to refute it. Which is understandable, given that it will not be refuted.
I won’t rehash it all, but we can put it into a simple, representative formulation: I would not consider handing the nuclear football, wherein lies destructive power beyond most people’s imagination, to an utter idiot who does not understand nuclear strategy and, indeed, doesn’t even really know how to communicate in lucid, meaningful English sentences. Because that would be a fucking dumb thing to do.
Oh, and you’re wrong: I do know something about them, and from what I do know, the rest necessarily proceeds.
You keep objecting, but every time you try to engage on the evidence, you end up without anything to say. Perhaps that tells us what we need to know.
I do, however, apologize to any snowflakes I might have harmed.
I am an “elite” in the eyes of the moral earthworms you’re sharing a political rowboat with this election season. But that has nothing to do with any of this. You’re a shithead for reasons that have everything to do with you and you alone. As you explained earlier, you are aware of Trump’s ludicrousness and have given him the green light all the same. That is to say, this is entertainment for you. And as I explained in response, the next president will decide where to send Americans to die while you’re sitting at home, scratching your empty ballbag.
Which is another way of saying – careful, here comes something that is neither gentle nor PC – that you and people like you should find a new form of entertainment, leaving important things like national politics to people who aren’t pieces of shit.