The one benefit of the hilarious yet depressing Trump phenomenon is that it's much easier to identify people who are too stupid to be taken seriously about anything. At least on this bbs.
Trump admitted in an off the record session with the New York Times this year that his whole immigration stance is negotiable
I get that, but I've always thought nihilism ultimately says something about the mentality of the nihilist too. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b_29yvYpf4w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Talk about grasping at straws. How's this have anything to do with Trump? It's a Secret Service agent.
Important? Wish you could tell that to congress. This country's government is a wreck and American people are being stupid? Rich old men that refuse to do anything because all they're worried about is not getting voted off the island in two to four years. Tell me who's treating this like a reality TV show?
It doesnt. But what does ghettocheeze replying to RocketsLegend constant pro Trump garbage have anything to do with your reply?
You got that right. Stupid is doing the same damn thing and expecting a different result. Case in point: the black vote in S. Carolina for Shillary Clinton. 30 years from now, their lives are likely to be the same -- change you can really believe in.
Even if intelligence is strictly tied to how any particular individual ranks the importance of things (I think you could have two equally intelligent people who prioritize differently), idk that rooting for hilarity and thinking this is important are mutually exclusive. Hey I'm with you guys, this is a horrible idea. But it also seems like a comination of a number of different demographics- old crazy people, trolls and meme artists rooting for more material, racists, elitists, yes reality show fans (& is this all not kind of a reality show now?); conspiracy theorists, stonecutters; some could be reverse-trolls who are actually trying to combat trump's popularity, like when LOH's post under fake LOF usernames to incite moderates to react more aggressively. Then there's the infinitesimally small chance someone knows something we don't, & it's actually not as important as we think it is. Not likely, but either way for this to happen it had to be a perfect trump storm. Too complex to generalize everyone's motivations in one stroke.
Just read an article that states Virginia is a good proxy for the general election. -- voters, no matter party affiliation, can vote for either Democrat or republican but not both. Let's see how many will votes Hillary and Trump will get. They were both leading their respective parties on a Sunday poll.
This has to be one of the most illuminating and entertaining threads we've had in a while. Rocketslegume....
...Might not be as far-fetched an idea as it sounds... ...the GOP "establishment" will take any win they can get (especially in terms of saving face...this "campaign" by Trump, as much as it serves his ego, is just Republican politics writ large for the past 30 years or so), seeing as how they are all almost universally against Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders). ...winning the Republican presidential nomination is hardly as consequential as what you do with it. The GOP has put a more benign face on this in recent history, to be sure, but the methodology is still intact. So let's say The Donald gets elected President. He inevitably does something that gets him impeached. He gets removed from office a la Richard Nixon. And, just for giggles, all this happens in the first year of his presidency. Becomes all-too apparent that the Viceroy (...er, Vice President...) has to take over... ..then, you see why there's this Chris Christie guy all over Trump now...maybe looking to get put on the ticket? ...or maybe all that brokering at the GOP convention puts Marco Rubio on the ticket with Trump? ...lotta fun, all the different ways this could play out, let me tell you... ...Winning's the thing, remember? And The Donald himself has said he's mastered "...the art of the deal..."...
CBS is all in for Trump: Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS" Leslie Moonves can appreciate a Donald Trump candidacy. Not that the CBS executive chairman and CEO might vote for the Republican presidential frontrunner, but he likes the ad money Trump and his competitors are bringing to the network. "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," he said of the presidential race. Moonves called the campaign for president a "circus" full of "bomb throwing," and he hopes it continues. "Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," he said. "Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun," he said. "I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going," said Moonves. "Donald's place in this election is a good thing," he said Monday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco.
I don't think presidents have real actual world changing power anymore. It's all the folks around, the insiders/establishment that never change if you will. So for that having Trump win would amazing only because it's so different. He is a pure capitalist business man come close to that description. It's crazy.
