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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Donald Trump appears to be losing it.
Gone was the candidate’s recent bout of composure and control on the campaign trail. As Trump ranted on and on, campaign staffers with microphones who were supposed to take questions from the audience instead took a seat, trying to cheer their boss here and there. The audience laughed at times and clapped for many of Trump’s sharp insults. But an hour and 20 minutes into the speech, people who were standing on risers on the stage behind Trump sat down. The applause came less often and less loud. As Trump skewered Carson in deeply personal language, a sense of discomfort settled on the crowd of roughly 1,500. Several people shook their heads or whispered to their neighbours.
Not sure how much he's actually hurting himself, since this wasn't a national display, but a local one. He certainly makes himself sound crazy.
Even if Mexico legalised the sale and transport of drugs the cartels would still be doing lots of illegal things in Mexico. They'd be unregistered tax-dodging businesses that murdered the competition, at the least.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranTrump lacks the mental composure to survive as a candidate or as a President. Hopefully the voters realize that before it's too late to take him back.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Trump may lack the mental composure to survive as a businessman, let alone a candidate.
Indeed, might it be possible that some Trump supporters may not support any other candidate?
Keep Rolling OnThat's an important point. How many voters are being brought out of the woodwork by Trump's and Carson's antics? It seems like one overriding theme of these people's support is their disdain for establishment politicians.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If those voters were ever of any importance politically they woul have made their appearance in something beyond footnotes about the WBC craze.
The media is overrepresenting these idiots (and I am actually glad about it, so they can be told to fuck themselves more empathically) but that they are numerous is a big assumption.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesYou live in a nation with 300 million people. It is no China or India, but that, by man ystandards what I scientifically refer to as "A fucking shitton", and "Worthy of a Yo Momma joke".
For you, an insider, it seems awful but me as an outsider I only get the bigger picture rather than the inside look and as a larger spectrum, those crazies seem to be not a threat to the overall nation. They might be locally, but if you ask me, which you did not but I am saying it because I am an asshole anyways, they do not seem to be a threat
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesAll I am saying is that they are not likely to get elected. Not that because they are not going to cause "enough" harm they are not awful people
They are awful people and they deserve having been fed acid instead of their mothers milk at birth, but the chances of them getting elected are dim
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesThey can and do win elections at the state and local levels. We've seen Kansas crushed beneath the weight of Tea Party economic doctrine; we are soon to see Kentucky suffer the same fate at the hands of Matt Bevin. States are the farm league for national politics: they grow the next generation of Congressmen and Presidents, never mind judges. Democrats have lost big at the state level at the same time as they continue to win the White House, but all that does is give them a dude at the top to veto all the stupid. It doesn't let them accomplish anything on the ground.
Thank goodness that the Supreme Court has remained at least partially sane or we'd be up shit creek.
edited 13th Nov '15 9:49:09 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Basically, despite propping up Jeb! and Rubio, the Establishment insiders are failing to see Trump or Carson's polling numbers actually get a real dent, while their guys flounder. And it's absolutely terrifying them (and expecting it to cost them the election.)
It's going to be very interesting once voting actually starts. I still can't see Republicans in states like MA or NJ (whose votes are just as valid, mind) gunning for a nutter like Carson.
Really, what makes Trump dangerous to the establishment is that he's mild enough on some core policy points to play in the more moderate states (in terms of the GOP field).
A Trump nom is a gift to Hillary in terms of driving Hispanic turnout, though.

The cartels would probably still exist. Their primary income, smuggling and selling drugs into the United States, would still be illegal on the northern side of that operation, and they'd probably still fight each other over turf. It might make things more peaceful in Mexico though, at least until the right positions in the US government got filled with chickenhawks who perceived a Mexican break with US "war on drugs" policy as a soft attack on our regional hegemony and sovereignty, culminating with us pulling a Ukraine on them. The US more than others is the country that needs to change enforcement policy (or simply end prohibition of anything that's popular enough to render an outright ban laughable).
edited 12th Nov '15 9:58:58 PM by Artificius
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