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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117826: Mar 30th 2016 at 9:50:39 AM

Trump's ability to go third party is rapidly diminishing. I think Texas' deadline, for instance, is in early May to get on the ballot as an independent.

Will that stop him from trying anyway?

edited 30th Mar '16 9:51:29 AM by sgamer82

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#117827: Mar 30th 2016 at 9:54:57 AM

His ego. He is the one who wants to be seen as the guy who brought the Republican party to heel.

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#117828: Mar 30th 2016 at 11:05:54 AM

It's less specific than that: Trump has always been a vanity candidate — he involves himself in the political process, plasters his name on buildings, runs for office, makes grandiose claims about his wealth and education — all of it is a giant dick-measuring contest that he is waging with the world at large.

His current persistence is nothing more and nothing less than his ego refusing to let go of something if doing so might seem to impugn his reputation or his self-image.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117829: Mar 30th 2016 at 12:50:32 PM

Which goes back to my question, what's preventing Trump from running independently, ballot deadlines be damned, because so far answer looks like "nothing."

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#117830: Mar 30th 2016 at 12:55:07 PM

He has fixed his ego on beating the Republican Party at its own game. To run independently would be to acknowledge that they beat him.

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#117831: Mar 30th 2016 at 12:57:13 PM

Actually I could sort of see how he could rationalize running independently as beating them at their own game. I just don't think he's going to do it since he's doing so well right now. Maybe if they do in fact broker the convention and try to replace him with Cruz. But as it is he's smart enough to realize he's going to get what he wants if he sticks with the Republican title because the pressure is on them to actually listen to what the voters supposedly want.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117832: Mar 30th 2016 at 12:58:02 PM

[up][up]Or be a way, in his mind, to still win by siphoning as many Republican votes as possible in petty revenge.

edited 30th Mar '16 12:58:16 PM by sgamer82

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#117833: Mar 30th 2016 at 12:58:20 PM

Any likelihood of Cruz running third-party just to ratfuck Trump?

Incidentally! Rubio is holding his delegates and telling them to stay on with the Anti-Trump Alliance.

And so it begins.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117834: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:02:08 PM

I wondered what happened to the delegates of the dropouts

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#117835: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:02:39 PM

Whoever wins, we all lose. (On a unrelated note, 7 continents (North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica) is the most amount of continents there can be, while 3 (The Americas, Afroeurasia, and Antarctica with Oceania being considered part of it) is the least amount of continents there can be, right?)

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#117836: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:04:34 PM

If Trump runs third-party, we all win.

And it'd be a tough cop to make Oceania not a continent. Australia's still pretty big.

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#117837: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:23:00 PM

[up][up]Actually, you can argue that Antarctica is not a continent, because it's mostly ice. Melt the ice away and it's really more of an archipelago. So, 2 continents is arguably the minimum.

edited 30th Mar '16 1:24:02 PM by Protagonist506

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#117838: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:30:59 PM

Antarctica is covered in ice, not made of ice.

edited 30th Mar '16 1:31:23 PM by LSBK

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#117840: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:37:50 PM

I've never seen anybody group Antartica and Oceania in the same category.

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#117841: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:40:48 PM

(On a unrelated note, 7 continents (North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica) is the most amount of continents there can be,

What about Central America?

while 3 (The Americas, Afroeurasia, and Antarctica with Oceania being considered part of it) is the least amount of continents there can be, right?)

I don't think so - Continents have to have basis in tectonic plates and geology.

EDIT: 3 does appear to be a possible combination.

[down] It depends on how you classify it, I suppose.

edited 30th Mar '16 1:47:46 PM by Greenmantle

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#117842: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:41:40 PM

[up] Central America is considered part of continental North America.

edited 30th Mar '16 1:44:20 PM by Bat178

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#117844: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:50:14 PM

[up] Yes, he is. (I've also seen Oceania merged with Asia as Asia-Pacific, but Oceania is always considered a separate entity to Afroeurasia)

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#117845: Mar 30th 2016 at 2:28:27 PM

Testing territorial limits I say give them statehood. Puerto Rico obviously wants it, surprising given the long history of independence attempts amongst the Islands people. And as for Guam and the US Virgin Islands, raising their status to statehood would, besides being the moral thing to do, would greatly enhance our pivot the the pacific. At a time when China is trying to force us out of the region, granting Guam statehood would send a clear message that the Asia Pacific is an integral part of our country, and we are staying for the long haul.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117846: Mar 30th 2016 at 2:30:51 PM

I feel I missed something with all the seemingly out of nowhere continent talk

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#117847: Mar 30th 2016 at 2:58:42 PM

You didn't, someone just asked out of nowhere. They even said it wasn't related to anything else.

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#117848: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:13:37 PM

(North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica) is the most amount of continents there can be, while 3 (The Americas, Afroeurasia, and Antarctica with Oceania being considered part of it)

Oh for God's sake, if you're going to singulairze Afroeurasia, at least call America 'America'.

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#117850: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:34:16 PM

Of fucking course, it's Mississippi. The same place that initially refused to air Sesame Street because it had black people in it.

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