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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#130826: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:20:47 PM

[up]Certainly not if it happens at this particular convention.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:21:05 PM by sgamer82

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#130827: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:21:23 PM

If they force the vote, we get a result where Trump gets massively embarrassed, which can fuck him up down the line (I don't think someone else will get the nomination).

If it does get violent as a result, which I'm not saying is desirable, it does have a bonus of showing the rest of the country how fucked up Trump's side is. That could make the election outright unwinnable for him.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#130828: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:28:58 PM

It's not going to happen. One problem being that this is exactly what the nuts are bringing their guns for, and I don't think those Republicans have enough confidence to actually force a change (assuming all of their support even sticks with them). Another problem is that Trump will almost certainly be pushing very hard to make sure they never have a chance of voting at all, since he's already shown to have a very low tolerance for anyone remotely threatening or disloyal.

Or he could just not give a fuck and think nothing could possibly go wrong.

And if nothing happens, that is (unforunately) the best possible outcome for him in every way. His base is sated, his internal opposition becomes irrelevant, and his personal image as a dauntless leader and "unifier" goes through the roof.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:29:56 PM by Eschaton

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#130829: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:28:58 PM

I'm too pessimistic to expect it, buuut I would literally jump for joy if the GOP forced the vote and didn't nominate Trump. I really just want to vote for someone whose a Republican who isn't an annoying orange.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130830: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:30:05 PM

The article has changed since i looked at it. They tried to force the vote but were shut down.

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#130831: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:30:43 PM

As expected. It seems improbable that they could get a coup going at this late date, with all the preparation the Trump side has had.

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#130832: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:31:14 PM

Damn it

Oh really when?
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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130835: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:37:03 PM

There may be procedural disputes in play. I don't really know what's going on but I'd keep the popcorn warm.

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#130836: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:42:04 PM

Becoming a smoker ranks way up there in terms of fastest ways to lighten your wallet and shorten your life expectancy with no benefits whatsoever. My father died, of smoking complications, still spending something like 10 percent of his fixed income on cigarettes. If you want to waste money for giggles, take whatever you'd spend on tobacco and flush it down the toilet; you'll at least live longer, without the nauseating personal odor and the gruesome hacking up of dead lung tissue.

It's harmful to others around you, too. Three decades of inhaling other people's second-hand smoke has left me with really weak lungs.

I honestly don't know whether cigarettes are more harmful to a person's system than other drugs, but at least if people are doing heroin or something in my vicinity, I can choose not to join in. Smoking is like forcing everyone else in the room to shoot heroin with you, whether they want to or not.

There are few methods of murdering other people that are considered as socially acceptable as making them breathe your toxic nicotine fumes.

For the harder drugs, making consumption a felony is absolutely pointless, but making manufacturing without an FDA license a felony is absolutely necessary; plus, users can and should be directed into treatment programs — for a vastly cheaper per-capita expenditure than prison, mind you, and a far lower recidivism rate.

Yes. I support ending vice laws, but forcing narcotics to seek FDA approval would be a good way of excluding substances like meth that are exceedingly harmful to consume and harmful to produce as well. The demand is always going to be there, and there's not really anything we can do to get rid of that. Trying to punish the demand just overcrowds prisons, especially when our justice system punishes it asymmetrically between races. Vice laws today mainly exist as an excuse to put black men in prison.

Instead, we should be putting the pressure on the supply line.

The article has changed since i looked at it. They tried to force the vote but were shut down.

I am simultaneously relieved and disappointed. Relieved that this isn't going to turn into a shoot-out, disappointed that yet another attempt to stop Trump's steamroller campaign has been effortlessly demolished in his wake.

Every time Trump crushes all opposition with all the apparent effort of a 15-year-old writing an angry blog post, I worry about whether or not Hillary's going to be able to stop him.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:42:56 PM by TobiasDrake

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#130837: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:42:31 PM

[up][up]I temporarily recant my dagnabbit.tongue

Also, the #1 trending word on Merriam Webster is apparently 'coup detat'. Can't imagine why...

edited 18th Jul '16 1:42:44 PM by kkhohoho

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#130838: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:44:08 PM

Just heard a Aye or Nay motion to adopt the Republican platform. The Ayes had it.

[down] Not sure, beyond the intent to adopt the current platform we're aware of. Just figured it was worth mentioning.

Nor the audience is chanting We Want Trump

edited 18th Jul '16 1:46:44 PM by sgamer82

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#130840: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:44:51 PM

Seriously, if the election were an FPS then I would be calling hax right now. Trump is clearly playing with no-clip and infinite ammo.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130841: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:45:52 PM

[up]x?: And that's why there have been laws banning smoking in public places.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:46:49 PM by Elle

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#130842: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:47:10 PM

"Also, the #1 trending word on Merriam Webster is apparently 'coup detat'. Can't imagine why... "

Due to what happened in Turkey?

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#130843: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:51:29 PM

NYT: Donald Trump Forces G.O.P. to Choose Between Insularity and Outreach

Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump who plans to skip the convention, said more bluntly that the party should be prepared to break with Mr. Trump and the voters who have cheered his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.

(...)

He suggested a purge of racists from the party that would recall the expulsion of the John Birch Society, a fringe nationalist group, from Republican ranks a half-century ago.

That part I bolded is what I'm curious about. What exactly was that all about, and how did that play out?

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#130845: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:55:10 PM

[up][up]According to Wikipedia their founder denounced Eisenhower and the party decided to shun its 100 000 members because they were too radical and giving the party a bad name.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:55:17 PM by PhiSat

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130846: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:55:46 PM

Convention is in recess for the next three hours.

[down]Scheduled recess for dinner and stuff, sorry.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:57:22 PM by Elle

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#130847: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:56:26 PM

Why?

Oh really when?
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#130848: Jul 18th 2016 at 1:57:28 PM

The article itself is definitely biased, but see this guy. Unfortunately he also purged the Rockefeller Republicans too, setting the GOP onto its downward spiral of self-reinforcing extremism.

edited 18th Jul '16 1:59:49 PM by AlleyOop

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130849: Jul 18th 2016 at 2:04:24 PM

Colorado's delegation has apparently walked out. (I'm going by ABC's live blog feed)

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#130850: Jul 18th 2016 at 2:04:52 PM

What does that mean, exactly?

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