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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
“Those people need to get on board,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “And if they’re thinking they’re going to run again someday, I think that we’re going to evaluate the process – of the nomination process and I don’t think it’s going to be that easy for them.”
Several of Trump’s former Republican primary opponents, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have not endorsed Trump in the months since the GOP businessman secured the nomination. Asked explicitly whether that meant there would be penalties for the handful of 2016 Republican hopefuls who have not endorsed Trump if they opted to run again in 2020 or 2024, Priebus said nothing has been decided but that it’s something the party will “look at.”
“And if a private entity puts forward a process and has agreement with the participants in that process, and those participants don’t follow through with the promises that they made in that process, what— what should a private party do about that if those same people come around in four or eight years?” Priebus continued.
So, the RNC's response to this dumpster fire of a candidate, is to potentially make it harder for normal, supposedly "sane" moderates from getting the nomination?
Is that right?
New Survey coming this weekend!Fuck those moronic madmen and their equally moronic and mad voters/sponsors. Fuck them to the bottom of Hell. What in the name of God Almighty are they on? Do they truly hate the Democrats so much that they'd prefer throwing their lot with a madman like Trump and tank their chances at succeeding in courting sane moderates ever again?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.As unpopular as the sentiment is, the party's national committees' job is not to do exactly what the primary voters want all the time without exception. Otherwise you'd just do a nationwide popular vote of party members and you could ditch the entire rest of the primary process.
The whole thing with the Democratic primary and superdelegates? That would have prevented Trump from getting the nomination had the Republicans used a similar system. And yet, the Democrats are dismantling that system because Sanders supporters complained about it (despite Sanders' loss having nothing to do with superdelegates). Sigh.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I wonder whether superdelegates on the GOP side would have actually worked. Trump may have made his thinly veiled threats of violence at the convention true. Or more voters may have voted Trump to negate any attempt to rig the primary.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think the thing that the superdelegates were successful at doing was eliminating all but two primary contenders. In the past two Democratic Primaries, the field quickly consolidated towards two candidates. In 2016, it was Clinton and Sanders, of course, but in 2008, the field quickly consolidated around Clinton and Obama. Trump's big advantage was a crowded field of Republican contenders. In a Republican Primary that was similar to the Democratic Primary, the field could have quickly consolidated around two candidates. While that would have likely meant Trump would still be one of them, it would have likely made the support for... Let's say, Jeb Bush stronger since the superdelegates would all be backing him and could have allowed Bush to win the primaries.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyYeah in the end Trump only won 44% of the primaries votes, and that's even after he has unchallenged in several later states due to all opponents having dropped out.
Clinton by comparison won 55% and had an active opponent all the way though.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI mean, if you have an argument to make for that position, great. But when the comment you're responding to is "I don't think 'they're unelected, they might go against the people's vote' is a good enough reason to get rid of them; in fact, that's exactly why they're there", then "they're unelected, they might go against the people's vote" isn't really a substantive reply.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I think he meant that they're getting rid of the superdelegates that are superdelegates due to being DNC officials, while keeping the superdelegates who are superdelegates due to being Congressmen or Senators.
The is a difference between such a system and one with no superdelegates.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo, apparently there are now (incredibly cheap yet also overpriced, and almost certainly shitty) pro-Trump (or not, its hard to tell when Poe's Law is in effect anymore) video games on Steam. I think at least one was developed by a pro-Trump Super PAC.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/515040/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/512430/?snr=1_4_4__106
I really should ignore this election and focus on school or anything else, its making me hateful towards a lot of things.
edited 18th Sep '16 8:47:45 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.As someone who plays video games and uses Steam, Steam will allow damn near any game save for outright porn... Even with that looseness in approval, Valve will ban a developer from Steam and delist their games if they try to abuse Steam's userbase, which has unfortunately happened.
edited 18th Sep '16 9:49:14 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly![]()
Very recently, too, going by this article that Steam banned a developer that tried to subpoena info in Steam users who left bad reviews for the purposes of lawsuit:
edited 18th Sep '16 10:03:05 PM by sgamer82
Ooh, Digital Homicide are legendary in their assholishness. There are quite a number of assholes who are connected to the gamer subculture, which is most evident from that hashtag that's been banned on TV Tropes. In fact, Alt-Right Superstar Milo Yiannopoulos began his rise by reporting and supporting that particular banned hashtag.
edited 18th Sep '16 10:15:40 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly

And Pence is just about the most bigoted, abusive homophobe in the country. The kind who would gleefully make it so LGBT people have sero rights, send kids to ex gay "therapy", and declare gay couples unfit for parenting.
Pence terrifies me more than anyone else.