Here's How Donald Trump Could Become President

[Wrong Element]

Who the fuck knows what he is?
He's all over the board in crazy broad statements that change with the slightest breeze.
If he were elected, I think smarter people would finangle their way into his inner circle and use him as their puppet.
Much as what happened with Bush II, IMO.

Maybe. I've never been part of the Cult of Reagan, which now even contains some of the dopier liberals out there like Chris Matthews, but one thing in the Gipper's favor is that he was pretty secure personally, and therefore had some first-rate people working for him. Dubya, on the other hand, always felt people looked down on him as a mediocrity getting by on his name (which he in fact was), and thus hired the incompetent and/or the evil more or less exclusively.


I suspect that working for a man obsessed with putting his name on everything he owns is no prize. I remember what happened to Carolyn, the severe blonde woman who was part of his original team on The Apprentice. She worked for the golf portion of his operation, and by most accounts did a decent enough job there. But when she started getting too much attention for her work on the show, Trump shitcanned her from both The Apprentice and from her original job with basically no reason given. Of course, her TV replacement was Ivanka, therefore ensuring that no one not named Trump would ever become a star on Trump's show again.

So yeah, I can see some ambitious people maybe wanting to weasel their way into his employ. But many of the most able will never consider working for someone who is unstable and unserious.

 

[Busybody]

Stfu Nigger Element, Go Burn A Building

 

[pensivepoet]

Rubio's camp has just openly told Rubio voters to vote for Kasich in Ohio.
The veil is off.

 

[toubab]

Rubio's camp has just openly told Rubio voters to vote for Kasich in Ohio.
The veil is off.

Rubio himself said it, on camera. It's been known for a few days there's a last ditch, coordinated effort by many establishment figures on both the right and the left to keep Trump from winning Ohio, at all costs. It will probably succeed, but I think there will be a price to pay for it down the road.

 

[Wrong Element]

Rubio's camp has just openly told Rubio voters to vote for Kasich in Ohio.
The veil is off.

Even last week, Romney was saying that if you want to stop Trump, the way to do it is to vote for the strongest person in your state who isn't Trump. (Rubio didn't have much support left to lose in Ohio anyway, and of course, a lot of votes have already been cast; early voting here started in mid-February).

I have my doubts that this will work. There's nothing at all wrong with it morally, but that kind of strategic voting doesn't come naturally to most Americans.

 

[toubab]

Even last week, Romney was saying that if you want to stop Trump, the way to do it is to vote for the strongest person in your state who isn't Trump. (Rubio didn't have much support left to lose in Ohio anyway, and of course, a lot of votes have already been cast; early voting here started in mid-February).

I have my doubts that this will work. There's nothing at all wrong with it morally, but that kind of strategic voting doesn't come naturally to most Americans.

It's been reported about a week ago the skies over Sea Island, Georgia were darkened by private jets. The forces arrayed against Trump will probably prevail in Ohio, in my opinion. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Busybody]

MOFO's are scared of Trump


Trump Victory Is Factor in Mexico's Risk Models, Central Banker Says
s
March 11, 2016 — 12:32 PM EST


Central bank governor Carstens comments in interview
Free trade benefits both U.S. and Mexico, Carstens says


Mexico central bank Governor Agustin Carstens said the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency is implicitly reflected in the risk models used by policy makers, after stressing the importance to Mexico’s economy of the North American Free Trade Agreement.


"Explicitly, no," Carstens told El Financiero-Bloomberg TV’s Carlos Mota when asked if the risk of a Trump presidency is reflected in the central bank’s models, "but implicitly all of us have it in our heads."

Trump has pledged to renegotiate or terminate Nafta, saying it has been a disaster for the U.S. that has encouraged companies to move production south of the border. Asked about the U.S. campaign in the interview Friday, Carstens focused on the importance of a strong economic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and the benefits that integration of production chains under Nafta brings to both nations.

Trade between Mexico and the U.S. has grown sixfold to more than $530 billion in goods annually since Nafta took effect in 1994, making the Latin American nation the largest U.S. trade partner after China and Canada.

In the interview scheduled to air at 8:30 p.m. in Mexico City, Carstens said that the central bank’s surprise decision to raise its key interest rate between regularly-scheduled decisions last month, and the move to direct dollar sales to banks, were responses to the peso trading at levels that didn’t reflect Mexico’s fundamentals. He repeated his statement from Thursday night that the central bank could take additional unconventional measures if conditions warrant them.

 

[Busybody]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdSu22zUIAAYfeY.jpg

 

[pensivepoet]

Massive protests at a Trump rally in Chicago right now.
Fox says at least a thousand.
It's the new streaking.

 

[pensivepoet]

The protesters won!
Trump had to cancel the rally.
Chicago don't play Trump's shit.
Now the violence is starting.
Wow

 

[Sean Renaud]

Even last week, Romney was saying that if you want to stop Trump, the way to do it is to vote for the strongest person in your state who isn't Trump. (Rubio didn't have much support left to lose in Ohio anyway, and of course, a lot of votes have already been cast; early voting here started in mid-February).

I have my doubts that this will work. There's nothing at all wrong with it morally, but that kind of strategic voting doesn't come naturally to most Americans.

Because it really is morally off. Voting isn't supposed to be a game where you manuever your pieces around.

The protesters won!
Trump had to cancel the rally.
Chicago don't play Trump's shit.
Now the violence is starting.
Wow

That's bad though. We shouldn't be protesting at rallies. That's kinda disgusting.

 

[Sean]

That's bad though. We shouldn't be protesting at rallies. That's kinda disgusting.

Yes we should be protesting at rallies, the escalating violence at the Trump rallies, however, is something else.

 

[pensivepoet]

Because it really is morally off. Voting isn't supposed to be a game where you manuever your pieces around.



That's bad though. We shouldn't be protesting at rallies. That's kinda disgusting.

I'm not against protesting.
It's a legal right and part of our freedom.
I'm against violence, but Trump bears some responsibility for the way he's handled the protests up til now.

 

[doubleover]

The protesters won!
Trump had to cancel the rally.
Chicago don't play Trump's shit.
Now the violence is starting.
Wow

Chicago prefers crooked politicians. Honest people need not apply.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'm not against protesting.
It's a legal right and part of our freedom.
I'm against violence, but Trump bears some responsibility for the way he's handled the protests up til now.

Protesting at a rally is essentially calling someone out to a fight. Don't like Trump? Hold your own rally about how terrible a person he is. But protesting at a rally is disgusting.

That being said when someone gets sucker punched at a Trump Rally and he's talking about how much fun his rallys are he bears a large part of the responsibility.

 

[pensivepoet]

Protesting at a rally is essentially calling someone out to a fight. Don't like Trump? Hold your own rally about how terrible a person he is. But protesting at a rally is disgusting.

That being said when someone gets sucker punched at a Trump Rally and he's talking about how much fun his rallys are he bears a large part of the responsibility.

China would like you.
They feel the same way.
I'm listening to Trump live now.
He says they're protesting the economy.
Huh?

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Chicago prefers crooked politicians. Honest people need not apply.

Ain't that the truth? Or we can just hide our money in shoeboxes.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Protesting at a rally is essentially calling someone out to a fight. Don't like Trump? Hold your own rally about how terrible a person he is. But protesting at a rally is disgusting.

That being said when someone gets sucker punched at a Trump Rally and he's talking about how much fun his rallys are he bears a large part of the responsibility.

I'm kind of shocked to hear you say that.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Where do you suggest that one should protest?

 

[pensivepoet]

Can you imagine what the rest of the world is thinking and saying?
We have a barn full of world ending nukes and we look like we've gone insane.

 

[phrodeau]

Where do you suggest that one should protest?

Cleveland.

 

[phrodeau]

Can you imagine what the rest of the world is thinking and saying?
We have a barn full of world ending nukes and we look like we've gone insane.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/judgment_day.png

 

[pensivepoet]

Where do you suggest that one should protest?

I guess in our basements with the blinds closed.
Like they do in other countries that don't dare speak their mind in public.

 

[Wrong Element]

I'm not against protesting.
It's a legal right and part of our freedom.
I'm against violence, but Trump bears some responsibility for the way he's handled the protests up til now.

Ding-ding-ding. He's been using the protestors as a foil, holding them up for ridicule and encouraging the bullies in his crowd to turn on them. Now he's going to play victim? Fuck him.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Ding-ding-ding. He's been using the protestors as a foil, holding them up for ridicule and encouraging the bullies in his crowd to turn on them. Now he's going to play victim? Fuck him.

I say let in the crowd of Chicagoians so he can throw that punch he so badly wants to throw. I think that will go very well for him.