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    icreateburnerswhenkinjabreaksJordan Sargent
    6/07/16 1:04pm

    I read stuff like this and laugh.

    Then I go to realclearpolitics and check swing state poll numbers and I cry.

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      Jay Bell's Selflessnessicreateburnerswhenkinjabreaks
      6/07/16 1:07pm

      Look back at the Romney v. Obama numbers from 2012 and you’ll feel better. I promise.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4icreateburnerswhenkinjabreaks
      6/07/16 1:08pm

      Just about to write something similar... he got this far with this bullshit so I see no reason to laugh at this.

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    Dave Jordan Sargent
    6/07/16 1:09pm

    How the hell is this guy anywhere NEAR the General? Fucking Ben Carson had a stronger staff and it was one old friend funneling money to all of HIS friends! I do not understand this election, it will be one for the history books any way it plays out. Except, if Trump wins those books will be written on bark by firelight.

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      KomradKickassDave
      6/07/16 1:13pm

      Trump has embodied the “None of the above” vote. What better way to tell politicians they suck at their jobs than to say “Donald Trump would do a better job than you.”.

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      IanDave
      6/07/16 1:15pm

      I feel the exact same way. It’s the “Shit Sandwich vs. Giant Douche” episode from South Park. But mainly I’m concerned by Trump’s emergence. As someone else said on an older article, he has set civil rights back at least 10-15 years.

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    IanJordan Sargent
    6/07/16 1:16pm

    Donald Trump could buttfuck a Muslim Ayatollah on live TV at this point, and his supporters wouldn’t care. They’d spin it in a positive light.

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      JH3Ian
      6/07/16 1:27pm

      At least he’s pitching!

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      steinoIan
      6/07/16 1:51pm

      To some of them, it wouldn’t even need to be spun. It would just be a positive in and of itself.

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    CaptainButtersJordan Sargent
    6/07/16 1:05pm

    This election is like voting for which dumpster fire will burn brightest

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      DarkPrince010CaptainButters
      6/07/16 1:08pm

      See, it’s more like a trash can someone put too many oily rags into and is starting to smolder, versus a towering inferno emanating from a dumpster filled with burning tires, with more people actively throwing tires into it.

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      SilentTrumpSupporterCaptainButters
      6/07/16 1:20pm

      It’s more like voting for a nationalist or a globalist.

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    ThePriceofEggsinMaltaJordan Sargent
    6/07/16 2:02pm

    I still can’t get over how Donald Trump is so perfectly a microcosm of the worst parts of the recent history of Republicanism. He is the anthropomorphization of the last thirty years: every dog whistle, every blatant lie, every denial of obvious facts, every cynical political ploy. They’ve spent the last twenty or thirty years pandering to stupid, scared white people while giving handjobs under the table to wealthy people. And then they go ahead and nominate a stupid, scared wealthy white person. 35 years after Atwater got caught laying out the Southern Strategy on tape, here it is, in roughly human form.

    The chickens have come home to roost. Fuck me. The party of Lincoln is now the party of a quasi-sentient Cheetoh with a bad rug.

    Do not fuck this up, Hillary.

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      CharitybJordan Sargent
      6/07/16 1:22pm

      We have reached the state where Sarah Palin represents a dignified and competent ethos from a bygone era.

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        DashleyinCaliCharityb
        6/07/16 1:48pm

        I actually found myself a little wistful for W a couple of days ago.

        And then I sobered up after a few hours. But still.

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        ArtistAtLargeCharityb
        6/07/16 2:46pm

        We live in an era where Nixon is looking good. Goddamn fucking NIXON!

        We are so fucked.

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      MWarnerMJordan Sargent
      6/07/16 2:55pm

      The scariest thing about Trump’s campaign is not that he could be president (I’m still confident he will lose to Hillary in a landslide)

      What scares me is what his campaign has revealed about the lingering racism and authoritarian impulses of LARGE segments of the American electorate. This kind of thing had been dormant and under the surface for a long time, but Trump has caused it to boil over. These people are no longer afraid to be nakedly racist or advocate for the most terrifying policies. There used to be a muzzle on these people. That muzzle is gone now.

      Aspiring fascists like him in future elections are going to do the autopsy of 2016 and realize “holy shit, this actually works. I can be an openly, shockingly racist, unhinged lunatic and prople will vote for me”. Maybe it won’t work on a national level, but I forsee a wave of Mini-Trumps winning governorships and Congressional seats in the near future. If you thought the Tea Party wave of 2010 was scary, wait till you see the kind of nutjobs follow in Trump’s wake in 2018 and 2020.

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        PoodletimeMWarnerM
        6/07/16 8:43pm

        Well, if the Democrats and establishment Republicans learn nothing else from this campaign season, let’s hope it’s that income inequality at this level makes people crazy! Perhaps they will be motivated to rein in the big banks and do something about it.

        Prolly not.

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        TeenaBurnerPoodletime
        6/08/16 11:44am

        That’s pretty clearly not what’s happening here. A majority of his fans are very old. They don’t have jobs because they are retired, and they didn’t just become xenophobes, they just got loud about it again. This happened after the black president, not in the midst of our economic nadir, the outsourcing of manufacturing or the wave of illegal immigration.

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      ww1383Jordan Sargent
      6/07/16 1:25pm

      In no way do I want to live through a Trump Presidency but part of me is intrigued by the spectacle of it.

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        Jerry-Netherlandww1383
        6/07/16 1:45pm

        It must’ve been exhilarating to be in a Leni Riefenstahl movie, too. But the hangover was murder. Mass murder, at that.

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        Spencer Hww1383
        6/07/16 2:18pm

        I would simply die laughing by the end of the first month as he most likely fired his cabinet for failing to implement all his simple policies, and then see how fast he tries to fire Congress for not doing what he wants. Oh, and give himself building contracts as the lowest bidder when he was also the only bidder

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      MarissaBethJordan Sargent
      6/07/16 1:09pm

      Such a minor thing, but please fix this: “Donald Trump has not even officially assumed the title as Republican nominee for president and already his campaign isn’t even bothering to hide that its tearing itself in two...” Petty, I know. But, please?

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        LetsgobowlingMarissaBeth
        6/07/16 1:16pm

        Your joking right?

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        MarissaBethLetsgobowling
        6/07/16 1:18pm

        I see what you did their.

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      FacebonesJordan Sargent
      6/07/16 1:50pm

      I worry that Trump will drop out before the convention and the party will install Scott Walker and the press will just shit themselves about how smart and even tempered and moderate he is, even though he believes all the same things Trump does. So everybody fluff up Trumps ego! We can’t let that happen!

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