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    BobbySeriousAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:35am

    Best case scenario for him is the Republicans take the nomination away from him at the convention. He’ll be a martyr who “would have easily beaten Hillary” forever, and he’ll make millions off it.

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      tsrhodesBobbySerious
      6/21/16 11:41am

      Convention riots a la DNC ‘68. Grumbles of combative middle aged Trump supporters against basketfulls of bowtied college Republican Cruz supporters.

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      Who the hell knows anymoreBobbySerious
      6/21/16 11:42am

      Agreed — and if he secretly doesn’t want to run in the general, he can either just allow this to happen at the convention or actively lean into it. Behind the scenes, he could be releasing delegates and once the coup happens he could storm on stage, blame the republicans, tell everyone how he is the ultimate winner (for all time (no take backs)), and jet off into the night.

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    Alex CAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:44am

    I don’t think he’ll quit or tone it down. I don’t think his plan has ever been to win though. I think that in May, 2015 he and Bill Clinton concocted this scheme because they knew Hillary couldn’t win on policy or likability alone. Independents hate her and she’s antithetical to the progressive direction of the Democratic Party, being pro-war and pro-Wall Street.

    So Bill called in his ace on the hole, his good friend Donald. The same Donald who in 2012 told Romney to be nicer to immigrants. The same Donald who thought Hillary would make a great president in 2008. The same Donald who sounded a lot like Bernie Sanders during his brief Reform Party bid in 2000. The same Donald who has always been a New York Clinton Democrat.

    Plan A was rile up the GOP base, eventually run as an Independent and split the GOP vote. It worked better than they could have ever imagined. Plan B is now scare the shit out of Independents, galvanize progressives around Hillary as the way lesser of two evils (in their eyes) and even convert some moderate Republicans.

    It will work, and Hillary will get her 4 years, and Trump will get his media empire. Just don’t expect this to work in 2020, and pray for a good 4 years if you're a Democrat. If it ever gets out, I'm sure the Clinton Machine will handle any potential whistleblowers, Underwood style.

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      ARP2Alex C
      6/21/16 11:50am

      Let’s assume what you say is true. What does that say about the GOP base? Perhaps the unintended consequence of all of this is that the Id of the GOP has been laid bare and they’ve potentially lost the vote of hispanics and younger persons for a generation. So, they better hope their House and state firewall holds.

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      BobbySeriousAlex C
      6/21/16 11:54am

      Na, there’s no conspiracy here. Trump started this the same way he started his campaign in 08 as a birther. It was supposed to be a joke, a few months of having his name in the news. It spiraled out of control, and no one was more surprised than the Donald.

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    kamla deviAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:39am

    If Trump suddenly quits anytime before the actual general election, then he was totally a false flag candidate for the Clintons all along.

    I guess at the end of the day, what makes me rest easy is that Scott Walker will continue to be confined to the state of Wisconsin, and not the executive office. At least there is that.

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      Alex Ckamla devi
      6/21/16 11:48am

      I think he won’t quit because he was a false flag candidate for the Clintons. He’ll just continue to scare the shit out of Independents, and turn Clinton-weary progressives into the Clinton camp while torpedoing any chance of him winning.

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      MsMenstruationkamla devi
      6/21/16 11:48am

      If you're worried about Republicans, Scott Walker shouldn't be the one your concern yourself with first. There are many who are far worse.

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    The Noble RenardAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:34am

    Silently drowns himself in a vat of molten nacho cheese sauce.

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      SolongeFarewellThe Noble Renard
      6/21/16 11:35am

      No, that’s not a vat of nacho cheese on his bus, that’s just what his skin looks like before they slather it on and let it harden.

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      KyuzoThe Noble Renard
      6/21/16 11:42am
      GIF
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    toothpetardAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:33am

    Der Stürmer

    Ah, a much needed counterpoint to the leftist drivel coming out of fox news. Teach the controversy!

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      MRJ123toothpetard
      6/21/16 1:52pm

      Is the lead buried here? Did NBC dumping Trump create the Donald Trump candidacy?

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      Mme. de Stael (nee the Empress Frederick)toothpetard
      6/21/16 2:43pm

      ......I suspect that Donald thinks he DESERVES to have Air Force One as his personal plane......that’s a huge perk to walk away from (though he will never win).....

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    CrossFitVeganIdiotAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:42am

    I’ve been banging this drum for months, and the Trump supporters laugh & scoff at me for initially being wrong about the success of his candidacy. That said, I take issue with one thing here:

    What’s more, if Trump gets out before the actual convention, he never actually runs the risk of party Republicans pulling the candidacy out from under him come Cleveland.

    For me, this is the only way Trump gets out of the race. Like you said, the man can’t take failure, especially one that’s not just a public but international spectacle. Dropping out pre-convention concedes defeat.

    Allowing the GOP to pull the rug out from under him allows him to babble on about how it was “stolen” by establishment maneuvers, and he gets to slink away and still pull a heavy percentage of write-in votes as a last “fuck you” to the GOP.

    In this scenario, and only this scenario, he simply didn’t lose. He was disenfranchised. And there’s nothing his toxic base of alt-right queens love more than being terminally aggrieved. This is how he wants it. It’s just a matter of whether the Republicans are stupid enough to fall into it.

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      DoobyOneCrossFitVeganIdiot
      6/21/16 11:46am

      I think you’re spot on. It may even be an unspoken gentleman’s agreement. He keeps doing crazy shit and grifting rube money, they stage a convention coup. Trump takes his supporters and sulks off and the GOP loses with a more respectable candidate. (Please choose Cruz). I just don't see how they let him take down their whole party.

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      CrossFitVeganIdiotDoobyOne
      6/21/16 12:00pm

      Yea, there could be a handshake agreement that this is all for nothing. But I don’t think that benefits the GOP in any way. (Note: I changed my party affiliation the day he clinched the nomination)

      He already took down the party, and no matter how they go about this, the party has been fatally wounded. If he gets curbstomped in November, they lose (the legislature & SCOTUS, too). If they take it from him and angry voters walk, they lose. Nominating this baboon was a self inflicted gunshot wound. Though I have a disdain in my heart for a complicit media that provided him with free coverage for several months.

      The sad thing about all of this is that had they nominated any of the other miscreants (even Cruz!), we’d at least see the polling & fundraising fairly even. And that’s definitely not the case now.

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    ManchuCandidateAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:36am

    When the going get short fingered, the short fingered get going.

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      4thdeskonrightManchuCandidate
      6/21/16 1:45pm

      Well the short-fingered can’t get anyone coming, so...

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      R.S.D.ManchuCandidate
      6/23/16 10:09am

      “When fingers are short, the short get fingered”

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    CleverUsernameAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:37am

    This coincides with my working theory that Trump never wanted the Presidency, or the nomination; he just wanted to boost his brand before being forced out because be dropped too many truth bombs, or something.

    Now he’s just saying whatever he can to get the boot, but the rabid GOP base is gobbling it up.

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      IhpsdmCleverUsername
      6/21/16 11:55am

      He never wanted it. You could see from his reaction to the Iowa loss that this is not what he wanted to happen. He did all the “right” things to get his campaign suspended. The poll numbers just kept feeding his ego and this joke spiraled out of control thanks to his soft skulled supporters. A truly embarrassing and dark moment for our country.

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      Johanna DarklightCleverUsername
      6/21/16 12:06pm

      This coincides with my theory that Trump has been trolling the Republicans this entire time and soon will be forced to admit it.

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    OMG!PONIES!Ashley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:49am

    Donald Trump can’t afford to make it to Election Day.

    If he loses, he’ll forever be an official LOSER.

    Donald Trump is the kind of guy who thinks that Jim Kelly was a terrible quarterback because he lost four Super Bowls. Never mind that he won four AFC Championships.

    If Donald Trump loses, he is a LOSER. And given that Trump’s worth, both fiscal and self, is tied to his identity as a brand, it would damage him more than can be imagined.

    Headlines around the world would read “Donald Trump Loses.”

    And, my Cod, wouldn't that be glorious.

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      AnonymousBaseballFanOMG!PONIES!
      6/21/16 1:04pm

      What’s worse - “Donald Trump Loses” or “Donald Trump Quits?”

      If he loses, he can at least deflect by claiming that his “haters” sabotaged his campaign or engaged in massive voter fraud or some cockeyed conspiracy.

      If he quits, he’s weak and he’s scared of Hillary Clinton.

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      OMG!PONIES!AnonymousBaseballFan
      6/21/16 1:14pm

      That’s why actually outright winning the GOP nomination was the worst possible outcome for him. If it had gone to a contested convention vote he could claim that it was stolen from him.

      Now, he has to beat Hillary Clinton in the general. If the GOP is smart, they’ll give up, let Donald keep the nomination, and let him get absolutely destroyed in November.

      He spent a year putting together the biggest, YOOGEST, classiest petard ever. Let him get hoisted on it.

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    NooYawkAshley Feinberg
    6/21/16 11:37am

    I remember Ross Perot at one point almost quit because he “wasn’t having fun anymore” Billionaires riding a wave is great for their ego’s, but when things get serious, when the press digs deeper, when you are closely scrutinized, and the reality of running for President sets in.. suddenly it’s not fun anymore for these assholes. I mean his tax returns will end up becoming public whether he wants it or not. Trump is as thinned skin as they come, he will probably screw all his idiot supporters over and quit just so he won’t lose.

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      IhpsdmNooYawk
      6/21/16 11:52am

      He DID quit in 1992. He came back after suspending his campaign, though. This is much easier to do as an independent, however as there is no formal nomination process or convention. As an independent, you don’t have to be replaced, so you can come and go as you please, which is what Perot did.

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      gingerhammeredNooYawk
      6/21/16 1:45pm

      Yes, but does that work for non-billionaires like Trump too?

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