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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:39am

    Stay woke, everyone. This is the “Paul Ryan Loses His Job and Runs For President As A Write-In-Candidate Scenario” that I read about in the Illuminati handbook.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      8/03/16 11:41am

      That’s literally not how anything works.

      For one thing, some states don’t even allow write-ins.

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      Sarcastro4Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      8/03/16 11:42am

      I’VE GOT A PENCIL AND I’D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY TO STOP ME!

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    IhpsdmGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:38am

    Given how incompetent and ineffective Trump’s staff is, this all but ensures that Ryan will win in a landslide.

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      oh-hell-noIhpsdm
      8/03/16 11:45am

      Can we just sit back, watch and hope for a disastrous end to both sides?

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      EvenBaggierTrousers5Ihpsdm
      8/03/16 11:47am

      I’m just baffled that his vindictive streak runs so fucking deep that he’ll waste manpower on a side election rather than focus all his efforts on winning the presidency. I mean, how big of an asshole do you have to be to make that part of you plans?

      “I may not win, but it’s equally important that he lose...”

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    Sons of Sam MaloneGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:47am

    If this election ends with Trump dismembering and disemboweling the Republican Party and sending its withered limbs and entrails to the four corners of the United States, was the pain and fury and anger he spawned worth it? I’m leaning towards yes.

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      crowmollySons of Sam Malone
      8/03/16 11:52am

      I’m not a conspiracy-theory person normally but based on the monumental wave of horseshit Trump keeps spewing I am somewhat convinced that he’s a plant to blow up the GOP in every direction and make everybody look foolish. Might not come out for 5 years, or even 25 years, but I would not be surprised at this point.

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      Cape Cod Crepe GodSons of Sam Malone
      8/03/16 11:54am

      As long as he loses...yes definintely

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    Group B-raaaaaaaaaap!Gabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:42am
    GIF

    Watching the GOP tear itself to shreds between the factions of closet fascists of the establishment and Herr Drumpf’s Looney Tunes brigade is the gift that keeps on giving. It's like Christmas err'y day!

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      Syphilitic Scalia SaysGroup B-raaaaaaaaaap!
      8/03/16 12:23pm

      This is like that Lindsey Buckingham music video for “Big Love.”

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      Althea the BootstrapwomanGroup B-raaaaaaaaaap!
      8/03/16 1:34pm

      That’s why I can’t really get mad at him. It’s all too wonderful.

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    Low Information BoaterGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:44am

    Just in case anybody was curious, yes, the residents of Ryan's district absolutely are stupid enough to primary out the SotH.

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      oh-hell-noLow Information Boater
      8/03/16 11:48am

      thats a given considering they voted him in in the first place

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      Avaya16Low Information Boater
      8/03/16 11:53am

      I know it was majority leader, but Eric Cantor ring any bells?

      None of this shit surprises me anymore.

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    FacebonesGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 12:24pm

    I really don’t buy into the conspiracy theory that says Bill Clinton convinced Trump to run as a Republican, but...

    As someone said (and I can’t remember where I saw it), if Trump was a Democratic plant, what exactly would he be doing differently?

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      SteveInWIFacebones
      8/03/16 1:05pm

      He'd be polling low enough that Hillary Clinton would have nothing to worry about. (Granted, it's plausible for one to assume that the things Trump has said and done would have been enough to eliminate the possibility of him being elected...I know I didn't foresee just how ugly a very large minority of the country could be to still support him in spite of everything).

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      jezbannedFacebones
      8/03/16 3:57pm

      I mean, as the Washington Post pointed out, some weak economic numbers just came out, setting up potential “going in the wrong direction attacks,” and Clinton told an outright lie about the FBI’s statement on her emails, setting up a “Hillary just keeps lying” attack. All of this could have easily countered Clinton’s convention bounce. And yet he insisted on (1) keeping a convention speech that, notwithstanding its power, would have faded from memory quickly, by picking a feud with the parents of a dead soldier, (2) publicly antagonizing Republicans by refusing to endorse sitting Republicans as some petty payback, and (3) doing shit like insulting fucking fire marshalls.

      I am preparing my tinfoil hat.

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    CryptidGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 12:03pm

    The feud between Trump and Ryan is the political equivalent of watching Freddy vs. Jason. One of these creeps is much easier to root for than the other, but you’re not hoping for the better man win so much as relying on the total certainty, either way, that at least one menace to civilization* will be spectacularly dismembered.

    *As usual, these films represent civil society through the time-honored American institution of sexy slumber parties. On a personal note, rampant slasher sequels are a moving testament to our enduring confidence in this cherished American institution, the sexy slumber party, in the face of hockey-masked, stupid-gloved terror.

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      TheDoomkittenCryptid
      8/03/16 12:31pm

      If civil society really were a sexy slumber party, I’d be much more involved.

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      CryptidTheDoomkitten
      8/03/16 12:45pm

      If civil society really were a sexy slumber party, I’d be much more involved.

      It can be, citizen, it can be. Do your part, and you may have your very own convention bump.

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    Sparky PolastryGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 12:07pm

    Am I the only one who thinks Trump is far too stupid to actually be involved in some kind of manipulation to destroy the GOP? To me, he can’t control his outbursts and tantrums and this is simply the collateral damage from it.

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      oggyoggyoySparky Polastry
      8/03/16 12:20pm

      If you have a narcissist in your family, or at work, Trump’s behaviour is not surprising. No self awareness or self editing No empathy. No apologies. Bewilderment at any criticism.

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      Sparky Polastryoggyoggyoy
      8/03/16 12:21pm

      Just one small step away from full-fledged socio/psycopath..

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    KittensInBoxesGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:57am

    Okay. I need to share this. For the record this was uncomfortable for me since I’m an Anarchist by belief. In Blue-State MA, for reference.

    The contractor who set up my new internet/TV this morning hit a downtime and started talking politics. Unprofessional on one hand but relieving on the other.

    “I’m a LATINO but...” was the first bit.

    And then a big “I’m gonna vote Trump and I have reservations because I’m Latino” was the last bit.

    Now, before people get upset, this is a “Why?” question.

    This Latino guy working a lower-middle-class job wanted to vote Trump, and was passionate about that vote, because he believed that the nation needed to be “shaken up”. That was his focus. He saw Clinton as someone who didn’t support any of his needs. He saw Trump, in my analysis, as someone who could “shake up” the status-quo.

    Everything pegged itself toward understanding the Trump shame toward Latinos. He knew the racist rhetoric and made it clear he didn’t care.

    From my perspective this is something that the Dems could have done but didn’t. The current beneficiary of Dem policies are rich white men.

    There are so many powerless plebs out there who will vote for a bad candidate because they never felt they were represented. The Dems have spent the last 30 years alienating low-class workers because they always chased the booms and the money before the effects.

    Obama won in 2008 because he actually believed what he campaigned on, and a desire to do good things is worth far more than a sense of eternal defeat which makes it never worthwhile to change things.

    There are so few of the campaign promises from Obama that I don’t believe he actually made real, personal efforts to change. When it comes to Clinton I have zero faith she’ll even feel the same way the next morning.

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      Gamblor JDKittensInBoxes
      8/03/16 12:11pm

      Obama’s two elections were the only time in my life I didn’t feel like I was playing defense with my vote. He was actually a candidate for president that I wanted to vote for and it was really refreshing. I might have felt the same about Howard Dean but, you know, he yelled over a loud crowd a little bit.

      All the other presidential campaigns I’ve been old to enough to participate in was just a bunch of holding my nose and voting: Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry and coming soon....Hillary.

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      jezbannedKittensInBoxes
      8/03/16 4:07pm

      We shook up the status quo in Hiroshima too.

      Probably the person this guy should be angry at for the current status quo is Ronald Reagan and his slavishly devoted acolytes who have tried hard to tear down all government apparatuses put in place since the Great Depression to protect the vulnerable and try to reign in the worst of our capitalistic society, and who were committed to blocking every extension of government.

      Hillary Clinton is flawed, represents the status quo, and has almost always led from behind, sure. But her first significant political moment was trying to craft universal health care, and getting absolutely vilified for it and watching it go down in flaming defeat against staunch opposition from the right. The way Democrats, including Obama, have governed is a direct result of the way the party that still worships Reagan insists on obstructing anything departing from what they think Reagan would have done.

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    FelixElixGabrielle Bluestone
    8/03/16 11:39am

    This could be the most organized thing Trump’s campaign has ever done.

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      PoodletimeFelixElix
      8/03/16 11:52am

      That primary is in six days.

      In a similar fashion to how Trump pays his contractors, his “payback” is a day late and a dollar short.

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