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    e.nonHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:44am

    he’s going to have a complete mental collapse once clinton trounces him in the election. his entire being depends on winning and obliterating his opponent. with losing the election, and then coupled with the hit his business is taking, donald may have to take a nice, long vacation ... i’m actually looking forward to november.

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      Ihpsdme.non
      8/06/16 11:49am

      I’m honestly not entirely convinced of this. I still have a feeling he doesn’t want to be President. Just look at his reaction following the Iowa Primary loss.

      His supporters on the other hand.......I would love to drink their tears.

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      The Noble Renarde.non
      8/06/16 11:52am

      Sadly I think that’s wishful thinking. His people are already sowing the seeds for him to say it was a stolen election. And Pandora’s Racist Box has already been opened. The 30% of the electorate that is driven primarily by fear and a sense of lost glory isn’t going to just disappear.

      In the short term, it means another round of centrist Republicans getting primaries by far-right lunatics, Trump going off and fomenting a continued sense of aggrievement (may start his own TV channel), and a wounded Republican Party fighting everything Clinton does tooth and nail.

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    Endless Supply of CynicismHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:38am

    Looks like someone threatened to cut off the RNC funds (looking at Priebus)

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      RubinsteinEndless Supply of Cynicism
      8/06/16 11:44am

      Doubt it. His daughter made him do it.

      I respect Trump for no other reason than he publicly acknowledges what a douche Paul Ryan is.

      The tradition of endorsing members of your own party just because they’re party members should be broken. It’s this tradition that lets garbage people like DWS hold a seat unopposed for decades.

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      WhimsicalEthnographiesEndless Supply of Cynicism
      8/06/16 11:45am

      Amongst other things. It was definitely hilarious (in a scary way, as always) to see how uncomfortable he was reading off that paper.

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    Ed SpockHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:55am

    It’s awesome that when people like McCain and Ryan, who have made their career from being asshole bullies, saw someone they felt had serious flaws and was probably unfit to be President win the Republican nomination, they looked deep into their hearts and thought about their principles and the things Trumps has said, and they realized how bad he could be for America...............Then they meekly submitted like a couple of lambs being led to slaughter.

    I think Ted Cruz is evil and know he did it for self serving reasons, but I have to give him credit because he was literally the ONLY prominent Republican politician who stood up in front of a national audience and basically said “Donald Trump would be a disaster if he became President and I’m not going to sit here and blow sunshine up your asses and tell you otherwise.”

    The rest of them all either submitted to the will of a madman and fell in line or, like Kasich and Jeb!, did their pissy little passive/aggressive thing of not going to the convention and making veiled statements of disapproval, but not openly condemning Trump either.

    Well done everyone. You all deserve each other.

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      Delia12Ed Spock
      8/06/16 1:01pm

      Well put, and exactly how I fell about the GOP, as well these days.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationEd Spock
      8/06/16 1:15pm

      I would rather crawl over broken glass than pay Ted Cruz a compliment, but I have to say I think his move was pretty shrewd. Either the Republican party loses and begins to eat itself- and he gets to say he never kowtowed to Trump and others should have stood up with him, or the Republicans win and he gets to say “I told you so” as we all try to stay warm during the nuclear winter.

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    gingerhammeredHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:36am

    Mean girls make up.

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      Scout's Honorgingerhammered
      8/06/16 11:41am

      Yeah, mean girls make up after Regina, I mean Reince, insists by threatening to withhold funds unless he reads what’s on the card.

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      Ginger Is A Constructgingerhammered
      8/06/16 11:56am

      “Paul Ryan is a grotsky little biatch.”

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    ManchuCandidateHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:45am

    To be or not to be-that is the question:
    Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to court
    The misguided rage and rants of angry dumbasses,
    Or to endorse incumbents against a slew of crazies,
    And, by opposing, end them.

    -Oompah Loompah Hamlet

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      TzaManchuCandidate
      8/06/16 11:54am

      So when Megyn Kelly is eventually told to “get the to a nunnery” will she drown him instead of herself? Could be a nice combo of compelling drama and comedy.

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    IhpsdmHannah Gold
    8/06/16 11:43am

    Donald once again shows us the type of flip flop leadership skills that make him so Presidential.

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      Mcm1910Ihpsdm
      8/06/16 11:50am

      He’s a true tough guy. His only consistent stance is that brown people are bad.

      I'm not sure why so many people feel republicans are racist

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    lost_grrlHannah Gold
    8/06/16 4:22pm

    Something that a lot of people don’t realize was exactly how much of a taunt Trump’s response was. In the full transcript the Wash Post reporter asks him about Ryan and Trump says he never endorsed him, that the opponent said good things about Trump, etc. Trump then gets distracted by himself on TV (really) and they move on to other topics like Mike Pence, TV ratings and the Purple Heart. Then Trump says:

    TRUMP: You want me to give you an exact quote on the Paul Ryan? You were asking.

    RUCKER: Yeah, please do.

    TRUMP: Okay, you’re asking me if I’m supporting Paul Ryan?

    RUCKER: Yeah, if you’re supporting Paul Ryan.

    TRUMP: I’m not quite there yet.

    So the topic was DONE and then Trump thought of a clever line and brought it up again.

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      Vanestle1lost_grrl
      8/07/16 1:33am

      My god he’s a child! Most people have that moment of “oh, I know what I should have said!” and let it the fuck go. Not this man-child.

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      lost_grrlVanestle1
      8/07/16 3:33pm

      Yup. And if you read the transcript it is so, so obvious what is going on...you can almost see a thought bubble appear over his head that reads “Oh! I just thought of this sick burn!”.

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    CryptidHannah Gold
    8/06/16 12:43pm

    This was kind of predictable. Paul Ryan was doing just fine in his primary polls without an endorsement from Trump, so there was no real way to squeeze him over it. Trump succeeded in making the campaign and the party look bad, again, then found himself in a position where capitulating to the Republican establishment was the best of his bad options.

    Trump was not bargaining from a position of strength. Maybe if he had read his own book, he would know better.

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      FacebonesHannah Gold
      8/06/16 12:14pm

      What a flip-flopping loser! Sad!

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        BrautiganFacebones
        8/06/16 1:11pm

        Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, gonna assume so, but this attitude is real and why this is gonna hurt him. While the rest of us see someone who has finally come to some semblance of sense (although way too late to mean anything) and reconsidered some of his massive blunders, his supporters are going to hate this. They love him for his over the top macho bluster and refusal to ever reconsider or admit wrong...they want him to be an 80s b movie action star. This will be viewed as weakness, a retreat, a betrayal. They want pure authoritarian ideologue and this is a crack in that facade .

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      zuludeadyHannah Gold
      8/06/16 11:44am

      Wasn’t it Moliére who said “consistency is the hobgoblin of large hands?”

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        BSTrainerzuludeady
        8/06/16 2:57pm

        People are saying Donald Trump said that. Now, I’m not sure, I’m just saying that’s what I heard. You should look into it.

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