What I’m talking about is that the NRA should then help making that list to include more of that due process when missing.
On edit: Just noted the note, I also will concentrate on Trump now.
He’s like a gift that keeps on giving!
Today’s present; Hillary is hiding the proof that Obama is working for ISIS.
Is it me or has Trump done the improbable? Taken a supposed terror attack and made it work against the Republicans? Or, at least, not for them? I don’t know if any polls have come out since and I do live in the blue-est of blue states but I’m not seeing all the rabid GLASS PARKING LOT!!! and USA! USA! crap the GOP feeds off of. In fact, I’m seeing a lot of-- “that was kind of dumb” responses to Trump’s response to the Orlando shooting. Starting with his “Thanks for the congrats on being right” tweet and all the way on down to his drumming on how Obama is responsible.
I see he is now saying Hillary is hiding proof that Obama is working for ISIS. Really? Really?
From the linked article:
I’ve often heard comments along the lines of, “X% of Americans (20, 30, whatever) will vote for their party’s nominee no matter who it is.” It looks like Trump is out to find that baseline.
51% of Americans (and 50% of Republicans) disapprove of Trump’s response to the Orlando shootings.
Only 51% is a disgusting number.
I’ve been saying something like this in a few threads here and there, and today Josh Marshall really nails it:
Trump is alone in the wilderness. He has, at best, limited support from his party, on which he is also relying for many of the basic campaign functions he’s too cheap or arrogant to run himself. Much of the right-wing media and blogosphere is against him. His own campaign is in disarray and cannot respond effectively to attacks (see Hillary’s shellacking of him last week, which the candidate responded to with a single tweet about using a teleprompter). He has no GOTV operation. He apparently writes his own speeches, which hurts him inasmuch as he knows nothing about most issues and is incapable of presenting a coherent argument. Frothing anger and unchecked id do apparently have their limits, happily for the republic.
His polls are bad and, as we’re starting to see, he cannot rely on events like terrorist attacks to improve them; he doesn’t know how to project the kind of strength middle-of-the-road voters would find persuasive. Eventually the numbers will get bad enough that Trump cannot bluster his way around them and his fellow Republicans or going to start panicking, very loud and in public. So barring some terrible own-goal by Clinton, just what is going to turn this race around? Because if it doesn’t turn around, I can’t see either the Republican establishment or Trump himself being content to ride this runaway train off the cliff.
I am increasingly of the opinion that Trump will withdraw. Whether the party pressures him into it or Trump decides his ego can’t withstand the humiliation, an excuse will be made for him exiting the race. Today I’d put the odds at one in six. As for what would happen after that, I really do have no idea.
I know I’ve said that as well. I’m not sure if I posted it here, but I was convinced since day one that if he got the nomination he would withdraw before November. Of course I was convinced he was going to withdraw before he got the nomination, so my faith has been wavering, but I gotta buy in with the above analysis. I can see it going down that way as well.
I know I made a prediction in some Who Do You Think Its Gonna Be thread that the general would be between Cruz and Clinton. One in six you say? I wonder what sort of odds my bullshit would garner.
Josh Marshall’s mention of the Garland nomination (remember him?) made me think: when will the Senate decide that they’d rather put Garland on the bench than whomever Hillary might choose? Because those are their choices. If you see the Senate schedule hearings, we’ll know they’re raising the white flag.
Would there be financial gain for Trump in withdrawing? Would some Gop faction be willing to pay him to go away?
My earlier prediction, from March.
The latest from Trump: America is doomed and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Ha. As I read that I thought “Oh. I guess he decided to go all in with the doomsday cult thing” but the top reply was more lighthearted :
I just tweeted Paul Ryan (@PRyan, @SpeakerRyan) and asked him if “(America) will not survive this” is the official position of the Republican Party. I eagerly await his response.
But aren’t Trump’s fans filling in the blank with “…it’s impossible unless you get smart and put me in charge of locking up all the Muslims and expelling all the Mexicans” …???
In which case, they are probably undeterred by the apparent nihilism of Trump’s verbatim remarks.
I begin to see how Trump is not going to make it, he is really deluded into thinking that he can rely on his gut feelings about what sources of information to trust. He may had been smarter about it in the past (trying to be fair here, but his past neo Nazi and white supremacy re-twits makes me doubt this also), but now the evidence is piling up that his information bubble is one of the worst and he is not capable of understanding why. Not a thing that inspires confidence on someone that will decide the fates of many as president.
The latest unwise move from Trump is to rely on a conspiracy theory from an extreme right wing source.
I love how the ABC contributor calls a source like Breitbart as just an “anti-Obama site”
Indeed, it does not deserve to be called a news source. And in desperation to be right about his reckless accusation of treason Trump only showed us the trashy information that he is consuming. Besides the company one keeps, I have concluded that the sources of information one has also defines the person, in this case it shows how worthless Trump is. He is not running to become a commander in chief, but as:
Does any of this matter, whoever the Republicans put up in November is going to be an odious, 30-years-out-of-touch white, male, privileged fuckwit?
There’s a whole job lot of them behind Trump.
Romney. I keep telling you guys, Romney. And don’t think I can’t hear you snickering!
It won’t do the GOP any good at this point – a large chunk of the GOP voting base will start circulating conspiracy theories about the dirty deeds of the eeevil Republican Establishment (up to and including accusing them of an assassination attempt if il Doofus’ departure is explained with a medical excuse). Keep Trump or Dump Trump, the party is big-red-capital-Superman-“S” screwed.
At this point I would not be surprised to see Trump give a speech wearing a special beanie to keep Obama’s mind rays out, and finish off by smacking himself to get the bugs off, and then rolling around behind the podium.
He’s a car wreck.