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[Tasty]

These panels have been GOLD the last week.

[james]

Reddit is a wonderful place.

Thread:
Folks, did you know that there is a Trump Conservative running against Paul Ryan in Wisconsin? Can we FLOOD Spencer Zimmerman with support to send a message to the establishment? (self.The_Donald)

Reply:
[–]HairyTacoFanatic 2 points 5 hours ago
Let's fact check the guy first and make sure he is what he is and not another Paul Ryan. The name Zimmerman puts me on edge for some reason. Can someone background this guy?


Even better, the thread has 3,953 upvotes.

....and the Facebook page they link to for support has only 473 likes

 

[Tasty]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=219842030#post219842030

[Joe Molotov]

ZimmerMAN is the hero we deserve.

[james]

Best case scenario is Trump loses, holds a grudge against the GOP and then runs as an independent for the next several terms (however many he has left in him before he kicks the butcket), completely splintering the Republican party and ruining their chances of holding office for years to come.

Nah independents dont do well on a 2nd run.

But he could try for Senator or even better, House. Create a Trump Party, sponsored by Trump TV.

[Nola]

There is a sizable fraction of the Republican base who hate Trump and will try to primary Congressmen who supported him when mid-term elections roll around. Hell I think anyone after this election who takes the "loud and plainspoken" technique when giving speeches will incur comparisons to Trump. You have to consider that Hillary might win by the biggest margin in 30 years so that's going to widen the split in the Republican party that started back in 2010.

There's a lot of maybes and what-if scenarios to think about but I just don't see a conservative who refuses to vote for Trump willing to fill out a ballot in 2018 if the Republican candidate was a Trump supporter.

IDK. The Republican party has been on a trend of getting overwhelmed by the ever-radicalizing base of the party for some time. Especially the House. I'm not sure even a beatdown in the presidential election can knock the tires off that train.

How do Republicans expect some gerrymandered redneck town in Georgia or Louisiana to buy into choosing a more moderate Republican that disavows Trump when the other guy will probably be feeding them constant servings of tea party/Trump esque rhetoric that is resonating in these places? Maybe the Trump brand gets damaged but I'm not sure his tactics or strategies will.

The non-Trump Republicans seem to be in a lose/lose. They go the Obama strategy again and play the obstruction card, they start the cycle of enflaming the sentiment that plays to Trump's hand right back over. Then if they show any slivers of being functional politicians, they open themselves for attack and cries of de-legitimacy. Go ultra hardline then they just become the thing they feared, having to ever increase the rhetoric beyond their pale to stave off competition. Become full on moderates and TrumpTV(or whatever platform carries the torch) will call them traitors and hardline conservative districts will primary.

[Tasty]

Yeah, GOP is fucked for a good while. Tea Party should have been the first warning quake but now the proverbial San Andreas fault has erupted thanks to Trump. 20+ years of Fox news brainwashing in order to win petty partisan battles and it's finally backfiring spectacularly.

[agrajag]

Best case scenario is Trump loses, holds a grudge against the GOP and then runs as an independent for the next several terms (however many he has left in him before he kicks the butcket), completely splintering the Republican party and ruining their chances of holding office for years to come.

Nah independents dont do well on a 2nd run.

But he could try for Senator or even better, House. Create a Trump Party, sponsored by Trump TV.

I think you're underestimating the Trump crazies. They really don't care about the GOP, if he was to step down, they wouldn't go vote for Mike Pence or whomever.

[james]

Best case scenario is Trump loses, holds a grudge against the GOP and then runs as an independent for the next several terms (however many he has left in him before he kicks the butcket), completely splintering the Republican party and ruining their chances of holding office for years to come.

Nah independents dont do well on a 2nd run.

But he could try for Senator or even better, House. Create a Trump Party, sponsored by Trump TV.

I think you're underestimating the Trump crazies. They really don't care about the GOP, if he was to step down, they wouldn't go vote for Mike Pence or whomever.

I agree on your second point, but not your first.

Santorum and Palin were very popular.

4 years later they were has-beens.

Trumps brand is that hes a winner. When he loses....well, he's a loser. His fans will move on to the next big crazy.

Who knows, maybe Hannity will run in 2020.

[Mr Gilhaney]

The former lead singer of the rock band Blink-182 emailed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign about UFOs, according to a new report.

Tom DeLonge sent at least two emails to Clinton’s campaign manager about the unexplained phenomenon, The Wall Street Journal said Monday.

The Journal said DeLonge’s outreach to John Podesta was revealed in WikiLeaks’s recent latest dump of hacked emails.
The first message shows DeLonge promising in 2015 to introduce Podesta to two credible sources on UFOs.

“I think you will find them very interesting, as they were principal leadership relating to our sensitive topic,” he says. "Both were in charge of most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and [Department of Defense] topics.

“Other words, these are A-list officials. Worth our time, as well as the investment to bring all the way out to you.”

The second communication finds DeLonge detailing his work with a former military official on UFO research.

“He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware — as he was in charge of all the stuff,” he told Podesta of his contact in the 2016 message.

“When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago.”

DeLonge was referencing the conspiracy theory that the U.S. government recovered an extraterrestrial vehicle from crash in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. The military maintains the incident resulted from a surveillance balloon that crashed there.

The Journal noted it remains unclear if Podesta ever responded to DeLonge’s overtures about UFOs.

Absolutely disgusting that Killary isn't taking action here.

[Madrun Badrun]

Knowing her, she deleted the email. 

[agrajag]

Best case scenario is Trump loses, holds a grudge against the GOP and then runs as an independent for the next several terms (however many he has left in him before he kicks the butcket), completely splintering the Republican party and ruining their chances of holding office for years to come.

Nah independents dont do well on a 2nd run.

But he could try for Senator or even better, House. Create a Trump Party, sponsored by Trump TV.

I think you're underestimating the Trump crazies. They really don't care about the GOP, if he was to step down, they wouldn't go vote for Mike Pence or whomever.

I agree on your second point, but not your first.

Santorum and Palin were very popular.

4 years later they were has-beens.

Trumps brand is that hes a winner. When he loses....well, he's a loser. His fans will move on to the next big crazy.

Who knows, maybe Hannity will run in 2020.

Nah, Hannity is already a loser.

[brawndolicious]

Trump wasn't a contender or an appointee. He has, I shudder to say this, some legitimacy as a party spokesman. He's going to run again and look like a contender/national shame until June  After which he'll probably lose if the GOP learned to just focus on one candidate but that dude will obviously also lose unless he's latino as fuck and Hillary had some massive fuck ups in her presidency.

You can get a Murican to vote for an American but not vice-versa. I still wouldn't expect the party to change at all until after the next election.

[Mandark]

He's not going to run again.  He's old, dog.

[Human Snorenado]

He's not going to run again.  He's old, dog.

He's quite possibly the healthiest person to run for President. His doctor said so. You're just spreading misinformation. Sad!

[agrajag]

He's not going to run again.  He's old, dog.

He's quite possibly the healthiest person to run for President. His doctor said so. You're just spreading misinformation. Sad!

*sniff*

[Joe Molotov]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jzokun/status/785708353360060416

lol

[Mandark]

Minor irritating subplot of the election: the proliferation of "we need to listen to Trump supporters and feel their pain" thinkpieces.

I get the need for empathy and for avoiding a sense of smug superiority, but at this point these are basically white people explaining why other white people aren't really racist.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think the basic idea of those pieces is OK (at least the economic focused ones).  There is a large population of people economically suffering and disenfranchised from both parties and ya you need to listen to them or it will be Trumps from here on out. 

[agrajag]

Megyn Kelly is below average.

Honestly, if we are going to rate the news anchor game, CNN wins hands down.

Brianna Keilar   
Erin Burnett 
Brooke Baldwin 



Rachel Maddow 





Wolf Blitzer   

[Stoney Mason]

https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/785902825838567424

 

[Steve Contra]

CNN has Anderson Cooper as well

[Samson Manhug]

https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/785902825838567424

 

Ugh this emoticon is triggering

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/785902825838567424

 

Holy goddamn shit.

I'd vote for President Linda Blaire (with Vice President Karas, nache.)

CNN has Anderson Cooper as well

GOAT-looking newsperson

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/786022757804892161



This has to be deliberate self-sabotage at this point, right?

[Madrun Badrun]

[benjipwns]

[Great Rumbler]

Like an abuser who takes out his personal failures and frustrations and rages on his wife and his children, Paul Ryan and the GOP are now alone in the house with Donald Trump.

 

[benjipwns]

In December 2011, Chelsea Clinton sent a sharply worded email to top family confidants saying that people in London had raised "serious concerns" about the way Teneo was using her father's name to set up meetings for clients, according to private emails released by WikiLeaks. "I will raise all of this and more with my father this evening," she wrote. "Wanted to update you all in the meanwhile about my augmented concerns post London."

At the time, Chelsea Clinton had already been pushing to enact tougher rules at the foundation regarding conflicts of interest and outside income. In response, Band blasted her behind her back as an irrational ingrate who runs “to daddy to change a decision or interject herself in the process.”

In the emails released by WikiLeaks on Monday and Tuesday, Band dismissed Clinton as an entitled and power-hungry young woman who wreaked havoc at the Clinton Foundation — and who created a stressful environment that contributed to one person's contemplating suicide — simply because she was bored and protective of her relationship with her father.

“She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life,” Band wrote in a November 2011 email to longtime Clinton family adviser John Podesta.

Podesta urged Band to try to avoid sparring with Chelsea Clinton, but at the same time he was emailing with her and others in a manner that seemed to validate Chelsea's concerns about setting up outside procedures for dealing with Teneo.

I'm also starting to worry that if this story gets out, we are screwed.

gg doug

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/785736619550765056

incredulist ‏@incredulist  Oct 11
@adamjohnsonNYC how did you obtain those tweets? Kremlin??

[benjipwns]

[Owl-faced Wizard]

In December 2011, Chelsea Clinton sent a sharply worded email to top family confidants saying that people in London had raised "serious concerns" about the way Teneo was using her father's name to set up meetings for clients, according to private emails released by WikiLeaks. "I will raise all of this and more with my father this evening," she wrote. "Wanted to update you all in the meanwhile about my augmented concerns post London."

At the time, Chelsea Clinton had already been pushing to enact tougher rules at the foundation regarding conflicts of interest and outside income. In response, Band blasted her behind her back as an irrational ingrate who runs “to daddy to change a decision or interject herself in the process.”

In the emails released by WikiLeaks on Monday and Tuesday, Band dismissed Clinton as an entitled and power-hungry young woman who wreaked havoc at the Clinton Foundation — and who created a stressful environment that contributed to one person's contemplating suicide — simply because she was bored and protective of her relationship with her father.

“She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life,” Band wrote in a November 2011 email to longtime Clinton family adviser John Podesta.

Podesta urged Band to try to avoid sparring with Chelsea Clinton, but at the same time he was emailing with her and others in a manner that seemed to validate Chelsea's concerns about setting up outside procedures for dealing with Teneo.

I'm also starting to worry that if this story gets out, we are screwed.

gg doug

makes me wanna vote for chelsea tbh

[Stoney Mason]

https://twitter.com/colinjones/status/785980116530638848

 

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/white-grievance-cheerleader-tomi-lahren-explains-why-supporters-like-trump-even-more-after-tape-leak/

what's the female equivalent of a coon?

[Joe Molotov]

poon?

[Tasty]

I skipped through this video with my eyes out of focus and I could swear it was an old MadTV skit with Will Sasso.

[Steve Contra]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/white-grievance-cheerleader-tomi-lahren-explains-why-supporters-like-trump-even-more-after-tape-leak/

what's the female equivalent of a coon?

Please change Jay Dubya's name to "White Grievance Cheerleader"

[Great Rumbler]

[Brehvolution]

Right wing sights are reporting that Putin is ordering all government staff and their families to return to Russia because of the growing threat of war. 

[Brehvolution]

[Madrun Badrun]

End of term presidents are the best presidents. 

[agrajag]

Bams sounds drunk.

[Freyj]

"Doesn't give a fuck" Obama is going to be so good.

[Great Rumbler]

Right wing sights are reporting that Putin is ordering all government staff and their families to return to Russia because of the growing threat of war. 

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

It's over:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/politics/miley-cyrus-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-donald-trump/index.html

Miley Cyrus was feeling the Bern, but now she's all in for Hillary Clinton.

Cyrus, who supported Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary, said Sanders supporters who are not planning on voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in the general election against Donald Trump are "f***ing crazy."

"That's f***ing crazy and you're out of your mind. It's literally pissing me off more than anything," Cyrus told Variety in an interview published Tuesday.

"If you could ever consider Donald Trump, you never understood Bernie in the first place," the "Bangerz" singer said.

Cyrus said that she never expected Trump to make it this far and that when the billionaire mogul announced his presidential run in June 2015, she "was laughing."

"When Trump started this, I was laughing. I thought it's not going to go anywhere; there's no way he'll be the candidate," Cyrus said.

Linking Trump to the Kardashians, the pop star said Trump's rise reflects America's fascination with celebrity.

But Cyrus added that "The Kardashians are better than Trump" because they are "just trying to be famous" and "not trying to run the country."

Referencing an interaction she had with Sarah Jessica Parker while filling in as a host on "Ellen," the "Wrecking Ball" singer said she was stumped when Parker asked her if any of her friends are voting for Trump.

"I was like, 'Do you think I have friends that would vote for Donald Trump. Come on! Who do you think I'm hanging out with?'" Cyrus said.

[Madrun Badrun]

Now I'm undecided. 

[Joe Molotov]

Now I'm undecided. 

[octopushover]

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/786311585530650624

his source:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CumXenbWcAU3Ter.jpg

 

[Phoenix Dark]

 

November 1st? Why. Ballots are already printed, she can't be replaced right now so the explanation for releasing n November makes no sense.

Obama wants to start a war with Russia to cover up the emails? 

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

"We are not Russian, also we dont really have a firm grasp on American electorial procedure."

[I'm a Puppy!]

Comrade, Comrade, believe me, here is big November surprise. I am not believing it. I am American. Completely.

[Great Rumbler]

Those posts read like a alt-right dark web Christmas list.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Tomorrow's headline?

Is this the real life?

[Great Rumbler]

We're definitely on the darkest timeline.

[Tasty]

We're definitely on the darkest timeline.

Trump isn't going to be elected, so no, we're not.

[Tasty]

Hits just keep coming.

NYT: Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately

In an “Entertainment Tonight” Christmas feature in 1992, Trump looked at a group of young girls and said he would be dating one of them in ten years. At the time, Trump would have been 46 years old.

Trump backers tweet #repealthe19th after polls show he'd win if only men voted

"[HRC non-indictment] is the most heinous, the most serious thing that I’ve ever seen involving justice in the United States in the history of the United States." Apparently nonexistent: slavery and Japanese internment camps and the Trail of Tears...

Fact is, #DonaldTrump has given us a more detailed plan to sexually assault women than he has to fight Isis.

And:

Patton Oswalt: "You know what? That Access Hollywood tape will die down. Tell the media I'm gonna re-endorse Trump!" (Checks the news) "Oooh...shit."

[agrajag]

We're definitely on the darkest timeline.

Trump isn't going to be elected, so no, we're not.

The alternate reality where Trump is the president is also known as The Warp.

[Madrun Badrun]

Fact is, #DonaldTrump has given us a more detailed plan to sexually assault women than he has to fight Isis.

[benjipwns]

RUSH LIMBAUGH: You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police.