Who Will Be The 2016 Republican Nominee? (It's Donald Trump) - Page 1637 - Politics and Economics

The key is that the right wing didn't brand their trigger warnings as that, they branded them as like, parent's rights.

So, for example, when you pull your kids out of school to stop them from learning about evolution or global warming or the homosexual agenda, that's not "safe space" stuff, that's just being conservative.

When Texas rewrites textbooks to glorify conservative politicians, downplay the horrors of slavery, and so forth, that's not a trigger warning over reality's well known liberal bias, that's just being conservative.

Really the fault here is that idiot liberal campus activists picked such poor easily-mocked branding

word.

04-05-2016 , 11:46 AM

#40902

seattlelou

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Originally Posted by Shaomai888

What do you like about Kasich specifically Lou?

He has a basic understanding of the world which puts him ahead of Trump. He is not nearly as conservative as Cruz. If liberal experts in government were forced to chose a President between the 3 he would win in a landslide.

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04-05-2016 , 11:48 AM

#40903

reztes757

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Originally Posted by Shaomai888

How big of a pussy do you have to be to fear for your safety? How many Trump supporters have been physically attacked?

Not nearly as big as those that fear for their feelings

04-05-2016 , 11:50 AM

#40904

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Someone needs to make one of those "walking around New York for 12 hours" videos of themselves while wearing a "make America great again" hat

Btw nobody has posted yet about trumps plan to use slave labor to pay for the wall yet? Feels like this should be big news

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...dde_story.html

04-05-2016 , 11:51 AM

#40905

reztes757

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

95% of liberal look at this and think, "idiots." You look at it and think "liburls!"

Have Hillary and Bernie been calling for more safe spaces in their campaigns? They've mainly been campaigning on economic fairness, (keeping) universal healthcare, personal liberties (abortion, voting rights), confirming a supreme court nominee, steady foreign policy, and resisting the republican impulse toward forming a anti-tax theocracy. I don't recall either discussing the need for trigger warnings.

I don't think anyone would claim they campaign for safe spaces. It's just all of their supporters that require them. Kind of how dids creates a safe space for himself on the forum by blocking everyone he disagrees with

04-05-2016 , 11:53 AM

#40906

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Originally Posted by adanthar

California poll:

Trump 40
Cruz 32
Kasich 17

Kasich very narrowly wins the Bay, Cruz wins Inland, Trump sweeps Central and "Greater" which I assume is the LA area. Based on this I think Trump has about 120 delegates in the state right now.

If Cruz wins WI 33/9, Trump wins NY in the mid-80's and then takes the rest of the Northeast by 538's projected margins + 120 out of Cali, I have him finishing at 1241 delegates.

Man, that's close, and you gotta figure the Cruz rat ****ing is worth like a bonus +50 for him and -50 for Trump. How many will Trump get out of South Carolina, all, or maybe none?

04-05-2016 , 11:54 AM

#40907

Shaomai888

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Originally Posted by seattlelou

He has a basic understanding of the world which puts him ahead

I think I cucked you in this little exchange. Go to your safe space.

04-05-2016 , 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

Man, that's close, and you gotta figure the Cruz rat ****ing is worth like a bonus +50 for him and -50 for Trump. How many will Trump get out of South Carolina, all, or maybe none?

I think there could be three very different answers to that question depending on whether Trump winds up with 1150, 1200 or 1237. The further away he is from the nom the more leeway they'll think they have. If he gets a public 1237 though (meaning something like 1230+7 unpledged who publicly say they'll vote for him) I still strongly believe the game is over.

04-05-2016 , 12:02 PM

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I honestly think Trump could have prevented the inevitable rat ****ing by hiring party activists/lawyers in each state like a month ago, say $200k budget per state, to make sure he had a viable delegate strategy in each state. Unfortunately for Trump, he's cheap and not really a "details" guy, more of a visionary, if you will. So he will lose, as he should.

04-05-2016 , 12:04 PM

#40910

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There is no way Trump is worth what he claims to be worth and still be so cheap at 70 years old.

04-05-2016 , 12:05 PM

#40911

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I think I cucked you in this little exchange. Go to your safe space.

Hey whatever gets you hard.

04-05-2016 , 12:10 PM

#40912

SenorKeeed

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

You think he should lose if he gets enough votes to win 1250 delegates but gets rat****ed out of say 200 of them because he didn't hire enough lawyers? Seems...problematic.

04-05-2016 , 12:22 PM

#40913

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Originally Posted by seattlelou

He stands there on stage and doesnt say much, and sometimes he says the others should stop the low level arguing and that he balanced a budget. So he might come off as a moderate, and of course he might be more moderate than the others on some issues.

But on abortions he is very far from moderate:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-rights-record

And hes a pretty heavy warmonger, wants to invade Iraq, Syria and Libya.

I havent studied the guy too much but i can only assume most of his views are crazy like all other republicans.

04-05-2016 , 12:31 PM

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The last Erza Klein Vox podcast is solid. http://www.vox.com/2016/4/1/11344430...edical-records He explains how the GOP has just given up on proposing realistic budgets. Like they are no longer trying to participate in any serious budgetary world and are just one-upping each other with higher bids for tax cuts. It's like they've learned that reality is independent of the election game they are playing. It's just a shame that the game will kill their party. Well, shame is perhaps too strong a word. It's unfortunate, for them.

04-05-2016 , 12:37 PM

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What's your view now with regard to minimum number Trump needs to go in with to be assured of the nom?

04-05-2016 , 01:16 PM

#40916

aflametotheground

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It will be really interresting to see how much chaos erupts if TRUMP is robbed in Cleveland. I think i would never want to be inside that building voting.

04-05-2016 , 01:32 PM

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So Paul Ryan will get the nomination despite getting 0 popular votes? That'll be interesting to see. I'm sure Trump would quietly bow out and his supporters wouldn't make a fuss or anything.

04-05-2016 , 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by rugby

Get the digs in now buddy. It won't be long before your only retort will be complaining about us on reddit.

Trump at 40% on predictit and cruz gaining at 36

04-05-2016 , 09:35 PM

#40919

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Trump at 40% on predictit and cruz gaining at 36

Hope he keeps going, I want to get my TRUMP shares cheap tonight/tomorrow

04-05-2016 , 09:39 PM

#40920

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Rachel Maddow bought losewithcruz2016.com

04-05-2016 , 09:54 PM

#40921

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Hope he keeps going, I want to get my TRUMP shares cheap tonight/tomorrow

He may get a bounce because people are dumb and will think the northeast votes are much more important than they are, but you're going to need to get a good price for it to be a good bet.