GOP Primary Megathread II—Electoral Boogaloo

[Liriena]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-punches-protester-in-face-at-north-carolina-rally_us_56e1761ce4b0b25c9180dd44

More violence at Trump rallies.

Seriously, either Trump should get his stuff together and actually try to bring an end to this, or he should be treated every bit as the leader of an extremist movement he is becoming.

I'm waiting for someone to shoot a protester at one of these things. It's only a matter if time.

Yeah, that's what worries me the most. Punching and shoving is bad enough already, but if someone gets seriously injured, or killed...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-punches-protester-in-face-at-north-carolina-rally_us_56e1761ce4b0b25c9180dd44

More violence at Trump rallies.

Seriously, either Trump should get his stuff together and actually try to bring an end to this, or he should be treated every bit as the leader of an extremist movement he is becoming.

"The real estate mogul himself said last month he'd like to punch one of the protesters being led out of a rally in Las Vegas."

Trump has his stuff together on this. Why would he want to stop the violence he loves? That he encourages? That gets him the attention he craves?

Can we just grab Trump and put him in a corner until the Republican Convention, like the five-year-old spoiled brat and schoolyard bully he clearly is?

[Novus America]

I'm waiting for someone to shoot a protester at one of these things. It's only a matter if time.

Yeah, that's what worries me the most. Punching and shoving is bad enough already, but if someone gets seriously injured, or killed...

"The real estate mogul himself said last month he'd like to punch one of the protesters being led out of a rally in Las Vegas."

Trump has his stuff together on this. Why would he want to stop the violence he loves? That he encourages? That gets him the attention he craves?

Can we just grab Trump and put him in a corner until the Republican Convention, like the five-year-old spoiled brat and schoolyard bully he clearly is?

If someone gets killed his supporters will literally cheer.

I wish we could put him in a corner with a dunce cap. The media is the problem. They need to stop making his every rant a must cover television event. Make everything edgy he says breaking news. Seriously Trump saying something edgy is as much news as bear shits in woods.

Stop fucking covering his caimpaign! Report the results of the elections but his rants and stupid comments are not newsworthy.

[Liriena]

Yeah, that's what worries me the most. Punching and shoving is bad enough already, but if someone gets seriously injured, or killed...


Can we just grab Trump and put him in a corner until the Republican Convention, like the five-year-old spoiled brat and schoolyard bully he clearly is?

If someone gets killed his supporters will literally cheer.

I don't doubt they will. They've cheered everything so far.

At this point, I wonder if there's anything, anything at all, that would make his supporters turn on him. Are we looking at yet another Berlusconi, who can say and do anything and still get away with it?

I wish we could put him in a corner with a dunce cap. The media is the problem. They need to stop making his every rant a must cover television event. Make everything edgy he says breaking news. Seriously Trump saying something edgy is as much news as bear shits in woods.

Stop fucking covering his caimpaign! Report the results of the elections but his rants and stupid comments are not newsworthy.

BUT MUH RATINGS!!!!! D:

[Gothmogs]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-punches-protester-in-face-at-north-carolina-rally_us_56e1761ce4b0b25c9180dd44

More violence at Trump rallies.

Seriously, either Trump should get his stuff together and actually try to bring an end to this, or he should be treated every bit as the leader of an extremist movement he is becoming.

I just talked to a bunch of people who were there yesterday, and they tell me the N-word was used rather consistently by the crowd.

*Sigh*

This is the city I live in.

[Liriena]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-punches-protester-in-face-at-north-carolina-rally_us_56e1761ce4b0b25c9180dd44

More violence at Trump rallies.

Seriously, either Trump should get his stuff together and actually try to bring an end to this, or he should be treated every bit as the leader of an extremist movement he is becoming.

I just talked to a bunch of people who were there yesterday, and they tell me the N-word was used rather consistently by the crowd.

*Sigh*

This is the city I live in.

[Gothmogs]

I just talked to a bunch of people who were there yesterday, and they tell me the N-word was used rather consistently by the crowd.

*Sigh*

This is the city I live in.

I appreciate the hug.

[Trumpostan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-punches-protester-in-face-at-north-carolina-rally_us_56e1761ce4b0b25c9180dd44

More violence at Trump rallies.

Seriously, either Trump should get his stuff together and actually try to bring an end to this, or he should be treated every bit as the leader of an extremist movement he is becoming.

I just talked to a bunch of people who were there yesterday, and they tell me the N-word was used rather consistently by the crowd.

*Sigh*

This is the city I live in.

Facts on the ground. That is what matters. While the Donald himself may or may not be a racist, for a significant minority/plurality of his support base racism is clearly an important motivator. Anything to undo what the "black guy" has done.

[Khadgar]

I just talked to a bunch of people who were there yesterday, and they tell me the N-word was used rather consistently by the crowd.

*Sigh*

This is the city I live in.

Facts on the ground. That is what matters. While the Donald himself may or may not be a racist, for a significant minority/plurality of his support base racism is clearly an important motivator. Anything to undo what the "black guy" has done.

I think the failure of the pundit class to predict Trump's staying power came from underestimating how many people harbor authoritarian quasi-fascist desires.

[Gothmogs]

Facts on the ground. That is what matters. While the Donald himself may or may not be a racist, for a significant minority/plurality of his support base racism is clearly an important motivator. Anything to undo what the "black guy" has done.

I think the failure of the pundit class to predict Trump's staying power came from underestimating how many people harbor authoritarian quasi-fascist desires.

Not to mention how easy it is to get drawn into that sense of community provided by these people. The power of a crowd can sway most men.

[The Qeiiam Star Cluster]

I think the failure of the pundit class to predict Trump's staying power came from underestimating how many people harbor authoritarian quasi-fascist desires.

Not to mention how easy it is to get drawn into that sense of community provided by these people. The power of a crowd can sway most men.

Third Wave experiment.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Facts on the ground. That is what matters. While the Donald himself may or may not be a racist, for a significant minority/plurality of his support base racism is clearly an important motivator. Anything to undo what the "black guy" has done.

I think the failure of the pundit class to predict Trump's staying power came from underestimating how many people harbor authoritarian quasi-fascist desires.

crypto-fascism is the vogue of America in these elections.

[Philjia]

I think the failure of the pundit class to predict Trump's staying power came from underestimating how many people harbor authoritarian quasi-fascist desires.

crypto-fascism is the vogue of America in these elections.

People are sadists who want to see other people oppressed.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

crypto-fascism is the vogue of America in these elections.

People are sadists who want to see other people oppressed.

We do have a tendency to glee at suffering, true.

[Cymrea]

People are sadists who want to see other people oppressed.

We do have a tendency to glee at suffering, true.

Other people's suffering. Our own suffering is absolutely intolerable, unjust, and typical of the ruling regime.

[Khadgar]

Trump's modeling agency (a real thing apparently) is under fire. Using the same visas that he's so against now to bring in women, then not paying them.

[Diopolis]

Nothing sane like calling Washington, "Israeli Occupied Territory".

Knowing Dio he probably agrees with that.

It is a bit of a hyperbole, but like all exaggerations it has a grain of truth at the center of it.

[Cymrea]

Trump's modeling agency (a real thing apparently) is under fire. Using the same visas that he's so against now to bring in women, then not paying them.

It's terrible that this sort of law-breaking and hypocrisy is so prevalent in politics that it's not even a little bit surprising.

[Novus America]

Trump's modeling agency (a real thing apparently) is under fire. Using the same visas that he's so against now to bring in women, then not paying them.

Does not matter. At least in the primary. His supporters are clearly okay with his hypocrisy.

[Cymrea]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

[Zurkerx]

Trump's modeling agency (a real thing apparently) is under fire. Using the same visas that he's so against now to bring in women, then not paying them.

Does not matter. At least in the primary. His supporters are clearly okay with his hypocrisy.

That's the thing with Trump supporters: no matter what he does, they'll back him and that is actually a scary thing. Of course, they are a sizeable minority but we have to worry about the ones he could temporarily pull to him.

[The Qeiiam Star Cluster]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

I don't know if America is ready for its first Orange President so soon after its first Black President.

[Novus America]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

True, but Trump's hostile takeover over the Republican Party has been the remarkable thing about this election.

[Khadgar]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

He is by far the most entertaining clown to stumble out of a car last fall. Getting a bit horrifying, but still it's riveting.

[Novus America]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

He is by far the most entertaining clown to stumble out of a car last fall. Getting a bit horrifying, but still it's riveting.

Yeah. Like Pennywise the Clown from IT.

Wait, that is Trump. I mean Trump is pretty much the same thing.

[Zurkerx]

Given how Trump-centric this thread has become, perhaps it should be renamed "Orange Is the New White".

True, but Trump's hostile takeover over the Republican Party has been the remarkable thing about this election.

And the Libertarians will be waiting in the shadows to scope up those disenfranchise moderates.