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  5. 5.

    SuperHrefna

    Good god. My rational brain knows he will be easy to beat – and I’m talking Mondale level ignominy – but the rest of me is terrified because the stakes are so high

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Repeating for truth:

    Cannot hear anything over the sound of Lincoln whirling in his grave like an anemometer in a Category 5 hurricane.

  10. 10.

    singfoom

    And now we have 6 months for Drumpf to say awful things in the media about HRC. Keep on talking about her being an unqualified woman, Drumpf! Please, for the love of everything that is holy, keep talking about that.

    He’s got an entire 6 more months to drive up his negatives. Though I wonder if he’ll be in the media spotlight as much when there aren’t any other primary opponents left.

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    @singfoom: I think the real joy is going to be seeing him trying to “act presidential” — i.e. a fish deprived of water.

  15. 15.

    benw

    One of the signs of the imminent apocalypse?

    The sounding of Trump-ets.

    Case closed.

  18. 18.

    singfoom

    @raven:

    Don’t forget the veterans, “the veterans, I’m going to take care of them!”

    Did he really phrase it exactly like that? It sounds like he’s going to take them out back and put them down for their own good.

    @different-church-lady:

    I think the real joy is going to be seeing him trying to “act presidential” — i.e. a fish out of water.

    Yeah, well we saw his “serious” Foreign Policy speech. He only knows how to be himself, which is a pretty common human failing. I doubt he has the self awareness or mindfulness to really watch himself and act “more presidential”. Time will tell.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    @singfoom: According to divorce papers, Trump raped his first wife and just recently, Cruz ran on the fact that Trump didn’t fight in Viet Nam because he had VD.. It didn’t seem to hurt him..
    just sayin

  24. 24.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Clinton Supporter

    @raven:

    Don’t forget the veterans, “the veterans, I’m going to take care of them!”

    All of Trump’s solutions are so vague they could be – no, they probably are – extermination camps.

  25. 25.

    gratuitous

    That’s weird; with the primaries just around the corner in Oregon, I saw a Kasich campaign commercial on the morning news program today. I suppose the ad time was purchased a while ago. I missed most of the ad, but it boiled down to a pitch to Republican primary voters not to waste their vote on Trump or Cruz (and yes, the ad did say “waste”), because Kasich was the only Republican who could win against Clinton in November. Risible, to be sure, but for voters who like that sort of thing, it was the sort of ad they’d like.

  28. 28.

    amk

    @JPL:

    It may not have hurt him with the rethugs base (with which he couldn’t even score more than 40% until recently). GE is a different ball game.

  29. 29.

    catclub

    @benw: Well after all the ‘Obama is the Anti-Christ’ stuff, it sure would be ironic if Trump really is.

  32. 32.

    singfoom

    @JPL:

    According to divorce papers, Trump raped his first wife and just recently, Cruz ran on the fact that Trump didn’t fight in Viet Nam because he had VD.. It didn’t seem to hurt him..
    just sayin

    Well, that’s the difference to me. You can’t throw things at him because nothing sticks. It’s his own mouth that does the most damage. And he’s got 6 months to double down on all the groups he’s insulted.

    A list of groups he’s insulted/ridiculed:

    african americans
    latinos
    the disabled
    women
    journalists

    And I’m sure that’s just a partial list. Give him time, he’ll insult more groups. If I was a campaign reporter, I’d keep trying to ask him his opinion on X groups issue in order to add to the list.

  33. 33.

    catclub

    @amk: At the end, Romney was getting 75-80% after he had clinched. I wonder what Trump will get.
    If he still only gets 55-60% I would take that as real conservative dead-enders.

  34. 34.

    MikeBoyScout

    The so called deepest bench in a generation

    Fk it. Let’s get out there and beat the living snot out of them up and down the ballot.

    Time to ramp up the GOTV.

  36. 36.

    Mike J

    @singfoom:

    journalists

    Most of them just like being noticed. They won’t really care what the big strong daddy says about them, as long as he says something.

  37. 37.

    MattF

    @singfoom: You left out Muslims. And then there’s the whole ‘Donald the birther’ routine. It’s unending, really.

  39. 39.

    singfoom

    @catclub:

    You missed Muslims, and Iowans.

    Ok, so

    african americans
    latinos
    the disabled
    women
    journalists
    muslims
    iowans

    It’s not like it’s a list that’s going to remain static. The best part is that he will NEVER EVER EVER deal with his misogyny, it is CORE to his entire persona. And ladies make up over 50% of the electorate.

    Though there are women who seem to like him given the footage I’ve seen….

  40. 40.

    JPL

    Cruz has to wonder whether god is cruel, since his god told him to run. What the Lord giveth, the Lord can take away.

  42. 42.

    amk

    One thing is for sure. The carnival barker sure showed the whole world that the entire ‘gop establishment’ is just a buncha corrupt, clueless, cowardly clowns.

  44. 44.

    pat

    I was struck by the looks on the faces of his family standing behind him. Especially Melania. She did not clap…. They all looked like they could not believe that this…person… could conceivably become President of the United States.

  45. 45.

    burnspbesq

    Looks like UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!!! was to no avail.

    The shareholders should sue.

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    @singfoom:

    Though I wonder if he’ll be in the media spotlight as much when there aren’t any other primary opponents left.

    Uh, yes, he will. Even if he has to buy his own spotlight.

  48. 48.

    NR

    @different-church-lady: There’s a real danger here, though. I remember the 2000 election. Leading up to the debates, expectations were running so low for Bush that as long as he got through the first debate without drooling or soiling himself, it would have been considered a win. I think we’re in a similar situation now with Trump. Expectations for him for the general election are so absurdly low that it’ll be almost impossible for him not to exceed them. And when he does, the media will fall all over themselves to call him “presidential.”

  49. 49.

    MattF

    @catclub: Good article:

    The paranoid mendacity of Joe McCarthy, the racial pandering of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and George Bush, the jingoism and anti-intellectualism of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Sarah Palin — all these forces have embodied the essence of American conservative politics as it is actually practiced (rather than as conservative intellectuals like to imagine it). Trump has finally turned that which was always there against itself.

  53. 53.

    Robin G.

    @NR: It’s memories of 2000 that keep me up at night. Yes, yes we should win this, but… *shudder*

  54. 54.

    Peale

    @NR: The expectations going into the first debate is that the Donald will call Hillary a Lying cword. And when he doesn’t, and only wonders aloud why she couldn’t keep her husband from wandering, the press will fawn all over itself about how he showed restraint.

  56. 56.

    D58826

    To help with the Trump hangover –

    Something that’s probably never happened in the history of aviation happened recently on a JetBlue flight from New York to California: Passengers actively rooted for babies to start crying. The one-of-a-kind flight was documented for a JetBlue Mother’s Day ad released this week, Adweek reports. After passengers were seated, a flight attendant announced, “This will be the very first flight where crying babies is a good thing.” To make that happen, JetBlue offered a 25% discount to passengers every time a baby started crying; so four fussy babies equaled a free flight. It worked. Fortune notes passengers were “cheering and clapping” for crying babies by the time the plane touched down. “It made the entire idea of being mad about a sweet, innocent baby crying seem altogether

  57. 57.

    singfoom

    @D58826: That’s sweet. I’ve got 18 month old twins I’ll be flying with this summer at some point. I doubt we’ll get any kind looks like this since that’s a one off marketing stunt.

  59. 59.

    NR

    @Peale: That’s exactly my point. With Trump, people are going to be expecting a raving misogynist buffoon. What if they tune in to the RNC or the debates and that’s not what they see?

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    I love the sound of Bernielog* concern troll chorus, on Balloon Juice. One true St. Bernard is going to deliver us from all evil. Amen.

    Log = people.
    Bernie’s people

  61. 61.

    SRW1

    @JPL:

    God told Heidi. Apparently she misheard. Next time God will be talking to Ted directly.

  62. 62.

    cmorenc

    How the MSM covers the Clinton v Trump campaigns will depend on which wins out: their natural inclination toward covering it as a closely competitive horse-race between two plausible candidates, or else toward focusing on Trump as an irresistible car-crash freak show. The answer will likely vacillate back and forth, depending on which approach seems to those in charge of news production decisions to be more likely to draw eyeballs and clicks at a given moment. Of course, their preferred choice would be to have their cake and eat it too – cover it as a closely competitive contest between a carnival-barker freak (Trump) and a political establishment geek (Clinton). And because they think it will draw eyeballs/clicks as well as follow their timid “both sides do it” approach, they will from time to time divert into the alleged dirt in Clinton’s past, in the interest of fairly covering both sides, of course. My bet is that Trump will be unable to help himself from going into freak-show mode often enough that the MSM coverage will somewhat tilt in that direction, because it will be impossible for them to ignore and remain credible (or to forego the views and clicks they could get focusing on it when it happens).

  63. 63.

    catclub

    @Robin G.: What happens when the election goes to the USSC and they split 4-4?

    ETA: Actually, I know the answer. It goes to the House Of representatives and they elect Paul Ryan. Ouch.

  64. 64.

    Lurking Canadian

    @burnspbesq: I wonder if that guy will show up shilling for Trump now. So far, he’s supported JEB, then Rubio, then, I think, Cruz in this cycle, each time guaran-damn-teeing victory “this time for sure!” just like Bullwinkle.

    I wonder if there are depths to which not even he will sink, or if the BRINKS trucks will soon be backing up for Team Trump.

  66. 66.

    Lurking Canadian

    @JPL: I heard Hillary once tore that label off her mattress, though, so…you, know…both sides.

  67. 67.

    Calouste

    @Lurking Canadian: Yesterday our Brinks Trucks Troll was shilling for a third party conservative and sending the Brinks Trucks to Jill Stein with the purpose to TakeItToTheHouse. But that was yesterday.

  68. 68.

    ET

    I sort of felt bad but not quite when I a saw a brief bit of the video of Cruz dropping out. He really looked floored. Like he couldn’t understand why people didn’t love him as much as he loved himself. I really do think he had convinced himself that he was going to be the next president and was utterly floored that he got beat by Trump.

  69. 69.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Lurking Canadian: His fever dream is now that somehow some other candidate denies either Hilary or Il Donaldo 270, so it goes to the House and they elect Ryan. He was all over several threads last night with that.

  71. 71.

    Calouste

    @catclub: Not really. The House would have to vote for one of the top three candidates to get the most votes from the electoral college, with one vote per state. Paul Ryan won’t run, so he can’t be elected President.

  73. 73.

    MattF

    @ET: It’s a problem– what do you do when God tells you ‘X’ will happen, but what actually happens is ‘not-X’.

  74. 74.

    zmulls

    I am not at all sanguine that Trump is automatically going to lose. The media is going to do its “we have to play fair” thing and give him think pieces and magazine covers and treat him like a “serious candidate.” The white male vote is going to go overwhelmingly for Trump (both pro-blowhard and anti-Hilary). And politics is the art of the possible — truly anything could happen.

    I keep telling myself that so many constituencies will vote against Trump, but I would have bet good money a year ago that this was just a stunt. I am going to be biting my nails until November.

  76. 76.

    philpm

    @SRW1: I think God told Heidi to have Ted out himself as the sleazebag he is, and she mentioned to Ted he should run for President.

  77. 77.

    feebog

    We should take nothing for granted at this point. Trump will be a horrible candidate, and we have a once in a lifetime opportunity here. We need to call out the MSM every time they engage in the “both sides do it” BS, and we need to push back hard against every dullard who admits they are a Trump supporter. This next month is going to be weird, Trump will be gearing up for the convention while Hillary will still be dealing with Bernie and his supporters. It will all sort itself out by mid-July, but May is going to be a strange month.

  78. 78.

    Chris

    @singfoom:

    You missed Muslims, and Iowans.
    Ok, so
    …
    african americans
    latinos
    the disabled
    women
    journalists
    muslims
    iowans

    All right… but other than African Americans, Latinos, the disabled, women, journalists, Muslims and Iowans, who has Donald Trump ever offended?

  79. 79.

    Chris

    @NR:

    There’s a real danger here, though. I remember the 2000 election. Leading up to the debates, expectations were running so low for Bush that as long as he got through the first debate without drooling or soiling himself, it would have been considered a win. I think we’re in a similar situation now with Trump. Expectations for him for the general election are so absurdly low that it’ll be almost impossible for him not to exceed them. And when he does, the media will fall all over themselves to call him “presidential.”

    Possibly, but I think nonwhite turnout in general and Latino turnout in particular will be high – they know better than to underestimate the threat.

    Republicans will try to negate this via vote suppression, so it’s not like we don’t still have our work cut out for us.

  80. 80.

    Calouste

    @Major Major Major Major: The House can only vote for the three candidates who got the most electoral college votes. So unless it is 269-269, one faithless elector won’t be enough. Ryan is going to need more electors than the third party candidate.

    Twelfth amendment, third paragraph:

    The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

    And btw, the constitution doesn’t explain what happens if there is a tie for third place (or higher). Which of the tied candidates will not be eligible for the House vote?

  82. 82.

    burnspbesq

    RedState is now calling for the swift confirmation of Judge Garland.

    What the almighty fcuk?

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    @zmulls:

    The media is going to do its “we have to play fair” thing and give him think pieces and magazine covers and treat him like a “serious candidate.”

    The media could show him in a clown suit and denounce him in editorials every day from now until election day, and it would make no difference to his base.

    And he is a “serious” candidate simply by virtue of the fact that he is seriously trying to win votes. It will up to the voters to defeat him.

  85. 85.

    Jeffro

    @burnspbesq: What the _________, is, they realize that HRC’s likely to win and the Senate is likely to change hands. I believe I saw some panic that HRC could nominate Elizabeth Warren? That’s just an example, but we all know between a Garland and a Warren, sensible right-wingers (bear with me) are gonna want a Garland in there.

    What Obama oughta do, just for fun, is make a statement: “If HRC wins, I’m immediately withdrawing Judge Garland’s nomination from consideration”. He won’t of course – I think he’s even said as much – but then they’d really be sweating it out.

  88. 88.

    rikyrah

    @pat:

    I was struck by the looks on the faces of his family standing behind him. Especially Melania. She did not clap…. They all looked like they could not believe that this…person… could conceivably become President of the United States.

    So true.
    so true.

  89. 89.

    rikyrah

    @ET:

    I sort of felt bad but not quite when I a saw a brief bit of the video of Cruz dropping out.

    Not me. Had a huge grin on my face.

    He really looked floored.

    This is true.

    Like he couldn’t understand why people didn’t love him as much as he loved himself. I really do think he had convinced himself that he was going to be the next president and was utterly floored that he got beat by Trump.

    He is a sociopath with a crazy azz Daddy that told him Jesus wanted him to be President.

    He really has been convinced his entire life that he’s the smartest guy in the room.

    And, even only after winning one phucking election in his entire life, he thought that he could give the finger to everybody in the GOP Establishment, because he’s got it like that.

    Then, he was convinced that he was too smart for Trump and would steal the nomination from him at the convention.

    Words cannot express the pleasure of watching Trump dispatch him the way that he did.

    And, that Trump meltdown he had earlier in the day?

    HILARIOUS.

  90. 90.

    Splitting Image

    @Chris:

    All right… but other than African Americans, Latinos, the disabled, women, journalists, Muslims and Iowans, who has Donald Trump ever offended?


    Jews.

    He really can’t help himself.

  91. 91.

    Geeno

    I wonder if there’s an agreement that at a certain point, Garland is supposed to go “Well, at this late date, I have to agree with the republicans and let the next president decide” then withdraw his name from consideration.

  93. 93.

    J R in WV

    @Chris:

    How about educated people? He seems to need people who aren’t educated to support him, doesn’t he? Like Pol Pot!

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