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mygif

I don’t see the GOP coming to their senses and kicking him out. Those who have openly spoken out against him and refuse to endorse him are still few and far between.

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mygif

Problem is ‘crazy man says crazy thing’ isn’t a story.

‘Potential next president says crazy thing’ is. So no matter how hard trump tries, the degree to which he can self-sabotage his campaign is limited by the margin of uncertainty of the polls.

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mygif

Is he seriously that crazy/childish?

He did manage to make a lot of money, so he must have something going for him I’d think….

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mygif

He’s not actually crazy. Narcissistic as hell, but not actually crazy.

His main personal advantages are charisma, a complete lack of ethics, and a lot of skill at salesmanship. (Mostly used to sell himself.)

When you add that to his father’s money and connections, that gave him a pretty good leg up in the NYC real-estate business. He had some initial success there, overleveraged himself and his companies like mad to try to expand, and face-planted hard, only surviving because he owed so much money that the banks had as big a problem as he did.

Since then, he’s mostly operated by licensing his name to other people, and by building himself up as a celebrity. General consensus is that he’s nothing like as rich as he claims.

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mygif

@JCG: He inherited a lot of money. Current consensus among financial experts is that he could literally have made more by just handing it off to a money manager and spending his time watching TV.

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mygif

@William Kendall: But a lot of Republicans haven’t finished their primaries yet. They don’t want to challenge Trump if it means facing a challenge from their own right.

We might see a lot more Trump denunciations in September, when the Republicans are trying to win general elections and if Trump is starting to drag them down.

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mygif

Ah,but if the media creates President Trump, they get eight years of good ratings (assuming civilization survives that long.,)

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mygif

The media doesn’t want President Trump. Fox News is still stanning for him, because Fox News would busily explain how Voldemort’s tax plans would stimulate the economy, but most pundits are frankly shitting themselves over this guy.

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mygif

It is crazy how pro-Trump most of the people at Fox News are. Even the ones who pretend to be objective call him Mister Trump and constantly find excuses to talk about how awful Hillary is. It’s like, “I know Trump is terrible but have I mentioned yet that Hillary is the antichrist? Compared to Hillary, Trump is just the false prophet from the Book of Revelation. Doesn’t that sound somewhat better?”

I seriously think that either Cruz or Rubio would have beaten Trump in the primaries if the cable news people hadn’t treated everything Trump ever said like major news and if Kasich would have had the good grace to drop out before he won some races. Instead, Fox was like, “Trump is just the worst. Isn’t that awesome? Go, closeted racist tea party types who like this guy for some reason! Keep watching Hannity!”

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mygif

So it seems that it is Breitbart rather than 4Chan that’s running Trump’s campaign. Close but not quite, eh John?

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mygif

Breitbart, 4chan, same difference.

Hell, Breitbart’s most famous writer admits he just cleans up 8chan threads and posts ’em because that gets him the same pay for WAY less work than actual writing would.

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mygif

So uh, is this still your opinion? Or any recent events change your mind?

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