As a Trump staffer didn’t she have to sign that non-disparagement agreement?
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Hmmm. . . if he’s all lizard brain, then maybe he’s a Reptilian!
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While I think there’s an 60% chance of an Etch-A-Sketch if he wins the nomination, this is Trump we’re talking about, he might just carry on with the same crazy for kicks. Also the author of the article mentioned that Trump internal discussions of the campaign at the outset was that he was running as a vanity candidacy and wanted second, not to win, so maybe he’d sabotage his campaign to not be stuck with a job that he likely doesn’t really want to have where it’d be more fun to go back to reality TV and inflate his ego bragging about how much better he’d be than the loser in office.
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Peaceful cooperation with neighboring countries and a regulated weapon market are distinct leftist positions? The political system in the US is farther away than I thought.
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We should really just return the Louisiana Purchase to France and surrender to Canada at this point, we’d all be better off. Except France.
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One is plain old nuts, our friend is head over heels in love with the nut.
Although, our friend has voted republican 95% of the time, so she votes against her interests anyway.
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Ah, that would explain it. Gotcha 
I can genuinely see how Trump would appeal to a conspiracy nut.
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Precisely. It’s a way of making people feel that they’re in the right, and on the right side of history.
See also: False Consensus Bias.
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It is possible he will throw it, or even bow out like Perot did.
Or he could be like someone who is a cold reader or mentalist who starts to believe they might actually have psychic powers and start to think he really is doing good work and knows what he is doing.
Well yes and no. It isn’t clear cut as there are people on both sides of the political spectrum that are for and against immigration, and there are some that are are for an against gun control. There are many more in the middle who have either opinion, or no strong opinion.
But there are caricatures of both parties as to who supports who and the koolaid drinking and party line spouters.
Trump has made many anti-immigrant statements so saying the opposite would be a 180. He hasn’t talked about gun control a lot lately, but he isn’t anti-gun control now, and promising to do something is an appeal to many on the left. (But not all.)
That is the problem with this 2 party system - no one is black and white on all of the issues.
It’s a bit humorous about the bit above about Lesbian Trump supporters. I know gay people and even a transgender person who are conservative or libertarian and very pro-2nd Amendment. Of course they are a minority as most view Republicans as homophobes. But they generally see the Conservative ideals in how the government being run as being more important to vote for than someone championing for social causes. They figure that as times change, their acceptance will be eventual, and they are actually helping speed that along with some people by showing that “Look, I am Transgender, but I am just like you. I like to drive big trucks, drink beer, and blow stuff up.”
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I question her assertion that the initial goal was to get Trump into double digits then pull out because he was never serious about becoming president and just wanted to say he could have won.
Although Trump didn’t decide to start a campaign in 2011, polls at the time had him as the front runner for the 2012 Republican nomination. So he could already claim legitimacy, in a way. He’s publicly poked his nose into politics for the past three decades. I’m not sure he would run if he didn’t think he could win. On the other hand, he’s probably well aware that he’ll be smoked by the Democratic nominee, he won’t have to assume the responsibility of president, so has nothing to lose but other people’s money by staying in the game.
In other news though:
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TLDR: a Trump supporter wakes up.
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Are you sure it wasn’t just a not very good portrait of the candidate? It’s often hard to tell with thse things.
One of the symptoms of real psychopathology - not the cod-science kind - is that real psychopaths overestimate their own intelligence and underestimate that of other people. That’s why they are not capable of doing as you suggest. They believe that they can do dishonest things and not get found out.
The far right (let’s not call them conservative) media would not have got as far as they did with this had there not been politicians ready to prostitute themselves to them by claiming to hold beliefs that nobody with their expensive educations could possibly hold had they been listening in class.
The depressing thing is how little actual money it has taken for the Australian Rupert Murdoch to gain such vast influence in the US. But he would not have been successful if there were not Americans ready to be treasonous for their own ends.
In the reign of Elisabeth 1st in England, there really were a lot of spies and assassinations. But one reason was that the King of Spain really had persuaded members of the British aristocracy to take his money and to attempt a takeover. You could say that the right wing media and their useful tools have managed to paralyse parts of the Federal government and impoverish the middle classes, but in a democratic system you can’t execute them for treason. The amazing thing is that did it in plain view.
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I think that if Jeb or Marco were still in the race, that’d be a possibility. But at this point he’d be essentially conceding to “Lyin’ Ted”, who he sees himself in a blood feud with. Trump doesn’t want that and neither does the GOP.
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There is a Chinese Curse that says, “May you live in interesting times.”
We appear to be doing that now…
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You not planing to be alive for the next one? I am betting it will be worse.
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Eh? Not intentionally…did I insult you?? My apologies–certainly didn’t intend that to be the message.
I was thinking along the lines of Ms. Cegielski clearly lacking the necessary amount of scruples (as a freakin self-described “policy wonk”, no less) to make one of the most obvious leaps in American politics, namely, that Donald Drumpf is not “Presidential material” or even anywhere near it.
However, if you still feel that your honor has been pricked, then we shall meet on the Yooge battlefield to settle the matter. Your choice of weapon: pancakes without syrup; golf balls and trashcan lids; or, witty reparte’.
I recommend you go for the first or last choice, 'cause Trent from second grade will verify that I’m damn near deadly with the middle.
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One does wonder a bit, though, if someone from the mainstream party visited her and pointed out that Trump would be at best a one term President, she has a lot more working years ahead of her, nice little PR firm you got here, wouldn’t want it boycotted would you?
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Right. Because conservative thought has obviously done that with regard to women as a whole. I wish them the best of luck in that regard.[quote=“Vert, post:84, topic:75798, full:true”]
Before we go full-on Hatfield-McCoy, I’ma call quid senseris, non quid dixeris. (That’s Cicero for “hug it out”)
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Dammit, I knew you were going the repartee’ way, I knew it. 
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Next year he is going to pardon all the best people!
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