Trump can't win. But what if he does?

[Cyrano]

Last edited Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Yeah, I know, it can't possibly happen. There are too many sane people in this country to let that happen.

But what if it turns out that there are enough insane people, and ignorant people, and mindless Republicans, and just plain fascists to elect him? What do we do?

Go to another country? No place on this planet will be safe with Trump's finger on the nuke button.

Hope that the military establishment overthrows him before he can do any real damage? Sorry, i just don't have faith in people who are trained to follow orders.

Pray? Good luck with that delusion.

So let me repeat my question. What do we do?

[cantbeserious]

1. IMHO - A Vote For HRC In The Primary Is A Vote For Trump In The General - Trump Can Easily Win

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[newfie11]

4. Agree!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Trump doesn't have to beg for votes for himself.

All he has to do is convince voters not to choose HRC. Doesn't matter is she's a candidate for sainthood. Trump demonizes, not merely criticizes. It's fast and furious.

My choice of evil is ABT.

[Cyrano]

7. Wrong thread. Try DU-Primaries.

[cantbeserious]

8. Right Thread - Responding To The OP

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[pampango]

19. No. The OP asked "what if he wins". Your post "here's how to keep him from winning".

The two are not the same. One attacks a republican candidate and how we would react to his hypothetical election. Certainly an appropriate topic for GD. The other pits one Democratic candidate against another. More suited to GD-P.

[cantbeserious]

21. He Will Win - Then What - He Is President - Live With It - Own It - Embrace It

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[pampango]

22. Thank you for an appropriate response. n/t

[Renew Deal]

10. Cantbeserious

[cantbeserious]

14. Deadly Serious

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[cwydro]

31. Nope.

Hillary will beat Trump.

[cantbeserious]

32. Your Opinion Only - Others See The World Much, Much Differently

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[onehandle]

2. Dunno, but the daily mirror will do a reprint, different picture.

[yeoman6987]

3. Hope he really is liberal and just playing the GOP voters.

I think it's possible. But let's just vote Hillary to be safe.

[Cyrano]

27. Hope in one hand,

pee in the other, and see which one fills up first.

My grandma used to tell me that. I never tried it, but I have a suspicion about the outcome.

[yeoman6987]

36. Very interesting. Your grandma was a smart lady.

[PSPS]

5. The sun will rise. But what if it doesn't? Please discuss.

[Baobab]

6. Have you ever had a lawyer claim to represent you who was actually working for the other side?

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[Renew Deal]

11. 2000 and especially 2004 predicted that anything is possible

There is no floor

[Cyrano]

13. The Republicans stole it in

Florida and in Ohio in 2004.

I don't think they have any incentive to steal it for Trump.

[griffi94]

12. Then he's president

Trump doesn't scare me nearly as much as Ted Cruz.

Trump will be about the same as Arnold was in California and Ventura was in Minnesota.

With Trump it will have that reality show feel to it. But he's not going
to do anything past being a blow hard.

Then in 2 years when he still hasn't
Built the wall
Imprisoned all the democrats
Made it illegal to not be a white Christian male
Restored America to the 1950s

His base will hate his guts and the GOP will be splintered worse than ever.

I said in 2004 that the worst thing that could happen to the GOP was Dubya winning a 2nd term.
That turned out to be correct.
The only thing I can imagine that would be worse for them than Dubya is Trump.

[Cyrano]

16. Do you really think he's going to

play by any rules, no less the Constitution? He'll make it up as he goes along and no one will stop him.

Having said that, I believe that Cruz may be even a larger danger. The GOP will fight Trump. They'll go along with whatever insane path Cruz chooses to take.

[griffi94]

25. I don't believe he has any idea what the rules are

He'll give lots of press conferences where he'll say idiotic shit.
When he tries to actually do any of it he'll hit the brick wall
of a gridlocked congress.
He'll try to govern by decree and Twitter.
In real life that's not going to work.

[hedda_foil]

35. Do you actually believe he'd kowtow to Congress?

[Rex]

15. I don't think he can win either, I just don't believe there are enough racist bigots out there.

But what if we are wrong? We fight. We will have to, since Trump and Cruz will try their best to get progressives thrown into the same labor camps as Muslims and Atheists. They will probably label us all as Marxists.

[Cyrano]

20. I hope you're right.

In my more rational moments, I just don't believe there are enough crazies out there to elect Trump or Cruz.

But who knows?

Nonetheless, I'm keeping my passport up to date, although I really don't know any spot on the planet that would be safe from them.

However, if it human destiny is to be destroyed by some madman, let me say that the real blame lies with the hatred generated by the Republican Party, and ignorance of the American voters.

[In_The_Wind]

17. Brace ourselves for some unpleasant changes.

[randr]

18. At this point in the '76 election no one thought

Reagan had a chance. He was a "Hollywood" actor that who's most famous role was shared with a chimp. It was laughable that he could win, even more so than Trump.
It took an event in the middle east, Iran hostages, to swing things his way; an event he himself exacerbated illegally, to turn the tide.
Beware the fickle nature of the American electorate.

[Crepuscular]

23. Reagan won in 1980

Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election.

[Cyrano]

24. The whole story of

Reagan's people dealing with the Iranians to not free th hostages until Reagan was elected in 1980, will be general knowledge some day. And Reagan and his minions will be seen as the criminals they were.

But for right now, that's not what this thread is about

Trump and Cruz are far, far more dangerous than Reagan.

[randr]

30. I could not agree more

I was just pointing out that believing that Trump can not win is not very smart.

[randr]

29. Oh that damn memory stick failed me again

Thanks

[griffi94]

26. Except Reagan had been Governor of California

Reagan also wasn't a buffoon
I disagreed with Reagans politics but he did have politics.
Trump just yells in sound bites that resemble word salad.
I'm not even sure if he's able to read teleprompter. He's certainly been unwilling to do that so far.

Trumps policies can be boiled down to 3 words.
LOOK AT ME.

He wouldn't actually try to do the majority of the job.

[Cyrano]

28. Reagan was an amiable imbecile who

was a puppet controlled by others.

Trump is far more toxic. And add to the words "LOOK AT ME" the words "OR ELSE." Do you really want to take the chance "He wouldn't try to do the majority of his job."? I, for one, don't think he knows what the job is. And I really don't want to take the risk that "the job" is whatever Trump thinks it is.

[griffi94]

33. I don't want to take that chance.

That's why I'll vote for the Democrat in November.

[Timmy5835]

34. Quit hyperventilating, Trump can NEVER win. Here are the facts.

Fact # 1 He can not get the electoral votes necessary for a win. Current estimates are around 160.

Fact #2 He needs at least 46% of the Latino vote to win the general election. That does not include the African American vote.

So quit listening to cable noise and clueless pundits, you'll live better and might even learn something.