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Will Donald quit/"get fired" and if so, when?
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What's the over/under on when Trump drops the "N-bomb"
and I'm not talking nukes.
I have Oct. 10th
Later,
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and I'm not talking nukes.
I have Oct. 10th
Later,
ElectEngr
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He can't be fired.
The polls right now show an electoral college landslide, but not a popular vote landslide. I think the magic number is polling less than 30% nationally. I don't know if he can go that low, but if he does, I can't see him staying in the race to get pummeled.
The polls right now show an electoral college landslide, but not a popular vote landslide. I think the magic number is polling less than 30% nationally. I don't know if he can go that low, but if he does, I can't see him staying in the race to get pummeled.
Tristan Scott
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I don't think he will drop out. His Family will probably talk him in to soldiering on. He's already got an excuse-it's all rigged. He also has, I'm sure, plans on cashing in with reality TV. I think that's the main reason he makes all his staffers sign non-disclosure agreements.
And in the end he will be in the history books as having actually run for president.
And in the end he will be in the history books as having actually run for president.
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Yeah, but unless he can keep his mouth shut, he'll go down as the worse popular vote in a long long time, and only has Mondale to thank to keep it from a dreadful Electoral Vote as well. I can't see Trump wanting to go down in history as the worst loser ever.
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He'll drop out when he stops believing his own bullshit, and that will be never.
I'm fairly well convinced that he got into the race thinking he'd shake things up a bit, drop out, and add "Presidential candidate" to his list of things he thinks he's accomplished.
Then he started winning, and by the time it was clear he'd get the nomination he'd forgotten all about the reasons he got in initially. At this point he really believes he deserves to be President, and there isn't anything that will burst that ego bubble short of losing...badly.
I'm fairly well convinced that he got into the race thinking he'd shake things up a bit, drop out, and add "Presidential candidate" to his list of things he thinks he's accomplished.
Then he started winning, and by the time it was clear he'd get the nomination he'd forgotten all about the reasons he got in initially. At this point he really believes he deserves to be President, and there isn't anything that will burst that ego bubble short of losing...badly.
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Trying to predict the actions of a mentally unstable individual is an exercise in futility. I'd rather play the lottery where I at least know the odds.
Predictit is betting on NO. https://www.predictit.org/Contract/3302/Will-Trump-drop-out-by-August-31#data
Elixir
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I predicted that he will drop out but I don't know when. Don;t really consider it probable, but I can almost see his "I'm doing this for my family" Trexit speech.
...by end of August. They're almost uncannily correct most of the time.
...by end of August. They're almost uncannily correct most of the time.
What about the hive mind that he feeds off of? What will they do if he quits? Go berserk and start shooting people and blaming it on Obama and/or Clinton?
Worse, what will they do if he doesn't drop out but loses the election? He already has them believing it will be rigged.
Worse, what will they do if he doesn't drop out but loses the election? He already has them believing it will be rigged.
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As totally fucking awesome as it would be for him to suddenly drop out, it isn't going to happen. No matter the electoral margin, which as of now looks to be a landslide, tens of millions of people will still vote for him. And that's a lot of consumer dollars for whatever cheap-shit products he puts out following the election.
It's also a lot of speaking circuit dollars... maybe. I guess that depends on who would pay him to speak and about what exactly.
But whatever the case, he's probably looking at this in terms of how much he can soak his supporters for following the race. And if he drops out, he'll lose a lot of those.
It's also a lot of speaking circuit dollars... maybe. I guess that depends on who would pay him to speak and about what exactly.
But whatever the case, he's probably looking at this in terms of how much he can soak his supporters for following the race. And if he drops out, he'll lose a lot of those.
Trump is not going to quit for the simple reason, he has no reason to quit.
It's technically possible for him to quit, but there is nothing the GOP can do to force him out, even if they really wanted to.
There is a saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Trump has gone past that point and everyone knows it. The only choices left to the GOP is to either ride the train all the way to the wreck, or jump off at high speed. Right now, the "I told you so" Express is idling at the depot and people are boarding it every day. Once Trump crashes, the ITYS train will leave the station and chug toward 2020.
It's technically possible for him to quit, but there is nothing the GOP can do to force him out, even if they really wanted to.
There is a saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Trump has gone past that point and everyone knows it. The only choices left to the GOP is to either ride the train all the way to the wreck, or jump off at high speed. Right now, the "I told you so" Express is idling at the depot and people are boarding it every day. Once Trump crashes, the ITYS train will leave the station and chug toward 2020.
I'm betting that Trump won't quit. The main reason for that is because he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. He has lots of dedicated and committed people showing up at his rallies and the constant white noise of people telling him that he needs to change everything about him in order to win is the exact same thing that he heard during the primaries before beating all the people who had been saying that. This is why he's starting to talk about the polls and the elections being rigged. There's a disconnect between what he's seeing inside of the bubble he exists in while travelling around the country and reading the responses to his twitter feed and what's happening outside of the bubble of crazy. Clearly somebody is looking at things wrong and Trump is damn sure that that somebody is the one who's not Trump.
As for firing him, that would piss the shit out of the Trump voters and play right into the narrative that the establishment is rigging the game against them. The Coalition to Defend Trump (or whatever other name Clinton comes up with for the PAC) will spend a hundred million dollars to blanket the airwaves with that sentiment in order to fire up their anger even more and drown out any counter-advertising by the GOP in order to get them to stay home in a huff on election day.
As for firing him, that would piss the shit out of the Trump voters and play right into the narrative that the establishment is rigging the game against them. The Coalition to Defend Trump (or whatever other name Clinton comes up with for the PAC) will spend a hundred million dollars to blanket the airwaves with that sentiment in order to fire up their anger even more and drown out any counter-advertising by the GOP in order to get them to stay home in a huff on election day.
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On another board I'm on, people do avatar bets. You lose the bet, you have to post an avatar of the winner's choosing for an agreed upon period of time.
I've met a lot of people who thought Trump is going to win, but have yet to meet anyone who would bet he was going to win.
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Just went to the grocery store and listened to a bit of Sean Insanity on th' radio. Sean is squeaking and yapping that if Trump loses (Sean is pro-Trunp) it will all be the fault of the GOP politicians who didn't support Trump. Which may well be the post train wreck narrative. "I could have won except for the stab in the back from the GOP establishment and the press!" 2018 would be fun as the GOP tears itself apart. "We lost because you didn't support Trump! We must elect somebody who will do the will of the people!" Grrrrrr!"
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There's one guy who is extremely anti-Hillary. He lost an avatar bet that Hillary was going to be indicted over the email BS. Now he's sporting Hillary's logo for his avatar.
Big of him to pay off.
I think a lot of Trump supporters know it's a losing cause, but they like the chaos and turmoil. I've labeled them "guys who cheer a bar fight between two people they don't know."
You'll find them expressing admiration for Vladimir Putin for much the same reason.
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^^^ all of that, though I hope the real result would be the end of his career
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Melania could strangle him with his comb-over for the inheritance.