2016 elections - because it's never too early

[DGuller]

I'm pretty sure that if someone got publicity for raping underage children, that publicity would most definitely be bad publicity.

[jimmy olsen]

Jewish War Veterans lay the hammer down on Trump

https://twitter.com/Carter_PE/status/760549644350939136/photo/1

[jimmy olsen]

Trump is a 70 year old man that somehow slept through the entire Cold War.

Jesus wept.

Click to watch the video
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden

[Monoriu]

Are there any checks and balances to prevent a US president from just pressing the nuclear button?  What if somebody from Houston insults him and he insists in nuking Houston? 

[Berkut]

True enough - lucky for us that problem is uniquely Republican, and the Dems have never done anything like that themselves.

Has any party candidate ever said 100 days before the election that they think it'll be rigged and stolen from them and that there'll be a bloodbath over it?

Not that I am aware of, but DG was saying this was a result of the Republicans doing this in the past in other elections, or things like it, which the Dems certainly have done on occasion.

[lustindarkness]

Are there any checks and balances to prevent a US president from just pressing the nuclear button?  What if somebody from Houston insults him and he insists in nuking Houston? 

Houston? There are better candidates for getting nuked you know. I'd be OK with nuking LA for example.


In other news, I am tired about Trump, and I hope everyone else gets tired of his shit show soon.

[Berkut]

I know this has been predicted before, but I do think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Trump show.

In one sense, his own self-immolation is a little disappointing - I wanted to see him defeated because the American public realized what a douchebag he is without him needing to really drive it down their throats. Apparently he isn't going to give them the chance though.

I think people are wrong as well about Ryan and McCain. I think they should both pull their endorsements, and they should do it now, before their primaries.

Ryan especially has a future as the guy who could lead the re-building of the GOP. He has tried to walk a rather fine line obviously, and everyone knows that the effort on his part has been to NOT repudiate Trump. That isn't a secret to anyone at this point. He can say he did his best to unify the party, and Trump made that impossible, and go back to the high road.

It is a risky plan, but they are all risky at this point - there is no possible "safe" play. So you might as well take the one that can potentially net you the greatest return.

[jimmy olsen]

Trolling of the highest caliber!

[Legbiter]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0

Republican strategists who once imagined Mr. Trump could be brought under control in a general election all but openly acknowledged this week that that prospect had vanished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnogXICTeA

How will Trump survive this calamity?

[FunkMonk]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0

Republican strategists who once imagined Mr. Trump could be brought under control in a general election all but openly acknowledged this week that that prospect had vanished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnogXICTeA

How will Trump survive this calamity?

Exhort his followers to suicide bomb GOP offices

God emperor Trump wills it!!!!

[Razgovory]

How is Obama working to lock them into supporting Trump, a perfect play? Seems like a mighty gamble for the Republic.

I agree.

[The Minsky Moment]

In between attacking his own party and the parents of a dead soldier yesterday, and pursuing his bizarre vendetta against a Columbus, Ohio fire marshall, Trump found time to talk down the stock market, apparently on the theory that if he can still win if there is a market crash and financial panic.

This has gone past the stage of political schadenfreude, where one takes pleasure in the gaffes of the candidate one opposes.  It is becoming painful to watch a human being publically unravel like this.

[mongers]

In between attacking his own party and the parents of a dead soldier yesterday, and pursuing his bizarre vendetta against a Columbus, Ohio fire marshall, Trump found time to talk down the stock market, apparently on the theory that if he can still win if there is a market crash and financial panic.

This has gone past the stage of political schadenfreude, where one takes pleasure in the gaffes of the candidate one opposes.  It is becoming painful to watch a human being publically unravel like this.

Hey now, that's a mighty big assumption you're trying to slip past us.

[The Minsky Moment]

There was also the incident of him kicking a baby out of his rally for crying and his comment about wanting to have a Purple Heart because it was "easier" than campaigning for President. 

All that in one day. 

[Monoriu]

Are there any checks and balances to prevent a US president from just pressing the nuclear button?  What if somebody from Houston insults him and he insists in nuking Houston? 

Houston? There are better candidates for getting nuked you know. I'd be OK with nuking LA for example.


In other news, I am tired about Trump, and I hope everyone else gets tired of his shit show soon.

I seem to recall that Houston was nuked in the first Independence Day movie