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How will the ReTHUG implosion end DUers (Original Post) malaise Oct 2016 OP
Deja vu to the end days of Nixon. JohnnyLib2 Oct 2016 #1
My guesses... MANative Oct 2016 #2
Good post malaise Oct 2016 #5
i can't see trump even showing up to meet with RNC officials who want him gone JI7 Oct 2016 #8
You could be very right about that. Little Donnie does what Little Donnie wants to do. MANative Oct 2016 #9
You may be right malaise Oct 2016 #11
Oh, God! I hope you're right!!!! LongTomH Oct 2016 #14
What a beautiful picture you painted there madokie Oct 2016 #15
That's a good analysis. TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #18
Some of the state polling that I've read about shows promise... MANative Oct 2016 #23
That's my thought as well TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #26
I've got a bottle in the cabinet. It'll go into the fridge on November 7. MANative Oct 2016 #28
I'm not convinced that the House is out of reach. GoCubsGo Oct 2016 #25
How many seats can we pick up in the House? Rex Oct 2016 #27
I hope to the heavens you are right! MANative Oct 2016 #31
I see his imploding as expanding DU and Duers uppityperson Oct 2016 #3
In a beautiful, smoking pile of rubble. TheCowsCameHome Oct 2016 #4
Please please please malaise Oct 2016 #7
He never had it. TheCowsCameHome Oct 2016 #16
I'm taking out cashew brittle malaise Oct 2016 #19
Agreed relayerbob Oct 2016 #29
Possibly like Hitler's bunker. Daemonaquila Oct 2016 #6
He's finished malaise Oct 2016 #20
With what's left of the repubican party getting madinmaryland Oct 2016 #10
It will be a big surprise for all of us. safeinOhio Oct 2016 #12
i think the media will do it's best to keep the horserace alive.... spanone Oct 2016 #13
Even noun, verb, 9/11 malaise Oct 2016 #17
The GOP Clusterfuckiverse is hard to read lately. A disturbance causes bigly amounts of chaos. Rex Oct 2016 #21
What I love is how they want Pence to replace the Con malaise Oct 2016 #22
True, their transparent acts of desperation show no more pretenses. Rex Oct 2016 #24
Pence must maintain the appearance of being Trump's loyal partner while deploring Trump's many crude guillaumeb Oct 2016 #30
They'll go by the polls which say 74% of GrOPers want him Jarqui Oct 2016 #32
trump enid602 Oct 2016 #33

JohnnyLib2

(11,212 posts)
1. Deja vu to the end days of Nixon.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:15 PM
Oct 2016

Details and complications aside, I just can't see most of the party leaders going down with him. So--
he blows the debate and Brutus appears.....

MANative

(4,112 posts)
2. My guesses...
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:21 PM
Oct 2016

If there's another bombshell, they'll haul DT into the RNC office and badger him for a few hours about quitting. He won't listen. If this drags on to the end of this week, they're toast anyway - no time to regroup, and they know it.

Priebus loses his RNC role. Cruz will re-renounce, saying something like he never wanted to endorse anyway, and he'll regain some status with his Wacko brigade. Rubio is toast, might even lose reelection to Murphy. Ghouliani will be committed. Christie never again has any national status.

Dems regain narrow control of the Senate - 51-49. We gain about 15 seats in the House, but it's too gerrymandered to go much beyond that until 2020.

Drumpf gets crushed, with Hillary winning 320+ EVs.

He'll show tonight and it'll be a bloodbath, but Hillary will mop the floor with him.

MANative

(4,112 posts)
9. You could be very right about that. Little Donnie does what Little Donnie wants to do.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:42 PM
Oct 2016

Won't stop them from pleading, though! Might even get all the way to begging on bent knees.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
14. Oh, God! I hope you're right!!!!
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:50 PM
Oct 2016

It's long past time to give decent burial to what's left of the GOP!!!

madokie

(51,076 posts)
15. What a beautiful picture you painted there
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:52 PM
Oct 2016

I'm not much for grave dancing but I'll make an exception this time.

Peace

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
18. That's a good analysis.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:44 PM
Oct 2016

Do you think that we might turn over some puke controlled state houses and governorships? Texas proved that redistricting does not have to wait for a census year.

MANative

(4,112 posts)
23. Some of the state polling that I've read about shows promise...
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:55 PM
Oct 2016

but I think some of that depends on how much the R vote is suppressed by Trump issues. I'm hopeful that we'll make inroads especially in the states where we flip Senate seats. Wisconsin is one that looks better than I expected.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
26. That's my thought as well
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:59 PM
Oct 2016

It would be SOOOO sweet if we made some gains in Texas. And I think I would buy some high grade Champaign if Hillary/Tim won Texas. She doesn't need us but it would be a hoot.

MANative

(4,112 posts)
28. I've got a bottle in the cabinet. It'll go into the fridge on November 7.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:01 PM
Oct 2016

Here's hoping we both have more to celebrate than Hillary's victory!

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
25. I'm not convinced that the House is out of reach.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:59 PM
Oct 2016

It's quite possible that having Trump at the top of the ticket on Election Day will discourage enough republicans into staying home. In most states, there are at least a few districts that are not so heavily weighted toward the GOP that they can't swing the other way. Even my own state, South Carolina, has two such districts, which the GOPer only wins by 10 points, at most. If enough republicans stay home, some of these districts could go Democrat. It's a long shot, but the way things have been going...

MANative

(4,112 posts)
31. I hope to the heavens you are right!
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:05 PM
Oct 2016

It'd make my decade, that's for sure! If we don't manage it this time, I think 2018 is unlikely because Rs almost always do better in midterms. 2020 would be the next legit shot, so we need to GOTV and hope for disheartened Rs to stay home.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
4. In a beautiful, smoking pile of rubble.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:32 PM
Oct 2016

He will show up, but quickly go off the rails. He simply can't help himself.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
16. He never had it.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:01 PM
Oct 2016

I think he will arrive in such an agitated state that his wheels will fly off before his first sip of water.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
19. I'm taking out cashew brittle
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:48 PM
Oct 2016

with pepper for tonight - and coconut water. We may pop a bottle of white wine.

relayerbob

(6,544 posts)
29. Agreed
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:02 PM
Oct 2016

And given his state of mind, lack of preparation and likely lack of sleep, quickly may be within the first minute or two

 

Daemonaquila

(1,712 posts)
6. Possibly like Hitler's bunker.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:37 PM
Oct 2016

Orange Hitler's ego won't let him quit. He'll hole up in his bunker doing blow, tweeting ever more unhinged things except for remote appearances on Hannity and before a few friendly crowds, and maybe, just maybe, eating a bullet as the election results are read.

spanone

(135,844 posts)
13. i think the media will do it's best to keep the horserace alive....
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:50 PM
Oct 2016

don't know if they can.

if he doesn't show up tonight, think it's all over.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
21. The GOP Clusterfuckiverse is hard to read lately. A disturbance causes bigly amounts of chaos.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:53 PM
Oct 2016

Like when two blackholes collide.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
22. What I love is how they want Pence to replace the Con
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:54 PM
Oct 2016

and violate their own rules -no rules matter as long as they have power

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
24. True, their transparent acts of desperation show no more pretenses.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:56 PM
Oct 2016

It is just straight up fucking over the country, as fast and hard and often as possible. Trump, Pence, they don't care. As long as the GOP stays in power they will vote for Satan.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
30. Pence must maintain the appearance of being Trump's loyal partner while deploring Trump's many crude
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:03 PM
Oct 2016

remarks. Part of preserving Pence's credibility and perceived electability for 2020.

Trump's vanity would not allow him to concede or miss the debates.

My feelings only.

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
32. They'll go by the polls which say 74% of GrOPers want him
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:15 PM
Oct 2016

to carry on.

I do not think they have much alternative without him quitting.

enid602

(8,620 posts)
33. trump
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:08 PM
Oct 2016

There's a part of me that hopes their implosion is slow and agonizing . They do, afterall give us some of our best material. This whole tRump thing is like the Rapture in reverse.

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