2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPaul Ryan knows he will be rid of Trump in 3 weeks
So Trump can rattle on about all the BS he wants, but Trump will be gone and Ryan will still be around.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)And they'll wage war against Ryan, and to be blunt most Republicans prefer white nationalism to country club Republicanism.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)out there to help them make the jump to cable tv (Woody Johnson, the Mercers, etc)
Orsino
(37,428 posts)It won't be billionaire-fueled. Because it'll be Trump-branded, it will be a pay service like Palin's, and will meet with the same fate. It's what he should have done instead of his fake-ass university.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)If it's just web updates, he does those on Twitter. TrumpTV, if it ever comes to pass, won't contain much Trump.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)If he can't see and hear a crowd adoring him, I don't think it's going to interest him.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)his supporters are emotionally reactive and incredibly gullible, and cult-like. Perfect targets for monetization.
the mindset being, as Eli Wallach said in The Magnificent Seven, "If God didn't want them shorn, he wouldn't have made them sheep."
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No need for Russian money. The Pierces, for instance, may already have bought in.
As for Ryan's imagining Trump will not be a problem, not likely. The GOP is tearing apart, and Trump is leading one main faction and Ryan, etc., the other.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)Mandatory education on the following things:
1. critical thinking
2. ethics
3. diversity
And they need to begin at a very early age.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Sorry all the good names were gone.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)He is losing the ballgame. By letting Trump rile up the Tea Partiers, Ryan will be paying a price for some time to come. All of the GOP will.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
brush
(53,778 posts)He could easily face a challenge for his speaker-ship.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Republicans know even if trump managed to win, Ryan 'Speaker' is inline for the VP position & Pence would be President. Wait until the elections over & those 'inner-loop',republicans will tear trump to pieces. win or lose trumps going down.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)and they will still have to play the daily game of being forced to try to avoid talking about whatever stupid shit Trump said/did in the last few days/hours.
They're STUCK WITH HIM. FO-EVAH!