. said: . said: Here's a more realistic timeline. 1. Trump wins the nomination. The GOP goes batshit insane during the convention. The optics make the GOP look crazy, which appeals to the 15 to 20% of the country that loves the "We are the USA! Fuck everyone!" message. But that's not enough to sustain a Trump win. 2. Debates happen. Hillary has it in the bag, but she makes a few key gaffes and alienates her base. Some decide to write in Sanders. 3. Election Day - Hillary's support is weak and the Trump-sters are all motivated. Trump squeaks out a victory. Hillary's supporters "pull a Romney". They stay home or hold their nose and vote for Trump. Sanders ends up getting a key 10% of votes and hurts Hillary. Trump wins! 4. The mainstream press shits its pants. Chris Matthews and other key talking heads try to have their Edward R. Murrow moment denouncing the "dark turn" the USA has taken. Some even resign from broadcasting. Trump savors the damage he's inflicted on the chattering class. 5. Trump takes office, but his true swinging dick nature comes out and he alienates key republicans. NOTHING goes through. Gridlock as usual. The working class who supported Trump turn on him, feeling used and abandoned. The Dems gloat. 6. The economy shits the bed. ISIS grows stronger. Oil prices creep back up. No big beautiful wall. No jobs. Nothing. The GOP is wrecked by infighting and Trump's surprising lack of interest in governing. Vice President Rubio starts showing up at key events. Trump spends most of his time in his private office and sometimes has Rubio give key speeches and attend key meetings. The press openly wonders who is actually president. 7. The white working class, angry at their savor, limp back to the old GOP. Others stop voting. The GOP is a damaged shell of its former self. It limps along with tons of PAC money and the golden support of plutocrat billonares, but the fire in the belly is gone. 8. Paul Ryan emerges as the party leader and cuts deals with Dems. Things start to get fixed on some level, but Trump is out of the loop. 9. Trump becomes the absentee president. He's now bored with the office. He waits out his four years and supports Vice President Rubuo in his run for office. Rubio loses to a Democrat. 10. The damage to the angry white working class is permanent. They no longer show an interest in politics. Despair and resignation take hold. Drugs, crime and early death grip communities in the rust belt and through the South. Working class whites are now the "new blacks". A class of people with no hope except for prison and addiction. 11. The United States continues on it's path to a Latin American style Banana Republic. The rich get richer, the middle class withers, and poor are fucked. Nailed it! \ :nelson:
. said: Here's a more realistic timeline. 1. Trump wins the nomination. The GOP goes batshit insane during the convention. The optics make the GOP look crazy, which appeals to the 15 to 20% of the country that loves the "We are the USA! Fuck everyone!" message. But that's not enough to sustain a Trump win. 2. Debates happen. Hillary has it in the bag, but she makes a few key gaffes and alienates her base. Some decide to write in Sanders. 3. Election Day - Hillary's support is weak and the Trump-sters are all motivated. Trump squeaks out a victory. Hillary's supporters "pull a Romney". They stay home or hold their nose and vote for Trump. Sanders ends up getting a key 10% of votes and hurts Hillary. Trump wins! 4. The mainstream press shits its pants. Chris Matthews and other key talking heads try to have their Edward R. Murrow moment denouncing the "dark turn" the USA has taken. Some even resign from broadcasting. Trump savors the damage he's inflicted on the chattering class. 5. Trump takes office, but his true swinging dick nature comes out and he alienates key republicans. NOTHING goes through. Gridlock as usual. The working class who supported Trump turn on him, feeling used and abandoned. The Dems gloat. 6. The economy shits the bed. ISIS grows stronger. Oil prices creep back up. No big beautiful wall. No jobs. Nothing. The GOP is wrecked by infighting and Trump's surprising lack of interest in governing. Vice President Rubio starts showing up at key events. Trump spends most of his time in his private office and sometimes has Rubio give key speeches and attend key meetings. The press openly wonders who is actually president. 7. The white working class, angry at their savor, limp back to the old GOP. Others stop voting. The GOP is a damaged shell of its former self. It limps along with tons of PAC money and the golden support of plutocrat billonares, but the fire in the belly is gone. 8. Paul Ryan emerges as the party leader and cuts deals with Dems. Things start to get fixed on some level, but Trump is out of the loop. 9. Trump becomes the absentee president. He's now bored with the office. He waits out his four years and supports Vice President Rubuo in his run for office. Rubio loses to a Democrat. 10. The damage to the angry white working class is permanent. They no longer show an interest in politics. Despair and resignation take hold. Drugs, crime and early death grip communities in the rust belt and through the South. Working class whites are now the "new blacks". A class of people with no hope except for prison and addiction. 11. The United States continues on it's path to a Latin American style Banana Republic. The rich get richer, the middle class withers, and poor are fucked.
. said: I think Trump will disappoint his followers. They are expecting flowers and chocolates from a Trump presidency. The former working class will have to accept they have been abandoned. No one cares about them. Guess what unemployed white folks? You've lost your white privilege. Welcome to our world! \ :lou:
. said: Gonna be a shitload of disappointment regardless.
. said: I absolutely guarantee you everyone ITT above my comment has had at least one testicle in their mouth at some point in their lives.
