
(03-19-2016 11:38 AM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:(03-19-2016 11:33 AM)Libertas Wrote: Lizard is as always, the very optimistic one.
Hardly. I would be "very optimistic" if I believed, like some guys who let wishful thinking get in the way of reality, that Trump is likely to beat the HAG and become the next president. In fact, I think that this is possible but unlikely, and I worry about guys getting their expectations too high and being crushed and demoralized in November.

(03-19-2016 12:08 PM)Enigma Wrote: If Trump falls just short of the majority, there will be a contested convention.
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Just saw the view from the helicopter and it looked like they broke a hydrant or so.(03-19-2016 12:21 PM)mpr Wrote:Scumbag Protesters Block Highway Leading To Trump Rally!
Another attempt at censorship by Trump protesters in Arizona! They're blocking the only way in and out of the Trump rally. News says traffic is backed up for miles. Get out there Sherrif Joe Arpaio! Arrest those criminals and throw them in your desert detention camp!
(03-19-2016 12:21 PM)mpr Wrote:Scumbag Protesters Block Highway Leading To Trump Rally!
Another attempt at censorship by Trump protestors in Arizona! Get out there Sherrif Joe Arpaio! Arrest those criminals and throw them in your desert detention camp!
(03-19-2016 10:59 AM)memcpy Wrote: 9K protesters expected to March from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. Should be an interesting day. Word is they are going to try to storm the Tower. Metal fences have been erected. But who knows what will happen.
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She was practically foaming at the mouth chanting "No KKK, no Trump". WNB.![[Image: t1yIFb1.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/t1yIFb1.jpg)
(03-19-2016 12:39 PM)Chevalier De Seingalt Wrote:(03-19-2016 10:59 AM)memcpy Wrote: 9K protesters expected to March from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. Should be an interesting day. Word is they are going to try to storm the Tower. Metal fences have been erected. But who knows what will happen.
I just happened to be on the subway heading toward Columbus Circle from downtown when I read this. It was around 12:20 when I got there and there were maybe 50-100 actual protesters. Maybe the main group had already left towards Trump Towers, but it seems unlikely they managed to get 9,000 people on the move that fast. I wouldn't think these types are used to being that organized or punctual.
(03-19-2016 12:34 PM)Deepdiver Wrote:(03-19-2016 12:21 PM)mpr Wrote:Scumbag Protesters Block Highway Leading To Trump Rally!
Another attempt at censorship by Trump protestors in Arizona! Get out there Sherrif Joe Arpaio! Arrest those criminals and throw them in your desert detention camp!
Threatening Public Safety by shutting down a Public Highway blocking Trump supporters from attending a Trump Rally... by a bunch of George Soros funded MoveOn.org and #BLM Black Panthers and Bernie Commies along with many Illegal Alien protestors - time to roll in the prison buses and tear gas to give these criminal thugs an attitude correction and an overnight stay in one of Sheriff Joe's open air desert Prisons.
Curious Hillary nowhere to be seen today - her Clinton Crime Syndicate fingerprints all over this.
Bernie at the Nogales Border protesting in favor of Illegal Aliens - this election is for nothing less than the survival of the USA as a free democracy versus totalitarian Marxist Socialist radical Communist Cuba del Norte.
(03-19-2016 12:20 PM)Ghost Tiger Wrote:(03-19-2016 12:08 PM)Enigma Wrote: If Trump falls just short of the majority, there will be a contested convention.
That's where LOZ is disagreeing with you, and I disagree also. I don't think the establishment cucks have the cojones to do that. If Trump's momentum carries him up to the convention, they won't dare have a contested convention. They don't have that kind of courage.
Quote:A convention is contested if no candidate finishes the primary season with a majority of the delegates. For the Republicans this year, that number is 1,237. At this point, candidates can try to convince the small number of uncommitted delegates to support them on the first ballot. If a candidate gets a majority of delegates on that vote, he wins the nomination. This is what happened in 1976 when Reagan initially prevented Ford, the incumbent president, from winning a majority, but Ford defeated him on the first ballot. No convention of either party has gone to a second ballot since 1952.
If no one gets the necessary majority on the first ballot, the convention turns into a “brokered” event.
Quote:If no candidate arrives in Cleveland with a majority, then the convention is considered "contested." If, for example, Trump is within 100 votes of 1,237, then there is a possibility he convinces enough uncommitted delegates to lock up the nomination on the first ballot. Ford defeated Reagan in 1976 by similar means.
But if no one emerges with the magic number after that first ballot, the real action begins.
The states and territories are governed by slightly differing rules, but most require their bound delegates -- the ones awarded during the primaries and caucuses -- to vote according to those results for only one round.
(03-19-2016 12:08 PM)Latinopan Wrote: Trump has been surrounding himself with beautiful women his entire life, top tier women like Misses, you know the 9.5, saying he is somehow obsessed with a 5'6 tall News Anchor that look just like your average blonde woman on the subway is ridiculous.
Do we have to make people remember how does his wife looks?
If there is a man who cannot be obsessed with a woman is Trump.
(02-28-2016 11:05 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote: A comment about possible outcomes. It is of course very possible -- maybe even likely -- that Trump will not prevail. I would not want to estimate the odds, anything seems possible from a Trump landslide to a Hillary landslide to a cliffhanger. And here is what I would like to say to forum guys:
Do not think of a HAG victory, should it happen, as a tragedy. It would not be a tragedy; it would be, merely, the resumption of regular programming, it would be what we could have always reasonably expected to happen. It would mean that certain social trends will have quite a while longer to go before they exhaust themselves and are reversed or altered in the face of FACTS. No, it will not mean "civil war", "societal collapse", or any of those things.
The right view of things is not to regard a Trump defeat as a tragedy; it is, rather, to regard a Trump victory -- should it happen -- as a stunning and wholly unexpected triumph, almost a gift from the heavens. It is not right or proper to expect such fantastical reversals; it's fine to hope for them and fight for them when the chance presents itself -- but they are not to be relied upon. When you're down 3 to 0 in a best of 7 playoff series, what you expect is to have a long offseason, make some good trades and draft picks, and live to fight another day; but when all of a sudden a player on your side becomes a f'ing MONSTER and hits walk off home runs in games 4 AND 5 -- and that's about where we are now -- you start thinking, damn, one more win and it's game 7 winner take all for the whole thing; could it be? And that's fine and you fight like hell for it. But if you get shut down in either game 6 or game 7, you don't kill yourself -- you shake it off and start thinking about those trades. Maybe you'll occasionally wonder what might have been if that one base could have been stolen -- but that is an idle thought, and no serious man should ever indulge it for too long.
But that's for the future. For now, let's do all we can to be holding that stunning and endlessly sweet trophy at the end of extra innings in an endless, bloody, legendary and never to be forgotten game 7, as the other team sits on their benches in stunned silence and desolation too deep even for tears.
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(03-19-2016 01:05 PM)Emancipator Wrote:
Protester chaining herself to a car
And another one getting arrested: https://twitter.com/Jacobnbc/status/711242817440329729