Fuck It's Silent in Here 2016

[SKO]

You and your moderate republican friends are losing solely because you refuse to admit out loud, with the facts very loudly staring you in the face, that spending 8 years slowly stoking the fires of birthers and paranoid fears that Obama is a secret muslim who wants to take your guns was a bad idea and it created a base of radicals you can't control.

I don't know how we got here, but I want to elope with this SKOpost.

Me too.

Also, TJ. Come on out into the great wide world of Independence with me. It feels so good not to have to defend any of these assclowns ever again. And I even started going back to church after like 25 years of atheism/agnosticism/devil worship. It's right here for you man. It doesn't make you a quitter. Far from it.

Independence is admirable, but are you suggesting I just surrender the controls of AA Flight 11 peacefully and let the Trumpers take it into the North Tower without a fight? At least right now, you have Kasich and Rubio and even Carson and Cruz from which to choose.

I am interested to hear more about your return to church sometime in person, preferably in between pitches. I won't even wear tasseled loafers

The best outcome for Republicans might be that the party splinters. The wackos leave, moderate Republicans resume control, and perhaps pull in a lot of the moderate independents and conservative minorities who are currently unwelcome in the GOP.

A Hillary presidency would seem to be a boon for somebody because disaffected voters will turn where they will. Moderate Republicans though? I mean, they'd have to centerist, realists and inclusive to offset the Tea/Trump Partiers. Those people would seem to be kind of ok with whatever Hillary has cooking. Liberal Democrats who support Bernie and at once belived in Obama/Change/Hope/BLACKPRESIDENTZOMG are not going that way. There aren't enough rich people left, the upper middle class is evaporating. That ship has sailed.

So to answer TJ's question, yes. I think he should let the plane fly into the mountain. If he wants to stick around and hope for a miracle, ok... I'll still be here with my growing group of friends when he's ready. I'll have some scissors for the loafers too. Snip-snip, problem over.

Someone show me anyone currently in the Republican party that's willing to vote for Hillary.

If 8 years of Obama gave us Trump, I can't imagine what 4-8 years of Hillary is going to spawn. 

I have actually seen a few Republicans on Facebook say they'll vote for Clinton over Trump. I won't pretend there'll be millions like them, but I have seen it.

And I wasn't really saying that would be a thing. I don't feel like the moderate GOP are going to migrate to her. But they will probably back some loser like Romney and ride off into the sunset for the next few cycles while the far right continues to seeth, the far left builds strength with the youth and the center-left spins its wheels trying to prop up Hillary's dead ass. That leaves us with Kanye versus Hitler in 2024.

I mean, we're already seeing it with the GOP saying they won't approve any Supreme Court nominee from Obama. 
What happens if Hillary wins? Do they just completely stop doing their job entirely? 

This is a legit concern for me, that nothing will ever get accomplished.

The big concern among the Republican Establishment appears to be that pushback against Trump could spill over into costing them their majority in the senate, too. I haven't been paying attention to how polls are going in those races but there's legitimate reason for the Republicans to think they may lose congress as well.

[Brownie]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Trump won't be the nominee.

[InternetApex]

Actually I used to be a moderate Republican about eight years, 220 miles and 15 pounds ago. And if I felt like it was necessary to stop Trump, I'd vote for Hillary. So... you know it could happen.

[flannj]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Trump won't be the nominee.

God I hope you're right TJ but how do you think that would be possible?

[Slaky]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

[InternetApex]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Trump won't be the nominee.

[Bort]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

[InternetApex]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

I lol'd.

[SKO]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

The question is how would Trump supporters handle the brokered convention. Would Trump run as a third party? Would the Trump supporters be so pissed off they didn't bother to turn out to vote Republican?

You'd think it'd be a pretty big PR win for the Democrats to be able to say that the Republicans don't even want their own people to be able to pick the president.

[flannj]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

Both of you sound like my younger son. He wants to punch him so bad it makes me purposely pretend like I'm thinking about voting for Cruz just to get a rise out of him.

And then I laugh because Dad is such a dick.

[Bort]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

The question is how would Trump supporters handle the brokered convention. Would Trump run as a third party? Would the Trump supporters be so pissed off they didn't bother to turn out to vote Republican?

You'd think it'd be a pretty big PR win for the Democrats to be able to say that the Republicans don't even want their own people to be able to pick the president.

At least we know the origin of all of those super optimistic TJ Cubs posts.

[PenFoe]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

Both of you sound like my younger son. He wants to punch him so bad it makes me purposely pretend like I'm thinking about voting for Cruz just to get a rise out of him.

And then I laugh because Dad is such a dick.

This is truly fantastic. 

But seriously, I would take President Trump over President Cruz.

[Bort]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

Both of you sound like my younger son. He wants to punch him so bad it makes me purposely pretend like I'm thinking about voting for Cruz just to get a rise out of him.

And then I laugh because Dad is such a dick.

This is truly fantastic. 

But seriously, I would take President Trump over President Cruz.

[SKO]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

Both of you sound like my younger son. He wants to punch him so bad it makes me purposely pretend like I'm thinking about voting for Cruz just to get a rise out of him.

And then I laugh because Dad is such a dick.

This is truly fantastic.  

But seriously, I would take President Trump over President Cruz.

I probably would, too. There's a tiny piece of me that still thinks maybe Donald would immediately repudiate every awful thing he's said, admit he was just being a showman to get the job, and then govern like the friend of the Clintons/SENSIBLE MODERATE young Huard desperately believed him to be.

Ted Cruz would just be the tea party president.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

There's a lot of baseball left to be played. This is not like Bill Clinton coming out of Super Tuesday in 1992 with Tsongas and Gephardt types just shrugging their shoulders, or Bush beating Dole here in Illinois in 1988. Drumpf won't be the nominee.

They seem to be willing to ignore all this at the convention and go with someone else even if Drumpf takes care of business.

I just don't understand how reasonable people can summon up the ability to even type, let alone actually vote, for guys like Cruz and Rubio. MAYBE I could see Rubio but Ted Cruz is so fucking gross. I want to beat the shit out of him. It would be the best thing I ever did in my whole goddamn life.

Seriously. Motherfucker is the biggest fucking fist magnet I've ever seen in my life.

Both of you sound like my younger son. He wants to punch him so bad it makes me purposely pretend like I'm thinking about voting for Cruz just to get a rise out of him.

And then I laugh because Dad is such a dick.

This is truly fantastic.  

But seriously, I would take President Trump over President Cruz.

I probably would, too. There's a tiny piece of me that still thinks maybe Donald would immediately repudiate every awful thing he's said, admit he was just being a showman to get the job, and then govern like the friend of the Clintons/SENSIBLE MODERATE young Huard desperately believed him to be.

Ted Cruz would just be the tea party president.

I sort of suspect this too, but I'd rather not find out.