The General Election

[zoogs]

That's kind of amazing. He's well and truly lost his party, then?

 

I suppose it's not so confusing. They've decided he is now more of a liability than an aid in helping them secure the Congressional majorities necessary to continue attacking environmental efforts, voting rights, LGBT rights, and everything else they've been doing for the last six years. I'd wish them good luck, but of course I couldn't mean it.

[QMany]

 

[knapplc]

Here's an updated list of Republicans who have dropped their support of Trump.

 

[Danny Bateman]

That +11 polls is absolutely beautiful. I should mention, the 2-way for that poll is Clinton +14 (C 52, T 38).

 

The deme scenario here for Dems is that Pence also bails, Trump gets pissed, and tells his voters specifically not to vote for Congressional candidates who don't support him. I'd imagine he owns a large enough share of the Republican base at this point that if he does that, they're completely screwed. And he'd do it, he is an incredibly small and vindictive man.

Of course, if the GOP then runs back to re-endorse him, it would be completely and totally transparent, and I'd hope they'd get crushed at the ballot box for having no integrity.

[NM11046]

There are going to be a lot of books and movies written about this election cycle.

[ZRod]

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/785504605975248896

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/785506725482889216

He/they still don't get it. It's not about one candidate, it's not about one party. It's about an entire country. For christ's sake, we want you all to work together and solve some actual problems. No deny they exist and invent new ones because someone payed you to.

[BigRedBuster]

Here's an updated list of Republicans who have dropped their support of Trump.

 

Don't show that list to Trump. If he wins they are all probably going to be in jail.

[knapplc]

The problem with lying about something and naming names is when the people you name provide the truth.

 

Whoops.

 

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/785514714839351296

[BigRedBuster]

I love that last paragraph.

[QMany]

[ZRod]

I love that last paragraph.

I love the last sentence.

[knapplc]

[zoogs]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/opinion/trump-the-next-big-short.html

 

Business leaders in this country are terrified of a Trump presidency.

 

A recent study by the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics estimated that, rather than bringing jobs back to the United States, the tariffs would result in trade wars that could cost our economy five million jobs and possibly lead to a recession.

...And while businessmen surely like tax cuts — especially for themselves — they worry over the magnitude of Mr. Trump’s reductions and the lack of any specificity about how he would pay for them. According to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Trump tax policies would add $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years.

Lastly, people in business are repelled on both moral and economic grounds by Mr. Trump’s plan to deport more than 11 million illegal immigrants, which the conservative American Action Forum calculated would cost $400 billion to $600 billion, reduce gross domestic product by $1.6 trillion and take 20 years.

[mrandyk]

Aside from being a temperamental oaf, pulling every statement out of his ass and having open disregard for the law, he totally slammed Clinton last night.

[Danny Bateman]

I've been arguing against deportation for years on grounds it would have net negative effects on the economy.

 

Thanks for digging up something to substantiate that, Zoogs.

 

Love the snark from Buffett. Trump is just so GD phony in every way.