rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

If he is, it has nothing to do with DeSantis

The amount of money floating around just to get dumped into clearly doomed runs like Ron and JEB! is mind boggling.

When you understand the amount of money controlled by the US federal government (not to mention state and local governments) it becomes more understandable that the super rich feel the desire to control the outcome of elections. It's purely an investment strategy with added bonus powers.

also pretty sure any public person's image takes a hit donating to Trump in a way it probably wouldn't giving to someone like Jeb

I don't think the money is set on fire - I suspect some of it shlorps back into the same economy that it came from. Consultants, advertising, lawyers, lobbyists, etc. Who then spend a lot of it on consultants, advertising, lawyers, and lobbyists.

That said, howvere, they all live in nicer houses than mine.

ideal world is Mr. Choppy for all of them.

the fact that many dipshit fascist political consultants make more than teachers is appalling. talk about a dystopia.

I don't think the money is set on fire - I suspect some of it shlorps back into the same economy that it came from. Consultants, advertising, lawyers, lobbyists, etc. Who then spend a lot of it on consultants, advertising, lawyers, and lobbyists.

That said, howvere, they all live in nicer houses than mine.

"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll do anything you say."

I wonder if Haley will be able to buffalo Trump into debating her, now that its down to the two of them.

I've never heard "buffalo" as a verb, but I like it.

Buffalo Trumper
he's the ass of America

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a classic bit of language dorkery. (I confess I am okay with four but six is too many.)

I am more comfortable with the sequence "Chad, while Brad had had 'had,' had had 'had had.' 'Had had' had had a better effect on their grammar teacher."

https://i.imgur.com/hBRnzWd.jpg

Canonical buffalo buffalo is x7

wins, yeah, I know! I have never been able to get there. And I have tried! I have a degree in English and significant coursework in linguistics and after four or five buffalos my brain just shuts down. I admire people who get to seven. Take the W.

Sorry to drone on but there is another bit of geekdom where you try to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible. It involves a parent who wishes to read a book about Australia to a child.

The hypothetical child says something like "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to about Down Under up for?"

After that it gets recursive and it's tedious to reenact, so I will spare you.

Y'all are just off the chain.

The form of the 7 buffalo version is "Adjective noun verb noun (adjective noun verb)" where the part in parentheses is a dependent clause with an implied "that". So it's like: "California children eat cookies California children eat" but just replace all the words with "Buffalo".

xxp

Apologies to ilxors who prefer thread topic discipline to thread topic anarchy. We can redirect these digressions to more appropriate places if needed.

I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8

xp I love digressions. I also love nerdiness. Carry on.

I figured since we've all now settled on Trump is gonna win, may as well start fiddling with rapid-fire topic changes

threads with 2900 posts are allowed to shape their own interior symmetries

to be fair, I'd much rather spend my energy parsing that buffalo sentence than thinking about the titular dipshit any further.

If Trump wins, I am going to spend the following four years just saying "buffalo buffalo buffalo" to anyone who tries to talk to me

Titular dipshit's name is also a noun and verb, so we might be able to do something similar there. But I don't want to think about it.

Well, he'll be renaming the country Trump, so that may work well

Trumpopia

(And my prior post should have gone "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to from out of about Down Under up for?")

Getting close to Smurf-talk, then. Trump trumped the trump trump by trumping the trump.

I'm trumped, Trump, I meant to trump the trump but trumped the trump trump before I could trump the trump. It won't trump again.

Trumps trump Trumps Trumps trump.

It's just Trumps all the way down.

You wanna Trump— What? Trump up and get Trumped
If you're feeling Trumpy Trump then press your Trump

Trumpception, Trumpocalypse, Trumptopia, Trumpaloopa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/11/07/a-preelection-trumpalooza/

for some reason I keep thinking of

snorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorg aaaargh my day is ruined

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, May 23, 2007

trump up volume

Shake ... your ... Trump ...

Ain't nothing wrong
With a little Trump'n'Grind

Pull up to the Trumper baby

Apparently Trump's lawyer has covid, or at least people suspect she has covid. So there's at least one potential upside to covid sticking around.

and she was sitting right next to him

O Lord, please hear my prayers

Guys guys, calm down. We all know how disappointingly his last bout of covid turned out.

From what I remember he probably would have died without the presidential level care (and by now he's presumably replaced his medical team with 100% quacks).

I heard it was a jury member with covid, but hopefully they were within infection distance

This is the second time I'm rooting for the virus.

xpost Habba apparently had dinner with her parents a couple of days ago, and now they have covid, and she herself, despite testing negative this morning, has a fever and isn't feeling well. So whether it's covid, RSV, flu, herpes, pneumonia, a cold, cooties, whatever, here's hoping she gives him whatever it is she has.

I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, January 22, 2024 1:23 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same!

adj noun adj noun verb verb adj noun

London dogs ([that] Paris cats chase) eat Berlin rats.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

🚨 New @SusquehannaPR poll is out!

*POTUS*

Biden: 46.8%
Trump: 39.3%

Biden+7.5

*PA SEN*

Casey (D-Inc): 45.9%
McCormick (R): 42.1%

Casey+3.8

Told you guys it’d be spicy. 👀🔥

— Joshua Smithley (@blockedfreq) January 23, 2024

yea it's not really getting talked about but the last few weeks of Trump/Biden polling has looked better for Joe

I have noticed the media has started paying attention to the fact that Trump is even more incoherent than usual, it's not even the weird rambling he usually does

Trump: Which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest problem. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on pic.twitter.com/eM7dTV8iHe

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 23, 2024