The perfect scam...

[Nightshade]

...to win the election using Trumptards and other useful idiots...



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Trump is/was a faithful democrat...and a Clinton chum. Why would any of that change suddenly? Oh...to fool morons into placing a Trojan Trump into the opposing camp to throw the election.

[sigma]

You forgot about this.

[Vander]

I wouldn't be completely shocked to find out that Trump is some false flag operation. He's gone a long way to make the caricature the Republican party has been drawn as a reality. It almost seems too perfect to have not be planned in some way.

The more likely scenario, to me, is that it's simply a Trump vanity/ego project completely in line with decades of Trump MO. As I understand it, before announcing his intentions, he listened to a lot of talk radio, and discovered the buttons he needed to push. He pushed those buttons right away with bombast and media savvy giving him a solid loyal base. Mix that with a weak and bloated Republican candidate field, and he's your nominee. In the general, he's likely too vain to reel in his more absurd notions, because they are what draw the loudest applause from the rubes he targeted. That adulation is his tonic. Or perhaps he's not reeling it in because he's getting cold feet, the awesome responsibility of the Presidency hitting closer to home as winning becomes a greater possibility.

I've heard that Bill Clinton made the suggestion of running for President to Trump. So as far as the entire thing being a Clinton operation, I could see maybe playing off Trumps vanity in an attempt to inject a wildcard into the Primary. But they couldn't control the 20 other Republican candidates, or how the voters would go. The Bill Clinton suggestion could just as easily been an offhand remark while schmoozing at a cocktail party.

All that being said, if I'm correct in my likely scenario, it also wouldn't shock me if Trump hinted at some conspiracy if/when he loses the election. It would be an attempt, again based on his vanity, to grow the historical significance of the Trump name. A lost election probably wouldn't make the history books, but a lost election conspiracy would surely warrant a sentence or two.

But either way, I think Trump has definitely exposed a lot of rubes on the conservative side. Maybe not rubes, but surely people easily deceived by a charlatan.

[Tunnelcat]

I don't think Trump even wants to win. He's just happy with all the publicity and notoriety he's gotten out of the whole charade. It'll mean big bucks for him in the future.

[callmeslick]

I used to think that way, but now, I wonder. He's killing his brand, the way I see it, if 60 plus percent seemingly dislike him. Plus, he's been antagonizing the networks, the media in general, and I don't actually see a lucrative future for Donald Trump for a while. He's going to have to lay low, and he IS a seventy year old man. I think there is something more around the ego and adulation of the process.

[Tunnelcat]

He can't be this stupid, can he?

[woodchip]

I used to think that way, but now, I wonder. He's killing his brand, the way I see it, if 60 plus percent seemingly dislike him. Plus, he's been antagonizing the networks, the media in general, and I don't actually see a lucrative future for Donald Trump for a while. He's going to have to lay low, and he IS a seventy year old man. I think there is something more around the ego and adulation of the process.

You can say the exact same thing about Hillary.

[Top Gun]

Yeah man nothing kills your brand like being a heavy favorite to win the presidency.