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I don't think John Oliver holds the patent on presenting Trumps failures.
Bitch, those of us who lived in the hinterlands and interacted with the world at large through mail-order totally remember Trump Steaks. They were the inside front cover of The Sharper Image catalog for about six months, after the suit of armor and before the imitation Uzi. Between Sharper Image and DAK we got to participate in the world. Fun fact: we bought a Visual Commuter out of DAK and upgraded it to a hard drive by fuckin' soldering the traces on the Mobo. That's back when shit was real. If the Visual Commuter looks familiar:
I've actually heard those being lampooned for a while since Trump's campaign started getting steam. They were referenced in that "Darth Trump" video. It's so ridiculous and perfectly written to make fun of that I still have doubts whether they existed or not.
The actual written out speech was leaked prior.
Trump's got a quarter of the delegates he needs already. It'd be a pretty baller move to drop into the race right now. Read an interesting little blurb this morning that the Koch brothers aren't planning any attack ads against Trump, not because they like him but because they haven't seen any attacks against him have any effect. Kinda wonder who else is keeping their powder dry.
Why would Mitt get into the race? He has nothing to gain out of it, and it could only cost him energy and money. There's still a scenario in which he can be the nominee, should he want to be. That would be if Trump does not garner a simple majority of delegates. In that scenario, I'm pretty sure that the GOP can run whoever they please, lest there be permanent deadlock at the convention. If I understand the rules correctly, the delegates are bound on their first ballot to vote for the nominee to whom they're committed, but are unbound if no candidate receives a majority on ballot 1. Of course this is a formality, since everyone knows how many delegates are committed to whom. So if you're Romney and you want to be the nominee, all you have to do is call up Reince Preibus (of whatever the fuck his name is) and say, "Hey, Keep Donald under 1237 and I'm your guy." He doesn't have to listen to insults, attend debates, publicly fund raise--none of it--just show up and act as savior. Of course all this is simply to rehash what a dumpy candidate he was in 2012. He kinda made John Kerry look charismatic.
You will get no disagreement from me. There was an article in the Fiscal Times this morning pointing out that the Republicans are between the devil and the deep blue sea - they either let it play out the way it's playing out and run Trump, thereby pissing off their base for a generation, or they pull strings and skunk Trump, thereby pissing off all their conversions for a generation. I think every electable Republican is sitting on the sidelines deciding that they can sit out this meat grinder and hope for less catastrophe in 2020.