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Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« on: October 11, 2016, 03:36:15 pm »
By Jonathan Easley - 10/11/16 09:58 AM EDT

Donald Trump is doubling down in his attacks against House Speaker Paul Ryan, ripping the GOP leader as a “weak and ineffective leader” and casting a divided Republican Party into civil war one month before the election.

The Wisconsin Republican held a conference call with the House Republican Conference on Monday in which he said he’d no longer defend the Republican presidential nominee following the explosive revelation of Trump’s sexually charged statements about women.

Trump’s support is in free fall, with national polls showing him trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by double-digits, and congressional leaders are panicked that the GOP nominee will cost them majorities in the House and Senate.

But Ryan’s call infuriated Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill, who lashed out at the Speaker for not being loyal to Trump.

Trump is taking Ryan’s slight personally, and on Monday morning unleashed a string of tweets that indicate he’ll attack Ryan and GOP leaders with the same vigor with which he’s attacking Clinton.

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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2016, 03:37:54 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on October 11, 2016, 03:36:15 pm
Trump is taking Ryan’s slight personally

What a surprise.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2016, 03:39:14 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on October 11, 2016, 03:36:15 pm
By Jonathan Easley - 10/11/16 09:58 AM EDT

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Maybe it's just me but for a guy that only hires the best people, it looks like they keep forgetting to administer his dose of Thorazine fairly often.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2016, 03:41:02 pm »
As a reminder, Trump said this:

I Don’t Need Conservatives to Support Me

https://jtf.org/trump-i-dont-need-conservatives-to-support-me/
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2016, 03:41:32 pm »
Quote from: Norm Lenhart on October 11, 2016, 03:39:14 pm
Maybe it's just me but for a guy that only hires the best people, it looks like they keep forgetting to administer his dose of Thorazine fairly often.

Add to that the fact that Trump still has thumbs with which to tweet....
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2016, 03:42:16 pm »
Somebody has to design a chastity belt for this guy's thumbs.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2016, 03:48:59 pm »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on October 11, 2016, 03:42:16 pm
Somebody has to design a chastity belt for this guy's thumbs.



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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2016, 03:51:23 pm »
Seems DT's uppers never dwindle.   How long before his family does an intervention?
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2016, 03:53:28 pm »
Quote from: Norm Lenhart on October 11, 2016, 03:39:14 pm
Maybe it's just me but for a guy that only hires the best people, it looks like they keep forgetting to administer his dose of Thorazine fairly often.

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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2016, 04:03:23 pm »
Trump belongs in a rubber room.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2016, 04:52:38 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 11, 2016, 04:03:23 pm
Trump belongs in a rubber room.

...hmmm let's see ... do we elect someone that belongs in a rubber room, or do we elect someone whose prison sentence is way over due?
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2016, 04:56:46 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on October 11, 2016, 04:52:38 pm
...hmmm let's see ... do we elect someone that belongs in a rubber room, or do we elect someone whose prison sentence is way over due?
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It's a Kobayashi Maru scenario.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2016, 05:17:07 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 11, 2016, 04:56:46 pm
@libertybele
It's a Kobayashi Maru scenario.

Hence my decision to vote for Mr. Johnson who, while very, very far from my ideal candidate, nevertheless represents the sort of "reprogramming" that so nearly cost James T. Kirk his place at the academy....
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2016, 05:22:30 pm »
How Trump views himself emotionally:



How Trump actually is emotionally:

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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2016, 05:55:48 pm »
Ryan won his primary in a landslide.    Against the tRumper funded opponent.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2016, 06:03:52 pm »
I have to hand it to him.  He certainly always knows how to make a bad situation worse!  Seriously, can no one take his phone away?
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2016, 06:09:42 pm »
Exactly.  Just like after the primary he continued to attack Cruz, who he had already beaten, instead of focusing on Hillary.  You'd think with just a month til the election he'd be focusing on the "other side".  Then again, who is the "other side" to him?  He's done more to single-handedly destroy not only Conservatism but he GOP as well, and is demonstrating how to make someone as utterly unelectable as Hillary a near lock to win on November 8th.
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Re: Trump unleashes tweetstorm on Ryan, widening GOP divide
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2016, 06:12:44 pm »
If you had told me that I would be praising Paul Ryan for his principles and moral courage a year ago, I would have called you a liar.
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