Chris Christie’s wordless screaming

[Recursion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/02/chris-christies-wordless-screaming/

His were the eyes of a man who has gazed into the abyss, and the abyss gazed back, and then he endorsed the abyss.

It was not a thousand-yard stare. That would understate the vast and impenetrable distance it encompassed.

He looked as if he had seen a ghost and the ghost had made him watch Mufasa die again.

...

Someone just told Chris Christie that there is no God. Or Chris Christie has just discovered that God does exist but She is an enormous snake who hates or is indifferent to mankind. Or Chris Christie has just discovered that there is no God but that Hell is real.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

1. Christie enthusiasm level: "hostage video"

[Cosmocat]

10. lol

thats about it ...

[Xipe Totec]

12. Nailed it!

[MgtPA]

2. Great read!

"Chris Christie has the glazed and terrified look of someone who has traded his inheritance for no pottage at all, who has watched his credibility dry up and is about to be led back to his basement cage, having lost Winterfell for good."

[rjsquirrel]

3. Nah, it's simple: someone just told Crispy

there would be no more cheesecake tonight.

[Ilsa]

4. I keep expecting him to blink in morse code. nt

[Trust Buster]

6. That was very funny IMO.

[houston16revival]

5. I Still Think

their ticket will be Cruz-Rubio

Some Congressional Republicans are talking publicly about
Donald Trump's "temperament"

This is a serious issue that deeply questions Trump's suitability
and personality for the office of president

[Geronimoe]

9. I doubt it

Cruz only won petro State' AK, OK, TX. He probably won't win anymore States. Rubio had a melt down and his stump speech is late night comedy; telling penis jokes.

[Cosmocat]

11. I know there is all that talk

given the petulance and emotional nature of conservatives.

But,

1) Not sure that Trump won't have enough delegates to break the 50% mark going into the convention.
2) In order for him to not have enough, Cruz and Rubio and whoever else are going to have to stay in it till the end, which is pretty daunting running the whole string taking loss, after loss.
3) Either way, with 50% of the delegates or not, Trump will have clearly "won" the nomination by having a massive popular vote and far more state wins than anyone else combined.

He and his fandom will not react well if they take him out at the convention. It is not an exaggeration that if they do that, the party will be seriously damaged, not just in this cycle, but for a while further.

I think they do the math and be pragmatic, let it play out with him as their nominee, take the defeat or deal with his one year in office and the damage it does and try to deal with the aftermath of that.

[1939]

14. Neither party had had a competitive convention since 1968

I for one am getting tired of the scripted coronations that pass for party conventions.

You go through several ballots and nobody has a majority. Trump and Cruz hate each other. Finally they have to reach a solution and Rubio or Kasich gets the nod and everybody reluctantly signs up for the compromise.

[Cosmocat]

15. All I know is

that if Trump wins the popular vote, that scenario would have catastrophic electoral consequences for the Rs.

[Lazy Daisy]

7. That is one shitty poker face

Anybody got a deck of cards?

[AxionExcel]

8. The Republican soul on public display...

Avert your gaze if you love America. gawdhelpusall

[A Simple Game]

13. Why do I suddenly feel sorry for everyone that lives in New Jersey? n/t