Nate Silver is arguing on Twitter that the current Republican primary and the probably Trump nomination is the GOP party elite’s 997th worse case. He offers the 998th (Watergate Part Deux) and 999th(Aliens)…
@ObsoleteDogma: No. 998 involves a Watergate-style scandal, No. 999 involves space aliens, and I don’t even want to think about No. 1000.
ā Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 3, 2016
what is the 1000th worse case scenario for the Republican elites?
dmsilev
Jesus Christ returns and explains what Christianity really means.
m0nty
Trump gets shot and becomes a martyr against whom every future GOP pol has to measure himself.
Roger Moore
Zombie FDR.
MobiusKlein
George W Pen*s
Omnes Omnibus
Skynet becomes self-aware.
Marc
Romney.
C Nelson Reilly
Michelle Bachman and Kay Bailey Hutchinson announce that they’re a couple and are opening a gay wedding cupcake store
John Revolta
They find a dead girl AND a live boy in bed with Trump. And his numbers go up.
superpredators4hillary
Jesus
ETA: Bah! Bows to #1
gf120581
Ronald Reagan resurrects and joins the Democratic Party.
GregB
Trump rips off mask to reveal he is actually Zombie George Wallace.
Doug R
Alien Watergate
Jim, Foolish Literalist
somebody finds Willard a way to take the nomination away from Trump and Trump goes all Scourge of God on the Republicans, burning their villages and monasteries from the White House to the USSC to the Senate to the House
ruemara
Legally, is there any way we can cull them? Humanely, of course, but to benefit the world, shouldn’t we take steps to prevent this zombie virus from spreading? I, personally, think no one would deny there was a clear & present threat to all life on earth.
Sam Dobermann
Incredibly big crowds in every city and town demanding that President Obama serve an additional term.
Citizen Alan
The absolute worst case disaster scenario for the GOP is that scientists announce that they have discovered a vaccine against sociopathy so that within a generation, “lack of empathy” is eradicated from the American gene pool. The party would cease to exist.
Omnes Omnibus
@Citizen Alan: P.O.E!
Frnak Goodmanni
Zombie FDR’s 4th term
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
The NY Times tape is released and shows Trump talking about how his run is just an “Around the World in 80 Days”-type bet with Bill Clinton that got out of hand. He’s really a big Hillary fan and is going to tell all the Teabaggers and GOP insiders how stupid they are after he accepts the nomination.
Cheers,
Scott.
sigaba
After meditating upon a strange golden necklace pendant, Rubio opens his eyes to discover himself in an alternate reality where Hitler won World War II. (Unclear if it’s a parallel universe or if the American victory in World War II was actually just an illusion/mass delusion.)
? Martin
Clarence Thomas dies.
Yutsano
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
superpredators4hillary
If your answer runs more than a handful of syllables and grunts, you lose.
Percysowner
After winning the nomination Trump tells his supporters to send a message to the GOP, which didn’t treat him “fairly” and NOT vote for them for Congress and the Senate. Don’t vote for Democrats, just don’t support the Republicans.
Peale
FBI unlocks iPhone. Turns out last message was to Reince Priebus promising to do whatever it takes to call attention to the injustice of taxing job creators.
mclaren
Rubio opens the ark of the covenant and his face melts, while blasts of energy go out to impale and disintegrate every member of the Republican party. Bernie and Hillary remain unaffected because they’ve closed their eyes while tied to a pole.
eemom
Can Nate Silver please STFU? He’s has-been-ier than John McCain at this point. kthxbai.
The Dangerman
Did anyone else think it odd when Trump referred to the “3rd plane”? 1000 could be a Republican candidate that forgot a plane hit the Pentagon. I so wanted Kelly to ask Trump a follow up on how many planes on 9/11.
beltane
Obama becomes Secretary General of the UN, implementing the New World Order on day one.
chopper
zombie reagan comes back to life and starts talking about amnesty.
Groucho48
Turns out there were no classified documents on Clinton’s server but a bunch turned up on the server of the Benghazi Commission and all the top Republicans on it are charged with leaking classified information to the Republican candidates, who are also charged.
Dems get the Presidency, a supermajority Senate and a majority House. Meanwhile, the Scalia tapes emerge and both Alito and Thomas resign in disgrace after being filmed doing hookers and blow in chambers.
Mike J
Christopher Walken survives a car crash, shakes hands with each of the republican candidates.
hkedi
@GregB: Donald Trump rips off the mask to reveal he is a lizard person; Wins by 30 EV.
Mike J
@chopper: Was looking for you. If you see Casey, OpieJean et al around, remind them to go to the King County Democrats web site and pre-register for the caucus. kcdems.org
Matt McIrvin
Just like today, only Hillary Clinton is near the end of her second term and Barack Obama is running now.
shomi
Not the Onion. A real headline from a supposedly serious source….lol
President Obama Created Donald Trump
http://www.wsj.com/articles/president-obama-created-donald-trump-1457048679?cb=logged0.275332986144349&cb=logged0.2878046266268939
Petorado
Why are people acting like what’s bad for the GOP party elite is a bad thing for the rest of all other living things. There’s no legitimate argument that the world wasn’t better off after the GOP elite had bummer 2008 and 2012 elections.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@? Martin:
and is found in drag.
mclaren
Someone finally figures out that by rearranging the hellraiser cube they can close up the wall and force the Republican candidates to return to their hell dimension.
beltane
@shomi: That’s funny. It was actually the owner of the WSJ who created Donald Trump.
Lil' Chocolate Bronut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUm-mtdtmko
Petorado
@shomi: Written by “Bobby” Jindal. The WSJ is the Onion with more viciousness and no sense of humor or irony.
celticdragonchick
Nothing like self righteous yet meaningless snark to give you that vaguely unsatisfied feeling.
slag
Americans start using the entirety of their prefrontal cortices.
chopper
@Mike J:
will do.
hkedi
New candidate for #1000:
Jane Fonda is raptured on live TV while talking with Ellen Degeneres. She returns 3 days later on a column of light in NY times square with the message that her divine blackness is completely fed up, and the smiting will start in 3.. 2… 1….
RepubAnon
Donald Trump reminds everyone of their pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee…
slag
@celticdragonchick: Agreed. It’s the inevitable result of trying to digest some weak sauce.
piratedan
scenario 1000:
archaeologists determine that Jesus was a homosexual black guy who still liked to sleep with prostitutes to maintain a reputation with the straights
Shaun Appleby
@Frnak Goodmanni: Too late!
RaflW
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: This, but I’d tweak it that he announces he will be running for Veep on a single unity ticket with Hillz.
pamelabrown53
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh. Have you by chance ever watched a show called “Person of Interest”?
mclaren
Up at Lawyers, Guns and Money Paul Campos asks: “Would Trump as president be significantly worse than Cruz or Rubio?”
Cpl. Cam
@dmsilev: They would have their base convinced he was the anti-Christ so fast your head would spin. In fact I’m guessing he ends up crucified again if he ever comes back.
Redshift
@sigaba:
And Donald Trump is vice-Fuhrer in charge of the former United States.
Keith P.
1000 is Donald Trump actually pulls his dick out during a debate.
amk
yet another hitlery benghaji !!! emails !!! nothingburger.
Tripod
Yahoo news lede: GOP candidates pledge to vote for man they call liar, con-man and fraud
Rubio, Cruz and Kasich also willing to suck his tiny, tiny finger for the VP slot.
eric
Jeb.
NotMax
Winning.
Tripod
RMoney MkII ends up with the nomination.
Nate Dawg
Sarah Palin in the lead.
Frankensteinbeck
#1000: It turns out, everybody is Kang the Conqueror.
One upside for the GOP: They finally have proof of massive voter ID fraud.
Lil' Chocolate Bronut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18N2k1TBBRE
ruemara
@NotMax: You, ftw
eric
The first several comments on this thread are so full of win I nearly cried from laughing. Jeebus..
Just Some Fuckhead
Cruz gets the nomination, picks Jesus to be VP.
Ripley
Ivanka’s pregnancy. Donald’s child. Damien Trump.
MikefromArlington
Come to find out Obama is actually Jesus and the Democratic Party wins the Christian vote by 99%.
hkedi
@Frankensteinbeck: NOOO!!! HOW DID YOU FIND OUT!! I AM KANG THE CONQUERER!!!!!
hkedi [Kang T.Q.]
I wear this tag in shame….
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I was thinking, “shot to death by wife along with a lobbyist in bed”
gogiggs
It involves tumbrels and guillotines and it’s probably the best scenario for the rest of us.
Bruce K
I submit for Worst-Case Scenario 1000:
President Obama announces that an extinction-level-event asteroid has been spotted heading towards Earth, but between NASA and the private launch enterprises, there’s a plan to deflect it safely, and all Congress needs to do is stay the hell out of the way and the Earth will be saved.
different-church-lady
#1000 is Trump wins the presidency.
lurker dean
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: nice. And then Trump calls Bill on stage and gives him a crisp one dollar bill.
Glidwrith
@Citizen Alan: You laugh, but someone out there is tracking the possibility that mental illness is an autoimmune disease.
SFAW
A) Baud! wins
B) Trump rips off his mask and reveals that he’s actually Nancy Pelosi
C) Scalia resurrects and says that God told him that the Repubs are the collective anti-Christ
D) The Kochs and Rupert Murdoch commit suicide together. While wearing wetsuits, etc.
E) China buys the entire US, then lines up the Rethugs against the wall, for “Crimes against Humanity”
F) Bill Kristol actually gets something right
OK, that last one is a little far-fetched
John PM
Teddy Roosevelt is resurrected and recreates the charge up San Juan Hill at the Republican National Convention.
Shantanu Saha
After Hillary Clinton is elected to office, John Roberts and Samuel Alito are found dead in the same bed. It is determined to be a murder-suicide, resulting from a love affair gone bad.
moops
The most likely outcome is one that most of you are not going to like.
Trump will run and lose to Clinton, by a larger margin than the usual 48-52 deal. Probably a 40-60 loss, which in US politics is being crushed. The billionaires will spend much more on other races and keep the other branches in their control. The pundits and establishment GOP will cluck “told you so, stupid base”. They will not grow or change their views and the next primaries will try and find their new G W Bush to run against Clinton in 2020 and likely retake the White House. The 2020 GOP candidate will have a traditional skill in dog whistle racism that is deniable and left unreported in the MSM and they will finally make inroads with minorities since the overt racists will be told to shut their dam mouths (sort of like how all the Democrat bloggers treat Naderites).
I would rank this outcome as the most likely and I’m surprised it just doesn’t get mentioned.
If Trump is the nominee, the party is going to throw the presidential race to save the party. Party *always* comes before country, and it is the only way they are getting rid of this loose cannon now.