I could shove an icepick in my eye

[giallarhorn]

And I am now done with all my classes for the semester, and I'm still alive! Hello summer break!

Post finals life has quickly gone from staring at at python scripts and trying to wrap my head around Slater determinants to this-

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[spaciireth]

I am honestly really worried for you guys re Trump. I would like to think that the voting public will see sense when it's crunch time, but I worry.

[giallarhorn]

It actually has me legitimately worried at this point he might win the general election? He's ousted every other Republican in the field, at least several of which were established figures in their party, and most of which probably had a better plan/overspent him. Most of the other candidates weren't all that great either, but they were very much in line with what you expected for the party? So at this point, I'm just wondering what sort of people I'm living with in the country where Trump is an attractive option to them.

[violateraindrop]

I remember talking with you about Trump being the potential nominee and now this happened. I've seen people talk about the convention nominating Cruz because the party itself doesn't want Trump, but that's impossible now, isn't it? Yikes.

[giallarhorn]

Yeah, I wouldn't have believed that he'd actually come out on top without at least having to go through a contested convention. Instead, he's got the nomination just like that. I mean, not that Cruz was particularly well liked by his own party afaik, but he's very much cut from the cloth of what you'd expect from the party. He's arguably just as bad as Trump, but he's bad in a way that's expected, and easier to rationalize as to why people would vote for him because he's a traditional conservative.

Again, it's just as scary that Trump won because it means that a majority of the people are supporting him.

[20hrsinamerica]

Barging in to answer your question. :)

Ultimately, the GOP leadership could perform a "coup" and try to nominate someone else (whether Cruz, or Ryan who seems to be the favorite, or whomever). It's just unlikely to happen now there isn't a "contested" convention. GOP leadership knows if they did this coup they'd lose the November election. Prior to Trump being the presumptive nominee, they could argue enough of the party members didn't want him; now they can't do that as effectively, so it's unlikely to get a convention nominee, though not impossible.

[violateraindrop]

Thank you for the explanation!
This election is really starting to look like something right out of House of Cards.

[nemophilist]

That cartoon is brilliant! Yay for being done for the summer! :)

[giallarhorn]

Haha, PhD comics is frightfully accurate when it comes to describing the grad school life. And yay summer for all that it's worth, even if there's no break!

[ragnarok_08]

Yes that cartoon is just amazing - just brilliant.

Hooray for being done for the summer :)

[giallarhorn]

Writing knows no boundaries, but neither does reminders that you should be writing things instead.

Well, summer in a loose sense of no more classes, but still having to do everything else. But hey, no classes is one less thing to worry about.

[giallarhorn]

Sort of? I mean, done with classes and we have the option to take summer classes and have TA, but I didn't see anything worth taking. But you're also on a quarter schedule, and start back up in September instead of August.

Problem is that toilet paper doesn't hold ink that well without it blotting. Also limited space to write, etc.