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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:13:45pm
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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:13:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:14:00pm
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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:15:02pm

“Go out and vote and watch…you know what I’m talking about. “

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:18:46pm

He’s back to the wall and all his usual shtick.

I guess he is signaling to his new crew, especially Kellyanne Conway, he is still in charge. He can’t be having people in the media speculating the new staff is making him change, pivot whatever. That would make him look weak and not in control.

He is going to drive this campaign over the cliff himself.

I wonder, how long before we have another campaign staff shakeup. Sure it would be a bad signal and unprecedented…but this is TRUMP®.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:19:22pm
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KGxvi  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:19:55pm

I’m honestly amazed by what the electoral college map looks like this year. Going by 538’s polls-only projections, Arizona and Georgia are coin flips. Clinton’s chances in Missouri and South BY GAWD Cara-WHOOOOO-lina (/Ric Flair) are basically the same as having a flush draw with two cards to come in hold ‘em. And she’s looking at a gut shot straight draw in Utah of all places. Two years ago, I could not have imagined a scenario where those five states were that close.

Trump’s Downfall bunker scene is going to be epic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:20:39pm

still flogging that shit

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:20:42pm

He’s just crazier than a shit house mouse.

A very dangerous little mousie, to be sure, but delusional. He’s GOTTA know, at some level, that this isn’t going to work and he’s going to cost the R’s the Senate.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:24:58pm

re: #9 austin_blue

This was only yesterday.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Trump Is “Getting Into A Groove,” Polls Will Be Back To Even By Labor Day

realclearpolitics.com

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:26:32pm

re: #2 Jenner7

Trump again says he’s fighting for “peaceful regime change”

Until he loses.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:26:42pm

re: #10 Skip Intro

This was only yesterday.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Trump Is “Getting Into A Groove,” Polls Will Be Back To Even By Labor Day

realclearpolitics.com

Blather, Reince. Repeat….

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:29:03pm

re: #10 Skip Intro

This was only yesterday.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Trump Is “Getting Into A Groove,” Polls Will Be Back To Even By Labor Day

realclearpolitics.com

The poor man, living on Single Malt and Speedballs. Sad.

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Jay C  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:30:47pm

re: #10 Skip Intro

This was only yesterday.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Trump Is “Getting Into A Groove,” Polls Will Be Back To Even By Labor Day

realclearpolitics.com

And so when the first post-Labor Day polls show Trump losing by only nine points nationwide, rather than ten, he can blare away about “MOMENTUM!!11!!11!!!, and the idiot media will be sure to pick it up…

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:32:45pm

re: #14 Jay C

You know the words the media are just dying to say: “I think we’ve got a real horse race here, Wolf”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:34:47pm

re: #15 Skip Intro

You know the words the media are just dying to say: “I think we’ve got a real horse race here, Wolf”.

They will go to no ends to make it seem competitive, but that is their bread and butter.

This is truly a time when the media’s chief task, namely selling advertising time to client to generate earnings for their parent companies, clashes with its ostensible task of keeping Americans informed.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:35:29pm

re: #4 Jenner7

“Go out and vote and watch…you know what I’m talking about. “

Here’s the full quote.

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TedStriker  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:36:15pm

re: #10 Skip Intro

This was only yesterday.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Trump Is “Getting Into A Groove,” Polls Will Be Back To Even By Labor Day

realclearpolitics.com

re: #13 austin_blue

The poor man, living on Single Malt and Speedballs. Sad.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:37:04pm

re: #17 Stanley Sea

Here’s the full quote.

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Shorter Trump:

“If I can’t have a presidency, then nobody can.”

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Jenner7  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:37:23pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:38:18pm

re: #20 Jenner7

Trump sees several black people in almost entirely white Ohio rally crowd, points a finger at them, stops to chat.

looks like reverse racism to me. why is he ignoring white people?

/

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:38:39pm

Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, Donnie. You’re talking about Wasting People’s Time, because voter fraud is fundamentally non-existent in this country.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:39:03pm

re: #13 austin_blue

The poor man, living on Single Malt and Speedballs. Sad.

I have no sympathy for the likes of Reince Preibus. Like all senior Republican leaders, he has done his part to foster the belligerent ignorance and malice of Trump’s supporters.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:39:06pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:41:49pm

re: #22 austin_blue

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Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, Donnie. You’re talking about Wasting People’s Time, because voter fraud is fundamentally non-existent in this country.

Voter Fraud is going to be massively reported in 2016, since everyone will be out looking for it with finely tuned eyes. So finely tuned that they will see it in places that it does not even exist!!!

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:44:27pm

I wonder if they’ll notice here in Wisconsin that every real case of voter fraud since the Republican Coup here has been committed by Republicans?

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:48:18pm

Even Roger Stone Says Trump Should Release His Tax Returns ‘Immediately’

So what’s that about?

talkingpointsmemo.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:49:22pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:50:10pm

All those ads that show clips of him saying crazy shit, those are correct.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:51:37pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

Trumpism on “phony ads”: “Those ads are absolutely phony with the exception of certain little parts of them.”]

You mean the parts where you are shown speaking in context without an entire set of media networks coming up and explaining what you really did and did not mean to say?

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:51:49pm

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Voter Fraud is going to be massively reported in 2016, since everyone will be out looking for it with finely tuned eyes. So finely tuned that they will see it in places that it does not even exist!!!

Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Church bus pulls up to a polling place in Georgia with black people on it and…Voter Fraud!

Larger than normal turnout in the Rio Grande Valley, and…Voter Fraud!

Mormons voting for a Democrat, Presbyterian, Republican-raised woman from Park Ridge, IL and… Voter Fraud!

They will see what isn’t there and the worst of them will run for their rifles.

Fate help us, but someone or something has just *got* to try take the wattage down on this election. I’m starting to feel molto nervoso about the ensuing shrapnel.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:52:10pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

That’s a very strange thing for Trump to say. Why admit that anything in the Clinton ads is “not phony”? The fact that the Clinton ads (I assume) are mainly based on recordings of Trump himself is surely not an obstacle to fact-averse Republicans.

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:52:37pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

Sopan Deb ✔ @SopanDeb
Trumpism on “phony ads”: “Those ads are absolutely phony with the exception of certain little parts of them.”
7:42 PM - 22 Aug 2016
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Those ads are phony.

They show a phony, saying crazy phony things about phony things he is going to do.

100% full of phony.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:56:52pm

“Voter Fraud” in Nevada: Watch as O’Queef, or somebody pretending to be him, harasses and bullies a woman registering people to vote

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:57:08pm

re: #31 austin_blue

Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Church bus pulls up to a polling place in Georgia with black people on it and…Voter Fraud!

Larger than normal turnout in the Rio Grande Valley, and…Voter Fraud!

Mormons voting for a Democrat, Presbyterian, Republican-raised woman from Park Ridge, IL and… Voter Fraud!

They will see what isn’t there and the worst of them will run for their rifles.

Fate help us, but someone or something has just *got* to try take the wattage down on this election. I’m starting to feel molto nervoso about the ensuing shrapnel.

There will be no dialing back of the intensity of this election between now and November. It’s going to be incredibly nerve-wracking, but hopefully a good thing if the end result is a clear referendum on blatant racism in America with a sufficiently decisive anti-GOP result.

Presidency, Senate and House for the Democrats would be a good start. The GOP as a party is not qualified to hold any public office anywhere in the US at any level, down to county commissioners for counties with less than 100 inhabitants.

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Jay C  Aug 22, 2016 • 4:58:23pm

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Voter Fraud is going to be massively reported in 2016, since everyone will be out looking for it with finely tuned eyes. So finely tuned that they will see it in places that it does not even exist!!!

IOW, EVERYWHERE!!!!*

*except, of course, for reliably Republican-voting precincts: NEVER any fraud there- it’s unpossible!

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:05:33pm

I remember the days when a Donald Trump rally thread would run to hundreds of responses. Now it’s struggling to break 40.

So sad. I guess it’s time for the pizza pics again.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:07:03pm

re: #37 Skip Intro

I remember the days when a Donald Trump rally thread would run to hundreds of responses. Now it’s struggling to break 40.

So sad. I guess it’s time for the pizza pics again.

We all pretty much know what the witless fucking cocksplat is going to say. Wake me up when he drops his pants to respond to the compelling “small hands” issue.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:09:15pm

re: #38 EPR-radar

We all pretty much know what the witless fucking cocksplat is going to say. Wake me up when he drops his pants to respond to the compelling “small hands” issue.

Actually, no, at that point just pass the hard liquor.

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worldknot  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:16:53pm

re: #22 austin_blue

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Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, Donnie. You’re talking about Wasting People’s Time, because voter fraud is fundamentally non-existent in this country.

I fear he’s talking about something else entirely.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:18:53pm

re: #39 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Actually, no, at that point just pass the hard liquor.

Well, I do need to be awake if someone is going to pass me the 200 proof lab ethyl, so we’re in basic agreement here.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:19:31pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

Well, I do need to be awake if someone is going to pass me the 200 proof lab ethyl, so we’re in basic agreement here.

I’ll dump it in the IV.

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BeachDem  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:20:33pm

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will go to no ends to make it seem competitive, but that is their bread and butter.

This is truly a time when the media’s chief task, namely selling advertising time to client to generate earnings for their parent companies, clashes with its ostensible task of keeping Americans informed.

Reason number 11,345 why the “media” hates Aaron Sorkin and hated Newsroom (I’ve been re-watching it and enjoying it as much the second time around as the first). From season 1, episode 3, the Will McAvoy character opens his newscast with:

In the infancy of mass communications, the Columbus and Magellan of broadcast journalism, William Paley and David Sarnoff, went down to Washington to cut a deal with Congress.

Congress would allow the fledgling networks free use of taxpayer-owned airwaves in exchange for one public service.

That public service would be one hour of air time set aside every night for informational broadcasting, or what we now call the evening news.

Congress, unable to anticipate the enormous capacity television would have to deliver consumers to advertisers, failed to include in its deal the one requirement that would have changed our national discourse immeasurably for the better. Congress forgot to add that under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting.

They forgot to say that taxpayers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day you should make a profit, but for one hour a night you work for us.

And now those network newscasts… have to compete with the likes of me.
A cable anchor who’s in the exact same business as the producers of Jersey Shore.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:20:59pm

re: #35 EPR-radar

There will be no dialing back of the intensity of this election between now and November. It’s going to be incredibly nerve-wracking, but hopefully a good thing if the end result is a clear referendum on blatant racism in America with a sufficiently decisive anti-GOP result.

Presidency, Senate and House for the Democrats would be a good start. The GOP as a party is not qualified to hold any public office anywhere in the US at any level, down to county commissioners for counties with less than 100 inhabitants.

Well, the gerrymander from the 2010 census ensures the HoR won’t flip this cycle. As for the rest, yes, let us hope for a Yuuge win. But the Gaspers will still go gonzo. Dicey time in the American polity.

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thedopefishlives  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:22:09pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Joe Bacon  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:26:25pm

Friends if you think it’s awful now—just wait till Mercury goes retrograde next week!

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BeachDem  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:28:24pm

I’m sure Trump will fix this:

The St.Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that a federal judge has halted elections for the school board in the Ferguson-Florrissant, Missouri, school district until further notice, saying the process is “stacked against African Americans:”

The ruling states that the election system is in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

dailykos.com

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:28:30pm

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Voter Fraud is going to be massively reported in 2016, since everyone will be out looking for it with finely tuned eyes. So finely tuned that they will see it in places that it does not even exist!!!

Trump voters will see the same black or latino man vote over and over again (because “those people” all look the same).

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:28:33pm

Ok, this is just a plain hoot. Piano sonata #14 by Beethoveen, AKA the Moonlight Sonata, as transcribed for metal/shred electric guitar.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata ( 3rd Movement ) Tina S Cover

I actually prefer her version of The Trooper by Iron Maiden but that’s a different story… ;)

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BeachDem  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:34:06pm

And, of course, word that Trump’s web designer/$8 million ad guy is a dirtball:

Turns out the web designer has been leveraging the Trump Campaigns website to usurp other web designers in the San Antonio area by hiding links in his clients’ webpages (big no no for google because they can contain malware and are generally considered spam):

So basically there are a set of tactics that Google has said it does not condone, and it will punish companies for engaging in them. Basically Parscale is deep in these proscribed tactics for his own web development business. Generally considered very shady in the digital marketing space.

dailykos.com

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:36:15pm

re: #31 austin_blue

I’m starting to feel molto nervoso about the ensuing shrapnel.

And that’s how they win. The correct emotion for this is anger, not nervousness, or fear.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:42:09pm

re: #44 austin_blue

Well, the gerrymander from the 2010 census ensures the HoR won’t flip this cycle. As for the rest, yes, let us hope for a Yuuge win. But the Gaspers will still go gonzo. Dicey time in the American polity.

That’s not the correct way to think about it. The gerrymander of 2010 is precisely what might put a large number of house seats in play this election, with Trump at the top of the ticket bringing unplanned levels of destruction to GOP down ticket races.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:43:02pm

re: #51 Belafon

And that’s how they win. The correct emotion for this is anger, not nervousness, or fear.

I am not afraid, just nervous. I have the means to protect my family if it all goes tits-up, and I live in a little blue pimple here in Texas. I’m nervous about my *country*, not my neighborhood. And yes, I’m angry that a pack of yahoos have taken over a major political party and the “adults” who purportedly lead them are falling into line behind The Toxic Cheetoh Shit Gibbon.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:45:05pm

re: #52 EPR-radar

That’s not the correct way to think about it. The gerrymander of 2010 is precisely what might put a large number of house seats in play this election, with Trump at the top of the ticket bringing unplanned levels of destruction to GOP down ticket races.

I disagree based on the demographics in those Districts- they didn’t go halfway, they went full segregation. But we’ll just have to see.

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:48:05pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:50:14pm

re: #54 austin_blue

I disagree based on the demographics in those Districts- they didn’t go halfway, they went full segregation. But we’ll just have to see.

We will see.

However, an effective Republican gerrymander will create a large number of R districts that are just safe enough for the Rs and a small number of districts that are very safe for the Democrats. This is because the whole point of the gerrymander is to create more districts for the Republicans than they really ought to have.

By its inherent nature, such a gerrymander is vulnerable to a mass reversal if there is some kind of GOP disaster (like nominating the vulgar talking yam).

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:51:22pm

re: #49 William Lewis

Ok, this is just a plain hoot. Piano sonata #14 by Beethoveen, AKA the Moonlight Sonata, as transcribed for metal/shred electric guitar.

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Video

I actually prefer her version of The Trooper by Iron Maiden but that’s a different story… ;)

Amazing how a lot of it sounds like Brian May and his Queen riffs.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:51:27pm

re: #56 EPR-radar

Yeah. Basically, the system works, until something very big happens. Then, it implodes.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:51:32pm

re: #56 EPR-radar

We will see.

However, an effective Republican gerrymander will create a large number of R districts that are just safe enough for the Rs and a small number of districts that are very safe for the Democrats. This is because the whole point of the gerrymander is to create more districts for the Republicans than they really ought to have.

By its inherent nature, such a gerrymander is vulnerable to a mass reversal if there is some kind of GOP disaster (like nominating the vulgar talking yam).

From your mouth to dog’s ear.

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:53:27pm

Earlier Trump: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

Current Trump: “I’ll straighten it out…you can walk down the street w/o getting shot. Now you walk down the street, you get shot.”

Shot by Trump, trying to prove he wouldn’t lose voters?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:54:16pm

re: #56 EPR-radar

We will see.

However, an effective Republican gerrymander will create a large number of R districts that are just safe enough for the Rs and a small number of districts that are very safe for the Democrats. This is because the whole point of the gerrymander is to create more districts for the Republicans than they really ought to have.

By its inherent nature, such a gerrymander is vulnerable to a mass reversal if there is some kind of GOP disaster (like nominating the vulgar talking yam).

I used to think “Oh, gerrymandering is only something they do down in the racist deep South” and then I saw this and I’m like OMFG

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:54:35pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:56:07pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Fractal political districts.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:59:04pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

I used to think “Oh, gerrymandering is only something they do down in the racist deep South” and then I saw this and I’m like OMFG

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When the Roberts court gutted the enforcement part of the VRA because it didn’t cover everything, I wish the court had declared that it applied to every part of the country.

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 5:59:55pm

re: #57 ObserverArt

Amazing how a lot of it sounds like Brian May and his Queen riffs.

Yeah, she’ll get even better once her personal style settles out. But her technique sure puts mine to shame O_o

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:01:16pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

I used to think “Oh, gerrymandering is only something they do down in the racist deep South” and then I saw this and I’m like OMFG

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Some of the Ohio districts are crazy too. Like #4 with blockhead Jim Jordan.

Then there is #7 with Bob Gibbs who basically runs uncontested. My one brother lives in that district.

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:04:36pm

re: #66 ObserverArt

I’d seen that Ohio map before. It’s insane.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:07:45pm

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

“Voter Fraud” in Nevada: Watch as O’Queef, or somebody pretending to be him, harasses and bullies a woman registering people to vote

[Embedded content]

Don’t know Nevada registration law, but she’d be OK in ‘non-partisan’ Alabama registration as long as the owner of the venue was cool with it and they did honestly register any interested Republican. It’s the forms and process that are non-partisan, not the volunteers or the state/county officials.

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:10:15pm

Why yes, I’m drinking and surfing guitar videos on youtube. Much less depressing than dealing the current events and the Trumphadi.

Mark Knopfler - Going Home

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freetoken  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:10:21pm

WaPo runs with a screaming headline:

Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Dept.

It’s the Daily Double: emails + foundation.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:11:19pm

re: #64 Belafon

When the Roberts court gutted the enforcement part of the VRA because it didn’t cover everything, I wish the court had declared that it applied to every part of the country.

That voting rights act decision by the Roberts court really was obnoxious.

I’d like to see CJ Roberts grilled on the merits of that decision by the dissent in view of later developments, especially the North Carolina case.

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danarchy  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:11:44pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

I used to think “Oh, gerrymandering is only something they do down in the racist deep South” and then I saw this and I’m like OMFG

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Yeah, Barney Frank’s district in MA used to be ridiculously gerrymandered, they recently redid them so they are a little more sane.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:12:10pm

re: #70 freetoken

From the previous thread:

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:13:28pm
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EmmaAnne  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:14:08pm

Colorado’s are rather sensible, but the courts had to step in last time because we had a divided government.

Colorado Congressional Districts
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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:17:02pm

re: #69 William Lewis

Though the scene it plays out is one of the saddest in all movies.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:17:34pm

Good question:

What is the largest city in the country without a Congressman within the city limits?

That would be Austin. We are chopped into 5 Districts that reach from Houston to San Antonio to East Texas to the Hill country.

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Snarknado!  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:18:31pm

re: #66 ObserverArt

California said “a plague on both your houses” a few years ago, and gave control to a Citizen’s committee. So we have rationally drawn “purple” districts — as purple as is possible in a bright-blue state.

Of course, the committee is new, and hasn’t had time to be corrupted yet. (What me cynical? Moi?)

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:19:31pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Many people are saying Trump hurt his little hands holding the boxes of Play-Doh. Now he can’t tweet, so he’s dictating to his staff.

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KGxvi  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:20:08pm

re: #75 EmmaAnne

Colorado’s are rather sensible, but the courts had to step in last time because we had a divided government.

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After the legislature decided to draw the lines in both the state and federal districts so that no seat changed party for a decade, California voters took redistricting out of their hands.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:20:38pm

re: #78 Snarknado!

California said “a plague on both your houses” a few years ago, and gave control to a Citizen’s committee. So we have rationally drawn “purple” districts — as purple as is possible in a bright-blue state.

Of course, the committee is new, and hasn’t had time to be corrupted yet. (What me cynical? Moi?)

There are computer GIS algorithms that will yield an inhumanly fair reapportionment map. Let us all know if you ever hear of one in use.

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:23:20pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

There are computer GIS algorithms that will yield an inhumanly fair reapportionment map. Let us all know if you ever hear of one in use.

I’ve been calling for that for years. And every 10 years run the programs again to redo anything that needs redone.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:23:20pm
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Frenchy  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:23:34pm

re: #70 freetoken

I read the article and see nothing that convinces me Clinton did anything wrong. She has an assistant that people email trying to get meetings with the SoS? SCANDALOUS!!1!

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:25:11pm

re: #80 KGxvi

After the legislature decided to draw the lines in both the state and federal districts so that no seat changed party for a decade, California voters took redistricting out of their hands.

That was a special kind of gerrymander — the incumbent protection plan. Getting rid of that was a good idea.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:25:12pm

re: #82 ObserverArt

I’ve been calling for that for years. And ever 10 years run the programs again to redo anything that needs redone.

Which might take several minutes instead of several years of BS in the legislatures and courts.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:25:47pm
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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:26:34pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

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Gah! We’re being email bored-ed.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:26:44pm

Ethical journalism, jumbo shrimp.

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EPR-radar  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:28:16pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Come on. Hannity is with Fox News. That means referring to either his “ethics” or his practice of “journalism” is a category error.

It’s like talking about the deep philosophical thinking of sea cucumbers.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:28:51pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Ethical journalism and Fox?

SNORT!!!!

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:29:10pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Okay, I’m started to get worried about Charles. Perhaps the strain of watching multiple Trump rallies is taking a toll?

I mean, he used the words “ethical”, “journalism” and Hannity in the same sentence. Not a good sign…

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:29:42pm

re: #75 EmmaAnne

That map is not quite accurate. I live in a gerrymandered district, #3. Republicans were able to wrest a few thousand more votes away from Democrats by dividing Eagle County in half.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:29:43pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:31:59pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:32:02pm

re: #92 A Cranky One

Okay, I’m started to get worried about Charles. Perhaps the strain of watching multiple Trump rallies is taking a toll?

I mean, he used the words “ethical”, “journalism” and Hannity in the same sentence. Not a good sign…

No two of those words belong in the same sentence.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:32:49pm

re: #22 austin_blue

[Embedded content]

Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, Donnie. You’re talking about Wasting People’s Time, because voter fraud is fundamentally non-existent in this country.

Except that Trump!™ and his cultists regard a vote for anyone but an R is a fraud.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:33:41pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:33:42pm

re: #97 Romantic Heretic

Except that Trump!™ and his cultists regard a vote for anyone but an R is a fraud.

Black people waiting in line together with white people is “voter fraud”

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:34:38pm

re: #92 A Cranky One

Okay, I’m started to get worried about Charles. Perhaps the strain of watching multiple Trump rallies is taking a toll?

I mean, he used the words “ethical”, “journalism” and Hannity in the same sentence. Not a good sign…

As someone once said, you could take all of the ethics of Fox News employees, stuff them into a gnat’s navel, and still have room for a watermelon and Donald Trump’s heart.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:34:49pm

Mike Pence apparently has no clue what good food is.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:35:02pm

But this blowjob in book form, he loves==>

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:35:33pm

re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg

Mike Pence apparently has no clue what good food is.

Isn’t he the one who went to Chillie’s in NYC rather than find a decent steak house?

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:36:32pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

Is KFC paying Trump a product placement fee?

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lockjawcanbefun  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:37:12pm

re: #104 Skip Intro

No. Popeye’s is.

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:38:22pm

re: #104 Skip Intro

Is KFC paying Trump a product placement fee?

Maybe KFC donated the food. It’s a sneaky assassination attempt.

////////

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:39:11pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Though the scene it plays out is one of the saddest in all movies.

Oh I know.

It’s a tossup for me if I’ll ask for Going Home or Into the West (the ending of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) as the recessional at my funeral mass.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:39:26pm

re: #102 The Vicious Babushka

People are saying that Ann Coulter is a meth addict who hasn’t actually written one of her books in decades. That’s what many people are saying. I’m not saying that but many many people are.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:39:57pm

re: #104 Skip Intro

Is KFC paying Trump a product placement fee?

Them and Play-Doh

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:41:54pm

re: #108 Skip Intro

People are saying that Ann Coulter is a meth addict who hasn’t actually written one of her books in decades. That’s what many people are saying. I’m not saying that but many many people are.

I know what you are not saying!

It is not out of the realm of being possible, so I think it must be treated as probable.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:42:33pm

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

I dare Pence to try eating something from Long John Silver’s.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:43:50pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

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Is this a new event? He’s canceling 3 others & doing this?

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Nyet  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:43:54pm

“What do you have to lose” is predicated on the assumption that all or most African-Americans are in utter poverty. You be the judge of how racist this assumption is.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:45:38pm

re: #111 Skip Intro

I dare Pence to try eating something from Long John Silver’s.

That’s like daring a squirrel to eat nuts.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:45:55pm

re: #111 Skip Intro

I dare Pence to try eating something from Long John Silver’s.

I bet Chick-Fil-A is none too happy tRump pushing KFC. After Chick supported all that outrage for the Repubs.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:48:14pm

re: #115 Eventual Carrion

I bet Chick-Fil-A is none too happy tRump pushing KFC. After Chick supported all that outrage for the Repubs.

I’m sure KFC is paying him. That was the entire basis of his Apprentice show.

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:49:27pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Good question:

What is the largest city in the country without a Congressman within the city limits?

That would be Austin. We are chopped into 5 Districts that reach from Houston to San Antonio to East Texas to the Hill country.

Bummer. It’s even the freakin’ state capitol.

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:50:13pm

re: #113 Nyet

“What do you have to lose” is predicated on the assumption that all or most African-Americans are in utter poverty. You be the judge of how racist this assumption is.

Built on the fact too many white Americans think exactly the same. Some of them I’d go as far to say live in similar and worse poverty. It always has more to do with race.

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:50:37pm

re: #115 Eventual Carrion

I bet Chick-Fil-A is none too happy tRump pushing KFC. After Chick supported all that outrage for the Repubs.

KFC outbid CFA :LOL:

I actually don’t mind. KFC is greasy but edible which makes it better than that nasty inedible garbage at CFA.

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VegasGolfer  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:50:37pm

re: #115 Eventual Carrion

I bet Chick-Fil-A is none too happy tRump pushing KFC. After Chick supported all that outrage for the Repubs.

Chick-fil-a is opening up here in henderson, nv. right down the street from popeyes.
Its a no brainer to where I’m gonna give my buisness to.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:51:07pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

I’ll give Pence props for actually touching the chicken. It’s not a pose like Trump’s picture.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:51:14pm

re: #116 Skip Intro

I’m sure KFC is paying him. That was the entire basis of his Apprentice show.

Ok, I never watched the show.

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:55:39pm

I bet that the Trump campaign thinks that eating fried chicken is minority voter outreach.

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:55:41pm

re: #121 Belafon

I’ll give Pence props for actually touching the chicken. It’s not a pose like Trump’s picture.

Pence has bigger hands. He can pick it up.

Trump’s little tiny hands would look ridiculous holding a KFC leg. It would look like he was gnawing on a pterodactyl leg.

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majii  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:56:58pm

re: #120 VegasGolfer

I haven’t been to a Chick-Fil-A since the year the Right decided to reward Truett Cathy for opposing LGBTQ Americans’ right to sue for their full civil rights by declaring a Chick-Fil-A Day for bigots and haters. I live less than two miles from two of them here in Middle GA, but I spend my money elsewhere. In fact, I make it a point to not even glance at these restaurants as I drive by it. Never again will CFA spend any part of my money on one of their hate campaigns.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:56:59pm

re: #122 Eventual Carrion

Ok, I never watched the show.

As I remember it, most shows were based on promoting some corporate entity that had paid Trump for the advertising.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:59:02pm

re: #123 stpaulbear

I bet that the Trump campaign thinks that eating fried chicken is minority voter outreach.

Taco bowls and fried chicken, hmmm

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:59:28pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 6:59:56pm

re: #127 Eventual Carrion

Taco bowls and fried chicken, hmmm

Next will be chop suey for the Asian vote.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:00:48pm

re: #129 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Next will be chop suey for the Asian vote.

Panda Express

gag

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:01:05pm


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gwangung  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:01:21pm

re: #129 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Next will be chop suey for the Asian vote.

More like offering Uncle Ben’s Rice…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:01:50pm

re: #130 Stanley Sea

Panda Express

gag

I went to Panda Express — once.

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majii  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:01:51pm

re: #123 stpaulbear

If he and Pence think they’re “reaching out” to me by posting pics of them eating fried chicken on Twitter, they’re SOL because I don’t eat fried chicken. I don’t cook it, and I don’t order it when I’m in a mood to consume fast food. If only people like them were more aware, they’d know that many of us have modified our eating habits over the years in order to avoid obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure, major killers of persons in our demographic.

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:03:37pm

re: #112 Stanley Sea

Is this a new event? He’s canceling 3 others & doing this?

The so-called hard working businessman is a spoiled lazy brat. Travelling and actually reading speeches rather than just bullshitting for an hour is just too much work.

Trump talks tough, but since the media stopped fawning over him and started asking questions, he’s avoided all networks but Fox. And his continuing attacks and condemnation of the media combined with his cowardice makes it unlikely he’ll make appearances anywhere but Fox, where the “interviews” are basically Trump commercials.

The irony is that he was able to run a cheap primary campaign because of all the media attention and he seems to be using the same strategy for the general election. But now that he’s avoiding all media but Fox, he’s limited to preaching to the choir at Fox’s audience. Since he’s spent almost nothing on ads and GOTV efforts, limiting his TV campaigning to his base seems foolhardy.

But then, it is Trump.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:04:40pm

re: #135 A Cranky One

Has he run any ads relating to the GE?

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:06:08pm

re: #130 Stanley Sea

Panda Express

gag

Chork - Chopstick fork
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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:06:30pm

re: #133 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I went to Panda Express — once.

I used to have a mini mall where I had to stop for a delivery when I drove for Schneider. Panda Express was the best of the four restaurants there… O_o

At least it didn’t give me dysentery…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:06:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:07:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:09:48pm

Ugh, the Rage Furby posted another longer video of himself stalking the Gawker office in Budapest, lying about his agenda to a guy he finds there. Seriously creepy.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:10:41pm

re: #138 William Lewis

At least it didn’t give me dysentery…

Oughtta be around their trademarked avi.

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:13:12pm

re: #136 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Has he run any ads relating to the GE?

He finally bought some ad time last week. For Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.

Some PACs have run ads, but overall spending is tiny.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:13:47pm

re: #140 Charles Johnson

A black man was elected president, and no one would cower in fear when white supremacists began waving their penises guns around in public.

145
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:20:55pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Ugh, the Rage Furby posted another longer video of himself stalking the Gawker office in Budapest, lying about his agenda to a guy he finds there. Seriously creepy.

With any luck, someone will call the cops and have him arrested.

146
A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:21:29pm

re: #144 Belafon

They don’t have enough penis to wave. Hence the guns.

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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:22:41pm

re: #145 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Be nice if they kicked his ass out of the country.

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:24:32pm
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plansbandc  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:24:51pm

re: #125 majii

Could not agree more. I regret spending any money there ever.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:24:54pm

re: #147 Skip Intro

Be nice if they kicked his ass out of the country.

People like Rage Furby forget that American law stops at the border. The kind of nonsense he can get away with in the USA — stalking people, for example — may not be tolerated at all in another country.

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:26:33pm

What’s a little anti-Black birtherism, anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican bigotry between Republicans, right?
But money, that’s serious.

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:27:47pm
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Skip Intro  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:31:07pm

re: #148 jaunte

Trump really like the way Hannity handles his balls. Very worshipful, as Trump deserves.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:31:59pm

Hmmm.. I wonder why? What has the Texas Leg done that might have resulted in this trend?

Oh, and this among the richest countries in all of the Western World:

theguardian.com

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:32:00pm

Ok, I should know better, but living in flyover in the 70’s Jefferson Starship was a big part of our music scene. Not often on the radio but thankfully better than, say, “love is like oxygen” or the like…

Jefferson Starship- Ride The Tiger

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Frankie Five Angels  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:43:58pm

Many people are saying Trump’s Latino outreach is going to be Trump Taco Trucks blaring Selena in every housing construction area in Texas. I’m not saying that, but many, many people are.

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Frankie Five Angels  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:44:35pm

re: #153 Skip Intro

Trump really like the way Hannity handles his balls. Very worshipful, as Trump deserves.

Many people are saying that.

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A Cranky One  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:44:58pm

re: #148 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Trump is a reflection of his base. Any reasonable, intelligent person would be learning the essentials about the economy, foreign policy, the responsibilities of the executive branch and its powers, etc. in preparation for the debates and the possibility of winning the election.

But Trump is lazy and running in a party where ignorance is a virtue and facts are determined by dogma rather than reality. So we could end up with a President who believes silly conspiracy theories while declaring the intelligence services idiots unworthy of consulting. Who, if unrestrained, would order war crimes and even use of nuclear weapons.

This has been your evening spooky story.

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:45:50pm

re: #158 A Cranky One

Trump is a reflection of his base.

I was just watching this:

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:46:25pm

re: #62 Stanley Sea

[Embedded content]

I saw the clip of him saying this. Then he stood there shaking his head with an expression on his face that seemed to be saying “what the hell is wrong with these people?”

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:49:11pm

re: #70 freetoken

WaPo runs with a screaming headline:

Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Dept.

It’s the Daily Double: emails + foundation.

Because no Republican ever gave special access to rich people who donate money. 0_o

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jaunte  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:51:23pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:52:44pm

re: #78 Snarknado!

California said “a plague on both your houses” a few years ago, and gave control to a Citizen’s committee. So we have rationally drawn “purple” districts — as purple as is possible in a bright-blue state.

Of course, the committee is new, and hasn’t had time to be corrupted yet. (What me cynical? Moi?)

And California has another key reform; multiparty primaries, to prevent a tiny sliver of party activists from electing extreme candidates.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:54:58pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Hannity is no journalist.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:56:30pm

The copy for an attack ad based on this practically writes itself.

“Trump was already paying his own company tens of thousands of dollars from his campaign, which was shady enough. But when the large donations started rolling in, he jacked up the price over five times… even though he reduced the size of his staff working in Trump Tower.

If Trump is willing to fleece his own donors this way… what do you think he’ll do to the American taxpayer?”

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Nyet  Aug 22, 2016 • 7:58:39pm

re: #162 jaunte

Trumpsheviks.

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Nyet  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:00:21pm

Of course Lenin’s dreams of destroying the state resulted in the creation of the biggest totalitarian state.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:06:45pm

re: #107 William Lewis

Oh I know.

It’s a tossup for me if I’ll ask for Going Home or Into the West (the ending of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) as the recessional at my funeral mass.

Into the West kills me every time, because the third movie came out after my best friend died, and just yes.

I was working on it in harp this evening.

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ObserverArt  Aug 22, 2016 • 8:10:31pm

re: #166 Nyet

Trumpsheviks.

In cahoots with Bullshiteviks.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2016 • 9:33:12pm

re: #155 William Lewis

Ok, I should know better, but living in flyover in the 70’s Jefferson Starship was a big part of our music scene. Not often on the radio but thankfully better than, say, “love is like oxygen” or the like…

[Embedded content]

That’s nice, but I prefer this song:

Have You Seen The Stars Tonight - Jefferson Starship

Garcia adds a nice bit of pedal steels.

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steve_davis  Aug 23, 2016 • 4:37:05am

re: #107 William Lewis

Oh I know.

It’s a tossup for me if I’ll ask for Going Home or Into the West (the ending of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) as the recessional at my funeral mass.

for me it’s harvey mandel’s version of “I don’t need no doctor.”


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