New From Keith Olbermann: The Secret Trick to Decoding Everything Donald Trump Says
Keith explains how to understand Donald Trump’s seemingly incoherent and irrational statements. (Bonus points for using the word “mountebank.”)
Keith explains how to understand Donald Trump’s seemingly incoherent and irrational statements. (Bonus points for using the word “mountebank.”)
“He’s such a flagrant, toxic narcissist.” That’s Bruce Springsteen’s view of @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/jHNrLZIXQr
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) October 18, 2016
I tried translating Trump once. All I got was “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
“If Hillary gets elected, we’re kinda going to war with Russia, folks.”
Jill Stein to Infowars. Yes. Infowars. pic.twitter.com/yaMwuMuTQx— Alan Kestrel (@AlanKestrel750) October 19, 2016
I would totally watch a TV comedy with Jill Stein & Alex Jones as a married couple. Like Dharma & Greg, but funnyhttps://t.co/PLbN6W7Nht
— TBogg (@tbogg) October 19, 2016
@jaketapper
So what you are saying is that there is no way that Trump can staunch the bleeding then?— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
So what is the latest bullshit story from Okeefe about some guy meeting with Obama?
Bad Blood? Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Reportedly No Longer Speak https://t.co/jHMe3G8fjX roflmao
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 19, 2016
“Ailes’s camp said Ailes learned that Trump couldn’t focus—surprise, surprise—and that advising him was a waste of time,” Sherman said. “These debate prep sessions weren’t going anywhere.”
On the Trump side, Ellison said the story is different: “Even for the second debate, Ailes kept going off on tangents and talking about his war stories while he was supposed to be prepping Trump.”
re: #5 gocart mozart
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I’m feeling pedantic this morning. Stanch the bleeding, not staunch it*.
Also, from a tweet in the last thread: Eke out, not eek out.
That is all.
*may have used this incorrectly occasionally myself.
re: #5 gocart mozart
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GOP consultant tells me no way can Trump win, but can staunch the bleeding and help other GOPers by sticking to issues, being statesmanlike
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 19, 2016
Wasn’t this sort of thing said prior to the last debate? How well did that work out?
.@scottfoval issues statement in response to @JamesOKeefeIII videos: pic.twitter.com/BqzDUwUugN
— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) October 19, 2016
re: #9 calochortus
I’m feeling pedantic this morning. Stanch the bleeding, not staunch it*.
Also, from a tweet in the last thread: Eke out, not eek out.That is all.
*may have used this incorrectly occasionally myself.
And the horse-related ones: “free rein” and “champing at the bit”.
NEW: Trump campaign paid for Pres. Obama’s half-brother Malik to travel from DC area to Las Vegas for tonight’s debate, @ABC confirms.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 19, 2016
re: #12 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And the horse-related ones: “free rein” and “champing at the bit”.
Yes.
Keith needs to do his thing on a soundstage or whatever that doesn’t echo quite so much.
re: #10 Alephnaught
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Wasn’t this sort of thing said prior to the last debate? How well did that work out?
Trump doesn’t know anything about issues, other than the election is rigged against him because polls.
re: #6 gocart mozart
There’s a Simpson’s quip for every situation.
re: #9 calochortus
I’m feeling pedantic this morning. Stanch the bleeding, not staunch it*.
Also, from a tweet in the last thread: Eke out, not eek out.That is all.
*may have used this incorrectly occasionally myself.
I did not know that.
This guy is a Breitbart writer.
Trump fan & estranged Obama bro wears Hamas scarf blaring “Jerusalem is ours-we are coming” & “From the river to the sea” (@Green_Footballs) pic.twitter.com/npZh1AvcsZ
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) October 19, 2016
I am shocked that a black African Mohammedan hates Israel and Jews. https://t.co/tNwbzjEHq8 @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs
— Robert Kraychik (@kr3ch3k) October 19, 2016
re: #9 calochortus
Eke has the archaic meaning of “also.” I learned this in high school choir when we sang Ralph Vaugn William’s Hodie featuring the line “my son, and eke a saviour, born.” I cannot hear that piece now without hearing it as Eek! A saviour born.
But that’s what happens when one is exposed to these things at 16, I suppose.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Mohammedan? What year is it? 1780?
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Dumb as a bag of hammers that one is. Trump invites a guy who is unrelated to Clinton in the hopes of ???? (profit?) Said guy is a Hamas supporter, and Trump’s payment to him to appear would also be akin to “giving money to Hamas” (as right wing nutters have long claimed in Friends of Hamas type accusations where donations end up going to the hands of Hamas).
Trump seems determined to cut out the middle man.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
This guy is a Breitbart writer.
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Trump fan & estranged Obama bro wears Hamas scarf blaring “Jerusalem is ours-we are coming” & “From the river to the sea” (@Green_Footballs) pic.twitter.com/npZh1AvcsZ
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) October 19, 2016
I am shocked that a black African Mohammedan hates Israel and Jews. https://t.co/tNwbzjEHq8 @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs
— Robert Kraychik (@kr3ch3k) October 19, 2016
But is he shocked that the Trump campaign paid for him to be in the audience at tonight’s debate?
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Newt Gingrich says Trump is an egomaniacal hothead who lashes out uncontrollably, but “hopes he grows out of it.” Dude. He’s 70 years old. pic.twitter.com/uTzogczlGC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: Trump campaign paid for Pres. Obama’s half-brother Malik to travel from DC area to Las Vegas for tonight’s debate, @ABC confirms.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 19, 2016
I really don’t get it - other than a flurry of inane Twitter-chat and the occasional news piece, what does the Trump campaign think they are going to achieve by having Malik Obama in the debate audience? Are they planning to have him jump up in the middle of the questions and yell that Barack was born in Kenya, after all? The same with Pat Smith?
I’m guessing they are probably there for a post-debate “press conference” where Malik O. will slag his half-brother over some BS or other, and Mrs. Smith will call Hillary a murderer again, but these sort of stunts (like so much else about Donald Trump’s campaign) make very little sense.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
@Green_Footballs I am willing to bet that these clowns will not vote Trump once they get into that voting booth. I would put $$$ on that.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 19, 2016
re: #12 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And the horse-related ones: “free rein” and “champing at the bit”.
To be extra pedantic, “champing” and “chomping” at the bit are both still valid, as “chomp” began as a variant of “champ” in regards to biting aggressively or noisly before eventually superseding it in popular use, and it’s that definition in play when you’re talking about at ‘the bit’. Unlike ‘rein’ and ‘reign’ which are two completely different things still, as with ‘staunch’ and ‘stanch’.
re: #24 Alephnaught
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But is he shocked that the Trump campaign paid for him to be in the audience at tonight’s debate?
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Is Robert K the Breitbart writer?
re: #26 Jay C
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I really don’t get it - other than a flurry of inane Twitter-chat and the occasional news piece, what does the Trump campaign think they are going to achieve by having Malik Obama in the debate audience? Are they planning to have him jump up in the middle of the questions and yell that Barack was born in Kenya, after all? The same with Pat Smith?
I’m guessing they are probably there for a post-debate “press conference” where Malik O. will slag his half-brother over some BS or other, and Mrs. Smith will call Hillary a murderer again, but these sort of stunts (like so much else about Donald Trump’s campaign) make very little sense.
Thank you for your donation to the Donald Trump for President campaign, we will be spending your hard earned dollars flying an Israel hating Muslim to Las Vegas!
Thank you!
re: #26 Jay C
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I really don’t get it - other than a flurry of inane Twitter-chat and the occasional news piece, what does the Trump campaign think they are going to achieve by having Malik Obama in the debate audience? Are they planning to have him jump up in the middle of the questions and yell that Barack was born in Kenya, after all? The same with Pat Smith?
I’m guessing they are probably there for a post-debate “press conference” where Malik O. will slag his half-brother over some BS or other, and Mrs. Smith will call Hillary a murderer again, but these sort of stunts (like so much else about Donald Trump’s campaign) make very little sense.
Trump and company are running this campaign as if it’s a reality show. And somehow, they believe they can control the outcome.
I can not wait for November 8 when they all get voted off the island.
re: #26 Jay C
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I really don’t get it - other than a flurry of inane Twitter-chat and the occasional news piece, what does the Trump campaign think they are going to achieve by having Malik Obama in the debate audience? Are they planning to have him jump up in the middle of the questions and yell that Barack was born in Kenya, after all? The same with Pat Smith?
I’m guessing they are probably there for a post-debate “press conference” where Malik O. will slag his half-brother over some BS or other, and Mrs. Smith will call Hillary a murderer again, but these sort of stunts (like so much else about Donald Trump’s campaign) make very little sense.
Trump views life through the lens of Hollywood. Ratings, drama, “reveals”, personality…it’s all he knows. He thinks that this will be a big ratings booster which in turn will make him more popular and thus win him the election.
He really has no clue. About anything.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Newt Gingrich says Trump is an egomaniacal hothead who lashes out uncontrollably, but “hopes he grows out of it.” Dude. He’s 70 years old. pic.twitter.com
— Charles Johnson
Media: But you still believe we should elect this hotheaded egomaniac who still needs to grow up, over Hillary?
Newt: Oh, yes, of course.
Google “Director of engineering” online interview…this is pretty funny.
BREAKING: Injuries in gas leak, explosion in Portland, Oregon.https://t.co/D75DdpcnKO
— KFDM News (@kfdmnews) October 19, 2016
Three firefighters and two civilians were injured this morning in a gas explosion in Northwest Portland. https://t.co/8lTgyUOXJI
— OPB (@OPB) October 19, 2016
re: #33 MsJ
Trump views life through the lens of Hollywood. Ratings, drama, “reveals”, personality…it’s all he knows. He thinks that this will be a big ratings booster which in turn will make him more popular and thus win him the election.
He really has no clue. About anything.
The election is so rigged. Believe me. And to overcome that, I’m going to…invite weird people to be my guests at the 3rd and final debate to show everyone how statesmanlike I am.
re: #26 Jay C
I’m guessing they are probably there for a post-debate “press conference” where Malik O. will slag his half-brother over some BS or other, and Mrs. Smith will call Hillary a murderer again, but these sort of stunts (like so much else about Donald Trump’s campaign) make very little sense.
That makes sense at some level (if one can even apply the concept of “sense” to this scampaign). Given what bannon said earlier re Malik being the “appetizer”, my predictions for tonight’s other debate stunts are:
1) Pat Smith will shout some variation of liar murderer you killed my son
2) trump will try to get whatever sycophants/fans he has in the audience to chant LOCK HER UP!!!!1!!
3) trump will triple down on promise to jail HRC if elected
Some of the tweets I’m getting from right wingers about Malik Obama are just mind-bogglingly stupid.
@Yair_Rosenberg @KirstenPowers @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs sounds an awful like Rev. Wright. President Obama’s friend & pastor for 20 yrs
— Matthew Nugent (@MattNugentGOP) October 19, 2016
@Yair_Rosenberg @KirstenPowers @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs Based on Obama’s actions, he does too
— Mike Babiarz (@MBabz10) October 19, 2016
@Yair_Rosenberg @KirstenPowers @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs funny, if he supported his brother this would be hidden.
— Ron (@RonTrisimons) October 19, 2016
Talk about fighting the last war. The right wing is still running against Obama. Perhaps in 4 years they will start running against Hillary.
re: #12 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And the horse-related ones: “free rein” and “champing at the bit”.
Oddly enough, free rein (let the horse go where it will) and free reign (a king can do anything) are equally plausible.
Also, toe the line (get right up to it but don’t cross over) and tow the line (pre-engine, ropes to people on tow-paths on either side would pull a barge up the canal).
re: #40 Charles Johnson
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God, these people are both stupid and ignorant.
Rev. Wright is a bog standard black Christian pastor.
re: #30 Sir John Barron
Is Robert K the Breitbart writer?
I’m assuming that is the case, based on what he tweeted, and the fact that it’s a quote with comment to the first tweet, and this is the way LGF formats posts when you add a tweet which does a quote with comment. EDIT: That, and the fact that Charles refers to “This guy”, and only one of the two is male.
I’m sure Charles can confirm if he meant Robert K.
re: #29 Kryptik: Just Done With It.
To be extra pedantic, “champing” and “chomping” at the bit are both still valid, as “chomp” began as a variant of “champ” in regards to biting aggressively or noisly before eventually superseding it in popular use, and it’s that definition in play when you’re talking about at ‘the bit’. Unlike ‘rein’ and ‘reign’ which are two completely different things still, as with ‘staunch’ and ‘stanch’.
I know. I still like champing at the bit even though I know language evolves.
“You” was once plural only and when it made its switch to singular and plural there was some linguistic chaos. Well educated people wrote “you was” when referring to a single person, but that just sounded wrong so we say “you were” even when referring to the singular use.
It is my absolute favorite example to use with people who insist the language should never change and the fact usages change is a sign of moral collapse.
re: #38 Interesting Times
That makes sense at some level (if one can even apply the concept of “sense” to this scampaign). Given what bannon said earlier re Malik being the “appetizer”, my predictions for tonight’s other debate stunts are:
1) Pat Smith will shout some variation of liar murderer you killed my son
2) trump will try to get whatever sycophants/fans he has in the audience to chant LOCK HER UP!!!!1!!
3) trump will triple down on promise to jail HRC if elected
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
re: #44 gwangung
God, these people are both stupid and ignorant.
Rev. Wright is a bog standard black Christian pastor.
But he said “God damn America” that one time. So he’s clearly a sekrit Muslim.
re: #42 I Would Prefer Not To
Talk about fighting the last war. The right wing is still running against Obama. Perhaps in 4 years they will start running against Hillary.
They’re still running against Bill Clinton!!
re: #47 MsJ
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
Fourth person is supposedly Bill Clinton’s “secret son”.
re: #47 MsJ
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
Charles C. Johnson, of course.
Hopefully they keep Malik away from Hillary after the debate while she works the audience.
re: #47 MsJ
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
I have seen (speculation on Twitter) that it is some mystery guest who will EXPOSE THE HORRIFIC CRIMINAL CRIMES OF TEH CROOKED CLINTONES!!!!!!! ONCE & FOR ALL!!!!!11!
Maybe “Sheriff Joe” and “Sheriff David” will make a sovereign citizens arrest?
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fourth person is supposedly Bill Clinton’s “secret son”.
Confirmed?
Yawn. That’s disappointing and won’t give Trump the ratings he desires. Sad!
re: #47 MsJ
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
According to some stuff I’ve read on the ‘Net, it’s supposedly another of Bill Clinton’s “victims”….(?)
More Trump Debate Guests: Amb Chris Stevens’ fiance, “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell, 4 Angel Moms, Malik Obama, Pat Smith.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 19, 2016
Have you experienced the tragic loss of a loved one? The Trump Campaign would like to exploit it for a cheap political trolling opportunity! https://t.co/09VL92Cn7B
— delrayser (@delrayser) October 19, 2016
Are you tuning in tonight to watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?” Also known as #debatenight. #GreatPumpkin50 pic.twitter.com/QTJDpAnrwV
— Jon Hutson (@JonHutson) October 19, 2016
re: #53 The Vicious Babushka
I have seen (speculation on Twitter) that it is some mystery guest who will EXPOSE THE HORRIFIC CRIMINAL CRIMES OF TEH CROOKED CLINTONES!!!!!!! ONCE & FOR ALL!!!!!11!
Maybe “Sheriff Joe” and “Sheriff David” will make a sovereign citizens arrest?
The Secret Service would love that one.
re: #47 MsJ
Former reporter alleges for first time that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her decades ago https://t.co/564drZPPSo pic.twitter.com/xQf0DEZhlZ
— BI Politics (@bi_politics) October 19, 2016
? Could be this one, but I doubt it. Too obscure, and it’s not like anything else Trump has thrown at Clinton has gotten her off her game.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Dozens of people were evacuated from three buildings in the area of NW 23rd Avenue and Glisan Street just before 9 a.m. for a gas leak.
Moments later, two explosions were heard, sending large black plumes into the air.
The explosion appears to have been at Portland Bagelworks, whose building is a total loss. The owner of the shop told KATU News all his employees are accounted for.
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Exciting bagels. I’m glad the evacuation was before the explosion.
I bought a bike near there in 1984. I worked in a restaurant near there in around 1987.
A #debate preview that says it all. pic.twitter.com/vnn4VMByLB
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 19, 2016
re: #47 MsJ
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
Someone suggested Clinton’s ‘illegitimate son.’ Makes about as much sense as inviting Malik, but there you go.
Donald Trump is also inviting a local Brownie Troop to the debate. Not to rattle Hillary, but so he can book them for dates in 10 years.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) October 19, 2016
Lunch! More of a real Cubano than yesterday’s, this one has smoked pork because the mojo pork is still frozen.
Somebody finally noticed.
GOP obstructionism gone haywire: No new Supreme Court justices until the next Republican president?
After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died this year, President Obama went about nominating a successor, as required by the Constitution. But Senate Republicans — including John McCain of Arizona — resisted, insisting that the vacancy should be filled by the president chosen by voters in November. They invoked (or fabricated) a “rule” that a president’s right to have his Supreme Court nominees considered by the Senate lapses in an election year.
Now that Hillary Clinton seems likely to win the election, however, some Republicans are changing their tune. This week, McCain promised that “we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.” Huh?
It was a reminder of just how unprincipled Republicans have been in refusing to bring the court up to strength. This fight has been all about partisan advantage, and if that means the court must leave some important issues unresolved because of a 4-4 deadlock, so be it.
McCain’s outrageous threat also highlighted a longer-term problem: the bipartisan repudiation of the idea that the Senate should defer to a president’s choice of a Supreme Court justice so long as the nominee is well qualified, untarnished by accusations of personal wrongdoing and within the mainstream of legal thought.
Spoiler alert: He was actually wrong. #Debate pic.twitter.com/EVaiJio993
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 19, 2016
re: #60 lawhawk
So Trump is going for the HE DID IT, SO IT’S OK THAT I DID IT! angle?
In what world does that make sense?
@Yair_Rosenberg @KirstenPowers @NTarnopolsky @Green_Footballs You got the wrong brother. Obama is the one you are referring too
— Deplorable Rafael (@rgone111) October 19, 2016
re: #22 Dragonomics
Mohammedan? What year is it? 1780?
RWNJs would undoubtedly be fretting about the Saracen menace, if any of them knew the word.
re: #61 wrenchwench
Exciting bagels. I’m glad the evacuation was before the explosion.
I bought a bike near there in 1984. I worked in a restaurant near there in around 1987.
Not far from where I used to live back in the 90s; NW Hoyt/NW 22nd Ave. It’s walking distance.
re: #65 jeffreyw
What kind of bread is that?
I swear, finding good bread outside of a bakery these days is virtually impossible. I am going to have to learn how to bake bread. My attempts to date are good but not great.
re: #61 wrenchwench
Exciting bagels. I’m glad the evacuation was before the explosion.
I bought a bike near there in 1984. I worked in a restaurant near there in around 1987.
The hot water heater…incident…that inspired Mythbusters’ experiments in that area was at a taco shop in Burien (WA), a few blocks from where I was living at the time.
(Yes, I know “hot water heater” is redundant but it doesn’t look like I’m going to stop saying it at this late date….)
I wonder if Trump is actually preparing for the debate itself, you know, to be able to answer questions on policy and stuff.
re: #68 MsJ
So Trump is going for the HE DID IT, SO IT’S OK THAT I DID IT! angle?
In what world does that make sense?
3rd Grade.
Because as everyone knows, presidential debates are all about the people in the audience.
re: #74 Sir John Barron
I wonder if Trump is actually preparing for the debate itself, you know, to be able to answer questions on policy and stuff.
He did a run through with Chris Christie as Hillary.
re: #70 EPR-radar
RWNJs would undoubtedly be fretting about the Saracen menace, if any of them knew the word.
“Worshippers of the Black Mahound”.
re: #76 Sir John Barron
Because as everyone knows, presidential debates are all about the people in the audience.
My guess is, in keeping with the idea that debates are like “reality TV” shows, Trump believes that if he loads the audience with people that Hillary is “afraid” of, it will unnerve her and allow him to catch her off-guard.
More Trump Debate Guests: Amb Chris Stevens’ fiance, “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell, 4 Angel Moms, Malik Obama, Pat Smith.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 19, 2016
I suppose (after reading LGF so diligently all this election season) I should know this, but WTH are the “4 angel moms” ? Are they those women whose kids were killed by illegal immigrants? - the same ones Trump and his campaign have been exploiting trotting around since the RNC??
And do they really think that planting the debate audience with campaign hacks/surrogates/Hillary-hate-drenched obsessives/media curiosities is going to help The Donald? Do they really see the televised Presidential Debates as just another sort of “reality TV”??? I hope so, because I think the “ratings” they are going to get aren’t going to be quite what they were expecting…
re: #66 Skip Intro
McCain’s outrageous threat also highlighted a longer-term problem: the bipartisan repudiation of the idea that the Senate should defer to a president’s choice of a Supreme Court justice so long as the nominee is well qualified, untarnished by accusations of personal wrongdoing and within the mainstream of legal thought.
That’s the problem right there. There is no mainstream of legal thought that is recognized as such by both Republicans and sane people.
And what’s with this “bipartisan” bilge? The Democrats have done nothing like the current Republican blockade, and Bork was both a loon and a partisan hack.
re: #79 Targetpractice
There is no doubt that all of Drumpfskind’s campaign has been approached as reality TV.
Are we sure that Mark Burnett hasn’t been secretly taping this whole campaign for a new show to be premiered after Nov 9?
Where does a Canadian law enforcement officer keep his money?
In a Mountebank!
re: #83 freetoken
There is no doubt that all of Drumpfskind’s campaign has been approached as reality TV.
Are we sure that Mark Burnett hasn’t been secretly taping this whole campaign for a new show to be premiered after Nov 9?
Funny you should mention that…….I was thinking the same thing a few minutes ago.
Trump is used to working in “reality TV,” which 9 times outta 10 is totally scripted to maximize on those things that audiences want to see, and in the 10th instance are creatively edited to give the appearance of being “unscripted.” And because that’s the only environment he’s known for years now, he’s somehow convinced that he can take those skills and apply them to real life. Problem is that real life is not scripted, so when he keeps reaching results opposite of what he expected, he can only assume that the “script” was edited without his approval.
re: #76 Sir John Barron
Because as everyone knows, presidential debates are all about the people in the audience.
We are now in the Drumpfskindepoche, where all of life is a game show…
re: #87 freetoken
We are now in the Drumpfskindepoche, where all of life is a game show…
I don’t recall any previous election cycle where we paid attention to the guests at the debates or that guests even existed.
.@Culinary226 is fighting to unionize workers at Trump’s Vegas hotel. Here’s the “taco truck wall” they built outside it today in protest. pic.twitter.com/1K5RiJwdc9
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) October 19, 2016
re: #88 Sir John Barron
I don’t recall any previous election cycle where we paid attention to the guests at the debates or that guests even existed.
We weren’t in the Drumpfskindepoche back then.
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
re: #80 Jay C
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I suppose (after reading LGF so diligently all this election season) I should know this, but WTH are the “4 angel moms” ? Are they those women whose kids were killed by illegal immigrants? - the same ones Trump and his campaign have been
exploitingtrotting around since the RNC??And do they really think that planting the debate audience with campaign hacks/surrogates/Hillary-hate-drenched obsessives/media curiosities is going to help The Donald? Do they really see the televised Presidential Debates as just another sort of “reality TV”??? I hope so, because I think the “ratings” they are going to get aren’t going to be quite what they were expecting…
Yeah I don’t know who the 4 angels are supposed to be.
re: #91 freetoken
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
The GOP tea party base will demand it.
So…Madonna.
“One more thing before I introduce this genius of comedy,” Madonna, 58, told the audience moments before Schumer, 35, took the stage. “If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will give you a blow job — and I’m good!”
Giving fans a thumbs up, the no-holds-barred entertainer added, “I take my time, I make lots of eye contact and I do swallow.”
re: #80 Jay C
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I suppose (after reading LGF so diligently all this election season) I should know this, but WTH are the “4 angel moms”? Are they those women whose kids were killed by illegal immigrants? - the same ones Trump and his campaign have been
exploitingtrotting around since the RNC??
Yep, that’s who they are.
downstairs, there was some question about the validity of Ecuador’s statement re: Assange because there was only an English version of the statement to be found.
Here’s this:
Comunicado Oficial | Ecuador respeta principio de no intervención en asuntos de otros países
➡ https://t.co/QTugnLIh9W pic.twitter.com/pPEvfH2thx— Cancillería Ecuador (@CancilleriaEc) October 18, 2016
re: #91 freetoken
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
One thing I think we can expect come 2019 will be a much nastier field of GOP candidates. What they will take away from this year will not be that nastiness doesn’t win the general election, but that Trump won the nomination by going mean early and that campaigning on the issues is not what the party base wants.
re: #80 Jay C
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exploitingtrotting around since the RNC??And do they really think that planting the debate audience with campaign hacks/surrogates/Hillary-hate-drenched obsessives/media curiosities is going to help The Donald? Do they really see the televised Presidential Debates as just another sort of “reality TV”??? I hope so, because I think the “ratings” they are going to get aren’t going to be quite what they were expecting…
So 9 votes for Trump, assuming that Obama’s half brother is eligible to vote. He’ll need a few million more than that.
Late to the party. Here’s our flag:
re: #99 Targetpractice
One thing I think we can expect come 2019 will be a much nastier field of GOP candidates. What they will take away from this year will not be that nastiness doesn’t win the general election, but that Trump won the nomination by going mean early and that campaigning on the issues is not what the party base wants.
Which would be great for Hillary, as she would be running for the Democrat’s fourth straight term and would otherwise be in for a rough re-election fight.
re: #101 austin_blue
Boring….. Needs more Willie.
re: #99 Targetpractice
I have no idea what the state of the economy or the world will be in 3 years. Perhaps a surprise war… or maybe a deep recession. Either could derail anything we think of as far as candidates in 2019.
More Trump debate guests:
-A Steak-umm w/a mini American flag on a toothpick sticking out of it
-A pile of $5 chips from Circus Circus— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) October 19, 2016
i saw this in a toilet and thought it was important and should be a thing everywhere not just lincolnshire !!!! pic.twitter.com/oO45I7gaJL
— 🎃 (@iizzzzzi) October 18, 2016
LOL
Man with a bullhorn is shouting the news to Julian Assange after his internet is cut off https://t.co/eWTJhmRmoo pic.twitter.com/G27jUnn99A
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2016
re: #73 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
The hot water heater…incident…that inspired Mythbusters’ experiments in that area was at a taco shop in Burien (WA), a few blocks from where I was living at the time.
(Yes, I know “hot water heater” is redundant but it doesn’t look like I’m going to stop saying it at this late date….)
I managed one of six bike shops in a chain. The headquarters was in Burien, so I went to meetings there. It was the southernmost of the six, and I managed the northernmost in Lynnwood.
re: #108 The Vicious Babushka
LOL
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That reminds me of Garrett Morris on the news on SNL.
I was talking to a guy who delivered papers from his bike 60 years ago or so. I made a joke about now they throw iPhones. He laughed.
ATTENTION LIBERALS!!
Are you worried that this means your Freedom is threatened?
LOL.
#TrumpTrain pic.twitter.com/pHgRG83RdP
— DR aCIDrEBEL, PhD☇ (@acidrebel) October 17, 2016
CNBC’s @JohnJHarwood asks Clinton campaign chair to “get together for a coffee or a beer”#PodestaEmails12https://t.co/aJd6iZoCYl pic.twitter.com/EY6R2l2N1C
— Makada (@_Makada_) October 19, 2016
Oh my god @JohnJHarwood was developing source relationships instead of sending angry tweets all day https://t.co/CBOD2E8Hby
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 19, 2016
I assume Podesta cooking for 30 reporters is also just “developing source relationships” you are a shill for Hillary https://t.co/Tb7bmU7ivo
— Makada (@_Makada_) October 19, 2016
Good God, being this stupid, how do you remember how to get home once you leave the house? #SecretObedianceIngredientsInPodestaFood !!!!!! https://t.co/cVnrx6fgLc
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 19, 2016
People Hillary should invite to the debate:
1.) Alf
2.) Cousin It
3.) A can of hair spray
4.) An Oompa Loompa
5.) A former Mrs. Trump
6.) Mr. Monopoly
7.) Paul Ryan
Where’s a hashtag when you need one?
First they came for @ChuckCJohnson and I was like LOL
Then they came for @Nero and I was like fuck that guy
Then they came for @RickyVaughn99 and I was like all LMFAO
Then they cut off Julian Assange’s Internets and I’m like LOLOLOL
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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Are you worried that this means your Freedom is threatened?
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Yeah, and Hillary keeps reporters in fenced-off areas at her rallies where they can’t leave without an escort even to use the bathroom, and stokes hatred towards them amongst her supporters to the point that they have to get a security escort when leaving those rallies…oh wait, that’s not Hillary, silly me.
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@FrankConniff @JohnFugelsang
Can you make this happen? pic.twitter.com/EyFIJ7aYPf— Michelle Murphy (@KansasMurphy) October 19, 2016
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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Pro gamer, happy to be followed by Hannity. Total blockhead.
@acidrebel You imagine that Hillary supporters are working to stop a tyrant the wrong way, so vote for the tyrant who promises war crimes?
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
re: #10 Alephnaught
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Wasn’t this sort of thing said prior to the last debate? How well did that work out?
Trump won!
Well, that is what he and his supporters thought.
And no matter what happens tonight they will again think he won.
Delusion wins the day.
Ailes and Trump have allegedly had a falling out.
The comparisons to Hitler in his bunker are going to get more obvious in the next 3 weeks.
re: #91 freetoken
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
Oh joy. Several Trump mini-mes in the 2020 election cycle. Shoot me now.
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
I like the “Retweet HARD” header. Break a keyboard or two while you’re at it.
re: #116 The Vicious Babushka
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@FrankConniff @JohnFugelsang
Can you make this happen? pic.twitter.com/EyFIJ7aYPf— Michelle Murphy (@KansasMurphy) October 19, 2016
This is happening tonight on @SXMInsight #121 https://t.co/KdHnX5YoCx
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 19, 2016
re: #121 EPR-radar
Oh joy. Several Trump mini-mes in the 2020 election cycle. Shoot me now.
LePage/Duke 2020!!!1!!
LOLWUT
I just heard Eric Trump for the second time on the radio say the Obama administration blamed Benghazi on cartoons.
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) October 19, 2016
re: #120 Dr. Matt
So, Trump isn’t going to China. Ever.
Because they’re not going to roll out the red carpet to some low-energy no talent second rate media personality and failed presidential candidate assclown.
re: #4 gocart mozart
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Just imagine a new version of The Hathaways with Jill Stein and Alex Jones raising three chimps…
Jesus… Jeffrey Lord is on air saying “just because I push the button for Donald Trump doesn’t mean my vote will be cast for Donald Trump.”
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 19, 2016
Even CNN’s reporters are taken aback by CNN commentators now. https://t.co/lyd2Iulv1p
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) October 19, 2016
re: #126 lawhawk
So, Trump isn’t going to China. Ever.
Because they’re not going to roll out the red carpet to some low-energy no talent second rate media personality and failed presidential candidate assclown.
He belittles China on a daily basis. In August I spent two week in China and the Chinese absolutely hate Trump. He thinks they are even going to let him land there? amusing.
Kellyanne Conway said Trump has a plan to “defeat Islam.” Conway is blaming “sleep deprivation” for the comment https://t.co/RczQveO5vY pic.twitter.com/IxZsrBSlOF
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) October 19, 2016
re: #130 The Vicious Babushka
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Believe it or not, this is an actual review of the movie Denial by Debbie Schlussel.
* Denial - Rated PG-13: I have mixed feelings about this movie, which portrays real-life “academic” Deborah Lipstadt’s court-fight against Holocaust denier David Irving in the UK courts. And keep in mind that the movie is based on a book she wrote, so it’s biased to her point of view of events.
The movie portrays Lipstadt (played by Rachel Weisz) as a valiant fighter for the Jewish people and even a strong supporter of Israel. She is neither. In fact-and this is never mentioned or even alluded to in the movie-Lipstadt is one of those many self-hating, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Jews who love the Holocaust business as a profit center only less than they love siding with HAMAS and justifying Islamic terrorism against Jews in Israel. Yes, Deborah Lipstadt is not only an Israel-hater, but has often given justifications to Israel-boycotters. And she’s attacked Israel repeatedly when it responds to terrorist attacks. She would rather Jews give in and die quietly than fight. It’s a good thing she was not around during her favorite event in Jewish history-on which she’s built a lucrative career and persona-the Holocaust. And Lipstadt is also an eager and vigorous Islamo-panderer. She never misses the opportunity to attack Israel and use her Holocaust scholarship as a podium at which to present these noxious views. Lipstadt, while rightfully criticizing Jimmy Carter’s “Jewish Problem,” has her own Jewish problem. Therefore, I wish her a vacation in the Gaza paradise to see how much they care about her support of them and her scholarship on the Holocaust.
As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a mother born in Bergen Belsen, I loathe these Jews who obsess only on the dead Jews that decades ago became worm food of the Nazis. At the same time, those same Jews obsessed with the Holocaust victims, couldn’t care less about the living Jews struggling to survive amidst non-stop Islamic terrorism from today’s Nazis, the Muslims (who were also part of Hitler’s operation, comprising two SS divisions and eagerly promoting the quickening and expansion of the Final Solution via the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Yasser Arafat’s close ancestor). My late Holocaust survivor grandfather, Isaac Engel (Of Blessed Memory), felt the same.
I, myself, have been an object of Lipstadt’s Islamophilia, when she attacked my review of “A Mighty Heart,” the Al-Qaeda-less whitewash of the jihadist beheading of Daniel Pearl, starring Angelina Jolie. After initially praising and posting a link to my review, she subsequently removed the post and posted an apology (“I Made a Mistake” is the title) over the tone of my review to her few blog readers. Lipstadt was perturbed that I mentioned that Islam is completely whitewashed and Al-Qaeda completely omitted from the movie about the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in the name of Islam by Qaeda terrorists because Pearl was a Jew. I wasn’t surprised by this, given Lipstadt’s frequent attacks on Israel. And her ire over my review should tell you something about Lipstadt’s alleged quest for accuracy and truth. In fact, these are things she despises, rather than zealously pursues (as alleged in this movie and in her career PR campaign).
That said, the thing I did like about this movie is that, for a legal drama, it very accurately captures what I and most trial lawyers get from at least a third of our clients when their cases go to court. They think they are better lawyers than the lawyer and that they know what to do and how to run the case, rather than shutting up and taking legal advice. They also think a trial is about getting their say on the stand and telling their story. It is no such thing. A trial is about winning, and that’s the only thing it’s about. It’s not about principle. It’s not about telling the world what happened to you or what someone did to you or airing your grievances against the adversary in the case. In fact, often those things will lose the case for you. And that’s how Lipstadt, according to the movie’s dramatized script, behaved until she finally-kicking and screaming-listened to them. I think the movie accurately portrays her obnoxious, loud pushiness and helicopter-style hovering, all of which, unfortunately, comprise a stereotype that does not describe all (or even most) Jews.
Lipstadt wrote a book exposing and debunking Holocaust denial and deniers, including David Irving, the British Jew-hater and neo-Nazi darling. Irving filed a defamation suit in England against Lipstadt and her publisher. Lipstadt refused to settle with him, despite objections from others that fighting Irving would elevate the Holocaust denier and give him the attention he craved.
But fighting defamation in the UK is different than fighting it here in the States. Here, the burden is upon the suit-filer to prove that he or she was defamed. There, the burden is on the alleged defamer to prove that he or she did not defame the suit-filer. Given this, it was a difficult and arduous task for Lipstadt’s lawyers to prosecute their case without lending credence to Irving’s bogus theories. And they did not want-contrary to Lipstadt’s wishes-to put her or Holocaust survivors on the stand, lest Irving get a chance to make his case and further victimize the survivors.
The acting in this is excellent, especially on the part of Timothy Spall as Irving and the always good Tom Wilkinson as Lipstadt’s lawyer. As a legal drama, this is a good one, despite my problems with Deborah Lipstadt’s self-hatred. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that often Lipstadt and the Holocaust deniers are on the same side when it comes to their unwarranted, baseless attacks on Israel. They have an “excuse”: they hate Jews. The question is, why does Deborah Lipstadt also hate so many Jews?
If only she were forced to take the stand to answer that one.
Denial is the word that describes those who purport that the Holocaust didn’t happen. It’s also the word that describes Deborah Lipstadt’s frequent refusal to acknowledge the Jews’ right to exist, survive, and defend themselves in the Middle East.
re: #131 Dr. Matt
Is the text for the tweets with video showing up for anyone?
Kellyanne Conway said Trump has a plan to “defeat Islam.” Conway is blaming “sleep deprivation” for the comment…
re: #133 The Vicious Babushka
She forgot to use her “public words” on the topic.
re: #103 Dave In Austin
Boring….. Needs more Willie.
There was a move several years back to change the name of South First Street running through the ‘04 to Willie Nelson Way, but it failed when we realized that the pot-holes would never be fixed.
re: #114 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for @ChuckCJohnson and I was like LOL
Then they came for @Nero and I was like fuck that guy
Then they came for @RickyVaughn99 and I was like all LMFAO
Then they cut off Julian Assange’s Internets and I’m like LOLOLOL
And then they came for you and you offered them some pie with tea for good work.
Ivanka Trump says her father will concede if he loses https://t.co/9r0xmVL88e pic.twitter.com/KEpTEQUyqg
— The Hill (@thehill) October 19, 2016
Trump concession speech will be the new Hitler Downfall video for all time. It’ll be Yooge. Complete with blaming everyone other than Trump for his failings. And dog whistling for his supporters to take to the streets to defend their freedom to be bigots.
I wish I could be sarcastic about that, but Trump’s so unhinged, anything is possible at his concession speech on Election Night.
re: #114 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for @ChuckCJohnson and I was like LOL
Then they came for @Nero and I was like fuck that guy
Then they came for @RickyVaughn99 and I was like all LMFAO
Then they cut off Julian Assange’s Internets and I’m like LOLOLOL
Only 2 of those assholes are currently suspended.
re: #139 lawhawk
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I wish I could be sarcastic about that, but Trump’s so unhinged, anything is possible at his concession speech on Election Night.
He’s guaranteed to go off-script.
re: #139 lawhawk
That’s fucking big of him. Let’s give him a cookie.
re: #140 No Country For Old Haters
All three, if you look carefully ;)
re: #72 MsJ
That came from the Kroger deli, they have decent bread there.
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
re: #145 gocart mozart
The race it tightening, the candidates are disgusting, will you do your part to end it all? https://t.co/ZO3hS4h6Oj pic.twitter.com/F31u3FGBxq
— Cthulhu for America (@cthulhu4america) October 19, 2016
re: #76 Sir John Barron
Because as everyone knows, presidential debates are all about the people in the audience.
I’ve been wondering about that too. As far as I can tell the TV audience doesn’t know these folks are there and even if they are shown, not many would know who they are.
Of course, this one has some Fox connections, so maybe they go around and introduce the audience and have each person say what their beef is with Hillary/Obama/Bill and anyone else they currently hate. /
re: #144 jeffreyw
That came from the Kroger deli, they have decent bread there.
What kind of bread is it, though? Is it a loaf or like a pita?
Does Donald Trump have small hands? I put the question to a “parts” modeling agent. The professional answer: yes.
— tonydokoupil (@tonydokoupil) October 19, 2016
Status: confirmed! https://t.co/FXRZUBI6Ri
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
re: #147 lawhawk
@cthulhu4america One candidate is disgusting, another is stoned. One is loopy, and one is the most qualified candidate to run in my lifetime
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
When the election is over and trump is defeated, we are gong to find out that Steve Bannon is responsible for all pathetic and embarrassing Trump surprise guests.
Ivanka Trump just claimed she isn’t a surrogate for her father’s campaign: https://t.co/TsAPp7FpCJ pic.twitter.com/FMmH6gQJ2B
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 19, 2016
Political comedians can’t juggle uncooked eggs without cracking a few.
re: #140 No Country For Old Haters
Only 2 of those assholes are currently suspended.
Who’d they let back on?
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Ivanka Trump just claimed she isn’t a surrogate for her father’s campaign]
She may think that means she’s not going to give birth to the campaign.
re: #156 wrenchwench
She may think that means she’s not going to give birth to the campaign.
Can you imagine the size of the noggin on that baby?
re: #132 Nyet
Tl;dr the whole thing. Debbie sure is a case, isn’t she.
re: #152 Dr. Matt
When the election is over and trump is defeated, we are gong to find out that Steve Bannon is responsible for all pathetic and embarrassing Trump surprise guests.
Awww…do we have to wait?!
I think it is safe to say it now…but let’s not leave Trump out of the decisions.
re: #162 Sir John Barron
Ur kidding? That guy is something awful.
Had they consulted me, I would have left him suspended.
re: #149 MsJ
What kind of bread is it, though? Is it a loaf or like a pita?
It’s just a large hamburger bun that has been buttered and squeezed in a panini press.
These are very good and easy to make, they are baked with this King Arthur Flour bun recipe:
kingarthurflour.com
More info on this here: https://t.co/8OuIc0UJvU
— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) October 19, 2016
This is a pretty fascinating read.
How can Melania Trump stand to be near that dick?
It’s always a treat when stories that I break appear on sites like Mediaite with no credit https://t.co/oPnVqpOMHk via @mediaite
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speechs.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 17, 2016
No matter your opinion of @Wikileaks or Assange, censorship is never the answer. https://t.co/oe49dk7Gzn
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 17, 2016
Free internet is not a constitutional right, Pillow Fort Guy. https://t.co/DwZasUnas6
— I, Hoebot. (@eclecticbrotha) October 19, 2016
Trump Skips Debate Walk-Through To Presumably Mope In His Hotel Room via @politicususa https://t.co/Vmsba4oWSC #p2 #ctl
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 19, 2016
Trump could be mailing it in, as the candidate isn’t bothering to show up at the walk-through before the final presidential debate of 2016.
Donald Trump skipped the pre-debate walk-through:
A man who claims that he lost the first presidential debate due to a bad microphone is skipping the third debate presumably so that he can watch cable news, tweet, and mope about the fact that he is losing the election.
Trump’s behavior could signal that he already feels defeated and this is the entitled rich man’s way of mailing it in for the last debate.
If you ever find yourself sounding like Trump, get help fast.
If you don’t know how Trump still has even 40% of the vote, just remember we as Americans need warning labels telling us not to eat soap.
— shauna (@goldengateblond) October 19, 2016
re: #169 Dave In Austin
We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speechs.
— WikiLeaks
Maybe Julian could move out, get his own place, support himself, get his own Internet.
re: #165 jeffreyw
It’s just a large hamburger bun that has been buttered and squeezed in a panini press.
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Daddy Trump: “Ivanka has great buns too.”
re: #169 Dave In Austin
1) Snowden isn’t in the US. Other countries don’t have the same rules on access to Internet, free speech, or censorship.
2) Snowden picked Russia as refuge from US long arm of the law over his theft of classified data/materials. Russia’s got a long history of engaging in censorship and suppressing free speech (Pussy Riot couldn’t be reached for comment).
3) Snowden has been notoriously quiet over censorship of his host country.
4) Assange is an accused rapist who’s been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy so as to avoid extradition and prosecution over the charges. His hosts are under no obligation to provide him with anything.
@Ben_Landy @tina_nguyen Hi folks. The Malik/Hamas story was broken yesterday at LGF. Would appreciate a credit. See: https://t.co/V5t71Gg6Gc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
— Lucy D. DeCosse (@LucyDecosse) October 19, 2016
Why is Obama surging in the polls?
It’s because RW media has stopped lying about him to focus on their lying about Hillary— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) October 19, 2016
I can’t remember is I saw this on my timeline or on here, regardless, it needs to be pushed. Every bar and eating est. needs to have a contingency for this.
i saw this in a toilet and thought it was important and should be a thing everywhere not just lincolnshire !!!! pic.twitter.com/oO45I7gaJL
— 🎃 (@iizzzzzi) October 18, 2016
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
my latest >> The Clintonites’ Rat’s Ass (Thoughts on the Trumpers’ Debate Guest List) https://t.co/Aq20waGNfN via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 19, 2016
I was particularly struck when I saw Chris Stevens’ fiance mentioned. I didn’t know Chris Stevens had a fiance. And his family has been consistently and outspokenly opposed to the politicization of his death. Well, it turns out “Amb Chris Stevens’ fiance” is a bit of a stretch. Stevens and now-occasionally working French actress Lydie Denier were briefly engaged in 1995. What insight she has into his death seventeen years later other than self-promotion is a mystery.
re: #166 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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This is a pretty fascinating read.
It is, though I take exception to their implication that the “old soil” is really that old. They leave you with the impression that the soil is a Cretaceous origin but soils around the US will be from the last few millennia of the Holocene. The southern reaches of the Appalachian chain constrain the hydrology and deposition of material. True, they did that 65 million years ago too. So while the beaches from the dinosaur era will influence the chemical composition, there is more to “soil” than that.
@chrislhayes Hey Chris - Mediaite didn’t credit us, but LGF is the site that broke this story yesterday. See: https://t.co/V5t71Gg6Gc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
Really, really frustrating and annoying to see this getting play in the media without any credit to LGF.
re: #131 Dr. Matt
Is the text for the tweets with video showing up for anyone?
You need to click on the little birdie on the bottom right to read the text.
re: #132 Nyet
Believe it or not, this is an actual review of the movie Denial by Debbie Schlussel.
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This woman has squirrels juggling knives in her head.
re: #182 Stanley Sea
Another great quote:
Through the day Drudge has been fronting a 20 year old picture of Donald Trump under the headline “Tonight Is Forever.” It’s a perfect evocation of the themes of hopeless love, doomed last chances and perhaps even the romanticization of suicide that characterize the Trumpian moment. Drudge is right there with the Trumpers and Breitbartians as the world closes in upon itself.
re: #182 Stanley Sea
Denier is a great last name in this case.
This is why the story is spreading without credit to LGF - this person tweeted my photo and part of my text with no link to the article, just my Twitter screen name.
Trump fan & estranged Obama bro wears Hamas scarf blaring “Jerusalem is ours-we are coming” & “From the river to the sea” (@Green_Footballs) pic.twitter.com/npZh1AvcsZ
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) October 19, 2016
Chris Hayes just retweeted my note to him.
UTAH Topline@Evan_McMullin 31%@realDonaldTrump 27%@HillaryClinton 24%@GovGaryJohnson 5%
Undecided 12%
Results at https://t.co/ARVMZmGvHd— ECPS (@EmersonPolling) October 19, 2016
Wow. @Evan_McMullin could be first third party candidate since 1968 to win a state. https://t.co/OcaaJN3CX5
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) October 19, 2016
re: #91 freetoken
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
They are already looking for a candidate who promotes the same positions but knows how to behave and will consent to leave his campaign in the hands of skilled (and paid) professionals. That could well usher in the American Idiocracy.
So much for Trump’s “extreme vetting”.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 19, 2016
re: #192 Ziggy_TARDIS
Give Utah their due. Actually I’m fine with this but he will need to be watched in years to come.
Gosh, why isn’t Pastor Manning invited to tonight’s clambake?
re: #91 freetoken
The success of Drumpfskind in winning the nomination will not be lost on future Republican candidates. Even if he loses big in the election, 3 years from now when we start this all over again there will be candidates who will try to ply the same topics and techniques as Drumpfskind.
The people who can save us from this are current Republican voters who oppose The far-right’s insane agenda. The party can’t be fixed, so it needs to shrink to the point where it can’t do serious damage anymore.
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
I threw up in my mouth.
You must be doing it wrong then.
//yeah, yeah. With fruit that low to the ground you can be sure I’ll pick it.
!! Veep had to edit out a joke because it came too close to home with Trump and the P-word: https://t.co/ha7Skwuywr pic.twitter.com/aBscTwG10y
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 19, 2016
Federal judge orders Trump’s counsel to court to review alleged violent rape of 13-year-old girl https://t.co/6UC7UggbeS
— Ðiego #BlueWave2016 (@DiegoUK) October 19, 2016
re: #197 Dave In Austin
I am.
They seem to have morals and standards, unlike the Evangelical Community. They deserve respect and understanding, even if their beliefs can be a bit goofy.
But it’s not about race and she is not a racist.
Trump Supporter Admits Her ‘Fight’ Started November 2008 https://t.co/Q8hR8Mjjw1 via @sharethis
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
re: #182 Stanley Sea
This is no longer really about Clinton at all. It’s more like a ‘release all the animals from their cages in the menagerie’ freakout, go-for-broke primal scream inside the WND/Breitbart mind bubble.
To the extent that the Trump debate invites make any kind of sense, it may just be about trying to muddy the media waters, throw these angry, weird creatures around to deflect from Trump’s awfulness in general and his lack of debate preparedness in particular.
But even more likely, it’s just about satisfying the rubes.
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #205 Sir John Barron
To the extent that the Trump debate invites make any kind of sense, it may just be about trying to muddy the media waters, throw these angry, weird creatures around to deflect from Trump’s awfulness in general and his lack of debate preparedness in particular.
But even more likely, it’s just about satisfying the rubes.
Reminds me of the Lost In Space episode where Dr. Smith released all the animals from The Keeper’s ship!
re: #204 gocart mozart
But it’s not about race and she is not a racist.
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Also not deplorable, unless she wants to wear ‘deplorable’ as a badge of honor.
re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White
“Think how stupid the average person is, and then remember that half of them are stupider than that.”
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it .”
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.@DrMatthew Ummmm, you do know that Charles broke that story first. Not @Mediaite
— Bubblehead II (@BubbleheadII) October 19, 2016
re: #203 Ziggy_TARDIS
I am.
They seem to have morals and standards, unlike the Evangelical Community. They deserve respect and understanding, even if their beliefs can be a bit goofy.
Mormons also see themselves as a minority and I can imagine that they are more than a bit disturbed at the sight of a candidate who has such blatantly low regard for the rights and well-being of other minorities.
All they’re doing is turning a blind eye to the white supremacists and neo Nazis that Trump has urged on and mainstreamed. @haaretzcom
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 19, 2016
There’s no Trump principled stand on Iran. He doesn’t know what to do about Iran. Or IS other than bombing the shit out of it. His own campaign manager thinks that the US should go to war with all Islam (oops, did she really say that on tape? lemme walk that back and chalk it up to not getting all those amphetamines that Trump leaves around to be awake for the 3am tweets). His campaign reeks of Russian influence, from Manafort to his so called foreign policy advisers. He’s suggested dumping NATO and treaty obligations unless they pay up - the Goodfellas approach to business, except when Donny is the one who welches on his obligations, in which case, it’s see ya in bankruptcy court!
No, there are no principled reasons to consider Trump as a candidate. None.
re: #202 Dr. Matt
Nothing of note will happen on Dec. 16, 2016. This is just a standard initial conference to schedule deadlines for things to be completed i.e. motions to strike, any motion to dismiss, discovery, depositions and so on. Trump and Epstein won’t even be there just the attorneys so don’t get your twitters in a bunch. The big deal is the depositions which, assuming the case is not dismissed, will occur in a few months at the earliest. Let’s hope they are taped.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mormons also see themselves as
a minorityhumans and I can imagine that they are more than a bit disturbed at the sight of a candidate who has such blatantly low regard for the rights and well-being of otherminoritieshumans.
Now it can apply to anyone.
re: #210 The Ghost of a Flea
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How one bungled phone call dismantled James O’Keefe’s scheme against billionaire liberal donor George Soros https://t.co/LGdSk2PQxD
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 19, 2016
re: #213 lawhawk
@haaretzcom The man panders to and retweets white nationalists and anti-semites. He wants to jail his enemies and shut down media.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah. I will not be giving them my respect, as they were the only portion of the Republican Coalition to stand up for Muslims and Hispanics.
I wonder if, in the long term, the Mormons could be flipped. Muslims used to be for Republicans, and now they are Democrats, and the views of Muslims in the US have liberalized as a result. Same could happen to the Mormons.
re: #205 Sir John Barron
To the extent that the Trump debate invites make any kind of sense, it may just be about trying to muddy the media waters, throw these angry, weird creatures around to deflect from Trump’s awfulness in general and his lack of debate preparedness in particular.
But even more likely, it’s just about satisfying the rubes.
This is the thing about those guys - they’re out of material.
Look what they pulled out of the bag for the last debate - 4 women whose cases have all been extensively litigated in the press 2 decades ago. Vague accusations of abuse by HRC, with no evidence. This shit didn’t work on BILL when HE was President - the GOP LOST SEATS in a midterm that should have been a shoe-in.
This one? Benghazi and Obama’s half-brother. Angel Moms who already had their time on stage.
This is all old news. REALLY old news. They seem to think that if they just repeat it enough times, people will start to agree with them, but really all it does is reinforce THEIR OWN belief while everyone else tunes out.
re: #219 Ziggy_TARDIS
Yeah. I will not be giving them my respect, as they were the only portion of the Republican Coalition to stand up for Muslims and Hispanics.
I wonder if, in the long term, the Mormons could be flipped. Muslims used to be for Republicans, and now they are Democrats, and the views of Muslims in the US have liberalized as a result. Same could happen to the Mormons.
Like the Hispanics, Mormons are big into family and community. And they are starting to realize that GOP “family values” are just about controlling women’s reproductive systems and what they do for fun in their spare time, and not about promoting strong communities, education systems or the sort of local institutions that make for strong families.
Lizard skull.
Everybody loves horny toads…! Skull of Phrynosoma cornutum #DigitalMenagerie #reptile #lizards #microCT #herpetology pic.twitter.com/hUfBmtA2oA
— CT-Lab MfN (@CTlab_MfNBerlin) October 19, 2016
re: #213 lawhawk
BTW, the Haaretz piece is behind a paywall, and I’m not going to waste my shekels on it, but their FP synopsis kinda gives the story away:
Just as the elites delegitimize other voting groups as ‘deplorables,’ so too have American Orthodox Jews been derided as ‘tribalist’ for supporting Trump’s unambiguous stance on Iran, and preferring not to see intermarriage glorified in a Clinton White House.
read more: haaretz.com
(bolding mine)
I’m guessing this has something to do with the fact that while Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s daughters both married Jews, Ivanka Trump converted, while Chelsea Clinton did not. This is a BIG obsession with the Ultras - but AFAICT, if one wants to try to avoid the label of “tribalist”, it’s an odd point to stress…
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are already looking for a candidate who promotes the same positions but knows how to behave and will consent to leave his campaign in the hands of skilled (and paid) professionals. That could well usher in the American Idiocracy.
These are the basic facts about US politics and media as revealed by the Trump campaign:
1) A future GOP candidate who runs explicitly on a final solution to political problems can expect to get Trump-level support from GOP primary voters if that voting block is not split among several candidates.
2) A future GOP candidate who dog-whistles a final solution to political problems can expect to get Trump-level support from the GOP establishment.
3) A future GOP candidate who “pivots” from an explicit final solution to an implicit final solution can expect much of the mainstream media to play along.
re: #216 Targetpractice
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I know it’s just a typo, but I love “Russian pasty”!
re: #218 No Country For Old Haters
To be fair neither Kolbrener nor I can be sure of policy until the candidate actually assumes office. This ambiguity allowed Haaretz’ Nehemiah Strasler to opt for Trump in the hope that he would be decisive enough to twist our arms and end the “occupation.”
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re: #223 Jay C
google for the URL with cache: in front of it, you get to read it for free right now ;)
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the Hispanics, Mormons are big into family and community. And they are starting to realize that GOP “family values” are just about controlling women’s reproductive systems and what they do for fun in their spare time, and not about promoting strong communities, education systems or the sort of local institutions that make for strong families.
Don’t get carried away, it isn’t like they are moving to Hillary en masse. McMullin isn’t exactly a progressive liberal.
re: #220 Blind Frog Belly White
Look what they pulled out of the bag for the last debate - 4 women whose cases have all been extensively litigated in the press 2 decades ago.
And Bannon has dropped them like a bad disease. They didn’t prove useful. Also wasn’t allowed to sit them in the Trump family seats.
re: #223 Jay C
Here it is. I don’t see why it shouldn’t be called straight up bigotry.
But one issue of existential concern to the Orthodox voter has been incontrovertibly decided - intermarriage.
Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky appear to be fine people and Chelsea’s stature has risen as someone who attempted to combat the conflicts of interest at the Clinton Foundation. However the Clinton-Mezvinskies are attempting to bring their children up as both Methodists and Jews. We can already envisage Charlotte and Aidan - poster children for intermarriage - lighting the Hanukah menorah and the Christmas tree at the White House. No disrespect is intended.
re: #229 danarchy
Don’t get carried away, it isn’t like [Mormons] are moving to Hillary en masse. McMullin isn’t exactly a progressive liberal.
No, but they are seeing that GOP “family values” have little to do with actually raising families. Although their religion does not seem to have much of an issue with controlling women…
Repeating myself: Facebook is evil:
Mark Zuckerberg defends Peter Thiel’s Trump ties in internal memo
re: #166 klys (maker of Silmarils)
The pain train in the comments is just stunning. Is there anything more boring than a zealot? Especially one who’s wrong? (referring to “Dicking Bimbos” who keeps going on and on about “liberals”. Soooooo…. booooring…)
Cillizza is on a mission:
3 things Donald Trump gets very right
Dude must really have it in for Hillary.
re: #236 freetoken
Cillizza is on a mission:
3 things Donald Trump gets very right
Dude must really have it in for Hillary.
The new Ron Fournier.
re: #235 Pawn of the Oppressor
The pain train in the comments is just stunning. Is there anything more boring than a zealot? Especially one who’s wrong? (referring to “Dicking Bimbos” who keeps going on and on about “liberals”. Soooooo…. booooring…)
I didn’t read the comments. >.>
re: #236 freetoken
It is good to have confirmation that he supports a racist demagogue.
House GOP leaders warn: Fundraising gap with Democrats could lead to ‘substantial losses’ https://t.co/ZlQKYyUHLA
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 19, 2016
Already starting to see right wingers attacking Paul as a liberal. Yeah, this is the long awaited reckoning. Actually, it’s everyone running to the lifeboats and trying to figure out how best to spin it as someone else’s fault.
Party of Personal Responsibility™ my ass.
re: #237 Sir John Barron
Cillizza is trying to position himself as the go-to journalist critiquing the coming Clinton Presidency.
His 3rd claim - that Hillary really hasn’t accomplished that much in Washington - is written now so in 3 years he can brag about being right, for as he even acknowledges in his piece, a divided Congress will stall any Clinton agenda.
re: #234 freetoken
Repeating myself: Facebook is evil:
Mark Zuckerberg defends Peter Thiel’s Trump ties in internal memo
Zuckerberg:
“There are many reasons a person might support Trump that do not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault.”
Their reasons may not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault, but their support does.
I bet Hillary has a big surprise or two for Trump tonight.
re: #66 Skip Intro
Somebody finally noticed.
GOP obstructionism gone haywire: No new Supreme Court justices until the next Republican president?
I am so damn tired of the Republicans acting like they own this fucking country.
re: #243 Nyet
Another piece, by Weigel.
Foval, who repeatedly ties a noose with his tongue, also seems to overhype his successes. Reporters who covered the Trump UIC appearance found that students, not Americans United for Change, were responsible for the shutdown of the Trump rally. The video’s evidence to the contrary is that Zulema Rodriguez, an activist paid in February by the Democratic National Committee, says on tape that she was there and “did that.” In the first video, O’Keefe makes much of the term “bird-dogging,” which Foval describes as putting people at the front of rope lines to make sure “they’re the ones asking questions.”
“It’s a word we had not heard until we began this investigation,” O’Keefe says, noting that the term appears in WikiLeaks emails that include Clinton staffers.
But it’s not a new term and certainly not secret. Bird-dogging is a fairly common activist tactic, and reporters often recognize it when seemingly “perfect” questions come from a political audience. In August 2015, Foval told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that People for the American Way, his employer at the time, was “bird-dogging all of” the Republican presidential candidates. What was seen as a nuisance political tactic then becomes, in the video sting, a secretive form of voter-candidate intimidation.
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
CREW obtains new documents in the Trump Foundation scandal: https://t.co/CmWFjJ6vxk
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 19, 2016
The folks at @CREWcrew dissect the latest (apparently error-plagued) filings from @realDonaldTrump’s foundation. https://t.co/NTT2F2Wsj4
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 19, 2016
re: #246 Tigger2
I am so damn tired of the Republicans acting like they own this fucking country.
They used to say that the [not them] were going to take their country. Now they say they’re going to take their country back. They still think they own it, but now feel they’ve lost possession, which is why we’re seeing increased craziness.
re: #236 freetoken
Cillizza is on a mission:
3 things Donald Trump gets very right
Dude must really have it in for Hillary.
There was much that was deeply stupid in that piece by Cillizza, but the worst part is where he attributes Trump’s victory in the GOP primary to Trump’s outsider and anti-establishment messages.
1) Cillizza’s self-refutes his own point by noting that the messages by Trump that he is liking are late arrivals to the Trump campaign. Therefore they had nothing to do with Trump winning the GOP primary.
2) All the world knows exactly how Trump won the GOP primary. “Mexican rapists”.
re: #47 MsJ
There is supposedly some big fourth person attending for Trump.
Guesses as to whom that might be? Lewinsky already said no (unless she changed her mind.) Anthony Wiener? That doesn’t make sense…not that Trump ever makes sense.
I cannot think of who that 4th person would be that is such a “big reveal”. Anyone?
My guess is the guy who has been claiming that Bill Clinton is his dad.
re: #165 jeffreyw
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Dude…you so rock! Thank you!
re: #253 Big Beautiful Door
My guess is the guy who has been claiming that Bill Clinton is his dad.
I thought he had already been mentioned a few days ago, although Katy Tur didn’t include him in her tweet.
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
Current statutes say that there should be 9 justices. Furthermore, it requires six to be a quorum.
re: #167 b_sharp
How can Melania Trump stand to be near that dick?
Assumption that she is not equally dickish is…an assumption.
re: #250 Stanley Sea
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Maybe the whole “lock her up” thing is a brilliant psyop to get Liberals to declare that we don’t lock up the losing candidate in America, as Trump is facing serious allegations.
re: #230 Sir John Barron
And Bannon has dropped them like a bad disease. They didn’t prove useful. Also wasn’t allowed to sit them in the Trump family seats.
Yeah, that whole plan to make Bill Clinton look like Bill Cosby ran aground, didn’t it?
Now, I think it’s all about trying to make their followers feel vindicated. After the last debate, Laura Ingraham, who has built her entire career around hating the Clintons, said that this is what they’d wanted for 30 years, a Republican who could beat up on the Clintons. I think that debate was their wet dream, except for the part where Hillary didn’t run from the room in tears, and the other part where most of the electorate thought Trump lost, and that other part where Trump challenged every woman he’d ever sxually assaulted to come forward.
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
I don’t think so, there have actually been times in history where congress changed the number of justices on the court by law specifically to deny a president his nominations.
re: #167 b_sharp
How can Melania Trump stand to be near that dick?
If that presidency thing doesn’t work out, there’s always poison. /
re: #236 freetoken
Cillizza is on a mission:
3 things Donald Trump gets very right
Dude must really have it in for Hillary.
Cillizza seems to be a big fan of political games. He even admits that what he admires in the Trump campaign most likely will not work or are even needed…but they are “cool” political moves.
I don’t know, maybe Cillizza is trying to become the new Chris Tweety Matthews another lover of the game of politics no matter how bad they can be to the country as a whole.
Just what we need…more media belly button gazers.
re: #169 Dave In Austin
Let’s see…we have Comrade @Snowden whining about @wikileaks - a Putin tool interfering with US elections. #Priceless
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 19, 2016
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
I hope it pisses off a whole lot of Americans and they take it out on the Republican party for years to come. It should. The question is are there enough people in this country that understand politics and the role of the Supreme Court.
re: #263 ObserverArt
Cillizza seems to be a big fan of political games. He even admits that what he admires in the Trump campaign most likely will not work or are even needed…but they are “cool” political moves.
I don’t know, maybe Collizza is trying to become the new Chris Tweety Matthews another lover of the game of politics no matter how bad they can be to the country as a whole.
Just what we need…more media belly button gazers.
“Yes, Trump and the GOP seem intent on burning the country to the ground, but gosh, isn’t it just fun to watch and talk about?”
re: #265 ObserverArt
I hope it pisses off a whole lot of Americans and they take it out on the Republican party for years to come. It should. The question is are there enough people in this country that understand politics and the role of the Supreme Court.
Hillary will have to target GOP senators in bluish states. They’ll have to be made to feel their obstruction is hazardous to their popularity back home, if not to their careers.
You fled to a country where Journalists who speak out against Putin are assassinated, you treasonous shit weasel. @Snowden @wikileaks
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 19, 2016
re: #240 lawhawk
@postpolitics Their failure to govern for years, and having a madman at the top of the ticket, are going to leave a mark too.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
re: #241 freetoken
Cillizza is trying to position himself as the go-to journalist critiquing the coming Clinton Presidency.
His 3rd claim - that Hillary really hasn’t accomplished that much in Washington - is written now so in 3 years he can brag about being right, for as he even acknowledges in his piece, a divided Congress will stall any Clinton agenda.
I think the shelflife of not wanting career politicians may have passed. We’ve now all seen what ”He’s an outsider!” can mean - he’s got not a clue how shit works. And as somebody (Matt Yglesias?) pointed out yesterday, Term Limits were no part of Sanders’ ‘outsider’ platform.
@thehill IMPEACH! Oh wait.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
re: #266 Sir John Barron
“Yes, Trump and the GOP seem intent on burning the country to the ground, but gosh, isn’t it just fun to watch and talk about?”
More Chris (Matthews/Cillizza) like political talk show speak:
“And they do it all with such deft political moves. It is quite stunning to watch how effectively they tear this country apart. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!”
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
I wouldn’t put it past the GOP to try and change those laws.
Even the GOP is not likely to be that stupid. It would draw attention to their obstruction and any Democratic POTUS would simply veto it. If a Republican Congress ever has enough votes for a party-line veto override of a (D) POTUS, they wouldn’t waste their time vetoing bills — they would impeach instead.
Today’s thought experiment is this: Imagine a (D) Congress had totally blockaded a SCOTUS nomination by an (R) president the same way this Congress is doing to President Obama. Try not to go deaf just from imagining the howls of right-wing outrage that this scenario would lead to. Now imagine a senior Congressional Democrat suggesting that a Democratic congress would simply never confirm anyone nominated for SCOTUS by a Republican.
re: #241 freetoken
Cillizza is trying to position himself as the go-to journalist critiquing the coming Clinton Presidency.
His 3rd claim - that Hillary really hasn’t accomplished that much in Washington - is written now so in 3 years he can brag about being right, for as he even acknowledges in his piece, a divided Congress will stall any Clinton agenda.
Ahhhh memories
Milbank, Cillizza & the Washington Post still think calling Clinton a bitch is funny
re: #213 lawhawk
re: #223 Jay C
I’m guessing this has something to do with the fact that while Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s daughters both married Jews, Ivanka Trump converted, while Chelsea Clinton did not. This is a BIG obsession with the Ultras - but AFAICT, if one wants to try to avoid the label of “tribalist”, it’s an odd point to stress…
Yep, you nailed it, or at least part of it, and lawhawk got the rest—really whiny wingnut B.S. that refuses to acknowledge the lying, racism, bigotry, antisemitism, etc. (not to mention the attempts to destroy our social contract WRT confidence in free & fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power).
re: #272 ObserverArt
More Chris (Matthews/Cillizza) like political talk show speak:
“And they do it all with such deft political moves. It is quite stunning to watch how effectively they tear this country apart. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!”
“The way Great Cthulhu ripped off that person’s head with his tentacles was amazing! The walls and floor looked like modern art afterward.”
re: #274 b.d.
Even better:
Yesterday, the Post’s Howard Kurtz wrote in an online discussion “Chris apologized on his Twitter feed.” No. Cillizza did not apologize in his Twitter feed. Saying “We’ve apologized” is not apologizing.
And where do we know that Howie Kurtz works today, boys and girls?
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
Article III
Section 1.The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Nothing about there needing to be nine or any specific number. The nine member court is mainly tradition, in the 18th century there has been as many as 11 and as few as 7 (I think) FDR tried to add Justices but he backed off because of public outcry. Who the fuck knows what the Senate will do if the D’s don’t control.
So, Danney Williams is supposed to have a presser in Vegas in a couple of hours to announce that he’s filing a paternity suit against Bill Clinton.
good grief…
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, Danney Williams is supposed to have a presser in Vegas in a couple of hours to announce that he’s filing a paternity suit against Bill Clinton.
good grief…
Is Don King going to be there!?
re: #270 Blind Frog Belly White
I think the shelflife of not wanting career politicians may have passed. We’ve now all seen what “He’s an outsider!” can mean - he’s got not a clue how shit works. And as somebody (Matt Yglesias?) pointed out yesterday, Term Limits were no part of Sanders’ ‘outsider’ platform.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that Dumpster made the term limits thing his latest issue?
I didn’t notice any reference to it in the Wash Post or NYT today.
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, Danney Williams is supposed to have a presser in Vegas in a couple of hours to announce that he’s filing a paternity suit against Bill Clinton.
good grief…
Wait, didn’t a DNA test already prove he wasn’t Clinton’s son? Or am I getting him mixed up with someone else?
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, that’ll stop the 3d Bill Clinton term dead in its tracks.
Inbox: “THE ABANDONED SON OF PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON WILL ANNOUNCE THE FILING OF A PATERNITY LAWSUIT AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS TODAY”
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 19, 2016
+1 for the Chucky Johnson reference. @adamsteinbaugh @thegarance
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 19, 2016
re: #276 EPR-radar
“The way Great Cthulhu ripped off that person’s head with his tentacles was amazing! The walls and floor looked like modern art afterward.”
Wait, I thought that was Milo’s pig blood. /
The kind that says you need to be poling at more than 5% to warrant wasting people’s time @DrJillStein
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 19, 2016
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, Danney Williams is supposed to have a presser in Vegas in a couple of hours to announce that he’s filing a paternity suit against Bill Clinton.
good grief…
Nothing says “I’m serious” like staging a pre-election stunt.
re: #282 Interesting Times
Wait, didn’t a DNA test already prove he wasn’t Clinton’s son? Or am I getting him mixed up with someone else?
Same guy
re: #281 Sir John Barron
Wasn’t it just yesterday that Dumpster made the term limits thing his latest issue?
I didn’t notice any reference to it in the Wash Post or NYT today.
Although there should be some notice paid to a would-be President Trump initiating a policy to lessen the power of another branch of government.
re: #283 lawhawk
what was the Rage Furby connection?
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, Danney Williams is supposed to have a presser in Vegas in a couple of hours to announce that he’s filing a paternity suit against Bill Clinton.
good grief…
Ahhh…political theater. File the lawsuit right before the election. Wait for said lawsuit to get tossed a short time after the election.
Meanwhile all the little Clinton haters get off on more proof that Big Bill was a bad man and Trump is taking it to those Clintons…yessireee!
re: #291 ObserverArt
Ahhh…political theater. File the lawsuit right before the election. Wait for said lawsuit to get tossed a short time after the election.
Meanwhile all the little Clinton haters get off on more proof that Big Bill was a bad man and Trump is taking it to those Clintons…yessireee!
not just before the election, right before the debate. In the same city.
Just last week, Williams sat down for an interview with Infowars host Alex Jones. According to the Smoking Gun, Jones introduced Williams and claimed his story was “very, very credible.” The full InfoWars broadcast where Danney Williams’ story is told can be seen below.
Nothing says “I’m serious” like going to Alex Jones. I’m sold!
So is this the surprise guest?
@danney_williams @billclinton https://t.co/gH48IGWKkA
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
re: #292 Sir John Barron
not just before the election, right before the debate. In the same city.
Yeah…I was too pissed off to get to all the details. This shit sucks. But it plays to the stupid.
re: #294 gocart mozart
So is this the surprise guest?
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In what universe does he look like Bill Clinton? Face shape? No. Nose shape? No. Forehead? No. Eyes? No. Mouth? No.
re: #295 ObserverArt
Yeah…I was too pissed off to get to all the details. This shit sucks. But it plays to the stupid.
It’s almost as if Trump doesn’t want to really debate tonight, or at least not debate public policies.
/
re: #290 Sir John Barron
what was the Rage Furby connection?
Filing suit in Missouri against Gawker for no reason other than he knew a guy there.
Phil Chess, co-founder of legendary Chess Records, dead at age 95. https://t.co/D2nzhiYXOZ pic.twitter.com/dqosjfgrws
— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) October 19, 2016
And Bo Diddley still ain’t been paid. https://t.co/q6bsDy5M4B
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 19, 2016
See: The movie Sidemen. Bo was not the only one.
re: #292 Sir John Barron
not just before the election, right before the debate. In the same city.
If this guy’s from Arkansas, and Bill lives in New York, what jurisdiction does a Federal court in NV have?
re: #296 Blind Frog Belly White
In what universe does he look like Bill Clinton? Face shape? No. Nose shape? No. Forehead? No. Eyes? No. Mouth? No.
And where is the mother in this story?
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
Depends on which Justice’s cardiogram redlines.
re: #297 Sir John Barron
It’s almost as if Trump doesn’t want to really debate tonight, or at least not debate public policies.
/
He’s going to go with the three-ring circus setup.
I hope Hillary just stays back and lets the high wire act crash.
I thought I was done making contributions for this campaign cycle. However, there is a chance to REALLY send a message in less than three weeks. In addition to supporting the Clinton campaign, I had previously donated to Maggia Hassan in NH, Katie McGinty in PA and of course Tammy Duckworth right here in IL. Today I have also supported Jason Kander in MO to defeat a coward who runs from the mention of Trump, Deborah Ross in NC, and Patrick Murphy to help defeat the most spineless stuffed shirt in the country, Marco Rubio in FL.
If you are in a position to chip in during this season and you have already supported a good local candidate (or don’t have a good local candidate), I would would really like to suggest you do what is within your power to help defeat Marco Rubio in particular. This is a man who stands for nothing except trying to win elections. He barely ever bothered to show up for his job over the last six years, and only this week committed himself to serving a full term instead of making another ridiculous run for POTUS. Anyone who is so fucking stupid he can’t see that he will never be POTUS should not be in the legislative branch either.
re: #272 ObserverArt
More Chris (Matthews/Cillizza) like political talk show speak:
“And they do it all with such deft political moves. It is quite stunning to watch how effectively they tear this country apart. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!”
I’m sorry we don’t have a TARDIS. I’d like Cizilla to bone up on his German. He can be one of the lick-spittles who marvel at the NSDAP and their drama and verve in the 1930’s.
Just got finished interviewing Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit. We both feel strongly Trump will win. Don’t let the media get you down.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) October 19, 2016
Chance of Hillary winning just hit 100% https://t.co/lxkoW0lZj8
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 19, 2016
re: #296 Blind Frog Belly White
In what universe does he look like Bill Clinton? Face shape? No. Nose shape? No. Forehead? No. Eyes? No. Mouth? No.
Similarly schlonged?
re: #303 ObserverArt
He’s going to go with the three-ring circus setup.
I hope Hillary just stays back and let’s the high wire act crash.
I think here best play is to respond almost exclusively to the moderator, engage Trump not at all, and spend her time sketching out her vision of America and the work that needs to be done by all of us to get there.
re: #306 Kragar
Just got finished interviewing Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit. We both feel strongly Trump will win. Don’t let the media get you down.
— Bill Mitchell
Somebody keep this Tweet for posterity.
re: #285 Kragar
@Kragar_LGF More like the kind who actually listened to looney tunes @DrJillStein or “What’s a lepo?” Gary Johnson.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 19, 2016
re: #306 Kragar
Just got finished interviewing Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit. We both feel strongly Trump will win. Don’t let the media get you down.
— Bill Mitchell
BWWAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHAHA
re: #308 Blind Frog Belly White
I think here best play is to respond almost exclusively to the moderator, engage Trump not at all, and spend her time sketching out her vision of America and the work that needs to be done by all of us to get there.
I think Clinton did a good job with the balancing act of responding to Trump vs. describing her policy ideas in the first two debates.
re: #306 Kragar
It’s good that they believe in Trump’s win.
I want them to be devastated on Nov. the 9th.
Then we’ll all partake of the sweet tears of unfathomable sadness.
re: #306 Kragar
@mitchellvii You talked to #SMOTI and agreed that you both live in a fantasy world. Try talking to smart people if any will talk to you.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
re: #306 Kragar
Please proceed. Nothing brightens up my day quite like seeing deplorable political opponents engage in magical thinking about elections.
re: #306 Kragar
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@mitchellvii So I see you teamed up with the stupidest man on the internet to come up with this turd.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) October 19, 2016
re: #313 Nyet
Still maintaining that the proper alignment of evil stars could give 271 to Trump. OTOH, I have accepted the invitation to the local HRC victory orgy.
re: #313 Nyet
It’s good that they believe in Trump’s win.
I want them to be devastated on Nov. the 9th.
Then we’ll all partake of the sweet tears of unfathomable sadness.
For a while I feared the lunatic fringe had learned something from the “unskewed” fiasco 4 years ago.
Yes, I overestimated their intelligence and capacity for discernment.
re: #313 Nyet
It’s good that they believe in Trump’s win.
I want them to be devastated on Nov. the 9th.
Then we’ll all partake of the sweet tears of unfathomable sadness.
They’ll pivot to stolen election, voter fraud, and the next grift- banking on impeachment that will come any day now. They’re nothing if not predictable.
If You’re Ever Dissed in a Hacked Email, Try to Respond Like Larry Lessig https://t.co/l4E0QRrZY5
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 19, 2016
re: #294 gocart mozart
So is this the surprise guest?
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oops, read too fast. Star magazine.
Fucking Ken Starr ran the DNA
snopes.com
Using the Starr Report’s FBI analysis of Clinton’s DNA as its reference, Star paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams, the source for the Globe article, and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples. And the result: “There was no match. Not even close,” says a Star source.
Like, what would the court do with a finding of paternity? Order adult support?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 19, 2016
re: #312 EPR-radar
I think Clinton did a good job with the balancing act of responding to Trump vs. describing her policy ideas in the first two debates.
True. And I thought she did better in the second debate than the first, largely because it showed her listening to and connecting with regular people, while Trump was lurking and bloviating. The best part was refusing to get angry.
re: #323 b.d.
I suppose there could be back child support from 0 to 18. I have no idea if this is a thing, though.
re: #323 b.d.
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All this is to distract from the fact that Trump knows nothing about anything. Nothing. Zero. He’s as dumb as a stump on matters of public policy.
re: #325 MsJ
I suppose there could be back child support from 0 to 18. I have no idea if this is a thing, though.
So the GOP are for reparations now too?
re: #324 Blind Frog Belly White
True. And I thought she did better in the second debate than the first, largely because it showed her listening to and connecting with regular people, while Trump was lurking and bloviating. The best part was refusing to get angry.
She needs to stick up for herself a little more. That jail thing should have been hit harder. And she did nothing to dissuade the concept that her emails were classified. I would like to see her swing just a little more.
re: #320 gocart mozart
I have to believe that there are people who send emails or tweets about me that hate my guts. Hacking emails that prove this doesn’t change fact that the hack is an illegal act and that these peoples’ privacy is violated. That’s the issue Lessig duly notes.
Reality is that wikileaks publishing the stolen emails has revealed no criminal acts by Clinton campaign or anyone associated with her. It shows the usual grind of a political campaign dealing with an outsider running on the Democratic party ticket (Sanders), people not liking that said outsider was running, talking with media types, trying to figure out strategy, and contemplating how to address issues.
These are all the kinds of things one would expect from a political campaign.
But because the right wing wants to conflate these hacked/stolen emails with the HRC server emails, everything gets filed into the general term email. There’s really nothing there and all these efforts to gin up a controversy have fallen flat when the agencies involved found nothing wrong (which to the right wing is proof of a conspiracy).
It’s a guarantee that the Clinton family will use carrier pigeon next time they want to discuss something in secret. /
Ex-Prez Clinton is finally doing a whistlestop in one of our GOTV towns in FL. We’ll drive down if there is meaningful work to do. Otherwise we’ll go canvass the local FL backwoods. First the hurricane, then Shimon Peres’ funeral cancelled the last two events.
.@DanaBashCNN: Obama’s half brother, Benghazi mother “just an appetizer” of Trump guests invited to “rattle” Clinton https://t.co/W6A78IU7Q5
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) October 19, 2016
Others:
-toddler with air horn
-glass of red wine perched precariously on chair armrest
-clown overinflating a balloon
-just a regular clown https://t.co/06aZBZz1j4— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) October 19, 2016
“Secretary Clinton, you won the coin toss and will speak first.”
“Thank you, Chris. This election…”
*Trump opens jar of bees* https://t.co/GLpfxOtrOm— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) October 19, 2016
re: #330 Decatur Deb
Ex-Prez Clinton is finally doing a whistlestop in one of our GOTV towns in FL. We’ll drive down if there is meaningful work to do. Otherwise we’ll go canvass the local FL backwoods. First the hurricane, then Shimon Peres’ funeral cancelled the last two events.
Thanks for all the work you’re doing.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@DanaBashCNN: Obama’s half brother, Benghazi mother “just an appetizer” of Trump guests invited to “rattle” Clinton snappytv.com
— The Lead CNN
The media still believes this?
re: #334 Sir John Barron
The media still believes this? That Hillary can be rattled?
A few threads back somebody posted about a book that was a Lovecraftian tale from the perspective of a black man. Can somebody help me out with what it was?
Thanks,
RBS
re: #333 Sir John Barron
Thanks for all the work you’re doing.
It’s better stress relief than the exercise bike, and the schadenfreude payback will be staggering.
Guy on CNN holding up a sign that reads “ONLY TRUMP CAN STOP ISIS” & I’m willing to drop him off alone in Mosul so he can try.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 19, 2016
re: #336 Reality Based Steve
A few threads back somebody posted about a book that was a Lovecraftian tale from the perspective of a black man. Can somebody help me out with what it was?
Thanks,
RBS
The Ballad of Black Tom, I believe.
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
Guy on CNN holding up a sign that reads “ONLY TRUMP CAN STOP ISIS” & I’m willing to drop him off alone in Mosul so he can try.
— John Fugelsang
I wonder if guy with sign can tell us about ongoing efforts to retake Mosul?
////
re: #336 Reality Based Steve
The ballad of black Tom
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
@JohnFugelsang
SIGN HOLDER: what is a Mosul?— anderson (@draMobile) October 19, 2016
Yep, that was it, and it’s now added to my Kindle collection.
RBS
re: #327 b.d.
So the GOP are for reparations now too?
Heh, I was going to type that but held off. You went there!
re: #344 Belafon
Mo sul? Don’t we already have enough?
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What does he think the debate is? Some kind of twisted version of “This Is Your Life”?
re: #346 ObserverArt
There’s always someone…
In the latest issue of the neo-Nazi “Daily Shoah” youtube show Trump’s speech (which is played in the beginning) sounds especially sinister.
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
You know, I could see the CPD deciding to do away with audiences completely after this.
re: #352 Nyet
At around 1:33:… they play his “anti-globalist” speech and whisper “echo” in certain places.
good fucking grief, Andrea:
Andrea Mitchell: Is Hillary Clinton ‘doping’ at debate to cover ‘a problem with her health’? https://t.co/dxoyk2j46r pic.twitter.com/e7UVwujYo1
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 19, 2016
If you think any of these nutjob tricks would “rattle” @hillaryclinton, just delete your media credentials now. @TheLeadCNN @DanaBashCNN
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 19, 2016
In fact, it appears that Trump can be rattled by a woman. Any of them.
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief, Andrea:
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Andrea just go fuck yourself then just go away.
Peter Thiel was *mad* that academics saw African American Vernacular English as a legitimate dialect, rather than something to be mocked. pic.twitter.com/fF5hQPqCLm
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 19, 2016
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder what he has to say about Yiddish.
@daveweigel What better way to show how credible you are than to go on Alex Jones’ show?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief, Andrea:
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I was listening to MSNBC in the car earlier and since the car is new I am still learning how to manage the channels via the car’s computer and while I thought it was MSNBC it sounded like Fox. I had to play around with the channels…to discover that I was in fact listening to MSNBC.
The shit they let go without any pushback whatsoever just blew me away.
I am not even remotely surprised to hear this shit from Mitchell.
Ambassador Chris Stevens, a brilliant internationalist, was my cousin. Tonight Trump is going to parade his memory in service of xenophobia.
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 19, 2016
“My dad’s bill” — @johndingell says from the front row as @timkaine talks importance of protecting Social Security
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) October 18, 2016
I fear I may have invented the hecklebrag. https://t.co/1iKkFoFqxM
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) October 19, 2016
re: #364 gocart mozart
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I am glad to see the Stevens family has pushed strongly back on Trump’s use of their loved one to push bigotry and lies.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I thought ‘My Dad’s Bill’ what what Danney Williams was going to whisper?
re: #366 HappyWarrior
I am glad to see the Stevens family has pushed strongly back on Trump’s use of their loved one to push bigotry and lies.
Hence the use of a woman to whom he was briefly engaged 17 years before his death.
re: #357 lawhawk
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In fact, it appears that Trump can be rattled by a woman. Any of them.
Why the hell would Clinton be bothered by Obama’s half brother that he barely knows. Trump may be a hypersensitive child but Clinton can deal with this shit.
Pretty sure this is a very ill-advised joke from the CEO of Buzzfeed.
Ivanka Trump Says Her Father’s Lewd Comments Were “A Bit Jarring” https://t.co/8C0tFiFasO pic.twitter.com/GMJi83CPqV
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 19, 2016
Surprised Ivanka would be shocked by lewd language. I met her once & she casually said: “I’ve never seen a mulatto cock, but I’d like to!” https://t.co/WrgCoM0MGK
— Jonah Peretti (@peretti) October 19, 2016
re: #368 Blind Frog Belly White
Hence the use of a woman to whom he was briefly engaged 17 years before his death.
They did use a first cousin of the Apprentice contestant to smear her too. Trump campaign is looking more and more pathetic as we get near the finish line.
re: #357 lawhawk
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In fact, it appears that Trump can be rattled by a woman. Any of them.
Watching the difference in their reactions, the time that the Secret Service rushed to the stage is very telling.
Trump flinched started running away, totally lost focus - which I think is completely natural.
Clinton? She actually leaned forward toward the heckler, focused on them, barely seemed to notice her detail suddenly rushing the stage - almost like, “No, wait - I want to hear this.”
That woman has icewater in her veins. I like that in a President.
SCOOPLET: One of Trump’s “secret” debate guests is James O’Keefe. Watch yourself, gullible libs!
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) October 19, 2016
re: #373 Charles Johnson
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I really wish O’Keefe would go the fuck away but unfortunately I don’t think he’s going anywhere any time soon. Man that guy’s pathetic.
@JoshuaGreen I hope he’s wearing his Osama bin Laden costume.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
re: #372 Blind Frog Belly White
Watching the difference in their reactions, the time that the Secret Service rushed to the stage is very telling.
Trump flinched started running away, totally lost focus - which I think is completely natural.
Clinton? She actually leaned forward toward the heckler, focused on them, barely seemed to notice her detail suddenly rushing the stage - almost like, “No, wait - I want to hear this.”
That woman has icewater in her veins. I like that in a President.
She’s everything Trump’s supporters think he is. She’s tough and cool. Trump meanwhile is a big baby who threatens to sue over every perceived slight against him.
Ivanka Trump Says Her Father’s Lewd Comments Were “A Bit Jarring” https://t.co/8C0tFiFasO pic.twitter.com/GMJi83CPqV
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 19, 2016
Surprised Ivanka would be shocked by lewd language. I met her once & she casually said: “I’ve never seen a mulatto cock, but I’d like to!” https://t.co/WrgCoM0MGK
— Jonah Peretti (@peretti) October 19, 2016
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thiel is more batshit crazy and entitled than Donald Trump. He’s just not a celebrity blowhard about it.
re: #378 EPR-radar
Thiel is more batshit crazy and entitled than Donald Trump. He’s just not a celebrity blowhard about it.
He’s got that weird thing about blood doesn’t he?
re: #373 Charles Johnson
SCOOPLET: One of Trump’s “secret” debate guests is James O’Keefe. Watch yourself, gullible libs!
Do Trump’s minions have to check with their parole officers before they attend the same events?
SMOTI-1 and SMOTI-2 .@mitchellvii @gatewaypundit
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) October 19, 2016
re: #375 Charles Johnson
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SCOOPLET: One of Trump’s “secret” debate guests is James O’Keefe. Watch yourself, gullible libs!
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) October 19, 2016
if i actually cared about the republican party i would say this is embarrassing. but i just say “let it burn” https://t.co/FXHjTOjvg1
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 19, 2016
re: #246 Tigger2
I am so damn tired of the Republicans acting like they own this fucking country.
At this point, they could just pass a new law reducing the Supreme Court to seven justices and firing Kagan, that would make them even more happy, right?
re: #373 Charles Johnson
@JoshuaGreen Will he be dressed in a bad 70’s pimp costume? Or will he be a purveyor of adult sex toys. Inquiring minds….
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 19, 2016
re: #368 Blind Frog Belly White
Hence the use of a woman to whom he was briefly engaged 17 years before his death.
Who’s an actress.
Geeze
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there anything in the law about the Supreme court needing a certain number of justices to function?
What if we end up with, god forbid, three or four unfilled vacancies at the same time?
The number is not fixed and is subject to legislation, hence the recommendation to just prunie it down to seven members.
re: #375 Charles Johnson
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— jim (@jlcoffeecup) October 19, 2016
re: #386 Stanley Sea
Who’s an actress.
Geeze
And whose last name is Denier. Honestly, you cannot make this stuff up.
re: #42 I Would Prefer Not To
“The right wing is still running against Obama.”
I read a few months ago that that was McConnell’s plan. He told GOP senators in a private meeting to make the election about President Obama, because, in McConnell’s mind, he’s been a yuuuge failure at everything. The tactic worked in 2012, but it appears to be failing in 2016.
re: #379 HappyWarrior
He’s got that weird thing about blood doesn’t he?
Yes. If Thiel’s remaining shreds of restraint completely disappear, I expect an Elizabeth Bathory type story in due course. I’m sure a dedicated libertarian can find a way to make that work under freedom to contract or the like.
Thiel is also on record as stating the freedom and democracy are incompatible. He’s perfectly correct once it is noted that ‘freedom’ here is the freedom for rich people to do absolutely anything they please to others and the environment (i.e., libertopia). Democracy is and should be severely inconsistent with freedom thus perverted.
Chuck Todd talking about a Trump thumping reflecting on Ryan as he, Ryan, would lose his speakership.
I think, at this point, Ryan is going FUCK YEAH! LET SOMEONE ELSE DEAL WITH THESE CRAZY FUCKERS!
BuzzFeed CEO: I Heard Ivanka Trump Talk About “Mulatto Cocks” https://t.co/XFEbL6MjaP pic.twitter.com/tINBD0txqJ
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 19, 2016
Oh shit there’s a whole fucking story about it. https://t.co/1kCx3V9Lyk
— I, Hoebot. (@eclecticbrotha) October 19, 2016
New Technology , Guiding Hands.
” SEE WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS DOING TO US , VERY SOON THE BELOW SERVICES WILL BE SEEN ACROSS THE WORLD 🌎 👇@Koksalakn @StefanodocSM pic.twitter.com/Snklspgkac
— NITIN BHARUKA (@NBharuka) October 19, 2016
re: #390 MsJ
And whose last name is Denier. Honestly, you cannot make this stuff up.
Pronounced DenYay I’m sure.
I’m going to have to protect all my video screen devices tonight.
From the sounds of it, this “debate” tonight sounds like world-class insanity. I might grow so upset with the stupidity and the lowering of something so important as electing a president and start throwing and or tossing things.
But then, if it gets real bad, I can just turn them all off and follow along here and use the good Lizard Crew as a filter from the crud.
Peretti said the encounter with Ivanka occurred at a Manhattan dive bar called Tropical 128 about 8-10 years ago with roughly five other people present, including his wife, Andrea Harner. Peretti said Ivanka and he share a mutual friend who invited her to the bar that evening.
“She was saying how she first said she had never seen an uncircumcised cock and then she said, ‘I’ve never seen a mulatto cock. There’s lots of cocks I’ve never seen,’ or something like that,” Peretti said.
re: #393 EPR-radar
Yes. If Thiel’s remaining shreds of restraint completely disappear, I expect an Elizabeth Bathory type story in due course. I’m sure a dedicated libertarian can find a way to make that work under freedom to contract or the like.
Thiel is also on record as stating the freedom and democracy are incompatible. He’s perfectly correct once it is noted that ‘freedom’ here is the freedom for rich people to do absolutely anything they please to others and the environment (i.e., libertopia). Democracy is and should be severely inconsistent with freedom thus perverted.
He’s a creepy dude.
Twitter bios of users who sent anti-Semitic tweets to journalists this election season, according to new @ADL_National report. A word cloud: pic.twitter.com/wrckJSpgD4
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) October 19, 2016
Is there going to be anyone in the audience at the debate who wasn’t invited to troll a candidate?
— the babacuck (@jesseltaylor) October 19, 2016
re: #403 Stanley Sea
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god is smaller than I would’ve thought.
He looks taller on TV.
re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s pronounced “HED-ley!”
“Do you also say, ‘FRODE-erick?’”
“No.”
“Well, why isn’t it FRODE-erick FRAHNKensteen?”
re: #407 Blind Frog Belly White
“Do you also say, ‘FRODE-erick?’”
“No.”
“Well, why isn’t it FRODE-erick FRAHNKensteen?”
“EYE-gor. Like the North Face.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
So: Trump source tells me @SarahPalinUSA is an invited guest to tonight’s #debate.
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) October 19, 2016
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Sitting next to Sarah…Fetus in a Jar.
Good grief, what a clown show.
re: #413 blueraven
Sitting next to Sarah…Fetus in a Jar.
Good grief, what a clown show.
Maybe they figure if they just fill the Spin Room with these clowns, it will somehow…
Nope. Can’t even bring that sentence to a reasonable conclusion. It’s just stupid.
Or maybe they figure these are the people most likely to start reacting like a Jerry Springer audience, and give Trump the audience feedback he craves?
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
@HallieJackson @SarahPalinUSA was able to go on SNL and laugh at herself. Trump’s so thin-skinned he lost his mind over a debate parody.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) October 19, 2016
Will almost certainly not be a topic tonight:
Sexually Transmitted Disease Cases Hit New High in U.S.
More cases of sexually transmitted diseases were reported last year than ever before, federal officials said Wednesday — just as state and local health departments that could help fight them lose funding.
re: #415 Blind Frog Belly White
Or maybe they figure these are the people most likely to start reacting like a Jerry Springer audience, and give Trump the audience feedback he craves?
The Trump campaign would look just like this if Hunter Thompspn, James Carville, and Sarah Silverman were scripting it.
OK, all the wingnuts on Facebook are frothing at the mouth over something they are all sharing saying that the Clinton campaign is being investigated by the FEC for… something?
Is there a kernel of truth that they are blowing up into Bullshit Mountain, or are they already there just pulling things out of their asses?
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is true: Sarah Palin will be attending tonight’s debate as a guest of Donald Trump, per source.
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) October 19, 2016
she may walk out midway through tho https://t.co/V3he33rUqN
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) October 19, 2016
The debate guest thing is so silly, it makes me think they were looking at the polls and Bannon says, “I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!” and someone else responds, “And we’re just the guys to do it.”
So: Trump source tells me @SarahPalinUSA is an invited guest to tonight’s #debate.
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) October 19, 2016
Trump has turned this into a cattle call for every person who has helped destroy the GOP. https://t.co/J7a3qYyt8q
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) October 19, 2016
re: #378 EPR-radar
Thiel is more batshit crazy and entitled than Donald Trump. He’s just not a celebrity blowhard about it.
re: #379 HappyWarrior
He’s got that weird thing about blood doesn’t he?
He also believes that democracy and capitalism are incompatible, and given the choice he’d much prefer capitalism.
re: #419 Jack Burton
Only a complaint from a funny acronym.
re: #415 Blind Frog Belly White
Or maybe they figure these are the people most likely to start reacting like a Jerry Springer audience, and give Trump the audience feedback he craves?
And does he REALLY think that a ludicrous spectacle like that would HELP his Presidential chances?
I have been avoiding most cable news for awhile now, until today.
I see that little smirking piglet, Ed Henry, is back on the job at Fox News.
re: #427 Nyet
Only a complaint from a funny acronym.
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re: #427 Nyet
Only a complaint from a funny acronym.
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And an unfortunate acronym, at that.
re: #432 Blind Frog Belly White
PILF? Isn’t that a category on Pornhub?
Trumpers don’t like the current Pope./
re: #420 jaunte
@existentialfish Oooh…fancy pageant walking! Sweet!
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 19, 2016
I’ve been on a flight for the last 2 hours. Has Trump’s surprise guest been revealed yet?
re: #415 Blind Frog Belly White
Or maybe they figure these are the people most likely to start reacting like a Jerry Springer audience, and give Trump the audience feedback he craves?
It should be dead solid simple. Any member of the audience that makes any sounds with the exception of applause at the beginning and at the very end of the debate will be promptly and immediately escorted from their seat and shown to the door.
re: #430 Jay C
And does he REALLY think that a ludicrous spectacle like that would HELP his Presidential chances?
Oh, I think that we’re past that point. I think now it’s about riding the nuke down to oblivion, Yeeehaaaawww-ing all the way to the ground.
re: #436 Dr. Matt
I’ve been on a flight for the last 2 hours. Has Trump’s surprise guest been revealed yet?
A whole zoo of them.
re: #443 Reality Based Steve
I like to think of it as “An Asylum of Trump Supporters”.
Arkham Sanitarium.
Also unlikely to be brought up tonight:
Exxon backs ‘serious action’ on climate change
[…]
Exxon is under investigation in New York on suspicion that it violated US securities laws by withholding information about the risks posed to its business by climate change. On Monday, Exxon asked a federal court in Texas to block subpoenas from New York’s attorney-general for documents related to the probe.
Mr Tillerson did not comment on the case during his speech at the Oil & Money conference in London but stressed that Exxon’s commitment to help find a balance between meeting rising global energy demand and reducing emissions.
“We share the view that the risks of climate change are real and require serious action,” he said, adding that Exxon had long supported a tax on carbon in preference to the current “hodgepodge” of regulations around the world.
[…]
This is probably just an attempt to escape the legal tangles that may follow if Exxon is shown to have misled investors about the cost of climate change and the impact on Exxon. I am confident in that because of his next paragraph:
He said that Exxon had been applying an internal carbon price of up to $80 per tonne, reflecting the possible future cost of climate regulation, when making investment decisions for the past 10 years.
So the answer Tillerson is going to give is that they’ve been pricing in climate change mitigation for 10 years.
I wonder if there is evidence of that?
Another reason to doubt Tillerson is that at the same conference he’s still selling the idea (which Drumpfskind will buy) that the US is a bottomless bowl of oil:
Exxon boss tells peers, Saudis their oil supply crunch bet is wrong
[…]
“I don’t quite share the same view that others have that we are somehow on the edge of a precipice. I think because we have confirmed viability of very large resource base in North America … that serves as enormous spare capacity in the system,” Tillerson told the Oil & Money conference.
[…]
re: #427 Nyet
Only a complaint from a funny acronym.
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I visited their website earlier today. Board of Directors features an assortment of Right Wingers.
I’m seeing Palin, Wayne Newton, and Criminal O’Keefe.
re: #430 Jay C
And does he REALLY think that a ludicrous spectacle like that would HELP his Presidential chances?
Yeah, I think he’s that demented to think that Hillary’s as easily rattled as he is. Clinton’s dealt with actual dictators before. Malik Obama? Sarah Palin? Small potatoes compared to what she’s actually had to talk to before.
re: #444 Nyet
Arkham Sanitarium.
Speaking of which:
The first episode of Trump TV will air tonight. pic.twitter.com/3jdM107hlX
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) October 19, 2016
Man…MSNBC. AJ Delgado and another guy screaming at each other and the dude says Trump policy is absolutely batshit insane! Chris Hayes laughing his ass off.
Now that is good tv. :-)
Shorter Exxon:
1) climate change is real and something has to be done about it;
2) we plan on producing as much oil as we want .
re: #444 Nyet
Arkham Sanitarium.
Basement level, down where Dr. Hugo Strange does his nefarious experiments.
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
She is the wife of Alan Greenspan. She is a Republican, so she is not at all objective.
re: #430 Jay C
And does he REALLY think that a ludicrous spectacle like that would HELP his Presidential chances?
Yes. Sadly yes. But he reinforces the fact that he’s completely unqualified for the position and he’s making a mockery of our democracy.
re: #452 MsJ
Man…MSNBC. AJ Delgado and another guy screaming at each other and the dude says Trump policy is absolutely batshit insane! Chris Hayes laughing his ass off.
Now that is good tv. :-)
Same AJ Delgado who retweeted the neo-Nazis behind “Daily Shoah” posted above.
re: #457 Nyet
Same AJ Delgado who retweeted the neo-Nazis behind “Daily Shoah” posted above.
Man Trump has some nutso surrogates.
re: #456 Dr. Matt
Yes. Sadly yes. But he reinforces the fact that he’s completely unqualified for the position and he’s making a mockery of our democracy.
Demockery? Demockracy?
re: #370 Charles Johnson
Is this whole family from the sewer?
Didn’t mention it but today I started my job as a part time legal assistant. Really excited to see how this goes.
re: #457 Nyet
Same AJ Delgado who retweeted the neo-Nazis behind “Daily Shoah” posted above.
She’s not just looney tunes but a loud liar. Typical trumpster.
re: #450 jaunte
Speaking of which:
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— jim (@jlcoffeecup) October 19, 2016
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Yay You! Congratulations!
re: #379 HappyWarrior
Yeah, he’s that guy.
This prick is going to have a huge fall someday, hopefully soon.
re: #464 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yay You! Congratulations!
Thanks. Working not too far from where I grew up actually.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Didn’t mention it but today I started my job as a part time legal assistant. Really excited to see how this goes.
That is so awesome!! Congratulations! I am so excited for you!!
AJ Delgado and Rick Wilson were head to head on MSNBC. Wilson called Cheeto Batshit crazy. Downhill from there. He hacked up Delgado
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Didn’t mention it but today I started my job as a part time legal assistant. Really excited to see how this goes.
Great. Good to hear and may this be the kicker to your long career.
re: #465 Ziggy_TARDIS
Yeah, he’s that guy.
This prick is going to have a huge fall someday, hopefully soon.
Can only hope. Guys like him seem only happy if they’re making other peopel miserable.
re: #441 Nyet
A whole zoo of them.
About the only way those people could affect HRC is to cause her to have an uncontrollable fit of the giggles…
re: #469 ObserverArt
Great. Good to hear and may this be the kicker to your long career.
Thanks. Really hope so. I know I’m going to learn a lot about the law and how to approach the law. Really good for my wallet but also my mind.
re: #453 freetoken
Shorter Exxon:
1) climate change is real and something has to be done about it;
2) we plan on producing as much oil as we want .
Petroleum will still be big business for the foreseeable future. Lubricants and petrochemicals will probably consume millions of barrels a day… but a lot less than today. Oil companies will still be huge, but no longer world-bestriding behemoths.
#BREAKING Chemical Spill in West Chester has officials asking people to stay indoors: https://t.co/oEaniQ3Dxf pic.twitter.com/z9dSDvBS3X
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) October 19, 2016
chemical lime, dust in the air.
yikes!
re: #472 Reality Based Steve
Just saw this posted up on my FB feed. Yea, that’s about right, it’s all crashing down on his head.
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I just love how Trump is somehow anti establishment. IF he didn’t parrot their blulslhit, he’d be teh subject of their conspriacy bullshti.
re: #462 MsJ
She’s not just looney tunes but a loud liar. Typical trumpster.
I have not seen it in her yet, but I think if pushed AJ Delgado could get real mean about what she would say. She’s pretty quick and loves to go for the throat already.
re: #473 HappyWarrior
Thanks. Really hope so. I know I’m going to learn a lot about the law and how to approach the law. Really good for my wallet but also my mind.
And you get to do something that you have trained for, Bonus!
The big tease followed by “our super-secret guest is … Sarah Palin!” is basically the whole Trump team saying, “Okay, fine, we lost.”
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) October 19, 2016
re: #477 ObserverArt
I have not seen it in her yet, but I think if pushed AJ Delgado could get real mean about what she would say. She’s pretty quick and loves to go for the throat already.
Wilson took her off at the knees.
re: #475 Backwoods_Sleuth
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chemical lime, dust in the air.
yikes!
Was gonna say… If that spilled into the coconut river…
re: #479 gocart mozart
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Please tell me that’s not true. I can see it now, the words of Donald Trump as interpreted by Sarah Palin. My mother the English teacher is spinning in her grave.
RBS
Trump camp: Guests will expose the Clintons’ ‘sordid’ pasts https://t.co/zj1LJSoexl - @DanaBashCNN reports #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 19, 2016
Does Trump realize Americans want to hear about issues that impact their lives? https://t.co/3etbGyPnee
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) October 19, 2016
No, Peter, he doesn’t. Nor does he care.
re: #472 Reality Based Steve
Just saw this posted up on my FB feed. Yea, that’s about right, it’s all crashing down on his head.
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Kind of impressive the artist could fit so many right wing BS stereotypes in one cartoon. Stupid as hell, but impressive….
Obama’ 1/2 brother, Sarah Palin, James O’Keefe — Trump’s assembling his Douche-a-cide Squad for the debate. Where’s Woolery?
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 19, 2016
re: #452 MsJ
Man…MSNBC. AJ Delgado and another guy screaming at each other and the dude says Trump policy is absolutely batshit insane! Chris Hayes laughing his ass off.
Now that is good tv. :-)
Actually it’s shitty tv because the media is incapable of acting any more like adults than Trump is. It makes our country look like absolute crap.
re: #484 Jay C
Kind of impressive the artist could fit so many right wing BS stereotypes in one cartoon. Stupid as hell, but impressive….
I think he studied in Berlin.
RBS
re: #479 gocart mozart
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The one thing that the Trump campaign wants to remind people of was the last time Palin was at a debate?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *collasping on floor* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
re: #472 Reality Based Steve
Oooh, Rotschilds, NWO, freemasons, heh.
And now there are tornado warnings. This one is pretty much about 90 miles west of me.
⚠️ Take Cover! Tornado Warning including Florence KY, Erlanger KY, Edgewood KY until 7:00 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/0AyXe3IZrm
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) October 19, 2016
re: #480 Dave In Austin
Wilson took her off at the knees.
I’m going to have to see if I can find the video. Was it part of one of their shows or are they in debate coverage mode and the regular shows are not running in their time slots? It’s easy to find the video of their shows!
re: #477 ObserverArt
I have not seen it in her yet, but I think if pushed AJ Delgado could get real mean about what she would say. She’s pretty quick and loves to go for the throat already.
Both she and Wilson were screaming over each other. It was the perfect metaphor for this election.
re: #494 MsJ
Both she and Wilson were screaming over each other. It was the perfect metaphor for this election.
I blame John McLaughlin.
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I guess we can assume that none of her kids are in jail tonight.
re: #496 Skip Intro
I guess we can assume that none of her kids are in jail tonight.
The night is young. Hopefully none of them are in Vegas with her because Vegas and the Palin kiddos sounds like a dangerous combo.
re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth
And now there are tornado warnings. This one is pretty much about 90 miles directly west of me.
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Running off to check to see what’s happening with the weather now. Seems calm in my neck of the city 200 miles or so north of you.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Didn’t mention it but today I started my job as a part time legal assistant. Really excited to see how this goes.
Congrats!!!
re: #497 HappyWarrior
The night is young. Hopefully none of them are in Vegas with her because Vegas and the Palin kiddos sounds like a dangerous combo.
She’ll probably be bringing Bristol and her MoH winner trophy husband.
re: #497 HappyWarrior
The night is young. Hopefully none of them are in Vegas with her because Vegas and the Palin kiddos sounds like a dangerous combo.
A bunch of belligerent drunks in a town full of bars? What’s the worst that could happen?
re: #486 Skip Intro
Actually it’s shitty tv because the media is incapable of acting any more like adults than Trump is. It makes our country look like absolute crap.
It was, to me, this entire election cycle encapsulated in a four minute segment. It was perfect train wreck television. You had no idea what either of them were saying, and, again for me, I could not have cared less…my caring is already at rock bottom.
OK, there’s no way I’m watching this shitshow tonight. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand it just reading the comments here.
I’m already feeling sick in my stomach.
re: #499 ObserverArt
Running off to check to see what’s happening with the weather now. Seems calm in my neck of the city 200 miles or so north of you.
Still quite a ways away from you yet. Later tonight might be different.
re: #472 Reality Based Steve
Just saw this posted up on my FB feed. Yea, that’s about right, it’s all crashing down on his head.
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Of course, in reality, the only thing he’ll accomplish in that “Temple” is that the decorative elephant will cave in his skull before hitting the marble floor and being pulverized into dust.
re: #501 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’ll probably be bringing Bristol and her MoH winner trophy husband.
Are they bringing her kids, Spackle and Camshaft?
re: #495 Blind Frog Belly White
I blame John McLaughlin.
But it was good TV!
(Amazing though, a lot of the media does sight it as a different take on politics and fun, etc. So, it did make them look more at the entertainment in news.)
The polls are split between HRC Winning & … HRC Winning in a landslide https://t.co/VQvAj0AGrB#debatenight #ImWithHer #UniteBlue#USLatino pic.twitter.com/MWM2KsKszg
— Brook Bufa (@jupiter896) October 19, 2016
in case u wonder what a buddy movie w kareem abdul jabbar + leon panetta might look like -> https://t.co/asObuLhD5T
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 19, 2016
re: #504 Skip Intro
OK, there’s no way I’m watching this shitshow tonight. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand it just reading the comments here.
I’m already feeling sick in my stomach.
I haven’t watched any of the debates for more than 5-10 minutes max. I’ll lurk and let LGF be my filter tonight. If it gets too crazy I’ll just shut it all down and read a book or watch videos.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Didn’t mention it but today I started my job as a part time legal assistant. Really excited to see how this goes.
Congrads!!!!
RBS
re: #508 ObserverArt
But it was good TV!
(Amazing though, a lot of the media does sight it as a different take on politics and fun, etc. So, it did make them look more at the entertainment in news.)
It only kinda worked because he had the loudest voice and could command the guests. Nowadays nobody shuts up. I saw Stephen Moore, easily the stupidest economist on Earth, on Maher’s show, and he WOULD NOT STOP TALKING!!
re: #503 MsJ
It was, to me, this entire election cycle encapsulated in a four minute segment. It was perfect train wreck television. You had no idea what either of them were saying, and, again for me, I could not have cared less…my caring is already at rock bottom.
If I hosted a political talk show it would be a la Around the Horn on ESPN. Start yelling over each other, 15 sec mute for each party.
Congrats to the Indians on winning the AL Pennant.
The Cleveland Indians just finished off the Blue Jays to go to the World Series. For those who care.
The Cleveland Indians are in the World Series!!!
They just beat Toronto 3-0 in game 5.
I know they have a politically incorrect name and all, but I’ve been a loyal Cleveland baseball fans since I was all of 6 years old and had a little am radio that ran on batteries and had one single ear phone. It was lucky to get four stations…but one had the Indians. So, it is special they made it.
re: #514 Timothy Watson
If I hosted a political talk show it would be a la Around the Horn on ESPN. Start yelling over each other, 15 sec mute for each party.
They’re each in separate, soundproof booths. The second one interrupts another, the interrupter’s booth starts filling with water, which only stops when they stop talking.
Stephen Moore would have fucking drowned.
Court orders Ohio to count ballots of 1 million wrongly purged voters reinstated to rolls. Big victory for voters https://t.co/LE1Df9W3Wu
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 19, 2016
Kareem Abdul-Jabar to be a Clinton guest at tonight’s debate
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) October 19, 2016
re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth
Still quite a ways away from you yet. Later tonight might be different.
I see that. It might tucker out before it gets here. Gonna get chilly this weekend too. Dips and dives of fall.
I need to get out and get some fall images…trees are starting to turn now.
re: #511 CuriousLurker
I haven’t watched any of the debates for more than 5-10 minutes max. I’ll lurk and let LGF be my filter tonight. If it gets too crazy I’ll just shut it all down and read a book or watch videos.
Isn’t there going to be a Trump pre-debate freak show like last time?
What a totally disgusting excuse for a human being he is. No redeeming characteristics at all. None.
4th man charged in death of sprinter Tyson Gay’s daughter: https://t.co/IjDgruANkB pic.twitter.com/KsJ1y2bsho
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) October 19, 2016
Join me on an awkward trip, full of longing for the more erudite days… of George W. Bush. https://t.co/Qc3D0XCAWo #txlege
— Spooky Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) October 19, 2016
re: #522 Skip Intro
Isn’t there going to be a Trump pre-debate freak show like last time?
What a totally disgusting excuse for a human being he is. No redeeming characteristics at all. None.
well, Danney’s presser is supposed to start in a few minutes.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Looking at “Makada”s retweets and follows (full of Alt-right and full-blown white nationalists), something tells me that the picture on that profile isn’t who actually is posting to the account.
‘Skittles’ photographer sues Donald Trump in Chicago
David Kittos, the photographer, alleges copyright infringement and is asking for monetary damages. You can read a copy of the complaint here.
Donald Trump Sr., Donald Trump Jr., Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and Mike Pence, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are named as defendants.
Good. Horrible, horrible people, all of them.
re: #513 Blind Frog Belly White
It only kinda worked because he had the loudest voice and could command the guests. Nowadays nobody shuts up. I saw Stephen Moore, easily the stupidest economist on Earth, on Maher’s show, and he WOULD NOT STOP TALKING!!
I never really watched it. I remember the SNL spoofs though.
And when he passed away I saw a bunch of news people talking about how much the show changed the way politics was covered.
re: #514 Timothy Watson
If I hosted a political talk show it would be a la Around the Horn on ESPN. Start yelling over each other, 15 sec mute for each party.
When I lived in St. Louis area, the local PBS station had a show Donnybrook. The host, Martin Duggan hosted it from the start in 1987 until he retired in 2009. He was a conservative, but always gave everybody a fair shake. They would usually have 3-5 people around the table, it got heated at times, but you always had the feeling that after the show was over they all went out to get a beer together.
That was my introduction in many ways to political debate. It’s still the model I envision.
RBS
re: #472 Reality Based Steve
Trump is drawn as having such amazing abs they show through a dress shirt. And that’s not the craziest thing about this cartoon.
I missed a bunch of posts here, so don’t know if this was covered:
New Bill Clinton Sex Assault Accuser Will Be At Debate Tonight
Is this real?
re: #474 Brian J.
Petroleum will still be big business for the foreseeable future. Lubricants and petrochemicals will probably consume millions of barrels a day… but a lot less than today. Oil companies will still be huge, but no longer world-bestriding behemoths.
Decades ago the Shah of Iran (unmitigated bastard) said something smart: “Oil is too valuable to burn.”
re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth
And now there are tornado warnings. This one is pretty much about 90 miles west of me.
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I live in IN we had a hell of a bad storm come through here about 3 hrs ago going east.
re: #526 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Looking at “Makada”s retweets and follows (full of Alt-right and full-blown white nationalists), something tells me that the picture on that profile isn’t who actually is posting to the account.
Why?
Im voting for @realdonaldtrump for POTUS. Its time for a REAL change!!! #trump2016 #trumptrain #trumprally #trumpforpresident #trumpnation #trumptower #MAGA #makeamericagreatagain
@digby56 can she see Russia from her seat?
— TwoTimes (@RealTwoTimes) October 19, 2016
Ah, that must be it. Palin is the Trump campaign Russia expert. Of course. https://t.co/CusrZKZ3Q4
— digby (@digby56) October 19, 2016
I guess LGF just got a plug from Chris Hayes.
re: #536 Charles Johnson
I guess LGF just got a plug from Chris Hayes.
enough with the humblebrag….. inquiring minds want to know.
RBS
Prospect of third United States presidential debate leaves shattered Americans numbed and listless, staring into space at imaginary objects.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 19, 2016
Various online sites starting to run with that latest bratfrat story on a newly discovered victim of Bill Clinton. In another hour it ought to be headlines everywhere.
Congrats, media. Holt just ran a story about The Kids. “Both candidates bully each other” “Trump is disrespectful” “Hillary should be honest” “33,000 emails”
S. M. F. H. and F. M. L.
@mitchellvii pic.twitter.com/PVaPhd9Prg
— Wyatt (@wyatttindacut) October 19, 2016
Hope that’s true. James deserves it. https://t.co/enDbEEFNWc
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) October 19, 2016
So apparently Trump is going to go batshit tonight about Hillary’s nonexistent health issues. This should be amusing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
I’m reading Trump Complaint on @Scribd #ReadMore https://t.co/WrdpfhByVo
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) October 19, 2016
re: #540 MsJ
The horse race is nearly finished… they need to milk it for whatever is left.
re: #539 freetoken
Various online sites starting to run with that latest bratfrat story on a newly discovered victim of Bill Clinton. In another hour it ought to be headlines everywhere.
1) Probably fake.
2) Nobody is surprised.
3) Nobody cares.
re: #542 Charles Johnson
This is the one where Trump just may bite the head off of a live chicken.
Russian president Vladimir Putin sullies himself and his great nation by posing for photographs with disgusting frog-like Angela Merkel. pic.twitter.com/AbV49Mjq5p
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 19, 2016
Access Hollywood approaches Mark Cuban for an interview. He replies, “on a bus?” laughs, and then “let me get my tic tacs, hold on”
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 19, 2016
re: #546 Decatur Deb
Well, the Salem Communications outlets (Hotair, Townhall) are all whining about how this accusation has to be “taken seriously”, in some sort of attempt to use Hillary’s words against her.
They just can’t accept that blaming the wife (Hillary) for the husband’s problems is exactly one of the key problems that face women historically.
Hugh Hewitt always looks like he just ate a bad prawn. pic.twitter.com/o3yBIQyM6z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2016
Night Lizards. As always, may the Deity of your choice smile down upon you and yours.
Malik Obama and I hanging post-debate prep today. He told me why he is a Republican and voting for @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/sAGXDj4GHg
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 19, 2016
So this is happening. https://t.co/vOzlQjxex4
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) October 19, 2016
re: #543 gocart mozart
This will probably go nowhere, but if burying the Trump family (and Pence, who’d be on his own) in lawsuits takes this family of gangsters down I’m all for it.
re: #550 freetoken
Well, the Salem Communications outlets (Hotair, Townhall) are all whining about how this accusation has to be “taken seriously”, in some sort of attempt to use Hillary’s words against her.
They just can’t accept that blaming the wife (Hillary) for the husband’s problems is exactly one of the key problems that face women historically.
Oh, they accept it alright, which is why we’re where we are right not, tonight; any angle, no matter how fake or contrived, to hammer Hillary.
re: #555 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe Kellyanne can go to Kenya to run his next campaign. That’s probably the only place she’ll be able to find work after she caps her career with her biggest loss yet.
Popular vote tracker:
Before 1° debate: Clinton +1.5
Before 2° debate: Clinton +5.6
Before 3° debate: Clinton +7.1https://t.co/WLXtJovjYd— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 19, 2016
re: #541 Dave In Austin
Donald really had to have O’keefe along. He’s the only person on earth who lies enough to make Donald seem honest.
re: #531 freetoken
I missed a bunch of posts here, so don’t know if this was covered:
New Bill Clinton Sex Assault Accuser Will Be At Debate Tonight
Is this real?
I’m answering before reading the rest of the thread but whatever, Sister Sarah will take away her glory.
re: #536 Charles Johnson
I guess LGF just got a plug from Chris Hayes.
I met Chris in Brooklyn a few years ago. He was a cool dude. Gracious with his time.
re: #555 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ummmm, is Malik Obama even an American citizen (and thus eligible to vote)??
re: #564 Jay C
Ummmm, is Malik Obama even an American citizen (and thus eligible to vote)??
yes, he is.
this is the second, and last time i’m writing this
limbaugh is an effin loon
since recently and temporarily i’ve been driving mom around a bit, i get the car radio. different from what i get at work
so i landed on limbaugh twice. 5 minutes was all i could take and it wont happen again
he’s a liar
he makes stuff up out of whole cloth
he twists the “truth”
and he doesnt support anything he says
and he slowly creeps his arguments from some sort of “specific” into these most general sweeping terms
its clear why people who listen to him for so long continue to. he is persuasive so they think they dont have to do any homework.
first you discount all the conspiracy parts.
90% of the stuff he says is verifiably not true
the remaining 10 is charitably “open to interpretation” under some bizarre point of view
anyway he’s just an “entertainer”, and free speech and all so lies or not, its all good
re: #180 Dave In Austin
I can’t remember is I saw this on my timeline or on here, regardless, it needs to be pushed. Every bar and eating est. needs to have a contingency for this.
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Maybe even more than one contingency, each one slightly more difficult for a psycho to spot, maybe for both genders.