I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

boy i thought flirting with naturalnews body paranoia was bad...

https://twitter.com/deepdrumpf

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, August 11, 2016 10:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so amazing

lol michael ian black first response hall of fame

amen!

if she is able to get things passed w/ bipartisan support the left is really really going to hate her

record-setting billions for Bibi; count on it.

lol michael ian black first response hall of fame

Throwing Sarah Palin back at her obliterates anything she might have to say.

MI Black and McCain wrote a book together

pretty sure obama is going to sign that new aid package before he leaves office. nb i was pleasantly surprised to find that daniel pipes most recent column called for the military aid to end: http://www.danielpipes.org/16850/end-us-aid-to-israel

but what does record-setting billions for bibi have to do w/ negotiating with republicans? both hillary and the republicans want it. i'm talking about things hillary doesn't necessarily want, or things she has actually campaigned against, that she might give into to make a "grand compromise."

they're not gonna compromise at all - tea party caucus in the House will be even more powerful after the election, Ryan will be hamstrung.

yeah it's like they'll have distilled much of the sanity out of the GOP and what is left will be even crazier and less prone to compromise

in re. baraka -- you can't make up this stuff:

In January 2015, Baraka described the vigil for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting as a "white power march" and Je suis Charlie as an "arrogant rallying cry for white supremacy" because of France's colonial history, the caricature at issue, French support for American policy in Syria and Libya, and the disproportionate interest in this particular act of war.[19] Later he would write an article titled "No 'Je Suis Charleston'?".

caroline du sud n'est pas francophone, non?

when has the GOP ever been sane

Not in the last forty or fifty years.

it's all relative i guess

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpmAplYUsAA7dkA.jpg

So did we talk about how Trump is now two points ahead of HRC in...South Carolina?

(He's not)

I'm wondering why we haven't seen a poll of Texas voters in a while, tbh.

those parentheticals in the CNN chyron have been just

sublime

Apropos of nothing, a friend of mine (not the person I'm linking to) just shared this video on FB, of some psychotic aggro asshole threatening a cyclist. Among his many threats: "If there weren't any witnesses, I'd pull a Trump on you."

https://www.facebook.com/mark.friis1/videos/vb.1201104417/10207942299974298/?type=2&theater

South Carolina was only a ten point differential in 2012. Compare with Missouri (nine point differential) and Georgia (eight point differential).

Lieberman goes for HRC:
http://jewishva.org/node/129998

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/republicans-urge-rnc-cut-funds-trump-226918

that's a fairly typical fraction of bot followers for a celebrity account. maybe a bit on the high side, but no evidence that he's buying them.

I think he recently seemed to add 1.5m of them.

re: chinavision's link: it's been said before, but I love how now that he's really cratering in the polls, all these 'reasonable' folks have, just this minute, noticed shit he's been doing since the start of the campaign:

Those recent outrages have built on his campaign of anger and exclusion, during which he has mocked and offended millions of voters, including the disabled, women, Muslims, immigrants, and minorities,” the letter states. “He also has shown dangerous authoritarian tendencies, including threats to ban an entire religion from entering the country, order the military to break the law by torturing prisoners, kill the families of suspected terrorists, track law-abiding Muslim citizens in databases, and use executive orders to implement other illegal and unconstitutional measures.

oh, so now those things are deal-breakers. good to know.

uh most of that stuff is being done now

or has been recently

if they were really brave they'd endorse the only other candidate who has a chance of winning

pretty sure him mocking and offending the disabled, women, Muslims, immigrants and minorities was.... the entire basis of his campaign? the Muslim ban, the torture and kill stuff, all that was ages and ages ago.

I think he recently seemed to add 1.5m of them.

― frogbs, Thursday, August 11, 2016 2:15 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the jump is weird, but more likely attributable to someone who has a team of people who understand computes/the internet, than it is to donald trump's campaign. remember this guy was in charge of his data team http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-campaign-memo-unlikely-voters/.

obv posturing/positioning for the historical record once the odds have gotten long enough to cross the denouncement threshold. none of these fucks would be saying these things if trump was winning this race

xps

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-has-fake-twitter-followers-but-trump-has-the-most-sad/ ?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/reagan-daughter-blasts-trump/index.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpmWFfcXEAAGb2w.jpg

~dangerous~

reagan-daughter-finger-blasts-trump

I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie

tbf there was a lot of that going around

remember when iirc pareene was saying that "dangerous" donald was playing into his hands?

When will someone put a stop to this dangerous woman? I have it on good authority that she goes to events, and then goes home and goes to sleep. This, in the United States of America!

I assume he was trying to stoke the "Hillary is too sick to be President" rumors?

oh man if that's what he was going for, boy did he ever fail to connect the dots

I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie

Her dad's flair for language

how dare she sleep. trump takes loads of pills, loads! trump never sleeps!

everybody knows sleep causes cancer

(never get tired of my favorite Young Ones joke)

Apropos of nothing, a friend of mine (not the person I'm linking to) just shared this video on FB, of some psychotic aggro asshole threatening a cyclist. Among his many threats: "If there weren't any witnesses, I'd pull a Trump on you."

https://www.facebook.com/mark.friis1/videos/vb.1201104417/10207942299974298/?type=2&theater

― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i ususally don't watch this kind of thing, can't say i'm glad i did but jesus, what is up with people. seething anger over nothing. kudos to the cyclist for staying calm, i don't think i would

Again, I honestly can't tell whether that interview snippet is a real Trump quote or not. I've known people with full-blown dementia who could formulate clearer thoughts and sentences than Trump.

the "hillary is too old, sick, and fragile" thing is fuckin hilarious and so desperate

xxpost my favorite line is "you don't want to fuck with a guy like me-- a surfer"

this fucken guy actually says "I'm your huckleberry"

that kind of stuff makes me so unbelievably angry

xp goole