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

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/764974286931169285

This is a man who knows he's going to lose

Trump tweets getting so emo lol

how can u tell if the tweet is coming from an iphone or android?

Someone in the new Herzog internet documentary confidently predicts people will be automatically Tweeting out thoughts in 20 or however many years. So it's good that we got Trump out of the way this year.

Trump + James Joyce = not good.

how can u tell if the tweet is coming from an iphone or android?

― Mordy, Monday, August 15, 2016 10:16 AM (16 minutes ago)

i think you need to be running tweetdeck

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-self-reckoning-1471213081

If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.

Paywalled

*holds up "You can go the distance" banner*

google the URL

https://www.google.com/search?q=tes&oq=tes&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59l3j69i61j0.1070j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-self-reckoning-1471213081&tbm=nws

Thx

https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/764989713149267968

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0

twitter client is present in the API. here are the clients for the last 20 tweets. seems like he's been on a bit of a tear the last day or two.

[(u'Certain Republicans who have lost to me would rather save face by fighting me than see the U.S.Supreme Court get proper appointments. Sad!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'"Stay on message" is the chant. I always do - trade, jobs, military, vets, 2nd A, repeal Ocare, borders, etc - but media misrepresents!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'I have always been the same person-remain true to self.The media wants me to change but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'It is not "freedom of the press" when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary, I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process. People get it!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'Crooked Hillary Clinton is being protected by the media. She is not a talented person or politician. The dishonest media refuses to expose!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm.',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u"If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%",
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'The failing @nytimes, which never spoke to me, keeps saying that I am saying to advisers that I will change. False, I am who I am-never said',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'The failing @nytimes talks about anonymous sources and meetings that never happened. Their reporting is fiction. The media protects Hillary!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'"@zulu_out: You are a man for the people because you know what it is like to be among the people #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #USA Loves U" Thanks',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'"@PaulaDuvall2: We\'re all enjoying you, as well, Mr. T.! You\'ve inspired Hope and a Positive Spirit throughout America! God bless you!" Nice',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'"@need2knowu:  @willspeakout yes you are my hero I admire you for laying down your glorious luxurious life to get beat up for America!!!"',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'We now have confirmation as to one reason Crooked H wanted to be sure that nobody saw her e-mails - PAY-FOR-PLAY. How can she run for Pres.',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'"@willspeakout: Thank you for all that you are doing for us! You campaign endlessly and have spent millions.We love you! #TrumpTrain" Thanks',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'I am truly enjoying myself while running for president. The people of our country are amazing - great numbers on November 8th!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'The failing @nytimes has become a newspaper of fiction. Their stories about me always quote non-existent unnamed sources. Very dishonest!',
  u'Twitter for Android'),
 (u'Will be on @seanhannity tonight at 10pm, hosted by @GovMikeHuckabee. Enjoy!',
  u'Twitter for iPhone'),
 (u'Thank you Erie, Pennsylvania! Together we will #MakeAmericaGreatAgain! https://t.co/5hZp7PnRoT',
  u'Twitter for iPhone'),
 (u'Unbelievable support in Florida last night - thank you! #MAGA https://t.co/WNDAagFRRS',
  u'Twitter for iPhone')]

sorry about those long lines. tldr is android phones (i.e. himself?) wrote the last 17 tweets

Gonna be a fun week for the Trump campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlwuLkDIQCM

youtube link

lmao

Cheat cheat bo beat
Banana fana fo feat

But he's telling the truth that he might lie. It's one of those paradoxes.

https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/764989713149267968

― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, August 15, 2016 1:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops i missed this. and from lewandowski. wow!

this election is so fuckin crazy it has me typing 'wow!' non-ironically

Sad!

Biggest jewish community in europe iirc

― Οὖτις, Sunday, August 14, 2016 5:45 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope. france, UK, russia, germany, ukraine (!) all have more jews than hungary. there are nearly 500,000 jews in france versus fewer than 50,000 in hungary.

at one point there were 5 million (!!) jews in the USSR, which is amazing. there were still nearly 2 million, i think, when i was in hebrew school in the 1980s. now there are fewer than 200,000.

anyway...

I still dimly remember my congregation being involved with helping/extracting some Jews from Russia in the early 90s, I could ask my dad what was up with.

Hungary has a negligible Jewish population these days but does have the largest synagogue in Europe, which might be where the confusion arises.

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Union / Russia is an interesting historical oddity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

There was a huge publicity effort to try to get Russian Jews to settle there but, given that it's below -16 degrees for five months of the year, most decided they were fine where they were, thank you. It still has an active university focusing on Jewish history and theology, though.

behold, the 20-40% who will vote for Trump no matter what he says

https://youtu.be/6MubunsD-7g

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, August 14, 2016 11:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

While ostensibly comedy, this is maybe the most frightening portrait I've seen of Trump supporters. It's dismaying and gross and scary to see them spewing xenophobic bullshit but it's another thing altogether to see them calmly agreeing with and espousing insane and evil shit behind closed doors.

Kevin Williamson at National Review goes in hard.

Unless something radical and unexpected happens, Donald Trump is going to lose the 2016 presidential election — he’ll lose it more than Hillary Rodham Clinton will win it — for more or less the reasons that his critics on the right have been explaining for more than a year now: In short, the sort of thing that makes hearts go pitter-patter out in derka-derka talk-radio land doesn’t necessarily fly in the rest of the country and may in fact even come off as creepy and weird, which is why three times as many people watch The Middle — a show I’d never heard of — as watch Sean Hannity’s nightly Trump-fest on Fox News. There’s more to America than your Uncle Bob’s right-wing Facebook circle, and Trump isn’t very well prepared for that.

...

Most recently, he has been looking for an excuse to skip the debates against Hillary Rodham Clinton, clearly terrified that she is going to hand him his ass. Does anybody think Ted Cruz would have been looking for an excuse to dodge a debate with Clinton? He’d have been asking for 40 of them.

It’s too early to begin the bloody and tearful recriminations — but there will be a time. Not to blame Trump for being Trump, which is exactly what anybody with a lick of sense would expect him to be. But those who enabled him, who plumped him and the largely fictitious establishment-vs.-the-base soap opera for their own personal audience-building and money-making agendas? We are going to need to have a word about them, come November.

Speaking of the NRO, some useful inside baseball among their darlings:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438984/donald-trump-house-conservatives-conquest-explained

Several months of conversations with Freedom Caucus members reveals a widespread contempt for the GOP nominee. Some, when granted anonymity to speak candidly, describe him as a charlatan who poses a threat to conservatism, and say they have considered announcing they won’t vote for him in November. And yet, as of this writing, 38 of 39 are still behind him, the group’s spokesperson confirmed. Why? To answer that question is to accept that pragmatism is being practiced by individuals who were willing to shut down the government to prove a philosophical point; to appreciate that congressmen survive by satisfying the whims of their constituents; to understand that Republicans are desperate to avoid blame for a November defeat that many view as inevitable; and to acknowledge that Trump has taken over the Republican party by annexing many of its most conservative voters, proving that their anti-government rage is not necessarily a mandate for ideological purity.

derka-derka talk-radio land

Does he mean "herda hadda"?

Also of interest:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/765141556412186624

When a state party chairman calls you at 6:35 in the morning freaking out about Donald Trump destroying his downballots

I don't know if there's been any discussion here about the seismic shift in the presidential race:

“I’m not running against Crooked Hillary [Clinton], I’m running against the crooked media,” Trump said at a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “That’s what I’m running against. I’m not running against Crooked Hillary.”

And with that pivot, Trump has finally begun the pitch for his dumb news network or whatever it is he thinks he's going to pull together after he loses like the massively losing loser he is.

He's going to out-fox Fox, yeah?

I don't know if there's been any discussion here about the seismic shift in the presidential race:

“I’m not running against Crooked Hillary [Clinton], I’m running against the crooked media,” Trump said at a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “That’s what I’m running against. I’m not running against Crooked Hillary.”

here's the famous pivot

All of his tweets yesterday were aimed at the "mainstream media"

if trump tries to take market share from fox news et al he will get ripped to shreds

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I honestly don't understand what Donald Trump thought he had to gain by running for president. He never wanted the job, he set himself up to become a target of the media that had previously and confusingly fawned all over him for decades, his businesses are taking a bruising as a result... I don't see how, by November, he isn't worse off on a number of levels. But, hey, I guess he has a congregation of the worst people in the country gathered around him now. Who wouldn't want that. Such a tragic combination of narcissism and base stupidity.

And the thing that is clearly his biggest fear, the revelation that the emperor has no money, is likely to be public knowledge in the coming months.

running in 2012 gave him a little bit of notoriety and got his name out there again. I would imagine he thought the same thing was going to happen this time around.

Does anybody think Ted Cruz would have been looking for an excuse to dodge a debate with Clinton? He’d have been asking for 40 of them.

the things nightmares are made of

flirting with running in 2012, in fairness.

I honestly don't understand what Donald Trump thought he had to gain

he is as much an idiot as he is a terrible and unsuccessful businessman

Meanwhile ... Ivanka Trump is vacationing in Dubrovnik with Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife ...

http://www.people.com/article/ivanka-trump-wendi-deng-murdoch-croatia

... who is supposedly also now Putin's girlfriend ...

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rupert-murdochs-ex-wife-wendi-deng-is-dating-vladimir-putin-w200077

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/trumpshockreuters-800x430.jpg

the abyss stares back

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/347191326112112640

^^^this is hilarious