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

ah, "I keel you with my HANDSHAKE!!"

Maybe Trump is less phobic about handshaking since his doctor confirmed that he tested positive for everything.

if they could only bottle trump, they could inject it into everyone as an all-purpose vaccine

bedpanacea

I'd definitely like to bottle trump

the major LOL y'all are forgetting in this is that he did this in Mississippi, the Republican stronghold with six whole electoral votes...how many Republican nominees have done rallies there with less than three months to go?

if they could only bottle trump, they could inject it into everyone as an all-purpose vaccine

― wizzz! (amateurish),

man-cine

frog, I think Trump does rallies where he feels like he'll get a receptive audience, partly because that feeds his ego and partly because he knows that it will be covered and thus reach everywhere.

The thinking is not that he needs to do a rally there to shore up his support in that state, but rather because CNN will point a camera at him wherever he goes. Enough of the footage will get to Ohio or Pennsylvania to make it worthwhile. That may be the calculation, even though I think it is probably wrong.

Obviously he'd rather be speaking to a roomful of racist idiot nutjobs than, say, the NAACP or whatever (people whose votes he isn't going to win in any case). His energy is fed by a cheering crowd of mouth-breathing shitstains, and that takes priority over outmoded old-school strategic concerns.

I love how the WaPost throws shade at the AP reporting while ostensibly correcting Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/25/heres-how-trump-got-the-ap-story-on-clinton-foundation-donors-all-wrong/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_factchecker-ap-1015a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Be nice if we had a social media network designed to take into account how humans actually think and interact, rather than the current method of just exacerbating the worst side-effects of brain wiring

interesting interpretation of the clinton foundations: if they were corrupt, it was a robin hood kind of thing

https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/768807066718838788

You guys always making me hit my free article limits

We have become much to in thrall to purity & too sensitive to the appearance of corruption. Deals must be made

yeah eff this

xp: About 213,000 results for "hilary clinton vagina dentata"...

wouldn't you know it
https://clintata.myshopify.com/

allegedly hillary is giving a speech about breitbart and the alt-right today. kinda interesting but at the same time trump's recent 'pivot' seems way more conway guided than bannon. I guess it doesnt hurt to remind people this guy surrounds himself with misogynists and white nationalists/supremacists.

at this pt does anyone doubt that trump's entire campaign is grift to siphon supporters money into trump businesses + trump salaries? the entire merchandise thing is practically a retail operation complete w reinvesting previous proceeds into new product to move.

yeah i'm curious what that's going to be like. i wonder how specific it will get.

xp

This ad (only seen it on Twitter, not yet on YouTube) is pretty strong:

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/768823064033308673

quality concern trolling

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-rudy-giuliani-okay/2016/08/24/4eb134f6-6a28-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html?utm_term=.23f1fcf97ee3

Admission: I purchased a Hillary Clinton nutcracker, a 10" pantsuited figurine with serrated metal inserts between its articulating legs, for my GOP leaning but mostly confused sister, in 2008.

Mayor J., that is exactly the point. If the Trump campaign wants to "soften" or "pivot," it is in Clinton's best interest not to let him, and to hold him to his earlier word.

The campaign has already signaled this - when Trump said he isn't "pivoting," the Clinton campaign came out with a faux-helpful statement along the lines of "Yes, we believe him - he really does want to deploy jackbooted thugs about the land to tear babies from their mothers' arms."

This leaves the Trump camp with two choices: either double down on the original rhetoric, or admit that they've flipped.

Say what you will about Clinton personally. Her campaign is nimble and skilled; it thinks ahead.

well it's mostly the obama campaign right?

that 'do you disavow white supremacists' response is so fucking bad. what an idiot.

yeah i mean even if you desperately want the white supremacist vote there are really well established wink-wink strategies to disavow them while letting them know you ~really~ are on their side. in fact trump's die-hards all believe this, all the time, about anything where he departs from their orthodoxy anyway! he could have said "i absolutely disavow him and everything he stands for, that is not what we are as americans" and his racist fans would still go "see, he knows how to work the media, but WE know he's really on our side."

meanwhile, from the "I'm rubber you're glue" dept:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Donald-Trump-shouts-Hillary-Clinton-is-a-bigot-9184216.php

I love the reaction from that Christine Baranski-looking woman behind him on his right

"she also has erectile dysfunction and cheats on her wife"

meanwhile, from the "I'm rubber you're glue" dept:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Donald-Trump-shouts-Hillary-Clinton-is-a-bigot-9184216.php

there was a good post on reddit about this:

[–]xxxxx 1144 points 16 hours ago

He went to one of the most African American populated places in America, gathers a Lilly white crowd, and calls Clinton a bigot. What reality is this?

[–]xxx 1759 points 16 hours agox2

Donald Trump runs a campaign of blatant racism, but Hillary is racist. Donald Trump funnels 7 million of campaign donations to his and his family's companies, but Hillary is corrupt. Donald Trump releases a fake self-written doctor's note calling him the healthiest human being alive, but Hillary is hiding something about her health. Donald Trump won't release his tax returns, but Hillary is a tax dodger. Donald Trump exhibits erratic and unstable behavior, but Hillary is suffering from Alzheimers. Donald Trump is constantly being sued for fraud, but Hillary is "crooked". I could go on.

[–]xxx 363 points 14 hours ago

Donald Trump is a draft dodger, but John McCain is not a hero, because he was captured.

I think we're seeing a pattern here.

[–]xxxx 89 points 12 hours ago

But hey, at least Trump has his own Purple Heart right?

on the other hand the idiots on /r/the_donald seem to think that just because hillary said something nice about robert byrd that she's the real racist and trump is just fine.

tough but fair

I have voted for two more women for president than most of you millennial pussies

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:03 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shirley chisholm?

susan b anthony

obv door to open, putzjokers

i actually was asking that q somewhat seriously tbh

Some deep thoughts from David Duke courtest of Andrew Kacznski at Buzzfeed:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CquSgnKWcAA76x0.jpg

makes you think

all white alt right

i was not even close to eligible to vote in '72, slothro

write-in votes for Bela Abzug?

I dont quite understand the pedophile analogy

Morbs voted for Jill Stein, iirc.

I think you have to be a racist moron to "understand" it

xp

Jill Stein is just as funny as the joke guesses.

http://i.imgur.com/dOLuonw.png

gotta love MSNBC's newfound snark

2016 is the chyron election

Hill's speech today was straight fire. "The only Presidential candidate ever to get into a public feud with the Pope."

Trump interview on CNN tonight, presumably to assure everyone that his hands are everything that they could be and should be, but that there has been some softening.

When Limbaugh cut to a Trump speech this afternoon, he twice mentioned that Trump was "on the teleprompter" today. If came across as if he was trying to reassure his audience, like Trump had taken his medication or something.

Trump flailing is super-amusing

meanwhile Hillary plugs away, disciplined, organized, on-message, totally boring

When Limbaugh cut to a Trump speech this afternoon, he twice mentioned that Trump was "on the teleprompter" today. If came across as if he was trying to reassure his audience, like Trump had taken his medication or something.

or maybe like he doesn't really mean what he's saying. trump can promise moderation to the suckers and the radio right will reassure their listeners that it's just a teleprompter pose and he really still intends to fulfill their wildest racialist fantasies

feel guilty that I'm hoping for a Hillary slump so I can buy discounted shares on PredictIt and then ride the wave to victory