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

Poor Marilu Henner having to associate herself with such co-star dreck

they hired the wrong calvin johnson

JAZZ HANDS

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/497763498-calvin-johnson-performs-at-the-tin-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXu7VaEBbPBMy0tJTkwrhIC7jHG44n9Mpbr%2BTB8ArW8PCx2Ppu2Q%2F4HPQ17dVfMQPTA%3D%3D

I'm surprised SNL didn't do some parody of the Bachelorette earlier in the campaign with some hot girl and all 17 GOP hopefuls. They could have done it on the Trump episode. BTW, isn't it insane that Trump hosted SNL? When was that, a few years ago?

last fall

Lorne is a fucking brownnosing whore w/ pols, has been for 40 years

If that were true, then why did he give Nixon a humiliating mustache?

idk, these things will continue to happen - probably best to not have hysterical populace reaction each time they do.

― Mordy, Monday, August 29, 2016 4:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

two stampedes at major airports in a month over non existent mass shootings suggest the populace is getting more not less hysterical

Eh, that's just pent up frustration at being forced to stand in line for hours. People gotta move!

a lot going on in this vox article (no, really!) http://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/8/30/12697920/race-dividing-american-politics

e.g.

https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9KhpJ_NFpUNHmoE8dzyEGOijVMo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7012541/immigration_and_R_voting.0.png

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9z9sqgPXLwHeCfs0LUb-V0xpuiQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7012527/Voting-education.0.png

I can't even parse what it means when a black man puts a white woman in blackface in the service of an avowed racist white guy I mean waht

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/black-pastor-a-trump-surrogate-apologized-for-tweet-showing-clinton-in-blackface/2016/08/29/1fdce5c2-6e55-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?hpid=hp_special-topic-chain_trumppastor-1115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

b-b-but caek, everybody knows the Trump voter has real and legitimate economic concerns that need to be taken seriously by the Dems!

in other news: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/30/lepage-says-he-is-considering-resignation-after-apology-to-westbrook-legislator/

“When I was called a racist I just lost it, and there’s no excuse,” the governor said. “It’s unacceptable. It’s totally my fault.”

LePage said being called a racist for him was, “like calling a black man the ‘N’ word or a woman the ‘C’ word. It just absolutely knocked me off my feet.”

hmm could it be one of those things is not like the other

Also, it's not the important part, but he wasn't even called a racist.

re: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/black-pastor-a-trump-surrogate-apologized-for-tweet-showing-clinton-in-blackface/2016/08/29/1fdce5c2-6e55-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?hpid=hp_special-topic-chain_trumppastor-1115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Hours later, Burns deleted the tweet and said it was “not at all my intention to offend anyone.”

whut

also lol at LaPage, preferably while punching him in the face

a banner day for race relations!

'not at all my intention for anyone to call me out on the obvious offensiveness of my tweet' is what I think he meant. Damn those PC police.

Meantime!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-conservative-coup_us_57c4c63ae4b0664f13ca3715

Specifically this bit from some Freedom Caucus doof about Ryan doing nothing (duh) to help Huelskamp.

“How can you have a gang, and have one in your gang get stabbed, and do nothing?” another member asked. “You got to stab somebody, or else what’s the point of having a gang?”

new thread title imo

Ben Carson can lend you some of his stabbing expertise

Can't read that quote without picturing it being accompanied by West Side Story choreography

anyone read that twaddle the NYT published about Weiner this morning?

you're going to have to be more specific than that

You got to stab somebody
You got to stab somebody
Well it may be the devil, or it may be the lord
But you got to stab somebody

Everybody stabs somebody sometime

you better find somebody to stab

I'm doing too many things at once -- "It may be an elephant or it may be an ass" would be a better line

kinda surprised he hasnt said some dumb shit about colin kaepernick yet

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, August 29, 2016 1:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-donald-trump-says-maybe-colin-1472562284-htmlstory.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrHF2iIVYAAB7qG.jpg:large

allow it

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sqTFGwpAiZI/maxresdefault.jpg

http://66.media.tumblr.com/93b88a8848bb20bd6758904027e61918/tumblr_o53wy6hYhU1s4mls2o1_1280.jpg

Saw my first Trump bumper sticker - lifted 4x4 bro-dozer with a billboard that had to be 4'x6' mounted in the bed.

Tell me it had TruckNutz.

Everybody must get stabbed.

Oh, and how about Vagenda of Pokemonocide? Gotta kill 'em all.

For some reason this whole election reminds me of this, which is always worth posting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njIhIwSqt-g

lot of exciting primaries tnite. dws v. canova, mccain v. ward, rubio v. beruff.

oh! murphy vs grayson too.

Foregone conclusion that race. Grayson, a vile human being, no doubt, is the guy I voted for. Murphy's gonna win.

Cool wrap-up: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/293511-dems-florida-senate-primary-nears-its-bitter-end

Jesus, climate change can't wash away Florida quick enough.

well, no, I'd like beach front property in Orlando or Gainesville.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/as-floridas-dumb-politics-go-so-go-the-nations-w437012

Clinton SuperPAC came by my house today soliciting votes in the Presidential and Senate races, telling me he'd been going door to door in the whole neighborhood (I live in the back, so clearly dude had been goin at it a while) and said a few Trumpers had given him hell. nice guy.

On debate prep:

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-debate.amp.html

The Clinton camp believes that Mr. Trump is most insecure about his intelligence, his net worth and his image as a successful businessman, and those are the areas they are working with Mrs. Clinton to target.

that lepage voice mail really is a thing of brilliance isn't it

AP calling Florida race. It'll be Rubio vs Murphy, which means the foulest offal in modern politics will return to the legislative body he loves.

Mordy, do people who voted in the PA primary need to re-register for the general?

So Trump's visiting Mexico?

"A lot of good people down there, they manufacture some of my brand clothes. Great people, great food. They love me, down Mexico way. They don't love Hillary there; they don't greet HER with torches and pitchforks. I mean, I get a hero's welcome every time I visit."

Mordy, do people who voted in the PA primary need to re-register for the general?

I'm like 99% sure no but this year I've been checking my registeration every couple months anyway just to make sure I'm still registered. (fwiw I haven't had any problems w/ that.)

https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx