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

lmao sp

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-staff-idUSKCN1181CV?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.

Those who have so far not been paid, the filings show, include recently departed campaign manager Paul Manafort, California state director Tim Clark, communications director Michael Caputo and a pair of senior aides who left the campaign in June to immediately go to work for a Trump Super PAC.

that is crazy

even for trump!

classic

man c'mon fuck this

this kind of 'whispering campaign' bullshit has been going on in presidential elections since forever and the republicans have been doing similar stuff against Hillary this year. but, yeah, fuck that crap.

yeah I don't agree that he's suffering from dementia but I want to point out that people are saying it. important people who know things, it's surprising what they say.

I enjoy Sean ONeal's political writing inserted in his Newswire bits:

http://www.avclub.com/article/naked-donald-trump-statue-now-available-your-perso-242045

Powerful art is born from political strife, from the Troubles-inspired murals that dot Northern Ireland to the Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. And in keeping with the discourse of our times, the most provocative artwork to be created yet from this tumultuous election season has been a giant statue of Donald Trump with a tiny dick. Titled “The Emperor Has No Balls” the foam monstrosity popped up in five cities over the summer, where it sparked the kind of dialogue about Trump’s penis normally reserved for the national debate stage. Now this masterpiece for the Age of No Subtext can be yours, to be added to your collection of shit-smeared Jesus paintings and the like.

The Seattle one isn't confiscated or destroyed, it was adopted by a junk/vintage store in my neighborhood. It's still hanging out in there.

The Alzheimer's thing should have begun and ended with the guy who was going after the Dr. Bornstein letter, and using the Alzheimer's example strictly to point out the silliness of the rumor-mongering around Clinton's health. "You see how easy it is?" I'm sure a lot of people deploying it elsewhere intend for it to do the same work, but cut out of context it just becomes the kind of smear it's trying to shine a light on.

lolol Donald Trump volunteers are signing a lifelong contract never to criticize him

lolllllll indeed. Trump Persons are tough cookies it seems.

That reminds me of the extremely short-lived job I had at an extremely crooked-seeming place, where I was never paid for the time I did work and where the director wanted me to sign a similar contract with the pretty much explicit threat of legal action in the case where I disparaged said incompetent director or shady-ass workplace (whoops!). Speaking to former employees and volunteers after the fact shed light on her very justified fear that people were likely to talk trash.

ughh i hate the internet sometimes, an examination of that shitty, hilarious and prob illegal NDA is very much welcome but circling things and writing "BROAD AF" in a series of tweets is dumb

"UM ILLEGAL" do we really have to talk like we are 12

Hahaaaaa, a page from the Dave Sim playbook.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rachelsklar/status/771667979616464896/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://mobile.twitter.com/rachelsklar/status/771667979616464896/photo/1

this shit really does infuriate me, Trump and his supporters are constantly complaining that America has gone soft, that nobody can handle criticism anymore, that "safe spaces" are nothing but a punchline and an indictment of how far liberal America has gotten. and yet they're the biggest babies about ever being criticized for anything.

Oh I dunno, I think the MSpaint annotations treat the idiocy with the disdain it deserves.

Perez Hilton but for contract law

There's a middle ground, which is the whole "mark it up with proper red ink" but for that I think you want someone who is actually a law professor.

People online don't have printers

this shit really does infuriate me, Trump and his supporters are constantly complaining that America has gone soft, that nobody can handle criticism anymore, that "safe spaces" are nothing but a punchline and an indictment of how far liberal America has gotten. and yet they're the biggest babies about ever being criticized for anything.

― frogbs, Friday, September 2, 2016 11:42 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No one cries harder than the bully.

particularly liked "Trump is fine with his volunteers disparaging Mike Pence btw. He's not a 'Trump Person.'"

lolol Donald Trump volunteers are signing a lifelong contract never to criticize him

Straying into L. Ron Hubbard territory now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/business/presidential-debate-moderators-lester-holt-chris-wallace.html

Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace have been selected to moderate this year’s presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday.

Mr. Holt, the anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,” will moderate the first debate on Sept. 26; Ms. Raddatz of ABC and Mr. Cooper of CNN will moderate the town hall debate on Oct. 9; and Mr. Wallace of Fox News will handle the final debate on Oct. 19.

All are first-time presidential debate moderators.

Additionally, the CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano will moderate the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 4.

record number of vowels in a VP debate moderator's name, iirc

Straying into L. Ron Hubbard territory now.

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, September 2, 2016 5:41 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Im imagining trumps people getting some sea org contracts and doing a universal replace in word from sea org to trump

This is getting ridiculous. He really is THAT predictable:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-revised-immigration-speech-over-a-tweet

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, when Trump saw Peña Nieto's tweet, his first thought was of retaliation.

“I have to add back the line that Mexico will pay,” Trump reportedly told the people who were with him when he saw the tweet, arguing that he could not let it go unanswered.

Later that night, in a speech applauded by white nationalists and anti-immigrant groups, he suggested that Peña Nieto would have a change of heart. "They don’t know it yet," he said, "but they’re going to pay for the wall.”

“I had no choice," Trump told the Journal in an interview on Thursday regarding the revision, but said that he liked Peña Nieto "very much."

The NDA is so so stupid. The trump campaign already has a non-existent ground game and now they're scaring away potential volunteers with threats of legal action.

Can you imagine Trump suing people who volunteered for his goddamn campaign?

Yes. Yes, I can imagine that very much.

"My volunteers were very bad to me. Just awful. Sad!"

I can also imagine that, which is sad.

Very sad.

His 'concession' speech is going to be nothing but a blamefest towards all of the pathetic losers who unreasoningly helped him along the way and who probably could've secured the presidency for him if he ever listened to anyone but who really were just awful to him and pulled a total choke job. You're all fired!

is that kind of contract even enforceable for volunteers? i thought there had to be "consideration", i.e. the person signing it has to receive money or something.

I cannot only imagine it, I can also imagine someone creating a squad of volunteers designed to attempt to attract Trump persons' legal attention and action.

stay classy Arizona GOP!

https://thinkprogress.org/arizona-gop-releases-wanted-poster-with-bullet-holes-around-democratic-candidate-s-face-a10e022e64f5#.doqtgfiea

Enh, thats a dumb graphic, but the headline is overreacting. It's about as dumb as attempting to tar her to her Democratic-voting constituents with the current sitting and campaigning Democratic choices.

so the email shit is about to start up again, awesome

Gaby Giffords shooting at the very least makes it in poor taste imo

xp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrX1GneWcAA6Kzj.jpg:large

I read parts of the FBI 302 - basically confirmed my suspicion that nobody in the state department told her anything about email protocol

she's going to be a one term president with no accomplishments except maybe a couple of supreme court nominations. sad!

Hmmn I see nothing to indicate that Republicans are going to be able to get their sh*t together by 2020 so I'm not sure that's a great bet.

who will survive the bruising 2020 primary between ted cruz and ivanka trump?

I don't think she's gonna have many legislative accomplishments but agree w Alex that it's hard to see the GOP regrouping and reconstituting itself as a national party in time for 2020, esp with Cruz, Rubio and Ryan all taking a second swing w their tired bullshit

looking back at the nominees, i feel like if they'd have nominated anyone except trump, carson, santorum and huckabee they could have beaten her. how the GOP recovers from trump is not clear, but they don't have to recover very much to make such a weakened candidate beatable.

yeah i guess that's where we disagee: cruz and rubio (and kasich and lol jeb!) would both be running a much closer race.

ryan is a joke, granted.

they would be this time around, no argument there, but can you really see Jeb running again in 2020? the party is so fractured, I don't see any milquetoast "centrist" appeasing the base.

no jeb is not going to run. i'm just using him as a placeholder for a "moderate". they don't even need to run a moderate to beat her though. just someone with a shred of political experience would do.

of the last batch, cruz, rubio, fiorina and kasich will all be back for another shot, and all of them could win.