I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

in Trump's America "deplorable" will be a protected class

his highlighting the deplorable stuff gins up the people who go to his rallies, which is about the extent of his strategic horizon, because he lives off endorphins and social shares.

but it's also amplifying a charge about him that is perhaps the single one most likely to give the "moderates"/"independents" who supposedly decide elections the vapors.

love how the media is taking trump's bait and reporting on the pneumonia as if it is somehow revelatory of a "tranparency" problem on the part of clinton. great job.

To be fair I don't think trump has said much about the pneumonia. I attribute that to strategic incompetence rather than decency.

he laid the seeds by stoking all this health conspiracy stuff. if that wasn't in the air this wouldn't be seen as a scandal. it would be seen as a 68 year old with pneumonia having a hard time in the heat one day.

no one seriously cares how frail hillary is physically. she is obviously more than mentally tough enough to be president. this is all concern trolling nonsense.

reporting on the pneumonia as if it is somehow revelatory of a "tranparency" problem on the part of clinton.

uhhh David fucking Axelrod's twitter indicated he thought it was such a problem also

btw it was 80 degrees w/ low humidity here on Sunday morning

today not yesterday bro

it was hot yesterday. it was humid.

she was wearing a bulletproof vest under a navy suit.

also the NY Times has run several in-depth pieces on Trump's sordid history -- i've read a few -- so i don't quite get how they're in the tank for him.

not at 9:30a.m. xxp

if that wasn't in the air this wouldn't be seen as a scandal. it would be seen as a 68 year old with pneumonia having a hard time in the heat one day.

idk, Dole in 96 or McCain in 08 weren't much older than Clinton is now - if one of them had been filmed collapsing and then being bundled into a car, and then their campaign had to announce that they had been diagnosed with pneumonia a couple of days earlier it seems like that would have been a story? if not to the same extent as what we're getting now, maybe.

lol ffs Bush temporarily gave control of the government to Cheney while he got a frigging colonoscopy and nobody cared. Reagan had several surgeries for fairly serious health problems -- not to mention getting shot -- and everyone handwaved it away.

they're obviously not "in the tank" for our friend mr. donald trump but they're covering this as a "scandal" because that is the kind of narrative that draws clicks and comments xp

Clinton didn't think illness was 'going to be that big a deal'
Eric Bradner
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 9:09 PM ET, Mon September 12, 2016

like, wtf is this headline.

do the ppl who think hillary's coughing "raises questions" about her ability to be president think FDR and JFK should've been disqualified from office b/c of their physical issues? or eisenhower, who had a heart attack in his first term?

no. of course not.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_archive_WNBB2554A_wg.jpg

eisenhower, who had a heart attack in his first term?

and a stroke!

he also had surgery for chrons disease.

btw it was 80 degrees w/ low humidity here on Sunday morning

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius),

I forgot you're a 68-year-old woman in an iron vest with possible pneumonia campaigning for hours and shaking dirty hands.

meanwhile Randy Quaid shows up outside new Trump DC hotel:

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/775502656932614144

@davidaxelrod
When the exact same problems crop up in separate campaigns, with different staff, at what point do the principals say, "Hey, maybe it's US?"

btw for those who think, like K-Ham today, that she should've informed the world about her illness on Friday, how would the news have changed? The news over the weekend -- all weekend -- would have been, "What other illnesses is HRC hiding? She should release her medical records!"

i forgot you're a boyband manager in an iron lung.

xxp

It's not the pneumonia, it's the coverup.

it's the Questions Raised.

If that racist Trump is elected, I swear I'll move to another white majority country like Canada or Sweden.

oof. the withering sarcasm cuts deep. good post.

Haha who is this guy

There are plenty of white people Trump and his supporters want to beat up/murder. Being white doesn't really exempt you from it.

some guy on the internet said he'd move to canada if trump was elected i guess trump isn't really racist

hillary covered up having pneumonia bc she's a sneaky terrible person and the moment she got the diagnosis she should've held a press conference bc we expect our politicians update us immediately on every medical development in their lives

i'm so glad ilx's collection of dumbasses is growing it really makes me feel like i'm experiencing all the wonders the american zeitgeist has to offer

I've had people say it's a quickening, actually

I just want to say fuck the media for empowering and normalizing this guy and his follower's hate-driven ideology. It may seem "lol", but it's not, people really are acting out on this stuff. God damn. I'm in Trump country now, suburban NJ only 5 miles outside of NYC, and it's the only place I've ever lived where I'v felt unsafe, and that includes Bed Stuy, Flatbush, Washington Heights, etc, where I was a minority. Being white majority really doesn't make you safe with these types. And I just look like a guy whose lived in NYC for the past decade. I'm getting the fuck out of here ASAP, and I'll do whatever it takes to help quash this shit.

suburban new jersey is not trump country

there is one guy in princeton who sits outside starbucks everyday with a trump sign and everyone makes fun of him

yeah it's strange they called the deplorable comment a 'gaffe' because it was most definitely done on purpose for some very deliberate reasons:

1) it causes the media reporting on it to investigate "are they racists/homophobes/Islamophobes?" for which there is a ton of evidence
2) it makes the most vocal and horrible half of Trump's fans speak out and act offended, thereby making them more visible to the other half of Trump voters
3) it causes that half to try to "own" the nickname which is terrible optics, plus it creates confirmation bias whenever Trump supporters do something horrible
4) it gives the media an easy way to corner the campaign, as they did today with Pence. Pence either has to refuse to disavow the KKK, or admit that Hillary was kinda right

if I were opposite-day Scott Adams I'd be jizzing myself right now

hillary's campaign should shine a light on r/thedonald

eisenhower smoked 4 packs a day!

r/thedonald makes me weep for humanity

Speaking of alt-right theories I'd prefer not to believe:
Facebook's current trending topics are Neil Peart, Vanilla Ice, Dancing with the Stars, and not...

or stuff like this

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/775467362195738624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

suburban new jersey is not trump country

― Treeship, Monday, September 12, 2016 9:50 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah what the fuck, I'm trying to think of any NJ town near NYC that would be "Trump Country."

maybe certain parts of South or Western Jersey? Certainly nothing close to the city.

vernon maybe

morristown area was pretty conservative too when i lived there tho that's starting to get further from the city

Where I'm now is a staunchly working class, blue collar town in Southern Bergen County. I see Trump decals, signs, and mailings pretty regularly. It was sold to me as a nice middle class area, and it does look nice, but it's really not what I expected. More my bad, but still. I'm getting back to NYC ASAP.

Morristown is more like Jeb Bush or Rubio country I think?