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

Gore coulda been jammin at bohemian grove with Kissinger and Clint Eastwood

I completely agree that the wests behaviour during the Iran-Iraq war was despicable, but I fail to see why that means the west shouldn't have stopped the invasion of Kuwait or the use of chemical weapons on the kurds?

The War Against Iraq Over Kuwait

So Donald Trump Jr just blew a hole in the 'audit' defense for not releasing tax records. Sigh. And nothing will come of it.

I've never felt so legitimately panicky about politics in my life. The end is way too nigh.

Too nigh? I would give anything for this to be over already.

I mean in the apocalyptic sense, not the election.

Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.

Trump “deeply loves Peter Thiel,” and people in the real estate mogul’s inner circle are talking about Thiel as a Supreme Court nominee, a separate source close to Trump told The Huffington Post. That source, who has not spoken to Trump directly about Thiel being nominated to the Court, cautioned that Trump’s offers often fail to materialize in real life.

It’s not clear whether Trump has indeed offered to nominate Thiel ― only that Thiel has said Trump would nominate him and that Trump’s team has discussed Thiel as a possible nominee. Both sources requested anonymity, given that Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge against parties they feel have wronged them. In Thiel’s case, he secretly financed lawsuits against Gawker.com with the intention of destroying the publication. He succeeded, and his role in the assault was only revealed in the final stages.

LOL

bahahahaha

didn't realize until I just googled him that he's a Stanford law grad

Much needed diversity of law schools on the court.

Justice Thiel

AHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK

Did not realize that Trump was planning on organizing an actual Legion of Doom to run the country, but I'm looking forward to Secretary of State Shkreli.

i've been saying for years that seasteading the supreme court is the next logical development in us justice - only donald trump and peter thiel can make this happen

This election is like a massive psychological test to see how many people, when handed a live grenade, would happily pull the pin and throw it into a crowd of random passers-by.

just when you think you've heard the funniest wackest thing from the Trump camp

I hope Thiel has a daughter named Milly.

voting for nader in NY is not careless, even if all the rest of what you said were true

encouraging Nader and Naderism in any way was careless & boded ill for the future. It set a terrible example. I say this as a guy who voted Nader and had a Nader-LaDuke sign in his front yard. I feel like an asshole for it now but what can you do, you grow, you ask questions like "would that dude actually have made a good president?" (A: of course not) instead of "was the he guy who shared my values most" (naturally, but it's not actually about that)

you will feel like more of an asshole two years into the next admin

(i hope)

Morbz,

What exactly is it that you are saying? That Clinton supporters will regret their decision if she wins? That it would be better if they supported, what? Trump? Stein? Johnson? Deez Nutz? Or just remain on the sidelines grousing?

We all get that you hate Hillary, but it isn't at all clear what you think the correct alternative is.

totally thought that thiel for the supremes piece was an andy borowitz bit (which is to say: bad)

I'm literally reading about Hitler's rise to power to study specific parallels and I don't think it's making me feel any better.

Just a reminder that Donald Trump, a man who once got into a public feud with the Pope, wants to appoint a Supreme Court Justice who thinks that drinking the blood of the young will keep him immortal.

"was the he guy who shared my values most" (naturally, but it's not actually about that)

This seems clinically and/or politically insane to me.

Moodles:
Sorry, alleged liberals (or even "anarchists") who shitted all over Sanders in the primary season because of the #BernieBros IDIOCY (or its equivalents) made a facepalming mistake, in favor of a shitty candidate/militarist/Saudi-favor-collector/power vampire who could possibly lose to Trump. It was stupidity on a realpolitik level. The End.

i hope i get the opportunity to feel like an asshole during the hillary administration and not, as the NYT is desperately trying to make happen, feel sad and impotent as president trump destroys the country

Trump attacks the pastor who dared to shush him in public.
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494064219/trump-criticizes-flint-pastor-but-misstates-key-facts-about-their-encounter

Trump began his brief speech with a joke. "It used to be cars were made in Flint, and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico. Now the cars are made in Mexico, and you can't drink the water in Flint."

yea good joke asshole

it's clearer than ever that everything trump attacks his opponents for is pure projection on his part

Morning, guys!

Moodles:
Sorry, alleged liberals (or even "anarchists") who shitted all over Sanders in the primary season because of the #BernieBros IDIOCY (or its equivalents) made a facepalming mistake, in favor of a shitty candidate/militarist/Saudi-favor-collector/power vampire who could possibly lose to Trump. It was stupidity on a realpolitik level. The End.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:05 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sanders was never going to be the nominee.

it's clearer than ever that everything trump attacks his opponents for is pure projection on his part

yeah at this rate he's gonna start asking why Hillary spent so much foundation money on a 6-foot tall portrait of herself

encouraging Nader and Naderism in any way was careless & boded ill for the future. It set a terrible example. I say this as a guy who voted Nader and had a Nader-LaDuke sign in his front yard. I feel like an asshole for it now but what can you do, you grow, you ask questions like "would that dude actually have made a good president?" (A: of course not) instead of "was the he guy who shared my values most" (naturally, but it's not actually about that)

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:53 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's always been way more fascinating to me to try to imagine how a President Nader would have reacted/responded to 9/11 than how a President Gore would have

either way Trump is a pathetic human being who melts down at the smallest slight and yet we want to elect him as the most criticized man in the world. cool

now that Sanders is not the candidate, what next? wallow in regrets? paralysis? internet flame wars?

however you feel about Sanders vs. Clinton, that chapter is over. Time to move on and decide how you want to approach the current situation, rather than getting stuck on the previous one.

various xposts

'a lot of people are saying crooked hilary is having trouble with her prostate, real bad trouble' xxxp

btw I love how he slams Hillary over and over about the Iraq war vote and then goes and claims he'd start a war with Iran if someone gave him the finger

i live in New York so have no influence whatsoever xxp

does the 500th rep of that get through?

It's too bad Mother Teresa is dead. I would've relished Trump's recap of their meeting.

xposts

Morbz, I understand your vote doesn't count for much, but you clearly have a lot to say about everyone else's choices. What are you suggesting for the upcoming election for all the people who's votes matter? or are you just saying that all choices are bad and anyone participating in the system at all is guilty?

This may be an exercise in futility, but I'm trying to push the conversation forward a bit from just endlessly flaming everyone that has a different opinion than you, to actually providing a substantive stance or course of action.

good luck and godspeed

Trump attacks the pastor who dared to shush him in public.
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494064219/trump-criticizes-flint-pastor-but-misstates-key-facts-about-their-encounter

maybe this is wishful thinking but I'd like to see this blow up in the media please, if nothing more than for more evidence of Donald Trump being a pathological liar

like maybe y'all could make this Capt. Khan Pt 2, we could certainly use it

Right on cue punditocracy peddling this "close race" nonsense

you will feel like more of an asshole two years into the next admin

no, I'm probably going to think "how much worse this would be if Donald Trump had won? sure am glad the less bad candidate won!" a whole lot. I will bet you thirty million dollars U.S. that I'll never once in my life think "you know who would have been awesome at getting us out of our present predicament? Jill Stein!" or it that's not enough money, forty million. infinity dollars. that is how many dollars I'll bet that I never once think "Jill Stein would have been better at this"

encouraging Nader and Naderism in any way was careless & boded ill for the future. It set a terrible example. I say this as a guy who voted Nader and had a Nader-LaDuke sign in his front yard. I feel like an asshole for it now but what can you do, you grow, you ask questions like "would that dude actually have made a good president?" (A: of course not) instead of "was the he guy who shared my values most" (naturally, but it's not actually about that)

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:53 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people who voted for nader did not vote for him (necessarily) because they thought he would make a good president, dude. it's about showing the party that not everyone's votes can be taken for granted. you fucking know this, you've said it more times than probably anyone on this board

i'm not voting jill stein btw because she is an embarrassment but that's another story

people who voted for nader did not vote for him (necessarily) because they thought he would make a good president, dude. it's about showing the party that not everyone's votes can be taken for granted.

a) Then what if he had won?
b) How'd that work out for them?