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

He really is the greatest used cars salesman from NJ that ever lived at this point.

He is from Queens, lazy slander against the Garden State is unnecessary.

I'll have to check on it, but pretty sure Queens is in NJ.

no you're thinking of staten island

queens is in long island

anyway the Trump thing I'm horrified/secretly impressed by the most is his willingness to blatantly lie about anything, including things that wouldn't matter at all if not for his incredibly fragile ego - e.g. his claim that the people of Flint were chanting "let him speak! let him speak!" despite multiple accounts of "nobody said that, in fact they heckled you and the pastor you just attacked came to your defense".

All the handwringing over millennials reminds me that they don't vote

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, September 16, 2016 10:30 AM (twelve seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't
Vote!
Don't
Drink!
Don't
Fuck!
At least I can
Fucking think!

lol

Frogbs it's because he's a narcissist sociopath

He really is the greatest used cars salesman from NJ that ever lived at this point.

He is from Queens, lazy slander against the Garden State is unnecessary.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, September 16, 2016 10:30 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was born and raised in NJ I can say whatever I want about it. Characterization is based off personal observations

Millennials vote and they're voting for Hillary. Xposts

The generational story this election is white baby boomers going for Trump. Even in old age they prefer excitement to competence and narcissism to compromise.

Millennials don't have cars so how are they supposed to vote? I mean, ugh, can't we just do it all online? Like, text a thumbs up or something?

Greenwald: http://www.vox.com/2016/9/15/12853236/glenn-greenwald-trump-clinton

white baby boomers

White male baby boomers, which is still ironic, because the Clintons are like the ur-baby boomers. Won't see Fleetwood Mac at the Trump party, you'd get, like, Kansas.

Maybe there's a subreddit so they can upvote their candidate choice or whatever I'm bored now

no fucking way does Trump like Kansas

But Kansas likes Trump, and you get what you can get.

(Probably likes Trump, I should say. It's either them or the Return of the Return of Bruno, pickings are slim.)

Self-negating Greenwald:

A lot of times, you can invent examples that are just so extreme that they even cloud or obscure the debate rather than help it. So during the torture debate, everyone who wants to justify torture sits down and plays games with their imagination and looks to TV shows — “Okay, it’s a ticking time bomb with radioactive material in three hours and will kill 100 million people unless you torture someone. And do you do it?”

That’s a hard question to answer. You can’t answer that blithely. But the important thing is that scenario is never the case in the real world.

. . . Say, if Donald Trump has a heart attack, and he’s leading in the polls and he’ll win, and the doctor could say, “I could do everything possible to save his life, or I can just do a little less and maybe he’ll die and he won’t be president.” I wouldn’t want doctors making those kinds of decisions that way, and I don’t want journalists making those kinds of decisions either.

@jacobinmag
Hillary Clinton's new book has sold less copies than a Jacobin volume called "The ABCs of Socialism."

On a positive tip, I have to feel like, due to our constant exposure to Trump's untethered pathology, the critical thinking skills of a certain segment of the population are likely to improve at least a little. These are traits that many people may have never been exposed to before (or at least not to the outsized extent to which Trump's psychological ailments present themselves). Some people will always be swayed by, for example, a pathological liar's ability to utter falsehoods with complete conviction, but there are others who are going to get a lot better at calling people out when they pull a Trump and at spotting that shit a mile away when future politicians inevitably try to recapture Trump's special brand of insane magic.

xpost @jacobinmag The word you're looking for is 'fewer'.

We don't need your bourgeois grammar.

Clemenza that RCP link had Clinton still up by 1.5 wtf

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It doesn't, no. Scroll down to the tracking poll on that page, Trump vs. Clinton; Trump takes over the lead--the red line moves above the blue line--for the same three days in July where Silver had him in the line.

I honestly feel silly pressing this point. I want Clinton to win. But I don't want to be one of those unskewed poll guys, trying to deny something that clearly is true.

"in the lead"

We don't need your bourgeois grammar.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/34/91/4a/34914a2f0d58ac5f36e4376fcd73fd13.jpg

i wonder what kind of music trump likes? i wonder if he even likes music at all

Can't remember where I saw it, but someone observed his pre-rally music was a lot of Andrew Lloyd Weber.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rally-songs-2015-12/#rocket-man--elton-john-1

Trump's favorite song is the last one he heard someone else playing.

Millennials don't have cars so how are they supposed to vote? I mean, ugh, can't we just do it all online? Like, text a thumbs up or something?

Have it be like a dating app where you just like left-swipe some candidates and right-swipe others, then get back to yr cold-brew or whatever.

Whether it's relevant or not is not the same question as whether it happened or not. I just find it weird that you're adamant that Trump has never led. The RCP tracking poll had him ahead during the same window that Nate Silver did (July 25-29, right after the Republican convention)

ah so a couple polls taken right after the convention showed him barely ahead, I concede this insignificant point and apologize for my misleading generalization that he's never been ahead.

xxp

Good times:

https://youtu.be/jSGLOLQz40M

Fuck you, Fallon and NBC.

oh wow he finally dropped the birther stuff

fallon sucks

very magnanimous (is how it will be spun)

Gee, Trump really caves under pressure. I was hoping he'd be stronger and hold his ground. What else will he flip flop on?

fuck this guy forever but that was seriously some A+ clowning of CNN, this is amazing

this shit stain has turned this "campaign event" into a promotion for his new hotel! this is so fucking stupid

but also, incredible

CNN is going into a full-on meltdown over this. On the other hand it's their own fault for being so stupidly gullible about this in the first place.

wait what happened on Fallon I missed something

link?

xp

he did a kiss ass interview and played with trumps hair

hey Trump hosted SNL he must be all right, right? all just a bit of fun!

Fallon is, perhaps counterintuitively to Clint, the nadir of Eastwood's "pussy generation" label

(except Fallon is actually what, about 44? he just entertains the post-funny cohort)

Fallon's always been a vacuum to me, an eager to please hack

At what point exactly is someone going to come back from the future and put a stop to all of this?