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

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?

http://www.cageyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/things_13.jpg

I just watched a Futurama episode about that (granted it was Nixon running, not Trump)

does this mean you're going to quote the Nixon on Twitter

*waggles jowls*

I appreciate Fallon's chummy & genial 'hey, we're all just people, and people are okay in my book!' interview style. I found his interviews with Pol Pot and John Wayne Gacy really charming.

That was peak Jimmy Fallon.

tbf Trump probably gave Fallon a fuckton of blow

stage that he made announcement from has collapsed.

Darn! Next time try the log on the rope or the spike pit with hay on top

I kinda wonder if this stunt will hurt him w his hardcore racist/tea party/alt-right moron base

It seems unlikely but still

Trolling the MSM-illuminati-rothschild-CNN? They'll love it I'm sure.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/playing-it-safe-nate-silver-will-spend-next-month--4742?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=twitter

@tinyrevolution
The best part of the Trump presidency will be Bill Clinton following his natural instinct to ingratiate himself with him

"Unlike some of my friends, I believe there are many positive things about Donald & we have to be honest about that"

this is Trump's "pivot" towards the center isn't it

At least until he starts waffling, by let's say...tomorrow?

so uh this happened: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/donald-trumps-birther-pr-stunt-beset-by-chaos-stage-co-1786716861?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow