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

That verse is comparably offensive to the Washington Redskins.

Trump's had a particularly glorious day on Twitter.

Saw some of that earlier...He keeps the best running enemies list since Nixon, easy. His timing, as always, is unfathomable.

"Crazy Maureen Dowd, the wacky columnist..."

Dopey Robert Gates. Failing NY Times. Boring Anti-Trump Panelists. Losers in Life.

He's pissed at the Times because they published a huge article on all the tax breaks he's gotten from New York City since the '70s. The best quote, IMO:

“Donald Trump is probably worse than any other developer in his relentless pursuit of every single dime of taxpayer subsidies he can get his paws on,” said Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, who first battled Mr. Trump when she worked in Mr. Giuliani’s administration.

He needs to settle on which epithet to use for Maureen Dowd.

Mel said Brendan Behan was a big fan of the 2000 Year Old Man anthem joke

Good thing he talked his lawyers out of suing. Make America Calm and Reasonable Again.

very presidential

The most presidential

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/elections/mc-pa-trump-clinton-poll-20160917-story.html

This is worth a read for LOLs.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0918-lopez-spencer-election--20160916-snap-story.html

Especially:

Every year, he said, he and President Reagan would drive out to see the Rev. Jerry Falwell, and every year, Falwell would implore Reagan — who was an abortion foe but had signed an abortion bill as governor — to take up abortion and repeal Roe vs. Wade. Reagan would listen politely but commit to nothing.

On one trip back to the White house, Spencer turned to Reagan and said:

“’Mr. President, are you giving serious thought to trying to repeal Roe v. Wade?’ He turned to me and said, ‘Stu, do I look insane to you?’ I said, ‘No sir, you look wonderful.’”

So bomb in NJ today and explosion on 23rd st?

don't tell Democratic voters that Reagan story; print the legend

"I must tell you that just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in New York and nobody knows exactly what’s going on. But boy, we are living in a time — we better get very tough, folks. We better get very, very tough."

Holy shit, I came here to paste that exact quote.

But boy, we are living in a time

booming

I've so internalized Dr. Casino's spot-on Trump imitations, I actually thought that quote was written by you.

may you live in times

Elsewhere: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html

WASHINGTON — When Donald J. Trump descended on the capital Friday, he was expected to finally concede that the racially tinged falsehood he had gleefully propagated, that President Obama was born outside of the United States, had in fact been a lie.

But before Mr. Trump got around to what was a grudging and terse admission, which itself included a falsehood about the provenance of so-called birtherism, he had some business to tend to.

“Nice hotel,” said Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, delighting in his newest property and the opportunity to plug it free on live television. He was holding his news conference at his new hotel in the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, which, he promised, is “going to be something very special.”

He seemed untroubled in using an ostensible campaign event just a few blocks from the White House to openly promote his personal commercial interests 52 days before the election.

In fact, this past week offered a vivid illustration of how little regard Mr. Trump has for the long-held expectations of America’s leaders. He is not only breaking the country’s political norms, he and his campaign aides are now all but mocking them.

Etc.

The Trump hotel in question will likely be a financial flop.

After the project was awarded to Trump, a Washington Post columnist calculated that Trump's new hotel might have to charge average rates of as much as $750 per night. At the time, Ivanka Trump responded angrily that "his numbers are pure speculation and, simply put, wrong." Yet it was Ivanka who was wrong. On weeknights this fall, the hotel's least expensive rooms will go for between $735 and $995 a night.

Trump had said his DC hotel would feature two high-end restaurants. He had originally signed up two celebrity chefs, José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, to open highly anticipated restaurants in the hotel. Then Trump launched his presidential bid by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, and both restaurateurs backed out. Trump is now suing each of them. ... (Tom) Colicchio is just one of several chefs who declined to get involved with Trump's DC hotel. As a result, the hotel will open with no top-drawer destination restaurant. Instead, it will feature just one establishment: BLT Prime, a chain steakhouse.

Perhaps worse for the Trump clan, there are signs that Donald Trump's divisive political campaign is turning off consumers. One industry site estimates that Trump's hotel business overall may be down by almost 60 percent.

I'm going to enjoy watching the post-election denoument for the Trumps, as his name becomes synonymous with racism, and importantly, losing, every hotel that licensed his brand (he owns few) gets out of their contracts as soon as legally possible, and he still has to endure that rape trial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/chelsea-explosion-new-york-city.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

On the hotels, I've been looking at travelling to New York next year and the Trump hotels are all on offer, like 30-40% off. What a bargain I booked right away!

Seriously tho of any industry, the hotel game is so competitive and you have so many options in big cities that this is surely going to crucify the Trump brand, even the most politically ambivalent person hates him, leaving aside the huge numbers of wealthy people who he's racially slurred.

i had a corporate booking in a trump hotel in vegas earlier this year and everyone who was staying was making slightly embarrassed jokes about it. plus there was staff industrial action so that everyone got handed a flier when they left in the morning about the hotel's opposition to their recent unionisation.

so yes, unless you really wanted to make some sort of weird statement, can't see many not thinking twice before booking.

Yeah, it's hard to correlate definitively, but it sure looks like his numbers are down. As a couple of reports this summer noted, nearly all of his properties are in blue state epicenters: New York, Chicago, etc. Mitigating, the prime mover of a lot of the stories is some booking site called Hipmunk, which defenders point out skews young in usage. There was another report from Foursquare (which I guess is still a thing?) that observes a steep drop off in check-ins, though the articles concede maybe people are too embarrassed to formally check-in. Anyway, these are the loose defenses, but there is probably at least some element of truth to it. It doesn't help that Trump shit-smears his name across every facade, which literally puts it in your face.

On a personal level, I can think of at least two, maybe three cases the past year where Trump's hotel came up as an option and we immediately took it out of the running.

really, businesses are going to boycott the morally dubious? The end of capitalism at last.

^trenchant

^trenchant

As always.

lol I thought it was a good post

They're really all over Trump and the birther press conference on the Sunday morning shows. Is it good for Trump to screw around with the press like on Friday and then gloat about it? Good for his 40%, who love it, otherwise probably not.

It makes the press look like chumps and babies. Nobody respects the press.

xpost it's almost as if he saw the polls and....panicked

All things being equal, and whatever the general perception of the media is, as a candidate I'd at least want my relationship with the press to be on par. If Friday hadn't happened, they would have had Clinton people on all morning trying to explain why polls have narrowed. That's been discussed only briefly; it's instead been Trump people looking silly trying to explain something that can't be explained.

why are people pretending that the Clinton '08 campaign was entirely innocent of making vague insinuations about Obama's origins?

i'm a trenchant motherfucker. always.

i'm a trenchant motherfucker. always.

You misspelled "tedious."

x-posy: Because Trump lied about those insinuations so brazenly, that that's the bigger story now.

I didnt know they gave Doctorates in False Equivalency

Xp

Watching Chuck Todd and his panelists and guests on NBC now, for the first time in months. Ugh. Todd asked bland, open-ended questions to Trump's manager, and is now busy discussing how Clinton is not inspiring, with Maureen Dowd.

I know Morb's hate for Clinton is likely more complex than this, but is there a chance that Clinton-shadiness is a juicier thing to people in general because what makes conspiracies fun is the idea that there are things to uncover and actions to analyze and puzzle pieces that are to be revealed and fit together? Because Trump's plentiful and blatant corruption/sliminess is so obvious, talking about that stuff is less exciting.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-role-model-vice-president-dick-cheney/story?id=42170897

I didnt know they gave Doctorates in False Equivalency

so, so fucking boring

Don't know what thread we would talk about this stuff, but thank god no one was killed
In the recent bombing.

Discussing it in other thread on sna rn

Too little too late, but fuck it

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Csp6RaYVUAAvEqz.jpg:large

the Bad Lip Reading of the first Republican debate seems so long ago

WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK IT'S NOT YOUR BIRTHDAY

Sharing for the animated gif embedded:

https://mobile.twitter.com/gabriellahope_/status/776838486645174273

Hillary did spread a "smear photo" of O in 2008. She didn't start "birtherism," but it's not like she didn't traffic in the "he's a foreigner" business.