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

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What is this fantasy world his mind occupies? What do we do about terror? We beat it

u realize this absurd fantasy has been national status quo for at least 15 years

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link

Presumably, the presidents of the last 15 years have issued instructions to the military more substantial than, "Just go beat 'em. Just, y'know...knock 'em on their asses or whatever. Go!"

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link

His jingoism isn't a matter of dumbing it down for the public. He really is just that fucking dumb.

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link

eh isnt 'blow it all up' US policy more often than not?

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link

He is governed, above all, by his faith in the ultimate power of transaction—an encompassing perversion of realism that is less a preference for putting interests ahead of values than a belief that interests have no place for values.

I'm convinced this could be worded better. I'm going to come back and work on it later.

Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link

Recently, a former Republican White House official whom Trump has called on for his insights told me, “Honestly, the problem with Donald is he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.”

=(

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link

Somehow can't imagine Trump ever uttering any variant of, "Oh, I didn't know that."

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link

(See the Scott Adams-esque “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles" quote upthread.)

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link

“I think I know most of it anyway.”

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

It's basically a bottle rocket made of metal. You light the thing and make sure it's pointing away from your face. What's to understand?

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link

god you guys can be such dicks in this thread

have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Monday, 19 September 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link

What's there to know? People who look different gesture at us, we send them a rocket bang bam boom

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link

'They’re bringing in many cases vicious cancer from within. This is something that’s going to be so tough. And you know they stay together so nobody really knows who it is, what’s happening. They’re plotting. This has been going on for so long everybody knows it,' Trump said.

the long-awaited pivot!!

frogbs, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link

“Our local police, they know who a lot of who this people are. They’re afraid to do anything about it because they don’t want to be accused of profiling, and they don’t want to be accused of all sorts of things. You know in Israel, they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do.”

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.742951

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTRabASaY8

And to their credit actually, Fox & Friends keep pushing him to say what he'd actually propose to specifically do. He doesn't answer that directly beyond saying that profiling is a great thing that works elsewhere in the world.

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link

Uh, not in support of anything they're saying by the way... just the basic idea of pushing him to clarify.

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link

I will make discrimination on the basis of race legal, because as president I can totally do that. It will be fantastic.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link

Yuck OK sorry I gave them any credit at all I was only a minute or 2 in to that at the time

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link

these hosts are just evil people

global tetrahedron, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link

i'm now resigning myself to the fact hat Trump might, possibly, somehow win this, and hoping that they just impeach him within the first few months

akm, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

Trump will not win this.

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link

I think y'all are underestimating how badly he's gonna get blown out in the debate next week

frogbs, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link

Or, if by some crazy sequence of events Trump does win this, I thoroughly expect the hand of god to justifiably wipe humanity off the face of the earth so we won't actually have the chance to experience his presidency.

ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link

Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Food

Evan, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link

I don't think debates are gonna move the needle too much but they won't be good for him. As usual it's gonna be down to turnout, and the Dems give every indication that they are better prepared to handle turnout than the GOP/Trump campaign.

Οὖτις, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link

i'm not prepared to say that trump won't "win" (bc of diminished expectations) nor that clinton will not "lose" (because she coughs once.)

nomar, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link

My mom weighed in today about the overarching stupidity of Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. She thinks Trump is 'just awful' but has a case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome so for the first time in her life, she's planning to blank her Prez vote and only vote for down-ticket races. Is this common?

jane burkini (suzy), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, related to that, how much campaign coverage is the result of a sampling bias, in that a more accurate determinant of who wins various state contests has entirely to do with that state's GOTV apparatus, which media types can't see and aren't hex able to cover.

Plus I'm wonder if realizing that GOTV is far more important than say, policy stances, affecting turnout, which all goes against the popular received narrative of how we vote, why we decide how, etc.

And campaign journos seem lazy as fuck who don't want to head in that direction because no one else is.

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link

Xp

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link

Miller being all pissy about Hillary "basically accusing Trump of treason" is pretty lol

Οὖτις, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link

My mom weighed in today about the overarching stupidity of Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. She thinks Trump is 'just awful' but has a case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome so for the first time in her life, she's planning to blank her Prez vote and only vote for down-ticket races. Is this common?

― jane burkini (suzy)

I did it in 2008.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link

Trump is like Clooney in Burn After Reading, with a top secret basement project that turns out to be an insane dildo bike. "How will I fight terrorism? Oh, just you wait, I have a plan. I have a plan so good you won't believe!" And it turns out to be a dildo bike.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-ahmad-rahami-bemoans-hospital-lawyer

trump showing his in depth knowledge of the constitution again

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link

Americans aren't generally into due process unless it's being applied to white people, tbf

Οὖτις, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link

“But the bad part, now we will give him amazing hospitalization. He will be taken care of by some of the best doctors in the world,” the GOP nominee told the crowd at a rally in Estero, Florida. “He will be given a fully modern and updated hospital room. And he'll probably even have room service knowing the way our country is.”

Convenient to leave out: "And if found guilty, he will likely spend the rest of his life in jail."

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link

The guy is a citizen!
Room service? Wtf is he even talking about?

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link

Hospitals are well known for their great food and room service

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link

the nurse will actually come and attend to his medical needs if he rings the bell can you imagine the injustice of that

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link

thx Obamacare

Οὖτις, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link

“But the bad part, now we will give him amazing hospitalization. He will be taken care of by some of the best doctors in the world,” the GOP nominee told the crowd at a rally in Estero, Florida. “He will be given a fully modern and updated hospital room. And he'll probably even have room service knowing the way our country is.”

lol i can just see the feds all like "nothing but the best for this kid, you understand me? your most modern room."

nomar, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link

also does he have any fucking clue that "room service" is...how you get your food

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link

If he gets surgery, they'll probably even use anesthesia. God, we've become such panty-waists in this country.

inimitable liver (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link

Trump in thinking hospitals are like hotels SHOCKAH!

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link

Ugh, Fuckface von Clownstick is going to be literally three blocks from my house on Wednesday: http://trib.al/pChPWhs

Cumstaun (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link

With Hannity in tow! That's like a douche black hole.

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link

The church in question is a former racquet club that was turned into a megachurch a few years ago.

Cumstaun (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link

I wish the media would follow up for once and ask him how he plans to vet a 7-year old child but I guess that's just asking too much

frogbs, Monday, 19 September 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link

also, obvious, but, in Trump's lifeworld, which is based entirely around winning, lawyers are not constitutional due-process protections against injustice, but high-priced luxuries whose job is to ensure more winning.

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 September 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link


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