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

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

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/stiglitz-grades-trump-f-on-economics-cites-china-trade-war-risk

'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!!

“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

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.

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

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

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

these hosts are just evil people

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

Trump will not win this.

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

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.

Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Food

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.

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.)

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?

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.

Xp

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

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.

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.

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

trump showing his in depth knowledge of the constitution again

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

“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."

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

Hospitals are well known for their great food and room service

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

thx Obamacare

“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."

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

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

Trump in thinking hospitals are like hotels SHOCKAH!

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

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

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

http://theslot.jezebel.com/jeb-bushs-shame-spiral-accelerates-1786794310

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1HYmfNzcE

can a reporter ask someone in the fraternal order of police who just endorsed this fuckstick if they believe in the 6th amendment

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/a-presidential-predictor-with-a-perfect-record

"Every election year since 2004" closetab

xp

^^ The opening paragraph of that ends:

So you might be interested to learn that on Newtown Lane, in East Hampton, Long Island, there’s a Presidential predictor with a perfect track record.

Woo-hoo! Perfect track record! The very next paragraph opens:

Every election year since 2004...

Yeah. Right. (drifts away)

taking comfort where i can in these 'interesting' times!

I guess that Washington Hatcats football rule failed last year for the first time since 1932

(uh, make that last prez election rather than last year)

From the WaPo's summary of its story on a Trump hotel:

The mogul's new property in D.C. comes with luxuries common at top hotels: high thread counts, fancy in-room coffeemaker, friendly staff who say “My pleasure” instead of “You’re welcome.” But an overnight stay also can turn into a meditation on wealth, entitlement and a half-hour wait for the valet.

“I have not gotten it right once,” she whispered. “I mean, a woman comes in with the NPR bag and the gray ponytail, and I think, O.K. We’ve got a Clinton voter here, right? Six Trump cups.”

ah yes. no NPR totebagger has ever amused themselves with gag gifts

NPR totebaggers have never amused themselves.