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

The Trump and Jeb! vine comps are much watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bANQ9wlhpPk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLXfF5s_N8

Jeb! one makes me legitimately like him

This is so stupid but I've laughed hard twice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48rZpwJFbMM

1. I didn't know that George Soros funds the Bureau of Land Management

2. Caption switch reminds me of the times that the Far Side and Dennis the Menace got their captions switched. Both times, it improved both cartoons.

http://twentytwowords.com/newspaper-accidentally-swaps-captions-for-the-far-side-and-dennis-the-menace-twice/

Hahaha, yeah I thought the same thing. Love that. Actually saw a Prehistory of the Far Side for sale on the street yesterday and almost got it. So classic.

re: trump's flared-nostril ape dominance thing, SURELY this is some bullshit business-guy theory on how you win deals or whatever, right? I can just hear the bestselling negotiating advice book in my head, ''deep down everyone still has these primal instincts'' but YOU can use them consciously to DOMINATE the meeting/pack/whatever

If trump used computers he'd be on PUA forums all day long

Prehistory of the Far Side is the best. I don't know where mine is. It probably disintegrated at some point.

No, DC, it's just how bullies instinctively behave. Remember, we're talking about people who don't read books and are generally proud of it.

Flared nostrils make for more efficient coke vacuums

Operatives in Brooklyn had been working with Machado since the summer. They had a video featuring her story ready to go. Cosmopolitan had a photo spread of her draped in an American flag – to go with a profile – in the can. Machado had also conducted an interview with The Guardian that was “apparently embargoed for post-debate release,” according to Vox. And the Clinton super PAC Priorities USA turned a digital ad to highlight the insults by early afternoon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/09/28/daily-202-trump-stumbles-into-clinton-s-trap-by-feuding-with-latina-beauty-queen/57eb0230e9b69b0ec0c0a85d/

lmao:

https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/780846161255133184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

As someone who's been in the public eye for decades and seems to know how to use mass media to his advantage, it's astounding to me how easily Trump allows himself to be so thoroughly owned a la the Machado deadfall.

This is where the oppo team has been, I guess. We were wondering!

wow @ The Machado Ambuscade.
that's some rope a dope shit right there, I love it

and it's pretty much righteous, it highlights a fucking intolerable aspect of trump's persona which remains totally unreconstructed

can someone please photoshop her flag shot from cosmo into a faux robert ludlum cover from the 80s

Actually, this isn't that astounding to me. Trump thinks chess is just checkers with fancier pieces, and he thinks checkers is a game where you move all of your pieces to the other side of the board on your first turn and flip the board while chanting 'USA! USA!'

Let's keep in mind that Trump has no organization. I don't think they've got opposition research and it's too late to pay for any.

I bet she was like "ok time to bait the hook" at the end and then was amazed at how eagerly he dove for it

lmao how this is how you do hitjob media

http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/28/4-things-media-wont-tell-hillarys-beauty-queen-bff/

I don't have much use for Jonathan Chait usually but this is hilarious:

Unlike the previous allegations, he did not deny them, but instead burst out — three times! — ‘Where did you find this?’ I have seen villains in Disney movies presented with damning evidence react this way, but I have never seen an actual human being do it, until now.

Of course Cosmo is running w this too. This is gonna show up in every grocery rack "women's" magazine.

woah, she's bad at geography and modeled for playboy?? colour me shocked

Trump should hire this guy to go on cable news imo:

Kevin Herman • an hour ago
She gained 50lbs while serving as Miss Universe. Miss Universe is pretty much 100% about looks. To go from Skinny to obese while serving as Miss Universe is totally unacceptable. She had a responsibility to stay fit during that time frame. This is a non story this woman obviously loves the spotlight and agitating. Smart women voters will not be fooled by this tempest in a teapot.

Quick and dirty but for Tombot:

http://imgur.com/a/OaoRE

Kevin Herman is totally a fat-dude-eatin'-cheetos kinda name

(to El Tomboto: I could do it for real with gradients and shadows and all, but the moment has probably passed)

On Monday night, Donald Trump did what 25 years of effort on her part, on the part of her numerous advisers and paid staffers, and nine figures worth of advertising over the course of multiple campaigns could never do: he made Hillary Clinton look really human. A sympathetic figure, even if only for a few moments. He solved her most persistent weakness for her, and he did so because he is stupid and he doesn't think about anything he does before, while, or after he does it.

Kevin Herman is totally a fat-dude-eatin'-cheetos kinda name

― A bear made of Tetris blocks (stevie), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 11:51 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh you mean a cyber hacker?

YMP that is beautiful, the best, really classy. thank you

I live to serve.

What's amazing about the Miss Universe thing is that he knew exactly who she was talking about. For a shithead who knows nothing, he sure has a long memory.

Kevin Can Wait

Not shocked that People Who Have Let Him Down are close to his memory.

The most beautiful part of the Machato reveal was that, rather than attempting to do any damage control in the wake of the debate, Trump doubled down about how awful the woman was. It was like making an incisive public point about the racism of your opponent, who then immediately starts slathering on blackface.

the best part was how even the FOX morning show hosts looked aghast when it was obvious they were trying to help

xp see also: the way most Trump supporters reacted to the "deplorable" comment

I mean, at this point, why not just say, "Trump and his supporters don't care about anything or anyone and would be delighted to watch the earth burn and dance in the ashes afterward." They'd hoot and holler 'fuck yeah, we would!' Don't mince words. Paint them as dangerous lunatics and let them proudly run with the depiction.

My mother in law just posted some drivel about how Hillary used secret hand signals to get Lester Holt to help her during the debate. The right-wing mind is truly a mystery.

@lhfang
Great coincidences in campaign reporting: The Guardian & Cosmo sent reporters just before debate to profile Machado, then pubbed today.

@ggreenwald
Now this is some serious Good Luck!

There's a yuge thing out there about how her responses sounded memorized, which means SHE DEFINITELY GOT THE QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE.

No apparent clue that maybe the reasons her responses sounded memorized was because there's only like twelve things a reasonable person might ask about, and her preparation included memorizing answers TO THOSE QUESTIONS. Gah.

Twelve things is about eleven more things than the average Trump supporter's mind could retain at one time, though, so she either cheated or she's some kind of witch.

Maybe, just for fairness's sake, the next moderator needs to ask about something she can't possible have prepared for.

"Secretary Clinton, hypothetically, if our Mars colony is overrun by Squid People, how will you respond to the Squid Peoples' demand for the right to vote in American elections? By the way, your critics have charged that you have not adequately clarified your views on the rights of Squid People."

* can't possibly

The Fahrenthold interview on Fresh Air just now was pretty illuminating, just listening to the guy put it all together. I can totally see his investigation serving as the base for a future Watergate, or snagging Capone on taxes. Whatever he is getting paid, as one of the few working journalists actually doing some work anymore he deserves a raise.

rather than attempting to do any damage control in the wake of the debate, Trump doubled down about how awful the woman was.

^^^ this. He has no ability to apologize for anything. Ever. And even his attempts to spin things, like birtherism, are extremely clumsy. I hope there are numerous doublings down between now and election day.

Kaepernick said the debate was "embarrassing to watch" and that it's "hard to believe these are our candidates," according to Kevin Jones of KNBR Radio in San Francisco.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2666244-colin-kaepernick-comments-on-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidential-debate

I wonder if debate training in the form somebody asking her absurdist questions and responses written by Zach Galifinakis, Scott Awkserman, and the rest of the Between Two Ferns/ComedybBang Bang group would be highly beneficial

todd bawkertin

Kaepernick, who has sparked a national debate with his protests of racial injustice in the United States, made it clear he was not a fan of Trump's campaign slogan.

"He always says, 'Make America great again.' Well, America has never been great for people of color and that's something that needs to be addressed," Kaepernick said, per ESPN.com's Nick Wagoner. "Let's make America great for the first time."

i'm having trouble running this down -- i saw some chatter that HRC campaign had been running ads about The Machado Insult in spanish for some time?