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

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/781215486692524032

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THE RETURN OF THE COREY

I'm just curious but has anyone asked Trump whether or not he will continue to personally run his business affairs from the oval office if elected?

Reading thru bits of Corey'a Authoritarian Mind book last night, one thing that really jumped out at me was that dude is really, really off about Nietzsche, for as much as he quotes the guy.

I'm just curious but has anyone asked Trump whether or not he will continue to personally run his business affairs from the oval office if elected?

They did sometime back, he mumbled about putting it in a blind trust so that he still knew what was going on with it or something.

She also wrote that when Trump shoved her hand it didn't hurt physically.

Undoubtedly because her hands are larger and stronger than Trump's.

Yeah, here it is: a blind trust run by his children, natch

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/14/donald_trump_s_promised_blind_trust_is_impossible.html

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There was a clip in the last Last Week Tonight about the Blind Trust. Neither him nor his kids seem to know what it is. The clip of his kid failing to understand the concept is quite funny.

Holy shit, if he changes campaign mangager again. Lol.

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― nomar, Wednesday, September 28, 2016 5:30 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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ok lol

"Morning" Joe wondered if "Howard" was going to apologize.

Newsweek's cover story tomorrow details how Trump's hotel business violated the Cuban embargo in 1999 with his knowledge.

Did this whole thread just completely relax after Monday night

A little bit, didn't it.

Based on chitchat with the industry it seems like bar (and cab) business fell off yesterday and today and I'm going to assume that's because people overdid it Monday night and have been recuperating.

did i miss you guys talking about michiko's anti-trump public service annoucement? so funny!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/books/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html?_r=0

“Hitler adapted the content of his speeches to suit the tastes of his lower-middle-class, nationalist-conservative, ethnic-chauvinist and anti-Semitic listeners,” Mr. Ullrich writes. He peppered his speeches with coarse phrases and put-downs of hecklers. Even as he fomented chaos by playing to crowds’ fears and resentments, he offered himself as the visionary leader who could restore law and order."

i mean scary too but i love that it's like bullet point trump fear masked as a hitler book review. well done! (when was the last time i said that about one of her reviews...)

Still listening to this in full every few days, still totally in love with it. Deserves to be mentioned right alongside the other (also great) Albums About Death that have dominated conversation this year (Bowie, Cave, to a lesser extent Touché Amore, more I'm forgetting I'm sure). On recent listens Marissa Nadler's backing vocals have really emerged as an essential bit of coloring.

Not that that's a fair metric for success or good writing.

Classic thread mashup from Simon

Ugh for some reason it keeps autofilling an old post

That was supposed to read something like "pretty sly, too bad no undecided voters will ever even notice it."

eh Iggy's released a couple good albums since 1979

Newsweek's cover story tomorrow details how Trump's hotel business violated the Cuban embargo in 1999 with his knowledge.

fucking lol

actually i also think it's a shame more critics have not given monday's debate credit as an Album About Death

doing illegal business in Cuba makes me smart

I imagine his camp will spin it that he was "ahead of the curve" and "paved the way" for the relaxed sanctions of today.

Or not.

Dean trolling someone in Trump-speak about how he's not saying it was cocaine, just that it sounds like it, people are saying... is classic

yeah he should keep it up. kind of hope it gets to where Trump and his surrogates are actually having to respond to it daily

but definitely retain the Trump-speak element. that's key.

Dean is funny

I imagine his camp will spin it that he was "ahead of the curve" and "paved the way" for the relaxed sanctions of today.

Yeah I think this is really the only "good" way they can spin it beyond just deny deny deny

They won't spin it, they'll just change the topic

"but Hillary SMELLS"

"You know, that old lady smell. And people don't know this, but she's always trying to give you Werther's Originals. Werther's Originals. The candy. That candy old lady's like. Crooked Hillary is clearly in the pocket of the Candy Lobby. That's what I heard. Candy Lobby."

""Do I think at 70 years old he has a cocaine habit? Probably not," he said. "But it's something that I think would be interesting to ask him, to see if he ever had a problem with that."

hahaha

xps another tactical blunder - decades of polling show a reliable majority of americans are in favor of candy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y44QZNVXzhE&sns=em

not sure what that is.

But Gary Johnson (who for some reason is still getting airtime) wasn't able to name one world leader he looked up to tonight and said he was having an Aleppo moment. He should have just answered "Aleppo" to the question, at least it would have been funny

Aleppo Marx

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cuban-embargo-castro-violated-florida-504059

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after-the-fact to a charitable effort.

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

Sounds really smart!

I love how the press is finally getting to work in these waning weeks, like the slackers they are. "Oh shit, the election is when!? Better start digging!"

"finally"

I wonder to what extent the media has been pulling the ol' rope-a-dope. The memory of the electorate is short, why not wait until the eleventh hour to release the deluge.

Yeah, good luck with that:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/saving-gop-for-capitalism?utm_term=.po56KPVzW#.fggyo3KD6

And to replace religious conservatives in the Republican coalition with low-wage workers, he warned, would require a new set of “tough, and perhaps even odious compromises.”

First, he said, the government would have to intervene in trade policy to force other countries to spend more of their savings on U.S. exports — a system he calls “balanced trade.” In his new book, he lays out a system of import licenses to enforce this — a system, he admitted when he came by BuzzFeed in New York last week, many of his friends on the right will hate.

The second plan is, by the open market standards of the Wall Street Journal and the American business class, even more radical.

“Unfortunately, I think we have to dial down low-skilled immigration,” he said. “No employer is going to go through the effort to employ hard-to-employ workers unless there’s a shortage of labor, and there’s not going to be a shortage of labor in a world where there is a near infinite supply of labor unless we create it. And, if we do create it, it’s going to put pressure on employers to hire those workers and find jobs for them because they’ll be the only workers left to hire.”

Conard offered one bright lining to compensate: a dramatic increase — in immigration at the very high end. Say, 5 million new engineers and scientists and other groups of workers who are hard to find and expensive to pay.

xpost I should specify that, when I say 'the media', I actually mean 'legitimate journalists'. I thoroughly expect the media on the whole to steadfastly maintain their status quo as a horde of worthless pigfuckers.

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The fellow's whole damn reason for running is the legalization of marijuana yet you are shocked he can't think straight.

I thought it was the jews and psychiatrists who wanted it legal

mocking marijuana users as being dumb is definitely fresh + hot material for which we need a dick nixon twitter feed (and morbius aggregator/automatic posting device).