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

Been waiting for Kaleb Horton's monster piece on the conventions and it's out:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2937584/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/

another neat bit on language, and the crowd for whom "truthiness" is an accurate descriptor, since what determines the truthfulness of a statement is its emotional aspect, that it is said with "passionate sincerity" and "sincere passion," rather than its accuracy in corresponding to external reality. Also gets into why fuckheads loudly chafe at "political correctness."

The David Roberts piece linked by kingfish is echoed by what Blow said in the Times and what this piece in the Week says:

http://theweek.com/articles/651768/why-donald-trump-even-worse-second-debate

on a more fundamental level, Trump will have to keep himself from acting on what we now understand are very powerful impulses. It isn't just about practicing more or having a few zingers ready. It's about who he is at his very core. Clinton obviously understood that. She knew that just by attacking Trump, she could guide the discussion where she wanted it to go, since he is constitutionally incapable of letting any criticism pass without a counterattack. She also seemed to grasp that with the right kind of bait, she could get him to undermine himself. So she accused him of not paying taxes and he actually admitted it, saying, "That makes me smart." She said he stiffs his contractors, and he insisted that they must not have deserved to be paid. In other words, she knew that Trump absolutely must be seen by others as a shrewd businessman who gets the better of the people he deals with. What are the chances that wouldn't work if Clinton did it again, no matter how many times Trump's aides begged him not to take the bait? And you can bet she has some other stinging attacks all lined up.

So maybe my longed-for "If you're so interested in bringing American manufacturing back, why do you make your ties in China?" thing is coming next time. Maybe even "if you're so gung-ho about American workers, why do your hotels employ so many foreign guest workers?" He'll splutter again about devalued currency, wasting time that he could have been spending on Benghazi or whatever.

keep it up Donald

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/262583859709882369

That's from 2012, idgi

unless he means that Trump's got a truckoad of rancid tweets that even his minions working 24 hour a day can't erase

yes

I hope Trump does try to take on this "I'm a defender of women!" schtick it will backfire so beautifully

Tecate ran a beer advert on Monday featuring a "Tecate Beer Wall" cutting thru the desert, where American dudes and Mexican dudes meet to chug brews from a shared ice cooler.

The narrator intones that “The time has come for a wall, a tremendous wall. The best wall.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bev4NZEFsCQ

https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/how-a-mexican-beer-ad-trolled-trump-and-fox-news-during-the-presidential-debates

http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/debate-ad-tecate-turns-trump-s-wall-a-beer-prop/305999/

Hard to imagine their VP not sniggering when he said this:

Asked if the brew was taking a side, Tecate VP Felix Palau said the brand is not trying to get political. Rather, the debate -- and the border issue -- presents a marketing opportunity for the Mexican brand to inject itself in the conversation, he said. "We are totally neutral," he said. "We don't have any political point-of-view or affiliation. We just want to tell a story where people from two bordering countries are united by beer."

They naturally ran it on Telemundo, Univision, and Fox News.

I want to call Trump a half-deflated football filled with dogshit who's going to lose this election like an incontinent septuagenarian loses control over his bladder, but I won't.

lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtiVt8tW8AE7FPy.jpg

OMG he's going plotz so hard.

Thoroughly expect him to take some time during the next debate to be all, "The awful, failing New Yorker wants you to believe I'm a fat, ugly beauty queen who cries and wears a dress. Wrong. Wrong."

Pepe The Frog’s creator is voting Hillary, isn’t sure what the hell happened either

As our children will one day read in their history books (in the chapter titled “We’re Sorry”)

chapter?

Yeah, most of history has been pretty chill, iirc.

You're Welcome (We're Sorry): A History of Human Civilization

I'm thinking high school textbook. Sorry Not Sorry: The American Story

If We Did It

lol

The American Sorry

If We Did It

srsly dying

lmao that's gold

unless he means that Trump's got a truckoad of rancid tweets that even his minions working 24 hour a day can't erase

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, September 29, 2016 3:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have to believe that the clinton oppo research team has already archived every single trump tweet in a searchable database

on a private server

Breaking: POKER PRO AGREES – Hillary Was Sending Hand Signals to Debate Moderator Holt

lol it's fucking Mike Matusow

Been some great fresh descriptions of Trump lately. "Donald Trump has a face like a rusted manhole cover." "A shaken three-liter of Sunkist that has spewed its acidic stickiness all over America’s floor."

lol it's fucking Mike Matusow

― frogbs, Thursday, September 29, 2016 3:46 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who's that?

if it's a poker pro i'm just gonna assume it's some dickhead wearing a baseball hat and wraparound shades indoors

ty for the lols Jon

He's the biggest douchebag of them all xp

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, known for being a notorious shit talker and generally not very-good poker player

Probably most well-known for getting owned by Greg Raymer in 2005

Still gets lots of TV time because he's kind of a wildcard and is legitimately fun to watch. I remember watching him online from time to time and he would get tilted incredibly easily.

Breaking: POKER PRO GETS FREE PUBLICITY FOR CHALLOP

PROFESSIONAL POKER NOW A THING AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE W ADMINISTRATION

Has Kenny fucking Rogers weighed in yet

What he’s doing is trying to establish dominance — to win, in his words. That’s what he uses words for. That’s how he sees every interaction in which he is involved. He is attuned only to what the words are doing, whether they are winning or losing, not to what they mean.

thrasymachus/pence 2016

So Trump camp was already rumbling about the Cuba story and...

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/781607229241823233

it's interesting to see these different news outlets not really covering or even referencing each other's stories (NYT doesn't mention WaPo, neither mentions Newsweek bombshell) - idk if this is different from how these stories might have broken/been covered in the past, but the professional territoriality seems diminish the overall impact of the various Trump scandals. Seems like the most we can expect is something like the above - a NYT staff tweeting about a Newsweek story

Huh? He's the guy who wrote the story! And he works at both spots.

lol sorry misread his twitter bio

I guess NYT won't be mentioning this at all then!

seems like Trump's going to have a number of criminal proceedings against him after the election

This was just posted on FB by someone I've known since the second grade. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering, and his wife is both African-American (he's white btw) and a doctor. This election has made people dumb.

Hillary has chosen the new face of the Democratic Party and the choice couldn't be more appropriate: a judge-threatening, public-fornicating trainwreck who had a Mexican drug lord's anchor baby in Miami. If that doesn't say Democrat I don't know what does.

Also, Donald Trump is the Guy Fieri of politics. See, I'm fair and balanced like Fox News.

is that supposed to refer to miss universe

yeah, "Guy Fieri" is that hard-hitting bodying of Trump that balances out what he said about the Democratic Party

public fornicating

i love it when I go to the ball pit at McDonald's and people are fornicating in it

I would've appreciated it if he could have thrown a "strumpet" or "hussy" in there

as a lifelong Democrat, I spend the majority of my days publicly fornicating with Mexican drug lords while threatening judges

I fornicate with judges and threaten anchors

news anchors, specifically