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

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

A couple of weeks ago he was going on about what's-his-face, the Orlando murderer's dad, being at the Clinton rally with a sarcastic, "Well, they are the big tent, I guess." I asked if, given that he's a private citizen with no criminal record and no charges against him, they were supposed to have thrown him out and he never responded.

judge threatening? the trump campaign is built on projection, jfc

Oof http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/29/dont-vote-for-donald-trump-editorial-board-editorials-debates/91295020/

I'll say this much. The press has been less than diligent and thorough this campaign, maybe even more than usual, but I find it heartening every time one of these no minced words, harshly anti-Trump to the extreme editorial endorsements comes out.

^^^ was just coming here to post that USA Today piece, brutal

did trump call someone on the gannett board fat in 1986 or something because their properties have really been lining up

Jesus. On the one hand it's like getting a beatdown from Which Laptop?. On the other hand it's like getting a beatdown from Which Laptop?

Lol at "Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature." - this one is opposed by Pence!

But, if there's a good time to start impersonating a newspaper, this is that time.

this is pretty fuckin weak tho

Nor does this editorial represent unqualified support for Hillary Clinton, who has her own flaws (though hers are far less likely to threaten national security or lead to a constitutional crisis). The Editorial Board does not have a consensus for a Clinton endorsement.

Some of us look at her command of the issues, resilience and long record of public service — as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State — and believe she’d serve the nation ably as its president.

Other board members have serious reservations about Clinton’s sense of entitlement, her lack of candor and her extreme carelessness in handling classified information.

entitlement? not sucking the medias dick? email boogeyman? one guy would precipitate a constitutional crisis and has the temperament of a 6 year old but we cant endorse hillary because shes entitled.

A pie chart made of 0% donald

xpost Yeah, fuck that noise. Is she entitled? Sure! Has she worked hard anyway? Yeah! So what if she's been campaigning for president for years, she's putting in the 10,000 hours.

i mean, it's friggin gannett media, the standard-bearer of mediocre milquetoast ubiquity, u gotta expect that theyll drop in some "balance" caveat

getting them to say almost anything is a minor miracle tho i guess

we have decided to break from tradition and tell you that trump is a dangerous demagogue and should come nowhere near the presidency

however we cannot fully endorse you doing everything in your personal capacity to prevent him from being president, such as voting for the other candidate

lotta different readers w/ a lotta different priorities

kinda creeped out by their choice of simile here: "attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target."

Being generous, though, the Gannett editorial policy is kind of admirably inclusive - they gave Atrios a big venue to argue for increasing Social Security way before it was cool.

Another minor charity detail:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-lacks-the-certification-required-for-charities-that-solicit-money/2016/09/29/7dac6a68-8658-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html

^^^ also significant, as an aside, for those worrying that things like Farenthold's WaPo investigative work are for naught:

If New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) finds that Trump’s foundation raised money in violation of the law, he could order the charity to stop raising money immediately. With a court’s permission, Schneiderman could also force Trump to return money that his foundation has already raised.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Schneiderman’s office declined to comment on whether it was investigating the lack of registration for the Trump Foundation. Schneiderman had previously launched an investigation of the foundation in the wake of reports by The Washington Post that Trump used his charity’s money to make a political gift, to buy paintings of himself and to settle legal disputes involving his for-profit businesses.

Posted by android at 3.20am https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/781755469488615424

And now at 5:15am https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/781784161044553728

My god.

he kept going

"paragon of virtue" is such a readymade

he just doesn't fucking get it at all

"Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?"

This shit will be taught in a gender studies class one day.