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

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

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link

lol sorry misread his twitter bio

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link

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.

Cumstaun (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link

is that supposed to refer to miss universe

j., Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link

public fornicating

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link

I fornicate with judges and threaten anchors

Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link

news anchors, specifically

Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link

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.

Cumstaun (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link

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

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link

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.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link

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

sleeve, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link

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

j., Friday, 30 September 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link

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?

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link

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.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link

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.

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link

A pie chart made of 0% donald

wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link

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.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link

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

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link

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

iatee, Friday, 30 September 2016 00:46 (seven years ago) link

lotta different readers w/ a lotta different priorities

j., Friday, 30 September 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link

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

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link

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.

Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Friday, 30 September 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link

^^^ 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.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 September 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2016 08:46 (seven years ago) link

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link

My god.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link

he kept going

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link

"paragon of virtue" is such a readymade

florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link

he just doesn't fucking get it at all

the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link

"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.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 September 2016 10:50 (seven years ago) link

I love the thought of all the surrogates/campaign managers waking up to this.

Frederik B, Friday, 30 September 2016 10:57 (seven years ago) link

It's amazing he tweeted three misogynistic attacks in 15 minutes at five in the morning. Just for the cartoonishness of it all.

Frederik B, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link

and his previous tweet was at 3.20am, so he's obviously not getting a lot of sleep

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2016 11:06 (seven years ago) link

he seems to be completely unraveling over the dumbest possible shit

just business as usual

frogbs, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:11 (seven years ago) link

On the bright side, whoever came up with "Follow the money" as his new campaign slogan has excellent taste in movies.

clemenza, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link

follow it....all the way to Cuba

Neanderthal, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link

this fucking guy

Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link

Wtf Trump. I don't know where the bottom is!

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link

It's where all the shit keeps coming out

Evan, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link

Good god, and his strategy, his October surprise, is to bring up Bill? I balls of this dude, the sheer hubris. The odds that he only had two affairs and married both of his mistresses is somewhere between 0 and 0.

Then NH1 asked Trump if his own marital history would be "fair game."

"I guess," he responded. "But it’s a lot different than his. That I can tell you. We have a situation where we have a president who was a disaster and he was ultimately impeached over it, in a sense for lying. And so we’ll see whether or not we discuss it."

NH1 asked Trump if he was worried about his marital history.

"No, not at all. I have a very good history," he replied.

A very good history. The best. What a fucking child.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link

it must be nice to be so perfectly oblivious

the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link

imagine floating through life believing you're the fucking best of all time and anything bad that happens is other peoples' fault - it'd be amazing

i mean you'd be a total asshole but you wouldn't care so what difference does it make really

the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link

Feel like he's got to lose some votes at this point not because he's doing politically unwise things or that he's a dangerous petulant racist, but because it's become clear even to his fans that he has an iq of 75.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link


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