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

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.

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

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

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

he seems to be completely unraveling over the dumbest possible shit

just business as usual

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

follow it....all the way to Cuba

this fucking guy

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

It's where all the shit keeps coming out

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.

it must be nice to be so perfectly oblivious

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

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.

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/780727118602928128

Is there time for him to fire another set of staff?

PIVOT, BABY, PIVOT

I am so, so, so glad that Trump snuck into Conway's office this morning and rooted through her desk until he found his phone. The world deserved to hear his side of the story!

"a story that DEMANDED to be told"

I might finally accept the existence of a higher power if a year and change of Trump pissing in America's face ultimately results in him getting locked up.

My happy place, very short term, would be Trump losing by 10-20% and his resulting meltdown.

am so, so, so glad that Trump snuck into Conway's office this morning and rooted through her desk until he found his phone. The world deserved to hear his side of the story!

― I Still Don't Regret My Crazy Town Neck Tat, and Here's Why (Old Lunch),

I'm pretty sure that's how it happened

In all fairness, his spokespeople were doing a pretty poor job of communicating just how disgusting Machado is. The world deserved to know.

so a major party nominee for president just tweeted "check out sex tape"

what fucked up alternate timeline are we living in

Hillary has gone from 51% to 66% at 538 in the four days since the debate. And these couple news cycles won't help either.

Ted Cruz sure picked a good time to endorse, fuckin loser

How is he fucking up the Miss Universe thing so badly? He must know that it's a trap, but he's going to bulldoze ahead anyway.

i might be ready to put some money on this election

I don't understand here is what is happening to cause the tightening in the first place... are people really forgetting that Trump is a terrible human being for a brief moment then they remember again? Hillary doesn't seem to be doing anything really (outside of the convention) it's just steady flow of low rent scandals basically.

How is he fucking up the Miss Universe thing so badly? He must know that it's a trap, but he's going to bulldoze ahead anyway.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 7:45 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The bear only sees the fish lying on a pile of reeds. He can't wrap his head around the idea of a deadfall. But even a bear has sense enough, after pulling its gravely wounded body out of the hole, to not leap directly onto the spikes again. And again. And again.

I think it's based on a couple things: Hillary had a bad couple of weeks and Trump managed to hold it together very briefly. This caused some on the fence Hillary supporters to move over to Johnson and Stein, and some uncommitted Republicans to feel more comfortable with a vote for Trump. It looks like these trends are pretty much done now.

xp

Even though our Donnie is a millionaire
That doesn't mean he's smarter than the average bear

c'mon he's a billionaire just wait until he's out of audit and he can show you his beautiful tax returns

omg they still haven't taken his phone away

How is he fucking up the Miss Universe thing so badly? He must know that it's a trap, but he's going to bulldoze ahead anyway.

It's all that time spent on golf courses. He knows the only way to get out of a trap is just keep swinging.

I imagine a dream scenario where he pleas out on some impending criminal charge and agrees to pay, in full, everyone he's ever stiffed and it ultimately shakes out that he's barely a thousandaire.

another gem from this morning

"Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying "sources said," DO NOT believe it. There are no sources, they are just made up lies!"

uhh Donald "sources said" is like your sole source of information

btw apparently that Machado sex tape isn't even her? sounds about right