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

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

Anytime you hear me or my campaign saying something unbelievably stupid, DO NOT believe it. We didn't say anything stupid, your ears are just broken!

xxp his sources are extremely credible though

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtmniuVUMAAeT9g.jpg

yea so apparently there is no Alicia Machado sex tape, though she was topless in Playboy

similar to what Trump's current wife did

sex tape boorish thing is better than "did business illegally in Cuba," I don't want to give him too much credit but if he has to pick between scandals today it's check out sex tape all the way

just imagining Paul Ryan this morning is making me smile

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

what fucked up alternate timeline are we living in

one with more advanced technology than "Grover Cleveland love child" era, that's all

so so fucking boring

bored people are boring people, friend

can't wait to see what truly awful blog post Scott Adams will be writing this morning

Trump is hypnotizing us by referring to women as disgusting pigs which makes us think of bacon which makes us hungry and forget about silly things like politics.

Morbs, do you mind checking in every, oh I don't know, three hours or so and letting us know if this election you can't stop commenting on has become any more interesting for you? We'll do what we can to spice things up, since this is the only topic currently open for discussion here.

"Now, in the 2-D world, you might think of Trump's comment's as sexist. But as someone trained in persuasion, I see his comments as the moment he won the election. You see,....."

MediaMatters has the story on the 'sex tape': http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/28/right-wing-porn-star-attack-former-miss-universe-falls-apart/213419 In short, The Daily Caller wrote about Machado being in a porn film, though it's not her. The lie then repeated throughout the rightwing echo chamber - Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Jefrey Lord, etc. She was on a 'risque reality show', and she was topless for playboy, but she never did 'porn'.

538 pointed out that Clinton has actually gone down in the polls pretty much everyday. After the conventions she went up 8 points in 3 days, then slowly lost again. If I was guessing, I'd say that in a vacuum, low-info voters just like the man better than the woman. Couple that with the 'deplorables' comment and the healthscare, and she had a bad month. Hopefully there's enough news and debates to keep focus on the sheer awfulness of Trump this last month.

also, lol @ this

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/opinion/campaign-stops/fat-shamer-in-chief.html

At 6-foot-2, the height that he has long given profile writers, Trump weighs 236 pounds, he told Dr. Oz. Not quite Taftian — he ballooned to 354 pounds by his inauguration in 1909 — but not healthy, either. By government guidelines, Trump is obese. In a weasel move to avoid that classification, Trump now says he is 6-foot-3, which makes him merely overweight. How he grew an inch, at the age of 70, is a story that has escaped his hagiographers at Fox.

I ordered a Hillary bumper sticker, along with a donation yesterday. I've never done either of these things. But I admit I'm kinda scared to even put the bumper sticker on.

― how's life, Thursday, September 15, 2016 1:09 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I applied my Hillary for America sticker earlier this week. It's been vandalism-free and road rage-free so far. I had been taking extra care to not be a shitty driver too, lest someone get that idea about Hillary voters. Then yesterday I ran a red light in front of a fire house.

The article features the correction, “The star of Apprentass 4 was Angel Dark, not Alicia Machado.”

It's called Apprentass, this is too perfect

Can't wait until people discover the entry of the Drilled Daddies series that Trump definitely starred in. Go on, spread the word, no need for research or confirmation or anything that resembles real life.

Why aren't people just spreading vicious and obviously fake rumors about Trump 24/7? Is it that whole 'go high' thing?

seriously. if he's the type that is so fragile that he has to reply to every criticism, handlers be damned, keep flinging crap at him and watch him whack-a-mole

clinton was mean and had a health scare, which somehow is incredibly relevant after several weeks when she appeared perfectly healthy after getting over pneumonia and was treated incredibly rudely by you-know-who and then beat him down in a debate regardless

i've taken longer to get over the common cold

The regional manager in my company's Miami office is a Trumpkin. She's constantly posting on FB and Twitter about him being the only one that can save America, and reposting all his campaign's stuff. Unbelievable. I've known this woman for at least a decade and she's never shown any sign of being an insane idiot before.

like the entire media cycle needs bullet points to put up about her and all they've got is "did well in debate" and "was sick a while back" and people think, hmm, wonder about her health

xpost The onset of Creutzfeldt-Jakob is pretty quick, I hear.

i've never seen "the apprentice," maybe there is vital information about trump's skills that i'm missing

like these people that think Trump is the only dude that can save America, what are they gonna do when he loses?

are they gonna have to put the bridges on watch by law enforcement?

I wonder if people who appeared on the apprentice are busily erasing it from their resumes (assuming it's on them - but wasn't that the point?)

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Another-Miss-Universe-Contestant-Says-Trump-9439615.php

More Miss Universe ladies saying he's a creepazoid

Trump's October surprise = Hillary is an alien!

xpost and here comes the deluge!

i've never seen "the apprentice," maybe there is vital information about trump's skills that i'm missing

there isn't

also here's one for the out-of-context thread from the link akm posted:

Seal was Miss Australia in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant

he's a multi-talented guy, Seal

Trump's never gonna survive 'less he gets a little crazy

exposed: trump's torrid affair with heidi klum's ex

I'm starting to feel like, in terms of likability, Trump is basically Cruz + money. The only people willing to say anything nice about him are those who have profited off of him or hope to in the future.

trump has a (albeit mystifying) popular appeal that cruz will never have though

There's nothing mystifying about either racism or saying "You got screwed over, am I right?" when it comes to a lot of people.

true

Ah, Jeb.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-no-one-vote

What if they gave an election and no one came?

jeb! boldly staking his claim on intellectual territory usually occupied solely by stoned high-schoolers

omg they still haven't taken his phone away