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

"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

you mean Gary Johnson?

xpost

He's going to wobble into next weekend's town hall at a svelte 11'4".

And then dunk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cJmpwkUx4s

Some outlets reported that Bush was privately supporting Johnson, and The New York Daily News reported he'd hinted at his support for Johnson publicly at a Manhattan Institute event this week, mouthing the Libertarian's name to someone who said he didn't want to vote for either Trump or Clinton. Bush denied that report, though.

"I don't think so," Bush said when reporters asked if he had done that, according to CNN.

lol Jeb is voting for Stein

"Well, if everybody didn't vote, that would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn't it?" Bush said, according to CNN.

this man is considered the smartest Bush.

More like smart as a shrub.

Jeb is voting for Jeb

I also thing George W. is smarter than Jeb, take what you will from that

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

the photoshopped "#TrumpWon was launched in Russia" tweet got a lot of traction

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

to be fair, jeb is right that kathleen kennedy townsend facebook-posting his dad's vote was a dick move

I also thing George W. is smarter than Jeb, take what you will from that

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, September 30, 201

tom

Trump is like the Last Emperor, raised in privilege, completely oblivious to the way the world works and how it has changed around him. And now he finally leaves his palace and learns that everything he has been told has been a lie, or inaccurate. So he freaks out and thinks he's the only one who's right, and no one is brave enough to tell him otherwise. It's easier to drum up a fake poll that says he's winning, or leak some falsehood to one of his right wing propaganda publications so that he can site "sources."

The best end to all of this would be a humiliating loss, followed by criminal charges, followed by knowledge that all his useful idiots have embezzled his wealth down to nothing.

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/781820020015919104

lol

Well, at least we know he'll be ready for that 3am call.

I still think the reason Trump is working on a property in DC is he thinks he's going to be president and wants a place to hide that hair guy he keeps in Trump Tower, the doctor who gives him happy pills, and whatever other dark shit he doesn't feel comfortable having on the record. So probably... a lot of stuff.

would president trump prioritise continuing a twitter beef over launching a nuke or vice-versa?

I'd imagine he plans on making those people at Twitter add a 'Nuke' button to his account.

I'm imagining his cabinet playing the same piss-poor game of keepaway with the launch code that his handlers are playing with his phone.