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

early voting going on in iowa and florida. what a great time for trump to tank his campaign (again)

Of interest (Wake County includes Raleigh, the state capital; 2nd most populous area in the state, I gather):

https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/781844583110049792

Wake Co NC voted absentees 47 days pre-elex:
2016 1,739
D 42.4%
R 30.1
U 27.2

2012 185
D 32.4%
R 38.4
U 29.2

up 940%, 18% swing to D

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/dana-farber-trump/

The annual fundraising bashes that Donald Trump hosted at his Mar-a-Lago Club for the renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were showy affairs, complete with poolside champagne, flamenco dancers, and Tiffany party favors.

And his titles from Dana-Farber kept getting loftier: First, he was a Discovery Celebration Chair. Then a Grand Benefactor. Then a Grand Honorary Chair.

Those titles did not come at a cost to Trump because he himself has not donated to the cancer center in years. His foundation, which has not included any of his own money since 2008, has given the hospital $350,000 since 2010.

Yet Trump himself may have profited from the relationship: The hospital has paid Trump’s private club up to $150,000 a year since 2011, and once before in 2008, to host the fundraising gala.

“Oh Jesus,” said Dr. David Nathan, who served as president of Dana-Farber from 1995 to 2000 and now sits on the board of trustees. He burst into laughter when told by STAT about the relationship between the hospital and Trump. “My first comment is no comment.”

hippie punching is a national pastime

Man, yeah. I look forward each spring to the first hippie-punching of the season. This year, my knuckles smelled like patchouli and kind bud for a week.

the DNC was held not in spring but in July

Bernie rallies, yo

Why do you think the Lamestream Media wasn't covering them.

I haven't seen any coverage of Bernie rallies in months, fucking Lamestream Media.

Meanwhile in loon world:

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/781945921412235267

I assume the dude is a bot but here's his site and 'our story'

https://yourvoiceradio.com/our-story/

Why shout alone at your television when you can shout to the world on radio?

Indeed!

why shout when you can siiiiiiiing

Indeed!

CNN headline writers having fun:

Donald Trump quintuples down

Warren's on a roll over at Twitter rn.

Oh God this is genius:

https://mobile.twitter.com/iamhappytoast

Warren's twitter makes everything worth it

Noseflags ftw.

"Meanwhile in loon world:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wK00jIO1Go&feature=youtu.be

why didn't that show up? i'll try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wK00jIO1Go

there. that's better.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14500544_10153968346568716_7091028838123692462_o.jpg

I liken it to a balloon er wait

love those nose flags

lol https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn

Okay, definitive proof that was indeed a hardening. Time to start a new thread.

Had a dream last night that Trump made a cameo in Robocop 2 and I paid 5 bucks for the DVD from a budget bin for lolz...cover featured him in a tux by himself and gave him top billing.

Are you Michel Gondry or something.

https://media.giphy.com/media/l396WgWCEds2EMvCg/giphy.gif

amazed trump hasn't used that gif as proof of his appeal to black voters yet

Asked Friday by CNN's Jake Tapper why Trump's phone hasn't been taken away from him, campaign surrogate Sarah Huckabee Sanders replied, "I don't think we're -- anybody's taking anybody's phone away."

Genuine lol

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

perfect merger of campaigns

This video is sort of fascinating, watching her trying to spin things she obviously doesn't want to spin. She has one of the least convincing smiles of all time. The host obviously feels sorry for her, but you know, she could quit if she wanted to. I just want him to throw something else at her and see how she reacts.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/30/trump-senior-adviser-twitter-tirade-sarah-huckabee-sanders-lead-intv.cnn

Latest quote-fest from Costa's team

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-bad-week-is-a-nightmare-for-the-gop/2016/09/30/e9290ad8-8727-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpgop-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

At an intimate fundraiser Wednesday for Rep. Joseph J. Heck (R-Nev.), who is running for the Senate, McConnell asked the group of about a dozen supporters how many of them think Trump can win. About half of the attendees raised their hands. But when McConnell then asked how many thought Trump would win, no hands went up, and the room fell silent, according to a person familiar with the scene who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a closed event.

re: wake county (nc) results, those are very small numbers in general and only list the affiliation of the absentee voters, not their actual votes. pretty stunned that that info is public tho!

lol in Mexico right now but wtf loving the epic Trump meltdown

Publicly, the candidate’s top allies angrily batted away all criticism and said they consider it a betrayal of the nominee. Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a confidant of Trump’s who spent much of the week traveling at the candidate’s side, blasted fellow Republicans for widespread disunity that he does not see in the rival party.

“Republicans are a bunch of frightened rabbits,” Giuliani said. “Unfortunately, we have a party made up of a bunch of people who get frightened very easily, and their hands start to shake whenever something happens that they don’t like.”

https://images.newrepublic.com/1463563c369ebe12564ceb9fbb8b4b55ef360710.gif?w=600&q=65&dpi=1&h=245

i miss the days when Giuliani merely did press ops w/ fake 9/11 survivors

jesus did we need another gritty Ming the Merciless reboot?

<i>When Ryan was asked to comment on Trump’s attacks Tuesday on Machado, the Wisconsin Republican demurred: “I was working out and working this morning. I didn’t watch.”

Embattled GOP senators found various ways to avoid evaluating Trump’s debate turn.

“I didn’t see it, guys. I was on an airplane,” Florida’s Marco Rubio told reporters.

“I have no idea. I’m not a pundit,” Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson said.</i>

This is the weakest sauce avoidance ever

ryan taking the opportunity to remind us of his sw0le

most watched debate in history is completely abandoned by an entire political party

That Sarah Huckabee Sanders video is beautifully cringeworthy. There's nothing these people can't spin!

"We understand that Mr. Trump has just murdered and devoured a small child."
"Well, Jake, I think the thing we need to focus on is that Hillary Clinton has eaten all kinds of things, sometimes on camera. And the thing we need to ask ourselves is: is it possible that she's eaten a few children in the midst of one of her own feeding frenzies? I think we have to assume the answer is yes."
"But Mr. Trump was definitely caught on camera, sinking his teeth into the dismembered arm of a six-year-old boy, and the public has been unwavering in its outrage and disgust towards his actions."
"Well, Jake, actually a Memphis Commercial Appeal poll of two dozen dogs found that they had no real opinion about the situation, so I think the outrage isn't quite as unanimous as you suggest."

Donald ate a baby
It's rather sad to say
Donald ate a baby
So she won't be out to play

We'll never hear her whiny cry
Or have to feel if she is dry
But Hillary bleaches emails; WHY
Are we talking about this baby?

does zing work now test test

Nice

Was just thinking... one of the funniest things about Trump is how he lies about verifiable public info (I never said china invented global warming) but admits to stuff that isn't (I don't pay taxes because I'm smart). such an amazing self own

<i>I'm trying to think of a single public figure as profoundly stupid as Trump who doesn't have some commensurate opposing quality</i>

Noxious, narcissistic, sociopathic bully, but he's OUR noxious, narcissistic, sociopathic bully. I suspect one doesn't have stray far from schoolyard psychology to understand the appeal for many of his supporters. They're the ones who thought mocking the current victim would spare the same fate for themselves.

http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/images/deadzone3.jpg

Well I mean...also a lot of it at this point has to be fear of essentially being exposed for having fallen for the con. It would be impossible to admit that they're wrong, so they have to go all in.

that would account for a chunk of his supporters, as would Sanpaku's theory, but you can't discount the faction of his base that blindly follow him and don't even see contradictions. our 7/11 sells lots of Hillary/Trump products side by side (including, weirdly, a hot sauce), but there was also this set of talking pens (or something). this guy behind me walked up to the counter and sees Trump's pen and is like "Ahh, that's my man", and then sees the Hillary pen and tells the employee "press the button! I bet she says 'I'm a liar!'", and looks around, like he expects everyone obviously agrees with him.

Trump's lies aren't even like, deceptive spin, they're these voluminous digests of obvious fabrications that any pencil-dick could find out in minutes via a simple Google search, but he has succeeded in selling to his base the idea of the media as this evil, mustache twirling monolithic entity which means all the facts that prove he is lying have been completely made up! Someone hacked his account and made up that China tweet and then screencapped it in anticipation he would delete it!

His base is also full of people who say things like "Snopes has liberal bias, ergo every thing they post is flawed and wrong".