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

has anyone 'shopped old Dilbert strips featuring the boss character to put in Trump quotes yet

“You’re unsuspecting,” Trump said. “Right now, you say to your wife: ‘Let’s go to a movie after Trump.’ But you won’t do that because you’ll be so high and so excited that no movie is going to satisfy you. Okay? No movie. You know why? Honestly? Because they don’t make movies like they used to — is that right?”

I strongly suspect this phrasing is a journalistic shortcut to avoid the possibility of being called out later, even if the attendance is clearly monochrome according to mortal eyeballs:

He urged his mostly white crowd of supporters

i went to work out at the university student gym this morning and there were a bunch of large pro-trump messages written in sidewalk chalk on the plaza out front, including "TRUMP", "Make America Great Again" and "Build That Wall" in the nicest most bland handwriting imaginable. tried to just ignore it but man it made me anxious. what the fuck is wrong with people? i've never wanted to fight someone more badly.

Has he reacted, or did they take his phone away again?

oh. he's reacted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/02/as-news-of-trumps-taxes-broke-he-goes-off-script-at-a-rally-in-pennsylvania/?tid=sm_fb

Anyone else sense the tiniest whiff of self-doubt creeping into Trump's voice here? Am I just imagining it?

In one of those art improves on life dealios, Alec Baldwin's impression on SNL does a great job of expressing exactly what you're getting at

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nQGBZQrtT0 because I realize that, like me, nobody watches SNL live anymore)

"My supporters have the nicest handwriting, the blandest, it's unbelievable. They've chalked all the best sidewalks."

Trump's self-doubt:

“You have 38 days to make every dream you ever dreamed for your country come true,” Trump said. “Do not let this opportunity slip away or be wasted. You will never ever have this chance again. Not going to happen again… You have one magnificent chance.”

xxpost "you're being mean to me tonight, Coltrane"

why can't Trump be replaced with Kenny Loggins for prez. Loggins, man.

would you say that 2008 obama, campaigning on the public-option version of the scheme, was basically doing the equivalent of "build the wall"?

there's a difference between campaigning on it and having a line about it somewhere on your website. obama didn't campaign on it - or really any specific policy - whereas sanders had a very issues-centric campaign. during the primary I had sanders bros in my fb feed trying to sell people on free college, $15 min wage - 'these are real things we're gonna get under president sanders'. the fact that he appealed to a lot of people who aren't engaged in politics made a platform-centric campaign even more disingenuous, since a good portion of his followers weren't going to be able to put these goals in context.

The fact that ordinary voters tend to blame whoever is currently president when the economy takes a downturn shows how little they understand the powers a president has. This is just political reality and campaigns reflect this.

you're right bernie is bad

A reminder that when Trump assented to a Comedy Central roast in 2011, the list of topics explicitly forbidden by him (when jokes about him wanting to fuck Ivanka were explicitly permitted!) was that he was not as rich as he said he is.

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, October 2, 2016 1:13 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Slight correction: this was the ONLY topic considered off-limits. Which tells me that everyone at every possible opportunity should be impugning the likelihood of Trump having immediate access to anything more than, say, $25,000. And sit back and wait for the impending stroke.

The one time I laughed out loud last night watching the SNL thing was where Hillary voluntarily gives up her two minutes for Trump to say whatever he wants, and the first words out of his mouth are "The thing about the blacks..."

Am I crazy or was Trump slurring like crazy during his speech in PA?

like John Rocker (racist) or like John Rocker (drunk)?

Am I crazy or was Trump slurring like crazy during his speech in PA?

His voice was clear, but his sentences were the most fragmented they've ever been, I think. It was almost like a form of aphasia, it was so bad, and he couldn't stay on one subject for more than two sentences at a time. He was almost literally spitting random words out. The only word for it is "Palin-esque."

Were the coltrane/jazz man remarks a reference to anything in particular?

Racism.

Also, during the PA speech, it sounded very much like he was encouraging his supporters on 11/8 to first vote and then to monitor the voting in 'certain other areas'.

Were the coltrane/jazz man remarks a reference to anything in particular?

Royal Tenenbaums

Were the coltrane/jazz man remarks a reference to anything in particular?

Mostly what Old Lunch says, also partly Holt/Colt, I think.

Also, during the PA speech, it sounded very much like he was encouraging his supporters on 11/8 to first vote and then to monitor the voting in 'certain other areas'.

― Our Salads Are Now Almost Entirely Blood-Free! (Old Lunch), Sunday, October 2, 2016 4:50 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounded like that bc he specifically told his supporters to do that

not the first time he's said that

this whole "the mic was rigged" "the elections will be rigged" bullshit is like straight out of elementary school. didn't fred trump teach his son that no one likes a whining whiner?

august: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/donald-trump-pennsylvania-cheating/index.html

think they should do the opposite - spend hours monitoring the voting. if they take all day doing it that's ok too

Were the coltrane/jazz man remarks a reference to anything in particular?

Royal Tenenbaums

I was thinking the same thing. I had completely forgotten that Baldwin was the narrator.

He's such a poor loser. It's unbelievable. Just the poorest.

Trump might be the first person to attempt to squat in the Oval Office come January

Ah thanks everybody, was thinking racism at first but figured it was pretty arcane if so (never saw RT)

the Gene Hackman character had a similar tendency toward using off-kilter racist epithets including "Coltrane"

it is a reference to RT but the line in RT is a joke about racism (racism as the wacky non sequitur it appears as to a white texan font fetishist, anyway) xp

I only watched the skit once, but first he calls him "jazzman" or something, later "Coltrane."

Makes me think of "Hey you! Haircut!" from French Connection

You, Flock of Seagulls!

Here's another clue for you all, from The Basement Dwellers, Wikileaks on Tuesday....sleep well, my pets!

This has been a horrible week for you.

Ohhh about that

http://heatst.com/politics/october-surprise-thwarted-wikileaks-cancels-highly-anticipated-tuesday-announcement-due-to-security-concerns/

...and after Iago spent so long working on that post. Sleep well, pet.

Tbf i think theyre just trying to soften the blow that it is going to be an underwhelming reveal

She didn't pay her CDHQ bill in the '90s.

How did I fail to notice for so long that Iago Galdston is a total douche?

(And no, Iago, I'm not calling you a douche because you're anti-Hillary or pro-Trump. I've said a number of times that I would honestly welcome some more conservative voices in these threads to provide a perspective that differs from the generally left-leaning ILX consensus, because I think it's healthy for intelligent people with differing views to bump heads and acknowledge viewpoints that may differ from our own but which have their own validity and which are informed by a range of experiences outside of our own. I'm calling you a douche, Iago, because you're behaving like a douche.)

Iago is not conservative, he's just a moron.

I'm seeing a lot of Trump ads on TV all of a sudden, and I love it, because I live in NJ - he's basically pouring money down the drain if he's advertising in the NY/NJ media market.

I suspect this is because of his best, smartest people, a lot of them only have media sales contacts in the NY/NJ region, and NY being too expensive, they went with buying time where you live. Their "KPM" in management-speak is just burning the money - they don't trust the polls!

I thought iago was a berner

So some Trumpers from Altoona or whatever are supposed to blow their whole day on driving to North Philly to pointlessly pretend that they're "monitoring" an urban polling place.

They will imagine vague but serious "irregularities" that they'll breathlessly report to... uh, maybe to Breitbart? Or to Trump HQ? Which will... tweet about them?

There's a missing Underpants Gnome step in there between the monitoring and the victory.

"HEY THEY'RE VOTING SUSPICIOUSLY IN THERE"