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

誤訳侮辱, do you have any cute names for the shitbags who'll be in her Cabinet?

aren't cute/unfunny names for politicians more your bag?

ok, i'll go with "stevies"

prob too funny tho

lol at this golf swing https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/782984294557941760

lol

@JessicaTaylor
Ron Paul on MSNBC says Gary Johnson isn't a true libertarian, will likely vote for Jill Stein instead.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-complete-ish-history-of-donald-trumps-obsession-with-1787304637

imagine if bill clinton said, 'if chelsea weren't my daughter, perhaps i'd be dating her'

A reminder that drone strikes are only surgical compared to carpet bombing - other people (okay, including friends of friends of mine) work in the Ecuadorean Embassy so I'd rather not.

In other news, Trump's 5-D chess set still missing some pieces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-clinton-audio-supporters_us_57f11290e4b024a52d2f6852

is it wrong to feel sort of uncomfortable wrt all of the lol-ing and/or concern trolling over creepy things Trump has said about Ivanka? it seems kind of like Ivanka is collateral damage when ppl use this stuff to attack her father?

I imagine she's p damaged alright

She's collateral damage in the human shield sense.

http://deadspin.com/trump-supporters-spent-the-debate-tweeting-at-jon-leste-1787351028

Re: Trump's PA speech, I guess I can see where it might have utility when speaking in front of a national audience, but why tf, at this point, would Trump invoke Bernie over and over at his rallies? Am I making that mistake of thinking that anything resembling rational decision making is informing Trump's perpetual id-gasm?

(A thousand pardons for my own unwieldy gerund-gasm in that last sentence.)

I imagine he was trying to capitalize on that "bombshell" audio of Clinton trying to figure out how to reach Sanders voters, but he can't concentrate for more than a few seconds so he lost the plot and just resorted to his standard tactic of calling Sanders a loser.

that 'bombshell' was nothing, if you listened to the audio she's clearly sympathetic to people? who the fuck actually thought it was some kind of condemnation? GOP desperate and grasping for straws

meanwhile I can't even keep up with the bad things happening to trump lately. ptsd, foundation, taxes

there'll be three more in a few hours

I love how he's getting his debate prep from Giuliani and Christie, two losers who will do him absolutely no good

I wonder what will happen to those closest to him if Trump loses

It's amusing how one minute, Trmp'll be courting disaffected Sanders voters - "We feel your pain, we know she's crooked and everything is rigged; come over to the dark side" - and the next minute he's calling them pathetic losers who live in their parents' basements.

The dude evidently has no interest in courting voters who aren't already in his column, and no idea that that might have something to do with winning this here "election" thingy. It is weird and wonderful to see.

Everybody's telling me I need to do better with women. So clearly what I need is more tweets reiterating that Alicia Machado was REALLY a porker, I mean oink oink, seriously. Plus, Rosie O'Donnell? Bette Midler? Carly Fiorina? Yeah, total woofers. They had it coming, surely everyone agrees.

Christie will be found drowned in a vat of cheetos

xp

ailes will explode in a mass of slimy flesh and squid ink

who the fuck actually thought it was some kind of condemnation?

the bernie fan in my fb feed who'd rather trump won than hillary, fwiw

On the other hand maybe he'll teach a spin class

xxp

The headline characterizations of Hillary's remarks (which were uniformly negative) is likely the only thing a lot of people saw, esp if they're inclined to hate her.

imo the ptsd comment seems...not particularly bad. esp taken in context. maybe a little clumsy, and demonstrating a lack of understanding of PTSD, but it didn't seem disrespectful

ailes will explode in a mass of slimy flesh and squid ink

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, October 3, 2016 3:48 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think he was accused of using this as a pick up line verbatim back at the Fox offices

The "basement dweller" thing isn't about actually convincing Sanders die hards to vote for Trumo as much as just suppress potential votes for Hlllary. The only people I've seen view the leaked audio as anything other than sympathetic are right wing creeps and some of the more aggressively idiotic Stein supporters.

like, it wasn't even remotely close to the comments he made about john mccain, which remain the gold standard for insulting combat veterans

xp

aggressively idiotic Stein supporters

Redundant.

i'm not a Stein 'supporter' but shove it, you voting with the Bushes and Kissinger on yr moral high ground.

how do you reconcile Hil's 'empathy' -- sounds to me more like 'the poor misguided dears' -- with Bill Clinton's memorable springtime sneer, "Shoot every third person on Wall Street, things will be fine"? Don't these partners think alike?

post-election, Giuliani will return to his Crypt and resume providing pun-laden introductions to ironic tales of depravity and gore

xp

many xps evan: yeah, probably

Well, kiddies, looks like SHRILLARY really took a DUMP on TRUMP! But don't worry. I have a feeling he's going to be SERVER-ing her a fresh helping of deleted SCREAM-mails about her membership in the BENGHAZI Party any day now! EEEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE!

heh

if ppl haven't been, btw, highly recommend the ongoing trump tweet-play by owen ellickson, storified in this link: https://twitter.com/onlxn/status/773652237125955584

i don't think that guy is that funny

lol chuck grassley follows him.

it's hit or miss, def, and also weirdly insists on humanizing ppl like boehner and chris fucking christie (which, lol), but the ratio of hits to misses is ultimately favorable imo

Well, kiddies, looks like SHRILLARY really took a DUMP on TRUMP! But don't worry. I have a feeling he's going to be SERVER-ing her a fresh helping of deleted SCREAM-mails about her membership in the BENGHAZI Party any day now! EEEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE!

― Our Salads Are Now Almost Entirely Blood-Free! (Old Lunch),

I follow people on social media who write like this

Who better than a horror host to teach one how to scaremonger?

an EC horror comic about Trump writes itself

http://deadspin.com/trump-supporters-spent-the-debate-tweeting-at-jon-leste-1787351028

― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, October 3, 2016 3:18 PM (one hour ago)

Bigger Putz
Imgivingthisguyaplusone
10/03/16 10:17am
Cardinals fans, amiright?

you voting with the Bushes and Kissinger on yr moral high ground.

So far from claiming the moral high ground, most here are simply claiming HRC represents a higher and drier part of the swamp than Donald occupies.

yes yes, but Gorp up there nevertheless sprays his automatic fire

Clinton up nine points in Colorado: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-clinton-holds-double-digit-lead-over-trump-in-colorado/

can someone explain the significance of Colorado to this simple Canadian? i keep seeing it get brought up.

swing state, has shifted from GOP to Dem in last few elections due to changing demographics etc.

Also: Weed

such a bummer to see trump up in ohio ... what the fuck? then i read this http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/us/politics/ohio-campaign-trump-clinton.html

Ohio has not fallen into step with the demographic changes transforming the United States, growing older, whiter and less educated than the nation at large.

As the place where Appalachia meets the Midwest, and where industrial centers arose not far from a vast farm belt, Ohio has prided itself on being a version of America writ small. Its immigration patterns reflected that, with New Englanders resettling here, followed by Germans and Eastern Europeans. At the same time, Southerners, white and black, crossed the Ohio River in search of freedom and opportunity.

But even some of the state’s proudest boosters acknowledge that Ohio, which is nearly 80 percent white, is decreasingly representative of contemporary America.

“Ohio, like a melting iceberg, has slowly been losing its status as the country’s bellwether,” said Michael F. Curtin, a Democratic state legislator and former Columbus Dispatch editor who is an author of the state’s authoritative “Ohio Politics Almanac.”

He continued: “It’s a slow melt. But we have not captured any appreciable Hispanic population, and there has been very little influx of an Asian population. When you look at the diversity of America 30 to 40 years ago, Ohio was a pretty close approximation of the country. It no longer is.”

What is less clear than the racial trends is whether the state will continue to grow more forbidding for Democrats in future presidential races.

That could be determined by the choices the national parties make after the election, particularly whether Republicans continue Mr. Trump’s project of shifting from a business-friendly to a more populist approach on immigration and trade.

“If the Republican Party looks more like the Trump coalition and the Democratic Party looks more like the Obama coalition, then the states Democrats must win will no longer be Ohio and Iowa,” said David Wilhelm, a manager of Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign and a former Democratic national chairman who lives in suburban Columbus. “They will be Virginia, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia.”

and this nice little bit about jim traficant which i thought was otm

Mike Dawson, a Republican strategist who runs a website on Ohio’s political history, said Mr. Trump would be competitive in two counties in Youngstown’s Mahoning Valley that the Democratic presidential candidate has carried in every election for 60 years with the exception of 1972.

It is no coincidence that the same region kept re-electing Representative James A. Traficant Jr. from 1985 to 2002, despite his routine flouting of ethics. Mr. Traficant, a longtime Democrat who died in 2014, was known for mixing inflammatory rhetoric, a squirrel-like toupee and a hard-edge populism.

“There is not a dime’s worth of difference, as George Wallace once said, between Jim Traficant and Donald Trump,” said Mr. Eckart, whose district abutted Mr. Traficant’s. “They say anything, do anything, just act outrageous, and people just kind of like that.”

cuyahoga county (where i live) is the democratic stronghold of the state and there are definitely v progressive parts. obv cleveland is about 53% black too. but there are a lot of working class whites in the area too that might vote differently this time idk