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

If it helps, I would imagine that he's sculpted his pubic mound into a little replica of the immovable helmet on his scalp.

EDITORIAL OBSERVER
Pence and Kaine Face-Off in Farmville
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
It won’t rival the Trump-Clinton rumble for excitement, but this debate could be an important comparison of policy visions.

lol "policy visions" sure, fuck you nytimes

xpost -- Thank you for nothing.

You can see his little Pence?

xxp

lol "policy visions" sure, fuck you nytimes

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It's like a certain type of mirage

so that John Nolte's position is basically "those Never Trump people are completely correct, how dare they?!?"

Pretty much.

I feel like a lot of the Trump voters are survivors of social trauma and economic hardship and a lot of their cultural identification has become based on those points.

Perhaps that is part of the phenomenon, but I believe that more Trump supporters are actually pretty well-off. They just culturally identify more with blue-collar and rural people (as long as they're white) than with educated and urban "elites." Like my father-in-law, who has a six-figure income, a nice exurban house, and loads of guns, but who can't ever stop thinking about how much the Obamaconomy has screwed over some hypothetical white male victim, and being incensed on this guy's behalf.

They view themselves as _sympathetic_ to the plight of those left behind by the current economy (as long as they're white), and feel vicarious outrage on their behalf (again, as long as they're white).

If these guys' grievance were truly for all those who have been left behind economically, they'd have been able to muster some outrage on behalf of black and brown victims as well. But no: it's only the poor poor Pennsylvanian steelworker that brings them to tears of concern.

So the economic case for Trump supporters tends to really just be a racial grievance dressed up in Springsteenian clothing.

but I believe that more Trump supporters are actually pretty well-off

this has been repeatedly proven by demographic surveys iirc

Oh, for sure, there's a lot of cultural identification and to an extent, multi-generational guilt from people who think of themselves as salt of the earth working types while espousing policies that fuck over those people and benefit themselves.

they're the people who depopulated those towns

how about building a factory in one of those towns or offering to help relocate a family from that area instead of crying about how they're getting fucked over

Naw, they're too busy making ugly-ass ties in China (HEYO!)

A local columnist shakes his finger:

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/glenn-garvin/article105789371.html

Starting piece with Jim Morrison quote = me closing the browser window.

"THE SNAKE IS LONG! SEVEN MILES!” Jim Morrison once boasted, but this election might have been a little too long even for the self-styled Lizard King

Ride it then

I was gonna make a MOJO RISING joke but

he's a self-satisfied anti-liberal who leans conservative with whom I once argued on a colleague's Facebook wall because he refuses to use a debit card.

Keillor Keilloring:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-question-no-one-is-asking-about-donald-trump/2016/10/04/fbdace14-8a47-11e6-b24f-a7f89eb68887_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.60222110ea89

You have to worry what his campaign is doing to his businesses. Angry unemployed white people are not a great demographic for high-end stuff. Maybe instead of selling luxury condos and golf memberships, he’ll have to turn to trailer parks and tattoo parlors. Trump Pizza. Don’s Used RVs. I’m serious. From what I’ve been told, I don’t know if it’s true, his swanky new hotel down the street from the White House is practically deserted and the employees are required to wear tourist clothing and hang around the lobby pretending to be customers and engage in light-hearted conversation and order expensive drinks which are actually Lipton’s tea on the rocks. I’ve heard this from various people.

Weird Scenes Inside Goldman Sachs

His businesses are already tanking hard and when he loses he'll wind up a total failure

I wonder if Pence will get asked about this at the debate: http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/10/mike-pence-refugees-court/502730/

From what I’ve been told, I don’t know if it’s true,

lol

when did Garrison Keillor become an interesting political scribe and not just some annoying old fuck on sunday morning who i can't wait to turn off?

And now another Trump Twitter champion despairs:

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/783360921385181184

So the crypt-keeper was in town today to speak to the Cleveland Police Union and the FOP after they endorsed Trump. Now there are BLM and other protestors outside the police union hall.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ct9BqgpXgAAaiKx.jpg

Don't understand how someone can be a Christian and not support giving sanctuary to refugees. I can understand how a host of other deplorable, intolerant positions can be reconciled with the New Testament, but the parable of the Good Samaritan is pretty clear cut.

when did Garrison Keillor become an interesting political scribe and not just some annoying old fuck on sunday morning who i can't wait to turn off?

he's always been like this; his brand of laconic acerbicness just fell completely out of fashion for a while

Bill Clinton, not helping:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a49240/bill-clinton-obamacare/

What a fucking dumbass

that social media leak of obama trying to herd bill back on the plane from a photo op in israel, your buzzfeed type media unanimously declared the whole thing 'cute' but damn if you couldn't see a current of pure contempt between these two men

man fuck the cleveland police union

Bill's jealous

Xp

From what I’ve been told, I don’t know if it’s true, his swanky new hotel down the street from the White House is practically deserted and the employees are required to wear tourist clothing and hang around the lobby pretending to be customers and engage in light-hearted conversation and order expensive drinks which are actually Lipton’s tea on the rocks. I’ve heard this from various people.

Quality trolling.

fuck every police union xps

It really pisses me off that when Kasich got Ohio SB5 passed, removing the power of public employee unions to bargain collectively or to charge free-rider fees, it was Democrats who led the charge to get it repealed. But all because their precious fucking fee-fees are hurt by BLM, they'll gladly support a person who will strip their union power so fast their heads will spin.

Bill Clinton, not helping:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a49240/bill-clinton-obamacare/

― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish),

our favorite misanthrope posted this in the Bill Clinton thread

Ah yes, the "no true Christian" fallacy

Don't understand how someone can be a Christian and not support giving sanctuary to refugees

Easy, when "Christian" acts as a political/tribal identifier sorta divorced from religious origin, meaning mainly "white evangelical suburban southern Republican"

I like this guy

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/jack-mitnick-donald-trump-taxes-brilliance-229114

Meanwhile, happy and well-adjusted people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-clinton-gains-trump-supporters-seem-to-hate-her-more-than-ever/2016/10/04/07470fd6-871b-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html

But that's surely the only time Trump has taken credit for someone else's work. Surely.

Feel pretty strongly that if you dropped Trump, alone, on a deserted island replete with everything a halfway crafty person would need to survive and thrive for the rest of his life, dude would be dead in a week.

Trump supporters have long worn shirts or buttons labeling Clinton a “b----,” but there’s a new T-shirt popping up at recent events with an even harsher message: “I wish Clinton had married O.J.,” the former football star who was acquitted in 1995 on charges that he murdered his ex-wife.

topical!

It's so cool that so many people have found a thing to rally around beyond their shared status as the human equivalent of syphilis.

http://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-10-at-2.02.19-PM.png

Magical!

https://gop.com/governor-mike-pences-top-5-moments-from-the-debate/

The consensus was clear after the dust settled, Mike Pence was the clear winner of the debate.

lol @ "after the dust settled"

looool