I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

Unanimously, these African-American Evangelical preachers all acknowledge that Donald Trump is colorblind when it comes to race

skeptical of this -- surely dr. bornstein would have mentioned it

it really is beyond parody. i'm not sure whether to laugh or vomit. doing both sounds dangerous.

I don't know why but that goofy Dr. picture has a Joe Walshian vibe, like

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0812/walsh_joe_mad_g_mp_576.jpg

this is like http://www.kellerumc.com/cr-site/media/medieval-times.jpg

America probably does look like a third world country from the lofty heights of Trump Tower. Is that a smokestack in the distance? Yuck. Terrible. You'd never see anything like that in my America.

I want someone to interview an actual four year old with questions roughly analogous to those answered by Trump and to then compare the clarity of their respective responses.

Nothing scientific about this but I notice that the comments on even that Yahoo story about Michael Cohen above are mostly "Trump is buts this campaign is a dumpster fire", and generally ime I consider Yahoo commenters to mostly be racist moronic yahoos

Well TBF Cohen is as offputting a person as Trump has trotted out from his menagerie of grotesques. Can't imagine him not hardcore turning off everyone but the most hateful of Trump's diehards.

Wait until he finds a role for Milo.

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqGhnHBWIAE5YDd.jpg

https://twitter.com/Prof_Retro/status/766071335592296448

Drew Linzer's forecast is out!

http://elections.dailykos.com/app/elections/2016

when i was young and went to school
there were certain wars that we won any way we could
by pouring our munitions upon everything they did
exposing every weakness however carefully hidden
sad!

‏@realDonaldTrump
They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!

http://i.makeagif.com/media/8-01-2015/e0ly-o.gif

Cohen reminds me of a schlubby character from sitcom/pop culture so badly but I can't remember who

it is really paining me

the sidekick of a terrible character who is always being shat upon by his master (so like real life no doubt)

Otis from Superman?

OK this is who he reminds me of

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/scrubs/images/3/31/S6-HQ-Ted.jpg

LOL - yes!

Cohen reminds me of a schlubby character from sitcom/pop culture so badly but I can't remember who

he reminds me of ross

Ross + Hank Kingsley

dudes i got it it was ted from scrubs

but yes to ross and hank too

god rip garry shandling you could have made an amazing sitcom based on the Trump campaign

Was thinking of Barry Zuckerkorn myself

re: that Mr. Brexit thing, an FB comment from a friend-of-a-friend:

I have become something of a Trump whisperer. I think I know what he meant.

In the weeks prior to the Brexit vote, almost all the polls had the "Stay" side up by 1 - 3 points. But the actual vote came out with the "Leave" side winning by 4 points.

So I think Trump means like the Brexit leave vote, he is being under counted in the polls, and on election day he will pull of a surprise upset win that will stun the world.

Interesting analogy. Only differences are he is down an average of 6 - 7 points nationwide, 6 - 9 points in crucial battleground states he must win, this is America not Britain and every other thing.

I wonder how Trump orders a sandwich vs. how he makes one vs. how he describes the quality of the result in either scenario

Or, hell, maybe he meant Mr. Breakfast.

http://orangeandgray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tumblr_lqpz963v1H1qmhwqfo1_500_large.jpg

When initially asked about Brexit in an interview, Trump didn't know what the interviewer was even talking about. So I think he actually meant it more like "They will soon be calling me MR. HUH? HMM."

xp
that must be it. no surprise that his dominant takeaway from Brexit has to do with polling

Dr Drew now commenting on Hillary's health - right-wingers conflating "America's most trusted physician" tag as some kind of actual ranking.

http://gawker.com/why-1785443112

I'm not committing myself until we hear from *all* the experts. Why has Doctor Demento remained silent?

Dr Dre took off his headphones and confirmed "we remain concerned", while Eminem appeared somber in the background

Donald Trump’s Strange New Attack On Hillary Clinton Echoes White Supremacists

In a major foreign policy speech on Monday, which offered few details and many inaccuracies, GOP nominee Donald Trump attacked his Democratic opponent’s stance on immigration and refugees by comparing her to the chancellor of Germany. “Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel,” he said.

He fired off two press releases that same day calling Clinton “America’s Merkel,” and took to Twitter to warn of the dangers of #AmericasMerkel.

The line of attack “baffled” political analysts, who wondered why Trump would possibly think referencing a largely-unknown European leader would help him win votes in the United States. A Pew survey last year found that “Germany is not on the radar of many Americans,” with more than a third reporting “no opinion” of Merkel at all.

But there is at least one group of Americans well familiar with Merkel, her immigration policies, and her connections to Hillary Clinton: white supremacists.

To white nationalist communities that fervently support Trump, Merkel has been a popular villain. Sites like the Daily Stormer, the White Genocide Project, American Renaissance, and The White Resister have posted constantly about her since the Syrian refugee crisis began escalating earlier this year. They have accused her of making a “deliberate attempt to turn Germany from a majority White country into a minority White country.” They have called her a “crazy childless bitch,” “Anti-White Traitor,” and “patron saint of terrorists.” They have asked in articles about her, “Why would you allow a woman to run a country, unless you were doing it as a joke?”

The Trump campaign itself is a joke, but this shit really, really worries me.

Drew Linzer's forecast is out!

Minnesota Hillary Clinton 87% Donald Trump 13% LEAN D

what threshold do you have to cross to go from LEAN to LIKELY because this seems silly

xp: I'd like to say I was surprised by that but... I'm not

As noted, most uninformed Americans probably have no idea who Merkel is, and I'd wager that most Americans who are aware of Merkel are likely to have a largely positive view of her (I'd happily swap her out with Clinton, honestly). So, yeah, he's catering his message to a very particular audience. Piece of shit.

The line of attack “baffled” political analysts, who wondered why Trump would possibly think referencing a largely-unknown European leader would help him win votes in the United States.

Crazy that Angela Merkel could be described as a 'largely-unknown European leader'.

(xp) ha, OK.

My main info point on Merkel is a borderline socialist friend of mine in Berlin who thinks she is absolutely terrible.

She's, uh, not very popular in the Greece.

http://cdn1.theweek.co.uk/sites/theweek/files/styles/16x8_990/public/athens-merkel-poster-0910.jpg?itok=r4a6nrWP

the Greece? Sorry, channelling Flann O'Brien there.

I won't link to another 538 piece on how poorly Trump's doing, but I love this sentence: "How do we know that the rest of the electorate isn’t craving a Trumpier Trump?" A Trumpier Trump might be too Trumpy for even his Trumpiest supporters.

I regularly read news publications with an international focus but I'd guess that I'm an outlier among my American brethren. Merkel seems like one of the most sober European (and possibly world) leaders atm.

Just from hearing the mentions of Merkel in US press I'd imagine to an American she comes across as a tough operator, mainly because of the Greece situation

She runs a tight ship. Italy's been trying to flaunt EU regulations and initiate a public bailout of their failing banks but she's been one of the louder protest voices.

Crazy that Angela Merkel could be described as a 'largely-unknown European leader'.

For even the average "likely voter," my guess is that that is a fair if depressing characterization.

the average voter might think she was on "Family Matters."

Google did not disappoint.

http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.187884428.5979/raf,750x1000,075,t,fafafa:ca443f4786.u7.jpg