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

it'll take a larger contingent of forward thinking republicans than exists on earth at this time to gather sufficient momentum to push the party away from obstruction-as-platform before any meaningful changes can come to the gop approach to governance.

I just think it could very well be every GOP rep for themselves. There won't be any control. Deals with individual reps might be possible.

Dems can't bring a bill to the floor without the Speaker, so idk where these deals would happen. Ryan has two options: 1) jettison the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus and rely on Dem votes to get a majority for compromise bills or 2) attempt to keep his caucus unified with an explicitly osbtructionist policy with the goal of cementing his rep as the sole defender of freedom against the evil socialist feminazi matriarchy for the 2018 midterms and the 2020 Prez election, for which he wants the nomination.

Which of these do you really think is more likely, cuz it isn't even a contest in my mind

even if the GOP coalition falls apart as a national party apparatus, rules of the House are still going to be in place, and they invest all the power in the Speaker for the majority party. There's no Speaker-less (or majority-less) version of the House.

Just going to leave this here..

UKIP's Nigel Farage to speak at Donald Trump rally

CALL HIM MR BREXIT (for some reason)

Farage is an appropriate speaker. Good model of Trump's intention: start a ruckus, fuck up the country, (wipes hands) 'Welp...looks like my job is done here!'

whole lotta talk about the clinton foundation(S) today

this one's hard to summarize but it's festooned with links and the subheads are grim-funny enough:

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/clinton-foundation-investigation-update-key-details-about-financial-political

will bunch summarizes:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/What-does-Hillary-have-to-do-for-it-to-be-corruption.html?mobi=true

this twitter thread (don't know who it is) gets pretty messy but there's links throughout

https://twitter.com/ActualFlatticus/status/767871619213692928

seems p clear to me that a president can't have a fundraising institution of any kind up and running. that goes for someone running for president too. and a secretary of state, if u think abt it

CF defenders sound a bit like Nixon fans in the '70s snarling "They all do it!"

Nixon broke the law.

I took four years of Latin in high school. I'm pretty sure that's what quid pro quo means.

whew! I was worried.

to quote Mr Bumble, "the law is a ass"

that's your funeral

(I prefer the musical version of Oliver)

Been in Alaska, no election presence. What's new?

Morbz has endorsed Hillary

I searched on "conscious capitalism" and it isn't what I thought, but it's balls all the same.

no, balls has endorsed Morbz

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters.html

a few eye-popping things in here

“He doesn’t understand that people aren’t stupid, and they can clearly see what he’s doing and saying,” Mr. White said. “Whether or not I have an issue with how Democrats have dealt with the black community, or with Hillary, I’m still not stupid.”

Ooo, Elon James White got quoted

'You're living in poverty, whole families crammed into small high rise apartments, JJ off doing whatever the hell it is JJ does. Shameful. When I'm president, you'll all be moving up to the east side.'

disappointingly, Farage appears to have shaved his moustache off

It's funny how the Clinton Foundation "no aspiring POTUS should ever help run a charity - especially not that bitch" line seems to be exclusively the territory of Bernie dead-enders and Stein Baraka types, but the Trump camp has been trying to stick with the "she can't climb a ladder without taking a nap" or whatever the health shit is supposed to be about is all the rage in Trump Country.

My hypothesis is that the CF charity / corruption angle hasn't made it to the white supremacist cesspools Trump's "oppo research" teams hang out in so they're just a bit behind

lol trying to do dad shit while simulposting to ILX makes for really bad run-ons

Clinton's social media team is fucking on it. This image started making the rounds today; it's from Maine:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqpYO0TWIAAw0Vj.jpg

http://vagendaofmanocide.com redirects to the Clinton donation page.

lolz vagenda of manocide

too good to pass up

mar-a-lago vagenda est

lol (local journo):

https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb/status/768620720620498944

Michael Brodkorb
‏@mbrodkorb

UPDATE: Total confusion among #MNGOP officials on process for Trump being on MN ballot - absolutely possible they could've missed deadline.

they are apparently big fans of provocative storefront signs judging by their page.

Had to check--was hoping MN meant Montana, but no.

At least MN has more electoral votes than MT, but Trump was never going to get them.

woulda been a good black eye tho

Here's the gun shop with that sign. Dude has been doing this for years, sorta like Starbucks misspelling your name for social media reasons

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gulf-of-Maine-Gunsmithing/142237115821818.

lolz vagenda of manocide

are you of the manocide vagendas?

(spoken in an irish lilt)

Clinton's social media team is fucking on it. This image started making the rounds today; it's from Maine:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqpYO0TWIAAw0Vj.jpg

http://vagendaofmanocide.com redirects to the Clinton donation page.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The image was posted on the establishment's Facebook page in 2014, so it's likely been known to Clinton's staff for a while.

this one is on point

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202521393428804&set=a.10202521392748787.1073741835.1614556645&type=3&theater

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Item one on the vagenda: becoming Presidentata of the Uterus States.

Then the long march through the manstitutions.

Then the ovarythrow of the dicktatorship.

Only then can we begin the Hillocaust.

didn't realize morbz had retired to Maine

I support manocide

The shit in question drinks whisky with generals

I've drank whisky with a general, and I'm mostly a pacifist. I don't turn down booze.

tough but fair

I have voted for two more women for president than most of you millennial pussies

I saw Trump shaking Farage's hand after his speech, so there's at least one rumour disproved.

well tbf the rumor was only that his hands are very small

Maybe Trump is less phobic about handshaking since his doctor confirmed that he tested positive for everything.

ah, "I keel you with my HANDSHAKE!!"