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

On a previous iteration of this thread I am ashamed to admit that I compared the mouth of one of the Trumpspawn to that of a lamprey.

http://i.imgur.com/ktqpVJf.jpg

I denounce myself for contributing to the coarsening of the discourse that really ought to be about the many serious issues facing our nation.

Still: dude looks like a fuckin lamprey. Just sayin.

They are the McPoyles of the super rich

I do understand concerns about focusing on the physical appearance of political candidates, but it seems noteworthy when the candidate in question oddly goes out of his way to make himself more physically grotesque than he naturally is. Trump would probably just look like any other old dude if he didn't seem perpetually hellbent on outdoing Lon Chaney.

...and happy to talk about Carly Fiorina's face, Marco Rubio's stature, etc. etc.

As the Old Testament (I think) said, those who doth disheth it out meet best be prepared to taketh it. Or something like that.

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good morning!

Man, there are more Homer biblical misquotes for argumentation's sake than I remember:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PQVkq0HJGWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQVkq0HJGWI

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'this guy weiner is bad news and hillary should have had nothing to do with him (i know him very well btw)'

"Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information"--strange choice of verb, "allowing."

This does answer something I was trying to figure out the other day, the 'ei'/'ie' name I'd been misspelling.

I hear some milk went bad in Hillary's fridge. How could she be so negligent? What kind of incompetent farmers are supplying less than satisfactory products to her? She's "OK" with this? What if she treats the country in the same way she treats grocery shopping and management of her perishables? How can we trust her?

@mtaibbi Aug 27 Des Moines, IA
Trump donning the white ballcap look today. From a distance he looks like a gesticulating Pez dispenser.

What proximity did Weiner have to Clinton's sensitive/secret information? I was under the impression that Abedin worked for her but Weiner didn't?

does the fact that he sent dick pics to all of the highest Clinton Foundation donors answer your question?

"sensitive" information

WEiner had no proximity to anything, he and Abedin have apparently been split for months

the clinton foundation's secret fundraising weapon was AW's cock

"give us money or we'll keep sending you pictures of this thing"

kind of disgusting to contemplate the photos they sent to the Benghazi consulate in response to their pleas for help

What proximity did Weiner have to Clinton's sensitive/secret information? I was under the impression that Abedin worked for her but Weiner didn't?

i think trump assumes that weiner is such an incredible lover that abedin couldn't help but blurt out highly classified information after he sexed her into unprofessionalism

can you imagine what this man would do with Weiner penis photos?

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xp

at least we know it wasn't a stand down order

he's got that Shkreli-esque evil elf look

Trump essentially is the human equivalent of a dick pic.

A narcissistic and unconvincing expression of virility foisted upon people against their will, featuring a weird-looking mottled knob of flesh.

Checks out.

was this just a dicks out for Harambe thing ?

Trump essentially is the human equivalent of a dickcolonoscopy pic.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, August 29, 2016 1:35 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Checks out for Harambe?

kinda surprised he hasnt said some dumb shit about colin kaepernick yet

as Hil once voted to make flagburning illegal, let's ask her about Kaepernick

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That sounded so fucking stupid that I actually had to look it up, since I remembered nothing about it, and of course while it was a dumb, pandering bill, it stated:

Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; or (2) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag either belonging to the United States or on lands reserved for the United States and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag.[3]

In other words, even if someone burned a flag and a fight broke out, unless a prosecutor could prove in federal court that it was done "with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace," nobody would ever have been prosecuted under this law.

Also, since it was simply introduced on the Senate floor and never made it any farther, Hillary didn't "vote on" anything, you tiresome bore.

guys remember when flag burning was a hot campaign issue

a more innocent time

one of Scalia's rare honorable majority opinions was in Texas v Johnson.

I thoroughly expect Trump to eventually burn a flag onstage in a ham-handed attempt to Bialystock his way out of this whole 'running for president' quagmire he blundered into.

That sounded so fucking stupid that I actually had to look it up,

and now you sound so fucking stupid.

(it's the symbolism that HRC was voting for -- the police-state, jingoistic symbolism)

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"Hey guys... hey guys. Hey! Hey guys, listen... so I'm running for Vice President"

pleats

running for vp of pleats

veats

pence is such a joke, i had to like think for a few seconds to even remember what this boring asshole's name was

pence pleats in plea for veep seat

(it's the symbolism that HRC was voting for -- the police-state, jingoistic symbolism)

as you ought to know, many times votes are taken on bills that will never be made law in order to create a record that can be cited during a future campaign against a legislator. Hillary is enough of a practical politician that she side-stepped that booby trap ("my opponent voted in favor of flag-burning!!!"). There is nothing honorable about that, but the whole issue was a shameless contrivance for cheap political advantage and should not be taken seriously as indicative of her beliefs.

must i look up the Dem senators who were not practical politicians, and hence voted against that crap?

you know ppl make the same argument about her Iraq war vote (hopeless people)

guys remember when flag burning was a hot campaign issue

― Οὖτις, Monday, August 29, 2016 2:05 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am rewatching west wing at the moment and there is an entire episode about this (among many other things that seem vv naive now)

Morbz is right that the flag-burning vote was totally stupid. Fairly irrelevant to bring it up now tho, since it had no impact on anything and is indicative of nothing beyond Hillary being an overly-cautious politician, something everyone is already aware of.

Dem senators who were not practical politicians, and hence voted against that crap?

I suspect the Dem politicians who voted against it were A) from relatively safe Dem states and B) were not preparing to run for president in 2008. Hence, they were being just as practical as Hillary was. There's nothing honorable in this, as I said; it is calculating. And presidential ambitions require different calculations than re-election to a senate seat from NY.