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Getting involved in a partisan contest didn't seem to make much sense, and with Donald's campaign in the toilet, Putin's gambit seems ill-advised. Hillary will not be amused, though an effective non-counterproductive response is hard to come up with.
Another heavy data point behind this year's disgruntlement, especially for white males without college.
Ignore at our peril.
Another burst of offensive remarks by Trump emerged Saturday as CNN aired a review of hours of newly uncovered audio from shock-jock Howard Stern’s show. Trump spoke of his daughter Ivanka’s breasts, three-way sex and not dating women who are older than 35. He also described barging in on nude Miss Universe beauty pageant contestants in their dressing room, characterizing his visits as inspections.
So it was a setup? One can only hope. So far things moving well the last 2 weeks. Tomorrow round 2.
Just like Roger Ailes downfall was unpredicted, maybe Drudge has reached the end of his sainthood and every-present influence on muckraking innuendo that's the backchannel for *ALL* the news outlets, maybe he's just pushed one lever too many in conflating hurricanes and liberal conspiracy. You can only run the same sfhtick 3 or 4 thousand times before people get wise to you.
Too much about his revolution (thanks, Ruskies); not enough about how capitalism would evolve. What would he predict going forward?
Well, here is one of the stories that pussygrabber stepped on this weekend...
"Conservative US blogger Matt Drudge has kicked up a storm by suggesting that the warnings over Hurricane Matthew are a government conspiracy to make "an exaggerated point on climate" change."
The election coverage has been non-stop. until now.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/braving-hurricane-matthew-at-a-florida-bar-780954691949
Now, like an SNL skit, weather people are standing outside in Florida with rain coats and such and the satellite images loom constantly on the tellie and....
The VP debate is dead.
The latest bullshite from Trump is dead.
And we have 30 days? to go.
30 days and Americans will choose between a Stateswoman and an idiot?
This hurricane is a big frickin deal.
And I do not wish to minimize its impact.
And anytime the msm takes away from Trump air-time; well I am all for it.
See you Sunday!
It was more of the same on Thursday night in Trump’s last true chance at a dry-run ahead of a debate to be watched by tens of millions of people. “This has nothing to do with Sunday,” Trump insisted of his New Hampshire stop. “It’s like they make you into a child.”
It was more of the same on Thursday night in Trump’s last true chance at a dry-run ahead of a debate to be watched by tens of millions of people. “This has nothing to do with Sunday,” Trump insisted of his New Hampshire stop. “It’s like they make you into a child.”
Looking at the graph 1 screen below (can't link as image), in previous cycles it's taken Trump 2 months to bring Hillary lead bursts back to a tie. With 1 month out, that would leave Hillary still up quite a bit if works as before.
(nothing of course makes this actually cyclical - this could be a final break of Donald's chances, or somehow he could bounce back much quicker in some way - with 2 debates left a Hillary gaffe or some big GOP spin might do that - but typically things take time - better to be Hillary than Trump at this point)
And yeah, the title refers to that Mayan calendar thing that was supposed to change all mankind - who knows, maybe it did and we just didn't notice.... Except for guys who liked slaughtering virgins on pyramid altars, I don't know how they were supposed to be cheerleaders for peace...
Worth remembering when you start taking it all too seriously - they simply like making shit up. And that's the press. The GOP just followed suit.
Official Washington has a new “group think” that is even more dangerous than the one that led to the Iraq War. This one calls for U.S. escalation of conflicts against Syria and nuclear-armed Russia.
Yep, there's too much good news, so we just make shit up to feel challenged. Thus the relatively hollow debates of this year and last. Sure, housing's expensive and student loans suck. But besides police brutality against blacks and the war in Syria we're largely ignoring, what real is going on? Not much - let's shut it down already.
Article/survey is interesting for takes on attitudes & experience of millenials, black professionals, etc.
Also, 538 profiles the white women vote. Kind of.
Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.
U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.
The level of outright brainwashing by repeated overdoses of rightwing crazy over 20-30 years is finally reaping its just rewards. How many people in America are Alex Jones-level crazy? Do we think we can have a real dialogue with them? Not just deplorable - many are certifiable. Talk slowly, calmly while I get the net.
There's been a Mainstream Media for as long as I remember focused on women (thanks Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown, et al). Maybe this is the year it finds its influence on the rise, 60 years after Hefner mixed politics, sex and culture to rip open the male side of the newsstand... (search out a long interview with Frank Sinatra as one of many examples how intelligent the culural/political side once was).
Okay, as our OGD notes, more and more he offers up a "Fuck Off" to those who offend - but as we get older, we're less inclined to say "Fuck Off and Die" - after all, we're not quite sure where *we* will end up, and populating it with our least favorite acquaintances is simply an unpalatable postmortem encounter that could last, em, fucking forever.
So instead, the contest is to tell them to Fuck Off to Mars - at least for 2 years, probably longer (and well, there is a chance they might not survive, but I'm guessing there's a second Bardo or Hades or simple Pet Cemetery for anyone past zero G).
Alright team, have at it - who should we send off rockets blazing, and for what (preferably humorous or engaging) reason)?
Especially tickled that his sister is named "Maryanne (Trump) Barry", as in almost he of "The bitch set me up" fame.
There's a there there, but if a state legislature falls in the woodwork and no one hears - did it exist?