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I'd say fits and starts--a

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 03:50:38 +0000

In reply to Every blow to his image at

I'd say fits and starts--a gush and then a trickle and then another gush. Like rain in October.

Every blow to his image at

Janicket — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 02:10:56 +0000

In reply to Poll: "74 percent heard of

Every blow to his image at this point peels off another segment of voters. Taken individually each one may not be that YUUUUUUUUUGE, but aggregated.... Ah, that drains his pool of likely voters, drip by dribble by trickle by... well, his pool will not run dry in a great gusher, but each drop pulls others in its wake, does it not?

Poll: "74 percent heard of

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:41:40 +0000

In reply to Death by Counterpunch

Poll: "74 percent heard of Trump’s comments about Machado — and it appears to have hurt Trump's standing with women. Fifty-five percent of women said it gives them a less favorable view of Trump, and 43 percent of voters said the incident makes them less likely to support Trump."

That said, the tax dodging will certainly overshadow the 3am tweeting now (and rightly so).

Looks like the Ms. Universe

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:39:26 +0000

In reply to Death by Counterpunch

Looks like the Ms. Universe fiasco pushed Michael Chertoff over to Clinton:

"This issue came up at the debate about Miss Universe," he said. "Not only did he seem at the debate to lose his temper, but to get up at 3:30 a.m. and reach for your smartphone is to me a hysterical reaction. If you're president, the button you reach for is not the Twitter button; it's the nuclear button."

May change an eensy bit on

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:21:45 +0000

In reply to I am in Deltaville, Virginia

May change an eensy bit on Wed when John Warnwr endorses her. Eensy.

I am in Deltaville, Virginia

CVille Dem — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 19:53:35 +0000

In reply to Death by Counterpunch

I am in Deltaville, Virginia helping a friend revolver from surgery. Deltaville is in southern Virginia at a confluence of rivers and is alongside of the Chesapeake Bay. It is rural, agricultural, nautical, and in places, artisanal. It is very pretty, all except for the 10 foot high TRUMP/PENCE signs all over the place. We drove into Matthews County earlier and I saw a HILLARY sign. My hope was dashed by the bottom of the sign, which read:

"Belongs in Prison."

No doubt that sign was put up on Monday - Thursday so as not to break the injunction to keep the Sabbath Day Holy.

The other signs that are everywhere, and appear without explanation say: "Thank You Jesus"

I seriously

Just

Don't

Get

It.

If you're compassionate and

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 14:08:19 +0000

In reply to No one thinks of it as "she

If you're compassionate and intelligent, you have trouble understanding how a girl could get raped and people will tut-tut about how much she drank and what she wore and the guy is portrayed as a normal kid with hormones and a life ahead of him. You have trouble understanding how police again and again will shoot someone and in the video nonchalantly walk around the dying person - some guilty, some innocent - for a half hour without giving first aid or anything - not one, but 3, 5 , 7 officers. You have trouble understanding why trying to offer coordinated, effective, affordable healthcare would produce such a backlash of hatred. We don't understand how bankers can slaughter the economy and people's savings and mortgages and then ask for bailouts and bonuses and turn it into a conservative us-vs-them movement. But it's there - the deplorables. Maybe a majority or near one. It exists in so many ways. Donald's the first successful candidate who didn't have to dogwhistle it - he's as subtle as a Vegas cabaret show. And in case no one noticed, Vegas is very successful - it's even transitioned to offering "family entertainment" so the kids can go on some rides while dad goes stare at tits and gambles away their college.

1 out of 6 eligible voters are disabled. We look as much like the Paralympics contestants than the Johnny off-to-war soldier or supermodel we hold as our fat-phobic ideal. I was surprised there were even a few plump girls at Rio standing up on the dais with grey balding pudgy men, and even a few mature women.

This was the year we might have talked about women's advancement and equality, and instead we didn't make it past calling contestants Miss Piggy and broaching new lows like "bleeding from wherever" for mainstream candidates.

I watched a Youtube of Nixon the other day, and the guy actually had decent comedic game-show timing, came across congenial and educated and could hold an audience walking around, and besides actually did pass environmental laws and discuss race and wound down over 500,000 troops over 3-4 troops. Agnew was the less polished Trump-like Jersey style corrupt pol, the law-and-order sidekick who went to jail for embezzlement - no way he would ever be seen as #1 billing (even though impeachment came close to putting him there)

Our deplorables don't even deserve Nixon, and he was considered unacceptable by 1972 - language, lying, character. Now there's absolutely nothing that would disqualify Nixon from the modern crowd. Even the hacking attack put many Dems squarely behind the Watergate break-in and rifling Ellsberg's psychiatrist records. It's the new normal, and it ain't pretty.

PS to add yet another round of email leaks from Clinton associates. Politico jumped in with a poorly edited excerpt from a Hillary speech in February that starts off making Hillary sound bad but then makes her sound reasonable and sympathetic if you read the whole thing. Still, most readers don't notice it's 8 months ago so wonder why she's appearing with Bernie now.

I do hope that you are

tmccarthy0 — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 13:44:52 +0000

In reply to Death by Counterpunch

I do hope that you are correct, I do hope this has the same effect that the Sandra Fluke incident had on Limbaugh. Limbaugh might still be on the radio, but he certainly is no longer the force he was before calling Sandra Fluke a slut. I just don't see the evidence that you see, that this is the one thing that sinks Trump, he's been shitty to women before this, he has slut shamed women before this, what makes you think this is the one thing that sinks him?

Why wouldn't his hoax charity end his campaign? I mean he is breaking the law! And yet people seem to think ahh, whatever, he can use his charity as his personal pool of tax-free money to buy himself gifts, so far it seem to have fallen off the radar, and no one cares he is flagrantly breaking the law. Then there is this Cuba thing, and his campaign manager admits he broke the Cuban embargo, you would think that breaking those kinds of laws would effectively end his campaign because it lends credence to the belief that Trump's businesses do not operate within the law and he doesn't care. And yet, here we are, Trump is like Teflon, more so than Reagan. So it's hard to understand for a regular person how Trump gets away with real true law breaking. I mean let's look at the case of Carter Page, who a Putin apologist who met with the Russian counter-intelligence official charged with disrupting our election! What, this gets no coverage, and these revelations should have had the press questioning Trump and his campaign about Page, yet, crickets. Nothing. It seems pretty dangerous when one of your foreign policy advisors has seemingly close ties to Russian counter-intelligence. This revelation would be an election ender for anyone else, and it is a serious issue that the Trump campaign should be forced to discuss Carter Page, but we get nothing.

So yeah, I want you to be correct about this, I just wonder since nothing else seems to stick to Trump if this sticks to him. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this is the one line that he crossed that hurts his campaign and his ability to be elected.

Yes Michael yes. But first we

ocean-kat — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 04:53:29 +0000

In reply to Ah, see... but there's a

Yes Michael yes. But first we were incredulous. Then we were flabbergasted. We just couldn't believe that anyone sane would vote for Trump. But he won the nomination and then he was close in the polls for the general. The joke became a nightmare. Now we're at the point of wondering if there's any depth he can sink to that's too low for the republicans to support him.

No matter how low my opinion of the American people gets they always seem to find a way to convince me I over estimated them.

His campaign should tell him

NCD — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 03:00:49 +0000

In reply to Obviously, I’d love to think

His campaign should tell him she doesn't matter, except they likely did. Thus the 3am attack, they weren't there to stop him and their admonitions had faded.

Proving the man is totally unfit and a veritable psycho.