Well, Ruth - better to be down on your knee than on your belly or back - at least if you're black. I appreciate your talking down Trump, but a few other issues to get out of the way.

But he got your attention, so Colin's tack is working - hope it gets resolved in public before it ends up in the Supreme Court docket. #BlackTrialsMatter

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.

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?

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)

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.

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.

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.

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?