StrangeSox

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 22, 2016 -> 11:00 AM) We have her health records. She's working nonstop and hasn't called off any meetings at age 70whatever. Although it would be nice if my doc would allow me to send videos to him to diagnose me instead of making me go all the way down to his office. LOL which republican senator did that with Terry Schiavo, Bill fritz?

Right wingers inventing all sorts of Hillary health conspiracies has been an amusing development.

Trump has brought on two advisors recently. Known insane person Michelle Bachman and architect of the ongoing Kansas republican policy disaster Sam Brownback.

Sheriff Joe arpaio potentiallyou facing federal charges for ignoring court orders. Him going to jail would really just cap off 2016. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/...ision/87587572/

Trump to black people Not exactly shocking after bringing Breitbart on board to run the campaign

I've voted for Republicans a few times at the local level but can't imagine ever doing so at the federal level. Democrats would need to nominate someone as awful and unfit as trump.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) I'm ready for free college education and healthcare for all. Thank you for voting Democrat, which is the party that is very vocal about and actually tries to get these things passed!

And this is why even if you don't particularly like the candidate on a personal level, who controls the Executive is still so important: Justice Department Says Poor Can't Be Held When They Can't Afford Bail

White supremacist stabs interracial couple after seeing them kiss at bar, police say This is why as satisfying as it will be to see Trump smashed come November, his rhetoric has still been very dangerous. He's making violent racial nationalists feel more comfortable and confident and acceptable.

This seems to approach the "47%" level of tone-deafness: Ivanka Trump Mocked For Having Unpaid Intern Blog About Getting By Without Pay

Federal Judge uses Hobby Lobby to get around the Civil Rights Act, allowing a funeral home to fire someone for being transgendered.

Trump's new campaign manager speaking on Trump University in March, building his businesses on the backs of the little guy in February, on Trump's rhetoric being unfortuante for children in February, and calling on Trump to release his tax returns in April. https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/...675603835785216

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 11:11 AM) No I got that, I don't understand the citizen book with the muslim thing. So it turns out that that dude was protesting Trump so it was some sort of satire. Trump's campaign and his supporters are a living, breathing Poe's law so I think I should be excused for making that mistake.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 10:36 AM) I don't really get it. Is that like a Sharia joke or No, Yglesias and others have been poking fun at the 'economic anxiety' angle some pundits have been using to try to explain Trump's popularity among his supporters when the anecdotal and statistical evidence both point to racial resentment as the primary motivating factor. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/731218742294786048 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/755750186983497728 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/749975712069722112 (others, including the guy who came up with the joke, have recently pushed back a bit on how far Yglesias is going to discount economic anxiety whatsoever)

Conservatives’ Laughable Effort to Blame Liberals for Trump The left predicted the GOP's white nationalist turn, but didn't cry wolf. More at the link, but given what the GOP's own introspective review of the 2012 election found and recommended as solutions, it's hard to argue against that.

Here is a Trump supporter from yesterday's rally expressing his displeasure with some of the intricacies of NAFTA tariff policies that he believes hurts American manufacturing:

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 09:27 AM) Good lord. Trump's "law and order" speech from (a 95%+ white town an hour north of) Milwaukee the other day was something that could have come from the 1968 Wallace campaign so not exactly shocking. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is the Senator from Alabama who's named after not one but two slave-owning treasonous bastards and is a man who was rejected from a federal judicial appointment in the 1980's for being too racist. It's not exactly surprising that they think "Trump wanted to lynch a bunch of brown people for a crime they didn't commit and launched a big media campaign about it" is a good thing.

Paul Manafort is resigning amid campaign shakeup and Ukraine/Russia revelations edit: Rick Gates is also resigning in the wake of the Ukrainian stuff

Jefferson Beauregard sessions III drops the law and order dog whistle, picks up the bullhorn https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/766338885068677120

https://twitter.com/ChadMosher/stat...020239293292547 "You guys are down." "Says who?" "Polls?" "Which ones?!" "...most of them. All of them?"

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Extremely drunk man at the hotel bar informed me that Hillary should be shot. That was uncomfortable.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 10:43 AM) I don't think J. Podesta has been involved in the podesta group for over 20 years. Not since his original Clinton group. Now, if this takes down Tony Podesta and Vin Baker in one swoop...hey, not bad. Something I read said he stepped down in 2007? Before taking over Obama's campaign anyway. Really more funny than anything. If someone had written a script that mirrored the 2016 campaign, it would be rejected by every producer as way too ridiculous and over-the-top.

Stupid auto correct I swear I'm not pouring bailey's over my Cereal! (^this is a Reince Preibus joke for anyone not paying entirely too close attention to this election. He has made this oddly specific and unprovoked claim several times to interviewers.)