Good Morning. pic.twitter.com/DrAHUDYTmU
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 26, 2016
Obama approval in WaPo/ABC Poll: 56% its highest level in Post polling since after the killing of bin Laden https://t.co/gZ5ME7R1nz
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 26, 2016
Apart from that, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?
If you didn’t see this coming last month, during the “OMG Trump surge,” congrats! You’re dumb. https://t.co/ocYwCa7rhV
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) June 26, 2016
Look at the Trump number. 39 in one poll, 41 in the other. You can't win with that.
— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) June 26, 2016
When your entire primary campaign was quoting poll numbers, this is going to get awkward. pic.twitter.com/s4PMpYcmxn
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 26, 2016
@Phil_Mattingly @washingtonpost Even Rasmussen who leans way right has Trump losing by 5. Maybe some day Trumpets will find one they like.
— Matt Aaron (@BronxLaugher) June 26, 2016
looking forward to america's TRUMPXIT this november https://t.co/i0SLrCR953
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 26, 2016
Richard Mayhew
Read America’s dumbest blogger for some updated unskewing
Baud
Apparently there has been some violence in California between neonazi groups and protesters.
gogol's wife
Let’s not get overconfident, though.
jonas
Oy, if Rasmussen has him down, that’s pretty serious.
Baud
@gogol’s wife: Agree. Let’s keep it up until 39 is the total number of Trump voters and not just the percentage.
Davebo
@Richard Mayhew: Couldn’t I just watch old Monty Python videos instead?
zmulls
I have a serious question about the bound delegates. Most delegates are bound to vote for Trump on the first ballot, and without a rules change, that stands. They can’t vote for another candidate.
Would they be able to abstain on the first ballot? Does abstaining violate their “bound” status? In other words, could they say “Yes, I am bound to Trump, but I choose to not vote” and get away with it?
JPL
@Baud: I hate neo-nazis, so I can understand the urge to attack, but I wonder if it doesn’t give them more attention than they deserve.
lollipopguild
so when Brexit turns into the biggest ball of crap-any moment now-will Trump stop plugging it and saying how great it is?
PaulWartenberg2016
NO COMPLACENCY.
Get the damn votes out, vote for the Democrats. Got to make sure. Got to stop the Far Right across the board.
We can’t let happen here what the Brits did voting #Leave like they did this weekend. When they let it slip away. We can’t afford that as a nation…
VOTE VOTE VOTE
PaulWartenberg2016
@Richard Mayhew:
which one? there are several candidates.
Mike in NC
So, Drumpf’s little visit to Scotland might pay off in the same way Romney’s visit to the London Olympics did: heaps of derision and ridicule. Sad!
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
Unfortunately, California has a group of anarchists based in and around the Bay Area who just love to run around and break shit. Without looking for the story, can I guess that the confrontation happened in the Bay Area or Silicon Valley?
Baud
@JPL: The neonazis have been reinvigorated for some reason. I’m sure it’s Obama’s fault.
@lollipopguild:
That day was Friday.
The Thin Black Duke
Here’s John Scalzi with a few words of wisdom:
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Sacramento.
Mnemosyne
@gogol’s wife:
@PaulWartenberg2016:
I’m starting to become confident that we can flip Congress if we work for it. Gerrymandering doesn’t work in a wave election.
MattF
But… skewed! Polls are just numbers, and numbers can be affected by addition and subtraction, so it’s not fair.
PaulWartenberg2016
@Baud:
realistically? Trump is going to have his followers among enough of the Far Right to keep at least 27 percent (hello, Crazification Factor) and figure at least 33 percent.
This time around, a lot DOES depend on how many disgruntled voters between the three factions – Conservative, Moderate, Liberal – bolt from the two-party dominance and throw votes towards the Libertarian and Green candidates. In which case, Trump still loses, but Hillary may fall under 50 percent popular vote…
gindy51
And then yu have this weird, cryptic pos… http://postsecret.com/2016/06/25/sunday-secrets-125/1-mspotus/#main#main
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
Yep, it’s the Black Bloc assholes. Those are their stomping grounds (no pun intended).
EBT
So here in Sacramento there was a nazi rally that ended up being cancelled after five people got stabbed.
lollipopguild
@Baud: The Guardian has several good stories on the fallout. Some/all of the Leave leaders were in it for shits and giggles and had/have no plan for what comes next.
Suzanne
@Baud: YES. I don’t just want him to lose. I want it to be humiliating. I want the entire Republican Party to lose. I want this to be a terminal illness for those racist, mustache-twirling shitpimples.
redshirt
Who got stabbed? The NAZI’s I hope.
PaulWartenberg2016
@Baud:
MSNBC is now reporting stabbings. Multiple. somewhere near the state capitol.
I’m seeing some kind of march / protest. what are the specifics?
Baud
@PaulWartenberg2016:
Speaking for myself, I will not regard anyone who doesn’t vote for Hillary as a credible voice in liberal politics. The Scarlet T is something you wear for life.
lollipopguild
@MattF: Reality is not FAIR!
MattF
@PaulWartenberg2016: The twitter says six stabbed.
Baud
@PaulWartenberg2016: I’m impressed it didn’t escalate beyond stabbings.
hovercraft
@Baud:
Unfortunately I believe the rule of 27% will thwart our efforts. It’s true that shrub was able to beat that down to 22% briefly, but it is a powerful number. So that should be our goal, 27%.
PaulWartenberg2016
@lollipopguild:
I think the UKIP leader Farage is hoping the Leave win turns into bigger electoral gains for him. But he’s under fire now for admitted he lied about things leading up to the vote.
Boris is reportedly very muted and slightly worried. He wanted to be Prime Minister but with Cameron’s resignation and his likely ascension he’s suddenly realizing he’s responsible for cleaning up his own shitshow for once.
EBT
@PaulWartenberg2016: Anti Fa type folks told the Nazis they would come and wreck them if they held their rally. The Nazis tried to hold the rally six people get stabbed and the rally is cancelled.
Baud
@hovercraft: Fair enough. You can’t fight Mother Nature.
PaulWartenberg2016
@MattF:
And Trump always wants things to be FAIR.
…for himself.
the rest of us can burn in the fires of his apocalypse.
PaulWartenberg2016
@The Thin Black Duke: pics or it didn’t happen.
MattF
@PaulWartenberg2016: Well, that’s right. Boris, if he becomes PM, will be the one to invoke Article 50, which initiates leaving the EU.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@zmulls: Apparently a GOP Delegate not voting on the first ballot is not an option. CNN:
The lawsuit sounds frivolous to me.
The convention can change its rules whenever it wants, IIUC, so that’s probably going to be the way the ABT folks are going to try to stop him. But (at the moment) it sounds unlikely to work.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
EBT
They have about two weeks to gin up a plan anyway.
Kay
@MattF:
Trump says the poll “sample” is bad. I don’t even care if the polls are predictive. I get a huge kick out of how bothered he must be by them.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Hey, it worked for Baud!2016!.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: The system was rigged.
Major Major Major Major
Could be the Black Bloc kids involved at the Nazi rally. Could be something got out of hand. Could be the Nazis started it. I imagine we’ll find out where the responsibility lies.
As my momma taught me, people are not for hitting. They are however for hitting back.
MattF
@Kay: And he can’t just dismiss the polls– they’re a basic part of his schtick.
ETA: And, as we’ve all said repeatedly, single polls don’t mean much– but being down in multiple polls is the real thing.
hovercraft
@Mnemosyne:
Sacramento
Richard Mayhew
@PaulWartenberg2016: whichever one you believe deserves the title
Elie
@Kay:
Especially since he does not have a data/IT section in his campaign — he is not using data I have read in several places…. This has multiple impacts from get out the vote info all the way up through polling.
lollipopguild
@PaulWartenberg2016: Pretty much everyone who le
d the “Leave” effort is guilty of lying their asses off and now that they have won they are left to clean up their own mess.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
If it was Black Bloc vs neo-Nazis, it’s hard to come up with a good guy. Stabbing anyone, even a neo-Nazi, is wrong.
ETA: Also, too, mockery is usually more effective. Shoulda been a group lip-syncing and dancing to “Springtime for Hitler.”
Doug R
@hovercraft: Yes, the Alan Keyes/Dick Cheney hardcore 27s.
The Ancient Randonneur
TREXIT! I know a bit early but I want to practice now.
Jeff Spender
I had a discussion with someone who didn’t think that the Democratic Party represented her anymore. But she lives in a solid blue state.
I come from Michigan, I said. Where my problem is that my government doesn’t respesent me. Think about Flint, or the legislature bowling over referendums with slightly tweaked versions of the laws that were voted down with budgetart riders that make them referendum proof.
Disagreeing with the Democratic Party because your preferred candidare didn’t win is one thing, and that’s fine.
But blowing everything up and making other people (mostly poor and minority) pay the price for your principles isn’t moral.
hovercraft
From the LA Times
Baud
@Jeff Spender:
You know Kim Davies?
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Unless they’re, you know. Stabbing you.
Although as we learned last night, the best defense against a bladed weapon is being Adam.
Jeff Spender
@Baud: Who?
MattF
@Jeff Spender: It’s fair to say that both parties have changed. But you still have to make a choice.
hovercraft
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Can anyone say that there is anyone more deserving of this pyrrhic victory than Boris Johnson. The true believers are deluded, he was an opportunistic demagogue.
Baud
@Jeff Spender:
Kim Davis. (spelled it wrong)
MattF
Not for the acrophobic.
Major Major Major Major
@MattF: Eeeeeeeeeek
Jeff Spender
@MattF: It’s a difference of perspective. I’ve seen what happens when a GOP takeover goes into full swing.
Regardless of how you feel, there’s still an opposition party that, on a state level–at least in Michigan–is strong and composed. Splintering our vote will ensure our political defeat for generations where it matters most.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Knowing the Black Bloc assholes, I’d say it’s a toss-up as to who pulled a knife first.
redshirt
@MattF: Meh. If it had open sides then we’d be talking.
Heywood J.
@Suzanne: This, a thousand times over. Merely winning is insufficient; Clownstick and his sore-loser supporters would just cry sabotage and vote theft. This needs to be a beatdown of Goldwater/McGovern/Mondale proportions, with down-ticket repercussions. There should be no doubt in the Drumpfkins’ wittle minds what the deal is. He needs to be beaten like a rented mule, until the spray-tan smears and the hair looks like Don King’s.
Right now it feels like a football game heading into halftime with a 3-TD lead. The temptation is to coast in the second half, play not to lose, and run out the clock, but it would be much better to keep pounding and win by six or seven touchdowns.
smith
@hovercraft: Before the vote I was sorry that David Cameron and Boris Johnson were on opposite sides. because that way they couldn’t both lose. I should have had more faith. The fact that Johnson has in effect been hiding out ever since he supposedly had a big win tells you all you need to know…
WaterGirl
@hovercraft:
Sounds like a line from West Side Story.
Cat48
@Mnemosyne:
White supremeacist’s today at Capitol in Sacramento
BillinGlendaleCA
@MattF: I’m thinking to taking the kid to do that(I won’t), she hiked to the Bridge to Nowhere and bungee jumped*.
*She said it wasn’t that great, skydiving was better.
ETA: I’d like to go to the observation deck and take some pics. Ah, no sliding for me.
Calouste
@hovercraft: One thing I haven’t read much about so far, even in the British press, is the fact that Cameron resigned but there won’t be a new PM for four months. That’s unprecedented in Britain. I think the plan is that the resignation only takes effect when there is a new party leader, but even that is very unusual.
Kay
@Elie:
I’m old enough to remember when millions and millions of Democrats were voting for him, and he was going to carry Maryland.
Jeffro
@gogol’s wife: As I told a friend (who was crowing about HRC’s double-digit lead on FB today): I won’t truly be happy until she has a triple-digit lead, but for now I’ll take this and stay frosty.
Amir Khalid
@Elie:
Without proper data that he uses, Donald is likely to underperform even these poor polling numbers. But his fundamental problem is that he figures he’s smarter than any expert, and his instincts are a better guide than any database. He’ll put on his usual great show at his rallies,and then be completely taken aback when that doesn’t turn into enough votes on election day.
Gimlet
So because of all the many reasons given for voters choosing Brexit, who in EU is happy with these issues or just doesn’t have them? Germany? France?
Baud
@Calouste: They have that new fixed term Parliament thing, so old protocols don’t apply.
Suzanne
@Heywood J.: Precisely. I want him to earn his own nickname: Blowout Donald or something. I want it to decimate his businesses and his show and the entire party and everyone who was ever in his orbit. I want them to have the unshakable stench of LOSER forever.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Agreed.
Baud
@Kay: He’s running to Hillary’s left.
AkaDad
@Mnemosyne: Rumor has it that you kind of like Hamilton.
ICYMI, you might want to check out Carpool Kareoke ft. Hamilton on Youtube.
Kay
@Jeffro:
I don’t think “enthusiasm” matters or “complacency” but I do think the impression of being ahead matters because people would rather be on the winning side. That goes double for Republican voters. They will lose faith. I actually think the “unskew the polls” stuff was really helpful to Romney. That was all about beating Obama. That was the only energy.
Anne Laurie
@PaulWartenberg2016:
Bill Clinton got in with, IIRC, 42% — because Perot. (Perot, because so many Repubs not happy with the guy at the top of their ticket.) He still got to be President, and he was reelected four years later, too.
Doesn’t matter what percentage of the popular vote Hillary gets, as long as she gets enough electoral collage votes (ask Al Gore!) — she’ll still be President. Yeah, I’m gonna scrum & pray for every possible HRC vote, but worrying about comparative percentages right now is chicken-littling.
hovercraft
From Steve M
redshirt
@Calouste: He’s resigning in October. The time from now till then will be spent with bitter intra-party battles to pick his successor.
rikyrah
@AkaDad:
One of the best videos ever!!
The Ancient Randonneur
@Amir Khalid:
It’s also being reported that many top Republican campaign operatives are unwilling to work for him even if he did want to hire them. From the reports I’ve read many of them are trying to protect their personal brand for another election cycle. Couple that with the infrastructure Clinton has put in place around the country and the Democrats built in advantage in the electoral college and with each passing day his path to victory narrows.
Kay
@Baud:
That gives him too much credit. He’s running around in circles. There’s another story out about a Trump scam. The idiot son has some sleazy alliance with a “personal brand” company. They rip off old people. It’s the “personal brand” scam section of Trump U.
They’re disgusting. They didn’t even have the decency to keep their fake businesses below the radar. They have to also demand respect. Not satisfied with being ordinary con men. The money isn’t enough.
aimai
@PaulWartenberg2016: I think that post Obama HIllary’s camp knows how to GOTV and vote bank, bank, bank as far ahead of the election as can be done. This seems to come as a surprise, to Mitt Romney et al, but the movement is to lock down votes as early as you can so you can’t be knocked off your stride by events close to the election, or bad weather on election day. Frankly I’d be all over that argument in places like New Jersey or anywhere else that has experienced climate damage on or near election day.
Kay
They’re not good people:
Baud
@Kay: You don’t have to convince me. There’s a reason I said that voting for Hillary will be my litmus test for any public figure from here on out.
hovercraft
@Calouste:
I think in a normal leadership change/ vote of no confidence there are people who are deemed acceptable successors, and the process is more orderly. This situation is so unprecedented that the uncertainty over succession is the story.
Per The Guardian
Mnemosyne
@AkaDad:
At this point, I’ve probably seen it more than LMM’s own mother has.
@rikyrah:
If you follow LMM’s Twitter feed and see any of the videos he posts of his dad driving him around NYC, you will recognize the look of barely suppressed terror on his face. ?
MattF
@Kay: Ah, widows and… one presumes… orphans too. I’ll bet the members of the Republican donor class think twice before signing any check payable to the Trump camaign.
AkaDad
@rikyrah:
I liked it a lot and that’s coming from a life-long Metalhead. In fact, I ended up watching all of them last night. I think my favorite ones were Adele and Gwen Sefani.
The Thin Black Duke
In some respects, running for President might be the worse decision Donald Trump ever made. Even the dumbest conman is smart enough to realize that you never want to bring too much unwanted attention to yourself, and thanks to Trump’s delusional ambitions, the world’s biggest and brightest spotlight is centered on him and it’s not going away.
MattF
@hovercraft: It seems like the whole UK leadership class is circling the drain.
MattF
@The Thin Black Duke: Bingo. The classic con artist will disappear at the end of the con. Trump can’t do that now.
dmsilev
@MattF: His June fundraising numbers will be interesting. They’re bound to be better than the atrocity of May, but there hasn’t been much sign that he’s putting much effort into serious fundraising.
redshirt
@MattF: Brexit will be catastrophic for all British political leaders, with a few winners emerging. What’s even worse is the entire thing is an “own-goal”. Didn’t have to happen in the least.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
G, just now: “Boris Johnson looks like the Darryl Hammond parody of himself.”
dmsilev
@The Thin Black Duke: I think he convinced himself that the glory of his Trumpitude would keep the press from reprinting inconvenient and unpleasant stories about him, or that if they did, nobody would care. To be fair, the latter was true during the primary. Of course, the general electorate is a tad different, and to put it mildly Hillary is just a tad better at campaigning than Jeb? or Zodiac-Killer-Ted were.
redshirt
@The Thin Black Duke: Great points. I wonder if there’s a Con Man Bible and what Commandment Trump has violated by running.
O. Felix Culpa
@shomi:
Actually, the Clinton ground game is already underway in New Mexico. We’re organizing volunteers, establishing a neighborhood leadership structure, training people to do voter registration, and building our data bank. There’s of course a lot more work to be done, which will ramp up especially after the convention, but I suspect (hope!) the activities we’re engaged in are taking place across much (hopefully most!) of the country.
ETA: 100% in agreement with the commenters who urge NO COMPLACENCY. And GOTV.
hovercraft
@smith:
Poor Boris
MattF
@dmsilev: I suspect the Trumpites were caught somewhat unawares by the attention given to the May FEC report. The next report will probably be a lot more murky.
lollipopguild
@redshirt: NEVER make the con about yourself!
Shana
Let’s see if this link works. Just got back from London where the family saw two Belle and Sebastian shows. Hubby and I had seats, but the girls were on the floor and got on stage for this song. They’re next to Stuart Murdoch wearing a white shirt and a red shirt that says Peace Now. Enjoy.
Felonius Monk
@MattF:
And this is a bad thing?
AkaDad
@Mnemosyne: LOL
I know that look of terror. It’s that look a woman has, in the morning, after a drunken one-night stand with me.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: But that’s always been his con. I mean, he’s not doing anything different here. It’s just a much, much, much bigger stage with different rules.
MattF
@Felonius Monk: I suggest they blame Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis for their predicament.
lollipopguild
@Felonius Monk: No, this may blow things up in both parties enough that you get new and better leadership in both . Maybe leaders who will not constantly lie to their voters. To quote Doris Day- Que Sera Que Sera.
CaseyL
@MattF: I’m with redshirt: that looks like it’s only, what, 20 or 30 feet? And it’s totally enclosed? Pfui.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Boris Johnson/Chris Mathews – separated at birth.
lollipopguild
@redshirt: The other cons he was always selling you a service or and item-steaks-vodka-college. Now he is selling himself directly-he is the “winner’, the guy with all the answers-not.
MattF
@CaseyL: And I’d bet that if your eyes are taped shut, it’s hardly scary at all.
redshirt
@MattF: Heh. I get that reference.
Emma
Well, no wonder Boris is in hiding:
BillinGlendaleCA
@CaseyL: It would look really cool in 360 degree video.
ETA: I should note, in my misspent youth, I took a pic from the top of Half Dome looking down at Yosemite Valley.
trnc
@The Ancient Randonneur: Not to mention, they’re probably used to getting paid unless they worked for Michelle Bachmann.
redshirt
@CaseyL: Right? I did the Sears Tower (screw Willis) walkout thing – at the observation deck they built boxes that stick out from the building so you can see straight down – and while I can experience a fear of heights in some situations, this did nothing for me, other than being cool. It’s an interesting psychological event, because I assume it means my logic has countered my instinct, as I trust that the builders of the boxes did so in a manner that was overly safe. The same thing happens when I sky dive – there’s absolutely no fear of height feeling even though I am objectively very high up.
Now, walking across some old rickety bamboo bridge over a raging river in the canyon far below? No thanks. Unless I have to.
So at least my mind knows when to properly panic, it seems.
Mnemosyne
@AkaDad:
Elvis Costello wrote a song about that, though apparently the Johnny Cash cover version is better known in some circles.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: His reality show was in large part about Trump selling himself.
I can’t believe we have a literal and actual reality TV star as the nominee for President. I’m going to pinch myself to make sure I’m awake.
Ouch. Damn.
Fair Economist
@Kay:
IOW, the polls that have him down by 5-6, more than “loser” Romney.
Vhh
@PaulWartenberg2016: yup, old Cameron may just hv neutered 3 rivals in one go: Boris, Corbyn, Farage. Brits suddenly asking where all that money that Brexit promised has gone.
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
He’s not a reality TV star — that would imply that he actually competed and won.
He’s a game show host. “The Apprentice” was a game show, and he was its host.
Fair Economist
@Emma:
What Tory MP is going to vote this airhead for PM? He is so *not* going to be the next PM.
Felonius Monk
@MattF:
The Politics of Vorticity or is it the Vorticity of Politics?
ThresherK (GPad)
@redshirt: Tour CN Tower in Toronto is like that too, if I remember. The spaceship part has tempered glass and you don’t stand on it, but you do get a panoramic view in all directions, plus down.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: A game show host can still be a reality TV star.
Shout out Jeff Probst!
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
“Reality TV star” gives Trump too much credit. He’s a game show host. “You’re fired” was just that show’s version of “You are the weakest link.”
Heywood J.
@Suzanne: Perfect. “Loser Donald” has a nice ring to it.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: No way. The show was all about him.
Not that I ever watched a second of it, mind you.
catclub
@Major Major Major Major:
Like we will find out who will go to jail in that firefight between motorcycle gangs and cops in Texas a year ago, in which there have been no indictments.
Heywood J.
@Mnemosyne: Yeah, but his sensitive mediation of the crucial Gary Busey – Meat Loaf Peace Accords counts as diplomatic experience.
catclub
@MattF: I bet all of Clinton’s reports are just as murky, in the sense that there are dodgy things there, but hers are probably ten times as voluminous, so who can find those few dodgy things?
LanceThruster
@The Thin Black Duke:
Bernie or bust is my vote.
WaterGirl
@LanceThruster: For real?
gwangung
@redshirt:
You could always check with Leverage’s John Rogers….
Ian
@PaulWartenberg2016:
While I agree with what you say, I question if you are human or machine.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Keep bringing it, Kay.
Keep on telling it.
But, it’s good that this is being revealed, drip by drip.
rikyrah
@Kay:
these are ads aching to be made.
SiubhanDuinne
@Fair Economist:
Source.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: This is going to be a long, hot Summer. I expect both conventions to be ugly.
O/t Just watched “Free State of Jones”. Pretty good account of an anti-Confederacy story which feels timely given the flare up in racism thanks to Trump.
Patricia Kayden
@Mnemosyne: Now that should be our goal. President Clinton will need a functioning Congress. The House remaining in Republican hands would thwart her from getting much done, beyond judicial appointments. Ryan is going to be desperate to please his rabid base if the Senate flips to Democrats.
rikyrah
Can’t be bothered to mess up HIS future…right?
Former Indiana University student, charged in two rape cases, sentenced to probation
rikyrah
Utterly hideous.
Dad admits he took pregnant 14-year-old daughter to marry her 24-year-old rapist
POSTED 12:29 PM, MAY 25, 2016,
BY CNN WIRE SERVICE
Applejinx
Mark Blyth is talking about austerity, Brexit, Greece, and ‘Trumpism’. Simply amazing, this guy has this stuff figured out.
The captions can’t always make sense of his Scottish brogue, but it’s lovely to listen to :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvZil0qWPg
rikyrah
@SiubhanDuinne:
yep
bystander
@BillinGlendaleCA: At birth? How about separated by Boris’s mother returning to the UK after a summer working at Camp Wenahatchee with Counselor Matthews?
sdhays
@Anne Laurie: To me, the importance of the size of Hillary’s win has always been a proxy for the effect on down-ticket races. I don’t want Hillary to limp across the finish line and leave our Congress similar to what it is now and has been since 2011; I want a Congress which will confirm Hillary’s appointees and justices and which will actually start doing the work of government. I want Republicans swept out of safe seats in state elections. I want there to be a thunder-crack so loud that all of the bigots and racists and misogynists in the Republican Party can hear it without mistaking its meaning. I want to utterly break the Republican Party as it currently stands.
I don’t really trust Hillary on foreign policy; she’s far too interventionist for my taste and seems to have difficultly being patient – like many in the Beltway, she always seems impatient to be doing “something”, whether or not that “something” will improve the situation. But on domestic issues, I have confidence that her performance will mostly be a function of how good the Congress she has to work with is. With a Democratic Congress, she can be a great President, far better than her husband and perhaps even eclipsing President Obama’s legislative record. And that’s why her margin of victory is important.
It sure would be sweet to sweep away McCain’s career with Hillary’s landslide.
Applejinx
Mark Blyth (posted upthread but it went into moderation)
randy khan
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Apparently the lawsuit is about a Virginia law that requires him to vote the way he’s pledged, not about the RNC rule. Of course, if I were a lawyer for the Commonwealth, I’d point out that he’s bound whether or not the law is in place.
Anne Laurie
@catclub:
Uh, no. Even HRC’s worst enemies concede that she’s learned to be painstaking about bookkeeping. There will be some ‘we are totally not affiliated with that SuperPAC’ wink’n’nods, and no doubt a few paperwork fails — stuff like selling a half-dozen souvenir t-shirts at a rally to a Canadian citizen who isn’t legally allowed to “make a campaign contribution” by doing so.
Trump’s financial declarations, on the other hand — according to the experts who’ve actually been combing through it — consist of massive payments to his own companies and his cronies, plus some underdocumented throw-it-against-the-wall-see-what-sticks listings, and the equivalent of a whole lot of checks made out to ‘bearer’ and cashed by ‘illegible rubber stamping’. If his businesses were documented as badly, he’d already have had to turn over his books to a board before the IRS shut them down. His handlers seem to have assumed that political finance laws didn’t have the same “teeth” as real business laws, but Dinesh D’Souza could’ve told them different.
sinnedbackwards
@Mnemosyne: Usefully for us, gerrymandering works backwards in a wave election. Since the secret of gerrymandering is to spread your marginal support across as many districts as possible, in order to win more places fairly closely, when the tide turns it swamps that many more of their marginal wins.
Pity we aren’t running strong candidates in ALL the marginals.
The House should be within our reach if Hillary wins nationally by 8% or more; maybe a bit less, depending on the states.
And I’m fairly sure the dems will maximally exploit a potential control of Congress in the first two years, since 2018 may revert to progressive turnout collapse.
Coyote, I wish most people were not so ignorant or stupid.
SFAW
@Mnemosyne:
Perhaps the least surprising thing seen on the Intertubez in the last N years. (Where “N” is a large positive integer.)
SFAW
@dmsilev:
Stop that! Just STOP IT!!
You KNOW that it has never been proved — well, not beyond a reasonable doubt, that is — that he was/is/will be the Zodiac Killer.
Yet.
SFAW
Who CARES about polls? Everyone KNOWS that the only poll that matters is on Election Day. *
* Unless you’re black. **
** Or a woman. ***
*** Or a Democrat
redshirt
@SFAW: All that matters is Hillary wins.
Hopefully wins big and crushes, allowing a possible Senate and House flip, though the House is very tough. Lots of seats. I bet Trump will have disgusted most of them when it comes time to vote. Till then he’s just making death noises.
rikyrah
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@Gramatik
UK protesters try to burn the EU flag, but can’t because of EU regulation on flammable materials. I’m dead ???
debbie
TopConservativeCat
@TeaPartyCat:
Donald Trump: “The ABC poll is very dishonest. I’m not losing. I get tons more retweets than Hillary, and that’s worth way more than votes.”
sigaba
@randy khan: Couldn’t a pledged delegate just get “stuck in traffic” when the first ballot is held? Some people would have to show, enough for a quorum, but if you’re not in the room and you haven’t delegated a proxy I don’t see how they count your vote.