Trump's superpower to turn a one day story into a week-long story because he can never just say normal human things is impressive
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) July 30, 2016
It was an actual “talent” when Trump was working to gin up publicity for one of his dubious business ventures, from his first slapdash condo developments up to his reality-tv triumphs. As a method for quashing discussion of his many many political gaffes, not so much…
Nice eye-roll from the Debate Commission. Seriously, this is the fakest of the fake controversies yet. pic.twitter.com/efdgjw3Ss1
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 31, 2016
Clinton’s campaign manager:
This is just more Trump debate malarkey. We will be at the debates set by the bipartisan debate commission and expect he will too.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 31, 2016
Suspect that the debates will be interesting because HRC may be the first opponent who isn't intimidated by Trump.
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) July 31, 2016
If Trump won't debate it's because he's afraid Clinton would whoop his behind. /fin.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 30, 2016
Trump’s not only trying to avoid the debates. He’s avoiding debate prep. It requires a lot of concentration. It’s really hard. And he’s lazy
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 31, 2016
So is Clinton going to debate an empty chair?
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) July 30, 2016
I think an empty throne like the one he sat in for the 60 Minutes interview. https://t.co/6VepujnWa0
— Lance Mannion (@LanceMannion) July 30, 2016
"I have to wash my hair. It's more complicated than you think." #TrumpDebateExcuses
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 1, 2016
#TrumpDebateExcuses A note from his doctor, John Miller, MD. pic.twitter.com/ahGPvFWRn9
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 1, 2016
… And there’s the downside to being Gifted At Twitter: the Twitterverse knows Trump, and can turn every Trump bullshit clip into a hashtag, which further spreads the impression that Trump is just another Reddit meme made angry sweating flesh. Over the weekend, we got not just #TrumpExcuses, but also #FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefings:
Yes sir we know you are already very intelligent but this is different. #FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefing
— Pam Locker (@anditshard) July 30, 2016
Sir, please don't take this as a compliment, but you are currently the most dangerous threat to the country.#FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefing
— Laura Silverman (@LJSilverman1) July 30, 2016
We have some news on Melania and you're not going to like it. Have you see the show "The Americans?" #FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefing
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2016
sukabi
Wow, you guys are bigfooting all over each other, 3 posts in 3 minutes.
sukabi
@sukabi: ok, so NOW you put it back up, making my first comment irrelevant. Lol
Mnemosyne
I’m starting to think we need a “malarkey” t-shirt.
Also, as I suspected, it sounds like the Clinton campaign isn’t going to play Donnie’s little reindeer games.
Baud
I don’t know how well Clinton will handle the Gish Gallop and crappy moderators, but this
is right on. She’s tough as nails.
sukabi
@Mnemosyne: which is the ONLY way to win.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: also, doesn’t have to worry about alienating the Mouth Breathers and the Howler Monkeys
Mary G
Hillary is in Omaha today, trying to get that one electoral vote. Warren Buffet spoke and said that his tax return is also being audited, but he is happy to release it if Trump will release his.
Origuy
AL, Happy Lughnasadh, Lúnasa, Lùnastal, or Lammas.
Mike E
@sukabi: Gas lighting is older than Gish galloping, but the classics are the ones that still work!
Baud
@Origuy:
The War on Lughnasadh needs to stop.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: as somebody pointed out, Omaha media also reaches big chunks of Iowa, and the national media love Buffett
JasonF
There are exactly two days in the year that don’t have professional sports (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) — the day before the baseball All-Star game and the day after it. And even the former has the home run derby.
But maybe, as a compromise with Trump, we can schedule the debates to avoid any USFL games. Oh, wait …
Major Major Major Major
@Origuy: is it lammas already? dang.
schrodinger's cat
In honor of the Khans and their courage, I give you Sufi music interlude
Kun Faya Kun from the 2011 movie Rockstar, music composed by A. R. Rahman (Of Slum Dog fame). It is shot in one of the most famous dargas in Delhi, Nizamuddin darga.
Dargas are shrines to Sufi saints, usually their burial place. You can find them all over India, they are open to anyone of any faith.
lamh36
Major Major Major Major
@JasonF: that is my fun fact for the day! thanks! sharing.
Roger Moore
Are people talking about Trump master-debating now?
debbie
I love Betty Bowers.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I would buy.
HinTN
@Mnemosyne: Oh, yes we do! Cafépress, where are you? (I got my brand new Tunch Obama FEED tee in the mail last week, so I know they’re still functional.)
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: me too.
Baud
I’ll say again, I’ll always hate Trump for making me appreciate the few Republicans who have rejected him.
Schlemazel
@schrodinger’s cat:
I used to have some Sufi music on my old PC, lost it in the fire & have never been able to recover it. The guy’s name was something Khan (not very helpful I know) but he did these long, epic songs & they were hypnotic.
ThresherK
@JasonF: And the day after the ASG has The ESPYs (TM). Not really my cuppa, but quite a draw.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@Baud: Yes. Anybody who can make me feel anything other than utter loating for Ted Cruz has his own special room waiting for him in hell.
SiubhanDuinne
@Origuy:
@Baud:
@Major Major Major Major:
“It was upon a Lammas nicht
When corn rigs are bonnie-o!
Beneath the moon’s unclouded licht
I knelt awa’ to Annie-o!”
Kay
@Baud:
Expect another boring, exhaustive evaluation of her server practices.
Toward the end they’ll get around to asking Donald Trump what he’s been up to the last 50 years.
Baud
@Kay: I hope she’s practicing her TCP/IP speak. That would be awesome.
Kenneth Kohl
Don is making excuses
Anne Laurie
@Origuy: Thanks, and back atcha!
(It’s also my official wedding anniversary… coincidentally.)
Baud
@Anne Laurie: Congratulations!
BR
@Mary G:
That 1 EV could be critical. The current worst case electoral college setup for Clinton is a 269-269 tie. That EV could be the difference between a house of representatives mess and a win.
D58826
Listening to Gopers in Congress bobbing and weaving about who they will vote for. And these are the ‘reasonable’ ones.
A Mother with a son in the AF asked Pence when he would condemn Trump’s statements. She was booed. And while Pence sort of tried to tamp down the boos he would not condemn Trump. Instead he said well this is democracy in action.
schrodinger's cat
@Kenneth Kohl: Did the dog eat his homework? No make-ups for the Orange One, either show up or get a zero.
dmsilev
@Baud: I assume the Benghazi-committee Clinton will be making an appearance at the debate.
Ernest Pikeman
@Schlemazel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the most famous AFAIK.
schrodinger’s cat: has anybody claimed his place at the top?
schrodinger's cat
@Schlemazel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan?
SiubhanDuinne
@HinTN:
Actually, Tunch saying “MALARKEY” would be quite awesome.
Baud
Haha. “Believe me.”
philadelphialawyer
@JasonF: Actually, there are now two days of no MLB games after the All Star Game. But the MLS has games then. And, this year, there was the (British) Open Golf tournament and the Tour de France during that time. There are now literally no days a year without sporting events.The complaint is just completely ridiculous.
Kay
@Baud:
It makes me tear up with boredom. When we have to hire IT people I think “if you make me listen to this explanation out of politeness I’m never hiring you again”
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
Official congratulations!
JasonF
@Mary G: while I’m sure Hillary would be happy to have that EV, I think it’s more to do with the fact that Buffet is a national figure who gets national press, with a second order effect of the fact that western Iowa is in the Omaha media market. Going for Omaha’s EV is only the third most important reason she’s there.
schrodinger's cat
@Ernest Pikeman: His nephew, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is pretty good. I like Mohit Chauhan and Arjit Singh, they are not as famous internationally.
Among women, I like the Nooran sisters. Here they are singing a song composed by Rahman for the movie Highway.
Baud
@Kay: I’m always impressed with the seemingly simple things that tech people can’t do.
Villago Delenda Est
Here we are, the 1st of August, 99 days from the election itself, and Teh Donald is already preparing his post election strategy for his conniption fits, and he’s doing it in public.
Poopyman
@Baud: Yeah, because they won. It’s the missing Cross Quarter day.
Quinerly
The Vegan Sarah Palin (I just love that moniker) is saying if she is elected president, she will pardon Snowden and appoint him to a cabinet position. Link at Washington Monthly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Keep holding his coat, Paulie, maybe he’ll tip you at Christmas
Jeffrey Kramer
Trump is threatening not to go to the debates because they are “rigged.”
Trump is now saying the election itself might be “rigged.” (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-general-election-rigged-potential-challenge)
Therefore….
Baud
@Quinerly:
Hahahaha. If she had stopped at pardoning, she could have stayed within the realm of the sane.
Denali
I am in for the Tunch/Malarkey tee shirt. What colors does it come in?
Mary G
@JasonF: Her list of billionaire supporters is going to be pretty long at this rate.
different-church-lady
@Quinerly: Snowden must have heard that and thought, “Holy shit, I’m never going to get to go home…”
rikyrah
Ali Vitali ✔ @alivitali
A few of us here just had to check. Yes, Trump just called Hillary Clinton “the devil.”
7:25 PM – 1 Aug 2016
Quinerly
I’m curious what you guys think? Should Hillary give a good, old fashioned press conference? Thoughts?
Baud
@Quinerly: No.
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
I thought she only cavorted with Lucifer. This is news!
JMG
Buffett is a signal to the investor class, which since the death of my father three years ago (93 and had the most awesome life imaginable) I am part of. Trump’s a threat to our portfolios. Anyone using math and not emotion can see it. It is the argument I use with my Republican family members, and while they aren’t agreeing, they’re listening.
The Dangerman
@SiubhanDuinne:
If Tunch could speak, I’m fairly sure the vocabulary would be limited to “Tuna, Asshole”.
ETA: Maybe “sushi grade”
Baud
@rikyrah: In the context of criticizing Bernie!
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: I made a funny the other day that Mark Cuban woke up and said “Trump is making all of us billionaires look bad! That’s my job!”
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
On an earlier thread today, I suggested (and Baud and others embellished and greatly improved the idea) that Buffett, Bloomberg, and Cuban bill themselves as “The Three Billionaires,” put together a road show, and open for Hillary at all her events.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: No, because when your opponent is busy self destructing, you should do nothing to divert attention from that. Just stand by and observe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Quinerly: I would vote for more one-on-one sit-down interviews. Ideally, I’d like all pols to do more press conferences, but I think it would be all email/”why don’t people like you” questions
ETA:
Bloomberg is the Billionaire Shemp
rikyrah
FYI:
Public Service Announcement.
Everyone CHECK YOUR VOTING STATUS!!!!
This is 2016. You should be able to check your voting status ONLINE through your local voting jurisdiction.
And, if you have Senior Citizens in your family:
1. Check their status
2. Ask them if they want to do Absentee Voting
3. Contact your Absentee Voting Unit and ask them when they will be open for business. Hint: the earlier that you get your application in – you will be in the first batch of ballots mailed out when your jurisdiction is able to do so legally.
If you have family members in the Military – ASK THEM IF THEY HAVE MAILED IN THEIR FPCA SO THAT THEY CAN VOTE.
You can fill out an FPCA ANYTIME.
Military/Overseas ballots – the first ballots will be mailed out the last week of September 2016.
This is summer – bring it up at BBQ’s
Bring it up at church/temple/mosque.
Bring it up at the gym.
Baud
@JMG: I can’t believe anyone fortunate enough to have retirement savings would be a Republican based on how the stock market has performed since 1992.
Quinerly
@Baud:
I’m inclined to agree now that the polls are turning. She’s good under fire, though. Case in point…Benghazi hearings. 9 or 10 hours, wasn’t it?
SiubhanDuinne
@The Dangerman:
Now, see, I’d pay good money for a t-shirt with Joe Biden saying that.
Woodrowfan
FYI, the latest post on the BJ Facebook page needs a cleanup of a racist troll attacking the Khans.
scottinnj
Serious question – if Trump was trying to throw the election, what would he do differently than he is now? The tweet to Paul Ryan’s primary opponent is exactly the move you wouldn’t make.
More generally I think the strategy for the next 3 months should be to continue to pound Trump (and his GOP enablers) every day. Time for a tweetstorm, Senator Warren.
Kay
@Villago Delenda Est:
Voter fraud. He mentions it at every rally now. Such a coward. He’s already covering his ass on a loss and it’s not even Labor Day. If I were a Trumpkin that would worry me.
amygdala
@Mary G: Maybe Buffet can challenge the Donald to compare hand sizes, too.
philadelphialawyer
@Quinerly: But she is all worried about Hill compromising national security with her emails. What a transparently phony POS.
Quinerly
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well, of course no presser right now. But if this cools…when it cools. The no press conference in 300 days is a bit dogging. I’m inclined to say no, especially with the polls now.
Baud
@Woodrowfan: There’s alternative content on Facebook?
japa21
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I checked why Trump gave him a shout out. He didn’t totally defend Trump but he wrote something on his web site that basically did put down the Khans and then tweeted it out.
At first I thought it was Ryan’s Dem opponent but it is his primary opponent.
Roger Moore
@Quinerly:
I guess Trump isn’t the only one in the election who will say any stupid thing to garner some attention.
PigDog
Someone inside the Trump campaign is going to write a hell of a book when this is over.
“So when I went up to his room to brief him at his Mar-a-Lago penthouse, he was wearing nothing but tissue boxes on his feet and a tube sock on his junk…”
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Warren Buffett: “I ask Donald Trump: ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?'”
Kay
@scottinnj:
It’s entirely possible Trump doesn’t know that man is Ryan’s primary opponent. He’s lazy and there are a lot of states and a lot of races.
satby
@Anne Laurie: Happy Anniversary! And good harvest for Lughnasadh.
Edited to add: I took advantage of Lughnasadh to post an Omnia video and note that there’s an older religion still practiced in Ireland just to make the uber Catholic rw colonoscopies.
rikyrah
Ari Berman @AriBerman 27m27 minutes ago
Court blocks ND voter ID law today, 6th state with ruling against GOP restriction in 2 weeks
Woodrowfan
@Baud: same posts, different comments. But it can attract the trolls.
Baud
@Woodrowfan: Better or worse?
scottinnj
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The primary election is on August 30 – what happens if Ryan loses to Trump’s preferred candidate? Also, too, on August 30 – the GOP Senate primary in Arizona.
If you think we have reached peak Trump freak-out mode wait until September 1 if Ryan and McCain go down.
schrodinger's cat
O re Piya, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Kay
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
This is dumb, but I like the way Clinton sits. She sits like a normal person. She could be riding a bus in that clip :)
I can’t imagine being that relaxed in her situation.
satby
@satby: no link in edit window so Omnia link here.
Quinerly
Trump has thanked the Harrisburg, PA fire marshall. RWNJ attacking the mayor of Columbus because he spoke at Hillary event. They think he is the linchpin to the Columbus fire marshal conspiracy
rikyrah
Jason Noble @jasonnobleDMR 37m37 minutes ago Omaha, NE
WarrenBuffett says a “monkey throwing a dart at the stock page” would have better returns than an investor in Donald Trump’s company.
Woodrowfan
@Baud: it’s Facebook. WORSE. this one (which I think has been deleted) was a retired Poly Sci prof who started off calling Mr. Khan a stupid “Paki” and it went downhill from there..
Quinerly
@PigDog:
Actually tissue boxes on his TINY FEET.
Baud
@Woodrowfan: OK them. No need to create a fake Facebook account to join in the fun. Thanks.
Ian
@Quinerly:
And what cabinet position does she seem to think he is qualified for? Could he be her vax czar? Maybe the white house spokesperson?
scav
@rikyrah: That preening moldy tangelo is going to start speaking in tongues and handling snakes pretty soon. Choir outreach. TOO many posts to find it (I looked) but there was a tweet posted (from Detroit apparently) where further down there was some polling info comparing Trumpy-Dumpy and Rmoney among regular and irregular church-goers. White evangelicals were holding (both regular and less frequent attendees) where holding, Catholics were down.
dmsilev
@scottinnj: That would be amazing. Not the least of which would be watching the moaning despair from the political reporting world as they’re deprived of two of their favorite Heroic Figures.
danielx
I swear every word of this is true.
It must be said that the Colorado Rockies (9400 ft) are most pleasant during the first week of August. It’s doing wonders for mental decompression, which was evidently more needed than I thought. I have it on good authority that I was talking in my sleep in my sleep the other night and first spent some time mocking Der Trumpenfuhrer and then cussing him out out some length – I was awakened shortly after emitting “fuck that motherfuckin’ maggot!” at some volume, which the daughter unit thought was absolutely shocking. Never knew a thing about it until I was told…next morning I decided that I needed a break from any further discussion of He, Trump for some as-yet-undetermined period. Mind, this vow may not last long given the daily temptations.
lamh36
@rikyrah: Yep…
@TomLlamasABC
JUST NOW: .@realDonaldTrump on @BernieSanders endorsing @HillaryClinton “He made a deal with the devil. She’s the devil.”
dmsilev
@rikyrah: So, I guess the plan is constant Trump-mockery to goad him into an endless series of foaming fits?
Works for me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Nate Silver could play the young Bernie Sanders.
At the very least his hair could play young Bernie’s hair.
Peale
@Quinerly: homeland security, I’m sure.
lamh36
Yep… I think Senator McCain is done…talk about profiles in courage during an election campaign…smh
@stevebruskCNN
McCain in Phoenix: “I support the nominee of the party and I’ll tell you what…. if I change my mind I’ll let you know”
Woodrowfan
@Baud: I read them every now and then, mostly out of morbid interest. There seems to be a direct relationship on the pages of some of the trolls–the more offensive, reactionary, and racist the troll’s post, the more likely the troll’s own Facebook page is full of “I love Jesus!” posts amid all the RW crap.
lamh36
Roger Moore
@Ian:
Secretary of Homeland Security, of course.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
YAY!!!!! Thanks for that share, didn’t even realize ND was under scrutiny.
(Edited, because apparently I don’t know the difference between North Dakota and South Dakota.)
lamh36
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: I ‘finally’ got to use my new keyboard shortcut. When I type Trump!!, it fills in Did you see what Donald Trump said??
I made it yesterday, so take ‘finally’ with a grain of salt.
Mike J
You know that Simpsons video below?
lamh36
@DylanByers
New @CNN: In shocking remark, Donald Trump says he hopes daughter ‘would find another career’ if sexually harassed
Quinerly
@lamh36:
Ivanka isn’t going to work for her daddy anymore?
lamh36
Donald Trump Hired Me As An Attorney. Please Don’t Support Him For President.
jharp
“So is Clinton going to debate an empty chair?”
If Trump doesn’t show up that is exactly what Hillary should do.
Baud
@Mike J: Hahahaha.
@lamh36:
“Shocking”
Major Major Major Major
Man, Peter Thiel really needs to stop jumping the shark at least until I’m done writing this book where he’s the antagonist. Peter Thiel Is Interested in Harvesting the Blood of the Young
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
So, the delicate little packs of tissues you tuck in your purse or the glove compartment.
Not the great big jumbo giant oversized family pack of extra-big extra-strong because it’s February and your sinuses are like Niagara and you’re coughing up a lung every ten minutes.
Right?
cokane
nobody’s even pointed out but in the age of TV recording ease and ubiquitous day-after internet videos, it really doesn’t matter if the debate was scheduled during the freaking world series.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Josh BarroVerified account
@jbarro
Clinton keeps campaigning with real billionaires because they, better than anyone else, can argue Trump is a fraud.
Ian
@Peale: @Roger Moore:
I see great minds think alike.
? Martin
@lamh36: Trump has the talk: “Ivanka, remember, you can be anything you set your mind to, unless your boss insists that you blow him and you find that to be icky – then you can be the next best thing you set your mind to.”
Quinerly
@cokane:
Trump doesn’t know this. Remember, he will bring back couriers in the military, if elected.
rikyrah
Margie
@Loca2733Mc
Colin Powell reveals Hillary did nothing different than other SOS. GOP is causing a scandal! #WithdrawDonald NOW!!!
JMG
Off topic, and I’m sorry if it makes you feel old, but it sure did me. “Revolver” was released 50 years ago today. IMO, best Beatles album ever. I admit that’s a statement open to debates.
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: The stupid. It burns. Like people can change careers at the drop of a hat. Well, they can, if they have several million in a trust fund…
burnspbesq
@Ian:
Plenty of people will tell you that he wouldn’t necessarily be worse than Arne Duncan at Education.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jeffro
– continuing the Khan vendetta
– getting busted about lying about a letter from the NFL
– slamming the frickin’ fire department
– going after CNN (possibly his best ally in the press to date)
– sending Roger Stone out to start sowing seeds of ‘rigged elections’ and Nov 9th ‘bloodbath’s
– saying that if Roger Ailes harassed HIS OWN DAUGHTER, he’d…hope she got another job or even career
– tweeting positive thoughts at his own party’s Speaker of the House’s primary opponent
AND THAT. IS JUST. MONDAY.
I am still going to work my butt off for the entire Dem ticket between now and Nov and then just keep going. Fundraiser for local Delegate on a Wednesday night? Sure, I can make time for that. Registering voters most every weekend for 12 weeks? YOU BET.
I forgive myself for not getting a whole lot done today but dang, it was hard to pull away from…excellent ‘reality TV’, as it were ;)
Quinerly
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I caught it the first time he said it. Knew immediately he was implying an affair. Jeez…
Villago Delenda Est
@Major Major Major Major: Get your silver bullets, your wooden stakes, and your garlands of garlic ready!
JMG
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: My youngest brother is McAulifffe’s next door (well, estate) neighbor, knows him and likes him as a cheery loony. My bro is also a staunch Republican of the country club variety. If this were true, he’d have told me long ago,
Villago Delenda Est
@Jeffro: The only thing the Dems should do at this point is stand off to the side and enjoy the comforting heat from the dumpster fire.
Villago Delenda Est
@JMG: YIKES!
Next year is 50 years of Sergeant Pepper!
YIKES!
hilts
@JMG:
I’ll stick with Sgt Pepper, but Revolver is a great album.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
politics aside, that’s always been my impression of McAuliffe, kinda goofy. But I like what he’s doing with restoring voting rights
hueyplong
About this HRC-McAuliffe thing, it’s starting to sound like Trump stopped listening to the voices in his head long enough for Roger Stone to plant an idea.
Woodrowfan
@JMG: haven’t heard a whisper of that story here in VA. OK, I just read the Democratic blogs for state politics, but if the repubs were spreading that rumor the Blue Blogs would have said something…
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t see how that hurts her.
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: I appreciate your attempt back there.
geg6
@Major Major Major Major:
He’s so a Yinzer, but because he doesn’t necessarily sound like one, it’s hard to miss if you aren’t fully conversant with it. He sounds like an asshole and can act like one, especially in regard to sporting events, but he’s not a horrible person deep down. We Pittsburghers have a love/hate/love relationship with him. Michael Keaton is similar, but not exactl the same. He comes across across a lot of times as a smartass, but he’s really smarter than you think and a mensch under the hard shell. So Pittsburgh!
Kay
@lamh36:
That’s what I don’t get. Thousands of people know Trump- not well, but they’ve worked with him. Why doesn’t media contact any of them?
This is a job interview. Other than what he himself bellows, we know nothing about what or who he is.
They followed the Ayres story for months. It was a big part of one whole debate. A Chicago political person that Obama encountered but didn’t know well, one of tens or even hundreds Obama met on his way up. For some reason it was vitally important we find out everything there was to know about that possible “relationship”, yet Trump gets a complete pass. How did they allow this to happen that there’s a chance this person could be President yet all anyone knows is this invented persona? It’s just fact-free. He’s almost a fictional character.
SiubhanDuinne
@JMG:
Never realized “Revolver” was released the same day Charles Whitman killed all those people on the UT campus.
Huh.
Anoniminous
Kay doesn’t know the TCP/IP transport layer ensures that packets arrive in sequence and without error, by swapping acknowledgments of data reception, and retransmitting lost packets. This type of communication is known as end-to-end. Transport layer protocols at this level are Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). TCP and SCTP provide reliable, end-to-end service. UDP provides unreliable datagram service.
SAD!
MomSense
@Schlemazel:
I bet it was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I saw him in concert and it was wonderful.
dmsilev
NYT breaking news alert, and this is a direct quote:
“Trump, who criticized the parents of a slain Muslim soldier, received 5 deferments from the Vietnam draft, including 1 for bone spurs”
Now, the really amusing thing here is that Trump’s chickenhawkery isn’t actually news, it’s been known for a while. But the NYT is blasting this out as a breaking-news story and framing it in an incredibly negative fashion. I guess “trash Trump” is now the in fashion among the reporting class.
Bobby Thomson
Some great Sufi music.
BR
@dmsilev:
I wish they wouldn’t include religion in the headline — makes it like the soldier isn’t a “real” soldier in the mins of those with exiting biases.
hilts
@JMG:
1966 was a great year for rock
Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
Freak Out! – The Mothers of Invention
Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme – Simon & Garfunkel
trollhattan
@Woodrowfan:
Whilst washing the TransAm.
eric
@jharp: funny, if trump shows up she will do the same
Bill E Pilgrim
The more I read about Trump the more I realize that he’s just a more obnoxious version of Ross Perot, I mean in the eyes of those who support him. The appeal is the same, hey the country’s problems are terrible but basically simple. “Jes get under the hood and fix it” was Perot’s, and “Just knock the hell out of them!” is Trump’s version.
The fact is if the Republicans had even a moderately sane and competent field, Trump would have been an independent spoiler like Perot, not the Republican candidate. What’s even weirder is that Trump is actually ending up as a spoiler as the Republican candidate, destroying them from the inside this time. The crazy is coming from inside the house, and everyone with any sense of self-preservation better just get out.
sigaba
@lamh36:
You know if CNN is willing to exercise the level of judgment required to call a remark “shocking,” you’d think they’d have no problem calling a remark a “lie.” But alas.
Anoniminous
Deleted. By me. For reasons.
germy
@Kay:
Maybe they’re terrified of talking about him?
frosty
@hilts: For me it’s Rubber Soul, then Revolver, then a few other earlier ones. Sue me but Sgt Pepper is way down on my list of their best.
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: Da nada.
dogwood
@Kay:
Obama was a bit unlucky with respect to the Ayers thing. Republicans would have liked to trot Bill Ayers out long before 2008, since Ayers was involved in education reform and charitable foundations for years. The problem was Ayers’ parents were mega-wealthy Republicans, who gave millions to the Party. They were close friends of the Reagans. Don’t remember when Mr. Ayers died, but Mrs. Ayers died shortly before or during the 2007-08 election season. So Bill was fair game after she was gone.
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
It’s the flavour of the week, but you know before long someone will say, Oh wait, we need to make sure this is balanced, so they’ll dredge up a lot of tired old Hillary stories and trash her for a while, and whatever advantage we’re enjoying now will disappear ::poof::
eric
@Kay: i think they have and the results were predictable dog bites man, i.e., trump is a cheap lying jerk. no story there FOR NOW.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Anoniminous: “Hold on to that sausage and peppers pizza”. Wait, am I mangling the acronym?
Hey, what do people use on Android to play Youtube audio in the background while on something elsed? I don’t know if I want too keep Firefox just for it. Any good. Apps to try?
Villago Delenda Est
@Bill E Pilgrim: John McCain is in a world of hurt right now. He dare not renounce Drumpf before the primary, because it will only enrage the monster that is out of control. Yet failure to do so makes his attempt to shake the etch-a-sketch in the general that much more difficult, because Kirkpatrick can eviscerate him with his failure to denounce Drumpf.
He might just be looking at the end of his life, like his grandfather and father before him.
germy
@frosty: What complicates things (for me) is the different versions. The Parlophone albums had more songs and sounded better. The U.S. releases had fewer tracks and were remixed with extra reverb and tacky wide stereo.
Gin & Tonic
@Anoniminous: UDP does not send ACKs nor retransmit lost packets. Sad!
Mike J
@frosty:
I’m with you. Those two were where they were trying to figure out how to be something more. Those albums are the best because they hadn’t really figured it out yet, but knew which direction they were going.
sigaba
@Bill E Pilgrim: Contrived dualism. Trump is not a source of crazy within the Republican Party. The Republican Party is crazy and Trump is merely symptomatic. Is Trump any nuttier than Louie Gohmert or Ted Cruz? Or is it just the style of presentation?
raven
Ya’ll gonna start on 66 don’t be leavin Aftermath out. Those mop tops may have been cute but the Stones didn’t play.
Baud
Ian
@burnspbesq:
I remember hearing speculation at the time that Michael Bennet (now senator) was being floated for education secretary. As I wanted Bennet’s primary opponent (Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of state house) to fill Salazar’s seat I was sad when they choose Duncan. What the past eight years showed me was they made the right call. Bennet has been an awesome senator. Unfortunatly I don’t know about education at the federal level to speak for/against Duncan.
sigaba
@Villago Delenda Est: PLAGIARISM! SAD! :)
germy
@Mike J: Abbey Road was great.
Anoniminous
@ThresherK (GPad):
damnifino
I know Apps from nothing.
hilts
@Kay:
Why doesn’t media contact any of them?
Of all the presidential elections, I’ve followed starting with 1972, this is the worst case of media malpractice I’ve ever seen. CNN and MSNBC executives should be ashamed of themselves, but they’re not capable of feeling shame and only care about their bottom line.
Anoniminous
@Gin & Tonic:
Oracle took that out from Solaris?
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: I ran into the phrase “implicit nack” the other day. I think I was reading the Google PubSub docs? Anyway I thought it was a great phrase.
raven
@Major Major Major Major: The Knack …and How to Get It
Mike J
@germy: Yes, but they obviously knew what they were doing by then. Not as interesting as Rubber Soul to me.
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, nice! It is Lammas-Tide, ain’t it? I know traditions for almost all the great Celtic festivals (ask me about Imbolc! No, really!), but Lammas I know very little about. I would expect it’s something harvest related – unless that’s reserved for the Autumnal Equinox.
But thanks for helping to cheer me up. I’m in a rotten mood, and it’s all my fault. Bad cess to me for ever attempting to talk politics outside the realm of this blog and my sister, till this cruel election be o’er!
rikyrah
@Ian:
Speak Against Duncan.
Worst Cabinet choice of POTUS.
hilts
@frosty: @germy: @Mike J:
Whenever I see rankings of Beatles albums, I’m surprised that A Hard Day’s Night, Help, and Magical Mystery Tour generally don’t rate higher than i think they deserve.
raven
And then there was “The Last Train to Clarksville”.
It came out in August and I got on the train from Chicago to Ft Campbell in November 66,
?BillinGlendaleCA
Here was my day: A University, a Cemetery, a Temple.
dmsilev
OK, so the ‘breaking news’ thing I mentioned a few minutes ago now has an article, and it’s really about Trump’s draft deferments in the Vietnam era. The article hints very strongly, though doesn’t come out and say, that Trump’s medical deferment (for a bone spur in his heel) wasn’t real.
Shocking, I know.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Anoniminous: No prob, I was asking anyone here, not trying to single you out cos you know TCP/IP. (I, too, am the guy who.gets to do all things geek for my family and friends. I t some of us are in the house tonite.)
I found that my favorite radio show, Says You!, is now at the Apple app store. But I mades me cherce (as Popeye sea) and that’s that.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What temple is that?
hilts
@Baud:
Saw Begala a few months ago at an event with Steve Schmidt where Schmidt said he’d be voting for Hillary because Trump didn’t pass the Commander in Chief test.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I am so, so glad that I hadn’t opened my cider yet when I read this…you have been on fire with the snappy repartee lately!
Citizen Scientist
@JMG: It’s always been a near tie between Revolver and Rubber Soul for me.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: didn’t he play sports and shit in spite of that bone spur? He’s totally sacrificed, think of the pain
hilts
@efgoldman:
I’m looking forward to more billionaires coming out for Hillary because it will drive Trump nuts.
Baud
@hilts: Wow. I hadn’t heard that. Schmidt is right, of course. But still.
joel hanes
@rikyrah:
[Arne] Duncan.
Worst Cabinet choice of POTUS
Tell it, sister.
Obama finally figured out that Rahm had to go; I wish he’d figured that out about Arne Duncan.
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: From the article:
Punchy
@JasonF: 3 days. One before the ASG, and 2 days after the ASG. Nobody plays until Friday.
Omnes Omnibus
@Citizen Scientist: @frosty: @Mike J: I am glad to see that I am not the only one in this club.
dmsilev
And bless the NYT commentariat:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: LA Mormon temple.
ETA: I’ll probably post the full set tomorrow, maybe(Windows 10 upgrade day is tomorrow, or tonight). The cemetery is really tiny in Westwood, but probably has more celebs per square foot than any other. The caption on Rodney Dangerfield’s tombstone is “there goes the neighborhood”.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: For a Morman temple in LA, I expected something . . . bigger. Maybe the scale is hard to discern in the photo.
Keith P.
@dmsilev: Our friend Mr. Trump had to suck off a lot of golf hustlers as he worked his way into NY society. Yes, Donald has truly sacrificed in order to learns the ropes (and he had to choke on a lot of rope along the way)
Major Major Major Major
All this talk of TCP/IP and Snowden makes me remember the time I was in the Hawaii airport the day that story broke, looking exactly like his file photo, with three laptops. Good time was had by all.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I believe it was the first temple built outside of Utah. It was built in the early 50’s, I think.
ETA: See my ETA in my original response, this is the first time I’ve laughed at a cemetery.
Miss Bianca
@JMG: Oh, wow. Well…objectively speaking, I’d probably argue for Abbey Road being their “best” album – really, more innovative than Sgt. Pepper. And my favorites have slid around over the years, but lately…yeah, it’s pretty much a toss-up between Rubber Soul and Revolver, with one or the other getting the slight edge and i’ll suddenly have to listen to it over and over. Currently, it’s “Revolver”.
Major Major Major Major
@shomi: and your contribution is to leave comments complaining about them. Hmm.
Gin & Tonic
Somebody dug up this from Trump, in an interview with Eric Bolling of Fox in April of 2014.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Everyone needs a hobby.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: Abbey Road is their best by far, and my favorite. Revolver is a very close second.
Miss Bianca
@scav:
Ok, now that one…I actually had opened my cider at this point, and you damn near got a spit take out of me. Well-done, you!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: For some it’s being a really good debater, possibly a master.
Bill E Pilgrim
My favorite Beatles song
BR
@shomi:
Huh? A good campaign plans for everything, and executes that strategy calmly. That’s what I see Clinton doing. What’s wrong with noting it?
hilts
@Baud:
I was impressed with Schmidt’s candor and enjoyed the opportunity to hear him and Begala talk at length instead of the brief segments they get on the air.
Bill E Pilgrim
@sigaba: Oh don’t misunderstand, he’s ruining it for them, is the point, but that doesn’t mean they’re that different. It’s the style of presentation. He says the things out loud. He’s more obnoxious, not more crazy.
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
Happy anniversary!
schrodinger's cat
Allah hi Rehaam (Allah is Mercy) sung by the great Rashid Khan, one of the best living practitioners of Hindustani classical music, from the movie My name is Khan.
BR
@hilts:
I remember him saying after the 2008 that Obama’s campaign was a wonder to watch, like what RFK’s campaign would have been.
Omnes Omnibus
@BR: That’s a troll. A real one.
hilts
@Gin & Tonic:
I have no doubt that Trump is a totalitarian and I wish the MSM would stop trying to normalize him
Miss Bianca
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I remember when I was quite young (13-14), I picked up my first book of rock criticism. I remember that the author (who generally had nothing but pretty glowing things to say about both the Beatles and Bob Dylan), referred to Abbey Road as kind, specifically in contrast to the White Album. I was hot and heavy into my first “falling in love with the Beatles” phase at that point, and it has always informed my opinion of that album. It is “kind” – generous, sunny, benign, a touch elegiac. (And now, I realize, that the White Album is my least favorite Beatles album – while there are individual songs that stand out, the work as a whole has always felt disjointed and angry, like “the Dark Album” to me, and I think that part of my reaction was shaped by that book).
hilts
@BR:
i hope the venue where I saw Begala and Schmidt will invite them back for a post mortem following Election Day.
debbie
@JMG:
I can’t believe it’s been that long, but I agree Revolver’s their best.
cckids
@Baud: I think Hillary will do just fine. If she gets the chance to debate the Crazy Yam.
In fact, I think she’ll break him in half, then kick the shit out of both pieces. Please FSM, let it happen.
Mike E
@Citizen Scientist: @JMG: The Fabs felt that certain albums could be grouped in 2’s, with Rubber Soul/Revolver and Sgt. Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour being the best examples…their leap in development during the making of RS was what John called, “The clever Beatles” period
Miss Bianca
@danielx: Where in the Rockies are you? (CO girl is curious)
ETA: And yes…it is quite divine up here. I’m at about 9000 feet myself.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: Basically the White Album is where they threw in the kitchen sink to satisfy their record contract(that’s why it’s their only double album). It’s got some really good music(While my Guitar Gently Weeps(BTW, Clapton played on that instead of Lennon)) and well(#9, #9, #9…).
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: All those liberal judges in those cases are OBVIOUSLY IN THE BAG OF THE DNC. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
Keith P.
@cckids: She beat Obama a time or two, so she should do very well. This will be the first time that Trump can’t just insult people and spout a few slogans over and over again. I’m predicting a really weird contrast, as she should trip him up plenty with names and facts that he won’t know anything about, and all he’ll be able to do is recite from the same set of insults he’s been using on everyone else for month.
My only worry is that he’ll claim that he won (there will be a few outlets can claim to have read that will say that regardless), and the press will treat it like they were so different you can’t grade it.
Central Planning
I saw this bumper sticker today that said:
Unbelievable. Actually, it isn’t.
Miss Bianca
@?BillinGlendaleCA: According to some article I read that talked about music teachers sharing the Beatles with their students: they said that there was literally no Beatles song the kids didn’t like, except for “Revolution No. 9”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Also, this made me think of our BlogHost.
sukabi
@Major Major Major Major: did he think “Fury Road” was a documentary, or is he trying out his new Vlad costume?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: When I first started listening to The Beatles, I’d skip George’s Indian stuff. I actually like it now.
Major Major Major Major
@Keith P.: Obama is not a fantastic debater himself though. He got better, but 2008 primary Obama was not the 2012 Obama you might be remembering.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: See? Reality is outstripping your ability to satirize it – that’s why my friend stopped writing political drama.
Davebo
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m curious as to why.
Schlemazel
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abby Road – but there is room for diagreement
rikyrah
Jason Karsh
@jkarsh Jason Karsh Retweeted Christopher Hayes
Pence when the crowd boos the Khan family: “That’s what freedom sounds like
Eric U.
@Davebo: JGCole’s twitter handle is “eharmony reject”
hilts
@Miss Bianca: @?BillinGlendaleCA:
Completely disagree regarding the White Album, but glad to see it get mentioned.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: That Elizabeth Báthory shit is so turn of the century – the 17th Century.
Schlemazel
@schrodinger’s cat:
That is the guy I was trying to remember earlier. An amazing artist!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Anoniminous: I walked by the room where the first message(L, O, G) was sent over the internet today.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Davebo: Look at his current Twitter handle.
DissidentFish
@scav: I swear I am having trouble remembering a time when Trump wasn’t talking. Does he ever shut up?
Miss Bianca
@Ian: Same here – about Bennet and Romanoff. Fact is, I still wish they had done that. Bennet would have been a *much* better Sec. of Education than Duncan, and Romanoff would have been a fiery, populist Dem – I don’t think we’d be looking at such slender re-election margins as we seem to see for Bennett.
Mike E
@Miss Bianca: When I’m 64 was a crowd favorite way back in my 7th grade music class. And Your Bird Can Sing is my current ringtone…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike E: Good Morning, Good Morning is my alarm.
Miss Bianca
@raven: That’s right up there with my favorite Monkees song ever – I remember when it came out – I was only about 3 or 4, but I loved it. I finally made the Vietnam connection years later, on my own, and I remember being surprised that the Monkees, who were always accused of being such fluffmeisters, had had a hit with such a dark-themed song. Of course, the tune makes it an irresistable mindworm.
@Omnes Omnibus: “But it’s those vampires! They never go out of fashion! They’re so HOT right now!”
hilts
@cckids: @Major Major Major Major:
The debate format favors a dummy like Trump because of the ridiculous time restrictions. They should extend the number of debates and allow for longer response times within each debate.
TheMightyTrowel
Actually I really hate the Beatles and always have. I remember school music lessons with Beatles songs as painful and interminable.
CONFLICT
(currently most excited about Melbourne feminist post punk group Camp Cope, so I think I’m probably not the target Beatles audience)
Steve in the ATL
@Mike E:
Great song that was covered well by Guadalcanal Diary
schrodinger's cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I am not a big fan of the Beatles Indian phase, too hokey and new agey for me.
slag
@sukabi: Thiel is just a low-level Bond villain. Typically dies in the first act. In this, he’s simply attempting to defy fate.
Omnes Omnibus
@hilts:
No. Hillary can devastate him with a glance or a laugh. I trust that her team is coming up with a “There you go again” type of line to drop on him. She can crush him in debates by deploying the strategies I just mentioned and then pivoting to a knowledgeable discussion of the issue at hand. She’s got this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Do these vampires sparkle?
randy khan
Has no one considered that the reason that Trump objects to the debate dates might be that he wants to watch the games? It’s a lot less work than debating.
Quinerly
Romney’s campaign manager, Stuart Stevens, saying that the RNC should withdraw all support for Trump, repudiate him, and put Pence at the top of the ticket…that there is a “mechanism in place” to replace a candidate. Says what has happened with the Khan matter disqualifies Trump. On Lawrence O’Donnell tonight.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat: George was the only one that really use sitar for his songs, instead of guitar. So it really wasn’t a phase of the group’s output, just George.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: There will be NO debates.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: No link? WTF?
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: If not, it will really be for the reasons I noted.
TheMightyTrowel
@Omnes Omnibus: Link disappeared because FYWP. Try this – my fave off the album
Mike E
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Heh, that’ll getcha outa bed! But, whatever you do, don’t sing the traditional Happy Birthday or you’ll owe Paul a quarter (he owns the rights!)
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly:
Nice that he said that, the Khan matter is number 1,374 (est.) of things that disqualify Trump.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s hard to sparkle when you’re bathed in blood…that’s how you knew those Cullens were total poseurs.
@Quinerly: Oh, boy…*now* the shit’s going to hit the fan. As if it hadn’t already, right?
Schlemazel
@schrodinger’s cat:
I actually like it & it led me to buy several albums of traditional Indian music. I’m not always in the mood for it but when I am I find it very relaxing. Its almost like chanting in the way it can hypnotize me and empty my mind.
hilts
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m confident that Hillary will acquit herself well in the debates, although a longer response time for questions would more clearly demonstrate the gap between Hillary’s knowledge of the issues and Trump’s vast ignorance of the issues.
J R in WV
These ratfuquers who attacked Max Cleland and now Tammy Duckworth are not fit to clean their shoes. Oh, Wait! That’s right… neither of them have feet, having been blown up fighting for our nation!!!
I’m proud to have contributed to Ms (Former Captain) Duckworth’s campaigns in the past. Just being a soldier, and fighting, with guns and aircraft and all, isn’t really enough to be a good politician. You have to care about people, and want to help both plain old folks and move the nation forward, or your town if you’re on town council, etc.
So many Republicans evidently only give a rat’s ass about their own pride, and re-election, and political power. And money.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: One is also rather sticky. Don’t ask how I know.
Miss Bianca
@J R in WV:
Well, it’s worked for them so far.
schrodinger's cat
@Schlemazel: Albela Sajan by Rashid Khan in the morning raga, Ahir Bhairav.
Here is anotherversion of the same song from Bajirao Mastani.
Rashid Khan’s version has a much slower buildup than the movie version.
Short translation
My beloved is coming
I am happy
I am sprucing up
Singing
Decorating the yard and house
And awaiting his arrival
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Uh…right. Right. It’s *clowns* that are scary. Right. Right…(backs away slowly)
reality-based (the original, not the troll)
@dmsilev:
well, the front page of the NY times right now is a thing of beauty:
top story: trumps 5 deferments AKA the mysterious disappearing bone spurs
2nd story: Warren Buffet smashing him to bits/
3rd story: Trump calls for warmer relations with Putin
somebody more competent than me has to put up a screen grab
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike E: I thought a court changed that and it was public domain now.
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL:
I know what you mean. But this is the first Republican I’ve heard to say that there is some sort of procedure to remove and replace him. I have seen a lot of speculation here on who the replacement would be if he is removed/stepped aside. I had figured it would be Pence. Stevens just made that pretty clear. Pence then would pick his running mate.
hilts
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Unfortunately, Trump will get away with not releasing any income tax returns but I don’t see how he can get away with ducking debates. It would go against his tough guy brand.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca:
Damn straight, ya got a problem with that?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hilts: He’ll say that in “fairness” Dr. Stein and Gov. Johnson need to be included.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: What is your issue with Mithraism?
hilts
@Quinerly:
Would be great to see another more prominent Republican have the guts to second Stevens, but I’m not holding my breath.
hovercraft
@hilts:
With only two people on the stage the moderators and the other candidate can follow up and make the other candidate answer the question. Hillary can use her answer to point out that he is full of shit, or hasn’t answered the question. The contrast between a candidate giving an actual answer (a politicians version of a real answer, ie answering the question they wanted asked) and a candidate repeating the same slogans endlessly will be stark. If Trump was a normal person he could go the Rubio route and memorize rote answers, but his unwillingness to actually do any work and his ADD will not let him. (No disrespect to people with real ADD).
hilts
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
In my opinion, the metric for inclusion of third party candidates in presidential debates is totally fucked up. Instead of looking at poll ratings, 3rd parties should be required to hold a certain number of seats in both chambers of Congress and state legislatures in order to take part in these presidential debates.
hilts
@hovercraft:
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Trump will have several Ralph Kramden “humina, humina, humina” moments in these debates.
SFAW
@TheMightyTrowel:
Goddamn kiwis and their so-called “music.”
ETA: Do you also strangle poor little kittens when you’re not digging up their bones?
hovercraft
@reality-based (the original, not the troll):
That type of coverage is probably why he is mulling over whether to pull the Times press credentials like he did with the Wa Post’s, he says they have been behaving better since he did that. Didn’t he attack Mr. Khan for not respecting his First amendment rights just yesterday? Irony, what is that.
Quinerly
@hilts:
What I would settle for..now that it has been said by a rather prominent Republican…is the polling operations to start polling Republican voters as to whether they want Trump replaced with Pence. And then the press start asking Pence about the polls
SFAW
By the time teh debates start, the MSM will have fallen in love with Deadbeat Donnie again, and any debate where he doesn’t shit/shoot himself on-stage will be considered a “victory” for him, Because Hillary is so practiced at debating, and she’ll use her feminine wiles (and Satan worship) to gain an unfair advantage on poor Deadbeat Donnie.
I wish I were joking, but we saw the same shit with Bush/Gore in 2000.
schrodinger's cat
@TheMightyTrowel: Boomer kittehs lubs it, I am kind of meh about Beatles.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Jebus. My guess is that RMT’s hatred of the Beatles is generational, but to the extent that TMT is antipodal, iit is Aussie not Kiwi.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
As if there’s an actual difference.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@TheMightyTrowel:
Oh, now ya did it. The BJ Beatles Brigade will be coming for your head in three… Two…one….
TheMightyTrowel
@SFAW: That’s a triply wrong ethnic slur there, sir. I’m an american in australia, kiwis are from new zealand. Also i cuddle kitties I don’t strangle them. :-P
hilts
@Quinerly:
I agree with your polling idea, but I’d also like to see some retired senators like Richard Lugar, Olympia Snowe, John Danforth, or Alan Simpson publicly come out against Trump.
Regine Touchon
@D58826: lord Lawrence interviewed her. What great courage after the trumpeters at first were clapping and as soon as she mentioned the Khan’s son name they turned on her. Horrible horrible horrible. She went on to say she was approached by some afterwards and thanked her for her sacrifice. Trying to atone for their support of Trump.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Don’t make me talk rugby – where, once the USA is eliminated, I support France (because style and Jean Pierre Rives).
SFAW
@TheMightyTrowel:
Yes, I know.
Pictures, or it didn’t happen.
hilts
@SFAW:
The bar will be criminally low for Trump in these debates, but maybe he’ll surprise us by having a panic attack on stage and speaking even weirder word salad than Palin and his softer supporters will realize he’s a know nothing dumb ass.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: Not bad, but I get a lot of Sleater-Kinney out of it. OTOH, I’ll probably buy it.
Davebo
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You kids today with your twittering!
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
“Make you”? Since when do you need an excuse to talk about
the Packersrugby? That’s like me and the Mets, or lacrosse.Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: OMG, you’re killing me! No, wait…wait, I didn’t mean it like that…
SFAW
@hilts:
And the MSM will find seven words — not necessarily spoken together by Deadbeat Donnie — that they can string together to show that he “exceeded expectations.” They’ll also say that Hillary “underperformed.”
As I said: think Bush/Gore debates in 2000.
Quinerly
@hilts:
I’d love to see Pence’s reaction if the polls turned to his favor in such a scenario while Trump was still at the top of the ticket ..and of course, Trump’s comeback.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Do you have a thing with ancient Rome and death? Tarpeian rock?
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Not that I’m aware of…look, *I’m* not the one who brought up Mithras, man. Just saying.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: @Omnes Omnibus: I went to YouTube. Done really appealed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Decimating, Mithras? One wonders…
TheMightyTrowel
@Omnes Omnibus: Done is the big single off this album. I’m seeing them live in Sept – super excited, they’re supposed to be great on stage
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Decimating is SO not *my* linguistic obsession, dude. You’re thinking of someone else.
Now, just don’t get me started on the perfidy of “townhome” v. “townhouse”, however…
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: I liked them. Like I say, reminiscent of Sleater-Kinney, but, to me, that is not a bad thing.
As far as the Beatles go, consider them as a reaction and response to what went before. Music history is a process. Looking at them that way, you may be more sympathetic. Beatles worship qua Beatles worship is daft. But they influenced people – even those who rejected them.
dww44
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Did you see him tonight on Chris Hayes” show? I was totally mesmerized by his hair. Like something out of one of the Bibical/Roman movie epics of the 1950’s.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Right. Decimating, Mithras? Two nights in a row. Okay. Got it. Never been slain by either? Okay, my mistake. Sorry.
TheMightyTrowel
@Omnes Omnibus: my research area is innovation studies in an archaeological/historical context – believe me when I tell you there is no new thing under the sun, revolutions are a lie and every major innovation that appears is just the shiny tip of an iceberg of pre-existing ideas, attempts, failures and partial successes :-) In this neither the Beatles nor Camp Cope are different from anything else.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: You missed Townes.
TheMightyTrowel
@Omnes Omnibus: A little twangy for my taste, but lovely guitar
Omnes Omnibus
@TheMightyTrowel: I am a lawyer. Why would I be shocked or bothered by the nothing new under the sun proposition? Yet, unlike human nature, music and other art forms move forward.
Miss Bianca
@TheMightyTrowel: It may be true that there is nothing new under the sun, but occasionally some artist, soldier, architect, someone takes a whole heap of old stuff and puts it together in such a compelling way, it might as well be new. The Beatles are such artists for some. YMMV.
Dmbeaster
@Baud: Mormon Temple in LA is one of tne smaller ones in appearance, but it has a lot of square footage.
tybee
charles and i prefer the white album
Ian
@Miss Bianca:
I preffered him policy-wise, but his inability to unseat Coffman (R-6) makes me wonder about him polling any better. Now district 6 is redish, but so was 7 before Perlmutter kicked the shit out of the Jefferson county GOP.
Miss Bianca
@Ian: you has a point.
schrodinger's cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Doesn’t one of their songs have a refrain, Jai Gurudeva?
Google tells me it is for the song Across the Universe