First, Michael J. Morell, long-time CIA professional who was acting director and deputy director of the agency from 2010 to 2013, wrote a NYT op-ed endorsing Clinton. Here’s an excerpt:
I never saw her bring politics into the Situation Room. In fact, I saw the opposite. When some wanted to delay the Bin Laden raid by one day because the White House Correspondents Dinner might be disrupted, she said, “Screw the White House Correspondents Dinner.”
Morell also points out that Trump is a dangerous know-nothing who has already harmed U.S. foreign policy by playing the unwitting stooge to Putin and alienating Muslims worldwide. The publication of this endorsement can only mean: 1) The media is in tank for HRC, 2) Everyone with a war to mong and/or shady international intrigue to foment is on the Hillary bandwagon, or 3) All of the above.
Speaking of Putin’s Poodle, that brings us to item #2: We now know he has teeny-tiny paws because science! It turns out there has been a bronze cast of Trump’s hand at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum for many years. Someone finally figured out this would settle the question of whether Trump is a short-fingered vulgarian once and for all by comparing his hand size to national averages. Cue the sad trombone:
According to data from Ergonomics Center of North Carolina, the average American male’s hand is 7.61 inches long. Trump’s hand sits at the 15th percentile mark. That is, 85 percent of American men have larger hands than Trump. As do a third of women.
Sad!
Third thing: Just got back from the vet’s, where my dog had her injured paw pad evaluated and the dressings changed. She’s on the mend!
This particular dog is hostile to any animal that is not in our pack, and one worrisome thing during previous vet visits this week was her indifference to other canine and feline waiting room occupants. Today, she growled at them. It was music to my ears.
That is all! Open thread!
Major Major Major Major
Them’s some small hands.
I’m just in a shite mood the last 12 hours :( I feel dumb and needy and have some major impostor syndrome. Sad!
dmsilev
While I certainly applaud such sentiments, can you imagine the caterwauling from the Beltway press if (a) the headliner for their self-congratulatory dinner canceled due to “national security” followed rapidly by (b) either being themselves dragged away from the dinner to cover Major Breaking News or worse letting their unworthy-of-being-at-The-Dinner second tier colleagues do the coverage? Bin Laden or no, the whines would still be echoing across the Potomac.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: haha that was my favorite part too. Although whoever wanted to move the BL raid because of it should have been fired immediately.
Emma
And this is why the Villagers hate the Clintons. They don’t play the Capitol game of making the media feel part of the “in” crowd.
Keith P.
I checked my hand vs. Trump’s yesterday. I’m a shade under 5’10” and 150 lbs…and my hand is larger (longer, not thicker) than Trump’s. By maybe half an inch.
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major:
The smart people always have doubts. You have to keep a constant eye on those who think they know everything. You’re smart enough to know it’s impossible to know everything, and you take the extra time to make sure you have it right if you can’t count on your ego backing you up.
Citizen_X
This will never not be funny.
Your Fingers Too Short to Launch Nukes at God.
greennotGreen
I myself have a smallish hands with stubby fingers and disproportionately large palms. Do I wish they were beautiful? Yes. Do I wish I were beautiful? Sure. But that’s not the way it is, and I can live with it. If someone has ever noticed or criticized my hands, I don’t remember it.* Donald Trump should so get over himself.
* I do, however, remember when my ex-husband called me “Karl Malden nose.” Ex-husband.
Paul Wartenberg
PUPPY WORLD! ALL HAVE PUPPIES!
This Saturday I will be at the Tampa Comic-Con. I *will not* be going dressed up as a Jedi this time: too much hassle this time of year, and I’m on a mission to shop for my nephew’s birthday instead.
Just to note right now, my library is on fire! no, we’re not putting down threes, we’re ON FIRE! There was an electrical short in the AC. Relax, nothing’s really burned, but the building’s got to be aired out to get rid of the smell.
eric
I am pretty sure those stickers have bigger hands (paws) than trump
Mai.naem.mobile
I really think Jilz needs to go to an animal shelter and rescue a litter of pups,set up a 24/7 cam with her looking after the pups. So.that till election day.Let Trump continue to implode.
Major Major Major Major
I guess I too would need Roy Cohn to help me feel like a big man if I had hands that small.
Paul Wartenberg
How do you measure hand? from longest finger to, where, the wrist or base of thumb?
To my wrist I measure at 7.5 inches. I am 6’2″ 300 lbs though, does that skew the result?
germy
@Citizen_X:
For Orange Guys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Campaign Is Too Much
greennotGreen
@germy: Hahaha! Beautiful!
Calouste
The New York Times election thingamajig now considers Arizona a more competitive state than Pennsylvania. 10 competitive states, 1024 possible scenarios, Clinton wins 998 of them.
oldgold
My grandmother used to say, “A blind sow finds an acorn every once in a great while.” I think David Brooks found one today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/trumps-enablers-will-finally-have-to-take-a-stand.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article
germy
@Paul Wartenberg:
I don’t know, but he isn’t self-conscious at all. He makes a point of holding his hands up during speeches, pointing his fingers, waving his hands around, pointing his fingers some more.
A lesser man would keep his hands jammed tightly in his pockets during every public appearance. He certainly isn’t lacking in self esteem.
Rob in CT
Good stuff there. I do kinda want to know who suggested moving the raid, and certainly hope they were quietly put out to pasture.
germy
@greennotGreen: I want him to lose by a major landslide, so we don’t have to listen to four years of “she has no mandate” or “it was so close the election was probably stolen”.
My entire adult life has been under the shadow of the “Reagan Revolution” and I want to spend my final years (and my children’s years) under a different swing of the pendulum.
raven
@Paul Wartenberg: You can palm the rock or you can’t.
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: FUCK THE VERMIN OF THE VILLAGE WITH A RUSTY, UNLUBED CHAIN SAW WITH UNBALANCED LINKS.
medrawt
Paul Wartenberg – middle fingertip to heel of palm.
The percentile stuff is silly; I’m at about the opposite end from Trump, apparently in the 85th percentile, with my hand being a whopping .75″ longer. The entire range from the 1st to the 99th percentile is less than two inches. His hand is slightly smaller than average, and since he is both taller and, these days, huskier than average, it’s a little more pronounced. (I’m a little shorter than Trump and my mighty 85th percentile hands are basically in proportion with the rest of me; small people mention how big my hands are, people my height never do.)
Note that this is a different dimension of measurement than the one I believe is used at NFL and NBA combines, where they measure how far apart your thumb and pinky can spread.
raven
@germy: It doesn’t matter how much she wins by, these crybaby motherfuckers are never going to stop whining.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike J: Good grief, yes. I’m constantly googling things to make sure my recollection of something is correct.
rikyrah
@Calouste:
All I care is…if Hillary is wins Florida, is Ferret Head still at ONE way to win?
Kay
My son just sent me this:
He considers this the “best” item in his Trump News Roundup :)
BC in Illinois
I don’t have a ruler handy, but the length of my hand is–as far as I can determine–one hand’s breadth and four finger’s breadths. In other words, just less than half a cubit.
This is about as seriously as I will take this subject.
germy
@Major Major Major Major:
I remember the end of the Nixon administration. I was in high school. I remember thinking (like a fool) that the good guys had won; that the bad guys with Nixon were forever banished. I never imagined Nixon’s henchmen (people like Cheney and Roger Stone) influencing the rest of my adult life.
I know it’s a cliché to say “This is the most important election in history!!” … but it sort of is.
And the bad guys didn’t grow old and die out. There’s a whole new generation (Cruz, Ryan, Cotton) ready willing and able.
ruemara
@Major Major Major Major: sorry. Have a cup of coffee, on me. I’ll pay you back at some point.
If she’d said bomb the WHPC dinner, she’d be my candidate.
Booger
@germy: Believe Me, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Sad!
schrodinger's cat
He really has short fingers, my fingers are about an inch longer than his on an average and I am petite woman of 5ft 2.
hovercraft
And here I an all 5’2″ of me and my hands are bigger than his. I have big hands for a short woman and bizarrely little feet.
SAD!
cmorenc
@Calouste:
The relevant question isn’t how many potential combinations there are, but:what the probabilities are for the relatively more likely among the 26 possibilities for a Trump victory are vs the probabilities for the relatively more likely Clinton paths to victory are. For example, it doesn’t matter how overwhelmingly many more potential scenarios would result in a Clinton victory if even one of Trump’s potential scenarios has a probability approaching 50% of occurring. Of course, presumably even the most favorable (to Trump) among his 26 possible victory scenarios is substantially less than 50%, but the key question is: by how much are his “best” possibilities underwater? Not by enough for us to be complacent from Clinton’s recent rise in her polling margins.
germy
@Booger:
What happens to Trump losing to the Hildebeast?
Does he dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run again in 2020?
Does he stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe he just sags
like a heavy load.
Or do his supporters explode in violence?
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: What’s “imposter syndrome”?
slag
@Kay: Nigerian princes don’t offer money back guarantees.
NorthLeft12
I do not want to provide any support to the boorish Bernie bros who complained that President to be Clinton is too much part of the existing power structure, but [damn I hate doing this] I hope people at large will not view the ongoing rash of support for her as validation of that. Personally, it is more an attack on der Donald IMO, rather than an endorsement of Hillary.
Hillary needs to double down on the progressive parts of her platform and ensure everyone gets the message that she is not moving to the center to lure this support. I think her sanity is the reason she is appealing to the military/business/intelligence types.
There you go, some free political campaign advice from a foreign socialist. What could go wrong?
sinnedbackwards
We chose our vet partly because they have a separate waiting room for kittehs, and brag on it.
germy
@redshirt:
Very common. When a person (who is intelligent and competent) feels like they are fooling everybody and is really incompetent and stupid.
Something Trump does NOT suffer from.
Rob in CT
@redshirt:
Feeling like you’re faking being a competent adult, basically. Feeling like you’re a fraud because you do not, in fact, have it all together (but only you seem to know this – everybody else seems to think you’ve got your head screwed on straight).
Basically doubts that smart, capable people tend to have.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: I think your fish story needs to get published. Does that help with the imposter syndrome feelings?
germy
This morning I read yet another article about “unlikeable” HRC and her speaking voice. It doesn’t matter if men are from the rightwing, the leftwing, or firmly (well not firmly) in the middle, they find something about her voice to complain about.
I saw this on boingboing, putting it in historical perspective.
Just One More Canuck
@BC in Illinois: so about 1/20th of a rod
bystander
@germy:
Trump does more jazzhands in one speech than in the whole of “Chicago”.
Rob in CT
@NorthLeft12:
I have some mild concern about that, but you know what? For every dead-ender BoBer who thinks that, there will be 2 squishy centrists who think “wow, if even guys like Bloomberg think DT is radioactive…”
Just because they’re saying Trump is a threat to the Republic doesn’t magically make HRC right of center. She the same center-left politician she was before, it’s just that she is manifestly sane and her opponent is a deranged conman.
germy
@sinnedbackwards:
I had the good fortune (after 30+ years of cat stewardship) of finding a vet that specializes ONLY IN CATS. No large barking dogs. They’re good at making our little girl almost comfortable with the experience. AND they make housecalls.
About fifteen years ago I had a beautiful orange cat who was terrified of dogs (before I adopted him he’d been attacked). I took him to a vet who enjoyed letting big dogs roam free. One of them ran into the exam room where he was nervously waiting. When the vet finally came in, she found him panting in terror, and so decided to give him an injection of something that exacerbated his diabetes. Worst vet ever.
Felonius Monk
DogsAgainstTrump — Is it a thing yet?
BR
@Kay:
I don’t know if folks already have suggestions out there, but I figured we should get them into the twitterverse. Two options that come to mind are to get a virtual account number or get a prepaid credit card with $1 on it. For folks with a citibank card, here’s how to create a virtual account number. Then you just cancel the virtual account number after putting it into the website.
Rob in CT
Seen recently in the LGM comment section as a pitch to center-right voters horrified by Trump (there are some):
R-leaner: Wait, I vote for Hillary and Trump suffers?
Dem: Humiliations galore!
R-leaner: Right, I’m on the job.
One could sub in Gary Johnson if the person has serious CDS.
burnspbesq
Bobo is off the hook today. The aliens who periodically take control of his brain and cause him to make sense are back in town.
Bobo, Pissed
Mai.naem.mobile
I think Hillarys hands are longer than Trumps. Thanks Obama.
germy
@bystander:
Hello!
tobie
@NorthLeft12: This is why we really need to turn the Senate and, FSM willing, the House. Otherwise we won’t get anything done and the usual litany of complaints about the government will continue unabated. A new New Deal is only possible if the Dems rack up significant gains in Congress.
Van Buren
I believe that there must be a high degree of correlation between hand size and foot size. Can we get someone to ask Donald his shoe size? It could be very entertaining.
hovercraft
From TPM
BR
@germy:
I have no problem with her voice generally. But she does seem to not know how to use a microphone to its full potential — that I think is undeniable.
BC in Illinois
@Just One More Canuck:
I think that comment probably includes all aspects of this discussion.
Elmo
I’m 5’5″ and female. Hands 7.38″, middle finger a shade over 3.12″. When I played piano, I had a nine-key reach, which my measurement now shows as 8.6″.
This is kinda fun.
swkellogg
@Paul Wartenberg: Actually the people measuring the cast could make a more compelling argument for the diminutiveness of Trump’s pee pee on the basis of the second to fourth digit ratio: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21725330
SCIENCE!
Iowa Old Lady
@redshirt: “Imposter syndrome” is the feeling that you have everyone fooled into thinking you’re smart or capable or a good writer, or whatever your goal happens to be. But you know that you are not smart, etc. You’re an imposter.
Yes, I’m familiar with it. :-)
Miss Bianca
OK, update on the Office Kitties: they are now, officially as of yesterday, the Store Kitties. Yesterday was the first day we let them out of my office during the day to roam the store. I was afraid that they’d never come back to see me – how you gonna keep ’em down on the farm etc. etc. – except for food and water and litter box, which are all still with me. Well, this morning, Lefty Kitty,who is my darling, was waiting for me at the foot of the stairs. She followed me up like a puppy and is now perched on my lap, purring away like crazy. The door is open – she’s free to go. But here she is.
Do our animals just know when we’re crazy about them? Because I love this little cat like I’ve never loved a cat before.
Calouste
@rikyrah: If you count PA for Clinton, it’s over if she also wins FL. It will be a big fat orange zero.
Just One More Canuck
@BC in Illinois: I disagree, but I don’t want to get into a lengthy discussion over it
redshirt
@Rob in CT: Doesn’t everyone think like this from time to time?
I’m pretending to be an adult most of the time.
burnspbesq
Trump Taj Mahal to close
Calouste
@cmorenc: Clinton wins (amongst many other scenarios) if she wins both Virginia and New Mexico, where the NYT gives her a 77% chance. Of the 10 states listed as swing states, only 3 are rated as more likely to go to Trump, NC, GA, and AZ. The path for Trump to win is very narrow. The NYT still gives him 20%, but that seems to be a tad high.
Kay
@BR:
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that Donald Trump has a rip-off donation mechanism.
Entirely consistent with every aspect of his life up to this moment- this is what he does.
Beth in VA
@Calouste: It’s still long to go.
BC in Illinois
@Just One More Canuck:
I had a witty response to that . . . it was in the palm of my hand, and now I can’t come up with it.
germy
@Miss Bianca:
They know.
dww44
@germy:
I’m not sure Republicans will ever let us forget the wonder years of 1980-1988. Certainly not the ones in my family and circle of friends. Heck, they still send out Reagan calendars to their financial supporters and said friends still hang them to remind us Dems of his superstar status.
Rob in CT
@redshirt:
I think most people with some introspection and intelligence, yes.
I didn’t even start occasionally feeling like an adult until my 30s. I’m 39 now and I occasionally think “Who the hell let me breed? WTF?”
Major Major Major Major
nm
Just One More Canuck
@BC in Illinois: I hate it when something’s on the tip of your tongue like that
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@oldgold:
Nice column; the comments were eloquent and damning, too. Thanks for the link!
sinnedbackwards
@germy: As Nero Wolfe would say, Satisfactory.
gvg
I would think the Trump donors could cancel their credit cards and get new ones…..maybe even ask the card company to dispute the payments?
Barb2
My cat walks into the Vet’s office. With his Chihuahua. Dogs in the waiting room are so confused – they pretend they aren’t seeing something abnormal. Cat and dog walking side by side. Small dog with an attitude.
But I have had cats who needed the cats only waiting room.
dww44
@germy: I agree and think that Cotton should move to the head of your list. Talk about grounds for treason. He’s come awfully close. I hope that I live long enough to see him ousted. He’s truly the antithesis of a J. William Fulbright and all that he stood for in the U.S. Senate and foreign policy circles. Diplomacy not war..
Villago Delenda Est
@Kay: The entire Drumpf family consists of parasites.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I’m not surprised, but then…I read it and went
REALLY?
SERIOUSLY?
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
I sure hope Senator Elizabeth Warren knows about this. Her tweets and speeches would be blistering. Blistering.
yellowdog
@NorthLeft12: I saw one survey that said that a significantly higher percent of Trump voters were voting against Clinton vs. for Trump than the percentage of Clinton voters who were voting against Trump rather than for Clinton. But I don’t remember the exact numbers.
SiubhanDuinne
@gvg:
They probably could, but why should they have to be put through all that hassle? (Well, except as punishment for being stupid enough to contribute to Trump in the first place.)
Barb2
@gvg:
You should be able to call your bank and have the charge removed and block further charges. I’ve done this before – hyper aggressive charity.
But then Trumpettes know all the slime ball crooked tricks.
gogol's wife
@oldgold:
Comments are amazing.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: My 18-year-old accidentally donated $500 to Hillary Clinton! She meant to choose the $5 button (it was on the mobile app), hit $500 instead and didn’t notice until she hit the 2nd “confirm” button. She called me in a panic! I told her to call the campaign, which she did. They were very nice about it and refunded $495 within the week. I bet the Trump people would have told her tough shit! Hahaha!
yellowdog
@redshirt: I’ve given up pretending to be an adult. I haven’t put pants on yet and its noon. Fortunately I don’t have to commute.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Just remember that, like me, you have one of those weird brains that likes to lie to you. Tell it, “Shut up, brain! Stop lying like you’re Trump!”
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@cmorenc:
Let’s go Barry Switzer on Trumps’s arse and run up the score!
opiejeanne
Holy cow, my hands are larger than his and that’s astonishing because I’m a woman and I have very small hands, small enough that I had trouble with majoring in piano when it came to the Romantic composers because I just don’t have the reach to do more than a 9th, and that’s straining a bit. Love Beethoven but at least one of his sonatas required a reach of a 10th, and rolling it is just not done.
hovercraft
@Calouste:
I say go for the jugular since she’s saving money from Colorado and Virginia, she should go up in Georgia, and get even more aggressive in North Carolina, force him to expend a lot of money in the states he has to win. Trump’s need to be a dick has probably made it almost impossible for him to win WI, Paul Ryan, Rinse Pubis, et al may be scum, but they are WI scum and liked by their people, endorsing a Neanderthal who is advocating that we go out and round up every muslim in the country for deportation is not Wisconsin nice.
Mnemosyne
Random question for Betty and/or other Floridians — have you ever heard of Silver Airways, and do they have a decent reputation? I’m thinking of proposing having my nieces fly it from Ft. Myers to meet me in Orlando, but I want to make sure they’re not a notorious deathtrap or something.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: Yet he still will not acknowledge his role in all this. For all his spouting off about civility and empathy, he’s a member of the party that spits on both.
Fuck him and all like him.
Villago Delenda Est
@hovercraft: I’m not sure if conventional rules for running a Presidential campaign apply here. No one is in charge at HairForce central. The idiot thinks Washington (one of the most deep blue states in the Union) is a swing state…and he’s going there! I agree that Hillary should contest states that normally go red, but this is far from a normal year. If Arizona and UTAH(!!!!!) are in play, the conventional rules must be tossed. Fortunately, Hillary seems to have a much more solid team (no Mark Penn) than in 2008.
opiejeanne
@opiejeanne: Ok, never mind. His hand is about 1″ longer than mine, and it’s certainly fatter.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Felonius Monk:
If it’s not, it should be.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
I am old enough to remember when there were no women deejays, because women didn’t sound “authoritative” enough to tell you what crappy pop song you’d just heard. And I am still under 50 years old.
Kay
@Villago Delenda Est:
Everything about them screams “scam” to me. Sorry- it just does. I feel as if the sons are thrilled they found this new business opportunity. Ugh. I’m hoping it turns out they missed the high-water mark for GOP grifters- got in right before the collapse. It couldn’t go on forever.
germy
@Mnemosyne: I listened to Allison Steele (aka the “Nightbird”) on WNEW FM in the 1970s. But she was an exception. Most of the DJs playing crap music were men.
Brachiator
@cmorenc:
Actually, the only thing that matters is getting out the vote. Clinton may want to concentrate on certain states because of polling information, but that is irrelevant to anyone who is not on her campaign staff.
Statistics junkies may want to play with the numbers, but it really doesn’t mean anything.
germy
@Mnemosyne:
Vintage Scandinavian Airlines Food from the 1950s to the ’80s
I made the mistake of flying “American” last year and they treated us like shit.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Brooks is stuck in the bargaining stage, if not still in denial:
It’s all phrased in the passive voice, like the Republicans were just sitting around minding their own business and now suddenly all this awful stuff is happening to them.
(Emphasis mine.) Assumes facts not in evidence.
They don’t have five or 10 policies. All they have is lower taxes, screw everyone else and Cleek’s Law.
That includes you, Bobo. That includes you. Let us know when you go “in revolt.” Haven’t seen it yet.
Coincidentally, Krugman today has the right of it:
Betty Cracker
@Mnemosyne: Never heard of it, but I almost never fly. I’ll ask around.
RandomMonster
I love the smell of Trump roast…
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
What’s a deejay? Does anyone listen to curated music anymore?
I think the classical and jazz stations I listened to had women deejays, but it seems so long ago that I don’t quite remember.
Betty Cracker
@Brachiator: There’s a great community radio station in the Tampa Bay area that we listen to a lot. It’s staffed by volunteers and funded by donations. I’ve discovered many great bands by listening. But you’re right; deejays are going / have gone the way of the buffalo. I think we’ll lose something of value when the small independent stations go under…ClearChannel, not so much.
Chip Daniels
The dog in that drawing looks much less spherical than the pics I have seen.
Bobby Thomson
@Emma: that’s been cleaned up. The original quote included the f bomb.
Calouste
@hovercraft: I think rather than running up the score, Clinton will put extra resources in trying to win more Senate seats. Which naturally will coincide to a certain degree with campaigning in states she has among shot at, but if she campaigns in Arizona it will be to kick McCain out of his seat, not to get those 8 EVs.
opiejeanne
Uday and Qusay just left to go hunting, and this is what came to mind
Deer Scene
Feebog
Please, no more advice to Trump donors. If they were stupid enough to give their card information and sign up for monthly donations they deserve to suffer.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@hovercraft: Not only would I make him spend in Georgia, Missouri, and North Carolina, I would also go after Mississippi and South Carolina. Those were both close enough in 2012 (unlike, say, Alabama) that the thought of Hillary behaving as if she could get those states would reduce the RNC to an even greater level of despair and emotional prostration. Granted, Mississippi has a whole 9 electoral votes and South Carolina has 9, but the thought of losing those would be a dreadful blow in the electoral nervenkrieg that’s going on right now.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@germy:
The DJ in that 70’s classic film The Warriors was pretty good.
Warriors… Come out and plaaa-ay!
catclub
@germy:
Napoleon’s portraits come to mind, here. Less egotistical than Trump. [Yes, I know the reason.]
geg6
@NorthLeft12:
I do believe that is how it is being taken and certainly how it is being reported. Same thing with the billionaires.
She has been doing exactly that. In fact, I read an article today that said that it is quite startling that she is getting so much support from the business/Wall Street crowd while sticking like glue to the most liberal proposals in our lifetimes.
Glad to see that not all Americans, regardless of social/economic status, are clinically insane.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@RandomMonster:
Ugh. I think I’m going vegan suddenly.
Ben Cisco
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s a disturbingly specific epithet. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Just One More Canuck
@opiejeanne: I wonder if they’ll run into an ‘accident’
catclub
@BR: Wow, that virtual card still exists! I thought it had disappeared. Too bad I don’t have any CITI cards.
Brachiator
@hovercraft:
Right now, there is not much evidence to suggest that the Trump campaign is disciplined enough to react to something that Clinton might do. In any event, I would think that she needs to focus on winning more voters, not on trying to play Trump. Of course, her surrogates can have fun baiting him.
Also, I think she should spend a little in Colorado and Virginia, but it’s early, and who knows if Trump can mobilize any kind of effective comeback. Right now, Trump seems to be really hurting himself, especially with people who want to like him. He also seems to alienating people in the military.
Villago Delenda Est
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Lynne Thigpen, who passed all too soon at 54 in 2003
Shana
@rikyrah: I suppose they could contact their credit card company, explain that the site won’t let them cancel the recurring payment, and tell the credit card company they want any future charges denied. Short of cancelling the card that seems the best method.
hovercraft
@1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet): @Brachiator:
He put out an ad yesterday, where Hillary is giving a speech about what she’s going to do, she clearly says we won’t raise taxes on the middle class, but the subtitle Trump puts on says we will raise taxes on the middle class. Rachel was mocking it last night, do you believe your lyin eyes or ears, both can’t be right? With his small donations last month, he will have as much money as he needs. I think making him spend it defensively is the way to go. He didn’t spend before because it was his money and he’s cheap, now that he has it he will spend like a drunken sailor, especially now that he’s falling pretty far behind.
J R in WV
Our vets draw little pictures of dog, with different lines for stitches, not stitched, drains, etc.
It is good when a family member begins to return to normal behavior, isn’t it!!
ETA remove TMI
Jeffro
@Calouste: I had to go look at it, and look some more…sigh…let us savor…
Seriously, 10 toss-up states, 8 of which are leaning Dem right now.
Please spend those precious ad dollars in NY and CA and NJ, Donald.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I would like to put in the record here that I have big fucking hands. 8 and a fourth inches long, motherfuckers! That means my hands are 13.8% bigger than Donald’s. Sad.
I should point out, to be fair, that almost all of my hand size is in my freakishly ling fingers. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. But I don’t give a shit, since my hands are 13.8% fucking bigger than tiny fingered Donald Trump’s teeny tiny baby hands!
The Pale Scot
@Felonius Monk:
How ’bout “Puppies for Progress”
cckids
@germy:
Amen. I’ve lost a couple of friends on FB this election season; they were mooning for a “return of Reagan”, I dropped a few facts on them (like Iran-Contra, hostility to unions, etc), they had no response except “but Hillary sux”. So they’re gone. Don’t miss them at all.
glory b
But (and I haven’t raed the whole thread) it is the ratio between the size of his fingers and palm/hand that was the issue.
To me, his hand looks to be maybe within normal size range, but his fingers are very short.
The Pale Scot
@Mnemosyne: I went to their website, and wasn’t able to view it unless I gave them my email address.
That sounds like a Trump business.
J R in WV
@cckids:
Reagan was elected by committing treason, conspiring with Iranian revolutionaries who took our diplomats hostage. He promised to supply them with weapons if they held the hostages until he took office. He screwed Jimmy Carter (one of the best presidents we ever had, fucked by Republicans and the Petro-bandits of the mid-east) AND all those diplomats and Marines in order to win election.
Reagan and all of his co-conspirators are loathsome scum.
manyakitty
@Miss Bianca: Any chance you could take her home?
Mnemosyne
@The Pale Scot:
That’s weird. I was able to X out of that and look at ticket info yesterday.
Mnemosyne
@manyakitty:
IIRC, Miss Bianca has a large dog that considers kitties to be snack food, so no. Sad!
manyakitty
@Mnemosyne: I guess she’s being reasonable, then. Boo.
Frank Forchinsky
@Emma: Very doubtful Hillary said that then and this is the first account of it to be told.
Procopius
I know I should restrain myself, but: “… Everyone with a war to mong …” No. Just, no. The verb is “to monger.” I’m not an accomplished enough writer to advise, but it’s just jarring. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to this kind of thing because I live in a country where English is rarely spoken.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Procopius:
She was at least partially joking, as in “My schaden was thoroughly freuded.” Not grammatically correct, but it gets the idea across with some (hopefully) funny wordplay. Opinions differ.
Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack (tablet): Gyad, thank you. I don’t think I could have mustered a response more articulate than (click image for animation):