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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / Sunday Evening Open Thread: We Should Only Be So Lucky

Sunday Evening Open Thread: We Should Only Be So Lucky

by Anne Laurie|  August 14, 20167:35 pm| 174 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!

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Trump in Fairfield, CT: "Oh, you better elect me, folks, I’ll never speak to you again." pic.twitter.com/G0ylN6BKvV

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 14, 2016

MAKE HIM SIGN A PLEDGE. https://t.co/CzuN94DYc2

— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 14, 2016

What’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?

Next wk will see collision of 2 powerful media instincts:
1) Story must change ('doing better than you think')
2) Bandwagon ('losers lose')

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 13, 2016

Based on this story, I think Trump might have stumbled into a campaign doom loop. https://t.co/mpdoTPRXYQ

— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 12, 2016

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    August 14, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    Well, Buzzfeed just published a lengthy profile of Juanita Broaddrick.

    Trump last night said “Thank God we had the dress!” re Monica’s infamous blue dress.

    I predict we’re about to have 7-10 days’ worth of Bill splooge.

  2. 2.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    OMG did Trump really say that?

    His campaign is insane.

  3. 3.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 14, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    Trump is pretty fat, is that why he is always in a suit?

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    August 14, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    @Trentrunner:

    I’m sorry, call me a cockeyed optimist (no pun intended), but I think people are sick of that. He’s an old geezer now, it has no frisson.

  5. 5.

    Trentrunner

    August 14, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @redshirt: He did indeed. I’m surprised it wasn’t more covered.

    That and similar lack of coverage on Melanoma’s nude lesbian portfolio show just how insane Trump’s other remarks have been. What the media used to feed on for weeks gets nearly zero coverage.

  6. 6.

    different-church-lady

    August 14, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @Trentrunner: Well, that was inevitable no matter who the GOP candidate was.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    August 14, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @Trentrunner: I’d rather they talk about the Trump policies. Let’s remove all the banking regulations on mortgages, because they really are sorry and won’t tank the economy again. Let’s let those who don’t pay payroll taxes, take money from social security to pay for child care, because social security is funded, let’s lower the top one percent taxes, cuz……… and let’s increase spending on roads and vets cuz that pays for itself. Yeah, I’d love to talk about those issues.

  8. 8.

    different-church-lady

    August 14, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Would you want to see him out of a suit?

  9. 9.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    @different-church-lady: @different-church-lady: I would be happy if I never had to see or hear about him ever again.

  10. 10.

    MattF

    August 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    @different-church-lady: Right. Be thankful for small mercies.

  11. 11.

    Ken

    August 14, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: The suit’s to hide his Muslim Brotherhood tattoos.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    @different-church-lady: A while back, someone painted naked Trump. I could try to find that for you.

  13. 13.

    PsiFighter37

    August 14, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    Stuck at St. Louis airport waiting for my airplane. Good weekend overall, but getting a bit nervous for this regulatory exam I have in a week. I have taken 4 practice exams and failed two (barely – by 2-4 questions). I’m a bit worried about the possibility of failing. Teaching yourself brand-new shit, outside of a classroom environment, on top of a day job, is very difficult.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Best of luck. I hope never to have to take a test again.

  15. 15.

    Kristine

    August 14, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    @PsiFighter37: On the job self-ed is hard. Good luck!

  16. 16.

    AkaDad

    August 14, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    Riiiight. As if Trump could ever keep his lie-hole shut.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    Even Jesus forgave the people who hated him. But I guess he was a loser.

  18. 18.

    dexwood

    August 14, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    @Ken:
    The suit is reversible to white with a pop-up hood. He has the best tailors with all the best threads.

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    Politico (yes, I know): RNC considers cutting cash to Trump:

    Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump. Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to save endangered congressional majorities.
    Since the Cleveland convention, top party officials have been quietly making the case to political journalists, donors and GOP operatives that the Republican National Committee has done more to help Trump than it did to support its 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, and that therefore Trump has only himself and his campaign to blame for his precipitous slide in the polls, according to people who have spoken with Republican leadership.

    Of course, there’s no need to rush into anything:

    To this point, Spicer has suggested a mid-October deadline for turning around the presidential campaign, suggesting last week to reporters and in separate discussions with GOP operatives that it would cause serious concern inside the RNC if Trump were to remain in a weakened position by then.

    Mid October? You’d think maybe Labor Day at the latest if you want your triage attempt to have any hope of working.

  20. 20.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 8:01 pm

    @Baud: Here‘s one artist’s interpretation.

  21. 21.

    sigaba

    August 14, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU AMERICA! THOUGH I THINK WE WILL DO VERY WELL.

    @Baud: He prefers the saviors that didn’t get caught.

  22. 22.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @PsiFighter37: What’s the topic(s)?

  23. 23.

    gf120581

    August 14, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    @dmsilev: For comparison, when did they triage Bob Dole in 1996?

    I’m not sure that’s a good plan to try again, either, since Dole was a well-respected guy who was running a professional campaign, while Trump is the exact opposite. Dole didn’t have the ability to wreck havoc on the downballot like Trump. (The situation isn’t the same either, esepcially in the Senate; in 1996, the Dems were defending more seats and had a lot of open seats to try and protect, while this year, the GOP is almost entirely on the defense.)

  24. 24.

    liberal

    August 14, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    Mike Bloomberg: Shitstain

  25. 25.

    Mike J

    August 14, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    @Baud:

    I hope never to have to take a test again

    I coached my last class of the season today. Then I sailed around the south end of Lake Washington and came back to the dock. I have thoroughly uneventful video to prove it.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    @sigaba: Nice.

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Of course they are…as if folks can’t see why the media wants to cover this…

    @AlexParkerDC
    Hoo boy– @BuzzFeed looks into the Juanita Broaddrick story:

    Trump is good for business…fuq what he does to the country.

    Not saying the story should or should not be told, but if the story wasn’t meant to titallate or for clickbait, it’s one thing, but has anyone heard any MSM stories on Trump rape allegations?

  28. 28.

    msdc

    August 14, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Oh, you better elect me, folks, I’ll never speak to you again.

    [CHEERS]

    I know I’m misreading the transcript, but this is fucking hilarious.

  29. 29.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    @dmsilev: Total fucking idiots are in charge at the RNC.

    Thank FSM!

  30. 30.

    frosty

    August 14, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    Teaching yourself brand-new shit, outside of a classroom environment, on top of a day job, is very difficult.

    I agree. I took the EIT and Professional Engineer exams 15 years out of school. Basically checked textbooks and exam preps out of the library and worked problems for a year for each.
    Passed, though. Hang in there.

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    Only with Usain Bolt is 9.86…an “easy 9,86” then the bastard slowed down!
    #Olympics #UsainBolt

    and then he smiled at the end

  32. 32.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    Meet the new goofball.

  33. 33.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    @lamh36: It’s nuts. In his first heat he looked around three times and still won. This pre-lim he looked both ways once and still hit 9.86. And was coasting.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @burnspbesq: Who’s a good boy?

  35. 35.

    Tom Q

    August 14, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @gf120581: Yeah, 1996 was more a matter of “we’re happy with our incumbent president and want to see him stick around”; no one cringed at the idea of Dole being elected, the way many do about Trump now.

    And, as you say, the field was not as ripe for picking, as 1990 had been a Dem-leaning/mostly stable class. It’s when you have a group of Senators elected in a tilt-one-direction election facing the opposite six years later that you have the possibility for significant change (as in 2008/2014).

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: They’re not really idiots, but rather are trying to come up with a solution to an impossible problem: Trump is beloved by his base, but hated by the not-base; how do you run candidates who can appeal to the latter and still keep some support from the former? Now, it’s true that decades of deliberate Republican decisions have brought them to this point, so we should indeed sit back and revel at their agony, but it’s not really the fault of the current generation of apparatchiks.

  37. 37.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @burnspbesq: Aha, another knucklehead!

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    @dmsilev: Oh, they became apparatchiks because of what the partei has become over the last 50 years. They need to suffer for that.

  39. 39.

    Mike J

    August 14, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Comments getting eated. Will this one?

  40. 40.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 14, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @Corner Stone: Am I the only one who looks at Justin Gatlin and thinks of Ben Johnson?

  41. 41.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @raven: How you feeling Raven?

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    I’m having goat biryani for dinner tonight and there’s nothing any of y’all can do about it.

    ETA, speaking of being so lucky.

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: That’s a fair point.

  44. 44.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @Mike J: No, because it was short.

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts. It’s like FYWP is working for Drumpf, now that I think about it.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Do you mean because he is 34, still ripped and fast af?
    or just his mug and hairstyle?

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: @raven:

    His name’s Gable. He’s around three years old. He came from the same breeder from whom Spouse got the puppy earlier this year. He’s of the long-and-lean variant, probably weighs around 120.

    Apparently I am fated to live out the remainder of my days in a three-dog household, and I have nothing to say about it.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @lamh36: That’s something Hillary’s camp can plan for. None of that old stuff should be a surprise.

  48. 48.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 14, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    @Corner Stone: His physique.

  49. 49.

    lollipopguild

    August 14, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    @burnspbesq: If I am such a Good Dog, where is my treat?

  50. 50.

    Renie

    August 14, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: He is fat but I read he wears a bullet proof vest under the suit.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    You got your little sausage-patty thingie this morning.

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    @Renie: Do you think he really considers the option that someone would choose to hurt him? Doesn’t he have all those type of loons in his pocket?

  53. 53.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    @lamh36:
    MEH! The US high school record is 10.00, so 0.14 seconds slower, I’m unimpressed.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    Anyone seen Hell or High Water yet?

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    “Here I am again on my own!” “Going down the only road I’ve ever known!”

    Anthems for children, sponsored by your friendly local WalMart.

  56. 56.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 14, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    @Corner Stone: Oh nice!

  57. 57.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @burnspbesq:
    Cute Puppha, thanks

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 14, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    So half an hour from my destination, I ran over a thing in the road and blew out my front left tire. OnStar is keeping me company and I’m waiting for a cop and a repair person to show up. It’s dark, I’m hungry and tired from driving, and I have to pee.

  59. 59.

    JMG

    August 14, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    @lamh36: This is the media outlet most famous for outing gay Olympic athletes from violently anti-gay countries? And they’re supposed to be treated as anything but useless slime walking? Anyone working for Buzzfeed is lucky if they’re not urinated on in public.

  60. 60.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Could you pee in the woods?

    Also, that timing sucks.

  61. 61.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    @redshirt:
    raven – Please don’t answer “like shit”

    Hope you are hanging in there. This crap is no fun

  62. 62.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    @redshirt Schlemazel: I’m all right thanks. They went to a split deal on drinking the stuff so I knocked out the first half-gallon from 6-7. I get up at 2am and do the rest so I should be pretty whack by my 7am appointment. I really hope people are not afraid of this, it really isn’t more than an inconvenience and the alternative can be really bad.

    eta My biggest regret is that I didn’t schedule the hernia procedure so I could have had the Olympics during the recovery.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    @JMG: that was Daily Beast actually, not Buzzfeed.

    but still..right Buzzfeed is all bout clickbait

  64. 64.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    @Schlemazel: ha…except Bolt obviously slowed down once he saw he was gonna win and how fast he had already gone…

    check this pic out: @owillis
    Usain Bolt’s not even playing the same game

  65. 65.

    Mike J

    August 14, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts.

    For some reason it’s eating any comment I post with youtube links. I’ll try one last time with a shortener. It’s really not even worth it. It’s just low wind sailing around back to the dock.

  66. 66.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    @raven:
    Yeah, it is not painful or awful (I have done much much much worse) but it is no fun. I have 8 years before I have to do it again.

    I wonder though how many people don’t do the whole thing. I did exactly as told & the doctor just raved about how well I had prepped. I have heard other people say similar so it makes me think you would not have to really do it all but the over recommend because most people cheat.

  67. 67.

    JMG

    August 14, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    @lamh36: You’re right, I was wrong. But all those sites run together in my mind, possibly because they’re all alike.

  68. 68.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    @lamh36:
    yeah, mine was a joke but I am stunned to learn that the HS record is 10. thats ridiculous.

  69. 69.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    OT, sort of: The mega-sewer that is Infowars.com is reporting that Hillary has Parkinson’s, based on a “source” that is in the Secret Service. Probably the dildos on the Christmas Tree guy.

  70. 70.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

    Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.

    The papers, known in Ukraine as the “black ledger,” are a chicken-scratch of Cyrillic covering about 400 pages taken from books once kept in a third-floor room in the former Party of Regions headquarters on Lipskaya Street in Kiev. The room held two safes stuffed with $100 bills, said Taras V. Chornovil, a former party leader who was also a recipient of the money at times. He said in an interview that he had once received $10,000 in a “wad of cash” for a trip to Europe.

    “This was our cash,” he said, adding that he had left the party in part over concerns about off-the-books activity. “They had it on the table, stacks of money, and they had lists of who to pay.”

    The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which obtained the ledger, said in a statement that Mr. Manafort’s name appeared 22 times in the documents over five years, with payments totaling $12.7 million. The purpose of the payments is not clear. Nor is the outcome, since the handwritten entries cannot be cross-referenced against banking records, and the signatures for receipt have not yet been verified.

    Huh.

    Funny that this is the guy who Trump chose as his campaign chair. So, how about those Trumpian tax returns and rumors of Russian money?

  71. 71.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    @Mike J: Naked links is a known problem with FYWP. More than three links of any kind is a known issue.

  72. 72.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    @Schlemazel: I read somewhere that fewer than 50% of eligible folks do it. I got put on a 2 year rotation after my last one so maybe I’ll be luckier this time. There is so much valuable information on the internet but it is also easy to get really negative stuff if you read input from “patients”. Maybe it helps to have survived some really horrible accidents and KNOW that, in may cases, pain is temporary.

  73. 73.

    gf120581

    August 14, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    @burnspbesq: I was lucky to see a premiere screening two weeks ago at Michael Moore’s film festival in Traverse City (even if it was nearly two hours late because that egotistical fatass wouldn’t keep his previous Q&A to schedule and get off the stage). It’s a must see. If you can see it, see it.

  74. 74.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    Interesting thing Jake Crapper took a shot at Jan Brewer when she tried to defend Trump. “How dare we cover the statements he makes”

    If the cheeto-dust covered turd has lost Jake he is in deep trouble.http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/how-dare-we-cover-comments-he-makes-trumps-jan-brewer-gets-awesome-shade-from-jake-tapper/

  75. 75.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Hey, good luck. I’ve had eight regulatory exams in the last 5 years. SO VERY emotionally done. I feel you.

  76. 76.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    The current men’s world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaica’s Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women’s world record of 10.49 seconds set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 remains unbroken.

  77. 77.

    Renie

    August 14, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    @Corner Stone: LOL He’s afraid of everyone else probably,

  78. 78.

    Mike J

    August 14, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: My links weren’t naked, and I only had two links. Also,m it wasn;t throwing them into moderation as it does in those cases, it was just eating them the way it does if you use a banned user’s name.

  79. 79.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    Wow…this South African runner Van Niekerk’s story is so interesting…
    #Olympics #Rio2016 Good luck to him!
    #trackandfield

    I saw the story where his mom was a great athlete but wasn’t allowed to compete during apartheid goverment because only whites were allowed to compete internationally

  80. 80.

    gene108

    August 14, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    @lamh36:

    Not saying the story should or should not be told, but if the story wasn’t meant to titallate or for clickbait, it’s one thing, but has anyone heard any MSM stories on Trump rape allegations?

    Nope.

    The fact there’s a civil suit stemming from the rape allegations winding its way through court – along with all the other lawsuits he’s involved with – should be an issue, if President Trump comes to pass.

    How much time will he be Presdident-in’ and how much will be spent in court?

    But no one in the media bothers with this. Sad. Believe me.

  81. 81.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    @gf120581:

    Thanks. It’s pretty unusual for there to be two movies out at the same time that I’m interested in seeing, but that one and Equity have my attention.

    Even Denzel’s presence can’t get me interested in a remake of The Magnificent Seven.

  82. 82.

    grandpa john

    August 14, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    @different-church-lady: he would really look good in old fashioned tar and feathers getting a ride out of town on a rail

  83. 83.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @Baud:
    so the boys HS record is half a second better than the womens world record & half a second off the mens. That is very surprising to me. No way I would have guess an 18 year old (or younger) could run that

  84. 84.

    Mike E

    August 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @raven: ACC tourney fans schedule vasectomies during March Madness!

  85. 85.

    lollipopguild

    August 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @burnspbesq: Can I haz another?

  86. 86.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    @Mike J:
    you might have used one of the banned words like ‘relax” or a dozen other we are not told are forbidden

  87. 87.

    different-church-lady

    August 14, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts.

    Rule of thumb: once it gets beyond a ‘graph, I’m copying the text to my clipboard frequently as I go.

  88. 88.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Wow…good for him!

    He did it!

    Congrats Van Niekerk!

    Gold 400m and WR!

    #Olympics #Gold

  89. 89.

    debbie

    August 14, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Are all three Pyrennes?

  90. 90.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    @lamh36:
    I hate when they make me care about the participants. Mostly because so often the reasons they think I should care are just notworth caring about. This guy however really has a story to care about. Glad he won!

  91. 91.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    Moment of Truth op-ed in the WSJ.

    It’s behind a wall, but they name Gingrich and Chris Christie and the “talk radio Right” as selling the idea that Trump could beat Clinton.

    They’re holding out hope for post Labor Day, though. I think politicians can stand anything except for becoming a joke. I thought Trump was a (bad) joke all along, but if there’s a point where he just becomes an object of derision he’s dead as a political figure. I hope we’re nearing that.

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    From Lane 8 where “no one wins”

    And he broke Micheal Johnson’s record…BIG!

    And his coach is 74 years old!

    I’m as excited for him as I would be or the US athlete!

    Johnson’s record was 17 years old!

  93. 93.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 14, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    @dmsilev: Um, of course the ledger will be in Cyrillic. It’s in Ukraine. Duh.

  94. 94.

    Hal

    August 14, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    It’s always perplexing to me that Bill cheating on Hillary is a negative for Hillary.

  95. 95.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    August 14, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    @Schlemazel: Please, remember that he and Wolf Blitzer have merged into one unholy Villager, a nearly fictitious entity of self-absorbed circle-jerking, mentioned in the same hushed whispers as the Loch Ness Monster and Yetis. And that person’s name is Wake Blapper.

    “When you’ve lost Wake Blapper…”

  96. 96.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    @Baud:
    also too, was she not found to have been doping?

    One of the things that has really put me off the Olympics is the number of champions that have been shown to have used PEDs. I was never a big fan of Lance Armstrong but the Mrs was a huge fan & would get angry when reports of his doping would appear. Now she refuses to watch bike racing because everyone cheat (well maybe only the winners). Sadly I feel similarly about all sports now. They might just as well make it legal & see how far the users are willing to take it.

  97. 97.

    Corner Stone

    August 14, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Bob Costas is an oompa loompa.

  98. 98.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @Kay: You can access WSJ articles without a subscription by going to Google and doing a search on the article title. From that article,

    Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.

    If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.

    Basically all of these op-eds and conservative think-pieces and so forth boil down to “Trump can win if he has a radical personality transformation”. Inspiring!

  99. 99.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @Green_Footballs
    Hey now. Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

  100. 100.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 14, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    @Hal: Its always the woman’s fault, don’t you know. That’s how patriarchy works.

  101. 101.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    @Hal:
    Well obviously if she were not a murderous lesbian she could have kept him satisfied and he would not have wandered. It is never the guys fault.

    EDIT: @schrodinger’s cat:
    JINX!

  102. 102.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    @Mike J: Oh, so it’s all new FYWP asshattery!

  103. 103.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    @Corner Stone:
    why insult the Ompas?

  104. 104.

    Mary G

    August 14, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    @Schlemazel: I had Crohn’s disease in the 80s and had a bunch of colonoscopies with the old style prep with no trouble. When they went to the gallon of stuff I couldn’t keep it down after the second glass. They kept telling me to do my best, I barfed all night, then they complained about the lousy prep. I know I am way overdue but I’m not going back.

  105. 105.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    @AdamWeinstein
    Speaking as someone who has a story coming this week: This is just the beginning for Manafort. It gets worse.

  106. 106.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    @Mary G: Mary!

  107. 107.

    trollhattan

    August 14, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @lamh36:
    I was at the US Track and Field championships when Michael Johnson had his coming out party. In the 200 final he pulled up before the finish, winning but not breaking the world record that was easily in reach. The crowd knew it; you could hear the “Uhnnnn-hmm” circling the stands and the folks in the know had it as him holding back for the worlds and the higher sponsor bonus for breaking it there. All I can say is I was sorry not to see him smash the record that he’d eventually own like a comfy pair of Levis.

    Track is a great spectator sport, best when it’s open seating like at that meet. Nothing quite like sitting by Bob Kersee coaching Jackie from the stands.

  108. 108.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @lamh36: Oh my.

  109. 109.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    @trollhattan: I was at the Olympics in Atlanta when he won!

  110. 110.

    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    Did they always do these big intros in the Olympics?

  111. 111.

    Keith P.

    August 14, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    100m men’s finals is about to start. This is the only night I’ve watched the Olympics.

  112. 112.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    @Baud: For a race like this, hell yes! This is considered “The World’s Fastest Man”.

  113. 113.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 14, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    @lamh36: I can’t wait.

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    Gin & Tonic

    August 14, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    @Keith P.: And I lost power a half hour ago.

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    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    @raven: They did it for swimming also. Don’t remember it in past Olympics.

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    bk

    August 14, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    @burnspbesq: English cream retriever? We have two. More loving dogs don’t exist!

  117. 117.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    Bolt runs fast.

  118. 118.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    @dmsilev:

    The funniest part of the whole thing is Mike Pence. Mike Pence was in trouble in Indiana. Now they’re turning him into this statesman that everyone has always thought should be President.

    Mike Pence never would have won that primary. He would have been 2nd tier. Walker and Christie were their big governor stars and they BOTH did poorly.

    I wonder if it’s a kind of triage. Pence could keep the religious Right and the Money Party people and they are willing to throw the Trump low information/openly racist base under the bus to keep those two factions. Bush was Money Party and religious Right. That’s a coalition that has worked for them.

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    Baud

    August 14, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    Whoa.

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    JPL

    August 14, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    @raven: I saw several events, but couldn’t afford tickets to the finals. That is cool..

  121. 121.

    Keith P.

    August 14, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    Wow, watching Bolt catch Gatlin was pretty incredible. That was a substantial lead halfway through.

  122. 122.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    BOLT!!!!!!

    GOLD!

    And he once again made it look easy.

  123. 123.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    My dad knew the great Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley, Jamaican sprinter who went to Illinois!

  124. 124.

    Technocrat

    August 14, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    @redshirt:

    How bizarre is it that the fastest man on Earth has the last name “Bolt”?

  125. 125.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @JPL: Here’s my tickets!

  126. 126.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I’m delighting in it because it’s clear Trump didn’t know how hard it is, running for President. That arrogance drives me up the wall- this “oh, that’s easy” about what other people achieve. This idea that anyone can just jump in and do anyone else’s job has to end. It’s delusional. You see it so much on the Right- they’re always fulminating about incompetence and how any of them could do any job better. Chris Christie is the worst offender. “Glorified babysitters” for teachers. Chris Christie would last 15 minutes in charge of a room full of children.

  127. 127.

    Technocrat

    August 14, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @Kay:

    but if there’s a point where he just becomes an object of derision he’s dead as a political figure

    AKA The Fey Effect

  128. 128.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @Technocrat: That’s why everyone should name their child for their future prospects.

    Most children should be named Jim/Jane Cubicle.

  129. 129.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @JPL: This is 84 in LA. We were in the 4th row for Edwin Mose’s gold medal (they were probably Russian tickets that went on sale when they boycotted). While it’s hard to see, this is Joanie Benoit getting her Gold Medal for the marathon that was run that morning.

  130. 130.

    grandpa john

    August 14, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @Mary G: I had one last year and had the choice of using an alternate that used something that you mixed with gator aide or some other sports drink. It worked fine for me and didn’t taste bad. my colon was totally clean, no polyps, and at age 78 am through with them.

  131. 131.

    Martha from Augusta

    August 14, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @lamh36: Good to see that Adam’s landed on his feet. I was disappointed that Gawker did to him what Thiel did to Gawker.

  132. 132.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @Kay: The NYT had a story up yesterday on the implosion of the Trump campaign, and one of the commenters made a very good point. While our long campaign season is irritating for lots of reasons, one very good thing about it is that it lets us see how the nominee performs managing a big organization performing a very complicated task. Obama faced that test and passed with flying colors. Trump is failing it badly.

  133. 133.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @grandpa john: I’m using Crystal Light lemonade.

  134. 134.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @Mary G:
    I suppose it does no good to talk to your doctor because of course they know better than you.

    Sorry you have to go through that crap. I am having a similar problem with a series of urologists. I am going to a new one but it takes 8 weeks to get in for new patients.

  135. 135.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    @debbie:

    Two Pyrs and a little yellow mutt.

  136. 136.

    JPL

    August 14, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    @raven: Neat.. It never dawned on me to take pics of tickets, but I wish I did. As I mentioned before my youngest was near the bombing area. My son told a nice police man that he was going to call his mom even though the pay phones were roped off. After a few more I’m going to call my f…king mom, his friend dragged him off.

  137. 137.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Technocrat:
    I do love that, some people live up to their name!

  138. 138.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 14, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Hal:

    It’s always perplexing to me that Bill cheating on Hillary is a negative for Hillary.

    Oh, it’s feeds the internal narrative among these old white guys that women are inferior because you can cheat on them and so on.

  139. 139.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    August 14, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Mike J:

    I don’t know what specific strings trigger it, but I have found that there are some YouTube addresses that FYWP doesn’t like. It’s strange because YouTube addresses don’t contain recognizable words.

  140. 140.

    lamh36

    August 14, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @Technocrat:

    ‏@KVanValkenburg 4m4 minutes ago
    God: I’m going to make the fastest human ever
    St. Peter: Ok
    God: He needs an appropriate last name, tho
    St. Peter: I have a family in mind

  141. 141.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Thank God it’s so long with Trump, huh? We still know nothing about him. They don’t know who he owes and how much he owes. That’s an essential question and the GOP primary process failed as a political market. They didn’t raise any of that. The GOP political process itself is a market failure :)

  142. 142.

    mike in dc

    August 14, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    Even after he loses(God willing) reporters should keep asking him when he’s going to release his tax returns. Forever.

  143. 143.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    August 14, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @lamh36: Bolt always (at least in the races I’ve seen him in) slows down at the end. It would be really neat to see him run flat out before he retires. He’s amazing and it would be great to know how quickly he can really go.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  144. 144.

    grandpa john

    August 14, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @raven: Yeah that would work, I can’t remember the name of the stuff I used, I had to mix it with something sugar free because I am diabetic on an insulin pump.

  145. 145.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    August 14, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @burnspbesq: That’s a big, floofy, happy snowball!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  146. 146.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Hah! A new wrinkle:

    Corey LewandowskiVerified account
    ‏@CLewandowski_
    Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

    So Manafort is the sacrificial lamb? Let the blaming begin.

  147. 147.

    Technocrat

    August 14, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    .@redshirt:

    That’s hilarious, and depressing in equal measure.

    Now I want another kid so I can name them “President”.

    @lamh36:

    LMAO!!

  148. 148.

    J R in WV

    August 14, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    “… doomed to live in a three dog household…”

    That’s a good thing, Burns, because if you run into a three-dog night, cold, cold cold! you will have the necessary three dogs.

  149. 149.

    grandpa john

    August 14, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    @Schlemazel: There are alternatives to the gallon crap that the seem to be pushing now, I used one last year.

  150. 150.

    Kay

    August 14, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Next week in Donald Trump’s campaign:

    $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments to Paul Manafort from pro-Russia party in Ukraine, per investigators

  151. 151.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @Kay: It honestly amazes me that none of his primary opponents tried to make an issue of his murky finances and business screw-ups. Maybe it wouldn’t have worked given his support base, but they didn’t really even try. Sure, Romney gave that one speech, but that was really about it.

  152. 152.

    JPL

    August 14, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @raven: What a great picture..

  153. 153.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @Kay: Well, Cory probably has an animus towards Manafort seeing as Manafort was part of the anti-Cory coup, so I wouldn’t make too much of that. But still, fun to watch and makes you wonder how much other …interesting stories are going to pop up in the next month or so.

    And again, none of Trump’s primary opponents even tried to investigate him.

  154. 154.

    Technocrat

    August 14, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @Kay:

    Lewandowski threw him under the bus!!?? Ohh, man revenge is a dish best served ice cold.

    Manafort doesn’t look like the kind of guy you cross though. Those dead eyes, and flat effect. My gut says he is a dangerous person.

  155. 155.

    BR

    August 14, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @Kay:

    Are you going to start doing frontpage posts again soon? The blog needs you!

  156. 156.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 14, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    @Kay: Religious right and racists have a large Venn overlap.

  157. 157.

    Zinsky

    August 14, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    This shit-for-brains egotist is flat out, the biggest asshole to ever walk the earth!

  158. 158.

    raven

    August 14, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @JPL: This is my hat from 84. The oddity is that somehow I got a Russian swim pin even though they were not there!

  159. 159.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @raven: That’s got to be worth some money somewhere.

  160. 160.

    patrick II

    August 14, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    @Mary G:

    You have heard of the new tests where you just send in a stool sample? That is a test for cancer, so I am not sure if it applies.

  161. 161.

    nutella

    August 14, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Donald Trump Jr., said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

    I believe I saw somewhere that this is on video, but I’ve lost the link. Quote above from Vox.

  162. 162.

    nutella

    August 14, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @nutella:

    Longer quote from DT Jr:

    “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., said at a real estate conference in 2008, according to a trade publication, eTurboNews.

    from Time

  163. 163.

    J R in WV

    August 14, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    I did it some time back, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as, for example, food poisoning or intestinal infection of some kind. Been there, done that.

    You do empty out, but you don’t (I didn’t, anyway) experience the cramps and nausea that accompanies other emptying out events.

    After the actual ‘scopy my first recollection is tying my shoes in the hall with wife and doctor… feeling actually pretty great. I wonder what I said before I came to, on the way to the hall…

  164. 164.

    Schlemazel

    August 14, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @J R in WV:
    I was disappointed, I wanted to watch on the TV screen. Whatever they give you is an interesting drug because it just erases time but does not leave you groggy.

  165. 165.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    August 14, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Technocrat: Remember “Senator K. Thorvaldson” from Lake Wobegone? Senator was his given name, immigrant parents gave it to him.

  166. 166.

    J R in WV

    August 14, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Yeah, I said I wanted to watch the TV while they were prepping, and they both (Dr and nurse/assistant) said “No, you don’t!” in unison.

    Then she put me out.

  167. 167.

    sukabi

    August 14, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    @Ken: and his white pride and kkk tats.

  168. 168.

    KS in MA

    August 14, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Gatlin makes me think of Jim Rice.

  169. 169.

    Candia

    August 14, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    @ThresherK (GPad): Sorry for butting in, but that reminds me of “In the Heights”, the musical LMM wrote before “Hamilton”. The protagonist is Usnavi – his Dominican parents named him after the first ship they saw when they came to the US – it was a US Navy ship. Always cracks me up.

  170. 170.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 14, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    @Candia: One tradition of the Hmong people is/was to choose to name a child after something that they admired. My mom, as a ESL teacher with primarily Hmong students, once had a student named TransAm.

  171. 171.

    KS in MA

    August 14, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @lamh36: So cool!

  172. 172.

    Emma

    August 15, 2016 at 12:03 am

    @Candia: One of my father’s college buddies in Cuba was also Usnavi. Same reason. His father had seen an American ship in the harbor in La Habana.

  173. 173.

    RadioOne

    August 15, 2016 at 2:28 am

    I feel that all of this is definitely going to work out for Trump somehow. It’s just a feeling, but

  174. 174.

    Vhh

    August 15, 2016 at 8:13 am

    @dmsilev I know a bit about Russia, and this is scary shit, not least because it will poison important US-Russia relations for decades. The US and Russia have many common interests, and we should not hate them nor they, us.

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