This is what Jedi mind tricks look like when they fail:
When asked about being down in the race, Trump adviser replies, "Says who?"https://t.co/HO9wqbdDWR https://t.co/C2UzSDdUo4
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) August 17, 2016
Can someone please make a bumper sticker that says “Says Who? – 2016”
TK
Says math. Says common sense. Take your pick, Holmes.
raven
Sez Who?, Sez Me, Royko
gogol's wife
This clip is never going to get old.
Who is she? Pretty funny.
dmsilev
I guess we should be grateful that ‘says who’ wasn’t followed by ‘yo mamma’, since that appears to be the level of maturity the Trump campaign is aspiring to.
Smiling Mortician
I understand this guy’s a lawyer? Not a very good one.
schrodinger's cat
She has more spine than Whory Woodruff on Snooze Hour, who let the Trumpbot shovel BS by the metric ton, without any challenge.
Davis X. Machina
Two words: Nathan Thurm
swiftfox
Even better – take a look at the hat on Kevin Drum’s response to this.
lamh36
Trump campaign lawyer in front of Trump campaign HQ
bystander
That Trump may take down not just the repub party but Manafort and Breitbart, too? Priceless.
dmsilev
i feel that clip should be followed by the scene from Apollo 13 where a room full of guys with slide rules one after another give their approval, and then someone cried out ‘The math checks! It’s a go!’.
FlipYrWhig
@dmsilev: He was thisclose to a winning round of “I’m rubber, you’re glue,” too. Or “You’re not the boss of me!”
rikyrah
BETTY CRACKER……..
Your crook of a Governor is at it…AGAIN…
The Daily Edge
@TheDailyEdge
Rick Scott’s latest healthcare fraud: First, he let #Zika spread. Now he hopes to turn a profit in mosquito control
Mike J
@Smiling Mortician:
gogol's wife
@Davis X. Machina:
Perfect!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
If you really want one….
Pogonip
Cole, how are your two patients doing?
dmsilev
@Smiling Mortician:
Don’t be too hard on him. Consider what he has to work with.
(and yes, I know that he’s pretty scummy in his own right, even if we put aside the point that he willingly works for Trump)
JMG
If you want a few laughs, go over to 538 and read the chat where those very astute young people try and make the case Trump could win. 1. Their hearts aren’t in it. 2. Their main thing is that Julian Assange will save Trump AFTER he wins the debates. It’s a 12,000 to 1 exacta.
redshirt
The Force has a strong influence on the weak minded.
hilts
Dumbass Kellyanne Conway can’t answer Don Lemon’s question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqh82A3O2ZY
gogol's wife
I have watched this video about 20 times now. It’s better than a scene from Hamilton.
Mai.naem.mobile
Yo lawyers so stupid he must have gone to Regents University Law School.
gf120581
This isn’t the polling you’re looking for.
Smiling Mortician
@Mike J: Please tell me you made that up.
Mai.naem.mobile
Yo lawyers so stupid he should be disbarred for political malpractice.
Smiling Mortician
@dmsilev: Yeah, I was mostly thinking of the old lawyer adage, “Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.” And I guess the corollary for this jamoke would be “Or if you know the answer hurts you.”
lamh36
This flooding in Louisiana is sad all around.
Gonna post this, with no real comment about it.
Think of it what you will…
God destroys home of anti-gay leader Tony Perkins in flood of ‘biblical proportions’
JPL
@gogol’s wife: Trump must be so proud, because his lawyer is getting so much attention. Earlier I mentioned that if you type says who on the google search engine, that comes up.
Roger Moore
Shamelessly swiped from Twitter:
amk
doubling down on lies, doubling down on bs, doubling down on failed rhetoric. typical rethug tactic
gf120581
I have a feeling this guy attended the same law school as Lionel Hutz.
Major Major Major Major
Unskew the pundits.
raven
@gf120581: Or Huntz Hall.
http://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-o6vy9cv/products/1550/images/1738/191087__68826.1436350452.220.220.jpg?c=2
gogol's wife
@raven:
Horace Debussy Jones! Love him!
MikeTheZ
According to Think Progress, this genius also had a nice little slip where he said the US has an “African American problem.”
The best people! The best!
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: And yet Floridians re-elected The Scheming Skeleton.
@Mai.naem.mobile: Naw. Trump has been doing a great job of dragging down Trump.
Smiling Mortician
OT, but the North Carolina GOP Vote Suppression Squad got caught.
jacy
OMG, but that’s funny. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that every talking head on cable news, when confronted with a Trump spokesperson, now has, if even for just a moment, a total WTF? look on their face at some point during the interview. Eventually they’ll all become incapable of coherent speech and just sit their with their mouths open.
Patricia Kayden
@Roger Moore: But but but the polls are all skewed!! (Which they always are if Democrats are leading).
raven
@gogol’s wife:
redshirt
@gf120581: No! Money down!
dedc79
This would also be a good title for a post about Trumpist unskewer Bill Mitchell
bystander
@gogol’s wife:
As recorded on a cell phone and uploaded on to YouTube, sure.
robert thompson
While that clip is a laugh riot to us here and any reality living being it will not natter in the least to the Trumpites. They don’t watch CNN. And the older ones have no clue what youtube is. The ones who do will immediately disregard it as CNN propaganda. Katrina Pierson still is on the payroll last I heard. If reality was a problem for Trump and his SA she would be back to casing departments stores.
Wag
Donald Trump’s campaign advisers discussing shake ups that will lead to the inevitable victory against Clinton.
Ultraviolet Thunder
His instructions may have been “Just go out there and deny that we’re failing, no matter how obvious it is”.
Patricia Kayden
@Smiling Mortician: Nasty buggers. Glad this nonsense is being exposed.
raven
Wag, that is one fucked up link.
Felonius Monk
@raven: Royko was one of the best. Nobody ever stepped up to fill his shoes.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Smiling Mortician:
MI GOP failed to kill party-line voting today. I think it was today. I’ve been out of touch for a bit.
That will hurt them down ballot.
raven
@Felonius Monk: And Belushi wasn’t bad in Continental Divide!
dmsilev
@dedc79: His twitter portrait looks like someone put a normal human head between the jaws of a large vise and gave it a good long squeeze.
Plantsmantx
@MikeTheZ: Well, at least he said “African American”, LOL.
Patricia Kayden
@robert thompson: But that’s a huge problem for Trump. The fact that his supporters aren’t living in the real world can only hurt him. His ship is sinking and pretending otherwise is suicidal since his supporters won’t be motivated to do anything to help the campaign. They’ll keep believing everything is okay right up till Trump’s huge loss in November.
lamh36
Major Major Major Major
@redshirt: “that bar association thing probably shouldn’t be there either.”
lamh36
SueMack
@Roger Moore: That is a thing of beauty!! Says Who?? ( I mostly lurk, but I had to respond)!!!
patrick II
Over at the Princeton Election Consortium Sam Wang notes that Hillary Clinton is now running 5 points ahead of Obama in 2012 and says:
RandomMonster
He’s the Baghdad Bob of the Trump Army.
nonynony
I’m living in an SNL skit. WTF is even happening here?
“What polls?” “All of them.”
This is like when Sarah Palin couldn’t answer which papers she read. Except everyone in the campaign is dumber and less prepared than she could ever hope to be.
FlipYrWhig
@lamh36: So, Siberia?
Baud
@lamh36: It’s downright unwomanly.
gf120581
@lamh36: At a Black Sea resort most likely.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Drugs? Alcohol? That is such an idiotic comment.
Garbo
“The Math,” unskewed polls, Romney’s election night bubble…we just don’t have a shared reality with these twat waffles. And I’m okay with that.
dmsilev
@lamh36: Good to see that the New Crew is every bit as competent as the Old Crew.
PhoenixRising
@lamh36:
OMG ‘unbecoming’. Love. It. Once someone explains to women under 40 WTF that’s supposed to mean…
I cannot wait for the bumper stickers, tee shirts, shot glasses…this is gonna be epic merch fundraising. Does Kellyanne ‘Box of Rocks’ Conway have an idea of what HRC raised off ‘the woman card’?
jl
@nonynony: Palin should have said “What papers, huh? What papers?… Name some…. What’s the question?”
dmsilev
@gf120581: If he’s not careful, someone will push him down the Odessa Steps.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@lamh36: Well, she’s just a woman, you know. And crooked. And jointly responsible for Radical Islamic Terrorism in the US. And emails. And Benghazi. And if she wasn’t a closet lesbian, Bill wouldn’t have gotten busy with Monica. And she had Vince Foster murdered. So that, as clear as is the summer sun, Trump is so far above her, how dare she utter a single word against him?
Baud
Hillary is such a tart.
jl
@PhoenixRising: Speaking of ‘unbecoming’. The guy who wrote the speech that the woman who lost her son at Benghazi gave at the GOP convention came out against Trump today. What I found interesting is that the poor woman had a speech written for her. While at the Dem convention, apparently the Khans were allowed to speak without any prepared text.
Baud
@jl:
So it was just a gig?
ThresherK
@Smiling Mortician: States’ rights: The Ignoble Experiment.
Time to get UN paratroopers to run the elections down there, and Jimmy Carter to monitor.
Smiling Mortician
@Ultraviolet Thunder: Yay! As an old Michigander (left 30 years ago), I’m glad to hear it.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: what isn’t, these days.
dmsilev
@Baud: Apparently, the guy was just fine with Trump up to a few weeks ago and now regards him as completely unfit for the office of President because Trump is biased against Muslims.
To be fair to the speechwriter, that’s a completely and utterly new facet of Trump which he not once mentioned over the year of campaigning leading up to the convention.
JMG
I am waiting until Labor Day to ask my two Republican brothers, literal country club Republicans who are at least members of the 2 percent and who aren’t very ideological, what they’re gonna do. I will report back. I think we can interpret “get lost” as a non-Trump vote.
jl
@Baud: Hell if I know. But according to him, no, he has come to a terrible realization that Trump might not be all he is cracked up to be.
GOPer Who Wrote Fiery Benghazi Mom’s RNC Speech: Clinton ‘Only Choice’ In Nov
Richard Cross, a former Capitol Hill staffer, wrote that he believes he’s never voted for a Democrat running for federal office. But now he feels Trump has “betrayed and perverted” the party of Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/richard-cross-benghazi-mom-rnc-not-voting-trump
I’m not sure why a guy who thinks highly of that commie Eisenhower and weak liberal PC loser like Reagan is till in the GOP. Go figure.
raven
@Baud:
? Martin
@Baud: It’s just a gig for all of them. Clinton Derangement Syndrome is the greatest job creation program the Republican party ever came up with.
amk
@jl: Apparently, the last straw for him was the xenophobe saying ban muslims. Which the racist pos has been saying well before he ghostwrote that harangue for that poor woman. My $0.02. The pos got stiffed by the deadbeat campaign.
Smiling Mortician
@patrick II: I love Sam Wang. Delightful nerd.
lamh36
I’ve said before, that I think the “influx” of Republican female strategist is a calculated effort by not on GOP, but also media types who think with Clinton as nom, that having a sexist statement coming from a female analyst/strategist makes it less sexist.
raven
@Smiling Mortician: Hey Wang! Do you get a bowl of soup with that hat!!!
Ultraviolet Thunder
Politics may be the strong and slow boring of hard boards but this election right here is like a trip down a water slide on mushrooms. I wake up every morning wondering what zany shit is going to happen and I’m not disappointed.
different-church-lady
You know what the funniest part of that clip is? “GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL TOWN HALL”
jl
@amk: Thanks for info. I didn’t read the longer linked story. That is an odd reason. Maybe speechwriters are so busy that they get a little behind on the news?
Chyron HR
@lamh36:
Fixed.
robert thompson
@Patricia Kayden: No argument there. Trump is inherently incapable of an appeal to a majority. Some because he is too vulgar. We on the issues. And he is vulgar. But we underestimate the depth of Clinton hating and ethnic hatred and race hatred at our peril. I harbor fears that the haters in our society comprise more than 27%.
Major Major Major Major
@raven: so… he doesn’t know that “the weaponization of grief” is not supposed to be a good thing.
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
In Russia, perhaps?
amk
@robert thompson: I cap it at 35%. The new 27%.
gogol's wife
@bystander:
Got me there.
gogol's wife
@lamh36:
in the Donbass?
schrodinger's cat
@different-church-lady: Siberian Gulag.
robert thompson
@amk: Hope and pray you are correct. Whatever deity if we are wrong or get complacent.
Joel
@Davis X. Machina: Given with the delivery of the Herlihy Boy.
different-church-lady
@schrodinger’s cat: Naw, I’m thinking Snowden’s old apartment.
Ben Cisco
Here you go
FlipYrWhig
@Major Major Major Major: I was about to say the same thing. “My speech was also praised as ‘manipulative’ and ‘mawkish’!”
Hoodie
This clown is playing to the grifter type Trump’s surrounded by, so this kind of thing, while entertaining, is not surprising. What’s really fascinating is watching conservatives talk about Trump like he’s some freak phenomenon that came out of nowhere. Joy Reid just had a conservative radio host from Wisconsin. While acknowledging that Trump is a bigot, he argued with a straight face that his mainstreaming was somehow the product of years of Democrats pointing out the core of racism in GOP politics, that the Democrats had been crying wolf regarding racism and that was making it difficult to point out Trump’s racism. Their freaking base voted for Trump, it’s who they are and have been for at least the last 40 years. Pissed me off that Reid didn’t call him on that BS.
robert thompson
@different-church-lady: Kemerovo coal mines. Way down.
gwangung
@robert thompson: I think it’s 35%. But work like it’s 51%.
redshirt
@raven: Hey Wang! It’s a parking lot!
FlipYrWhig
@gogol’s wife: He’s been exiled to the undisputed Dumbass Region.
divF
@gogol’s wife: I vote for the Kolyma gold mines.
Gelfling 545
@PhoenixRising: I certainly kicked in a few bucks to get the “woman card”. I wanted it as a memento for my granddaughter who when she casts her first ever vote will cast it for the first ever woman president.
Major Major Major Major
@FlipYrWhig: “it might not have been received well but at least it was received!”
I think he’s probably of the mindset that anything which pisses off the libtards is ipso facto good.
Baud
@lamh36:
Rura Penthe
different-church-lady
@FlipYrWhig: Well, no, exiled implies they made him leave Trump Headquarters.
robert thompson
@divF: Even better. And more appropriate for all Mammon worshipers. Just try and high-grade some ore. The penal system there is still brutal.
Eric S.
@Felonius Monk: and they put that crackpot Kass in Royko’s 3rd page space. Fuckers.
JPL
OT The other swimmers who were Ryan Lochte at the time of the robbery were just pulled off a plane.. They were not the ones that the judge ordered that the passports taken. One is a swimmer for UGA.
FlipYrWhig
@different-church-lady: Good point.
robert thompson
@gwangung: Amen, brother or sister as the case may be.
one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer
I’ve met Kellyanne Conway. In a duel of wits with a bag of hammers, she’d battle to a draw.
And as to Cohen, this time s the fine legal mind that has everybody in the orbit of the Orange Howler Monkey sign a 10 mil NDA/No Disparagement Agreement, rendering the whole exercise ultimately useless.
raven
@JPL: Yup. Lochte is a dumb fuck.
different-church-lady
@one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer:
You really think she’d do that well?
JPL
@raven: He’s a lucky dumb fuck, cuz he’s the only one who is back in the states. The rest have been detained.
one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer
@JPL:
Glenn Griftwald’s land of glorious freedom.
Ordering athletes detained because of yet another embarrassment for the shithole.
Emma
@PhoenixRising: “I’m an unbecoming woman… and I’m with Hillary”
one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer
@different-church-lady:
It would be a tremendous come from behind effort, but she’d eke out a bare win.
lamh36
@JPL: Saw that. Lochte is already back in the US.
So on the one hand, Brazil police and federal police are not none for being 100% trustworthy, and Lochte et al alleged robbery made international news so an embarassment to both IOC and Brazil IOC…
On the other hand, Lochte is such a dudebro, that I could also see him and his buddies maybe up to scoring some shit and getting caught up…
Still, I’m inclined to believe them, only because why even make a big story about it. If you were up to no good and as a consequence got robbed for it…why the hell make a bigger story about it…
Emma
@one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer: No. Because it seems their story don’t tally. And in Brazil, lying to police carries penalties.
trnc
@gogol’s wife:
Brianna Keilar. I’m guessing she just kicked CNN viewership up a notch.
Her responses to Cohen’s idiocy were great, but wouldn’t it have been awesome if her answer to “Which ones?” had been “Breitbart.”
jl
@trnc:
” Brianna Keilar. I’m guessing she just kicked CNN viewership up a notch. ”
Ehh… she jus’ seem like some kina mouthy broad t’ me Da noive a her kwesinin’ Mr. Trump.
She wouldn’ even say wha’ her kwesin’ wass. Yeesh.
Belafon
ksmiami
OMFG – I just realized that the Trump campaign is the uglier, less talented political version of the insane clown posse. Holy shi**&
amk
@trnc: Yup. A quick thinking journo would have cited breitbart and completely burnt the fucker.
@jl: What’s with all the ‘ s? Tryin’ to make a point?
Corner Stone
@Emma:
I hold no brief for Lochte, but it does not seem to me that a really winning position is to hang around in Brazil waiting to be compelled to give testimony.
Fake cops, real cops or fake story, there is nothing about getting your passport taken and being compelled to give testimony that sounds like a good time.
What if it was not “fake cops”? If Lochte is telling the truth then he has zero to gain by sticking. If he is not then why bother sticking?
JPL
@lamh36: I don’t know. I do think that they were embarrassed about robbery, and hopefully they are not preventing three Americans to leave their country because of that.
jl
@amk: I was imagining what the lawyer adviser and his buds were saying after the interview.
Major Major Major Major
CNN says Brazil just yanked two U.S. swimmers off a plane. No link, on phone.
robert thompson
@jl: The moron vote is the only one he leads in and so the moron vote must be pandered to. If at this stage of the campaign the still feel the need to shore up the Cletus vote they are sunk. As for your scintillating parody I think they have already lost too much of the wife-beater wearing Barcolounger electorate. Still a good bit though.
lamh36
@JPL:
I’ll be honest, if this is some elaborate dudebro cover up, w/Ryan Lochte as mastermind?
didn’t see that one coming.
cokane
LOL “all of them”
mike in dc
@lamh36:
I generally don’t see “Ryan Lochte” and “mastermind” in the same sentence.
jl
@robert thompson: I thought the ‘Sez who?’ dude sounded like a nasty thuggish piece of work, hence my jape.
lamh36
@mike in dc: Exactly!
Mike E
US women sweep the 100 hurdles!
eric
@Corner Stone: the irony is that i think Phelps beat him out of the country.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@jl: @jl:
Papers? We don’t need no stinking papers!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@eric: Why would Phelps stop beating him now?
TriassicSands
Bad idea. Says Who might win the election. Sure, better than Trump, but not as good as Clinton.
Fair Economist
@amk:
Dingdingding! We have a winner!
danielx
Just gets better and better…discussion on Diane Rehm show today was titled Debate Over Armchair Psychological Assessments Of Donald Trump. The gist of the discussion (which included a couple of highly qualified shrinks) was that well, we certainly cannot and would not attempt to diagnose any psychological issues affecting Mr. Trump from observing his public behavior and statements. However….we are concerned.
I suspect that after today’s new hires they will become more concerned, since Bannon will clearly be in charge of bringing teh crazy.
Popcorn futures just keep going up.
Emma
@Corner Stone: I have no idea what happened and I certainly don’t hold a brief for either side. But the immediate assumption that Brazil is a “corrupt shithole” where innocent Americans get harassed by judges pissed me off. Just as easy to believe that the Americans were looking for a walk in the wild side and got themselves robbed and tried to put an innocent face on it.
lamh36
Corner Stone
@Emma:
The quotes you used for “corrupt shithole” do not appear anywhere else in this thread.
Got something else?
Peale
@danielx: lol. Sometimes our side is so bloody weak. For 30 years the TV has broadcast psychologist Krauthammer’s diagnosis of every major democratic politician. But when there is a clearly borderline madman running for the GOP, they bring on professionals who won’t give a diagnosis,
danielx
@amk:
If it’s news to the sucker that Trump isn’t big on paying bills to contractors, he’s got to be the only person in the northeast corridor to be so ill-informed.
danielx
@Peale:
Agreed, though I have to take issue with the “our side” bit. There’s a reason why NPR is colloquially known as “Nice Polite Republicans”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: @danielx: Just because people on the the GOP side are willing to compromise professional ethics, we should do the same?
redshirt
@danielx: Everytime I bring this up to Liberal non BJer’s, they scoff. They trust NPR.
Joel
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, not being full of shit is one of the defining virtues of the Democrats, as far as I’m concerned.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman:
About 100-1.
Capri
@Peale: Probably because the professionals questioned are actual professionals who attempt to reflect the real world. Big contrast with the other guys. This entire episode reminds me of an old W lightbulb joke which can be modified for the current situation:
How many Trump staffers does it take to change a light bulb?
There’s nothing wrong with that lightbulb. It’s fine just the way it is.
NoraLenderbee
@lamh36:
Why, does it make her butt look big?
Chip Daniels
Probably the only time I would ever reference Hot Air, but Alahpundit gets a good quip:
oklahomo
@ksmiami: That would make his followers Trumpalos.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chip Daniels: Fuck Allahpundit, HotAir, and their fucking buyer’s remorse. Make your bed, lie in it. Fuck them.
Jeffro
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
So poetic, so true.
KlareCole
@danielx: Normal circumstances would dictate not diagnosing from afar. Just like normally, journalists are supposed to be objective. But since there is nothing normal about Trump & his campaign it is far more ethical for psychotherapists to come clean and announce the severity of Trumps narcissistic personality, mania and character disorder. The untrained eye can see it, why should the psychiatric profession pretend it is not obvious and extremely dangerous. Pres. Obama has taken a good lead in sizing up Trump, even a lot of Republicans have. So the psychiatric profession owes it to the public to label him clearly. It is a ‘right side of history ‘ moment.
Omnes Omnibus
@KlareCole: No. It is not. Medical professionals have ethical rules. We should not suggest that they violate those rules. Remember watching a Senator diagnose a brain-dead woman from afar? I do. And it was bullshit. It is still bullshit if people on our side do it. So just stop – new to this blog commenter.
amk
@KlareCole: I am with you. Let the professionals be honest.
RedDirtGirl
@TriassicSands: I had a “Hold Your Nose and Vote For Kerry” button in 2004. I’m thinking of updating it for all my Bernie friends.
hitchhiker
@efgoldman:
Kellyanne Conway is on the Donald Bus because she has a history with the Clintons. She and husband George were part of the little circle that called itself the “elves” — Ken Starr’s behind-the-scenes helpers. Also on the team were Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. George dated Laura for awhile, but ended up with Kellyanne.
They must all be so thrilled for another go-round, but I have to say that with everybody being 20 years older now, everybody seems a lot droopier. (I know I am.) The Clintons are, I’m assuming, rolling their eyes. These people are always going to hate them like crazy, but these are also the people who just lose their minds and go too far and generally create sympathy for Bill and Hillary. He left office with an approval rating over 60%. She went on to serve in the Senate and on Obama’s cabinet, and now she’s just 80-some days away from being elected president.
Kellyanne is a pollster married to a guy who got rich defending tobacco companies. Now she’s going to tell the world why to hate the Clintons? Yawn.
Kurt Montandon
Everyone be sure to point out that #SaysWho includes … Breitbart.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/14/breitbartgravis-poll-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-42-to-37/
Yep, Breitbart, source of Trump’s latest campaign manager (or whatever his title is), released a poll yesterday that put Hillary up five points. Guess they’re just part of the liberal polling conspiracy.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: As friendly as always.
New Poster? Welcome to BJ. Not everyone’s a jerk. Mostly.
Omnes Omnibus
@RedDirtGirl: I understand that politics required such things. but Kerry was a good candidate on the merits – both personal and policy. It shouldn’t be forgotten.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: New to me poster calls for unethical behavior? I’ll wait and see.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Mike J:
Is he really suggesting Hillary Clinton has raped someone….?
J R in WV
@Emma:
Being drunk and not having identical narrations about a sudden violent potentially deadly attack is not a crime to any person with a wit.
No matter what the two stories were, who cares if the gun was against his head or just pointed between his eyes from 4 feet away?
This just makes the “hosts” look like the rapacious bastards they are. Have you heard that the Paralympics won’t be held because the funds to fly participants to Rio to compete are missing? Where could that money have gone? Probably with those swimmers’ wallets…
J R in WV
@danielx:
“borderline madman” running for President? When did Donald get to be borderline?
President Obama created ISIS! over and over… that’s not borderline, that’s plain old crazy by any standard. With a huge dose of racism on top. and extra religious bigotry, falsely accusing President Obama of being a secret Muslin.
The man’s both stupid and deranged, and getting worse every day in front of the whole world.
BruceFromOhio
@Ultraviolet Thunder: This, Gaia help each and every single one of us.
BruceFromOhio
@ksmiami: … with an expense account.
And donors.
KlareCole
@Omnes Omnibus: I think there is a difference between diagnosing a very physical case as in Terri Shivo, if that is your reference, and a psychological situation. Psychiatric diagnosis is still art as well as science, so it it a very reasonable ethic to withhold diagnosis until personal interview. Which can consist of 15 minutes. Having been saturated with endless hours of exposure to Trump, any diagnostician reaches the unavoidable conclusion of narcissism and character disorder. The need of the narcissistic for the supply of adulation and their manipulation a to secure their supply is toxic. There is some duty to provide that information . I’m sure there is an ethical, yet emphatic method to do that.
KlareCole
@amk: Thanks. Restraint based on professional ethics is admirable except where the culprit banks on that restraint. Then an exception is called for.
KlareCole
@redshirt: Thanks.
bluefish
@Emma: For real, Emma. Only the young and stupid think to mess with the police in Rio. It’s easy to get swept up into the city at night but no one who knows the place and our long history of police corruption thinks to screw around with these folks. These kids will be okay because the country hasn’t lost its mind but, yeah, dumb drunk high antics not the way to go. And Brasil is in the throes of big problems. Not that these kids would know or care. Lochte, medals aside, sounds like a smug arrogant self promoting ninny. Can hardly wait for this nightmare to be resolved.