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Political cartoonists have to be among the small minority of those who’ll regret Trump’s return to his native fever swamps. Regardless of anyone’s personal stance, how can you not miss a guy who gave you so many easy targets?
Apart from the happy thought of Deadbeat Donnie getting beaten, what’s on the agenda for the day?
.@HillaryClinton interrupted during address in Miami by heckler shouting: "Bill Clinton is a rapist!"
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) October 11, 2016
Worth noting why this is happening: InfoWars is offering people up to $5,000 to do this and get on TV. https://t.co/UuOJPkEd1m
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) October 11, 2016
In a better world, Alex Jones would be shuffling through Times Square with a tinfoil hat and a sandwich board. https://t.co/uSPtvT1p6u
— Matt Bennett (@ThirdWayMattB) October 10, 2016
No, in a better world well-funded social service agencies, w/private charitable partners, would help him be off the streets with dignity. https://t.co/qHxGbUE77g
— Heather Hurlburt (@natsecHeather) October 10, 2016
Trump world views new NBC poll as sign they've stopped bleeding of#TrumpTapes. She leads by 9 pts. https://t.co/YANXzxsz1J
— Kevin Cirilli (@kevcirilli) October 11, 2016
Tokyokie
The bleeding always stops when the heart does as well.
hellslittlestangel
Trump is doing an incredible job of losing. Everyone says so.
Luthe
@Tokyokie: Objection, assumes facts not in evidence: the Trump campaign has a heart.
OzarkHillbilly
Jill Abramson: Did Hillary Clinton intimidate Bill’s accusers? Let’s look at the evidence
…..
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Hillary is just sooooooo…. nefarious.
Baud
Has anyone else noticed people still giving an inordinate amount of advice to Clinton about how to run the campaign?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Everything with Hillary is trumped up (pardon the pun) — just like the emails.
Ben Cisco
@Baud: Yes, and it seems awful familiar. Seems a certain candidate about, oh I don’t know, eight years back or so…
Baud
@Ben Cisco:
I actually don’t remember a lot of advice giving in 2008. Everyone seemed caught up in the whirlwind. 2012 was different.
Ben Cisco
@Baud: You’re quite right, my apologies. I’m no good at “the maths” before coffee…
Kay
Our municipal court is sort of the Trumpian faction of the local legal community- both the muni judge and prosecutor are wingnuts. The Common Pleas court (“felony court”) is more moderate Republicans and, frankly, smarter Republicans.
I’m rarely over there because muni court is not my thing, but I was there yesterday and they are bitter as hell– more than they usually are, which is saying something. It’s a pretty miserable place on a good day, wholly due to the “leadership” of the judge and prosecutor who are morally offended by just about everyone who has the misfortune to land there.
They’re not finding any of this amusing and they’ve moved from belligerent and boasting to cranky and serious.
Immanentize
@Baud: Isnt that so they can say she should be winning by MOAR!!!
Immanentize
@Baud: In 2008 — I was alternately ecstatic and freaked out. Often both at once. I think most were like that and not focused on tactics of the campaign.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Nononononoooooo, she’s evil I tell you. EVIL!
NorthLeft12
@OzarkHillbilly: I see exactly what the RWNJs mean. Hillary’s intimidation tactics are so subtle that any rational person would never realize they were being intimidated! Well played Secretary Clinton, well played.
Chyron HR
RNC, November 9, 2016: We need to keep this from happening again.
RNC, 2017: We amended the rules to say “No Trumps”.
RNC, 2019: It says “No Trumps”, we’re allowed to have ONE.
p.a.
What’s the SS, Justice Dept, FBI policy on releasing info on presidential death threats? I can’t imagine the BHO admin hasn’t broken records, whether the threats are credible or not. The nuts have been emboldened for a decade.
Baud
@NorthLeft12:
She killed Vince Foster with a faded smile.
rikyrah
Good Morning ?, Everyone ?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning. You sleep in?
craigie
@OzarkHillbilly:
The fact that there is no evidence that she did anything at all just proves how sneaky and guilty she really is.
Just One More Canuck
@OzarkHillbilly: the lack of evidence is all the evidence you need
Damn, craigie, you beat me to it
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: I glanced at ABC News prior to leaving for work and saw them discussing the latest Clinton “scandal” which involved the hacked emails from Podesta. Just another nothingburger which the media is determined to turn into a scandal. The media just cannot admit that one candidate is scandal-plagued and unqualified while the other is qualified and relatively clean given her lengthy political career.
OzarkHillbilly
@p.a.: I have heard numbers for that before, so they do tabulate them and make them available.
NorthLeft12
@Baud: I understand that the Clintons [yes, including Chelsea] would change the “Best Before” dates on their opponents groceries. RIGHT IN THE SUPERMARKET!!11!!
Daaah dun dun DUNNNNNN!
OzarkHillbilly
Immanentize
@Kay: In San Antonio, it was a bit the opposite — the county court was much more laid back than felony court. It was also much more Hispanic (judges and prosecutors). It makes me sad to think how much damage to port people’s lives grumpy wingnut judges can do.
Joel
@Patricia Kayden:
— U. Sinclair
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
I’m actually shocked how clean it’s been so far. I expected far more in the way of political machinations.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: DOH!
Mary G
@OzarkHillbilly: Those pesky facts!
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: And Quint was eaten in a most brutal way. Meanwhile, the town was saved by the competent but self-effacing (and doubting) sheriff.
debbie
@Kay:
Cranky to the point of affecting their judgments?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I saw Bernie on my TV machine last night during the local news.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Haha. Kelly lied. She loved telling him that.
Immanentize
@Immanentize: SCIENTIST! (Not sheriff). I am not together this morning….
NorthLeft12
@Patricia Kayden:
I thought I read a story from Eichenwald that the latest release of hacked emails had shown clear evidence of being tampered with. Specifically, some wording that he recognized that came from some of his own research and was not a part of the original email.
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
So it appears that this may actually be a problem for Deadbeat Donald to explain why the Russians are producing propaganda to support his Presidential campaign. Not that he will bother.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I think she lives for those moments. It’s almost enuf to make me like her.
Kay
@Immanentize:
It’s affected the whole staff. They’re public employees and they’re rude and dismissive to everyone who walks in there, because the people at the top have cultivated that kind of environment. I periodically lose my temper when I see a long line of people waiting to pay fines while the staff studiously ignores them- “hey! these people are waiting!” It’s just wrong. If you believe poor people are some lesser species maybe you shouldn’t take a job where 90% of what you do involves poor people. These are good jobs in this city. A lot of decent people would be happy to have them. They should do their jobs and leave their moral outrage and righteous judgments at home.
p.a.
@Patricia Kayden: NBC mentioned them too this am, BUT in reference to connections between tRump campaign and Putin! Apparently Stone telegraphed Podesta release earlier this year. Journalamism; sometimes it works. (The NBC crew basically said no hard evidence of linkage between tRump 4 Pres and Putin/GRU, but plenty of circumstantial evidence. (It is GRU again, isn’t it?)
NorthLeft12
@Joel: That is one of my favourite quotes. My top two;
“Imagine how stupid the average person is and then realize that half the people are dumber than that”
– George Carlin
“It is far easier to fool a man, than to convince him that he has been fooled.” – Mark Twain
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: You had it right when you said Sherriff. The scientist was hiding on the bottom.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
It’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel for her.
OzarkHillbilly
Brachiator
@Baud:
Actually, no. More stuff is along the lines of the SNL skits encouraging Trump to keep doing whatever it is that he is doing, because he is doing so well at sabotaging himself that Clinton doesn’t have to do much of anything.
But I guess there is dumb stuff. The level of reporting is bad and reporters can’t find the story. There was some moaning about Clinton abandoning Ohio. Before she had a massive rally there.
And then there is the Trump nonsense painting her as the Moriarty of politics, an evil.mastermind who subverted Saint Bernie of Sanders.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
You mean like a county clerk should just issue marriage licenses w/o regard to sexual preferences? How unChristian.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Hillary not having it for her husband’s THOTS…. imagine that ???
rikyrah
@Baud:
Nope. The thread was up after I started getting ready. ??
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
A fun thing about the Jaws Trump-as-Quint analogy is that before being eaten, Quint was an arrogant braggart who thought he was invincible and the superior of any shark.
Of course, Quint did have a previous record of actual success. All analogies are imperfect.
msdc
@Tokyokie: “We’re only down by 9 with a month to go! This is excellent news for Trump!!!1!”
BillinGlendaleCA
Since I’ve been sick and haven’t gotten out much, I decided to revisit and reprocess some of the shots I took with my old camera(Galaxy Camera 2) last year. Here’s one of Downtown LA and Glendale from the Verdugo Hills.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I love the pharmacists too. “I think I’ll take this job and then refuse to do it”. Those programs are competitive. Step aside. Go be a pastor or a Wal Mart greeter.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Actually, no he didn’t think he was invincible and the superior of any shark. He feared them as only a man who had watched ‘hundreds of his shipmates’** be eaten by them could. That’s why he refused to wear a life jacket. He’d rather drown than be eaten by a shark.
** the movie and the legend has it that hundreds of survivors of the sinking of the USS Indiana were eaten by sharks, but this is disputed by scientists and historians who say far more simply drowned.
NorthLeft12
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, I believe there is a Reuters story along the lines of why Hillary’s big lead in the polls is a problem for Democrats. I could not bring myself to click the link and read the story. Life is too short.
p.a.
@Kay: Won’t happen, but I fantasize these ‘my religion > my job’ people need an EMT and the EMT is a Witness. Transfusion? Pray harder.
PPCLI
Yes, that is the big threat. The whole thing.
It reminds me of a sketch on the Canadian mock-news comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes” during the impeachment fiasco. Announcement: Canadian woman propositioned by Bill Clinton! Cut to middle-aged, frumpy tourist looking all verklempt with husband by her side. She explains that she was on a tour and accidentally wandered into the oval office. The newscaster asks: “What did he say?” She answers: “Well, he said “hello”. But with him, you know what that means.”
NorthLeft12
@OzarkHillbilly: I believe it was the cruiser USS Indianapolis.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I had no idea that refusing to do ones job was an exercise of religious freedom. Who’da thunk it? I should have refused to hang drywall as it was against the teachings of the Church of Gawd the Almighty and the Utterly Indifferent (who created the world in 6 days and on the 7th said, “It’s your problem now.”)
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh all right. So If Hillary is the shark and Quint is Trump, and his deep hatred actually comes from being terrified of the shark and knowing he would have no chance in a face to face meeting … yeah I can still live with that analogy
OzarkHillbilly
@NorthLeft12: Details details….
NorthLeft12
@PPCLI: I wonder if Ms.Broaddrick has ever read the Tell Tale Heart by Poe?
Comrade Scrutinizer
@NorthLeft12:
Harumph. Carlin should have learned that there’s a difference between average and median. Harumph, harumph.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
And then demanded payment.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@OzarkHillbilly: Police Chief, not sheriff. Harumph.
NorthLeft12
@OzarkHillbilly: Sorry, I don’t want our conservative trolls to endlessly mock us for our lack of knowledge regarding military history/trivia.
I can imagine shomi and NR chuckling to themselves and their cohort on Redstate about those unpatriotic morans on BJ who don’t know the difference between the USS Indiana and USS Indianapolis.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Oh definitely, Trump is obviously terrified of any woman he can’t control.
satby
Good morning all! TGIW!
OzarkHillbilly
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Pedant (says the pedant)
@NorthLeft12: I was only 5 letters off!
craigie
@Comrade Scrutinizer: So true, but saying “median” just ruins the joke. Too bad.
Baud
@satby: Where have you been?
msdc
@OzarkHillbilly: For his next analogy, Huckabee will compare Trump to Noah Cross from Chinatown.
p.a.
@craigie: Don’t be mean to the mean.
Baud
@msdc: Trump is like Captain Ahab doggedly pursuing the white whale.
Jeffro
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Oh, OUCH
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: The start of your wkend, right? Enjoy it.
amk
Comrade Scrutinizer
@NorthLeft12: Say ‘clip’ to an ammosexual and hours of fun ensue.
Bobby Thomson
@OzarkHillbilly: are you calling Walter Sobchak a liar?
OzarkHillbilly
@Bobby Thomson: The Dude abides.
msdc
@OzarkHillbilly: For his next analogy, Huckabee will compare Trump to the Big Lebowski… you know, the philandering embezzler who isn’t worth nearly as much as he pretends to be.
No, wait… the Big Lebowski wasn’t faking his war injuries.
OzarkHillbilly
@msdc:
The Donald isn’t faking his STDs either.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@NorthLeft12:
Ha! I was making jokes we would be seeing this from the press this election.
philadelphialawyer
@OzarkHillbilly: Quint also had enough sense to realize that he had been beaten, and enough humility to ask Hooper (the Richard Dreyfus character) what he can do to kill the shark. Even though he resents him and has mocked him as a “college boy” who never worked for a living. And Quint clearly is impressed that Hooper has the courage to go into the water in that flimsy cage with just the little needle (which he has to somehow get into the shark’s open mouth). I see nothing similar coming from Trump, ever. Then too, of course, there is the little matter that Quint seems to be a self made, working class man, and a combat veteran of WWII. Not to mention actually competent (in normal circumstances) at his job.
So, to review, even assuming that Quint shares Trump’s negative qualities, there is nothing at all to suggest that Trump shares Quint’s positive qualities.
Analogy fail, even if Quint had killed the shark…
catclub
I bet they never pay the promised money – just like Trump.
Matt McIrvin
@NorthLeft12: The way I read that story, he didn’t say the released emails themselves had been tampered with. He said Blumenthal quoted his Newsweek article, a Russian propaganda outlet excerpted the quote as if it were some new shocking revelation that Blumenthal himself wrote, and then that same misattribution showed up in one of Trump’s speeches.
I’m with Josh Marshall here: I think this isn’t evidence of some Russian mole feeding Trump applause lines; it’s a sign that Trump’s campaign gets much of its information off of Nazi/white-supremacist crackpot sites that are themselves infested with Russian disinformation.
catclub
@NorthLeft12: Eichenwald story was on NPR this morning. I was surprised it got there. It is very complicated compared with even Trump’s tax returns.
different-church-lady
@Chyron HR: RCN, 2020: “Okay, just how did we let David Duke get the nomination?”
randy khan
@craigie:
Since we’re being pedantic, “average” isn’t the same as “mean.” The mean is just one kind of average; the median actually is used as another kind of average. (And so is the mode.) Also, in a large enough population that’s in a normal distribution, the mean and the median are going to be nearly the same.
So Carlin was at least kind of right.
burnspbesq
From the Dept. of About God-Damn Time.
Arpaio to be charged with criminal contempt
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Since when does Trump have the coloreds working for him? (I mean, other than as a butler.)
SFAW
@randy khan:
Um, no.
The median is not “another kind of average,” except by people who don’t understand what it is. Unless the meaning of “midpoint” has been changed to “the average” and I missed it. (Yes, I realize that “midpoint” is an incomplete definition, but it’s close enough for these purposes.)
And the mode is merely a frequency count.
ETA: To be clear (or perhaps not): “mean,” “median,” and “mode” are all terms that can be used to describe a population/set, but each means something different.
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: Oh, goody, let’s you and him fight. After (was it last week’s?) near-TBoggish thread on whether English is a Germanic language, the quants need to show they can argue as long as the language-arts cohort.
Amaranthine RBG
here’s a football player schooling a Supreme Court justice:
https://mobile.twitter.com/7im/status/786057813034491904/photo/1
Larkspur
I saw this comment over at Buzzfeed Trump Declares War on GOP (article by Salvador Hernandez):
Thank you, Carlos. Meanwhile, what’s Rove been up to these past few days? Silence or bullshit? Maybe I’ll check it out.
NorthLeft12
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I actually went onto a site that had that discussion [I think it was a newspaper web page down South] and the jackassery of the commenters that mocked us libtards for not knowing the difference between full auto and semi-auto was mind boggling. I liked one comeback from a liberal that pointed out that she knew enough that either one could kill a lot of people in a very short period of time. End of story.
Brachiator
@msdc:
Given Trump’s often mentioned appreciation for his daughter, this might hit too close to home.
Also, Noah Cross was a successful businessman with a vision of the future. Trump, not so much.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
Only trying to prevent misnomers/misinformation from spreading.
SFAW
@different-church-lady:
At which point, Sen. Blake Farenthold will proudly and boldly state “If he says ‘I wanna lynch all the niggers and Jews,’ then I’ll have to decide if I can still support him as strongly.”
chopper
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
IQ distribution is close enough to normal that the mean and median are pretty much the same. also, the joke works better carlin’s way.
sukabi
@Tokyokie: pretty sure he’s bleeding out of whatever.
Original Lee
@OzarkHillbilly: Late to the thread, but that is fucking beautiful.