Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[drogulus]

     What's with the Santa suit? I distrust it. It strikes me as inherently Euro-socialist if not outright bolshie.

     

     

[Florestan]

Isn´t red the Republican Party´s color?

[drogulus]

Isn´t red the Republican Party´s color?

     They switched to orange.
     
     

     Billy Bob Thornton endorses Hillary Clinton.

     "The baddest Santa of them all"



     
     

[André]

In today's Wall Street Journal:

With Pageant Winner Dispute, Trump Again Lets Personal Feud Become Campaign Issue

In what has become a recurring theme on the campaign trail this year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again elevated a personal feud to the level of a campaign issue in a way that risks causing lasting damage to his political prospects just six weeks before Election Day.

A feud ? I don't think so. This happened many years ago and I'm pretty sure he forgot all about her very soon thereafter. She was just a commodity, you see. A non-entity.  You can't have a feud with a non-entity.

By resurfacing with her statements of this week she became an annoyance. Had she declared her support for her, Trump would have touted her as "a  beautiful, wonderful Miss Universe. The best we ever had".

You have to understand the way his brain functions. Every word, statement, meeting, experience is catalogued as "wonderful" or "nasty".

I think Trump supporters genuinely like him for who he is. But they are a minority. The majority of Trump voters acknowledge his blatant inadequacies and know there is probably a lot worse in store. But they are ready to ignore them simply because they are Hillary haters. NOTHING will assuage this epidermic reaction. Just as Ms. Machado became an eyesore because of her weight gain, Hillary Clinton is a brain sore that has to go away. There is only one known cure: vote for Trump.

Never has such irrationality grabbed hold of the electorate before. It's a very strange phenomenon, and doctorate theses will be written on the subject.

[Karl Henning]

You have to understand the way his brain functions. Every word, statement, meeting, experience is catalogued as "wonderful" or "nasty".

Yes, the deciding factor being, What does it do for me?

That is what so many are okay with having in the White House.

[snyprrr]

In today's Wall Street Journal:

With Pageant Winner Dispute, Trump Again Lets Personal Feud Become Campaign Issue

In what has become a recurring theme on the campaign trail this year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again elevated a personal feud to the level of a campaign issue in a way that risks causing lasting damage to his political prospects just six weeks before Election Day.

Anal Porn Star and Alleged Getaway Driver for Attempted Murder Is Hired By Clinton Campaign

[Karl Henning]

So, pretty much endorsing the living-in-your-own reality lifestyle, eh?

[Karl Henning]

A new report confirms that Donald Trump was too lazy to seriously practice for the debate

Trump knew full well that tens of millions of people would watch this debate. "There are those who will say it will be one of the highest-rated shows in television history, if not the highest," he said back in August. He knew it was one of his best opportunities to make his case to the American people.

And yet he wasn't willing to put in the work to prepare for it in a serious way, even though it was such an important moment for his campaign.

Luckily for Trump, he still has two more opportunities to turn this around. But we've already gotten a pretty strong sense of what kind of president he'd be, even on the most important matters to rise to his attention — a lazy, unfocused one.

[drogulus]

   

Anal Porn Star and Alleged Getaway Driver for Attempted Murder Is Hired By Clinton Campaign

    It's a ploy to attract undecided voters.

[drogulus]

      What would it take for me to be convinced Hillary is unfit to be President?

      She could announce she hates cats.

      She could install a Celestion Vintage 30 in her blackface Deluxe Reverb.

      She could claim that Putin "is not a bad guy. I looked into his eyes and there's definitely something there"

      What else? I'll think on it.

     

[Karl Henning]

She could announce that she hates cats.

But if she has a plan to plant dead cats in Jill Stein's mulcher, she loses my vote.

[Karl Henning]

When asked about failing to pay someone by Hillary Clinton this week, Trump replied, "Maybe he didn't do a good job and I was unsatisfied with his work."

(Or maybe he's just a cheat.  Ah, what a credit to the White House and to the Nation he would be!)

[Karl Henning]

But he's not Clinton!

[drogulus]

     I thought Hellary was almost charming. Granted, my standards are oblique-wise to the norm, and it feels a little funny to give up on her unlikeability, which I rather admired, but there it is. I feel she would be fun to hang out, talk over old times and delete incriminating emails with.

[Madiel]

Anal Porn Star and Alleged Getaway Driver for Attempted Murder Is Hired By Clinton Campaign

Seriously, what's an "anal porn star"? I can't help thinking your homophobic streak is showing.

Not because I think that "anal" means "gay", but because I suspect from past history that YOU think that and you appear to be spouting random crap and this is your way of expressing the idea of a horrible person.

Other than that I don't know wtf you are carrying on about. As usual.

[Karl Henning]

     I though Hellary was almost charming. Granted, my standards are oblique-wise to the norm, and it feels a little funny to give up on her unlikeability, which I rather admired, but there it is. I feel she would be fun to hang out, talk over old times and delete incriminating emails with.

The times we'd get together and play Classified or Not? over a glass of Chardonnay . . . .

[drogulus]

     Yeah, hanging out with Huma telling Weiner jokes.

[zamyrabyrd]

Anal Porn Star and Alleged Getaway Driver for Attempted Murder Is Hired By Clinton Campaign

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3635882/Hillary-Clinton-called-disabled-children-Easter-egg-hunt-f-ing-ree-tards-referred-Jews-stupid-k-s-Bill-called-Jesse-Jackson-damned-n-r-claims-Bill-s-former-lover.html

"Racial profiling remained in Clinton's head and several years later, he gave state troopers the right to stop and search any car. Bill and Hillary have been very verbal in criticizing racial profiling as a 'morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice'. Clinton's crime bill, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was dubbed the 'three strikes' law and is one which has incarcerated over 2.5 million people, predominately poor people of color who could not afford lawyers during their trials.

The 'three strikes' rule sent people to jail for a petty crime or a major felony. It meant prison for life on the third offense, whatever that happened to be. Clinton's solution was to 'lock 'em up and throw away the key'...The unemployment numbers actually did go down, but that was partly because the young black males in prison were no longer counted as unemployed...
when Hillary arrived in Arkansas, Dolly writes, she looked down her nose at what she viewed as 'ignorant hillbillies'. She was raised in a middle-class suburb in Illinois and considered herself above the southerners – unless she was campaigning in New York state where she declared herself to be a lifelong Yankees fan.
She has repeatedly told the story that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary who became the first climber to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953. Hillary was born in October 1947, six years prior to the New Zealand explorer's climb."

[SimonNZ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3635882/Hillary-Clinton-called-disabled-children-Easter-egg-hunt-f-ing-ree-tards-referred-Jews-stupid-k-s-Bill-called-Jesse-Jackson-damned-n-r-claims-Bill-s-former-lover.html

^There's a reason that tabloid can proudly claim that story is an "exclusive".

Please tell me you're not a registered voter in the US

[zamyrabyrd]

There's a reason that tabloid can proudly claim that story is an "exclusive".
Please tell me you're not a registered voter in the US

I am a registered voter, so what?

I'll repeat the argument of one of our distinguished GMG members: if allegations of deleting emails, criminal neglect in Benghazi, enabling and covering up her husband's misbehavior, defrauding Haitians, going all the way back to the Whitewater scandal and probably even further, then WHY hasn't she been prosecuted?

To turn this argument around if any of the allegations are untrue, then where are the refutations and why aren't her accusers being prosecuted for slander? It is as night follows day, any claims of equalizing the wealth, someone is going to have to pay for it and probably through the nose, re: promises of free college education, health care, etc. This is so typical, take from Middle Class Peter to give to Big Brother Paul:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/23/donald-trump-slams-hillary-clintons-65-estate-tax-families-small-businesses/
Hillary Clinton recently released a tax plan pledging a confiscatory tax rate of 65 percent on the estates of people who want to leave their life's work to their families..House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), for instance, recently said it is "morally wrong" to force families who just lost a loved one to face instantly losing their businesses as well. "That's not supposed to be something people have to deal with when they're grieving for the loss of a loved one,"...Clinton released her plan to extract massive 65 percent of people's hard-earned wealth under the headline "Investing in America by Restoring Basic Fairness to Our Tax Code." That 65 percent levy would be combined with any local or state taxes and fees...