Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[Todd]

I'll be certain in future, when referring to El Tupé as a narcissist, to specify that the diagnosis is not my own.

No real need.  On the evidence of the posts here, obviously no one who tosses around such words is in a position to offer anything other than a sloppy, political, amateur diagnosis.  (To be clear, you are nowhere near the worst offender in this regard.)

[(poco) Sforzando]

No real need.  On the evidence of the posts here, obviously no one who tosses around such words is in a position to offer anything other than a sloppy, political, amateur diagnosis.  (To be clear, you are nowhere near the worst offender in this regard.)

[Todd]

No surprise you giggle.  Please to offer your expert geriatric opinion on something you clearly know nothing about.  That's something retirees do love to do. 

I should hook you up with my geriatric and arch-conservative father-in-law.  God, the drivel you two could generate. I could start a cash-flow positive blog on your back and forth.

[Parsifal]

No surprise you giggle.  Please to offer your expert geriatric opinion on something you clearly know nothing about.  That's something retirees do love to do. 

I should hook you up with my geriatric and arch-conservative father-in-law.  God, the drivel you two could generate. I could start a cash-flow positive blog on your back and forth.

Just mean spirited.

[(poco) Sforzando]

No surprise you giggle.  Please to offer your expert geriatric opinion on something you clearly know nothing about.  That's something retirees do love to do. 

I should hook you up with my geriatric and arch-conservative father-in-law.  God, the drivel you two could generate. I could start a cash-flow positive blog on your back and forth.

Before you were just being pompous. Now you're getting personal and insulting towards a person you've never met, solely on the assumption that I am "geriatric" because I'm retired. I think you ought to back off.

[Todd]

Before you were just being pompous. Now you're getting personal and insulting towards a person you've never met, solely on the assumption that I am "geriatric" because I'm retired. I think you ought to back off.

Oh, boo-hoo.

[Gurn Blanston]

Oh, boo-hoo.

I think you should back off a bit too. When you guys are talking issues, I don't step on your 'nads to any extent, even when the bullshit is flying thick and fast. When it gets to even less good spirited than usual ad hominem attacks, I need to draw you up a bit. It has now gotten to that point.

GB

[Todd]

Let us return to the topic at hand with a reasoned, thoughtful, and policy-oriented tweet from a highly educated, highly respected liberal senator:

.@realDonaldTrump & @mike_pence are a perfect match: Two small, insecure, weak men who use hate & fear to divide our country & our people.

[Ken B]

Let us return to the topic at hand with a reasoned, thoughtful, and policy-oriented tweet from a highly educated, highly respected liberal senator:

And just look at the size of Pence's hands.

[Karl Henning]

In announcing Pence, Trump talks mostly about himself

[Brian]

I think you should back off a bit too. When you guys are talking issues, I don't step on your 'nads to any extent, even when the bullshit is flying thick and fast. When it gets to even less good spirited than usual ad hominem attacks, I need to draw you up a bit. It has now gotten to that point.

GB

You can tell Gurn is serious because he didn't end his post with the usual 

[Todd]

Looks like Trump is set to have Bob Loblaw lob law bombs at the convention.

[Brian]

Looks like Trump is set to have Bob Loblaw lob law bombs at the convention.

That's a low blow, Loblaw!

[André]

I think you should back off a bit too.

GB

Looks like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg too you seriously, too! 

[Ken B]

I heard a proposed slogan for the Libertarian Party. Feel the Johnson.

[Gurn Blanston]

Looks like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg too you seriously, too! 

Yes, too bad, she was pretty accurate.

[Madiel]

Genuinely terrible idea for a sitting judge to get involved in political commentary. I suspect most members of the legal profession would have been as shocked as I was. Regardless of any view about the merits of her opinions, you just don't express those kinds of opinions when you might have to rule on cases.

[Brian]

Genuinely terrible idea for a sitting judge to get involved in political commentary. I suspect most members of the legal profession would have been as shocked as I was. Regardless of any view about the merits of her opinions, you just don't express those kinds of opinions when you might have to rule on cases.

Absolutely agreed. It's a pretty basic precept to express neutrality on cases which might be before you soon, and Donald Trump's presidency would be a never-ending string of constitutional law cases.

[Todd]

Absolutely agreed. It's a pretty basic precept to express neutrality on cases which might be before you soon, and Donald Trump's presidency would be a never-ending string of constitutional law cases.

Imagine a Bush v Gore type scenario.

[Rinaldo]

Just adding a few more cents to our debate about Trump's personality:

"The Art of the Deal" made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.

(...)

If he were writing "The Art of the Deal" today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, "The Sociopath."

Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All