I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

I bet a simple neural network could emulate Trump-speak pretty quickly, given it doesn't ever have actually make sense or follow any sort of sentence structure.

i think you're giving him too much credit - at this point he's basically a burnt sienna fridge poetry set, stringing the same words and phrases together over and over again in minute variations

If he had just disappeared to the Hamptons or Florida for part of August, let people get bored with Hillary, and then come back zings blazing after Labor Day...

another fun fact - he buys a lot of Twitter followers:

http://i.imgur.com/oxm7U24.png

Any legit grievances with Clinton are going to get lost in the shuffling madness.

it's almost as if this candidate has locomotive breath

That really should've been his campaign song. A startlingly-prophetic parallel of how things are going for him.

Meanwhile
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/us/politics/mike-pence-muslim-ban.html

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana suggested in a radio interview on Monday that Donald J. Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims from entering the country could be broadened to include other religions, not just Muslims.

In an interview with Charlie Sykes, a Wisconsin talk radio host, Mr. Sykes specifically pressed Mr. Pence on his running mate’s Muslim ban, asking: “So there’s no longer a proposed temporary ban on Muslims? It would be anyone from those countries, including Christians? Jews?”

Mr. Pence, seeming to go beyond even the policy proposed by Mr. Trump, did not rule out barring immigrants from other religions, if they were coming from nations or territories that support terrorism.

What about skin color? Or weird names?

Meanwhile, this...is telling:

https://twitter.com/jasonnobleDMR/status/763763968246550528

@SteveKingIA just said @HillaryClinton "outside of the press, outside of the public eye is someone I can work with."

i was thinking how if she is able to get things passed w/ bipartisan support the left is really really going to hate her. it won't matter what she gets the republicans to give up - any concession or negotiation will be seen as a betrayal.

http://www.wbtv.com/story/32736823/lawsuit-trump-campaign-failed-to-act-after-staffer-pulled-gun

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A lawsuit filed by a former staffer on Donald J. Trump’s campaign for president claims the campaign’s then-North Carolina State Director pulled a gun on him and senior campaign officials refused to do anything about it.

If HRC becomes the new center of gravity for the Republican Party I'd consider that a good development. xp

i was thinking how if she is able to get things passed w/ bipartisan support the left is really really going to hate her. it won't matter what she gets the republicans to give up - any concession or negotiation will be seen as a betrayal.

― Mordy, Thursday, August 11, 2016 11:07 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Easy now, let's see what she actually does first.

the spectacle of company man hugh hewitt throwing a life preserver to trump over and over again the interview and trump batting it away is really something

it won't matter what she gets the republicans to give up - any concession or negotiation will be seen as a betrayal.

well duh

Meghan McCain is annoyed.

https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/763768753419063296

lol michael ian black first response hall of fame

minor political disappointment of the day:

Lady Miss Kier is a jill stein anti-hillary type (ok ok) retweeting prisonplanet and breitbart goons

https://twitter.com/ladykier

say it ain't so!

another fun fact - he buys a lot of Twitter followers:

http://i.imgur.com/oxm7U24.png

― frogbs, Thursday, August 11, 2016 11:50 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's a fairly typical fraction of bot followers for a celebrity account. maybe a bit on the high side, but no evidence that he's buying them.

uh also (need to figure this out) the green party running mate has some kind of connection to holocaust denial?

https://twitter.com/ajamubaraka

idk sounds tenuous at first glance

ok he contributed a piece to a book about how the charlie hedbo attack was a false flag

https://twitter.com/johnpaulpagano/status/763363044391002112

edited by a holocaust denier. cover by david dees!

Ajamu Baraka ‏@ajamubaraka 1h1 hour ago
Our presidential options at the top level of government are bleak. That's why we need to build from the bottom up. pointlessly run moron candidates for president every four years.

boy i thought flirting with naturalnews body paranoia was bad...

https://twitter.com/deepdrumpf

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, August 11, 2016 10:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so amazing

lol michael ian black first response hall of fame

amen!

if she is able to get things passed w/ bipartisan support the left is really really going to hate her

record-setting billions for Bibi; count on it.

lol michael ian black first response hall of fame

Throwing Sarah Palin back at her obliterates anything she might have to say.

MI Black and McCain wrote a book together

pretty sure obama is going to sign that new aid package before he leaves office. nb i was pleasantly surprised to find that daniel pipes most recent column called for the military aid to end: http://www.danielpipes.org/16850/end-us-aid-to-israel

but what does record-setting billions for bibi have to do w/ negotiating with republicans? both hillary and the republicans want it. i'm talking about things hillary doesn't necessarily want, or things she has actually campaigned against, that she might give into to make a "grand compromise."

they're not gonna compromise at all - tea party caucus in the House will be even more powerful after the election, Ryan will be hamstrung.

yeah it's like they'll have distilled much of the sanity out of the GOP and what is left will be even crazier and less prone to compromise

in re. baraka -- you can't make up this stuff:

In January 2015, Baraka described the vigil for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting as a "white power march" and Je suis Charlie as an "arrogant rallying cry for white supremacy" because of France's colonial history, the caricature at issue, French support for American policy in Syria and Libya, and the disproportionate interest in this particular act of war.[19] Later he would write an article titled "No 'Je Suis Charleston'?".

caroline du sud n'est pas francophone, non?

when has the GOP ever been sane

Not in the last forty or fifty years.

it's all relative i guess

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpmAplYUsAA7dkA.jpg

So did we talk about how Trump is now two points ahead of HRC in...South Carolina?

(He's not)

I'm wondering why we haven't seen a poll of Texas voters in a while, tbh.

those parentheticals in the CNN chyron have been just

sublime

Apropos of nothing, a friend of mine (not the person I'm linking to) just shared this video on FB, of some psychotic aggro asshole threatening a cyclist. Among his many threats: "If there weren't any witnesses, I'd pull a Trump on you."

https://www.facebook.com/mark.friis1/videos/vb.1201104417/10207942299974298/?type=2&theater

South Carolina was only a ten point differential in 2012. Compare with Missouri (nine point differential) and Georgia (eight point differential).

Lieberman goes for HRC:
http://jewishva.org/node/129998

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/republicans-urge-rnc-cut-funds-trump-226918

that's a fairly typical fraction of bot followers for a celebrity account. maybe a bit on the high side, but no evidence that he's buying them.

I think he recently seemed to add 1.5m of them.

re: chinavision's link: it's been said before, but I love how now that he's really cratering in the polls, all these 'reasonable' folks have, just this minute, noticed shit he's been doing since the start of the campaign:

Those recent outrages have built on his campaign of anger and exclusion, during which he has mocked and offended millions of voters, including the disabled, women, Muslims, immigrants, and minorities,” the letter states. “He also has shown dangerous authoritarian tendencies, including threats to ban an entire religion from entering the country, order the military to break the law by torturing prisoners, kill the families of suspected terrorists, track law-abiding Muslim citizens in databases, and use executive orders to implement other illegal and unconstitutional measures.

oh, so now those things are deal-breakers. good to know.

uh most of that stuff is being done now

or has been recently

if they were really brave they'd endorse the only other candidate who has a chance of winning

pretty sure him mocking and offending the disabled, women, Muslims, immigrants and minorities was.... the entire basis of his campaign? the Muslim ban, the torture and kill stuff, all that was ages and ages ago.