Well I decided that as much as I like the energy of voting on election day, I have a busy week then so I took advantage of early voting. So +1 Hillary in WI. And almost more importantly Feingold. If you people in IN, NH, MO, PA, NC, FL, and NV don't come thru for the Senate, a 100 year curse of skunky beer and moldy cheese be upon you.
Thomas told the Heritage Foundation that the obstruction of Garland’s appointment to the court is undermining confidence in the United States judicial system.
“I don’t think [obstruction]’s going to work in a republic or a civil society. At some point, we have got to recognize that we’re destroying our institutions and undermining our institutions,” Thomas said.
Then Clarance Thomas should do something about it. Say "I will vote exactly how Ginsberg does on all cases until a new nominee is approved". Just saying "You're ruining everything!" and not doing anything about it when you trivially can is an embarrassment. At least if he had said nothing he could have pretended he was part of the '8 is enough' crowd.
"That is cool" - Abraham Lincoln
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I just fucking couldn't take it anymore from my family, so I sent them this email tonight, with the title "Donations for Hillary"
I just wanted to let you guys know something of which you are probably not aware and might help me get less emails if you were made aware of it.
Every time you goad me about Hillary, or say something legitimately insane about Hillary, or talk with serious earnestness about something that is clearly an easily disproved lie about Hillary, I send her another donation. I gave her another $5 tonight.
Hopefully this will curb the enthusiasm towards emails aimed at annoying me, but who knows. Maybe it will actually create more emails. /shrug
God bless the future Madam President
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
It's probably something as boring as Trump wants to expand into Russia and Putin's people told him that to do so, he has to get the sanctions on Russia lifted.
Also given the connections between his advisors and Russian interests, he's likely got alot of people around him telling him to believe good things about Putin and Russia.
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Like any bully, Trump fears and admires anyone stronger or more powerful than himself. It's also clear that he probably has a lot of business ties in Russia, as they seem to be one of the few places still willing to work with him and lend him money.
But mostly I think it's brothers in authoritarianism.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Aaaaaand as sort-of expected from my clan, one of my sisters decided to goad me about Hillary. I thanked her for Hillary's second $5 donation from me and asked if she wanted to make it $15.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Less than 2 weeks until you reap the harvest of sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Don't forget to compile a list to send out to all of them showing who contributed how much. Spin this right, and you can turn them against each other in a welter of recrimination and accusations of insufficient faith in the Dear Leader while you watch from the sidelines.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
edited October 2016
She did indeed go for the $15, because she couldn't help herself, apparently. Free magnet for me this time around!
Less than 2 weeks until you reap the harvest of sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Don't forget to compile a list to send out to all of them showing who contributed how much. Spin this right, and you can turn them against each other in a welter of recrimination and accusations of insufficient faith in the Dear Leader while you watch from the sidelines.
I'm not quite sure I could go that far, but the real goal here is to make them stop trying to talk to me about politics so we'll see.
Cambiata on
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
“And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for? What are we having it for?”
Asking rhetorical questions about abolishing democracy in the third person. Always something new, Donald, always something I didn't expect.
If I remember correctly, Biden was much less interventionist than Clinton was in the Obama admin. Perhaps a sop to those who see Secretary Clinton as too hawkish?
Or, this early, just mindless speculation. Its not like there's a huge universe of potential Secretaries of States out there.
The sourcing on that seemed pretty self serving in my opinion tbh. His history in the Senate was mostly more hawkish than Clinton's and when he's thinking of running articles that said he gave Obama his good ideas and opposed the bad with hindsight ones but we're overruled by Hillary were very common
“And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for? What are we having it for?”
Asking rhetorical questions about abolishing democracy in the third person. Always something new, Donald, always something I didn't expect.
Yeah I mean give the fellow credit, maintaining a flow of new material for this long is amazing.
Maybe the repeated performance of the same phrases in rally after rally is developing a chant-like groove.
Or is that chanted monotone meant to invoke some familiar pattern? A one-man demonstration chant? A really plain sort of plainchant? Some kind of magical incantation or Tony-Robbins-like affirmation? None of those really fit. Is there a model that I've never heard or am not thinking of?
Since YouTube has Trump rally recordings going back several years — and whatever happens on November 8, I'm sure we'll hear from Mr. Trump again — there's an opportunity here to study the evolution of a unique rhetorical style. It seems to work for him, though I think that any other politicians who spoke that way would be mercilessly ridiculed.
Much has been made of Trump’s comments in a surfaced Access Hollywood video about making advances on a woman without her consent. Trump dismissed the comments as “locker talk,” but foreign language translations of the lewd banter have only made the remarks sound worse.
According to Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, the sentence, “I moved on her like a bitch, and I could not get there, and she was married,” became “Wǒ xiàng zhuī biǎozi yīyàng zhuī tā, dàn méi néng chénggōng,” on people.cn, which means: “I pursued her like a whore / prostitute / harlot / strumpet, but I couldn’t succeed.”
Another news site translated the sentence into, “Wǒ xiàng duìdài dàngfù yīyàng kàojìn tā,” or “I treated her like a slut to get close to her,” Mair wrote on the blog Language Log.
Jennifer Jones, a doctoral candidate of political psychology at the University of California at Irvine, has combined these statistics into an index capturing the ratio of “feminine” to “masculine” words, and applied it to the language of 35 political candidates over the past decade. Hillary Clinton’s language falls above the average on this index—more feminine than George W. Bush’s, but less so than Barack Obama’s.
But Donald Trump is a stunning outlier. His linguistic style is startlingly feminine, so much so that the chasm between Trump and the next most feminine speaker, Ben Carson, is about as great as the difference between Carson and the least feminine candidate, Jim Webb. And Trump earns his ranking not just because he talks a lot about himself or avoids big words (both of which are true); according to Jones, he also shows feminine patterns on the more subtle measures, such as his use of prepositions and articles. The key then is not what Trump talks about—making Mexico pay for the wall or bombing the hell out of ISIL—but rather how he says it.
The ABC tracking poll is now at Clinton +4, with +12 after the third debate. Meanwhile, IBD/TIPP tracker now has her +3.
Polls are being weird and as the Polandball would say, I am not of liking.
The +12 polls felt to me like they were probably outliers. They talked about this on Maddow the other night, if you take the polls where she is ahead by 12 or only up by 3 and just average them out you get Hilldog to a lead of about 6-7, which is pretty consistent with a majority of polls.
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I'm imagining Biden will leave Washington and ride Amtrak around the country, righting wrongs and kicking ass along the way, much like some bad '90s syndicated action-adventure TV show.
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edited October 2016
Biden does deserve a break but what if he doesn't want one? Some people just live for their job and diamond Joe is a pretty tough dude.
Less than 2 weeks until you reap the harvest of sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Don't forget to compile a list to send out to all of them showing who contributed how much. Spin this right, and you can turn them against each other in a welter of recrimination and accusations of insufficient faith in the Dear Leader while you watch from the sidelines.
I'm not quite sure I could go that far, but the real goal here is to make them stop trying to talk to me about politics so we'll see.
You should gift-wrap all the Hillary stuff you bought with those family-induced donations and give it back to your family as Christmas presents in two months.
The ABC tracking poll is now at Clinton +4, with +12 after the third debate. Meanwhile, IBD/TIPP tracker now has her +3.
Polls are being weird and as the Polandball would say, I am not of liking.
Reversion to the mean. She's typically been leading by 3-4% throughout, with hills and valleys. The debates and pussy grabbing moved her up another hill, but it is inevitably fading. Hopefully to a now higher plateau (probably 5-6%), but she wasn't likely to win by double digits. She should. But there is no justice as we've recently seen.
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This isn't just reversion to the mean. This is mostly Republicans who left Trump after the tape and accusations now saying, "Sure, he admitted to sexually assaulting women, but that was like three weeks ago. What has he done to me lately?" It's not math. It's unconscionable.
And we are also getting near the finish line and a lot of people who were never trumping are probably holding their nose to vote for him and same for hillary and we will likely wind up with a pretty similar spread as we have seen the last few election cycles one way or the other.
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Much has been made of Trump’s comments in a surfaced Access Hollywood video about making advances on a woman without her consent. Trump dismissed the comments as “locker talk,” but foreign language translations of the lewd banter have only made the remarks sound worse.
According to Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, the sentence, “I moved on her like a bitch, and I could not get there, and she was married,” became “Wǒ xiàng zhuī biǎozi yīyàng zhuī tā, dàn méi néng chénggōng,” on people.cn, which means: “I pursued her like a whore / prostitute / harlot / strumpet, but I couldn’t succeed.”
Another news site translated the sentence into, “Wǒ xiàng duìdài dàngfù yīyàng kàojìn tā,” or “I treated her like a slut to get close to her,” Mair wrote on the blog Language Log.
As an aside, I feel like Trump was referring to himself as a bitch. Because having to try and persuade someone (and especially failing) is weakness to him, as opposed to having them fling themselves at you (or, more likely in his case, forcing yourself upon them). And I think he would use bitch to denote weakness (because sexism etc.) rather than promiscuity.
(I find alternate readings of stuff really interesting.)
The ABC tracking poll is now at Clinton +4, with +12 after the third debate. Meanwhile, IBD/TIPP tracker now has her +3.
Polls are being weird and as the Polandball would say, I am not of liking.
Reversion to the mean. She's typically been leading by 3-4% throughout, with hills and valleys. The debates and pussy grabbing moved her up another hill, but it is inevitably fading. Hopefully to a now higher plateau (probably 5-6%), but she wasn't likely to win by double digits. She should. But there is no justice as we've recently seen.
It being close is just inexplicable to me. There have to be SOME Republicans who won't vote for this absurd idiot. Even if it's only like 5% of them that should lead to an obliteration of Trump. There are less Republicans than Democrats anyway.
Sad to say, it must mean that a lot of Democrats really hate Hilary. I'll be glad to see her in officerror, but I wish we could have run someone with a little less baggage.
Maybe the repeated performance of the same phrases in rally after rally is developing a chant-like groove.
Or is that chanted monotone meant to invoke some familiar pattern? A one-man demonstration chant? A really plain sort of plainchant? Some kind of magical incantation or Tony-Robbins-like affirmation? None of those really fit. Is there a model that I've never heard or am not thinking of?
Since YouTube has Trump rally recordings going back several years — and whatever happens on November 8, I'm sure we'll hear from Mr. Trump again — there's an opportunity here to study the evolution of a unique rhetorical style. It seems to work for him, though I think that any other politicians who spoke that way would be mercilessly ridiculed.
Much has been made of Trump’s comments in a surfaced Access Hollywood video about making advances on a woman without her consent. Trump dismissed the comments as “locker talk,” but foreign language translations of the lewd banter have only made the remarks sound worse.
According to Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, the sentence, “I moved on her like a bitch, and I could not get there, and she was married,” became “Wǒ xiàng zhuī biǎozi yīyàng zhuī tā, dàn méi néng chénggōng,” on people.cn, which means: “I pursued her like a whore / prostitute / harlot / strumpet, but I couldn’t succeed.”
Another news site translated the sentence into, “Wǒ xiàng duìdài dàngfù yīyàng kàojìn tā,” or “I treated her like a slut to get close to her,” Mair wrote on the blog Language Log.
Jennifer Jones, a doctoral candidate of political psychology at the University of California at Irvine, has combined these statistics into an index capturing the ratio of “feminine” to “masculine” words, and applied it to the language of 35 political candidates over the past decade. Hillary Clinton’s language falls above the average on this index—more feminine than George W. Bush’s, but less so than Barack Obama’s.
But Donald Trump is a stunning outlier. His linguistic style is startlingly feminine, so much so that the chasm between Trump and the next most feminine speaker, Ben Carson, is about as great as the difference between Carson and the least feminine candidate, Jim Webb. And Trump earns his ranking not just because he talks a lot about himself or avoids big words (both of which are true); according to Jones, he also shows feminine patterns on the more subtle measures, such as his use of prepositions and articles. The key then is not what Trump talks about—making Mexico pay for the wall or bombing the hell out of ISIL—but rather how he says it.
I don't see Trump reacting well to this. Somebody make sure he sees it.
Biden does deserve a break but what if he doesn't want one? Some people just live for their job and diamond Joe is a pretty tough dude.
The reason he didn't run for President is because his heart isn't in it any more. He has said as much on tv before the primaries. After the death of his son i think he just wants to quietly fade away into the background and mourn by himself.
This isn't just reversion to the mean. This is mostly Republicans who left Trump after the tape and accusations now saying, "Sure, he admitted to sexually assaulting women, but that was like three weeks ago. What has he done to me lately?" It's not math. It's unconscionable.
Welcome to the Republican Party, a debased bunch of extremists with no morals, principles, or concrete objectives other than "fuck liberals!"
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
If I remember correctly, Biden was much less interventionist than Clinton was in the Obama admin. Perhaps a sop to those who see Secretary Clinton as too hawkish?
Or, this early, just mindless speculation. Its not like there's a huge universe of potential Secretaries of States out there.
Onion Joe probably doesnt truck with no email, or anything else the man could use to come down on his distro ring.
In four year's we'll be six Congressional investigations deep into the quest to uncover the 33,000 missing cans of Natty Light
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
This is an actual ad the Trump campaign is running on Hindi TV stations. I'm guessing Tim & Eric are his new marketing directors
Biden does deserve a break but what if he doesn't want one? Some people just live for their job and diamond Joe is a pretty tough dude.
The reason he didn't run for President is because his heart isn't in it any more. He has said as much on tv before the primaries. After the death of his son i think he just wants to quietly fade away into the background and mourn by himself.
I think his heart wasn't in it for running for pres, as he knows what that takes. I do think his heart still aligns with Government service, as that's been his entire life.
Aaaaaand as sort-of expected from my clan, one of my sisters decided to goad me about Hillary. I thanked her for Hillary's second $5 donation from me and asked if she wanted to make it $15.
Is this Paragon or Renegade Cambiata? I can't tell.
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Then Clarance Thomas should do something about it. Say "I will vote exactly how Ginsberg does on all cases until a new nominee is approved". Just saying "You're ruining everything!" and not doing anything about it when you trivially can is an embarrassment. At least if he had said nothing he could have pretended he was part of the '8 is enough' crowd.
Also given the connections between his advisors and Russian interests, he's likely got alot of people around him telling him to believe good things about Putin and Russia.
But mostly I think it's brothers in authoritarianism.
I'm not quite sure I could go that far, but the real goal here is to make them stop trying to talk to me about politics so we'll see.
Asking rhetorical questions about abolishing democracy in the third person. Always something new, Donald, always something I didn't expect.
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The sourcing on that seemed pretty self serving in my opinion tbh. His history in the Senate was mostly more hawkish than Clinton's and when he's thinking of running articles that said he gave Obama his good ideas and opposed the bad with hindsight ones but we're overruled by Hillary were very common
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Yeah I mean give the fellow credit, maintaining a flow of new material for this long is amazing.
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I can't wait to read about Diamond Joe trying to sell weed to a Russian named Vlad, and Obama refusing to answer his calls.
This makes me think of the Georgia courtroom thing that the Rick and Morty people did an animatic of (and fully voiced).
Polls are being weird and as the Polandball would say, I am not of liking.
Trumpchant in B Flat
Interpreters say it’s nearly “impossible” to translate Donald Trump’s rhetoric into other languages
Trump talks like a woman
The +12 polls felt to me like they were probably outliers. They talked about this on Maddow the other night, if you take the polls where she is ahead by 12 or only up by 3 and just average them out you get Hilldog to a lead of about 6-7, which is pretty consistent with a majority of polls.
Lots of assumptions that this thing is already over.
Well, it isn't.
If you've got one last holdout in your circle--a BernieBro, a JohnsonFellow, whatever--don't let up. All votes matter.
I'm imagining Biden will leave Washington and ride Amtrak around the country, righting wrongs and kicking ass along the way, much like some bad '90s syndicated action-adventure TV show.
exactly. thats why we need to make sure that every motivated johnsonfellow gets out their johnson and votes!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should gift-wrap all the Hillary stuff you bought with those family-induced donations and give it back to your family as Christmas presents in two months.
Reversion to the mean. She's typically been leading by 3-4% throughout, with hills and valleys. The debates and pussy grabbing moved her up another hill, but it is inevitably fading. Hopefully to a now higher plateau (probably 5-6%), but she wasn't likely to win by double digits. She should. But there is no justice as we've recently seen.
(I find alternate readings of stuff really interesting.)
So am I on election night *wink* haha.
It being close is just inexplicable to me. There have to be SOME Republicans who won't vote for this absurd idiot. Even if it's only like 5% of them that should lead to an obliteration of Trump. There are less Republicans than Democrats anyway.
Sad to say, it must mean that a lot of Democrats really hate Hilary. I'll be glad to see her in officerror, but I wish we could have run someone with a little less baggage.
I don't see Trump reacting well to this. Somebody make sure he sees it.
The reason he didn't run for President is because his heart isn't in it any more. He has said as much on tv before the primaries. After the death of his son i think he just wants to quietly fade away into the background and mourn by himself.
Welcome to the Republican Party, a debased bunch of extremists with no morals, principles, or concrete objectives other than "fuck liberals!"
In four year's we'll be six Congressional investigations deep into the quest to uncover the 33,000 missing cans of Natty Light
FYI, Trump is polling around 6% with Indian-American voters, themselves an already fairly small voting bloc.
This is what it must be like living in the Twilight Zone.
I think his heart wasn't in it for running for pres, as he knows what that takes. I do think his heart still aligns with Government service, as that's been his entire life.
Job thread?
(Wants new job.)
Is this Paragon or Renegade Cambiata? I can't tell.