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[Tasty]

Hillary up by 9 in Florida.

Welp.

[Tasty]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/voting-for-trump-through-gritted-teeth-227031

“I don’t like the fact that I’m going to do this,” said Lynch, the Arizona elector, of committing her electoral vote to Trump. Lynch, who has attended eight national Republican conventions and supported Ronald Reagan over Gerald Ford in 1976, noted that there’s an increasing likelihood that Trump will lose her state to Hillary Clinton, which means a separate set of Democratic electors would be tapped instead.

“Bill Clinton did win Arizona in 1996,” she noted. “So it’s not too far-fetched that Mrs. Clinton might win Arizona.”

Be such a shitlord candidate that electors in your own party are hoping you'll lose their state so they don't have to vote for you, brehs.




Alternatively:

Only one GOP elector, Texas’s Art Sisneros, said he’d considered bucking Trump and becoming what’s known as a “faithless” elector.

“I got talked into it by a guy who was trying to find enough faithless electors … just for the sake of causing chaos,” he said. “That was the plan.”

Be such a shitlord candidate that your electors are actively turning against you, brehs.

[Tasty]

Brehs could you imagine Trump narrowly winning Texas only for its GOP electors to turn around and give it to Hillary anyways? Busting a nut at the thought.

[Joe Molotov]

The Trump campaign is doubling-down on this this "stolen election" line. Unskewing the polls taken to it's logical end.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/291534-can-the-2016-election-be-rigged-you-bet

[Phoenix Dark]

Come get your man, Esch.
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/765523603869798400

 

[brawndolicious]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-120-republicans-tell-rnc-to-cut-off-funds-to-donald-trump/

"We believe that Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck," the letter says.

It's been said before but just not so eloquently.

[Brehvolution]

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'm an equal opportunity triggerer

[Steve Contra]

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/765563431416193024

Texas Republicans might be the most confused people in America.  Super Patriots who also hate America and want to leave it.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/765563431416193024

Texas Republicans might be the most confused people in America.  Super Patriots who also hate America and want to leave it.

Yeah, I don't think they know what "patriot" means.

Nor what "freedom" means, for that matter.

[I'm a Puppy!]

No no, you don't understand! Damn librul media misquoting me!

The liberal media took what I said and went against the law and the Constitution and ran with it, and they said that I wanted her assassinated, which I never did," Baldasaro told The Republican/MassLive.com. "I said I spoke as a veteran, and she should be shot in a firing squad for treason."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-baldasaro-clinton-should-be-executed-not-assassinated?utm_content=buffer47b8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Joe Molotov]

No no, you don't understand! Damn librul media misquoting me!

The liberal media took what I said and went against the law and the Constitution and ran with it, and they said that I wanted her assassinated, which I never did," Baldasaro told The Republican/MassLive.com. "I said I spoke as a veteran, and she should be shot in a firing squad for treason."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-baldasaro-clinton-should-be-executed-not-assassinated?utm_content=buffer47b8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Chris Christie already found her guilty, so I don't see a problem.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/snowden-speculates-leak-of-nsa-spying-tools-is-tied-to-russian-dnc-hack/

[VomKriege]

Trump playing banto with his campaign managers again. Felt "boxed in" by Manafort.

“Buckle up,” wrote a Trump strategist in a text message Wednesday to The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/17/trump-reshuffles-staff-in-his-own-image/?postshare=6431471417685476&tid=ss_tw

[Phoenix Dark]

Breitbart chairman?


That dude hates Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell lol. Wow.

[I'm a Puppy!]

what the hell? What does breitbart know about running a campaign? He's focusing on messaging not logistics.

[Joe Molotov]

what the hell? What does breitbart know about running a campaign? He's focusing on messaging not logistics.

Apparently Manafort is still going to be handling that part, but who knows. Trump still hasn't bought a single ad or opened a campaign office in any battleground state, so it's debatable whether he actually has a campaign beyond himself.

[Phoenix Dark]

This is looking more and more like a giant scam. Trump apparently now has a few offices (like, 20) throughout the country just so he can claim he has a ground game, but it's still severely inadequate. He bought a couple ads recently, just to say he has ads on the airwaves. This entire operation seems like a front to further his brand and funnel money into his businesses. The last FEC report showed that his campaign spends more almost exclusively on Trump hotels, products and services. Not to mention payments to random properties for "consulting."

The end game seems to be amassing a large email list and selling it to "buy gold now" companies, among other things. Breitbart's chairman getting involved fits that narrative: I'd imagine they'll be able to access some of that list for advertisers.

[Tasty]

Trump playing banto with his campaign managers again. Felt "boxed in" by Manafort.

“Buckle up,” wrote a Trump strategist in a text message Wednesday to The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/17/trump-reshuffles-staff-in-his-own-image/?postshare=6431471417685476&tid=ss_tw

 

[Tasty]

This is looking more and more like a giant scam. Trump apparently now has a few offices (like, 20) throughout the country just so he can claim he has a ground game, but it's still severely inadequate. He bought a couple ads recently, just to say he has ads on the airwaves. This entire operation seems like a front to further his brand and funnel money into his businesses. The last FEC report showed that his campaign spends more almost exclusively on Trump hotels, products and services. Not to mention payments to random properties for "consulting."

The end game seems to be amassing a large email list and selling it to "buy gold now" companies, among other things. Breitbart's chairman getting involved fits that narrative: I'd imagine they'll be able to access some of that list for advertisers.

Michael Moore just published an article alleging Trump's entire campaign was a scam to wring more money out of NBC, and it backfired, then un-backfired, and is re-backfiring again.

[Tasty]

These shake-ups aren't gonna do shit. The campaign managers are not the problem. Trump is the problem. The shake-ups are a symptom of that problem.

what the hell? What does breitbart know about running a campaign? He's focusing on messaging not logistics.

Manafort was trying to get Trump to temper his demeanor for the general election, the two new guys are "two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism."

Basically, Trump is gonna Trump even harder going forward, there's no "pivot" so expect more incidents like the Khan thing and "second amendment people."

[Madrun Badrun]

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/16/us/tulsa-arab-american-shooting-trnd/index.html

[Great Rumbler]

Sean Hannity's gotta be so pissed off right now that Trump hasn't hired him onto the campaign yet.

Edit: But seriously, though, Trump's campaign continues to surprise me [even though it really shouldn't at this point] with how it continues to top its own records for absolute insanity in a major election.

[T-Short]

good to see the dank meme economy thriving in this time of political turmoil

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00618843/1094350/se

[Steve Contra]

http://bigstory.ap.org/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813

Donald Trump's campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party's efforts to influence U.S. policy.

[I'm a Puppy!]

This is looking more and more like a giant scam. Trump apparently now has a few offices (like, 20) throughout the country just so he can claim he has a ground game, but it's still severely inadequate. He bought a couple ads recently, just to say he has ads on the airwaves. This entire operation seems like a front to further his brand and funnel money into his businesses. The last FEC report showed that his campaign spends more almost exclusively on Trump hotels, products and services. Not to mention payments to random properties for "consulting."

The end game seems to be amassing a large email list and selling it to "buy gold now" companies, among other things. Breitbart's chairman getting involved fits that narrative: I'd imagine they'll be able to access some of that list for advertisers.

Yeah, I buy this. It does seem like if you wanted to win you'd at least try. It doesn't really seem like he's trying.

[Joe Molotov]

Trump's internal polling shows him winning Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and California, according to Alex Jones. Game over, Lieberals.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-trump-verge-winning-california-and-new-york-according-his-unskewed-polls

[Steve Contra]

Game over, Lieberals.

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Some please make that en emoticon because we'll be using it lots in the coming months

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[Great Rumbler]

Recently, Fortune commissioned a social media analytics company to analyze Donald Trump's retweets on his infamous Twitter account. They identified 2,000 "influencers" in the "#WhiteGenocide" community (yes, I'm sorry to say there's a "#WhiteGenocide" community), and they looked at that influence matrix against Trump's Twitter history. "Since the start of his campaign," they found, "Donald Trump has retweeted at least 75 users who follow at least three of the top 50 #WhiteGenocide influencers. Moreover, a majority of these retweeted accounts are themselves followed by more than 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers."

Take the first winnable presidential election post-Bush and turn it over to someone who actively pushes away virtually every minority group while pandering to the most hardcore of the hardcore white supremacists, brehs.

[tiesto]

Trump's internal polling shows him winning Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and California, according to Alex Jones. Game over, Lieberals.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-trump-verge-winning-california-and-new-york-according-his-unskewed-polls

Was beginning to wonder why my friend was so adamant that Trump wasn't behind in the polls when I told him I was voting H.

[VomKriege]

Trump actually winning in polls conducted by David Icke and the Aurora shooter.

[Joe Molotov]

Why #WhiteGenocide for a hashtag? Sounds like they want to eradicate white people.

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One can only dream

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They think that white culture is being genocided by multiculturalism.

[brawndolicious]

Recently, Fortune commissioned a social media analytics company to analyze Donald Trump's retweets on his infamous Twitter account. They identified 2,000 "influencers" in the "#WhiteGenocide" community (yes, I'm sorry to say there's a "#WhiteGenocide" community), and they looked at that influence matrix against Trump's Twitter history. "Since the start of his campaign," they found, "Donald Trump has retweeted at least 75 users who follow at least three of the top 50 #WhiteGenocide influencers. Moreover, a majority of these retweeted accounts are themselves followed by more than 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers."

Take the first winnable presidential election post-Bush and turn it over to someone who actively pushes away virtually every minority group while pandering to the most hardcore of the hardcore white supremacists, brehs.

The smart thing to do is for everyone to deflate Trump as an accident rather than a mistake (they didn't use superdelegate condoms yadda yadda). Especially in the next few weeks because you do not want this guy to go up to Hillary in a one-on-one debate as the spearhead of the party. The man has no plans, skills, or self-control and he's representing about 20-25 red states so it's just almost cruel.

Fact of the matter is, Clinton has to work with some Republicans in Congress once she's actually sworn in and demonizing the whole party isn't going to help pass legislation.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/elliosch/status/766021223415439361

[I'm a Puppy!]

"All of them"
".....OK."

[Brehvolution]

At this point, what is the over/under that there will even be a debate? No tRump ground game and barely any ads looks like capitulation money wise. He will get his faux newz airtime and some cnn bites but it's a really low energy approach to the highest office in the land.

I'm going to say that the more pro russia shit comes out the less likelihood of a debate. He'll weasel out of it somehow citing moderation or some BS.

Any breitdouche addition is a subtraction IRL.

[I'm a Puppy!]

A debate sounds like an amazingly bad idea for trump. Hillary would eat him alive and if Johnson is there he'll just sit there lobbing "you're a pussy" at Trump which we all know he wont take well. My money is on Trump finding a way out of it and blaming the media for it.

[Great Rumbler]

It was a bad idea for Trump to debate one-on-one against Hillary even when things were going good for him, I don't see how he'll get anything positive out of it with things going this spectacularly bad. Of course, dodging the debate isn't going to help much either, though.

[Tasty]

Oh man I really hope we get just ONE debate out of this. It's my most-looked forward event of September and that's a month with my birthday.

[Phoenix Dark]

I'd bet there will be at least one debate. I can see Trump's team believing that if he can bully and dominate her in a debate, make her look weak, etc he can come out the victor. Embolden the base, impress/entertain the rest of the electorate. And after that he won't accept another debate, since such a move is unlikely to work again. It's a hail mary but it's probably the only one he has.

In reality I'd expect him to instead look like a fool in the debate, the media will continue turning on him, and the official message will be "the debate was rigged, the media is in the tank for Hillary, etc." After that he'll decide not to do anymore debates.

[Tasty]

I'd bet there will be at least one debate. I can see Trump's team believing that if he can bully and dominate her in a debate, make her look weak, etc he can come out the victor. Embolden the base, impress/entertain the rest of the electorate. And after that he won't accept another debate, since such a move is unlikely to work again. It's a hail mary but it's probably the only one he has.

In reality I'd expect him to instead look like a fool in the debate, the media will continue turning on him, and the official message will be "the debate was rigged, the media is in the tank for Hillary, etc." After while he'll decide not to do anymore debates.

This seems like the most likely course of events.

Of course this entire election has been anything but, so who knows what will actually happen.

[brawndolicious]

At this point, what is the over/under that there will even be a debate? No tRump ground game and barely any ads looks like capitulation money wise. He will get his faux newz airtime and some cnn bites but it's a really low energy approach to the highest office in the land.

I'm going to say that the more pro russia shit comes out the less likelihood of a debate. He'll weasel out of it somehow citing moderation or some BS.

Any breitdouche addition is a subtraction IRL.

He's probably only still in this because his advisers are willing to be hands-off in the hopes that he just finishes the race. I think their goal is to have their careers not be completely tarnished while Trump just wants people to worship him. So like 70/30 with higher odds on him finishing so he's not a total black mark in American history.

[TakingBackSunday]

my god this election is just hilarious

[VomKriege]

Animals. They know.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'd bet there will be at least one debate. I can see Trump's team believing that if he can bully and dominate her in a debate, make her look weak, etc he can come out the victor. Embolden the base, impress/entertain the rest of the electorate. And after that he won't accept another debate, since such a move is unlikely to work again. It's a hail mary but it's probably the only one he has.

In reality I'd expect him to instead look like a fool in the debate, the media will continue turning on him, and the official message will be "the debate was rigged, the media is in the tank for Hillary, etc." After that he'll decide not to do anymore debates.

The more I think about it, the less I think there'll even be one debate. My money is on him saying he wont debate because the librul media hates him and it wont be fair.

[benjipwns]

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaign-chairman-steve-bannon-ben-shapiro

Not to say "I told you so," but I did tell you so.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi-on-the-summer-of-the-media-shill-w434484

Worse still, when you shill as constantly as his outlets have, even your most enthusiastic audience members very quickly learn to see through you.

This is a problem because if there ever comes a time when you want to convince your own audience of hard truths, you'll suddenly find them not nearly as trusting and loyal as you’d thought. Deep down, they'll have known all along you were full of it.

This happened to many Republican/conservative media figures in the past year.

The world may never have heard a yawn louder than the one evinced by flyover audiences in January, when the National Review gathered 20 prominent conservatives, headlined by Glenn Beck, to demand that Republican voters draw a line in the sand against Trump. It was an unprecedented show of media unity and determination.

Trump casually walked over the red-pundit-Maginot-line and raced straight to the nomination from there.

[benjipwns]

MUST SEE: Photos of Hillary Clinton Propped Up on Pillows

[benjipwns]

says who?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/elliosch/status/766021223415439361

"All of them"
".....OK."

wow does she have egg on her face

In a conversation with Yahoo News shortly after the conversation aired, Michael Cohen, an executive vice president and attorney at the Trump Organization, said he believed he “controlled the interview” with Brianna Keilar.

“I think I unraveled her,” Cohen boasted.

Cohen told Yahoo News he was stunned by Keilar’s conduct during the interview.

“I was shocked at the length of the silence as she stumbled to think of an answer,” Cohen said. “And when she did come up with an answer, it was so generic it could have applied to anything.”

Cohen also pointed to the crowds at Trump’s rallies as a sign polls may be off.

“I think Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are substantially closer than the polls indicate,” Cohen explained. “The proof is the massive 20-, 25- and 30,000-person rallies that he is attending on a multiple-time-per-week basis. In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can’t fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.”

the lieberal media's dominoes are falling like a house of cards

[Tasty]

“I think Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are substantially closer than the polls indicate,” Cohen explained. “The proof is the massive 20-, 25- and 30,000-person rallies that he is attending on a multiple-time-per-week basis. In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can’t fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.”

She draws huge rallies though?

[Joe Molotov]

“I think Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are substantially closer than the polls indicate,” Cohen explained. “The proof is the massive 20-, 25- and 30,000-person rallies that he is attending on a multiple-time-per-week basis. In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can’t fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.”

She draws huge rallies though?

says who?

[Samson Manhug]

says who?

https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/766079787643305984

Also, any way we can get a plugin installed to embed tweets?

[I'm a Puppy!]

You know, I find it ironic that most Trump supporters are the ones going around being like "children are spoiled nowadays! And they bully, and lack discipline and respect!" And then support a guy who's entire presidential campaign acts like in a way that if their kids acted they'd smack that kid up.

[Rufus]

He 'speaks his mind', i.e. he's openly racist. That's all there is to it. That's his "magic".

[Phoenix Dark]

I'd bet there will be at least one debate. I can see Trump's team believing that if he can bully and dominate her in a debate, make her look weak, etc he can come out the victor. Embolden the base, impress/entertain the rest of the electorate. And after that he won't accept another debate, since such a move is unlikely to work again. It's a hail mary but it's probably the only one he has.

In reality I'd expect him to instead look like a fool in the debate, the media will continue turning on him, and the official message will be "the debate was rigged, the media is in the tank for Hillary, etc." After that he'll decide not to do anymore debates.

The more I think about it, the less I think there'll even be one debate. My money is on him saying he wont debate because the librul media hates him and it wont be fair.

On one hand I can see that, but on the other hand would Trump turn down the chance to be on live television in front of 60mil+ people, at least once? Plus given his obsession with winners/losers dominating/dominated I don't see him refusing to debate Hillary since it'll make him look weak. I agree he'll skip a debate, likely two. But the first will happen imo.

[benjipwns]

“I think Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are substantially closer than the polls indicate,” Cohen explained. “The proof is the massive 20-, 25- and 30,000-person rallies that he is attending on a multiple-time-per-week basis. In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can’t fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.”

She draws huge rallies though?

says who?

i notice andy hasn't come up with an answer for this, i think you unraveled xhem joe

[Tasty]

All of them.

[Phoenix Dark]

All of them.

https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status/766236561398702080

[Great Rumbler]

Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said on Wednesday that her comment calling Hillary Clinton a "lying killer" was just a "mispronunciation" of the Democratic nominee's name.

“I was trying to say Hillary Clinton,” Brewer told Buzzfeed News. “It was a stumble of the tongue.”

“Good grief,” she added.

On Tuesday, Brewer called Clinton a "lying killer" during a radio interview on Phoenix radio station KTAR.

"People want a fighter. They’re tired of the lying killer, uh Hillary Clinton and Bill Clintons of the world," she said while arguing that Democrats cannot win Arizona, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

[Madrun Badrun]

Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said on Wednesday that her comment calling Hillary Clinton a "lying killer" was just a "mispronunciation" of the Democratic nominee's name.

“I was trying to say Hillary Clinton,” Brewer told Buzzfeed News. “It was a stumble of the tongue.”

“Good grief,” she added.

On Tuesday, Brewer called Clinton a "lying killer" during a radio interview on Phoenix radio station KTAR.

"People want a fighter. They’re tired of the lying killer, uh Hillary Clinton and Bill Clintons of the world," she said while arguing that Democrats cannot win Arizona, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

so she was trying to say 'the lying Clinton'?  Does she think Bill is an honest man?