2016 Presidential Election Thread

The would-be Toddler-in-Chief is not amused:



Just how thin-skinned can he get? I guess we'll see.

Clinton aide discussed quid pro quo deal with FBI to change e-mail classifications

Hillary may go to jail regardless of the election results.

That's the even bigger achievement!

i can't argue with Trump, SNL *is* boring as shit.

So he forgot he hosted the show 11 months ago?!?
More proof he has Alzheimers!

And now that I think about it, this would probably be a good time to buy stock in dildo makers and KY Jelly.

Oh please, oh please, oh please let the SCOTUS part be true.

Obama taking a seat on the Supreme Court would cause an epic meltdown on the right.

So if he is on the Supreme Court, and his wife runs for President and wins, will he have to recluse himself from every decision that involves the US government as one party?

There's no requirement for Supreme Court Justices to ever recuse themselves. Justices sit for cases where they have massive conflicts of interest all the time. It's one of the more glaring failures of our system of government. Occasionally Justices do recuse themselves, but that's almost always in the case of a newly seated Justice who was directly involved in the case as a litigator or judge at a lower level.

So, in short: No, he wouldn't have to recuse himself.

No wonder you need chloroform.

Ironically, there's at least three more minutes of frenzied thrashing when you chloroform someone than there would be if Ramen just had sex with them. And that includes eating the pizza first.

To be fair to Ramen, he doesn't need chloroform to knock a woman out. Thirty seconds of conversation with him is more than enough to do the trick.

A ninth accuser steps forward, despite so many previous accusers getting debunked in about 24 hours.

She claims Trump kissed her on the mouth at Mara Lago in front of her shocked family.



It her family was shocked, it was that she was kissed by something other than her horse.

Trump is continuing to rant about the election being "rigged," while his surrogate Rudy Giuliani is running around telling his supporters about fraud in the "inner cities."

Coupled with his exhortion to "monitor" polling places in "certain areas," it's pretty clear what Trump wants his supporters to do.

In 2004, Republicans in Pennsylvania were caught issuing frivolous challenge after frivolous challenge... not necessarily with the goal of the challenges actually being successful, but with the goal of tying up the lines in mostly-Democratic precincts for so long that other people would give up rather than wait in line for three hours.

It looks like we can count on more of the same this year ... probably focusing on the "inner cities."

And yes, Giuliani, we know exactly what you mean by that.

Assange rumored to be suicidal.

Pence keeps saying "we don't really mean election fraud we mean the media"and Trump be like "Fuck that, I mean election fraud bitches"

Somewhere in my daydreams I image Trump loses, and Pence is like "okay fine" and Trump is like "burn the whole thing down my minions!" and we end up with the political equivilant of Kirk and Spock in Amok Time, complete with the music, except one of them does in fact die at the end.

The concern is legit. Already some of his voters are talking bloodshed.

Pence is like the nanny whose job is to follow the overgrown toddler around with a mop. But every time he finishes cleaning up the mess, the toddler just makes a new one.

Here is the current RSVP list to the Thursday Night (4/9) dinner at Podesta’s. As a reminder, this is with the 25 reporters more closely following HRC (aka the future bus).
Yes
ABC – Liz Kreutz
Yes
AP – Julie Pace
Yes
AP – Ken Thomas
Yes
AP – Lisa Lerer
AURN – April Ryan
Yes
Bloomberg – Jennifer Epstein
Yes
Buzzfeed – Ruby Cramer
Yes
CBS – Steve Chagaris
Yes
CNBC – John Harwood
Yes
CNN – Dan Merica
Yes
Huffington Post – Amanda Terkel
NO
(Panama)
LAT – Mike Memoli
Yes
LAT – Evan Handler
Yes
McClatchy – Anita Kumar
Yes
MSNBC – Alex Seitz-Wald
Yes
National Journal – Emily Schultheis
Yes
NBC – Mark Murray
Yes
NPR – Tamara Keith
NYT – Amy Chozik
Yes
NYT – Maggie Haberman
Yes
Politico – Annie Karni
Politico – Gabe Debenedetti
Yes
Reuters – Amanda Becker
The Hill – Amie Parnes
Yes
Washington Post – Anne Gearan
Yes
WSJ – Laura Meckler
Yes
WSJ – Peter Nicholas
Yes
WSJ – Colleen McCain Nelson​

The horse is better looking than Trump. Yuge hooves.

That frozen grin is down to the trauma.

Or you can introduce a bit of math to the Redbook.

(posts per page) X (# of pages) = Post count

From Wikileaks

CNN falsely states that it unlawful for the public--but not for CNN--to search WikiLeaks #PodestaEmails​

I remember when the US news media lied less than the Russians and Chinese. Now, not so much.

Iowahawk tweets

David Burge: I just sent my editorial staff to the conference room to brainstorm potential reaction tweets with a focus group



David Burge: A team of 7 people editing your tweets is God's way of telling you you shouldn't be president of the United States

David Burge: So your choice is between someone who tweets like an idiot and someone who requires a small army of editors to avoid tweeting like an idiot

David Burge: If you don't vote for the rabid orangutan, you're voting for the animatronic pantsuit operated by a committee of campaign consultants

David Burge: "proposed tweet" is possibly the stupidest 2-word combination in the history of the English language.

A (2nd) Clinton presidency would be an administration that is lead by puppet masters representing special interests.

Hillary is a lifeless charade with a famous last name.

While not a peer reviewed study, and not done by Stanford (rather by a couple Stanford students) it's interesting and worthy of review. Snopes