Bucky wrote:so nothing about the 27 YO DNC staffer who was supposedly exposing $Hillary's election fraud and was shot and killed @420AM in DC over the weekend

Few blocks from my best friends house

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

Warszawa wrote:

Squire wrote:As an R who thinks that the entire country has become over-obsessed with the military, I am troubled but not the slightest bit surprised that apparently both parties are considering (or at least leaking that they are considering) military guys as VP choices.

Speaking of being obsessed with the military wtf is the deal with MLB? Every year it gets worse and worse

I actually wrote the Phils about it one year. I forget if it was opening day or what, but there were military involved in pretty much all the extra festivities, from jets to paratroopers to a giant flag held by vets to a vet playing the national anthem, etc. They sent me a nice message back and I feel like there was less of that stuff the next year. It is annoying and disconcerting though. Sorry, but I don't want my daughter going to a game with all that stuff. I'm not saying there can't be some, but the overkill was oppressive. Lots of people and occupations should be honored, imo.

The military pays professional sports leagues/teams to do that stuff.

Monkeyboy wrote:

Warszawa wrote:

Squire wrote:As an R who thinks that the entire country has become over-obsessed with the military, I am troubled but not the slightest bit surprised that apparently both parties are considering (or at least leaking that they are considering) military guys as VP choices.

Speaking of being obsessed with the military wtf is the deal with MLB? Every year it gets worse and worse

I actually wrote the Phils about it one year. I forget if it was opening day or what, but there were military involved in pretty much all the extra festivities, from jets to paratroopers to a giant flag held by vets to a vet playing the national anthem, etc. They sent me a nice message back and I feel like there was less of that stuff the next year. It is annoying and disconcerting though. Sorry, but I don't want my daughter going to a game with all that stuff. I'm not saying there can't be some, but the overkill was oppressive. Lots of people and occupations should be honored, imo.

The military pays professional sports leagues/teams to do that stuff.

Weird double post. I swear I only hit it once. You're right about the payment and I totally forgot about that. It's good advertising, I guess.

That NBC poll is something. Hillary up 9 points in PA, McGinty up 3.

And Hillary +10 in Colorado and a tie in Iowa per Fox. This week has been some of the weirdest collection of polls ever.

Bucky wrote:so nothing about the 27 YO DNC staffer who was supposedly exposing $Hillary's election fraud and was shot and killed @420AM in DC over the weekend

the 4:20 reference is a nice touch

Never inhaled my ass

drsmooth wrote:

Bucky wrote:so nothing about the 27 YO DNC staffer who was supposedly exposing $Hillary's election fraud and was shot and killed @420AM in DC over the weekend

the 4:20 reference is a nice touch

My daughter was born at 4:35. I considered doctoring the official documents.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:And Hillary +10 in Colorado and a tie in Iowa per Fox. This week has been some of the weirdest collection of polls ever.

She's probably winning by low to mid single digits. Noise, weird partisan/racial samples will give HRC blowout leads or Trump "shock" leads, but on the whole it's pointing in the same direction. The state stuff is interesting insofar as it looks like there might be some non-uniform swings from the past few elections. But it's also sort of not interesting insofar as it looks like most of those swings are gonna occur within states won by the same people.

The level of undecided voters in these polls is completely fucking bananas. And I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way for the poll's methodology, though some of these folks could probably use a push.

I have no idea how any poll could have trump tied or ahead of Clinton. Unless they aren't polling any minorities or women

I hear about drumpf's $10 million suit against a former campaign aide & the FIRST thing I think is "fucker actually needs the money"

Warszawa wrote:I have no idea how any poll could have trump tied or ahead of Clinton. Unless they aren't polling any minorities or women

More than half of the country thinks she should have been indicted. It's not like Trump's running against Mother Teresa.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Warszawa wrote:I have no idea how any poll could have trump tied or ahead of Clinton. Unless they aren't polling any minorities or women

More than half of the country thinks she should have been indicted. It's not like Trump's running against Mother Teresa.

Dems could have run nearly anyone else and they'd be running away with it. Huge opportunity being wasted for them.

There was that one other guy...

Youseff wrote:

pretty cool how this guy served has the GOP president for 8 years.

I liked his speech. But I said to Mrs. Smitty that I thought he might have a touch of Alzheimer's. When he started the back and forth thing it reminded me of how my church ends its service. Holding hands and rocking back and forth a bit, raising our hands collectively at the end. Maybe Bush's church does the same thing. It's a great way to end a service -- a memorial service? Maybe not. I wouldn't mind if folks did it at my memorial service after I kick the bucket. But in this case it looked weird.

he led us into a terrible war of choice and his administration manipulated the media and the country into getting into it. they also had no clue how to respond to Hurricane Katrina.

whatever with a stupid dance, i don't care.

smitty wrote:

Youseff wrote:

pretty cool how this guy served has the GOP president for 8 years.

I liked his speech. But I said to Mrs. Smitty that I thought he might have a touch of Alzheimer's. When he started the back and forth thing it reminded me of how my church ends its service. Holding hands and rocking back and forth a bit, raising our hands collectively at the end. Maybe Bush's church does the same thing. It's a great way to end a service -- a memorial service? Maybe not. I wouldn't mind if folks did it at my memorial service after I kick the bucket. But in this case it looked weird.

If you remove the context of who he is and where he is I will say it is somewhat charming. If you've ever been to a black Baptist church funeral that sort of joyful dancing is pretty normal, but people definitely aren't smiling and jokey while dancing.

JFLNYC wrote:There was that one other guy...

Yea, it's really a shame how Lincoln Chafee had that primary stolen from him

JFLNYC wrote:There was that one other guy...

I wasn't really talking about him. He was an odd candidate in a lot of ways. I'm not sure how well he would have done in the general, though I think he would have better numbers against trump than clinton, assuming he didn't shit the bed in the debates.

Nobody wanted to get in the ring with clinton for good reason, but man, a candidate with high approval ratings may have taken the senate for dems. That's very unlikely to happen now.

and when Trump finds a way out of the race and he's replaced by Joe GOP Nobody, she's going to have little time to dig enough to find something to tear the man/woman down. Her unfavorables will be too much to overcome against an opponent that doesn't have the historically bad numbers of Trump. Then Thomas will leave the bench and Ginsberg will die and then Joe GOP Nobody, handpicked by the Koch bros, will choose 3 justices and formally transfer all political power to corporate entities. The end of America is nigh.

/hottake

Monkeyboy wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:There was that one other guy...

I wasn't really talking about him. He was an odd candidate in a lot of ways. I'm not sure how well he would have done in the general, though I think he would have better numbers against trump than clinton, assuming he didn't shit the bed in the debates.

Nobody wanted to get in the ring with clinton for good reason, but man, a candidate with high approval ratings may have taken the senate for dems. That's very unlikely to happen now.

and when Trump finds a way out of the race and he's replaced by Joe GOP Nobody, she's going to have little time to dig enough to find something to tear the man/woman down. Her unfavorables will be too much to overcome against an opponent that doesn't have the historically bad numbers of Trump. Then Thomas will leave the bench and Ginsberg will die and then Joe GOP Nobody, handpicked by the Koch bros, will choose 3 justices and formally transfer all political power to corporate entities. The end of America is nigh.

/hottake

Can you send this to Reince?

In the Marist polls in Ohio and PA today zero (0) black respondents said they were voting for Trump.