SK790 wrote:

Bucky wrote:over on flakebook the trumpies are just eating up links that prove that the polling is fiction just intended to dissuade potential trump voters

NATE's trusty side kick Harry Enten to the rescue: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... ing-badly/

@KatyTurNBC Trump says he's going to get rid of executive orders a breath after he says he'll put a moratorium on new regulations w an executive order

jerseyhoya wrote:Trump forgave his loans in his last FEC filing. I don't think there's any way for him to just take the money he's raising. He's feeding some back through renting his own properties for events, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent out of pocket.

Spending on ads wouldn't do a hell of a lot until he stops fucking up catastrophically on a near daily basis.

drsmooth wrote:

SK790 wrote:

Bucky wrote:over on flakebook the trumpies are just eating up links that prove that the polling is fiction just intended to dissuade potential trump voters

NATE's trusty side kick Harry Enten to the rescue: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... ing-badly/

Enten misspelled "bigly" as "badly"

SK790 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Trump forgave his loans in his last FEC filing. I don't think there's any way for him to just take the money he's raising. He's feeding some back through renting his own properties for events, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent out of pocket.

Spending on ads wouldn't do a hell of a lot until he stops fucking up catastrophically on a near daily basis.

He's spent something like 20% of his total campaign funds, roughly $11MM, on goods and services provided by companies he owns. that must be a yuge bucket.

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Trump forgave his loans in his last FEC filing. I don't think there's any way for him to just take the money he's raising. He's feeding some back through renting his own properties for events, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent out of pocket.

Spending on ads wouldn't do a hell of a lot until he stops #$!&@ up catastrophically on a near daily basis.

I got that from a 'fact checking' column that was put up August 8th. not a good look if that fact checker is wrong.

jerseyhoya wrote:

SK790 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Trump forgave his loans in his last FEC filing. I don't think there's any way for him to just take the money he's raising. He's feeding some back through renting his own properties for events, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent out of pocket.

Spending on ads wouldn't do a hell of a lot until he stops fucking up catastrophically on a near daily basis.

He's spent something like 20% of his total campaign funds, roughly $11MM, on goods and services provided by companies he owns. that must be a yuge bucket.

But a lot of that is actual costs - if he's renting Trump office space or paying to fly his jet around or whatever, that's either forgoing income or paying for fuel/employees/etc. The amount of money he is 'making' in using his properties is a tiny fraction of the $50+ mil he's put up. And he legally has to pay himself for these things to comply with campaign finance rules.

QUETTA, Pakistan — A bomb went off on the grounds of a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, killing at least 69 people, most of them lawyers.

The suicide attack took place shortly after the body of a prominent lawyer killed in a shooting earlier in the day was brought to the government-run facility, senior police official Zahoor Ahmed Afridi told The Associated Press.

It was unclear if the two events were connected, although a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed in an email that it had carried out both attacks.

A spokesman for the group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar, said it first killed provincial president of Balochistan Bar Association, Bilal Kasi, and then carried out a suicide attack on lawyers when they gathered to protest his killing.

Targeted killings have become increasingly common in Quetta, the capital of a province that has seen rising violence linked to a separatist insurgency as well as sectarian tensions and rising crime.

Several ethnic Baluch separatist groups operating in the resource-rich province, but al Qaeda and other militant groups also have a presence there.

Quetta has also long been a base for the Afghan Taliban, whose leadership has regularly held meetings there in the past.

The White House and U.S. State Department both condemned the attacks, saying America remained committed to helping Pakistan confront terrorism.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

The Dude wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Schilling is running for POTUS in 2024

if trump wins. 2020 if clinton wins

wants to destroy what's left of the GOP

JFLNYC wrote:If Trump ran ads with titties it might help.

Protests started in November against a government plan to change municipal boundaries to integrate parts of Oromia into the capital, but have spread amid widespread discontent about the country’s anti-democratic government.

Amnesty claimed that hundreds more protesters have been rounded up by the country into police and military detention centres.

The state-owned Ethiopian News Agency said "illegal protests" by "anti-peace forces" had been brought under control but made no mention of casualties.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Trump forgave his loans in his last FEC filing. I don't think there's any way for him to just take the money he's raising. He's feeding some back through renting his own properties for events, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent out of pocket.

Spending on ads wouldn't do a hell of a lot until he stops fucking up catastrophically on a near daily basis.

All things equal that's true, but if they do plan to spend on ads they are sitting out the Olympics, which seems absurdly dumb given America's viewing habits.

CalvinBall wrote:Quinnipiac poll:
Florida: Clinton 46 – Trump 45
Ohio: Clinton 49 – Trump 45
Pennsylvania: Clinton 52 – Trump 42