JFLNYC wrote:

MoBettle wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:You're right, doc, but I didn't mention the result of Trump's bribe because the result is irrelevant to his culpability. He bribed a state attorney general then lied to the IRS to try to cover it up.

The news today was focused literally on how Hillary looks and coughs while Trump's bribery and IRS fraud hardly gets a mention.

Well I'm pretty sure the AG thing has been out for a while. Unless there's now another AG that he bribed related to Trump U, which is definitely believable.

The Times is leading with the story today after having never mentioned it before.

In the 1980s, Mr. Trump was compelled to testify under oath before New York State officials after he directed tens of thousands of dollars to the president of the New York City Council through myriad subsidiary companies to evade contribution limits. In the 1990s, the Federal Election Commission fined Mr. Trump for exceeding the annual limit on campaign contributions by $47,050, the largest violation in a single year. And in 2000, the New York State lobbying commission imposed a $250,000 fine for Mr. Trump’s failing to disclose the full extent of his lobbying of state legislators.

In recent years, Mr. Trump has made tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to at least four state attorneys general — Ms. Bondi of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, both Republicans, and the Democrats Eric Schneiderman of New York and Kamala Harris of California — whose offices have looked into complaints about Trump University.

So it was a thing back in June, the new thing is the lying to the IRS and the fine by the SEC.

It only became a thing for the NYT as of today. In any event I'm not sure what the point is of this exercise. If some media wrote about the Clinton Foundation in June, does that make it not a thing today? Whenever the Trump/Bondi thing may have been first reported, it's still a thing now.

feel like this Julian Assange upcoming story will have a tangible impact on the election. that doofus wouldn't hype it up like he's promoting a prize fight if he didn't have something [Julian Assange voice:] scintillaatiiing.

yeah he would. he's a pompous fucking asshole who only likes seeing his name in the press.

doesnt mean it IS nothing but wouldn't surprise me if it's a dud.

So the big O is nominating a Muslim American judge and the hate is breaking the Internet. This is the America (US properly) that embarrasses me.

Obama Nominates Possible First Muslim-American Judge to Federal Court

http://flip.it/uxCdNF

Anyone watching tonight? Hope he crashes and burns. Problem is he is never pressed on anything. Matt Lauer probably isn't the guy who is going to do it either.

Somehow the mesaage is still "He [Trump] has been so disciplined!" He hasn't. He still is saying insane things. Just because he isn't going on a week long war against parents with a dead kid does not mean he is disciplined.

While they're screened, don't the questions come from the vets?

Oh, maybe? I don't really know. Still, fuck Trump.

can you watch this shit online tonight somewhere?

10+ minutes on the fucking emails. You are fucking kidding me.

She stumbled awkwardly when talking about "that thing I was involved in with Libya". (Paraphrased but just as awkward)

I didn't see a stumble.

Mu omicron lambda omega nu lambda alpha beta epsilon as seen on cars everywhere is MOLON LABE, a defiant phrase attributed to the Spartans during the Battle of Thermopylaewhich. It means "Come and Take Them" which has been appropriated by gun rights citizens "in response to gun confiscation by federal authorities". I keep missing that news cycle where the federal authorities confiscated weapons.

Aside from the economic engine that is fear of 'the coming crack down' and 'taking our weapons', when the heck will people wake up an smell the second amendment for what it is, which is nothing that will be run over by any sitting president.

Dude is shitting all over the military with the military in the room.

Fucking pompous piece of shit.

Obama will start taking guns soon. He'll have them all by 2167.

Trumps losing it!

Warszawa wrote:Trumps losing it!

Anyone with half a brain watches this and KNOWS....KNOWS this asshole shouldn't be POTUS.

Yo. This guy is a maniac.

You have a secret plan. Is the secret that you're going to ask other people?

No! Maybe I'll like theirs more. You never know.

Speaking of disasters, Matt Lauer.

Holy shit, he just invoked the DiM "I'm great with body language" defense!!