pacino wrote:this can't be understated. Steve King, US congressperson, is blatantly pushing the 'white genocide' theme that white supremacists believe in:

@SteveKingIA
@FraukePetry Wishing you successful vote. Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end. @geertwilderspvv

Dan Brooks @DangerBrooks
This is open white nationalism. King embarrasses my home state and its tradition of decency. May his grandchildren be brown and educated.

JFLNYC wrote:In regards to the title, can you imagine what the narrative would be today if Hillary had spent the debate sniffling and drinking water?

pacino wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:In regards to the title, can you imagine what the narrative would be today if Hillary had spent the debate sniffling and drinking water?

he blamed the microphone

drsmooth wrote:And what I'm getting in response is a lot of peevish, sullen shrugging - or worse, twaddle like "some people think he came out level-headed".

At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.”

“Where did you find this?” Trump interrupted more than once as Clinton told the story.

On Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, Trump brought up that moment again — and doubled down on fat-shaming Machado.

“That person was a Miss Universe person, and she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst,” Trump said. “She was the winner and, you know, she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

Trump added that Clinton “went back into the years and she found this girl ... and talked about her like she was Mother Teresa, and it wasn’t quite that way, but that’s okay.”

pacino wrote:

At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.”

“Where did you find this?” Trump interrupted more than once as Clinton told the story.

On Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, Trump brought up that moment again — and doubled down on fat-shaming Machado.

“That person was a Miss Universe person, and she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst,” Trump said. “She was the winner and, you know, she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

Trump added that Clinton “went back into the years and she found this girl ... and talked about her like she was Mother Teresa, and it wasn’t quite that way, but that’s okay.”

pacino wrote:

At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.”

“Where did you find this?” Trump interrupted more than once as Clinton told the story.

On Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, Trump brought up that moment again — and doubled down on fat-shaming Machado.

“That person was a Miss Universe person, and she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst,” Trump said. “She was the winner and, you know, she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

Trump added that Clinton “went back into the years and she found this girl ... and talked about her like she was Mother Teresa, and it wasn’t quite that way, but that’s okay.”

pacino wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:In regards to the title, can you imagine what the narrative would be today if Hillary had spent the debate sniffling and drinking water?

he blamed the microphone

gr wrote:that eluded you because you are completely made of froth.

President Obama said Tuesday he will nominate Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than half a century.

DeLaurentis currently is the top diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, which opened last year after relations were normalized, ending a freeze of 54 years. He served twice before in Havana in the 1990s, first as a consular officer, and then as head of the political-economic section.

“Jeff’s leadership has been vital throughout the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, and the appointment of an ambassador is a common-sense step forward toward a more normal and productive relationship between our two countries,” Obama said.

DeLaurentis must be confirmed by the Senate. Some congressional critics of normalizing relations with Cuba have said they intend to oppose anyone for ambassador.

jerseyhoya wrote:I have a #take on these fake Internet polls that show Trump winning that he's touting, getting people upset due to spreading misinformation - I think it's fantastic. Trump seems to search for any sort of validation, and grabs onto it for dear life. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who are desperate to keep him happy at the expense of telling him news he should hear. He is probably dumb enough not to really know the difference between the CNN poll and the Drudge poll. He is so #$!&@ lazy and incurious that he will take any excuse possible to have the same level of limited to no preparation for the next debate - after all, it worked this time! He is so insulated in his only going on FOX shows and even then only going on the 2-3 that are still consistently nice to him that an outside bursting of this bubble seems unlikely. And so he will go into the next debate as outgunned as he was yesterday.