jerseyhoya wrote:
Donald up all night tweeting

“I’ve been called deplorable for 35 years,” said William Johnson, a Los Angeles attorney who was a Trump delegate in California until his role as head of the white nationalist American Freedom Party was publicized.

“When Donald Trump comes out and says deplorables, it gives some vindication,” said Johnson, who now runs the pro-Trump American National Super PAC, which is funding the robocalls.

Republican Party leaders have steered clear of Duke, leaving him to operate his campaign largely on his own, from his house in Mandeville, a New Orleans suburb.

Inside the older tract home, his living room and dining room are crammed with desks and bookshelves spilling over with his life’s work. An ink jet printer spits out thousands of campaign fliers Duke will be mailing to voters, seeking $50 contributions for a blue hat with the logo, “I’m for Duke & Trump!”

But he bristles at the suggestion that he’s jumping on the Trump train.

“Trump happened because of us,” Duke said, “not the other way around.”

“It all flipped, so fast,” said Mr. Odgaard, a patrician 70-year-old who favors khakis and boat shoes. “Suddenly, we were in the minority. That was kind of a scary feeling. It makes you wonder where the Christians went.”

The beginning of the end of the Odgaards’ familiar life came Aug. 3, 2013, when Lee Stafford and Jared Ellars arrived at the Odgaards’ gallery, Görtz Haus. The couple were in a panic because the hotel they had booked for their wedding had gone bankrupt two months before the date, and they had already sent the invitations out. Mr. Odgaard spent about 45 minutes showing them the property and figuring out seating, flowers and how many guests needed gluten-free meals. It was only when Mr. Odgaard asked if it was a same-sex wedding that his tone changed, they said.

This could force Congress to actually do what the hell they are charged to do, which is declare war for the nation.

pacino wrote:i bet he has his finger on the pulse


i just thought that was interesting because I do view Trump as more of a result of years of neglect of proper governance and respect by Republicans than a singular force.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538
Starting to get some high-quality state polls. They suggest Clinton's in a considerably better position post-debate.

"My entire childhood, our mortgage payment, my schooling, was all paid for with casino money," she said in a phone interview. Her mom worked for eight years at the Taj Mahal, before going on to become a social worker, and seeing first hand the effects of unemployment and poverty in the resort. Watching Trump, and knowing how Trump's A.C. empire burst, Brousse said, continues to be surreal.

"It honestly feels like our city's collective, embarrassing, useless, racist, bankrupt uncle is in a position to lead the nation and nobody else understands," she said.

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
Trump orchestrated his own mini version of the housing bubble in my hometown. He came in. He prospected. We're left dragging his failures.
11:16 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
The people in my mother's labor union have lost their retirement funds because he built a business based on gold leaf and marquee lighting.
11:18 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
He's an ego. He's a character. He's a joke. But that joke has human cost. It's financially and culturally destroyed the town I grew up in.
11:19 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
And we get to hear him brag about how it means he's a great businessman.
11:19 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
It's insulting. It's gaslighting. To watch a man destroy you, and to hear him tell other people how good and powerful it makes him.
11:22 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
To see them believing it.
11:22 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
Please don't believe it. Please stand on the side of the worker. Please help defeat him.
11:23 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
These stakes are personal to me. Trust me: I have seen firsthand the damage he can do in a home community. A nation would be catastrophe.

Youseff wrote:he, we might face some consequences of our illegal war.

@saladinahmed 11h11 hours ago
that so many folks find the very notion of american accountability to be beyond the pale tells us so much

Youseff wrote:one more good debate performance and I'll finally be relaxed enough to start dreading an Hillary presidency.

Slowhand wrote:

Youseff wrote:one more good debate performance and I'll finally be relaxed enough to start dreading an Hillary presidency.

Yeah, if she were up against virtually any other organism in the known universe I can't imagine I'd be voting for her. Sad!