1665

Of course he is, he’s the best thing to ever happen to the Secret Service after all:

1666

That will never happen, no matter how badly he loses.

1667

I’ve got it! He didn’t mean they should assassinate the President. Maybe he meant they should assassinate whichever judges she appoints. That’s better, right?

1668

Trump’s base is nutjobs in a self-reinforcing feedback loop and white nationalists, not the alt-right.

Trump’s base is not going away, the Republicans just need to hope their vote gets split in the 2020 primary or things are so bad that it’s a 2008-like Slam Dunk.

1669

He said it would be a horrible day if the 2nd amendment people assassinated her. That’s sort of being charitable. Or was he being sarcastic about it being a horrible day?

I feel sorry for the nation’s shock jocks. How do you top Trump in shocking the public?

1670

Does anyone just have a facepalm moment when they see that this thread has a bunch of replies since you last looked at it? I just poked in here a couple hours ago and yet there it is with (27) by the thread. I immediately sigh and think “Oh for fuck sake, what now???”.

1671

Yeah, sort of, Kevin. On the other hand, I’m quite sure that we can start forgetting that this clown exists. As long as you’re not a small business who is owed money by him.

1672

In stupid things Trump advisers say:

In early June, a little-known adviser to Donald Trump stunned a gathering of high-powered Washington foreign policy experts meeting with the visiting prime minister of India, going off topic with effusive praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump.

The adviser, Carter Page, hailed Putin as stronger and more reliable than President Obama, according to three people who were present at the closed-door meeting at Blair House — and then touted the positive effect a Trump presidency would have on U.S.-Russia relations.

A month later, Page dumbfounded foreign policy experts again by giving another speech harshly critical of U.S. policy — this time in Moscow.

1673

I’m certainly not surprised.

At the beginning of the thread Oghier
" (over/under for this thread by Nov 8th? I’ve got 47 pages)"

I said “I’m taking over, I say 180, a page a day”.

Anybody know how to translate post counts to pages under the V-bulletin I think we are over 47 pages already.

1674

there were 30 posts per page in vbulletin.

We are, today, at 56 pages.

1675

I don’t think they buy it either, I think they seize on it as a cover story. Like always, they hear the dog whistle, they just want to pretend it is inaudible and that anyone pointing it out is being gauche. The problem is that instead of blowing into the dog whistle, Trump keeps hitting it against everything in sight to see what sound it will make.

No, his base is all three of those groups. The alt-right loves him because they want to tear it all down, and because he’s the main alternative to voting for a woman (gasp!).

If you watch the rest of the clip, it actually sounds like the horrible day is the day she appoints judges or gets elected or something to that effect.

1676

Valiant effort, but on the right referring to a “second amendment remedy” always means shooting someone.

1677

I mean…maybe he meant murdering judges instead.

1678

Trump is such a twat. He speaks in innuendos so that he can justify his horrifying thoughts as misinterpretation.

1679

Exactly. Just change “2nd amendment people” to “those of us who are armed” and it works fine.

1680

I finally found the whole clip. You are right the horrible day is Hillary is appointing judges. Not what the 2nd amendment folks may do to her.

I know this is a silly rant on my part, but I am so sick of primarily Trump,but others also saying this. The president doesn’t appoint justices to Supreme Court.

The constitution is quite clear on this. " and he [The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, "

With the latest filibuster rules specifically allowing the fillibuster of Supreme Court justices, the difference between nominating and appointing is not just a semantic difference. Whoever becomes president, he/she will need approximately 10 votes from the other side get confirmation. I have had arguments with several Republican friends, 'but Hillary will be able to appoint Supreme Court justice" and I say no she can’t, not without the help of Republican senators.

1681

Yeah… I may have undershot by an order of freaking magnitude.

I knew Trump was dangerously stupid, but I had no idea he’d be asking the Russians to hack his opponents, or advocating for some lone nutcase to kill her. Hell, every time I’m offline for more than a few hours, I pop open Twitter expecting something crazy. He’s an addict, requiring constant and ever-growing doses of attention.

And we have three more months of escalating batshit ahead.

1682

And it’s EVERY FUCKING DAY, KEVIN.

1683

We’re getting to the point where you wonder if we start to see more and more GOP defections and the RNC turning its attention and fundraising to trying to salvage the House. The Senate is probably gone.

1684

It’s not even particularly funny as satire at this point. It’s just spot-on accurate. At some point, the Party > Country crowd may feel something they’d long forgotten, shame. Assuming they can still recognize it, I wonder how they will react?