1826

Soccer player that is pissed her opponents spent the whole game turtling and playing a control deck.

1827

And, you know, called them cowards and said the “best team did not win today.”

Same charming lass who also beat up her sister and teenaged nephew!

1828

Maaaaaaaaaan that whole thing is a bummer. Way to ruin my enjoyment of the USWNT, lady :/

1829

Another day, another speech, another paranoid outburst with no basis in reality.

1830
1831

I like that headline/tweet a lot better.

1832

Holy shit, that NBC Tweet is fantastic.

1833

Only way to make it better is to go CNN fact-check intern on it.

Donald Trump says only way Hillary Clinton can win Pennsylvania “is if cheating goes on” (it won’t). does not specify if he is being sarcastic (he isn’t)

1834

And now Trump is trying to get his constituents to go around to polling places to prevent said fraud.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/lp/volunteer-to-be-a-trump-election-observer

1835

An army of Trump zombies, milling about a polling place. Probably with guns.
What can go wrong?

Edit:
Oh hey look: Trump’s advocating that his “followers” violate the RNC consent decree:
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85289

1836

In the vein of “stupid things” the reactionary right wing say:

Hillary Clinton Has Parkinson’s Disease, Physician Confirms
AUGUST 12, 2016 BY MIKE CERNOVICH 108 COMMENTS

Hillary’s health is declining, as anyone who has looked at her can see. The question is: What condition does she have? A board certified Anesthesiologist has written a memo of Hillary’s health. Feel free to pass it along to doctors and to analytics and criticize it.
RELATED:

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING=> TOP PHYSICIAN: Hillary Clinton Has Parkinson’s Disease — PHYSICIAN— HILLARY CLINTON HAS PARKINSON’S DISEASE! — Mike Cernovich and Danger and Play come through AGAIN— … INTRODUCTION— Hillary Clinton (HRC) has suffered a variety of health issues.

And a couple of cogent* comments from that first link:
Recent Comments

 Adam Reis

Even if she sits down, a few brain freezes and she’s toast. Looking more and more like a Trump presidency.
Conservative Media v Cernovich Media · 21 minutes ago
FVS
To much logic and common sense. It will never get seen by a broader public audience. The MSM will do everything they can to bury it.
Hillary Clinton Has Parkinson’s Disease, Physician Confirms · 24 minutes ago

*sarcasm, for reals.

1837

I don’t know why you’re being sarcastic. I know that when I’m worried about my health, I consult an anaestheologist.

1838

It’s Jim Hoft, the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. Well, next to Doug Feith.

1840

In comparison, this is pretty tame. Still…

1841

Wait…isn’t it kind of sort of exactly that?

1842

Depends. It’s a lot stricter in, say, the UK, and even in the US, there are definitely limitations on, for instance, knowingly printing falsehoods.

1843

Some of the replies point out that if this were the case, there would be a media blackout on Trump.

1844

If it were truly false, I believe we would be seeing slander lawsuits from the Trump camp. The NYT piece has 20+ documented Republicans on record, making it easily defensible in court. Most of the sources are anonymous, but NYT editors require that the anonymous sources be vetted by the editors for a piece to be published. The only way I see this story getting printed, especially given Trump’s history of litigation, is if the editors felt the story was air-tight.

So while it’s true that you can’t just print anything you want (out-right lies can be litigated against), this doesn’t appear to be one of those cases.

1845

Technically, it wouldn’t be slander. It’d be libel.

1846

To be clear, having a source on the record doesn’t make it not libel. It still has to be true*. But it makes it a lot easier to defend a libel claim.

  • Actually, in these circumstances, in the US, it just has to be not maliciously false. But the larger point still stands. You can libel a public figure with on the record sources.