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Sugar, do you know what I'm saying to you this evening?
Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered
But I, I said I want to be all of the things you are to me
Surely, surely you can see
July 27, 2016
Oh! The convention. Day 3. Do you care?
What's the point of Day 3? I don't get it. They've got to get the VP nominated, so there's one order of business. Other than that, it's a line-up of speeches, notably President Obama, but also the VP guys, Biden and Kaine. I'm a little curious about whether the convention will finally get around to the substance of the job of a President — notably national security. I'm tired of the celebration of diversity and the platitudinous assurances of commitment to equality. We're watching something else on TV for now — this — but I'm recording the convention and may get around to watching a bit of it. In the meantime, please let it rip in the comments.
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Unk#1 What happened to him is you...let the wondering cease.
You are one fucked up man Balls. All I can say is... No wonder.
The nuts are here and the squirrels are busy gathering them up for their long cold winter of discontent
Oh, our Trumpian future shines so much more brightly!
"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."
Song of Songs 2:11-14
Obama's speech was terrible. It had good speechiness, if you like that sort of thing. Ted Cruz also has good speechiness. But there was nothing in it that resonated, nothing that enlightened, it was a partisan hack job, it was dull, it was self-congratulatory ... I know some people say they liked it but they're wrong. They're ideologues who liked the moment and the man of it. But as a speech, they couldn't be telling the truth if they said they liked it because ... it was terrible.
Tim Kaine's was better and his was pretty bad.
Oh..and I'm surmising a slow simmer rising to a boil over bs misandry embraced by many in your camp.
"In the meantime, please let it rip in the comments."
Why bother. We can wait a bit and find out what really happened, when Scott Adams persuades us.
Anywho, BHO was good. That's all I saw, I only checked out the main event.
According to BHO, HRC gets you American politics as American politics was meant to work. And, DJT gets you a dude who promises that all violence and crime will end in America on the day he's elected.
"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored"
Why does it take BHO's writing skills to point out that HRC's fibs need to be dug up by the work of hundreds of researchers (e.g. Congressional, FBI, etc), while Trump openly flings BS (such as the quote above).
And secondly, if some dope is scared into following DJT, do they think he'll be implementing Federal marshal law? Even if he could end all violence and crime, what would that look like, logistically?
William said...
Here's my suggestion to add zest and adventure to the DNC convention. When Hillary gives her acceptance speech, I want Ahmad, the clock boy, to suddenly jump up, shout Allah Akhbar, and rush towards the podium waving his genius clock......
bonus round: Huma has made a call, from a burner phone...
"Hillary is a female supremacist, obsessed with her own gender. There's nothing wrong or misogynistic in calling that out."
Has R&B been reading Scott Adams?
That dude warned that men (such as R&B) would respond defensively if HRC didn't put a cork in reminders that she's a gal looking to take a dude's job.
You are one fucked up man Balls. All I can say is... No wonder.
Oh, you certainly were wondering earlier. But maybe I over-estimated your sense of curiosity.
Or maybe you're just that self-righteous about your opinion of others.
Hillary is fixated on the fact that she's female. Don't be offended by that; just accept that it's not a very inclusive attitude. There are plenty of women who don't fixate on gender as the only component of their identity, and plenty of men who don't, either. People are more complex than that, generally - at least the mature ones realize they are. If you don't, then keep going on about how being a woman makes you special and better than others. You might even get some votes out of it. But not more than you'll lose.
marshal should be martial
Please don't feed the trolls. It only encourages them.
The difference, PBJ is a lot of DJT is understood as campaign grandstanding and tone vs Hil's corruption, secrecy, incompetence and lies of import.
"Has R&B been reading Scott Adams?"
PB&J, it could be, he sure sounds like he's been hypnotized. Scott Adams is wayyyyy powerful.
I think this one's gonna buy a Subaru. NTTAWWT.
Is there time for Hil to bring up a salt o' the Earth W. VA coal miner to rectify the "out of context" statement she made about their industry of livelihood?
"Don't worry folks. She's got our back!" (thumbs up)
I know a super smart guy who is an insanely successful business owner. To him BHO is 100% the guy who stood up for Gates and said Martin could have been his kid. Story over, that's it.
It's interesting how certain small things can disproportionately overtake a person's way of seeing something much larger.
That dude warned that men (such as R&B) would respond defensively if HRC didn't put a cork in reminders that she's a gal looking to take a dude's job.
It's not that it's a "dude's job", it's that the woman has some huge issues. Anyone who's read any biography on her upbringing - this is obvious to. She idolizes her grandmom and mum and believes that the men of her family treated them all like shit. Maybe they did, but this is not everyone's experience. But she grafts it onto her American narrative as if it's all that being president is about. Sure, and maybe all domestic violence will end with a female president, too. What a fantasy.
Last night's convention she flashed a video montage of every president in sepia until they were assembled in a collage of glass that was smashed and gave way to a live satellite feed of her shit-eating grin in Manhattan. How is this not disrespectful of the very office to which she aspires? Do Lincoln's and Obama's and FDR's and George Washington's faces really need to be reduced to glass and then smashed? This is a woman with issues. The country is about more than her and her damn gender issues. Talk about navel-gazing aimed wrong about a foot too low. I understand that there are other (usually older) women in America with this same problem but that's mostly a psychological and social issue and not something that excuses selling out a country to investment banks or throwing its military away in every undemocratic hellhole in the world. It just simply shows that she has the wrong priorities and fixates on herself and will scream at anyone who has better things to do. Much like "Unknown #1". They need to grow up. It's hilarious how they yell double standard and have no maturity about them whatsoever.
walter,
So your saying that people who are supporting DJT are doing so in spite of the things he promises he'll do.
Maybe.
But, that means they're just voting for him based on what they think he actually means and what they think he'll actually do. That's a lot of projecting hopes, w/o any concrete or explicit basis. Wasn't that the wrap against BHO supporters?
It's high time. And she wants it.
T-shirt soon as I can make it.
Hillary loved her mother and grandmother, oh l'horreur!
R&B,
She may also be familiar with women being treated badly when she looks at her own husband.
It's hilarious
Hillaryous.
You guys are such a stitch!
Hillary loved her mother and grandmother, oh l'horreur!
And she believed she had to hate her dad, brothers and grandfather for it. "L'horreur!"
Someone has some reading comprehension difficulties. Like I said, read a book.
Like a Zombie...
"She may also be familiar with women being treated badly when she looks at her own husband."
And she rose above it. She moved beyond it. Yest she deserves no credit.
Bernie Sanders left the Democratic party today. Is Bloomberg back in??
Only a double tap...
She may also be familiar with women being treated badly when she looks at her own husband.
Lol. Well, in that case I'm sure she feels that "the ends justify the means."
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, after all!
Who said that?
Have a page number Balls? Or have you read something that wasn't there?
PBandJ_LeDouanier said...She may also be familiar with women being treated badly when she looks at her own husband.
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last night on the stage...doing her bidding.
She doesn't quit.
And she rose above it. She moved beyond it.
Something you can't do.
And she rose above it. She moved beyond it.
No. She just takes it out on other men instead.
Rose above it?
She stomped any women who fell prey to it.
I think she's going to get the 2016 "Best Effort" trophy.
And I think she deserves it!
And she rose above it.
Yep. Her neck grew like a giraffe's and rocketed her head to the high heavens. From there she stood on her lofty throne and looked down on all the evil little men-people who could never match the greatness that she was destined to bring to that village she called "America."
She stomped any women who fell prey to it.
Quiet, walter. You are messing up "Unknown #1's" "women rule" narrative.
It doesn't appear that she hated her father.
R&B wrote: Hillary is a female supremacist, obsessed with her own gender. There's nothing wrong or misogynistic in calling that out.
It goes deeper than that. The fucking Democrat establishment are out of their fucking minds.
Is it me or does Kaine's facial expressions make him look a bit like Joe E Brown?
Isn't a bit rich that Joe Biden, a man so stupid he was chosen as Obama's life insurance calling Trump dumb? Or Obama praising Hillary's competence while allowing her to run the State Department from her home closet server?
R & B, all I can say is get an absentee ballot, fill it out while sober except for the pres and VP. Get a bottle of your favorite alcoholic libation and pour rather generously. Repeat as often as necessary to get properly drunk then vote your conscience or the lesser of the two evils. That's my plan.
I think she's going to get the 2016 "Best Effort" trophy.
But NOT Miss Congeniality.
Oh give me a break. The subtext is all there. She tells sob stories about how mistreated her grandma and mother were - with the obvious takeaway being that all women in America are mistreated by all men (since they obviously control EVERYTHING). She might have grown up to be just as much an asshole as her dad, but that doesn't mean that they were close or shared much love. (Which is obvious when you say "didn't hate." Wow - that's pretty exculpatory!)
Blogger Rhythm and Balls said...
Balls, after reading your disgusting misogynistic rantings from yesterday evening, you don't have the right to call anyone an asshole. What the hell happened to you?
Happened to me... since when? How long have you known me (or convinced yourself that you've known me)? You stalker.
Hillary is a female supremacist, obsessed with her own gender. There's nothing wrong or misogynistic in calling that out.
7/27/16, 11:38 PM
As I've said of you before, R&B, somewhere under that steaming pile is a man!
Somehow you couldn't choke down that last quart of Kool-Aid. Which is just as well because there's always another drum coming from Amazon with a waterboarding kit.
I detest many of the things you say, but God bless you (not like Shiloh blesses people, feh), you've got some self-respect left. And you can see that, never mind HRC herself, these Unknowns ;-) are the "boot on the human face - forever."
Unknowns, I was wrong, now I beseech you to post here all you can. See how many Hillary voters you can turn to Trump!* So far I count 2-3. Now THAT'S productivity!
Remember: if Trump does not excel, you will have such easy meat if you just find an honest man and run him in 2020! (For the record: This Jew expresses total and utter confidence that Trump will not put me in an oven. If it were not true, I would not desecrate my heritage to say so)
Free People Of The Left, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chains!!
Dare I say it -
YES WE CAN!!!
*or, of course, to Dr. Jill Stein, Gov. Johnson, Sen. Bernie McDespitehimself, Bill'n'Opus, stay home, et al - but Trump is the one they'll FEEL and hey, Free People Of The Left, it gives your vote the power of two - hurts her twice as bad as a third party or no vote.
Quaestor said...
R&B wrote: Hillary is a female supremacist, obsessed with her own gender. There's nothing wrong or misogynistic in calling that out.
It goes deeper than that. The fucking Democrat establishment are out of their fucking minds.
7/28/16, 12:07 AM"
It's a good thing Amber Tamblyn is rather attractive because it deflects a lot of her nonsense.
Vote for Trump or whoever, please do. I have no desire to convince you to do otherwise. No one ever convinces anyone to do or think any differently than the direction their inner selves drives them. I'm just happy to be a thorn under your saddles.
"It's a good thing Amber Tamblyn is rather attractive because it deflects a lot of her nonsense."
I didn't see any of the DNC show until BHO. But, I saw that the tubes had a clip of Elizabeth Banks doing a Trump-style entrance. As w/ Amber, presumably cons would be OK checking that out.
Yep. Here's what Unknown #1 quoted in order to make the case for Hillary's close bond with her male role model:
One of the reasons you may have heard so little about Clinton's father is that he wasn't always the nicest guy, according to The New York Times. Rodham was a strict man and depression ran in his family. The Times, who spoke with Clinton biographer Carl Bernstein, wrote:
He would hurl criticism at his wife around the kitchen table at 235 Wisner Street.
Definitely not a set-up for all those issues.
Owie!
Blogger Unknown#1 said...
Vote for Trump or whoever, please do. I have no desire to convince you to do otherwise.
Oh, how you lie!
Rhythm and Balls said...
Oh give me a break. The subtext is all there. She tells sob stories about how mistreated her grandma and mother were - with the obvious takeaway being that all women in America are mistreated by all men (since they obviously control EVERYTHING). She might have grown up to be just as much an asshole as her dad, but that doesn't mean that they were close or shared much love. (Which is obvious when you say "didn't hate." Wow - that's pretty exculpatory!)
7/28/16, 12:09 AM"
The subtext is that all men are assholes. If you are going to do the time might as well do the crime, vote for a man this election. Bros before Ho's.
Gonna get a trophy anyway!
I'm just happy to be a thorn under your saddles.
Well isn't that nice. And much better than just calling yourself a "harpy" or a "nag". LOL.
May your glorification of your lack of persuasion skills bring you much pleasure.
In our gender-blind society, being annoying is as worthy as being persuasive.
The other word for it, is "troll."
I love the idea of Obama embracing the phrase "feel the Bern" while attendees inside the convention chanting "Ber-nie" as he exits the Democratic party.
You historians..has something closely (consider the full context) similar to this happened before?
"I have no desire to convince you to do otherwise."
Oh, how you lie!
She's a woman. She can change her mind.
180 degrees a dozen times in ten minutes.
Call the Misogyny Police! Whew-whew-whew!
Eh, but R&B dearie, you were the King of Trolls for so many years. I recall many of your recent admirers bestowing that honor upon you back in the day.
Are you out of your MIND?
Jon are you Balls' new best friend?
Ok, I'm done playing with you fools tonight. Have happy dreams of Trump's brave new world.
Look, sweetie,
He finds great fault with Mr. Trump.
He finds great fault with Ms. Clinton.
Anarchy?
Try again.
Unk#1 is friend shaming!
Yay.
Now we can speak.
Yay.
-Bob from NSA -
"shes a woman. She can change her mind. 180 degrees a dozen times in ten minutes"
I've seen that done. Its why my wife no longer takes me shopping.
She's a woman
Confirmed? Ahh.
If The Crack Emcee were here he could riff on MC 900 Foot Jesus' "Truth Is Out Of Style"
(https://play.google.com/music/preview/Thqmgrb4dyx4fh7mgp25mtxokvy?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics&u=0#)
i hear what you're saying, mc 900ft jesus exactly how
did you come to the conclusion that truth is out of style?
well i was on my way to work one day when i spied a rocket ship
some aliens abducted me and took me on a trip
to a previous existence on another astral plane
i met a real nice lady there name shirley maclaine
the truth is not an obstacle for someone such as me, she said
because you see we all create our own reality
and if a problem should arise
the best thing you can say is
don't worry, be happy, and have a nice day <--sounds like Shiloh
So many versions :)
I like the extended dance mix. Not. :)
Obamas speech lacked "duende".
Trump has it.
Check out Federico Garcia Lorca's essay.
So much for Lamar to set straight...
Jeez, get a grip.
goodnight
Isn't that awful?
Sorry.
buwaya puti said...
Obamas speech lacked "duende".
Trump has it.
Check out Federico Garcia Lorca's essay.
7/28/16, 12:41 AM
Yessir, title please again?
You know what the Democrats have?
Viva yo.
Blogger Unknown#1 said...
Balls, just vote for Trump already.
I'm not even voting for Trump.
"No one ever convinces anyone to do or think any differently than the direction their inner selves drives them."
Bullshit. Some of Stalin's victims thanked him for detecting their deviance from the party line.
While they were on the gallows.
Thx buwaya, though it was only middling helpful:
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/LorcaDuende.htm
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Blogger Terry said...
Blogger Unknown#1 said...
Balls, just vote for Trump already.
I'm not even voting for Trump.
7/28/16, 1:04 AM
Terry - no, you're not voting for him, today. What will it take? I pray you may get there by Nov. 4.
Yes, Terry, because they loved Big Brother.
I would vote to increase the number of
political parties further down the road,
being sure to defeat Ms. Clinton.
e.g. Green, Pot...
Blogger Quaestor said...
R&B wrote: Hillary is a female supremacist, obsessed with her own gender. There's nothing wrong or misogynistic in calling that out.
It goes deeper than that. The fucking Democrat establishment are out of their fucking minds.
She is a misogynist R&B, and man that "obsessed with her own gender" is spot on. I'm sick of it.
Q's spot on too, and between both observations, this country is in deep shit if we get four more of O with the added neurotic antics of this evil bitch and the crazies that blindly follow her. It would be a dark four years.
Jon, don't get cocky!
From C.S. Forester's Lord Hornblower:
“Bonaparte has an army,” he said. “It takes an army to defeat an army. Where is one to be found? The old soldiers are devoted to Bonaparte. Will the civilians fight, and if so, can they be armed and trained in time?”
“You are in a pessimistic mood, milord,” said the Duchess.
“Bonaparte is the most able, the most active, the fiercest and the most cunning soldier the world has ever seen,” said Hornblower. “To parry his strokes I ask for a shield of steel, not a paper hoop from a circus.”
I love you guys.
Especially you, Terry.
BEEP! BEEP!
Blogger Unknown#1 said...
Eh, but R&B dearie, you were the King of Trolls for so many years. I recall many of your recent admirers bestowing that honor upon you back in the day.
7/28/16, 12:25 AM
Ah, Un#1 is Inga. That's settled.
Persistence over plausibility or something.
Unknown#1, I am voting for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party.
You seem to be under the delusion that Trump is somehow a worse choice than Hillary. Hillary has demonstrated that she is the Emily Litella of the political world. She wants the Supreme Court to rule her way on a case that involved personal criticism of her. By a non-profit.
Hillary has declared war on the bill of rights. She says that she will appoint jurists to the supreme court who will vote specific ways on specific issues. She is saying that she will use the power of Supreme Court appointments to undemocratically rewrite the constitution.
Hillary voted for the Iraq War. She turned Libya into a failed state. She has proved herself incompetent in every field of human endeavor. The daughter Hillary raised with all the advantages of wealth and cultural and political power is a dull thing married to a failure of a hedge fund manager whose congressman father ripped off his investors to pay for a Nigerian 419 scam. Her husband is a rapist who surrendered his law license rather than defend himself against charges of sexual impropriety.
Jesus Maria y Josep, thats an awful translation. Literal, and awful. Its got words but no poetry.
‘Dark sounds’ said the man of the Spanish people, agreeing with Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on a definition of the duende: ‘A mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.’
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/LorcaDuende.htm
Maybe this line is best:
Neither in Spanish dance nor in the bullfight does anyone enjoy himself: the duende charges itself with creating suffering by means of a drama of living forms, and clears the way for an escape from the reality that surrounds us.
Jon Ericson said...
Does anybody remember "Repo Man"?
7/27/16, 11:35 PM
Plate of shrimp...
Repo Man code of ethics...
Terry:
"Hillary voted for the Iraq War."
To her credit, Clinton got that one right. On the law and facts, Clinton's vote and Bush's decision for Operation Iraqi Freedom were demonstrably correct: Explanation.
Unfortunately, Clinton subsequently got lost when she caved into partisan pressure and 'evolved' her position re OIF by blatantly misrepresenting the 2002 AUMF and OIF's legal-factual basis: Explanation.
Clinton was also party to Obama's disastrous course deviation from Bush that transformed OIF from a strategic victory upon the Surge+Awakening to a strategic blunder upon the irresponsible exit from Iraq: Explanation.
Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto.
I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate,
and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
Otto: That's bullshit.
You're a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.
Miller: The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
Miller: The life of a repo man is always intense.
Managing a pop group ain't no job for a man!
At present, I'd call it that Trump's more likely to be the elected P this coming fall.
I thought last night had some of the most effective speeches of the convention, particularly Bloomberg's. Rather than try to snow us over with this idea that Hillary isn't the person we've observed for 25 years, his argument was "you may not like Hillary, but the alternative is the vastly more horrible Trump." That speaks to voters who aren't already in the bag for Hillary (and considering she has underwater favorables, that's a significant group) but who may reluctantly vote for her. The opposite message is the one Trump needs to make ("you may have problems with me, but Hillary is a far worse alternative"). Bloomberg also hit on topics where the GOP is normally strong for moderates--national security and economic stability. That's where the white middle and upper class are persuadable.
The people heckling Panetta's speech were rude (I can't stand hecklers) even while they had a point--they're the dovish wing of the party and Panetta and Hillary represent interventionists. Unless they convince themselves that Trump is somehow dovish himself they don't really have a good option unless they go third party.
Overall though, it looked like a more effective night for Hillary than the previous two.
Punctuate the following:
Bernie Sanders eats shoots and leaves.
Enjoying the dialogue from U1 and Balls, I must say... Interesting how things are progressing.
Me too Readering. I'm pretty sure than the momentum from here on in will be in Democrats' favor. - Unknown#1
Keep hope alive!
Clinton's Image at Lowest Point in Two Decades - Gallup
I am sure that there is a large pool of voters that haven't made up their minds yet though! 58% disapprove of her, but 4% have no opinion!
But what Unknown shows us is that she doesn't give a flying fuck over the fact that the 'Justice' Department, the FBI, the IRS, and the FEC have all been corrupted and turned into partisan organizations. There is no longer any check on high level corruption among Democrats. And we can see that Hillary has engaged in more than her share of high-level corruption. In other words, Unknown things that democracy is like a bus, when you get to your stop, you get off! Right Unknown?
According to BHO, HRC gets you American politics as American politics was meant to work.
See FBI, Justice Department, IRS, FEC, all working in collusion with Democrats in the White House. That's how politics is supposed to work.
See DNC freezing out all competition for Hillary before the primaries even began at the behest of some invisible hand and then undermining the one man with little enough to lose and/or enough integrity that he ran against her anyway.
Our government has become hopelessly corrupt.
I am still waiting for the New York Times to call for a group of volunteers to comb through the emails they way they did when Palin's were hacked. Oh wait, it is clear enough from the emails why they won't.
So the press, the one possible check on government power has also been corrupted.
ABC News report about Democrats governing the way it was meant to be.
Don't worry Unknown, I am sure none of those wealthy donors want anything in return but good government!
Well, *you* hardly need a convention, Brando, to believe the worst about Donald Trump. In fact, I don't know how to to change your mind about him. What's the word-prejudice, you are prejudiced against him.
I really wish you would define and compartmentalize your accusations better and we could take them up one at a time but you keep calling him crooked and I don't think the word means what you think it means, because AFAIK, he's never spent a day in jail.
And he doesn't have any powers of high office to protect him, just the powers of the Constitution like any man (though better maximized by his admitted resources; yet you see he can lose rulings, opposing witnesses live to testify, etc).
I mean what, he had some failed business ventures? By that standard, Thomas Edison was the biggest crook ever.
So you can say he's an advocate of sharp practice, that just means he's not too stupid to be the president.
You believe the worst interpretation of his positions when he has them and you fill the blanks in when he doesn't, in black. If Hillary was on video fucking dogs you would say that Trump did it too only there's no video, but he's such a bum that you'd believe it. Or, you'd say it's not disqualifying, but Trump told a fat Miss Venezuela that she was fat, and that's worse. There's no winning with you. Your mind is closed like a steel trap.
Someone referred to you as young and naive. I detect truth in that. You seem to be the only virgin in the whorehouse. Elections are not won by cutting out paper dolls. What part of 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' don't you understand?
You KNOW what Hillary will do: her worst. Trump could quite possibly not be as bad. He has a lot of potential upside. I really don't understand your blind, unreasoning hatred of the man. Anyone would think that he had taken something directly from YOUR pocket!
So the press, the one possible check on government power has also been corrupted.
Which is one more reason to support Trump.
I watched Duck Dynasty last night. It was mostly about the family slopping around in a giant muddy field together, and getting covered with mud.
Was it a coincidence that they aired that episode during the Dem Con?
There is more wisdom during the last two minutes of every Duck Dynasty than there was in the whole Dem Con.
"Well, *you* hardly need a convention, Brando, to believe the worst about Donald Trump. In fact, I don't know how to to change your mind about him. What's the word-prejudice, you are prejudiced against him."
Well, my comment above was more about what would be effective from the Clintonite point of view if they were trying to win--I'm not rooting for her (or Trump) in this one so it wasn't an expression of what they'd do to convince me.
But you're right--I am prejudiced against Trump, as I've followed him since growing up in NY when he was first becoming famous there. At the time, I just thought of him as a blustery showman with more sizzle than steak, and while he seemed shady and I didn't trust him, it didn't matter much. Anyone choosing to do business with him made their choice. But in this campaign, certainly as he became the presumptive nominee, I tried to find things redeeming about him to prove my initial bias wrong--that maybe, as some Trump fans put it, he is crooked but would still benefit America and the values I care about. I'm just not seeing it, and frankly I'd like to see it because of my long distaste for Hillary. Even so, I don't go in for every crack at Trump because as is always the case in these elections, a lot of unfair or overboard charges get thrown around and that nonsense is pointless.
"You seem to be the only virgin in the whorehouse. Elections are not won by cutting out paper dolls. What part of 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' don't you understand?"
I've never complained that Trump (or anyone) "fights too much" or "isn't nice enough." Everyone likes a fighter! I'm sure Clintonites like that the Clintons always "fight" the GOP and other enemies. But I don't consider pointless Twitter wars over irrelevant issues or distracting people from your own message or interrupting every time Hillary is in hot water with some new crap about conspiracy theories or any other unhinged rants that reflect poorly on the ranter to be "fighting."
"If Hillary was on video fucking dogs you would say that Trump did it too only there's no video, but he's such a bum that you'd believe it. Or, you'd say it's not disqualifying, but Trump told a fat Miss Venezuela that she was fat, and that's worse. There's no winning with you. Your mind is closed like a steel trap."
I don't think this is a fair assessment of my comments--when Hillary does something bad I criticize her, and only bring up Trump if it's directly relevant. And I don't jump on every dig at Trump, particularly his "sexist remarks over the years"--as I've noted before, those are mostly taken out of context and were often not so over the line anyway (not for the owner of a pageant, for example). I've defended Trump when the situation warranted it.
On the other hand, I've noticed a number of commenters here (not sure which "Unknown" you are, so I can't speak for your previous comments) who simply cannot criticize Trump for anything, ever. I get that we're in "full campaign mode" but it suggests that either their spin is out of control or they are unable to judge the man in any way.
There is more wisdom during the last two minutes of every Duck Dynasty than there was in the whole Dem Con.
True.
"DAY 3" is so the delegates can recover from their hangovers of Night 1 enough to enjoy another night on the town, with hookers and drugs, before heading home to the spouse.
"What the world..needs now...is hoes..and blow.."
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