He's from Pittsburgh originally (and didn't inherit his $$$ like Trump) so it makes sense.
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He's from Pittsburgh originally (and didn't inherit his $$$ like Trump) so it makes sense.
Seriously. They need to be using Cuban as much as he is willing.
Felix Lighter
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I would like to see more Billionaires poking Trump about the money his father gave him. I imagine it bothers Trump more than just about anything else.
TheLaughingStock
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Are you sure you didn't mean CNN brought on a man with very impressive credentials to offer his opinion?
NYCmetsfan
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Like curiel trumps inability to back down is gonna destroy him
Bam Bam Baklava
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Trump spending thursday of next week campaigning in Portland, Maine and Plattsburgh, New York. interesting choices
Trump spending thursday of next week campaigning in Portland, Maine and Plattsburgh, New York. interesting choices
Hobbestetrician
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He has become the most important person in the country. Him and his family are the perfect encapsulation of what this election means and I hope he utterly ruins Trump.
I can't wait for Obama to diffuse it by twerking in a press conference. This would also ensure that Malia never twerks again.
Suikoguy
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Major kudos to Khizr. Even if I found myself in his position, I don't think I'd be able to follow through like this. The epic waves of bullshit he is surely dealing with right now...
All of us say that at one point or another. I don't think any of us actually stick to it though.
Good these are people deserving of the press and an amazing story to be told. His speech was definitely one of my favorites outside of the usual suspects.
Trump could have just let this go or made up some BS PR response to this that would have made it go away. Yet he couldn't help himself.
Pretty sure he's a big libertarian. He just so happens to hate Trump because he thinks he's an idiot.
RustyNails
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Good on him. He is extremely well spoken and gets the point across very well. Good thing he writes and prepares his own thoughts too. Has Trump finally met his slayer? I kinda doubt it. But Khizr is going to inflict massive HP damage to Trump's Shield/Armor.
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Trump will and has said that hillary's people are writing his speach
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bf and I went to a really, really shitty dive bar to hear his (terrible) friends who are in a (terrible) band open for an even more terrible band. Their last song they dedicated to Donald Trump. I think it was "American Woman" which I'm not entirely sure was meant genuinely or ironically. He pretty much just dragged me out so we didn't get killed if I started bitching. lol
Guis this bar was terrible. I went up to get him a beer and get me a daiquiri cause it'd said they had them. They handed me one of those pouches that you put in the freezer that cost $1. And it wasn't even frozen. It wasn't even cold.
Guis this bar was terrible. I went up to get him a beer and get me a daiquiri cause it'd said they had them. They handed me one of those pouches that you put in the freezer that cost $1. And it wasn't even frozen. It wasn't even cold.
RustyNails
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Sure just like how Hillary's people are fudging the GE debates. He cant escape hard facts.
I don't disagree. But downfall implies campaign ending IMO. Like the multitude of times during the primary we heard "is this the end of Trump?"
It may very well be a turning point for undecideds or a galvanizing moment for non trump demo turnout, and thus the election. But it's not a "downfall" for him.
"It's a feature not a bug"
brianmcdoogle
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Since we are talking polls and forecasts, do any of you know why Wang's House chart has plummeted? Huffington Pollster still shows like a 7-8 Democratic Generic preference, but Wang has it around 2. Am I missing something?
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Colorado is pretty much Hillary's to lose. Dems lost the Senate seat two years ago because of an awful (read 100% negative) campaign here. I know our local conservative radio is doing it's thing, but even still, I think we're going to go Hillary.
That being said, I'd love for polls to put CO out of play so I don't have to watch all the commercials.
This is good, this is damn good.
I bet Cuban and Bloomberg just make the cheeto clown angry as hell, especially when they go after him for being born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
538 offers weirdly shallow, non-data driven political insights. I feel like the NYT Upshot does way more actual data-based political analysis and journalism than 538 does. I blame ESPN but I also think Nate's just not a particularly insightful conventional pundit -- that was never his sell. If I'm looking for someone who's going to put the current election in a historical/political context, he's in the 20-30 range of people who I'm going to check on Twitter for a hot take.
Clintons camp already confirmed they are pulling the TV ads in Colorado
Colorado is pretty much Hillary's to lose. Dems lost the Senate seat two years ago because of an awful (read 100% negative) campaign here. I know our local conservative radio is doing it's thing, but even still, I think we're going to go Hillary.
That being said, I'd love for polls to put CO out of play so I don't have to watch all the commercials.
Spiritreaver
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We say this exact thing in FitGAF community about OT fitness threads. Look at that push up thread, it's a mess.
DrForester
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I will say, now that I think about it, I have yet to see a single Trump ad. I haven't even seen a Super-Pac ad for him.
I have seem some super-pac ads for the GOP Senate Candidate though. Also some ads for the incumbent. Last polls at start of July show Bennet with a 15 point lead (NBC and FOX poll). Nothing more recent to see if Glenn's RNC speech gave him a bump (the Super-Pac commercial is using parts of speech)
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Source?
Dubbedinenglish
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I will say it feels like we're getting bombed with ads in GA. The racist ass India anti-Hill ad and mostly children ad by Hillary
Cesare Borgia
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Every time people have assumed Trump was done he came back. That being said I was really taken aback by how positively republicans reacted to the Khan speech/story, and I expect most people to be disgusted by Trump's comments. This is ultimately another example of Trump being a clear sociopath and racist. It's blatant, and has been for quite some time. As we get closer to Labor Day I'd expect more people to react negatively to Trump's filth, but I don't expect one single thing to end him. It's going to be a barrage of insanity, month after month.
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While not to dismiss how disgusting the comment was, it doesn't even seem like Trumps worse.
If he got away with insulting a POW, he'll probably get through this just fine with his base.
Trump supporters don't care how many racist remarks he makes. Talking bad about the troops, on the other hand, is something that will make some of them mad.
Bam Bam Baklava
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I'd like to remind everyone that the Curiel comments were damaging Trump mightily until he was completely bailed out by what happened in Orlando.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Plus the Curiel story is not over yet, lol.
Mocking the military is not a good look with Trump's supporters. I meet a lot of them at work, and the McCain comments are the one thing you can bring up that they never have a response for. Now there is another example of the same crap from him. It will start to hurt him.
What's really damaging thing about Trump's reaction to Khan's speech is it reinforces about seven negative narratives about Trump:
- He's racist
- He's sexist
- He hates Muslims
- He hates immigrants
- He doesn't respect the military (remember what he said about McCain)
- He's thin-skinned and lacks control of his impulses
- He's an asshole
I'm probably missing some, but it's a great summary of his character. Some people probably aren't going to care about one or the other but there will be something out of that group that will offend the vast majority of voters.
Felix Lighter
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McCain's half hearted endorsement for Trump is so embarrassing.
metalslimer
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It makes me sad that Trump might have a good shot at this if he could be even a bit more subtle. Like he could say that he's still going to van Muslims but he respected this family and he'd somehow be praised
IggyChooChoo
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NSFW, but the Post is printing nude pics of Melania from 1996:
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/759548757662990338
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/759548757662990338
Bam Bam Baklava
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The same paper that loves the guy...
By that logic, I think the Khizr Khan comments won't stick at all because he's a Muslim. If they can forgive an attack on a vet because he's "not with us", they can definitely forgive an attack on "the enemy."
It won't be. If Trump could get away with accusing a federal judge of being unfit to do his job merely because of his heritage (and then successful double down and TRIPLE down on that), and still have a viable candidacy...this won't do it.
We as a country need to get used to it. We need to stop trying to explain away the fact that a large portion of our country does not mind that the Republican nominee for the presidency is willing to throw all sense of morality, respect and decency out the window if the recipient of that ire is a brown person or a woman. And heaven help you if you're a brown woman.
ShironRedshift
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One of the actually good things about Trump not being a politician and being a complete idiot is that it seems very, very unlikely that he understands how stuff like polling actually works, nor seeming to have much of a handle on the concept of convention bumps is that he really does seem to be completely overconfident and thinks he can get away with the exact same type of things he said in the primary and be just fine. By the time someone like Manafort manages to actually reign him in and convince him otherwise, the damage will already be done.
Aaron Strife
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Oh good, I hate waiting.
Hopefully they polled the House ballot too, it's criminally ignored.
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