Is there a politics thread? Guess I'm making one

[Captain K]

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia.  All Trump supporters just got boners.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I'm not sure why they think this would matter. Whose vote would this move, aside from people whose preference ranking of the candidates goes Clinton > Trump > Kaine? (i.e. virtually no one)

I guess it could influence debate performance or something but eh.

[Shale]

I've seen somebody speculate that she's going to have to drop off the ticket entirely now, because I guess we're still looking for a cure for pneumonia? Morons.

[Cmdr_King]

Well, remember: right-wing media has spent the past month telling themselves that Hillary has brain damage/Parkinson's/god knows what.  There's a whole industry of conspiracy theories going over footage 'proving' she's medically unfit for office.  So basically for those already conspiratorially initiated this is just the final nail in the coffin.

Meanwhile this popped up on my twitter feed: https://twitter.com/Chris_Doucette/status/775055244699074560

[superaielman]

I like to imagine whoever at NR keeps up with Fox and other outlets just spends his days these past few months sitting as his desk, foaming at the mouth, occasionally screaming things like "SHORT SIGHTED FOOLS", "TRAITORS", "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE" and of course "IA IA TRUMPTHULHU F'TAGHN"

This is pretty much true. Sean Hannity and the rest of the Trump idiot brigade keeps picking fights with the National Review and it's writers (and losing badly). Hannity got tanked at a Rascal Flatts concert last night, tried trolling Rich Lowry and blaming him if (When) Hillary wins, and got owned so bad that he had to resort to 'I HAVE A BIGGER FOLLOWER COUNT THAN YOU, FOOL' argument. Among other things, he accused them of all voting for HRC and trying to support her by tearing down Trump.

And yes, this was as pathetic/funny as you'd expect it to be.

[Grefter]

So about as funny as a David Strassman show?

[dunie]

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia.  All Trump supporters just got boners.

Man, the antibiotics for walking pneumonia are just awful. Hopefullyshe dials it back a bit for more than a few days, since she really needs her lungs to speak at the debates.

[Grefter]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/they-are-all-breitbart-now/499511/

Journalism.

[superaielman]

So about as funny as a David Strassman show?

It's as funny as anything in this shitshow of an election.

[Grefter]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/52p1yb/north_dakota_wants_to_arrest_democracy_nows_amy/

Take that Messengers!  Fuck you whistle blowers!  The worst!  Snitches get stitches.

[Laggy]

mc linked me this and it's too good to not share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1HYmfNzcE

Also how about that H.W. Bush voting for Clinton

[superaielman]

Unsurprising. The old school GOP loathes Trump beyond belief.

[The Duck]

Doesn't seem like the old school GOP exerts very much influence right now though.

[Cotigo]

It looks like there WAS a group of people on the fringe stealing their country away from them.

http://cow.org/csi/

[Captain K]

[Lady Door]

This debate is like watching someone who just stepped in the room and is trying to pick up on context clues arguing with a snarky teenager who just finished Intro to Poli Sci.

[metroid composite]

Remember when Sarah Palin was the scariest person in politics

You know, I didn't want her anywhere near the white house, but there's a part of me that kind-of liked Sarah Palin.  She was a hockey mom with a Canadian accent.  And somehow this appealed to hard-line southern Republicans?

Don't get me wrong, she was incompetent, corrupt, not liked in her own state.  But like...the negative news stories about her were like...her hunting wolves from a helicopter.  Her not reading newspapers.  Her seeing Russia from her house.

I mean, fuck, Ted Cruz cooked bacon by wrapping it around a machine gun.  That's totally a Sara Palinism if I ever saw one.  And like...it's fine.  Doesn't appeal to the voter in me at all, mostly I roll my eyes and think it's hilarious, but I don't look at that and think "that's morally reprehensible and dangerous to America".  (Cruz is shitty for other reasons).

I look at trump, promoting the alt right, and yeah, that's morally reprehensible and dangerous to America.

[Grefter]

Don't get me wrong, she was incompetent, corrupt, not liked in her own state. 
...
I mean, fuck, Ted Cruz cooked bacon by wrapping it around a machine gun.  ...    And like...it's fine.  Doesn't appeal to the voter in me at all, mostly I roll my eyes and think it's hilarious, but I don't look at that and think "that's morally reprehensible and dangerous to America".

You really have gone native over the last decade.

[Lady Door]

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/26/495115346/fact-check-first-presidential-debate

Transcript with annotated fact checking by NPR.

[Cmdr_King]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQrKH03UKP0

This is eerily like the noises in my head.  Except they use less profanity.

[Grefter]

Can we pause for a moment to unpack the iconography that NPR has on that page



Not sure if its a dig or if is just accidental thing, but note how Hilary has multiple shades used on her that fleshes out her silhouette to give it texture.

[dunie]

You see texture, I see an incomplete image. There's no way anyone could have resisted highlighting Trump's hair.

As for the iconography, the podiums are very weird and the chat bubbles .... are... empty, symbolizing just how underserved we were by the entire discussion. "UNDER LEVERAGED."

[Shale]

That might have actually been the most revealing presidential debate of the modern era. Among Trump's big flaws as a candidate - inasmuch as he is not just one massive flaw - are his thin skin and quick temper, which the Clinton camp has argued at length make him easy for adversaries to manipulate. Last night proved them unquestionably right. In a controlled environment, facing predictable questions and minor needling from his opponent, he lost his shit inside the first half hour. He'd be a fucking disaster in any pressure situation, which isn't exactly a shock if you've been paying attention but should be way harder to deny now. Not that I'm optimistic about that, but it should be.

[Lady Door]

But it's cool, he opened a night club in one of the most prestigious areas in the world, and people are praising him for its inclusiveness.

[Cotigo]

I think it was a country club, not a night club. As in, a golf course.

Anyway that was one of the most hilarious things I've watched in a while. In so much that watching Colbert and Noah's takes on it were kinda redundant since you can't make that sheer level of complete craziness funnier by joking about it.