Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Pence and Kaine both won. Pence was trying to come across well, and Kaine was trying to attack Trump.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I've always considered denying facts to be a real political liability. The key is to turn something into an opinion before denying it, so it can be argued (see, global warming, creationism). An old political friend of mine was once up for a key committee chair, and went in to talk to the Senate President about it. Prez asked him whether the world was round or flat - he responded by asking what the Prez thought, noting he could argue either way. See, that's opinion to the careful politician.

It's one thing to deny global warming or adhere to creationism, flat earth theory, or hollow earth theory. It is another to deny that X said Y when there is a tape of X saying Y. That's a political liability. The proper answer would have been "I don't know", "I didn't hear", "he may have misspoken" or "Whatever was said X long ago, our position today is ...."

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Or maybe: It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

And they all play on the golf course.
 

Well-played, miss; I said well-played.

Governor Pence is a judgmental, humorless man. He refused to pardon a man who is innocent because, I guess, he doesn't want to appear soft on crime. Let's not even mention the whole funerals for miscarriages or aborted fetuses law (spree -- National Review (!) article about the "Periods for Pence" movement). The dude is, as Icky mentions every so often, out there.

For me (as @dick_nixon put it), Mike Pence is like the "old monsignor who lets the bum sleep on the kitchen floor, but just for a night."

Lawyers dwell on small details since daddy had to lie.
 

Perhaps I am whiffing, but I read young Adder's question as "why is your daughter considering law school?"

Why, Bilmore, why? (mostly kidding)

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

By the time this is done, he will be debating whether that would have been a better answer.

I mean, this is a guy accustomed to selling the silliest anti-science snake oil. Think about that. Trump is harder to defend than creationism (which Pence advocates teaching in public schools).

Re: And they all play on the golf course.
 

Which kind of highlights how little of the VP debate was about Pence.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I almost pity Ted Cruz.


https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status...399887360?s=03

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I see how some people here might be interested in this shirt:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christi...hirts-n2228919

http://media.townhall.com/townhall/r...016/10/7/4.png

Re: Lawyers dwell on small details since daddy had to lie.
 

I invented that! At least I am pretty sure I did. No Daily Doses this week. :( :( :( But I got a nice old soul/R&B/funk cut for the weekend. Andre Williams. Humpin, Bumpin, and Thumpin. May you accomplish all three this weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPnULA3_sgQ

And just for fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73WAXfhiBu8

Re: Lawyers dwell on small details since daddy had to lie.
 

my friend Paigow invented inventing things to post, but thanks for playin!

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

You can't spell "GrOPe" without GOP.

This is the natural outcome of building the party off the radio-talk-show base; I mean, come on, this campaign is just about the Rush Limbaugh/Howard Stern crowd finally getting their candidate; they've had them on the local level all along, advocating to do things like change the definition of rape to only include "forcible" rape. This shit wasn't "entertaining" back then and ain't entertaining now.

This party has made its bed. Just don't make any of the rest of us lie in it.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I don't even have to try to be amused!
 

Ted Cruz's tweet today:

NBC had tape 11 yrs. Apprentice producer says they have more & worse. So why not release in 2015? In March? Why wait till October? #MSMBias

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Howard has backed Hillary from the start, and spoke of Trump as a goof, a friend but a goof. But thanks for playin!

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Ironically, he may end up as one of her most valuable supporters.

Doesn't change the fact that his show has played a role in this disgustingness for a long time.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Since you don't listen you don't know what you're talking about, but that's hardly a reason to slow any of you lot down. Rave on!!

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Trump is running his campaign like a real estate deal.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

My god, was that awesome. Exactly.

Re: And they all play on the golf course.
 

Pence is a fucking creep who might actually succeed at some of his objectives. I'd be more comfortable with Trump in charge than that guy on top of the ticket.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Everything is fair game for jokes. Everything.

Howard is a bedrock reminder of our right to tell those who are easily offended to turn the channel and mind their own business.

I think the Trump comments are bizarre, and funny in a kind of "what a train wreck" respect. The man has a problem with his first language, and basic anatomy... Sincerely, even during the most coarse male banter about attractive women, I've never heard, "grab her pussy." Nor has any male here, I'm certain. Were someone to say that, the only response I could muster would be, "What? Did you just say you'd grab a girl by her pussy? How much have you had to drink? You're getting an Uber, right?"

There's something seriously busted in the basal circuits of that cat's brain.

Re: And they all play on the golf course.
 

The fact that this campaign is still moving forward is a sign of how far gone we are. It will be almost impossible for future campaigns to lower the bar. But fuck it, I'm a star and I'm gonna grab me some fucking pussy. Fucking bitches will let me do it! Hey bitches, get your pussies over here within grabbing range. I'm too tired to go on chasing after your pussies. Get that moist pink pussy within arm's range for me. Is there anything this Douchebag-In-Chief could say that would actually cause people to say that, like, they're not so comfortable supporting him any more? If he bragged that when he dressed like a priest, he could grab little boys' dicks, because they would let him and were scared of God? If he said he used to ass-rape dogs because they were tighter? No? Cats, maybe? Nope, fucking prick-faces like the supreme fucking asshole from Arizona would still support him lest Hillary get elected and they start ripping fetuses apart limb from limb. Thank you, Donald, for making me have to explain to my eleven year old daughter that famous people and authority figures are not allowed to sexually assault her vagina. But fuck you for actually making me have some tiny sliver of respect for Paul Ryan. Jesus fucking fuck. Here is today's post-debate Daily Dose. Funkadelic's "Super Stupid" from the album Maggot Brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVHrvx-Ua68

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'm asking RT to make me the mod here and if it happens you are going to LT jail!

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Who took the shackles off!?!?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

This theory is a hard sell after he outright threatened to jail Hillary if elected.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Actually doesn't all the blow back about how wrong that was make it even less likely she'd prosecute?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

So I forget who it was, Thurgreed maybe, who was so certain that despite me talking a big game against Trump I would vote for him anyway, that needless to say, I am not voting Trump. I would have voted Libertarian if the Libertarians had nominated someone who is actually Libertarian, but I can't bring myself to vote Johnson/Weld either. I looked at the Constitution Party too, and unfortunately they have some ideas that are totally crackpot in their platform, even by my standards.

So, for anyone waiting on pins and needles, Evan McMullin has qualified as a write-in candidate in Texas, so that's the only thing I can do in good conscience. I hope I can figure out how to actually do a write in on the machine, since this will only be my second time not voting straight party, and my vote for Nader was absentee, IIRC. I'm going to vote on the first day of early voting, as always, and then hope that I can be in a coma or something until 2020.

I no longer consider myself to be R at all, so I will have to do a bit of work on the down ballot races as well to determine the best candidate.

Re: And they all play on the golf course.
 

Hopefully one takeaway will be that running a la Trump is a way to get totally creamed. It really does seem that he feeds off the reaction he gets at his rallies, and that he is completely uninterested in or incapable of trying to modulate his message (or "pivot") to get 50% +1 of the electorate.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

What were the shackles keeping him from doing?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Seems like the (few) people who still consider themselves dyed-in-the-wool Republicans are often the most out of step with the GOP.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I don't know if it was me, but until this last week I did believe most of the traditional Rs saying they wouldn't support trump would indeed "come around". I was wrong.

Now I just want some of ya'all to form a new Whig Party. Tyler Too!

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Wasn't me.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I look forward to the new, unfettered Freedom Trump. It's time we stop tip-toeing about this election and really blow some shit up around here.

Here is some nice obscure old funk for your ailing souls. Rasputin's Stash with "Dookey Shoe" for the Daily Dose:

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

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Now that I think about it, I think it was Sidd.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

This piece about the way Howard Stern played with Trump is pure genius.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'm not sure "tricking him" is accurate. He had conversations with a guy that were real, but they were before the guy realized he might run for office.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

According to my browser, the word "trick" doesn't appear in that article. YMMV.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

So your Evan McMullin is in striking distance in Utah, and just might take the state. And we all know, as goes Utah, so goes Idaho....

Boy, is this going to screw up Nate Silver's modeling.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Do you get the lucky opportunity to vote for or against the lovely guy who said he'd "think about" not voting for Trump is tape emerged of Trumpy saying, "I like to rape women"?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

And before this, there was a possibility that NM going Johnson could have thrown the election to the House, which I would have enjoyed if only as a matter of interest to a person with a political science degree. I was working overtime on my NM people to help make that happen.

But that was a couple weeks ago when the national polling was tight. With Hillary up double digits, I think she'll take the electoral college pretty easily.

I would still love to see it go to the House, though.