2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Admiral Yi]

And previously Sanders.

Disagree.  Any candidate who can energize the white college vote is going to be dangerous in the Democratic primary.

[Hamilcar]

In other news, Bill O'reilly and Scott Brown have been added to the Fox News harassment scandal.

I always suspected that O'Reilly was a dirty old man.

[garbon]

And previously Sanders.

Disagree.  Any candidate who can energize the white college vote is going to be dangerous in the Democratic primary.

And yet beyond media hype he was never doing all that well, well apart from exceeding expectations.

[Admiral Yi]

And yet beyond media hype he was never doing all that well, well apart from exceeding expectations.

I don't know what that means.

[garbon]

And yet beyond media hype he was never doing all that well, well apart from exceeding expectations.

I don't know what that means.

Bernie's great victory was that he did better than he was expected to do from the outset. That doesn't actually mean that he was ever on a trajectory to winning (bar some massive Clinton foul-up). It was however more engaging as a story to read in the news to imagine it was so. Sanders now has the momentum, how could this end up?!

Tim's link to 538 has the link to their take on the events.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/was-the-democratic-primary-a-close-call-or-a-landslide/

[jimmy olsen]

It's brilliant! 

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/mass-lesbian-farm-infiltration-is-obamas-best-scheme-yet.html

August 23, 2016 3:19 p.m.

Mass Lesbian Farm Infiltration Is Obama's Best Scheme Yet

By  Jonathan Chait 

Barack Obama is nearing the finish line of a presidency filled with accomplishments ranging from death panels to FEMA camps to the importation of Sharia law. Year eight is a natural time for Obama to unveil the most deviously brilliant plot of them all: mass lesbian infiltration of the agriculture sector. The Department of Agriculture has cleverly designed this scheme as an innocuous outreach summit to LGBT Americans living in rural areas. But Rush Limbaugh has exposed the administration's true intentions, which are nothing less than a full-scale assault on the last bastion of red-state America.

Here's how it works. "Rural America happens to be largely conservative. Rural America is made up of self-reliant, rugged individualist types," explains Limbaugh. (Farmers are "self-reliant" because, even though their sector is technically the recipient of heavy federal subsidies, they are overwhelmingly white.) Obama has a plan to attack them:

They are trying to bust up one of the last geographically conservative regions in the country; that's rural America ... So here comes the Obama Regime with a bunch of federal money and they're waving it around, and all you gotta do to get it is be a lesbian and want to be a farmer and they'll set you up ... apparently enough money it make it happen, and the objective here is to attack rural states.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that once Obama locks up the farmers in FEMA camps, he's going to need to repopulate the farms with political loyalists, or else the cities will have food shortages. That's where the lesbians come in. By the time Hillary Clinton is running for her fourth term, red America will have been completely liquidated, and she won't even need Acorn to steal the election for her.

[Caliga]

That picture reminds me of my initial impression of Trump.  I thought he was funny, hammy and harmless.  I wouldn't mind if his main policy proposal is to turn the White House into Golden Trump House.  That would be fun in its own way.  But he stopped being funny very early into his campaign.

He is a funny guy.  Previous to the election I loved Trump.  I'm really hoping he loses so I can go back to being a fan.

[Ed Anger]

I want him to win now, just for the lulz.

[derspiess]

I want him to win now, just for the lulz.

It would be hilarious.  At the beginning, anyway.

[Ed Anger]

I want him to win now, just for the lulz.

It would be hilarious.  At the beginning, anyway.

I just want to see if Timmay! taints Shrillary.

[Razgovory]

What crime was committed?

[Legbiter]

What crime was committed?

Using your position as Secretary of State to personally enrich yourself for foreign policy favors is bad even if you're not formally indicted.

[CountDeMoney]

Using your position as Secretary of State to personally enrich yourself for foreign policy favors is bad even if you're not formally indicted.

How does one "personally enrich" oneself from a charity in which no salary or other compensation is received?  And how does the Secretary of State collect "foreign policy favors" as a presidential appointment and Cabinet member?

[Barrister]

Using your position as Secretary of State to personally enrich yourself for foreign policy favors is bad even if you're not formally indicted.

How does one "personally enrich" oneself from a charity in which no salary or other compensation is received?  And how does the Secretary of State collect "foreign policy favors" as a presidential appointment and Cabinet member?

We've been over this - free travel around the world, having a couple billion dollars to spend on international development buys influence, being able to give jobs to 350 of your friends and supporters.

[CountDeMoney]

I want him to win now, just for the lulz.

It would be hilarious.  At the beginning, anyway.

The beginning of what, the T-minus 32 minutes to impact?