Time to add Carlos Slim and the Mexicans to the anti-Trump cabal:
So it’s Slim vs. Putin in the race for the US Presidency!
As I’ve said before, Dutch politics offers a glimp of what politics under a Trumpian politician looks like. We’ve got our own Trump, and his name is Geert Wilders. Same xenophobia, same strong-man-stance, and projecting the same “outsider” image, even if he’s been in politics for ten years. But Geert is politically shrewd, smart and sane. Good with language, too. Anyway, his party, the PVV, is Hollands second largest polical party, and has been for over 8 years. They get 30 % of the vote pretty consistently. And yet, the PVV never seeks to form an actual government, even if they are invited to do so. They seek outside power by standing at the sidelines and snark at mainstream politics. Politics by Twitter, aimed at their own voter audience. If you look at how they vote, it is always in what I think of as a GOP-way, which is not in the financial interest of the generally poorly educated and low-income PVV voters.
I have witnessed first hand how PVV won many seats at the local and provincial levels of government. With very few exceptions, the people filling those seats were factually unfit and it showed within months. The worst ones committed some scandal or actual crime and were thrown out of the party. Some decent people left the party of their own accord and joined some other political party.
The very same possibility is there for Bernie Sanders, with the state of Vermont. That is actually a possibility, explained in a well written way here.
THIS: “Two, if natives say the proper way to pronounce the name is one way then that is the correct pronunciation” when referring to THEIR TOWN/STATE.
Not so much that the pronunciation is wrong across the board, but that the people who live there say it a certain way and they get to decide that. IOW there are (at least) two correct ways to pronounce “Cairo,” one referring to Egypt and one Illinois. You don’t correct the people in Illinois for pronouncing it their way.
It would be like telling sometime that they’ve been pronouncing their own name wrong, which I’m sure Trump would not hesitate to do.
I’m not following this hypothetical.
If McMullin has come in third in the electoral votes for President, after Trump and Clinton, then neither Pence or Kaine is eligible to be considered for President by the House of Representatives.
The House can only choose the President from the top three candidates who receive electoral votes for President. The hypothetical is that Clinton, Trump and McMullin are the top three.
Even if Kaine or Pence have received a few presidential votes from faithless electors, the hypothetical is that McMullin has come in third, so the House can’t consider either Kaine or Pence for President.
(Plus, the Senate has no role in the election of the President from the top three candidates. Only the house can vote on the President.)
Scottie Nell Hughes just said that the dressing room incident never happened because the chaperones would have kept Trump out.
@Northern Piper:
I think if the House is deadlocked, the Senate votes for Vice President and since there is no President the Senate’s choice assumes the Presidency. At least, that’s how I remember that episode of Veep. 
According to the 538 article:
If no one gets a majority of the electoral college, the top 3 presidential candidates go to the incoming House, the top 2 VP candidates go to the incoming Senate.
If the House stays deadlocked and none of the 3 candidates gets a majority, then whoever the Senate picked as VP becomes President - that’s what RickJay was referring to.
ETA: What CarnalK said.
You mean Drumpf.
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Even though Trump, Ivanka, and at least one contestant have said he did it?
Well, to be fair, Mr. Trump DOES have quite a vivid imagination.
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Out of curiosity, how would all of this have played out the other way around?
A woman comes forward and says Trump shoved his tongue down her throat without her consent. Another woman comes forward and says Trump was like an octopus, the way he only moved his hands off her breasts to go up her skirt. And so on; and Trump denies all of it, calls them liars, threatens to sue the Times for libel, the whole thing.
And then the Billy Bush tape airs…
You have a cite for that claim? That would defy the idea of dialect, for one thing. It also presupposes some person or group of persons who are chartered to decide such things. Can you tell us who these people are?
Biffster, that Tapatalk sig really takes some zing out of your one liners. Just sayin’.
This morning, Pence said that Trump would release evidence by the end of the day to counter the allegations of sexual misconduct
I can hardly wait. I’m sure it will be the best evidence ever.
Yeah, I’ve gotta figure out how to fix that. 
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He keeps saying that there’s “emails” that will prove it.
Um, maybe… maybe… he has an email from one or two people that can be taken as very weak circumstantial evidence (“See, she asked me for a job a year later so I couldn’t have done that!”) but he has emails relating to all of the claims at this point?
Probably something like ‘proof’ that arm rests did not move in older first class seats.
I understand it will be more explosive than the evidence uncovered in Hawaii.
Going back to this interesting post from Simplicio. I wonder if the Clinton campaign has a new revelation queued up for today. I’ll actually be disappointed if we don’t get tape of Trump dropping a racial slur or recounting the details of an assault or something. The “October Surprise” is now more like an October Expectation.