Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread

Seriously, he should be treated.

I enjoyed George Will’s editorial piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-vile-candidacy-is-chemotherapy-for-the-gop/2016/10/10/73e40f30-8f05-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html

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These may be a little over the top, but some of his ideas should be treated very seriously.
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Was meant facetiously. Just another absolutely insane rant about Fish Babies…

Regarding Alex Jones…

[QUOTE=Donald Trump]
Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.
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He certainly hasn’t.

The serial rapist he’s referring to is Darren Sharper, for anyone wondering.

Fish babies? You mean offspring of aquatic creatures? Or something else?

Man, I hope Trump starts tweeting shit at Kluwe. That would be perfect.

I thought it was interesting that at the debate last night that Trump seemed to say he was making a point with his 3 AM tweets, namely, that if HE had been called at 3 AM, HE would have been awake to take the Benghazi phone call. Did anyone else take his (admittedly disjointed) comments that way?

First: George Will is channeling 4chan, specifically /b/. Probably not intentionally, but, Hell, it’s a wonderful mental image.

Second:

No. That is incidental. The first and principle thing they must learn is how to find a Conservatism which is not wedded to hate, envy, and jealousy. As long as their electoral base includes people who view those different from themselves as lesser beings, who cannot stand to imagine anyone getting anything they do not, and who believe everyone else is out to deprive them of what they have, they will continue to be at the mercy of every two-bit charlatan who blows through town, promising walls and self-respect and delivering nothing.

Yup, that was his point precisely. If a crisis were to develop at 3:00 AM he’d be ready to jump into action because he’d already be awake, tweeting garbage at beauty queens.

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald has the most interesting Twitter feed of the night.

Told once by a genetic engineer about a project in England, too fantastical to tell before, but tanks of people with gills, little babies, gulping and clawing at the sides like turtles in the zoo. :frowning: Humanoids crossed with fish and stuff! :eek: We’re screwed people, do you realize that? :mad:

There is a gofundmefor legal fees of anyone willing to leak trump tapes.

I think you mean Minnesota Vikings.

Yep, very interesting. Somehow Trump and Putin just thinks that others can not use Twitter too.

Holy hell.

Summation, as provided by this Newsweek article -

http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
Kurt Eichenwald wrote an article discussing Benghazi and how the attack was preventable. “Someone” swiped two lines from that article, worked it into a phony email purporting to be from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton, and released it with the latest Wikileaks info dump.

Then Russian news organization, Sputnik, immediately pounced on this fake email as evidence that Clinton and her cronies knew that Benghazi was a deliberate screw up rather than a tragic flood of events. Presumably, Sputnik knew about this phony email ahead of time, to be able to spot it so quickly in the wealth of documents. Well, “documents”.

Anyway, Eichenwald read the Sputnik piece and recognized the words supposedly written by Blumenthal as being his own work, from a piece that he had written and published earlier. He blew the whistle on this bit of disinformation from Wikileaks and Russia.

I am coming to the conclusion that Russia’s obvious attempts to disrupt our election is genuine act of war. I’m not sure what I’d do about it but I’m not inclined to just shrug it off as spy v. spy games.

Regarding this discussion of leaks, people really need to understand the significance. It literally is Russia trying to undermine confidence in US elections and accomplish some other goals (not necessarily to actually make Trump win), and it is information warfare rather than unbiased and truthful leaks.

In addition to the Eichenwald story just posted, there have been previous instances of Guccifer 2.0 leaks being faked, for example the supposed Clinton Foundation hacked documents are probably documents from the already known DCCC hack. Believing all these releases and claims without independently confirming them is a major mistake.

Something is “minutes away” and I’d bet it’s gonna involve Russia. I haven’t been following any of the KE aspect of things; can anyone summarize his position/role in this brouhaha?

ETA: I se Merneith already did so a couple posts above mine. Thanks, Merneith!

Sanctions to start?

You forgot:

  1. Trump mentioned Blumenthal at the debate last night
  2. He has done so again today.