Forget the underage Ivanka lookalike. One way to surely lose his base would be playing catcher for an Obama lookalike.

I guess I don't understand the game for Mensch et al. Are they making money off their tweets somehow? I realize there are plenty of charlatan grifters like Cernovich etc. who make money off e-books and giving talks/seminars and stuff, but is Mensch doing any of that?

I'm voting trump if he introduces a pet alligator as a White House pet, that is ballin af.

Gotta be a manigator or I'm still voting for his opponent.

What if it turned out Trump,killed Jon Benet?

Isn't she in the pundity business and owns a news site? I think the business strategy there is just to collect clicks and follows and assume that some dumb rich whales will want to buy your site(s) because of traffic data and/or some booking agent for a cable news network is unscrupulous and doesn't care how you got your attention and eyeballs.

The political wisdom of heightening public fear of repeal of the Magnitsky Act, an inert State Department, and the fate of diplomatic compounds remains unproven.

Mangator hacked the dnc?

Now THAT'S how you get bipartisan support.

Still don't think the bolded is required. Trump is owned, GOP just acting aggressively (and not super-competently) in their own self-interest.

You clearly don't know **** about Constitutional Economics.

Polling data didn't suck that bad.

Yeah this.

Or those states are similar demographically and the error was demographically correlated.

This.

An interesting thing from the poll that NBC did of counties that flipped from Obama to Trump

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/firs...h-bill-n784301

“The vote would have been pretty close to, if you look at it, 48 to 4. That's a pretty impressive vote by any standard”

More new Rohrbacher fun.

"Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with*Donald Trump Jr.*and*Jared Kushneralso attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

The trial, which would have come in the form of a congressional hearing, was scheduled for mid-June 2016 by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a long-standing*Russia*ally who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. During the hearing, Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer*Natalia Veselnitskaya."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-law...-it-back-to-dc

I know everyone in here is smart enough to now that Russia is super evil, but if you want even more of an idea on just how crazy Russia is, then read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Fi.../dp/1476755744

edit: odd timing of my Bill Browder post, given I started writing it before the post above

I love this especially early in the summer.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...p-jr-miserable

lol

planet money episode on this is good too.

Donald Trump would apply the Hastert Rule to any potential underage disclosures: "don't tell mommy or daddy."

Don't we face a major legal crisis when the President is using official communications to tell millions of people which crimes are allowed and which aren't?

Defense lawyers should be having a field day in court.

Twelve is probably bad, 15 will be fine with his crowd, not sure on the years in between. The right answer is probably "whatever the youngest legal age of consent is anywhere in the world." His bozo supporters will snap point out the age of consent of 12 in Angola and the Phillipines, so I might need to lower my initial estimate to 11.

This is funny but definitely would be what happens. That and Bill clinton references.

Then explain why so many situations involve GOPers going directly against their (attributed) self interests. Especially those who are party leaders, or committee members, or Vice Presidents. And those who have had their personal and work computers hacked by Russia.

Why is GOP blocking sanctions against Russia? Why are they deflecting from taking actions to tighten up security? Why are they tearing apart voting oversight and replacing it all with Trump's fraud commission. And much much more. What do any of these actions have to do with them profiting from legislation, getting reelected in 2018/20, or staying off the radar of Mueller's team and other investigators?

They may be fighting for their self interests, but those interests appear to be Russian.

There is a candidate, however, I don't think she has a shot. She's trying this grassrootsy thing that I've been involved with. He represents my district so I am going to try to be hugely involved with this.

It feels really futile though. However, Costa Mesa, a historically white, working class city, went blue last election, so I have hope.

Erica Werner ‏Verified account @ericawerner 2h2 hours ago
Sen Burr [R-NH] is ordering lunch in the Senate carry out. Not going to WH while [Intelligence Committee] investigation under way he says.

https://twitter.com/ericawerner/stat...97486684594180

so trump today wants GOP to pass a bill or else don't leave town

yesterday it was let obamacare fail

the day before it was repeal it now and replace it later

great ****ing job electing this guy as president.