Did Trump actually say grab them by the (Mash Out) Posse?
3.
Taylor
Watching the Al Smith speeches, it looked like Trump got up and shook Hilz’ hand after her speech (off camera). It really struck me then what a child he is. He really doesn’t understand what damage he has done with his little ego trip. Hilz being the pro that she is will laugh and tell a self-deprecating joke and shake his hand, but he’s already roadkill as far as she’s concerned.
He reminisced fondly about attending the Al Smith dinner with his father when he was young. But he won’t be invited back.
I’ve only seen a couple clips of the dinner. He was looking down at his notes the entire time. The view of the top of his head and that hairdo was horrifying.
10.
Ruckus
@gf120581:
Turns to shit now? It may be stinker but he has always had that magic touch to make shit out of anything.
While we can only speculate about what Trump would have said about Smith, we have a pretty good idea of what his father thought of him. The delightful Fred Trump was arrested during a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens in 1927 when he and some hooded gentlemen of his acquaintance wished to make it known that they considered power and privilege to be reserved for Protestants only. It was bad enough that New York had elected a Catholic governor and that Board of Aldermen was filled with Catholics and Jews. But the newspapers were saying that Smith might be nominated for president the following year. And this was too much for the bigots.
As they did whatever it is that Klansmen do when they gather in solidarity, they also circulated fliers lamenting that “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.” The flier was recitation of grievances sounding very much like the sort of thing you will hear on cable programs hosted, sadly, by men named O’Reilly and Hannity, or lines delivered at a Trump rally as a new generation of embattled true Americans fights off another influx of foreigners.
Smith had an answer for this kind of aggression: Himself. He said his rosaries and marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade and refused to soften his hard city edges. But he was as much a patriot as his native-born critics. More so, in fact, because he told scowling men and women that their loathing of people like him was a violation of the nation’s ideals. At a hostile venue in Oklahoma in 1928, in a speech that was broadcast around the country on radio, Smith declared that such hatred was un-American.
@efgoldman: I don’t want to, but at this point I have to conclude that most everyone on the Right Wing is utterly deluded and no longer has any sense of facts or truth or reality. They live in their bubble and have no idea about anything outside that bubble.
14.
KS in MA
@efgoldman: Yes, he is! It wasn’t one of the Sox’ smarter moves to let him go…
@efgoldman:
They do, Nicole Wallace said last night during the post game, that she’d spoken to members of the family this week, and they’d expressed concern that if he didn’t win, the damage done by this campaign to their brand, especially overseas. Since so much of their business is selling their name. Given the stories swirling around about falling revenue at their properties, and the new DC hotel not meeting occupancy goals, they are having a reckoning.
They had better start figuring it out because he’s not going to win and indications are he is not going to win Bigly.
19.
hovercraft
@rikyrah: @Adam L Silverman:
The attendees are mostly republicans, New York City republicans, but still. That’s one hell of an accomplishment for Donald.
@KS in MA: One of the worst moves the Sox have ever made. It was insulting too. Embarrass your ace pitcher who publicly says he’ll take a hometown discount. Then the Sox low ball him severely. Forcing awkwardness and confusion and anger. Not well done. I wish Lester well with the Cubs.
21.
piratedan
according to the L.O’D show, the latest AZ Republic poll shows Clinton up 5 in AZ…. wowsers
22.
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
They have earned every bit of the damage have incurred, especially Ivanka, who has been the beard for the misogyny and sexism of the campaign. She could have pulled a Melania, and voiced her support and then stayed away, she had the perfect excuse to hide from the spectacle that is her fathers campaign, she was pregnant and had two young kids at home, Donald would have bought that.
can’t do jokes. can’t tell the truth. can’t run a campaign.
what a joke of a loser.
25.
Peale
Meanwhile, the Philippines seems to have gone from closest ally in the region to China’s new BFF in record time.
26.
hovercraft
@piratedan:
Two recent polls also show Sheriff Joe Arpaio is down 10 in one poll and 15 in another, so far the only one not hurting yet is Grump McCain.
Their brains broke when Obama was re-elected. True story. Remember Karl Rove needing to be guided by Megyn Kelly to the Fox election night data room to hear the truth? That’s when their cognitive dissonance cleaved their world into upside down inside out opposite world they retreated into, never to return.
Clinton tops Trump in Arizona, 39 percent to 34 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson garners 6 percent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein registers at 1 percent. Twenty-one percent, however, are undecided.
21% Undecided this close to election day in rock solid GOP Ari-effing-zona is one more bizarre data point in the Most Bizarre Election in US history.
29.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: I hope they make him wear a pink jumpsuit.
@Peale:
Our closest allies were probably thinking that would happen with us, but now are starting to breath again. But no one will relax until the election is called at 9.30pm on November 8th.
A colleague today was saying that he thought Trump was getting richer by running for President, I’ve been surprised how a lot of people haven’t seen stories like this one, and this one.
For the click phobic, the first article says that his new hotel in DC can’t book rooms and the second says that his children are naming new ventures “Scion” hotels instead of Trump because the Trump name is toxic.
Mark Cuban ✔ @mcuban
Every single @realDonaldTrump hotel and golf course is toast. Done. Over. Bernie Madoff now has a better brand.
Did not look at the full data, but if McMullin was not included in the question (whether he’s actually on the ballot there or not), a goodly part of that 21% number might reflect Mormons who saw undecided as the only response applicable to them.
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Eric U.
someone did an analysis of “bigly,” and Trump’s actually saying “big league.” Not that it really matters. It reminds me of Bush saying “gooder service.” He was actually saying “good or service.” That kinda makes me sad, because Bush was actually talking about a policy question, which Trump just can’t manage.
36.
Taylor
@Adam L Silverman: Al Smith ran in 1928. Trump would have been born 20 years later, around the time that Al Smith died. Another 20 years for him to attend the dinner in Al Smith’s memory with his real estate millionaire father. A lot can be forgotten in 30-40 years.
McMullin is on the ballot in Arizona. According to this his name wasn’t in the poll … which is … well … bad polling practice.
38.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Eric U.: I’ve heard it as big league the whole time. It’s a fairly common thing for a guy like that to say, it didn’t make sense that he’d say “bigly”. Big time, big league, the best.
39.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Only if each ballot comes with a bag of doritos.
@Anoniminous: That’s a game changer, and the first I’ve heard of it too. He will take a substantial number of Mormons on 11/8, and that will give the state to Clinton, easily.
41.
Eric U.
@Bill E Pilgrim: doesn’t matter, I still say gooder service, and everyone is going to say ‘bigly’ for quite some time into the future. Same as “also, too”
42.
Peale
@Anoniminous: I don’t know. He is an official write in candidate but isn’t on the ballot. There are 20 total candidates. I think one might need to pull all of them.
@Eric U.: I wasn’t sure if people were just taunting him by talking about “bigly” to begin with, seemed weird that anyone would think he was actually saying that. Taunting was fine with me, to be clear.
I must have missed gooder service and get nothing Googling it. Did Palin not actually say also too?
45.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Joe Buck, sign of Satan rampant in the world, a capricious and cruel Deity, or both? Discuss.
Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama weren’t indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state’s computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.
@Peale:
I would not be surprised if the military launched a coup soon. I am surprised that some family member of an extrajudicial killing hasn’t launched an attempt on Duterte.
Checked the official site (which is what I should have done in the first place) and – bust my britches – McMullin isn’t on the ballot. Good catch! Thanks
CBS Evening NewsVerified account
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JUST IN: CBS confirms Trump national political director Jim Murphy has left the campaign.
54.
Gravenstone
And no Baez Baez match up. C’mon Javy, a slam would go down a treat.
55.
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
The rats are scurrying off the sinking ship.
SAD!
56.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Now 8 to 1, though Baez has come up lame. Looks like a hamstring cramp or spasm when he reversed direction.
57.
piratedan
and Hugh Hewitt is on talking about how desperate the Dems appear to be. When this election is over, can we please retire these fucking GOP talking heads or perhaps get them enrolled to seek some fucking counseling.
58.
Gravenstone
I’ll take. 3 rbi
59.
Joel
MOP is an inspired choice
60.
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: Calf, I think . Likely a cramp since they didn’t pull him
It’s amazing how Hugh Hewitt has a job on TV. He’s exhibit A of how mediocre white males benefit from white supremacy, because there’s no other reason he exists.
@Ian: The military is, I’m sure, unhappy. The Filipino military’s personnel come here for training and education. We partner with them on exercises. We’ve been rotating Marines, Conventional Army, and Army Special Forces into the Philippines for 117 years to assist with the Moro-Filipino dispute. And by assist I mean sometimes fight and sometimes advise and sometimes mediate.
Given Duterte’s ideology and rhetoric, as well as its interesting for a mayor to be able to finance a campaign to jump from mayor to president, my guess is if you could track back Duterte’s funding you’d find it comes from the same place as the ultra-Nationalist, neo-Fascist parties in Europe: Putin.
68.
hovercraft
@Anoniminous:
And Bossie and Conway, until the Mercer’s pull the plug, none of them are going anywhere.
69.
Adam L Silverman
@Anoniminous: Melania. She gets more if she can wait for him to die vs whatever is in the prenup.
@Adam L Silverman: Seems like Cold War 2: The Encoldening
is getting started. Can’t imagine it will last too long since Russia is basically a failed state. But it will be entertaining for awhile.
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I’m constantly amazed no one, and I mean no one, actually challenges him on his BS with the audio from his show that directly contradicts it.
73.
amk
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: The entire news media is incompetent entitled white folks grift operation.
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Punchy
@Bill E Pilgrim: He is going to be much richer. He’s going to put his entire campaign war chest straight into his bank account (or charity) and dare the Clinton Federalies to charge him so he can claim political persecution.
Rebecca BallhausVerified account
@rebeccaballhaus
Also huge jump in spending from Trump camp on Cambridge Analytica, firm partly owned by top Trump donor. $5M in Sept, up from $250K in Aug.
@Punchy: He can’t have raised that much. Couple of hundred million, maybe?
77.
Anoniminous
And a good old fashioned happy-happy (NSFW, F-bomb) pop song by Lilly Allen which could have, but wasn’t, written with Donald & His Crew in mind.
78.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Putin declared we were in a Cold War about a year or so ago. Almost no one here, as in the US, seems to have noticed.
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Peale
@Adam L Silverman: he doesn’t really need funding. He was a national figure before. He’s also more closely tied into the Marcos side of the the oligarchy tree than he lets on. The fact that he pretended to run against the do nothing patronage system was a lie. He’s basically purging the friends and family of those aligned to the Aquino side of the oligarchy and replacing them with his own side, using “narcotics” as an excuse to to build up the forces that he’ll eventually turn on the political opposition. He’ll get away with it as long as he continues to target the poor.
I’m not certain what the response should be. The country does need investment. he does get things built, which has given him a certain level of “honesty” points in a country where a lot of the money to build things (especially things to help the poor) kind of disappears rather quickly and no one knows where it went and why nothing got built.
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Soylent Green
Oregon mail-in ballots came today (holding up purple finger).
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Adam L Silverman
@Soylent Green: Did you vote for Ashraf Ghani or Hamid Karzi?
82.
dww44
@piratedan: At the very least, retire them from MSNBC so I can watch it again. But, no, we liberals aren’t allowed to have our own cable outlet. I’ve long thought that the country would be in a better place if liberals dominated the broadcast and cable news outlets.
Does he have the power to do this shift toward China on his own, or does the Parliament have a say?
It seems to be another illustration that things can change very quickly in international affairs and we need a competent executive and State Department (and a federal government with an actual sensible budget which funds things…) going forward.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Vhh
@The Pale Scot: He was expecting the fix he paid for to work?
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Peale
@Another Scott: yep. I really don’t know what to expect next. He’s off to Japan next. We’ll see how committed he is to insulting countries that have invaded his country in the past. i don’t think he’s playing a game where he’s decided that he’ll make out better if he plays one power off the other. There’s nothing about him that says “shrewd”.
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Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Have a friend who has relatives there and they say it’s all drug money. He’s eliminating the competition.
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Uncle Cosmo
@efgoldman, @KS in MA: Orioles fans will spot you Sawx suckahs a Lester & raise you an Arrieta, damnittohell.
Still: Go Cubbies!
88.
Uncle Cosmo
@Mary G: Joe son-of-Jack Buck screams out nepotism in sports announcing the way Chris son-of-Mike Wallace screams out nepotism in boardcast urinalism, or Bill son-of-Irving Kristol in brainless RWNJ punditry, or Franklin son-of-Billy Graham in Talibangelical fundanaziism, or…
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Uncle Cosmo
@Adam L Silverman: “Cold War 2”? Vlad the Meddler only wishes. “Slight Chill”. If that.
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redshirt
I gave a lot of money last night. Someone pick me up.
Mike J
Did Trump actually say grab them by the (Mash Out) Posse?
Taylor
Watching the Al Smith speeches, it looked like Trump got up and shook Hilz’ hand after her speech (off camera). It really struck me then what a child he is. He really doesn’t understand what damage he has done with his little ego trip. Hilz being the pro that she is will laugh and tell a self-deprecating joke and shake his hand, but he’s already roadkill as far as she’s concerned.
He reminisced fondly about attending the Al Smith dinner with his father when he was young. But he won’t be invited back.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Taylor:
He has no idea how damaged his brand is, his reputation is, his name is. He’s feces, and everyone wants his stink to go away.
redshirt
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I got that vibe too. No one wanted to deal with him, acknowledge him, interact with him.
He got repeatedly booed!
gf120581
Everything Trump touches now turns to shit.
Aleta
“He mocks people with disabilities because he’s unable to see their strength.” — Michelle Obama
(Likewise with all women.)
eta And men too)
Aleta
@redshirt: Thanks. Grateful to you for that.
debbie
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
I’ve only seen a couple clips of the dinner. He was looking down at his notes the entire time. The view of the top of his head and that hairdo was horrifying.
Ruckus
@gf120581:
Turns to shit now? It may be stinker but he has always had that magic touch to make shit out of anything.
Adam L Silverman
@Taylor: It never happened. His dad was arrested in an anti-Catholic Klan rally when Smith was running for President
http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/10/guess-whos-coming-to-the-al-smith-dinner-106394
rikyrah
I can’t believe that Ferret Head got booed at the Al Smith dinner.???
redshirt
@efgoldman: I don’t want to, but at this point I have to conclude that most everyone on the Right Wing is utterly deluded and no longer has any sense of facts or truth or reality. They live in their bubble and have no idea about anything outside that bubble.
KS in MA
@efgoldman: Yes, he is! It wasn’t one of the Sox’ smarter moves to let him go…
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Why does it surprise you?
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
They do, Nicole Wallace said last night during the post game, that she’d spoken to members of the family this week, and they’d expressed concern that if he didn’t win, the damage done by this campaign to their brand, especially overseas. Since so much of their business is selling their name. Given the stories swirling around about falling revenue at their properties, and the new DC hotel not meeting occupancy goals, they are having a reckoning.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Is that his Native American name?
Anoniminous
@hovercraft:
They had better start figuring it out because he’s not going to win and indications are he is not going to win Bigly.
hovercraft
@rikyrah: @Adam L Silverman:
The attendees are mostly republicans, New York City republicans, but still. That’s one hell of an accomplishment for Donald.
redshirt
@KS in MA: One of the worst moves the Sox have ever made. It was insulting too. Embarrass your ace pitcher who publicly says he’ll take a hometown discount. Then the Sox low ball him severely. Forcing awkwardness and confusion and anger. Not well done. I wish Lester well with the Cubs.
piratedan
according to the L.O’D show, the latest AZ Republic poll shows Clinton up 5 in AZ…. wowsers
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
They have earned every bit of the damage have incurred, especially Ivanka, who has been the beard for the misogyny and sexism of the campaign. She could have pulled a Melania, and voiced her support and then stayed away, she had the perfect excuse to hide from the spectacle that is her fathers campaign, she was pregnant and had two young kids at home, Donald would have bought that.
Adam L Silverman
@piratedan: As good is that Arpaio is down 15!
amk
can’t do jokes. can’t tell the truth. can’t run a campaign.
what a joke of a loser.
Peale
Meanwhile, the Philippines seems to have gone from closest ally in the region to China’s new BFF in record time.
hovercraft
@piratedan:
Two recent polls also show Sheriff Joe Arpaio is down 10 in one poll and 15 in another, so far the only one not hurting yet is Grump McCain.
EDIT: Missed it by that much, thanks a lot Adam
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@redshirt:
Their brains broke when Obama was re-elected. True story. Remember Karl Rove needing to be guided by Megyn Kelly to the Fox election night data room to hear the truth? That’s when their cognitive dissonance cleaved their world into upside down inside out opposite world they retreated into, never to return.
Anoniminous
@piratedan:
21% Undecided this close to election day in rock solid GOP Ari-effing-zona is one more bizarre data point in the Most Bizarre Election in US history.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: I hope they make him wear a pink jumpsuit.
redshirt
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Did you watch Stranger Things? Did you see that cartoon on DK?
hovercraft
@Peale:
Our closest allies were probably thinking that would happen with us, but now are starting to breath again. But no one will relax until the election is called at 9.30pm on November 8th.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: You’re welcome?
Bill E Pilgrim
A colleague today was saying that he thought Trump was getting richer by running for President, I’ve been surprised how a lot of people haven’t seen stories like this one, and this one.
For the click phobic, the first article says that his new hotel in DC can’t book rooms and the second says that his children are naming new ventures “Scion” hotels instead of Trump because the Trump name is toxic.
Mark Cuban ✔ @mcuban
Every single @realDonaldTrump hotel and golf course is toast. Done. Over. Bernie Madoff now has a better brand.
NotMax
@piratedan
Will posit again that having marijuana legalization on the ballot will drive up turnout, and that cannot but help HRC.
@Anoniminous
Did not look at the full data, but if McMullin was not included in the question (whether he’s actually on the ballot there or not), a goodly part of that 21% number might reflect Mormons who saw undecided as the only response applicable to them.
Eric U.
someone did an analysis of “bigly,” and Trump’s actually saying “big league.” Not that it really matters. It reminds me of Bush saying “gooder service.” He was actually saying “good or service.” That kinda makes me sad, because Bush was actually talking about a policy question, which Trump just can’t manage.
Taylor
@Adam L Silverman: Al Smith ran in 1928. Trump would have been born 20 years later, around the time that Al Smith died. Another 20 years for him to attend the dinner in Al Smith’s memory with his real estate millionaire father. A lot can be forgotten in 30-40 years.
Anoniminous
@NotMax:
That caused me to go look.
McMullin is on the ballot in Arizona. According to this his name wasn’t in the poll … which is … well … bad polling practice.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Eric U.: I’ve heard it as big league the whole time. It’s a fairly common thing for a guy like that to say, it didn’t make sense that he’d say “bigly”. Big time, big league, the best.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Only if each ballot comes with a bag of doritos.
redshirt
@Anoniminous: That’s a game changer, and the first I’ve heard of it too. He will take a substantial number of Mormons on 11/8, and that will give the state to Clinton, easily.
Eric U.
@Bill E Pilgrim: doesn’t matter, I still say gooder service, and everyone is going to say ‘bigly’ for quite some time into the future. Same as “also, too”
Peale
@Anoniminous: I don’t know. He is an official write in candidate but isn’t on the ballot. There are 20 total candidates. I think one might need to pull all of them.
KS in MA
@redshirt: Yes indeed.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Eric U.: I wasn’t sure if people were just taunting him by talking about “bigly” to begin with, seemed weird that anyone would think he was actually saying that. Taunting was fine with me, to be clear.
I must have missed gooder service and get nothing Googling it. Did Palin not actually say also too?
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Joe Buck, sign of Satan rampant in the world, a capricious and cruel Deity, or both? Discuss.
The Pale Scot
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Karl knew the fix was in, except his fixers got fixed.
Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
peach flavored shampoo
CUBS CRUSHING IT!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@redshirt:
I loved Stranger Things. What’s DK?
Ian
@Peale:
I would not be surprised if the military launched a coup soon. I am surprised that some family member of an extrajudicial killing hasn’t launched an attempt on Duterte.
NotMax
@The Pale Scot
And had Obama lost in Ohio in 2012 he would have garnered a winning total of 314 electoral votes versus the 332 he did receive.
Mary G
@efgoldman: Joe Buck saying anything.
Anoniminous
@Peale:
Checked the official site (which is what I should have done in the first place) and – bust my britches – McMullin isn’t on the ballot. Good catch! Thanks
Adam L Silverman
Trump’s Get Out the Vote Guy just quit!
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/789270768588816387
Gravenstone
And no Baez Baez match up. C’mon Javy, a slam would go down a treat.
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
The rats are scurrying off the sinking ship.
SAD!
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Now 8 to 1, though Baez has come up lame. Looks like a hamstring cramp or spasm when he reversed direction.
piratedan
and Hugh Hewitt is on talking about how desperate the Dems appear to be. When this election is over, can we please retire these fucking GOP talking heads or perhaps get them enrolled to seek some fucking counseling.
Gravenstone
I’ll take. 3 rbi
Joel
MOP is an inspired choice
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: Calf, I think . Likely a cramp since they didn’t pull him
redshirt
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Kos. They had a funny cartoon based on Stranger Things yesterday. “Angrier Things”.
Anoniminous
@Adam L Silverman:
Ailes walked yesterday and now the GOTV guy Got Up and Left. The kids are running from Dad. Pretty soon nobody but Trump and Bannon will be left.
Gravenstone
Damn game is going to run longer than last night. 0500 is gonna come fucking early.
Amir Khalid
@Peale:
We all used to think Joseph “Erap” Estrada was a loose cannon. Duterte’s acting like a Goddamn Sonny Corleone.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@piratedan:
It’s amazing how Hugh Hewitt has a job on TV. He’s exhibit A of how mediocre white males benefit from white supremacy, because there’s no other reason he exists.
redshirt
@Gravenstone: I know that feeling. It sucks!
Adam L Silverman
@Ian: The military is, I’m sure, unhappy. The Filipino military’s personnel come here for training and education. We partner with them on exercises. We’ve been rotating Marines, Conventional Army, and Army Special Forces into the Philippines for 117 years to assist with the Moro-Filipino dispute. And by assist I mean sometimes fight and sometimes advise and sometimes mediate.
Given Duterte’s ideology and rhetoric, as well as its interesting for a mayor to be able to finance a campaign to jump from mayor to president, my guess is if you could track back Duterte’s funding you’d find it comes from the same place as the ultra-Nationalist, neo-Fascist parties in Europe: Putin.
hovercraft
@Anoniminous:
And Bossie and Conway, until the Mercer’s pull the plug, none of them are going anywhere.
Adam L Silverman
@Anoniminous: Melania. She gets more if she can wait for him to die vs whatever is in the prenup.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: Seems like Cold War 2: The Encoldening
is getting started. Can’t imagine it will last too long since Russia is basically a failed state. But it will be entertaining for awhile.
Anoniminous
Have a Boom Boom Bâ everybody.
I feel like celebrating.
Adam L Silverman
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I’m constantly amazed no one, and I mean no one, actually challenges him on his BS with the audio from his show that directly contradicts it.
amk
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: The entire news media is incompetent entitled white folks grift operation.
Punchy
@Bill E Pilgrim: He is going to be much richer. He’s going to put his entire campaign war chest straight into his bank account (or charity) and dare the Clinton Federalies to charge him so he can claim political persecution.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: The Mercer’s made $5 million off of Trump’s campaign in the past month or so. They’ve donated $2 million and billed and been paid $5 million for work done by their data analytics company.
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/789280565589454849
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@rebeccaballhaus Rebecca Ballhaus Retweeted Teddy Schleifer
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/789245157136699392
redshirt
@Punchy: He can’t have raised that much. Couple of hundred million, maybe?
Anoniminous
And a good old fashioned happy-happy (NSFW, F-bomb) pop song by Lilly Allen which could have, but wasn’t, written with Donald & His Crew in mind.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Putin declared we were in a Cold War about a year or so ago. Almost no one here, as in the US, seems to have noticed.
Peale
@Adam L Silverman: he doesn’t really need funding. He was a national figure before. He’s also more closely tied into the Marcos side of the the oligarchy tree than he lets on. The fact that he pretended to run against the do nothing patronage system was a lie. He’s basically purging the friends and family of those aligned to the Aquino side of the oligarchy and replacing them with his own side, using “narcotics” as an excuse to to build up the forces that he’ll eventually turn on the political opposition. He’ll get away with it as long as he continues to target the poor.
I’m not certain what the response should be. The country does need investment. he does get things built, which has given him a certain level of “honesty” points in a country where a lot of the money to build things (especially things to help the poor) kind of disappears rather quickly and no one knows where it went and why nothing got built.
Soylent Green
Oregon mail-in ballots came today (holding up purple finger).
Adam L Silverman
@Soylent Green: Did you vote for Ashraf Ghani or Hamid Karzi?
dww44
@piratedan: At the very least, retire them from MSNBC so I can watch it again. But, no, we liberals aren’t allowed to have our own cable outlet. I’ve long thought that the country would be in a better place if liberals dominated the broadcast and cable news outlets.
Another Scott
@Peale: Duterte’s about-face for the Philippines does seem to be startlingly fast and unexpected. Last year there was talk about the US Navy making big investments in Subic Bay again China must be pleased, and Putin as well, but I have to think that there is a huge domestic component to this that we in the US haven’t heard about yet.
Does he have the power to do this shift toward China on his own, or does the Parliament have a say?
It seems to be another illustration that things can change very quickly in international affairs and we need a competent executive and State Department (and a federal government with an actual sensible budget which funds things…) going forward.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Vhh
@The Pale Scot: He was expecting the fix he paid for to work?
Peale
@Another Scott: yep. I really don’t know what to expect next. He’s off to Japan next. We’ll see how committed he is to insulting countries that have invaded his country in the past. i don’t think he’s playing a game where he’s decided that he’ll make out better if he plays one power off the other. There’s nothing about him that says “shrewd”.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Have a friend who has relatives there and they say it’s all drug money. He’s eliminating the competition.
Uncle Cosmo
@efgoldman, @KS in MA: Orioles fans will spot you Sawx suckahs a Lester & raise you an Arrieta, damnittohell.
Still: Go Cubbies!
Uncle Cosmo
@Mary G: Joe son-of-Jack Buck screams out nepotism in sports announcing the way Chris son-of-Mike Wallace screams out nepotism in boardcast urinalism, or Bill son-of-Irving Kristol in brainless RWNJ punditry, or Franklin son-of-Billy Graham in Talibangelical fundanaziism, or…
Uncle Cosmo
@Adam L Silverman: “Cold War 2”? Vlad the Meddler only wishes. “Slight Chill”. If that.