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Friday, September 30, 2016 6:52 PM

Is Monica Lewinsky the Trump comeback for Miss Universe?

Donald Trump seems to be itching to bring up Bill Clinton’s sex life the next time he debates Hillary Clinton. It’s a high-risk strategy.

It could offend women, remind voters of Trump’s own marital infidelity and frustrate participants at the next debate, where voters will post the questions, likely more about issues that affect their lives.

Trump allies slam Hillary for staying married.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump adviser and no stranger to infidelity himself, this week called Hillary Clinton “too stupid to be president” for remaining with her husband after the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky broke in 1998.

More than a quarter of female likely voters said their opinions of Trump had dropped after watching the debate — which included revelations about Trump’s disparaging remarks about a former Miss Universe — according to an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Thursday. Clinton’s image improved for nearly a third.

Attacking a woman for her husband’s indiscretions could offend the very voters he wants to attract.

“That won’t play well with suburban women,” said Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin and Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania.

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article104996416
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Friday, September 30, 2016 10:14 PM

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Originally posted by SECOND:
Is Monica Lewinsky the Trump comeback for Miss Universe?

Donald Trump seems to be itching to bring up Bill Clinton’s sex life the next time he debates Hillary Clinton. It’s a high-risk strategy.

It could offend women, remind voters of Trump’s own marital infidelity and frustrate participants at the next debate, where voters will post the questions, likely more about issues that affect their lives.

Trump allies slam Hillary for staying married.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump adviser and no stranger to infidelity himself, this week called Hillary Clinton “too stupid to be president” for remaining with her husband after the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky broke in 1998.

More than a quarter of female likely voters said their opinions of Trump had dropped after watching the debate — which included revelations about Trump’s disparaging remarks about a former Miss Universe — according to an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Thursday. Clinton’s image improved for nearly a third.

Attacking a woman for her husband’s indiscretions could offend the very voters he wants to attract.

“That won’t play well with suburban women,” said Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin and Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania.



And have millennials scratching their heads.

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Friday, September 30, 2016 10:19 PM

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
It's also been reported that some members (3 that I know of) of his behind-the-scenes staff have been forced to resign due to criminal behavior. One was the pilot of his plane - he had run over someone with his car, on purpose. Plus another assault charge is pending. An Iowa campaign manager was also forced to resign due to an assault on a friend, he pointed a loaded
pistol at someone's knee. And yet another one who attempted to run over someone with his motorcycle.

Plus the guy he hired from Breitbart threatened his ex-wife so she wouldn't testify against him in a child support case. That's why you don't hear much from him, they want to avoid answering questions about him. And remember his former campaign manager? They all belong to the Donald J. Trump mutual
admiration society.

Lovely people; Some staff, eh!


SGG



It goes to character and who Trump will give positions too, to help him run the country; god help us.


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Originally posted by THGRRI:
NY Attorney General's Probe of Trump Foundation Appears to Widen

The New York attorney general's investigation of the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have broadened to include new allegations of self-dealing by Trump that surfaced after the probe began, TPM has learned.

The town of Palm Beach, Florida, has provided documents to the New York Attorney General's Office as part of the probe, a lawyer for the town confirmed to TPM on Wednesday. The documents relate to a legal dispute that Trump settled with the town using foundation money. The details of the 2007 Palm Beach case were first reported by the Washington Post last week.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-attorney-generals-probe-of-t
rump-foundation-appears-to-widen/ar-BBwNq9X?li=BBnb7Kz



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Sunday, October 2, 2016 2:14 AM

Upon learning that Trump's company may have violated the embargo on Cuba in 1998, Stephen Colbert wonders if it will have any effect on the candidate's chances of winning the presidency.



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 3:14 AM

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now


Let’s dispel with this notion that Donald Trump knows what he’s doing.

Trump is blowing it.

To make a long story short, Donald Trump is the GOP nominee in a year when a generic Republican would be favored to beat a generic Democrat. Rather than running against a generic Democrat, he is running against an unusually unpopular Democrat. And he is losing.

That’s not good.

Of course, the mere fact that Trump’s overall campaign is ineffective doesn’t mean that every particular choice he makes is bad. But it does mean that there’s no particular reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. The big lesson of the 2016 campaign is that the fundamentals matter a lot. The electorate is polarized, and so even a really bad candidate has a high floor.

Clinton has major weaknesses in terms of weak economic growth and voter fatigue with Democratic Party leadership (manifesting in 2016 largely in millennial disaffection with Clinton, even as young voters eschew Trump). These factors keep Trump perennially within striking distance; it’s a very winnable election for him. But instead of winning, he is losing. And he has been consistently losing, because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/30/13108314/trump-campaign-stra
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Sunday, October 2, 2016 3:23 AM

Jeeze, why are you all so obsessed with Donald?

Do you have a thing for his hair? Or do you just need to keep avoiding your feeble notions about how right Hillary is by obsessing how wrong Donald is?




Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 6:13 AM

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Jeeze, why are you all so obsessed with Donald?

Do you have a thing for his hair? Or do you just need to keep avoiding your feeble notions about how right Hillary is by obsessing how wrong Donald is?

Donald is only wrong because he is a Republican. I think he is a clever Republican for speaking about a "nightmarish" world that does not exist outside the average Republican's brain. Oh, there are real problems, the kind that can't be fixed by ending the estate tax on Trump's estate or lowering the pass-through income tax on Trump's business or nominating a new Scalia to the Supreme Court or abolishing Obamacare or whatever easy-painless-cheap solution Trump is selling at any moment. Since Trump's solutions won't fix any real problems, I'd classify all Trump's problems as imaginary. Trump's solutions make Trump's life easier and that is NOT why you elect a President, to make their personal business fortunes better.

Trump is like a Joss Whedon tuned to a different audience. When Joss finishes a vampire story, you know vampires are not real. When Trump does the same story, he is trying to make you believe vampires are real in the nightmarish world he describes, making you afraid to go out at night. Joss and Trump both know what mood they are selling and they are good at it.

I've got an enormous amount of experience with average Republican voters in Texas and they want to kill innocent programs such as Obamacare or long standing tax programs such as the estate tax, not because the programs are actually evil, but because their imaginations have taken control over their good sense. Trump feeds their imaginations with unreal horrors. He is good at it, but it is bad.

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 6:30 AM


or whatever easy-painless-cheap solution Trump is selling at any moment

BUT TRUMP ISN'T GOING TO BE PRESIDENT.

So - what's your point, again? Why DO you keep harping on, and on, and on, AND on ... about something that doesn't matter?

Meanwhile, I could just as easily - and more meaningfully - say
or whatever easy-painless-cheap solution Clinton is selling at any moment
Because her solutions are equally vaporous. But worse, the threats she genuinely poses are extreme. But you ignore them. All I can conclude is that you're muttering your role in some argument that only you hear, that exists only in your head, to control those forces that you think live there. You're certainly not addressing the people who post here, or the salient facts that exist in the real world today.


Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 7:09 AM

Too true, Second, too true. It could be said that Trump and his advisors are the Trifecta of politics, or is it Evil Triad, I always get those confused.
Gingrich, Giuliani and Trump - between them: 9 wives, all caught cheating.
Hmmmmmm, now let's see, how will that play with suburban women whose husbands
often work late at the office, or go off to that special business trip.

I've heard a rumor that their heads hang in the Gloria Steinem Hall of Shame.
(kidding)

Seriously though, these guys live in glass houses and wearing no clothes.
The Trump campaign will be taking an awful risk using that tactic, and Hillary knows this, but Trump can't help himself.

Soon after, Conway will have to go on the talk shows and news shows to defend that strategy, but that may be the moment she quits. I almost feel sorry for her.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by SECOND:
Is Monica Lewinsky the Trump comeback for Miss Universe?

Donald Trump seems to be itching to bring up Bill Clinton’s sex life the next time he debates Hillary Clinton. It’s a high-risk strategy.

It could offend women, remind voters of Trump’s own marital infidelity and frustrate participants at the next debate, where voters will post the questions, likely more about issues that affect their lives.

Trump allies slam Hillary for staying married.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump adviser and no stranger to infidelity himself, this week called Hillary Clinton “too stupid to be president” for remaining with her husband after the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky broke in 1998.

More than a quarter of female likely voters said their opinions of Trump had dropped after watching the debate — which included revelations about Trump’s disparaging remarks about a former Miss Universe — according to an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Thursday. Clinton’s image improved for nearly a third.

Attacking a woman for her husband’s indiscretions could offend the very voters he wants to attract.

“That won’t play well with suburban women,” said Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin and Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania.

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article104996416
.html

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 7:13 AM

Add to that murderer's row of political debauchery one Chris Christie and you have a cornucopia of sociopaths. If Trump were to win, this is what we have to look forward to.


SGG


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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
It's also been reported that some members (3 that I know of) of his behind-the-scenes staff have been forced to resign due to criminal behavior. One was the pilot of his plane - he had run over someone with his car, on purpose. Plus another assault charge is pending. An Iowa campaign manager was also forced to resign due to an assault on a friend, he pointed a loaded
pistol at someone's knee. And yet another one who attempted to run over someone with his motorcycle.

Plus the guy he hired from Breitbart threatened his ex-wife so she wouldn't testify against him in a child support case. That's why you don't hear much from him, they want to avoid answering questions about him. And remember his former campaign manager? They all belong to the Donald J. Trump mutual
admiration society.

Lovely people; Some staff, eh!


SGG



It goes to character and who Trump will give positions too, to help him run the country; god help us.


Quote:

Originally posted by THGRRI:
NY Attorney General's Probe of Trump Foundation Appears to Widen

The New York attorney general's investigation of the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have broadened to include new allegations of self-dealing by Trump that surfaced after the probe began, TPM has learned.

The town of Palm Beach, Florida, has provided documents to the New York Attorney General's Office as part of the probe, a lawyer for the town confirmed to TPM on Wednesday. The documents relate to a legal dispute that Trump settled with the town using foundation money. The details of the 2007 Palm Beach case were first reported by the Washington Post last week.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-attorney-generals-probe-of-t
rump-foundation-appears-to-widen/ar-BBwNq9X?li=BBnb7Kz



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