While I don’t find Howard Stern entertaining or amusing in the slightest, and have never listened to more than about half an hour of one show, I think the key difference is that Stern knowingly makes his crude comments for their entertainment value whereas Trump is dead serious.

Howard Stern is a recognized “shock jock”. It’s literally his job to say those things, and he’s been lambasted for them literally his entire career. It’s just REALLY old news now so we don’t hear about it.

The Economist’s new cover:

Guys... guyyys.... Trump’s not that bad. I mean definitely, DEFINITELY VOTE FOR HILLARY, but he COULD be president, ya know? He might win! He just might! He’s not like, disqualified or anything, just like, not a good choice. But he’s a choice! He’s very popular, after all! And he... created jobs? Or something! So yeah…

This is the correct answer to the problem. My property does not get to determine whether I live or die, not for orphans, not for priests, not for the president.

I’ll never understand the short-sightedness of the American car buyer.

2nd Gear: Here’s What People Are Buying, Though

Well the good news is, after Brexit, the years you lost over there aren’t worth as much in the US.

Hunter “no such thing as off the record,” “I could afford to burn all my bridges” Thompson:

That’s the most horrifying thing about this, what he’s done to erode freedom of the press.

• Hunter Thompson once wrote: “There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them is to use your art like a hammer to destroy the right people — who are almost always your enemies, for one reason or another, and who usually deserve to be crippled, because they are wrong. This is a dangerous…

Are there 10 foot drops in Florida?

I feel like all of Dave’s time on Kinja has been leading to this moment.

Rather than focus on real journalists, I think it’s time to put the feet of cable newscasters and producers to the fire. They created the Trump-as-mythical-viable-candidate-character from whole cloth. They still, today, air hour after hour of interviews and panel discussions featuring dishonest, vapid, disingenuous…

What if your boss then asked “Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?”

What scares me is that he is poisoning the well of yet another presidency. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one side lose yet say, “ I don’t agree with him or her, don’t even like her, but she won fair and square.”

Burning seems harsh. Can’t we first just toss him in a lake and see if he floats?

If Sanders had won the primary (and I won’t rehash whether or not the primaries were fairly contested), there is zero doubt he would have a 15-point lead right now and win over 400 electoral votes. I would have donated every spare penny I had to him. Alas.

Fellow Democrats: if you want more liberal-leaning people at the top of the ticket, you need to vote more liberal people in down the ticket. That means showing up for primaries, that means actually knowing people’s policy positions, that means writing to your representatives about issues, that means grass-roots…