Ok but if he truly were a house plant, he wouldn’t have to worry about choking on his goddamn foot!

Totally. And that may have been what Giuliani was shooting for, but I think he even fucked that up. You never announce that your client is “funneling” money to anyone, for any reason. Ever. Just abysmal optics.

eh, i’ve talked to a few other liberals (using broad definition here) who also thought he was decent, but he always struck me as a fascist ghoul ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think that would be the smart move for them, but even so, I think they’re doing a shitty job at it. Trump’s tweets are a pretty direct defense (based on lies) for him, but Giuliani... didn’t drop the ball so much as he caught it and ran the wrong direction with it (got that from someone else’s tweet). Likewise, none…

Maybe he was; I’m not as familiar with him as, say, New Yorkers are.

Yup. On a very basic level, they just want more attention on Clinton, and less on Trump. It almost doesn’t matter what she says, just that she stays fresh in voters’ minds.

Sure, but this is shitty politics and punditry too. He shot himself in the foot, apparently didn’t feel anything, and then shot himself again, several more times. Just stunning to witness from anyone as powerful as Giuliani was (I don’t think he’s even held political power in awhile, at least not as an elected…

“[The Muslim ban is] based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are sending terrorists into our country,” he said.

GODDAMN. Do I expect this kind of incompetence from our Philanderer In Chief? Of course. Do I expect lies and 9/11 prattle from Giuliani, and little else? Sure I do. But I don’t expect this kind of incompetence from Giuliani. It’s beyond sloppy; it’s like he dove straight for every mud puddle and rolled around in…

While “I’m with her” may not be the worst slogan ever, it says nothing at all about policy (as I think you alluded to) so people have to have a much better idea of what “her” stands for. And apparently a lot of people couldn’t get past their vague distaste/distrust for her, so clearly it wasn’t enough, and I think…

Of course we shouldn’t be mean to kids; I don’t care if they’re (nominally) Jehovah’s Witnesses, Moonies, or *gasp* Republicans. I mean the adults - the ones who seem to consistently use the hard sell. At best, they get a “no thanks, not interested” and the door shut on them. At worst? Well:

The trick with this stuff is short and clear. When you add a second clause you start risking giving space for Republicans to start muddying the water...

I wouldn’t automatically count on this, uh, sales campaign to fail - “never underestimate the stupidity of the general public” and all - but it does seem like it’ll be a hard sell, at the least. For starters, the bill is clearly designed to help the wealthy much more than the middle class, working class, and poor…

I get that, but:

You’re right, and I should know better than to (try to) correct someone when I’m wrong, yet here we are... Confusing that according to the article I shared (or at least how I understand it), LLCs can opt to *be* “Partnership Corporations” or “S Corporations” or whatever, and as you said, they’re *treated* as…

I mean, inappropriate advances / groping women is not a “tremendously decent” thing to do. I think I get what you’re saying: as far as his job - the thing they pay him for - goes, he’s still “a man of tremendous decency and integrity.” Even there, he’s probably more of a talking head than a journalist, and I’m sure…

I figured you must have meant something along those lines, and I couldn’t agree more.

Never understood this point.

Thanks :) Once again, confirmation that my sarcasm detector is working pretty well, all things considered.

You’re both right and wrong (apparently - I had to look it up).