No, clowns ruined clowns. You cannot time travel to a time where people are not afraid of clowns because they are inherently scary.

Trump ceased being a private citizen the moment he tried to enter politics. So, along about the time he declared himself anti Obama cause birther truism. So, what, almost 8 years of public lies to further his own aims on the birther conspiracy alone. A total refusal to release his actual financial records, going back…

All I can come up with is they must be thinking this: When Clinton does something shady, she’s being a corrupt politician. When Trump does something shady, he’s being a smart businessman.

Literally no one is pretending this.

I really got into it with a family friend over this. He kept on harping on about how “Hillary should be in jail” and “how could anyone vote for such a liar?” I was giving him article after article of fact-checks and reports showing how Trump lies more flagrantly and frequently than Clinton- then upped the ante saying…

Exactly. What’s the point of having respected journalists moderate the presidential debates if they aren’t going to use their expertise and training to advance the discussion?

Do they like sports? A debate is no different. Two teams or two athletes play each other. Each team or athlete has an offense and a defense. The same for debaters. Their offense is their own views. Their defense is responding to their opponents’ views.

The problem with the ‘let the candidates sort it out’ approach is that corrections by the candidates themselves are seen as more partisan attacks. They are ‘within the game’ of political dispute; it is expected that the opposing candidate would object. The result is that differences over clear falsehoods look no…

If one candidate says X is true and the other one says X is false, it’s the moderator’s job to say what the objectively verifiable facts are, when readily available. Otherwise, they’re letting one get away with a lying to the people who don’t know the difference, and that’s failing the audience.

Say to them, “That is bullshit, and you know it, and I’m not going to engage with bullshit.”

This is an important point. The Republican Party and conservatives have been laying the groundwork for media acceptance of Trump lies for a very long time.

I don’t care about that! The reason to tell the truth is not that it might accomplish some strategic political goal like defeating a particular candidate. The reason to tell the truth is that it is the truth.

There is a rotavirus vaccine:

I think Heidi straps one on and makes him call her “Madam President.”

Well the gun wasn’t hurt, so what do they need to pray for? Hell, now that it’s been used in a mass-shooting, the gun’s resale value has probably increased for a certain type of shooter! If he was targeting, say, minorities or women at a Planned Parenthood or one of those people, wouldn’t you want a gun that had a…

A new gun “superstore” opened here on Saturday... The traffic was horrendous, their giant parking lot was completely full & people were parked in any available parking areas up & down the street, running across the busy-ish highway to get to and from the store. Living in the south in a super gun-friendly state is…

And remember kids, more guns will totally help the situation. [starts drinking in the morning again]

Another day, another shooting...But guys, the abundance and the ease of purchase of guns totally aren’t the problem! *sigh*

Probably because only true weirdos care about Hillary’s emails at this point. I mean, I read “email” in your comments and lol’d and lol’d -- that’s SO early-2016!

Nobody cares about Hill’s email, brah. Stop trying to make fetch happen.