Realistically, the GOP hasn’t had a shot at “winning” the presidency since (I believe) the RNC became a clown show. They only had a shot by demanding party unity as a precondition of the center’s support of Senate and House candidates, and then hoping Clinton would shoot herself in the foot. That’s all collapsed.

Two things: politics is largely economics through obscured language, and that “economy” is derived from the Greek for “household.”

The really bizarre thing is that Bill Clinton left office in January 2001 with historically good ratings. Gallup had him at a 66% job approval rating by the time he left office, and barely 30% disapproval.

The real question is, how the fuck are memes even a medium you would want to control?

I’ll say this: Obama as president has been a damn good comforter-of-the-afflicted. But he has not been a good scold. When Obama needed to tell America about black people’s individual pain, or how insane it is that he’s had to watch mass shootings break out, he’s been on the money. But every time he says something to…

The thing about Budd Dwyer was that he was cleared in the corruption scandal that was going around at the time. The suicide was likely a perverse stop-loss measure --his family was suffering the effects of mounting legal costs, but he died in office, so his family was taken care of.

I was just feeling a late 90's mood!

Personally, I don’t want to watch the debate. It’s got the smell of a very bad trap for Hillary —the expectations game can damage the frontrunner very badly. Plus it’s got the open mic thing going, it just seems like it could backfire horribly.

IMHO, the timing of oppo has the look of having been amassed over a fairly long time and tested for effecacy. Like, somebody has extensively focus grouped the particular messages that will dampen turnout for Trump in very particular demographics.

FWIW, one of the big reliefs of the Obama years —by which I include his Senate years and his presidential run— has been that no matter how badly he was baited, he never went full out and attacked Clinton or Palin (or Bachmann, or Fiorina) on gender lines. He made it look as though as president you’re supposed to give…

It’s worse. It’s a Wu-Tang interlude:

This cretin Giuliani was elected twice (using race-baiting), then flamed out in 2000 (because he totally dishonored his ex-wife Donna Hanover), then resurrected himself by waving the bloody shirt, and has ever since been yelling just to keep his name in the papers.

You can say it’s “celebrity” but I think the real case is: after fuckface David Stern retired, the NBA finally realized that nobody cares about similarly fuckfaced owners’ cut or fuckface box seat holders or coaches or the post-game press conference dress code. They watch the game, and the players are the only ones…

What I feel doesn’t matter, but whatever, I suppose that Voat has to get their pet legal theory in.

I have an unhealthy curiosity to find out which married woman he was going to furniture stores to chat up back in 2005. I mean, Laura Bush? Britney Spears?

Courts have upheld, several times over I’m sure, that you don’t get a right to hypocrisy in accepting public adulation but not public scrutiny. This is how any number of sex tapes get sold. This is why you don’t have to take down fake Photoshops of celebrities. This is the whole basis of Bill Cosby’s sealed court…

I disagree. The verdict was wrong. The two individuals at the heart of the case (Hogan and Bubba the Love Sponge) were both public persons. Granted: depending on the state, Hogan could sue Bubba the Love Sponge for wiretapping for filming his (totally hilarious) tryst without permission.

“Mooley” had a life before The Sopranos. Growing up in outer-borough New York, where Italian Americans were in their twilight, it was pretty common to hear it used among Albanian and former Yugoslav immigrants who adopted the old Italian businesses as they exited.

I was vaguely inclined to say, Trump was giving himself an out by citing the confessions of the CP5 and the police’s belief that they were valid at the time. (Note: they were not. The five of them were interviewed, and each named someone else as a perp in an effort to just get out the interrogation room.)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Van Sustren was in on the infamous “black room” that Ailes ran to intimidate enemies. Mostly, because she’s a Scientologist and that’s their way of doing stuff. But also because her husband is a notorious litigator himself (and also a Scientologist).