Saturday Night Live

[260 Rem]

Going to be interesting to see the Trump skit given today's coverage of the Donald.

[Crankbait]

Trumpet is a boon for network comedy news. If he becomes president, ratings on regular networks will skyrocket.

He apologized the same day as the news came out, whereas, Hilliary and Bill, well ,you know the rest.

[Crankbait]

... though, he will probably get 100% of the college Fraternity vote now.

[Crankbait]

Rule 9 of the national GOP rules permits RNC leaders to fill presidential candidate vacancies "which may occur by death, declination, or otherwise." Humphrey argues that the word "otherwise" would apply to Trump's case.

Humphrey told POLITICO he had yet to hear back from the New Hampshire RNC members. But he suggested that the 25th Amendment of the Constitution — which prescribes procedures for the vice president and cabinet to declare a president unfit to serve — should be viewed as precedent.

"The RNC would not be powerless if a candidate fell into a coma from which recovery was uncertain," he wrote in his letter. to the New Hampshire RNC members. "In that circumstance the RNC would act under a duty to the Party and a moral duty to the nation to replace the nominee. Likewise, when a candidate repeated [sic] evidences unsoundness of mind, the RNC has a duty to act. The time is now."

[rugatika]

Originally Posted by Crankbait

... though, he will probably get 100% of the college Fraternity vote now.

Thats what I was thinking. He just lost the Oprah vote (which he never had), but gained the everyone else vote.

[gbart]

Why...what did Trump do now??

Haven't had a chance to catch the news.
I have been too busy reading the freshly released Clinton wiki leaks dump.

[Crankbait]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ed4_story.html

[gbart]

Originally Posted by Crankbait

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ed4_story.html

WOW!! that's pretty bad.

I would have never thought things like that went on in Hollywood.

Thanks for posting.

[Crankbait]

let's see what Clington is up to;

Wall Street Journal
Oct. 7, 2016 9:48 p.m. ET

25 COMMENTS

The organization WikiLeaks on Friday released what it claimed to be Clinton campaign email correspondence revealing excerpts from paid speeches that Hillary Clinton gave in recent years, before her presidential bid.

A Clinton campaign spokesman declined to verify whether the documents are authentic.

The emails appear to show Mrs. Clinton taking a tone in private that is more favorable to free trade and to banks than she has often taken on the campaign trail. The emails also suggest she was aware of security concerns regarding electronic devices, which could feed into criticism that Mrs. Clinton was careless with national secrets when she was secretary of state.

The release marks the latest time WikiLeaks has inserted itself into this year’s presidential campaign, and it came the same day the U.S. intelligence community accused the Russian government of trying to interfere in the U.S. elections by purposefully leaking emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee and other entities. The intelligence agencies alleged the hacks were directed by the most senior officials in the Russian government, with WikiLeaks one of the entities whose methods are consistent with those of a Russia-directed effort.

“Earlier today the U.S. government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy,” said Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin in a statement. “We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by [WikiLeaks founder] Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton.”

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose emails were WikiLeaks’s primary target, sent several tweets on the subject late Friday.

“I’m not happy about being hacked by the Russians in their quest to throw the election to Donald Trump,” he wrote. “Don’t have time to figure out which docs are real and which are faked.” He added that the organization’s claim on its website that he owns the Podesta Group, a lobbying firm headed by his brother, Tony, was “completely false.”

Some of the documents in the most recent WikiLeaks release are similar in their design to documents released in recent days by DCLeaks.com, another entity that the U.S. intelligence community says has published documents stolen by the Russian government. The documents have proven difficult to authenticate.

In the two years between her time at the State Department and her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton earned millions on the paid speech circuit, including $4.1 million from financial institutions, according to financial disclosures. This became an issue during Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic primary campaign when Sen. Bernie Sanders called for her to release the speech transcripts, particularly for speeches she gave to major financial firms. At the time, Mrs. Clinton said she would “look into” releasing the transcripts but hasn’t provided them.

This past January, the WikiLeaks documents suggest, Clinton campaign research director Tony Carrk emailed excerpts of Mrs. Clinton’s speeches to senior campaign officials, including Mr. Podesta and communications director Jennifer Palmieri, calling them the “flags from HRC’s paid speeches.”

Mr. Carrk said he had obtained the transcripts from “HWA,” an apparent reference to the Harry Walker Agency, which arranged Mrs. Clinton’s paid speeches after she left the State Department in 2013.

“I put some highlights below,” Mr. Carrk wrote. “There is a lot of policy positions that we should give an extra scrub with Policy.”

The more than 80 pages of transcript excerpts appear to have been broken down by a campaign official into sections titled “Awkward,” “Benghazi,” “Email,” and “Helping Corporations,” among others.

The excerpts appear to show Mrs. Clinton taking a more friendly attitude toward financial firms than she does on the campaign trail. At a 2013 speech at a Goldman Sachs event, she is shown lamenting that in Washington, “There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives.” In another speech at a Goldman event, she told the room, “You are the smartest people.”

At another Goldman Sachs speech, discussing how to avoid another financial crisis, she said the “politicizing” of the financial crisis could have been avoided with greater transparency, and told the bankers, “You guys help us figure it out and let’s make sure that we do it right this time.” A year later, at a speech paid for by Deutsche Bank, she said that some element of financial reform “really has to come from the industry itself.”

On the campaign trail, Mrs. Clinton has issued a suite of proposals aimed at curbing some Wall Street risk-taking and holding more individuals accountable for misconduct.

In a 2014 speech, the excerpts show, Mrs. Clinton said that as a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009, she had won support from Wall Street but still supported regulations that were tough on the industry, including closing a loophole that allows carried interest to be taxed at a lower rate.

Mrs. Clinton also expressed strong support for free trade in a 2013 speech paid for by a Brazilian bank. While she endorsed negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact during her tenure as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton has since opposed the trade pact, saying it does not do enough to produce new jobs and raise wages.

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,” she said in 2013, according to the transcript. “We have to resist protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.”

Mrs. Clinton also acknowledged the security concerns surrounding BlackBerry devices, an issue that has taken on increased political significance since reports last year that she used a private email server as secretary of state. A Federal Bureau of Investigation probe found no evidence that Mrs. Clinton’s server, which contained emails with classified information, was hacked during her tenure.

“At the State Department we were attacked every hour, more than once an hour, by incoming efforts to penetrate everything we had,” Mrs. Clinton is shown saying at a 2014 speech at a General Electric Co. global meeting. “And that was true across the U.S. government.”

At the same event, Mrs. Clinton is shown lamenting that when she arrived at the State Department, employees were “not mostly permitted to have handheld devices.” She added, “I mean, so you’re thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can’t expect people to change if I don’t try to model it and lead it.”

Another excerpt shows Mrs. Clinton saying that when it comes to politics, there is a need for “both a public and a private position,” because “backroom discussions” make “people get a little nervous.”

“You just have to sort of figure out how to … balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically,” she is shown to have said at a 2013 speech said to be paid for by the National Multi-Housing Council.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Trump released an apology. This happened 10 Years ago, while he said some bad things Bill and Hillary have actually done much worse things...

I find it funny the media always asks Ivanka how she feels about her father, but they never ask Chelsea that same question.

LC

[260 Rem]

Bill's indiscretions were about 20 years ago ... Donald's about 10 years ago. A bit of a stretch for Donald to dismiss his as ancient history unless he feels the same way about Bill. Don't worry SNL will nail it
Lefty, maybe because Chelseas dad isn't running to be president?

[260 Rem]

Well, if this turns into a "Cosby Story" for the choir boy it ain't going to be good for the church.

[Bushrat]

Originally Posted by gbart

WOW!! that's pretty bad.

I would have never thought things like that went on in Hollywood.

Thanks for posting.

Shows me he is a pretty normal man. I don't know too many men who don't talk that way among their buddies in a private conversation. At least most men who haven't been castrated, wife beaten or are still heterosexual. And women talk just as bad or worse about men when they are talking about men they are attracted to. Why is this even news.

[260 Rem]

Originally Posted by Bushrat

Shows me he is a pretty normal man. I don't know too many men who don't talk that way among their buddies in a private conversation. At least most men who haven't been castrated, wife beaten or are still heterosexual. And women talk just as bad or worse about men when they are talking about men they are attracted to. Why is this even news.

I refuse to believe the general population is as sleazy as you describe. Nope, it is not normal for a mature male to act that way ...

[urban rednek]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

I refuse to believe the general population is as sleazy as you describe. Nope, it is not normal for a mature male to act that way ...

From the 'War on Boys' thread: It gets easier with each successive generation since they have already been preprogrammed to accept and support the continued subjugation of the male psyche.

Seems appropriate.

[rugatika]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

Well, if this turns into a "Cosby Story" for the choir boy it ain't going to be good for the church.

Yep, I agree with you. So far no allegations of Trump raping someone have surfaced though. I'll vote for someone with sleazy locker talk anyday over someone that helped belittle, and try to silence rape and sexual harrasment victims. Going so far as to hire detectives to dig up dirt on them.

We don't hear anything about that from the media. No big deal. But Trump talking about trying to bed women and the propensity of some of them to be swayed by riches and celebrity is end of the world stuff. Too funny.

The USA could have elected honest to goodness gentlemen last time around in Romney and Ryan. They passed. The media ran them into the ground for various "evils" as well. Now they have Hillary and Trump to choose from. I'll take the lesser of two evils every time. Those are their choices.

[TBD]

Originally Posted by rugatika

The USA could have elected honest to goodness gentlemen last time around in Romney and Ryan. They passed. The media ran them into the ground for various "evils" as well. Now they have Hillary and Trump to choose from. I'll take the lesser of two evils every time. Those are their choices.

yup - recall the "binder full of women" comment they replayed over and over again on Romney --- Romney a misogynist

TBD


PS ... who wants to bet we hear very little coverage on WikiLeaks ( leading up to sunday's debate ) about hillary's apparent two-face 'edness with wall street !

... the blokes who caused the finanicial crisis in '08 and no doubt have helped the dems rob 10 trillion over the last 8 yrs from the American people. Bernie's people have no choice now but to leave her and Vote TRUMP !

... thank you Assange - a true Hero !!

[260 Rem]

Originally Posted by urban rednek

From the 'War on Boys' thread: It gets easier with each successive generation since they have already been preprogrammed to accept and support the continued subjugation of the male psyche.

Seems appropriate.

Simply put. Endorsing/excusing Trump's "morality" in this situation is a mirror on that of the defender.

[Bergerboy]

Trumps comments wouldn't even raise an eyebrow to anyone who has worked in the trades or in oil and gas. That goes for the guys with boots on the ground and the ones at the top of the pyramid in Calgary and Houston.

[avb3]

The polls keep falling, and more importantly, the Electoral College votes keep disappearing for Trump.

It will be interesting to see how tomorrow's debate goes. He doesn't do well questioned directly, and if he does his usual avoidance dance to audience questions, his chance of getting elected will drop into the single digits. 538 has him at 13% chance now.

[260 Rem]

Originally Posted by avb3

This. The man is as misogynistic as they come. That's someone's daughter and granddaugher he is talking about. Think if it was yours?

True. And Trump was married at the time, with very little commitment in that department either.... I'm betting SNL will have a Melania in the script.

[tri777]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

So do you support his comments?

He fessed up..as for mizz wanna be cougher in chief, she just
siezes,deletes and hits things with hammers to make them go away..
The clintons= The body count
Bill clinton= The booby count

[avb3]

Originally Posted by play.soccer

And what if those "suicides" were family members of yours? Killary needs to be locked away.

You've bought into the conspiracy theories. Congrats.

[avb3]

This 'gate' will keep Trump out of the Whitehouse.

[rugatika]

Originally Posted by avb3

The polls keep falling, and more importantly, the Electoral College votes keep disappearing for Trump.

It will be interesting to see how tomorrow's debate goes. He doesn't do well questioned directly, and if he does his usual avoidance dance to audience questions, his chance of getting elected will drop into the single digits. 538 has him at 13% chance now.

Just some more information for anyone that wants to explore further.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...ver-gets-wrong

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/04/7-...-donald-trump/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/...-house-effect/

http://primarymodel.com/

[Bushrat]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

Oh no, Melania just released a statement saying she forgives Donald's "unacceptable and offensive" comments. I hope this is not spun as her being an enabler. Surely nobody would ever get that low?

So Hillary forgiving Bill for getting blow jobs from young interns in the Oval office is somehow different?

[Bushrat]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

I refuse to believe the general population is as sleazy as you describe. Nope, it is not normal for a mature male to act that way ...

You my friend are lying through your teeth if you truly think healthy men and womens minds do not have those kind of thoughts about people they are attracted to. Yah I know when you daydreamed about the girl or boy you had a crush on in high school you only dreamed of carrying her books or had sweet dreams of helping her sell girl guide cookies.

[260 Rem]

Originally Posted by Bushrat

You my friend are lying through your teeth if you truly think healthy men and womens minds do not have those kind of thoughts about people they are attracted to. Yah I know when you daydreamed about the girl or boy you had a crush on in high school you only dreamed of carrying her books or had sweet dreams of helping her sell girl guide cookies.

Well bushrat, I am not a liar, nor do take kindly to your suggestion. Shame on you. A new level of low.

[TBD]

[Bushrat]

Originally Posted by 260 Rem

Well bushrat, I am not a liar, nor do take kindly to your suggestion. Shame on you. A new level of low.

Your denial of the human condition is fascinating.