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that's what i've heard, although Big Bang Theory fucked up a huge book 6 spoiler. guess that's what i get for watching that show.

 

Trump Threatens to Skip Remaining Debates If Hillary Is There - The New Yorker

 

A final response to the "Tell me why Trump is racist".

 

I'm just going to re-post this because it is true:

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

 

I also love the fact that he didn't deny the charges but instead applauded himself for getting away with it without admitting guilt.

 

The Best Lester Holt Jokes from the First Presidential Debate

Hillary Clinton Won Because Donald Trump Is a Sham

15 Very Good Memes from the First Presidential Debate

 

“Every time I said something, she would say something back”

Literally how a debate works

 

That article is satire. But I can see how it would be difficult to tell at this juncture.

 

Criticisms? Pointing out lies? Noticing huge flaws in character? The entire world must be in on a conspiracy to take me down because I'm so right.

 

Now for the pundit class, Trump admitting, implicitly, that he never paid income taxes is the kind of bombshell that puts him forever out of the running of respectability (if he wasn’t out of that running already). Not paying your taxes is a no-no, a failure of civic duty, a sign of his diremption from the little people he claims to represent.

I’m of two minds on this question.

On the one hand, I can see how it might seem to the average voter like Trump is just one more rich guy who gets away with murder.

On the other hand, there’s a not so small current in American politics that would hear that, that Trump didn’t pay his taxes, and think, with him, that he was indeed smart for having outsmarted the system. And would want to align themselves with him as a result. In the hope that they too could learn these tricks some day or that they too could one day be rich enough not to pay their taxes.

This is a nation of conmen (and women), as everyone from Melville to Mamet has understood. A nation that dreams of, and longs for, the quick buck. The more crooked the path, the more glorious the payoff.

If there was any one point last night where I thought to myself, Trump is connecting with the voters, it was this.

Donald Trump’s one strength: He understands that we are a nation of conmen (and women)

 

Please tell me he's talking space elevators.

 

Oh haha it really sounds like something he would say

 

I actually believed it when I first read it; that's how crazy Trump has become.

 

I really don't understand the leap from "hasn't paid income taxes" to "not paying your taxes." It shows a lack of knowledge of the tax code.

Considering the issues that have been raised with Trump's Foundation though, I don't extend him the benefit of the doubt that he is paying his taxes, so to speak.

 

looool

 

Great back to back posts.

 

Howard Dean needs to shut the ef up.

 

Yea, anything by Andy Borowitz is satire. He co-created The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air!