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Holy shit just watched the interview with Cuomo grilling the one Trump campaign guy who just absolutely refused to say the words were lifted from Michelle Obama's speech.

 

This election never ceases to amaze.

 

Trump Vets Adviser: Clinton "Should Be Put In The Firing Line And Shot For Treason"

 

The full NYTimes article quoted above:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/m...ackage-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

This is wild...

 

Ben Carson defends connecting Hillary Clinton to Lucifer - CNNPolitics.com

 

I love the idea that anyone who protests Trump and his supporters with violence is the true aggressor. All that about free speech, God, stuff it. Listen to this tripe and tell me antifa folks are the tyrants encouraging violence.

 

Did anyone read the "staffer's apology letter?" That woman couldn't write a speech if her life depended on it, even with stealing sections of it.

I'm both fascinated and horrified more and more this year.

 

Fuck yeah, democrats!

City Hall ordered to turn over emails to Tribune

 

I feel bad and cautious about dogpiling on anyone particular, I think it's very possible someone is just taking the fall. But the whole debacle is illustrative of how their campaign team and ticket is simply not fit for the role they will need to fill. I mean, Christ, this is high school freshman level.

 

The Republican Party Is an Embarrassment. It Will Come Back Strong Sooner Than You Think.

 

The bolded stood out to me as exceptionally shady.

 

People aren't sure Melania Trump's 'speechwriter' Meredith McIver actually exists

 

It's existentially frustrating to me how little sense this all makes. I mean, if you're a billionaire potential First Lady giving a speech at the convention of a major party in the world's most powerful nation...isn't there a little more effort, a little more oversight that must necessarily go into it so that this stuff wouldn't happen? I mean, people who are borderline mentally handicapped file life insurance policies, sign mortgages, and do their taxes. How does this person do this task fall so woefully short?

As a kid, I would get anxiety when I would get the feeling that other people in the world weren't rational sovereign decision-making beings, but instead were irrational, illogical caricatures without concept of self-- that they were simply characters with whom I could never relate and whose actions i could never logically reconcile with my own consciousness, adding to the feeling that the world was not made of participants, but that it was centered around me, because these other participants could not possibly be self-aware. This is one of those times. Fucking Jean-Paul Sartre shit.

 

Apparently this is Meredith McIver:





Meredith McIver: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Those seem to be the only two photos of her on the internet, but nevertheless. That being said, the way this was rolled out I have to question if she actually had anything to do with it and is just the fall person. First Melania says she wrote most of it herself, then the next day she had help but it definitely wasn't plagiarism according to the Trump camp, and now today it was this lady who wrote it and oh yeah it totally was plagiarism and I'm so sorry but hey Trump refused to fire me out of the kindness of his heart because he's such a great man all hail Trump.

YEAH I DON'T KNOW, GUYS

 

well, if she's a real person, it certainly seems like trump committed an FEC violation

 

How so?

 

Who is Meredith McIver, the Trump staffer who took the fall for Melania’s speech?

 

Question to New Yorkers who were aware of what was going on during Giuliani's term. I was too young to know anything at that point, but I've been doing a lot of reading about him and what he did because my parents absolutely love him. What I'm seeing seems like he just piggy backed off what Dinkins did prior to him, added a much more police heavy agenda, and then took all the credit. Is this accurate or was there much more?

 

Group photo of Dem interns shows diversity, unlike Ryan's GOP pic

Wow

 

He also drove out adult entertainment businesses for a more "family friendly tourist destination."

 

It makes sense if Trump's number one goal is to get as much airtime as possible.

 

Liberals: Trump is going to put Muslims and people Middle Eastern descent in danger. In fact, his presidency will actually lead to their deaths.

Meanwhile:

US airstrikes allegedly kill at least 73 civilians in northern Syria