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#143276: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:42:50 PM

If by some awful tragedy he wins the election, then he can have my sympathy when he pries it from my cold, dead fingers.

But he's going to have to really search to find them because I'll be renting a ski lodge in Hell. Gonna be the first person to snowboard those slopes.

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#143277: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:43:17 PM

I'll worry about Trump's sad widdle ego after he's no longer a clear and present danger to the survival of this nation.

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#143278: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:45:14 PM

Trump deserves nothing. Except maybe a sharp kick in the head.

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#143279: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:49:32 PM

ThinkProgress is reporting that NBC was late to release the scandalous Trump tape last Friday (that it had acquired from Access Hollywood) because it was in internal discussions about editing Billy Bush's parts out, since Bush was (at the time) an anchor of the Today show. This delay is what allowed the Washington Post to scoop them, and caused them to release the unedited version themselves later that day. Bush was fired from Today two days later, as we know.

NBC denies the allegation.

As a secondary story, Bush has apparently led an aggressively undistinguished career in soft journalism. Remember the Ryan Lochte scandal in Rio during the Olympics? Well, Billy boy's the one who got the initial interview with Lochte, during which he allowed the swimmer's dubious story to pass unchallenged, and was later read the riot act on national TV over it. He certainly continues the family tradition of mediocrity, doesn't he?

edited 11th Oct '16 12:58:55 PM by Fighteer

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#143280: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:50:23 PM

[up][up]

edited 11th Oct '16 12:50:34 PM by kkhohoho

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#143281: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:52:29 PM

Yeah, I can't bring myself to feel sympathy, or even empathy for Trump. Not while he's a potential threat to (at least) the civil rights and physical safety of hundreds of millions of people, or (at worst) a danger to human civilization.

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Warder of the damned
#143282: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:52:56 PM

Well, it is hard to dehumanize something that is already...an orange.

Just a little song.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#143283: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:55:06 PM

He also seems to believe anyone rich acts like he does and that those who don't are fools. I had a boss like that once.

[up][up][up][up]Is Billy even related to that Bush family?

edited 11th Oct '16 12:59:54 PM by Elle

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#143284: Oct 11th 2016 at 12:58:10 PM

Minor quibble - the swimmer's first name is Ryan.

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#143285: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:00:24 PM

[up][up] Yep. Billy's George Senior's nephew, and George Junior's cousin. Apparently, it was Billy's bragging to colleagues at the Rio Olympics about having a tape of Trump being "a real dog" that caused it to be dug up in the first place. That sort of "locker room" talk is something to which the young Bush scion is apparently quite accustomed.

[up] Oops! Fixed.

edited 11th Oct '16 1:02:43 PM by Fighteer

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#143286: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:00:40 PM

[up][up]Yes. Nephew of Bush the first and cousin to the second and Jeb.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#143287: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:05:14 PM

So he's now that weird cousin no one likes to talk about?

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#143288: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:06:00 PM

Reposting my page-bottom edit: Apparently, it was Billy's bragging to colleagues at the Rio Olympics about having a tape of Trump being "a real dog" that caused it to be dug up in the first place. That sort of "locker room" talk is something to which the young Bush scion is apparently quite accustomed.

Also, going back to something nervmeister said: Trump would sooner drive nails into his own eyes than abandon his ambitions in order to promote another candidate at this stage in the race.

edited 11th Oct '16 1:14:17 PM by Fighteer

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#143289: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:07:42 PM

Huh, wasn't sure if they were related or not.

On a related note - is Justice Kennedy related to JFK?

edited 11th Oct '16 1:07:52 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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#143290: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:11:42 PM

Kennedy's Wikipedia article says nothing about any relationship.

USA Today posted an article talking about John Oliver's LWT segment from Sunday, wherein he played a montage of Billy Bush's creepy interviews over the years, including a litany of inappropriate questions directed towards female celebrities. Dude's not an accidental victim in all this.

edited 11th Oct '16 1:13:12 PM by Fighteer

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#143291: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:16:35 PM

Kennedy is a relatively common Irish and Scottish surname, so there's probably no meaningful relation there.

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#143292: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:19:47 PM

I figured it was pretty common. I suppose it's just that when the name "Kennedy" comes up in politics, I assumed that it meant the Kennedys.

[up][up] ...My God. The stuff he said about Selena Gomez was especially...eugh.

edited 11th Oct '16 1:21:07 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#143293: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:21:16 PM

Maybe it's because I grew up in Massachusetts but Kennedy is probably a more common surname than Bush overall. I don't think Kate Bush is related though.

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#143294: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:26:00 PM

[up] I don't think so. Kate Bush is British, born in Bexleyheath smile.

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#143295: Oct 11th 2016 at 1:42:31 PM

Hell, one of his spokespeople even outright stated that this entire Presidential campaign is an attempt at getting revenge on Obama for cracking jokes about him.

In PBS's look at both Trump and Clinton's lives, it actually opened with this for Trump. This was PBS, I might add.

edited 11th Oct '16 1:46:37 PM by GameGuruGG

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#143297: Oct 11th 2016 at 2:10:04 PM

On another subject.

The new face of the pro-life movement: young, female, secular, feminist.

New pro-life groups that draw heavily on young people are starting to rebrand the message - treating abortion as a human rights issue for the fetus. I think that's a step in the right direction for said pro-life movement, but the new pro-lifers need to really firmly disassociate themselves with the existing movement and all the bullshit it's getting involved in (you know, stuff like the reversible-abortion lie) if they want to be taken seriously - which will, unfortunately for them, result in nothing getting done on their side, for the same reason that moderate Republicans have to choose between kissing Tea Party ass and getting nothing done.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#143298: Oct 11th 2016 at 2:11:39 PM

Putting this out here, courtesy of NPR, due to the overreliance on the Trump is a Russian puppet meme on this thread. Explains more cogently than I why thats a bit overstated. It's only about 5 minutes, and the hacker stuff is only toward the end, but its worth a read.

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#143300: Oct 11th 2016 at 2:24:42 PM

[up][up]I never really thought he was a "puppet", just that Russia seems to be...well, a bit friendly with that scum. After all, who's easier to handle, a experienced and intelligent former Secretary of State or a business mogul with delusions of grandeur and no political experience whatsoever?

Also, something to add to the waterfall of "Republicans leaving trump" news that I think might be something: GLEN BECK WANTS PEOPLE TO OPPOSE TRUMP BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT.

GLEN. BECK.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/glenn-beck-hillary-clinton-moral-ethical-choice/index.html

[up][up][up][up][up]You know, that's actually complimentary towards Obama considering that those jokes were in 2011 and that Trump was considering running in 2012 but backed out. I'd like to think that he was scared that he wouldn't win against Obama so that's why he's doing it now. Now, I'm actually being rather calm because I had spent 30 minutes punching a tree.

edited 11th Oct '16 2:25:01 PM by fredhot16

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