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thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#147201: Oct 29th 2016 at 6:35:39 PM

Eh, I'm not so sure it'll move the numbers much. If I'm still an undecided at this point I don't see even more emails being the tipping point. At least not more then a 1 point move.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#147202: Oct 29th 2016 at 7:00:04 PM

Eh, I'm not sure that the American electorate deserves the benefit of the doubt on this front. I'm preparing for the worst, unless/until Clinton is called the winner on November 8th/9th.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#147203: Oct 29th 2016 at 7:03:37 PM

Honestly, if the e-mail thing didn't already sink her campaign I don't see why a little extra nothing, which seems to be mostly reported as such, would really change much.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#147204: Oct 29th 2016 at 7:16:00 PM

[up] Because the news media plays it up like it's a big deal to get ratings, and a lot of stupid people watch the news.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#147205: Oct 29th 2016 at 7:21:22 PM

[up]Doesn't seem like they're all doing that. And it's not like anyone who was really into Fox News was likely to vote for her anyway.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#147206: Oct 29th 2016 at 8:27:31 PM

Now they are showing Trump ads on ION when they were only showing Hillary ads previously.

edited 29th Oct '16 8:29:18 PM by Bat178

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#147207: Oct 29th 2016 at 8:30:52 PM

I'm more annoyed that I'm seeing Trump ads during the World Series. None for Clinton so far.

edited 29th Oct '16 8:31:12 PM by megarockman

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#147208: Oct 30th 2016 at 12:44:15 AM

Evan McMullin's publicists are on to something.

Why, yes, of course there is affinity fraud going on with Trump's campaign.

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump used small donors’ money to buy nearly $300,000 worth of books from the publisher of his Art of the Deal last month, continuing a pattern of plowing campaign money back into his own businesses.

The Oct. 15 Federal Election Commission filing for Trump Make America Great Again Committee does not specify which books in particular were purchased, but the committee’s own website suggests it was Trump’s 1987 business bestseller.

“I’ve signed an out-of-print, hardcover copy of ‘The Art of the Deal’ just for you, because I want you on board with Team Trump!” Trump wrote in an Aug. 2 fundraising email, which went on to offer the book for a minimum donation of $184.

Trump’s statement calling the book “out-of-print,” repeated on the committee’s website, however, is false. The Art of the Deal had a new paperback edition printed last October, and the hardcover is currently in print and available from Random House and retail booksellers. Barnes and Noble, for example, sells it for $22.35.

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is a joint fundraising operation between the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. An RNC spokeswoman referred a question about the books to the Trump campaign, which did not return phone calls and emails requesting comment over a period of days. Random House representatives also did not respond to Huffington Post queries.

While a second joint Trump-RNC committee concentrates on large contributions, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee focuses on small-dollar donations using online and direct-mail fundraising. As of Sept. 30, 77 percent of all the money it raised came from donors who have given less than $200.

According to the committee’s Oct. 15 FEC filing, it paid Penguin/Random House $91,866 on Aug. 30, $98,975 on Sept. 1, and another $98,975 on Sept. 22. The purpose for all three was listed as: “Collateral: Books.”

The publishing house has printed five titles by Trump, including How to Get Rich and Think Like a Billionaire. The biggest seller, though, was The Art of the Deal, which was published in 1987 but has remained in print ever since. Trump frequently boasts about it in his campaign speeches, and it is the only one mentioned on the Trump fundraising website.

At the standard bulk discount offered by publishers, Trump’s fundraising committee could have purchased some 17,000 copies of the hardcover edition. Under a typical publishing contract, that quantity would generate over $70,000 in royalties, which Trump would have to split with his co-author.

According to Trump’s financial disclosure statement filed in May, Trump received between $50,000 and $100,000 in royalties for that title over the previous year.

The Daily Beast previously reported that Trump spent $55,000 in money from his own campaign to buy copies of his latest book, Crippled America, which was published by Simon and Schuster. Copies were distributed to GOP delegates attending the summer convention in Cleveland.

The purchase of books is just the latest example of Trump using donors’ money to purchase goods and services from his own businesses and generating personal profit for himself.

Trump houses his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, where the campaign pays $169,758 a month for office space at about $100 per square foot. (The Clinton campaign, in contrast, rents two floors in a Brooklyn Heights office building for about $32 per square foot.)

Trump paid his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach $423,373 on the same day in May that his campaign finalized a deal with the RNC that began bringing him hundreds of millions of dollars of outside donations ― even though the only events he’d held there were two victory parties and an afternoon news conference two months earlier. He could have held those three events at nearby hotels for a total of about $40,000.

In July, Trump’s campaign sent $48,240 to his Westchester County golf course. The only event it had hosted for him was a June 7 victory party. Trump could have used a ballroom at a nearby Marriott hotel for less than half that much.

And Trump’s insistence on using his own personal Boeing 757 jet is now costing taxpayers millions of dollars extra. Because Trump’s Secret Service detail is making up a large percentage ― and on some days even a majority ― of the flying passengers, the agency must pay a proportionate share of the $10,000-an-hour flying costs.

Had Trump chosen to charter a more suitable airliner that would accommodate his staff, his security detail and his traveling press corps, as both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and previous GOP nominees have done, he could have driven down the costs for everyone.

Trump’s staff has defended his decisions to spend more at his own businesses rather than use less-expensive alternatives by pointing out that he is contributing $2 million a month to his own campaign.

That $2 million figure, however, is dwarfed by the many tens of millions of dollars per month coming to Trump’s campaign from both large and small donors.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#147209: Oct 30th 2016 at 12:59:56 AM

So if Trump loses, he still makes off with hundreds of millions in profit?

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#147210: Oct 30th 2016 at 2:40:03 AM

Hell no. He needs to go down. The FBI and Treasury need to be sicced after his filthy ass. Trump must lose, bigly.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#147211: Oct 30th 2016 at 2:51:47 AM

[up] Not that Trump must die?note 

Keep Rolling On
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#147212: Oct 30th 2016 at 3:18:25 AM

No. That would make him a martyr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#147213: Oct 30th 2016 at 5:00:28 AM

To whomever posted a few pages ago their annoyances of CNN's round-the-clock coverage of Clinton's new emails, they've always been like that. Remember when that Malaysian airplane disappeared and they went months covering that, going so far as to recreate a visually stunning (for a cable news budget) 3D model of what they think happened to the plane an where it went down?

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#147214: Oct 30th 2016 at 6:17:52 AM

CNBC's live coverage this morning is actually trying to heavily imply that Hillary was involved in some sort of cover up with Weiner's underage sexting case.

"There's currently no evidence of involvement but we still can't rule it out" sort of bullshit.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#147215: Oct 30th 2016 at 6:20:51 AM

The entire party had already tossed him under the bus after the first incident, that's almost certainly BS.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
chartoc Since: Apr, 2010
#147216: Oct 30th 2016 at 6:24:33 AM

Two former atteroty generals, one R and one D, went off on Comey's handling of the investigation https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comey-is-damaging-our-democracy/2016/10/29/894d0f5e-9e49-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.118d5af9a3d7

    James Comey is damaging our democracy  

"Events as they have played out point to the value of the department’s traditions. Having taken the extraordinary steps of briefing the public, testifying before Congress about a decision not to prosecute and sharing investigative material, Comey now finds himself wanting to update the public and Congress on each new development in the investigation, even before he and others have had a chance to assess its significance. He may well have been criticized after the fact had he not advised Congress of the investigative steps that he was taking. But it was his job — consistent with the best traditions of the Department of Justice — to make the right decision and take that criticism if it came. Department officials owe the public an explanation of how events have unfolded the way they have. There must be some recognition that it is important not to allow an investigation to become hijacked by the red-hot passions of a political contest.

As it stands, we now have real-time, raw-take transparency taken to its illogical limit, a kind of reality TV of federal criminal investigation. Perhaps worst of all, it is happening on the eve of a presidential election. It is antithetical to the interests of justice, putting a thumb on the scale of this election and damaging our democracy"

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#147217: Oct 30th 2016 at 6:31:42 AM

Just as I said. Science by press conference applied to law enforcement.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Vampireandthen In love with an Uptown Girl from Northern Ireland Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: A teenager in love
In love with an Uptown Girl
#147218: Oct 30th 2016 at 6:53:17 AM

Our democracy was damaged well before even Trump showed up. I refer to Joseph Mc Carthy. This guy was the equivalent of Donald Trump back then, but he was successful for a good while. His tactics of accussing people of being communist if they so much as questioned him aren't that different from how Trump has acted today, if you examine both at their core. They are both wild and uncontrollable men that have followings thanks to their unbelievably tough stances on certain issues, and they both have done real damage. And don't get me started on Nixon.

edited 30th Oct '16 6:57:41 AM by Vampireandthen

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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#147219: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:01:50 AM

"Other people before this guy were also damaging our democracy" doesn't really refute the point that "this guy is damaging our democracy with his actions".

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Vampireandthen In love with an Uptown Girl from Northern Ireland Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: A teenager in love
In love with an Uptown Girl
#147220: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:03:38 AM

True. But our democracy was still damaged well before this.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#147221: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:19:05 AM

I'd argue Slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, women's suffrage, Patriot Act, Cold War, all did considerable damage to our democracy but that's just me

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chartoc Since: Apr, 2010
#147222: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:28:14 AM

Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host and fervent supporter of Donald Trump, defended Hillary and blasted Comey for how badly he handled this. Not surprising because something similar happened to her too.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/30/judge-jeanine-defends-hillary-on-timing-of-fbi-announcement.html?via=twitter_page

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#147223: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:30:30 AM

The fact that there was an open wound in our democracy long before Trump came along does nothing to diminish the fact that he's rubbing salt in it and making it even worse.

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SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#147224: Oct 30th 2016 at 7:56:01 AM

There is also the Indian Removal Act. The Supreme Court even said they couldn't do it, because the Native Americans were sovereign nations (and therefore the US had no authority over them). It was passed by Congress, and Jackson noted the Court couldn't enforce its ruling.

It is important to note how fragile our democracy can be, and has been, by acknowledging times when it has failed. The idea that Trump's strongman attitude is unenforceable because we're a democracy is a dangerously complacent one. And one that is rather common, in my experience.

edited 30th Oct '16 8:02:22 AM by SilentColossus

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#147225: Oct 30th 2016 at 8:01:57 AM

Pete Williams on MSNBC said Comey unlikely to make ANY statement until after the election.

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