Johnson Doesn't Make the Debates, Trump Says Hillary is the Real Birther, Noam Chomsky Challenged: P.M. Links

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  Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria.

• Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.
• What an awful mother.
• Noam Chomsky is apparently wrong again, but this time he's wrong about the Chomskyest of things.
• Donald Trump says he's not a birther—Hillary Clinton is the birther.
• Remember Austin, the 17-year-old facing sexual assault and child pornography charges for having a consensual sexual relationship with his 15-year-old girlfriend? Austin's mother is trying to raise money to help pay his legal fees. Go here to donate.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates...

Do we even know if Trump can zing more than one person at a time?

[Tman]

Johnson can debate when he finally releases his birth certificate!

#libertarianbirther

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Fuck these debate deniers.

[flye]

Syd Blumenthal told me Johnson was born in Somalia.

[Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos]

#DemsRRealBirthers

[Robert]

I've known Birchers who were also both birthers and truthers!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria."

OMG OMG OMG! I AM SOOOO SHOCKED AND SURPRISED! HOW CAN THIS BE?! OMG!

[BigT]

"Do we even know if Trump can zing more than one person at a time?"

Forgotten the Heffalump debates?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Right on time. Impressive.

[jesse.in.mb]

He probably charmed an intern into doing them for him.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I think they only have the one, and he is a conservative.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

If the intern had done it, there would be alt-text.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Consider me charmed.

[Ecoli]

Are you the intern?

[Playa Manhattan.]

No, it's his regular sloppy half-assed links.

[Riven]

Sure. If doing your job in a timely fashion is impressive...

[Los Doyers]

Robby's late links are just an extension of his massive trolling operation.

[Tonio]

Not extensions of his hair?

[Los Doyers]

Same thing, no?

[Robby Soave]

Internally, a new staffer asked when the links go up, and I said "4:30, except when I do them it's sometimes 4:45, or 5, or never."

[Fist of Etiquette]

That "never" is the black mark on your record.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Never forget...whatever date that was.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

5/17

[BigT]

Seventeenth of May
Most despicable and sad day
Fruit sushi for none

[Free Society]

Remember remember, the seventeenth of May...vember.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Did you tell him, her or it about the sushi line and the complications it may bring?

[Lee Genes]

Ha! I saw that tete a tete with the squirrels

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Yup. and responded, only to go into H&R timeout!

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

You really are a boob. You should have told the person that the links go up at 5:30, thereby redirecting the commentariat hate onto the frosh.

Fuck, you really cannot do anything right.

[Tonio]

Internally? How did he ask you internally? Like with a speaker probe?

[Playa Manhattan.]

You haven't heard of cavity shouting?

All the cool kids are doing it.

[Free Society]

It's like buttchugging, but with less foreplay.

[John Titor]

Robby, I recommend that, for your own safety, you work to provide the PM links in a timely fashion. Otherwise you may have some unexpected visits. The first will be me with gardening shears. The second, should you fail to comply, will be Warty. You have been warned.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Then, you will hear the distinct sound of a 55 gallon drum being rolled down the hallway.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Followed by a visit from a certain Midwestern football coach.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yeah, Robby. You don't want the hoser military visiting you!

[John Titor]

We'll slit your throat while you sleep and no one will suspect us Playa, just remember that.

[OneOut]

The only decoration they have received is a US Presidential Medal ?

I can only presume that is a participation ribbon.

[John Titor]

You don't get ribbons when everyone pretends everything you've ever done didn't happen. Both the U.S. and U.K. claim that JTF2 was vital in the rescuing of hostages from Iraq in 2006. The Canadian government denies it ever happened.

[Cdr Lytton]

Robbie, even if this guy was hired after you were, you are still the FNG.

Damn millennials. Work at a place for a couple of months and then expect to retire because they've reached the end of their careers.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Something I leaned in business school. Always set expectations low so you can over-deliver.

[Riven]

I'd be a fool to mess with this tried and true strategy!

[Playa Manhattan.]

Case in point: I was pleased that Old Man with Candy didn't molest my children.

Expectations: exceeded.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Riven always comes on time to work.

[RBS]

There's a euphemism in there somewhere.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

like between "always" and "to"?

[Lee Genes]

Is this going to be a linguist thread? Should I just put on my dunce cap now while big words get thrown around?

[robc]

HM hasnt shown up yet.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Chomsky will never get the succ.

That having been said, note that the article was written by Tomasello. That's like asking Thomas Edison to give his thoughts on alternating current. As I have said before, I do think UG will eventually be disproved, as I agree with the cognitivists that general human learning processes are sufficient to explain 1st language acquisition. That having been said, I do think Tomasello overstates the robustness of the current evidence against UG and 32 Vassar Street isn't shutting its doors anytime soon.

[Rufus The Monocled]

/blinks.

Twerk?

[Heroic Mulatto]

I'm glad that verbs are an open class in English.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I had read years (decades ago?) that Chomsky's theories on linguistics were fairly well respected. I always wished he had stuck to that instead of writing about mutual aid and anarchy putting his people in charge.

[Heroic Mulatto]

In case you are interesting in reading about where it all began.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I am. i'm an armchair linguist, without the talent or training. Or looks.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Or looks.

That's not saying much.

[OneOut]

Huh ?

[Emmerson Biggins]

Fo Shizzle My Nizzle

[BakedPenguin]

That's like asking Thomas Edison to give his thoughts on alternating current.

Topsy! Topseeeeeeee!

[Get To Da Chippah]

Indubitably.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

He doesn't want to be further called a misogynist.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Bernie can go fuck himself again. Feel the Johnson, Bernie!

[Injun, as in from India]

"A woman enjoys intercourse with her man ? as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously," Mr. Sanders wrote.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Huh, just like Trump disowned being a birther.

I'm good with it. Carry on.

[Clich? Bandit]

The Europe thread got me thinking we need a re-match of our last diplomacy game. Who is in?

[Tonio]

I'm interested, but don't have much time. This is a real-time deal, right?

[Clich? Bandit]

Last one had a two day turn time I think
We can customize
Too long and I fuck up my strategy though.

[Nephilium]

I can be in again... Although I was easily crushed last time by a betrayal from Turkey.

[Tonio]

OK, my schedule frees up in October. I can certainly work with a two day turn limit.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

How do you play?

[OneOut]

Sometimes I play with a fishing rod. This NFL season I'm gonna play with my new pellet grill*. I play with my pretty young wife.

Oh oh oh. This year for the first time I'm gonna play fantsy football. I wasted 3 hours playing on that yesterday but Im never gonna play that way again.

For all you Reasonoid BBQ, grilling, or just plain cooking fans, get you one of these. They are magnamiraculous. I'm in the experiment mode with mine. Last weekend I marinaded a brisket over night. Then I smoked it for 12 hours at 220 degrees in pecan smoke.

I had a euphemism when I cut into it on a 45% angle.

Suthenboy will get it, for one.

[Nephilium]

Chipper, If you really care, here's a basic run down on strategy. Overall, it's a turn based game with no randomness.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Trump holds press conference to open hotel, receive endorsements from medal of honor winners. CNN & MSNBC reporters have fits.

Probably the best thing I've read today.

[That's A Bingo!]

SF'd the link.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Same story mentioned above. Just a different, more correct take on it.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....ening.html

My sincerest apologies, sir.

[Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos]

Hillary Clinton
? ?@HillaryClinton

What Trump just did is a disgrace.

10:52 AM - 16 Sep 2016

Floppin' Hillary really can't stop from own-goaling herself, can she?

[Hamster of Doom]

Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria.

Quelle surprise.

[Injun, as in from India]

Noam Chomsky is apparently wrong again, but this time he's wrong about the Chomskyist of things.

+1 Chomsky Abnormal Form.

[Injun, as in from India]

This is the death knell for anarcho-syndicalism.

[Lee Genes]

Ha!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Don't sleep, Chomsky, there are snakes.

Props to anyone besides HM that gets that reference.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

That's hoi buffalo.

[Col. Chestbridge]

The old man the boat?

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

+1 Piraha

[MarkLastname]

Does it have anything to do with colorless green ideas sleeping furiously?

[commodious the pulchritudinous]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

Hillary is now the best candidate in the race!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Nobody needs more than two kinds of candidates in an election.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"What an awful mother."

I couldn't even get halfway through. She's lucky her kids aren't serial killers.

[grrizzly]

And the comments support the mother.

[Juice]

Most of them don't.

[grrizzly]

I focused on the ones with many upvotes.

[PurityDiluting]

so the Correct the Record trolling strategy works. ugh

[PBR Streetgang]

yet

[Lee Genes]

Jesus. She just lambasted her teenage kids in a national newspaper and left them wide open to the SJW internet tirades.

What a self-centered bitch.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Now come brush mommy's hair"

[flye]

Poor woman. Every day she has to wake up to unneutered young males in her house. She's coping the best way she knows how.

[waffles]

and my guts wrench as my own sons mimic the vitriol of a thousand online trolls

[Riven]

toxic masculinity

I'll have some of that, thank you.

[Playa Manhattan.]

We're talking about shaft and balls, right?

[Riven]

I rarely talk about anything else

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Well, there is also vag and balls, according to Cartman. I mean, if vaginas don't have balls, than what do they have?

[waffles]

A series of tubes!

[jesse.in.mb]

You just want to keep competitive with Soviet-era competitive lifters.

[Riven]

You got me.

I just wish I could clean and press...myself

[Los Doyers]

Is there a father in the picture that's allowing this shit?

[Playa Manhattan.]

I think she's probably the daddy.

[mad.casual]

Nope.

And, holy fuck it sounds having someone around who doesn't deliberately and repeatedly attempt to fuck the kids up might be a good idea. I don't know that this other person needs to have a penis, but it might be a good idea. Maybe at least someone who at least thinks a little more like someone who owns a penis when trying to relate to teenage boys and/or people in general.

[GILMORE?]

My first husband and I got married pretty much entirely because we were both Catholic, and I got pregnant. Oops. I was madly in love with my second husband, but that ended. For my third try at marriage, I married a much older man whom I met at work and trusted would take care of me and my kids, but that didn't work either. Yikes.

This is just more proof that "everyone else" has problems, and she's perfect.

[Illocust]

Jeeze, yeah, once you've made your third divorce you are officially responsible for having a terrible love life.

[Certified Public Asshat]

You missed the end then!

My sons are good boys, just like thousands of other good boys in America. They understand consent and they won't rape an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. But they aren't allies in the fight against rape culture because they refuse to acknowledge their own culpability when they call a girl a slut or a whore, laugh at a sexist joke or remain silent when their friends talk about their own questionable sexual behavior.

And in this broken system, anyone who isn't with us is against us.

[waffles]

And this savage comment:

Such a brave article...Some other articles Jody has written in his series include:
"I have to learn to care for my suicidal teen"
"My kids need trigger warnings"
"My daughter is a gift, her autism is not"
"I took my kids to the Ferguson protest"
"My adopted sister tried to kill me (repeatedly)"
"I'm a single mom of 7 and couldn't be happier"
"My DNA is keeping me hostage"
"I'm a rape survivor with a rape apologist son"
"My teenager is drinking and using drugs"

All must reads from this wonderful mother of 7 healthy normal children.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Amazing.

[Playa Manhattan.]

OH SHIT THAT'S ALL REAL.

[waffles]

The night is dark and full of terrors indeed.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

"And in this broken system, anyone who isn't with us is against us."

Just... most people don't have the balls to openly admit their us-vs-them mentality.

[The Fusionist]

So...let's get back to discussing that divisive Donald Trump and his us-versus-them attitude.

[End Child Unemployment]

I believe very strongly this kind of shit, by which I mean making men responsible for the emotional state of and emotional harms to All Women, is incredibly harmful to adolescent boys. Fortunately, you also can't talk about it at all, because to do so would put you in a basket filled with deplorables.

[MarkLastname]

These same feminist lunatics will, without irony, tell a 9 year old boy with no father to take care of his mother. No wonder some of them go through puberty early and become violent assholes.

[Illocust]

Seems like these boys realize their mother is crazy. Hopefully when they get old enough to get out of the house they'll find somewhere safe and sane to recover.

[Injun, as in from India]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

This thing is bigger than Bernie.

The genie is out of the bottle and unstoppable.

[flye]

Who rubbed it the right way?

[PBR Streetgang]

Johnny Gill?

[Injun, as in from India]

Awful pop song to spice up your Friday.

Which of you mo-fos would rub her the right away?

[Ted S.]

Relevant

[flye]

I prefer The Dan Band version, but this makes for a better still frame in the thread.

[Free Society]

2016 Christina Aguilera is transitioning to a fat clown.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Who rubbed it the right way?

Not me. I rubbed for Johnson.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Did you rub one out of the bottle?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump says he's not a birther?Hillary Clinton is the birther.

Yeah, just don't do that thing where you repeat a person's insult back at them. That's just the worst. And you do that all the time.

No, I don't. You do that.

Just like that. See that? That's what you just did. Don't be that person. Don't be you, Gamby.

Got it.

[Playa Manhattan.]

You started it. I finished it.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Looking forward to the finale, though I think it might mean the end of Dr. Brown.

[RBS]

He's made out of rubber.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

YOU got it, FoE!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

For some reason I read that in the voice of toddler Elizabeth Olson. Yes, I used to watch Full House.

[Crusty Juggler]

We all had a thing for Kimmy Gibler, Chimowo.

[jesse.in.mb]

She works (or at least used to work) at my college.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Then you need to watch Fuller House on Netflix. She hasn't changed a bit.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Gosh! Now my cover is blown!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Don't be you.

[colorblindkid]

Hillary responded with the phrase "I'm rubber you're glue". Hillary's team undeniably pushed the idea that Obama wasn't really American because of his upbringing. She may not have started the birth certificate thing, but she sewed the seed.

[Isaac Bartram]

As I understand it, the claim that BHO was not a citizen came from a worker in the 08 Clinton primary campaign somewhere in Western PA.

IIRC the main campaign quickly repudiated it. I'm sure that if they could have found any substance to it they would have exploited it to the fullest.

In much the same way, the Willie Horton story was first put forward by the Gore primary campaign but only got significant media scrutiny when the Bush campaign used it in the general.

[Isaac Bartram]

It's also worth pointing out that BO lost his first political race largely because his opponent claimed that he wasn't "really black" or sufficiently black, pointing to his white mother and his not really having an authentically black upbringing.

[MarkLastname]

You're a turd sandwich.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Has Matt found SIV's twitter handle?

Freedom4All ?@equsnarnd
@MattWelch Gary Johnson could be courageous and wise and endorse Trump. The fact that he won't indicates how shallow is the Librtrn party.

[Tonio]

Hahahaha...

[Lee Genes]

@equsnarnd?

Is that reference to the movie/play?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Equus nards?

He's clearly a horse fucker.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Horse balls, it means the guy likes horse balls.

[Injun, as in from India]

Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria

When the apple cart is being pushed quickly down hill by 2 imbeciles, why allow someone to upset the apple cart?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Fuck You (Bernie), Fuck You (Commission on Public Debates), Fuck You (Hillary), You Cool (Johnson), and Fuck You (Trump) I'm out.

[Injun, as in from India]

You cool (Juvenile Buster).

I'm out too, but with a bottle of Bourbon to drown the sorrow and laugh at the morons around us.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

F you, and F you...

And fuck you.

[Hyperion]

I could swear I just heard somewhere else that Johnson didn't make the debates. Hmm...

[waffles]

Donald Trump says he's not a birther?Hillary Clinton is the birther.

Ah, the old "I know you are but what am I" defense. Stay tuned for "I am rubber and you are glue".

[colorblindkid]

Hillary just gave the rubber and glue line. She's trying to lose.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

?Donald Trump says he's not a birther?Hillary Clinton is the birther.

Actually, Obama was the first birther. I can't find the link, but he claimed in the bio his literary agent used that he was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia."

Now, personally, I don't believe that that's true. I do, however, believe that Obama is the sort of person who will say whatever is politically advantageous in the moment, and that sort of biography appealed to the sort of person he was trying to sell books to.

[John]

He claimed to be a Kenyan in college. That is how he got into Columbia and Harvard and why he has never released his college records. I am told this fact is common knowledge in certain sectors of the government.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

That would not surprise me in the slightest.

[Lee Genes]

Now this makes sense.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Nah, he is too sucky at running to be a Kenyan.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

That's what being half-white will do to a guy.

[OneOut]

+1 foreign aid scholarship

[Libertarian]

Good point.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/05.....ying-obama

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

One of the literary agents responsible for the booklet has flatly said she made a mistake in the copy:

Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.

"This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me--an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."

Oh, well, if Obama's literary agent says so 20 years after the fact, despite not changing it at all during the intervening period, then it must be true.

[flye]

Adding, "I mean we all assumed it because of the dashiki and how Barry kept insisting he be called Barack and how he talked about his dad was some kind of bigwig in the Kenyan government. But again, fact checking was our fault."

[PapayaSF]

I think that's bullshit. Publishers and literary agencies ask authors for their bios. Authors are expected to write their own. I'll bet anything that Obama wrote his.

[Lee Genes]

OK. I ponied up $50 for Austin.

Note to Reason staff: I will deduct that from my annual contribution.

[jesse.in.mb]

Clara Jeffery (co-editor of Mother Jones) would like to have a word with you, MILLENIALS

[Hyperion]

So which is more effective for getting people to consider your viewpoint, saying you hate them or calling them deplorables? I'm working on a campaign here.

[jesse.in.mb]

We've got a few months left. I'm assuming they'll get MUCH more insulting by election day.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Really, you'd think they would know the old mom strategy.

You're supposed to be disappointed in us.

[Injun, as in from India]

i have never hated millennials more

That's rich coming from someone whose generation was quite destructive of the body politic in its support for underfunded liabilities.

[Stormy Dragon]

It's also been pointed out that the only reason the small portion of millenials voting for Johnson even matters is that such a large portion of her generation is actually voting for Trump, so she really ought to be hating Boomers.

[Pan Zagloba]

Ahaha, she's trying "It was a joke" defense on that crowd!

Jesus, woman, do you not study the tactics of your own side?!

[Injun, as in from India]

She's so close-minded that independent thinking is causing hatred in heart.

She's irredeemable.

[Playa Manhattan.]

She looks tired.

[A frilly pink thing]

Nice reference.

[jesse.in.mb]

If I didn't know any better I'd say you were making a Doctor Who reference.

[Juvenile Bluster]

But she said it was just a joke! I mean, only after she was called on it, and nothing in her prior writings would make anyone think she was joking, but only mansplaining haters would think it wasn't a joke!

[John Titor]

I do enjoy how this election season seems to be making many members of the media just throw their masks off and reveal their toxic personalities and utter hatred for the commoners.

[Juice]

Wow, I had no idea casting a vote for a third party hurt democracy.

[Stormy Dragon]

@ClaraJeffery @TaritaC Don't hate millennials- they just don't have a strong grasp of history. Protest votes do hurt democracy.

Democracy would be so much better if we didn't have all that voting messing everything up!

[PurityDiluting]

it was better when only landowners were allowed to vote. mess with the constitution as originally written, and this is what you get

[The Other Kevin]

"This is not the time for a protest vote, in terms of a presidential campaign," Sanders said.

Unless you plan on voting Republican. Then you should protest the fuck out of that vote.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Well, duh. It that case, it's about maintaining your moral integrity.

[Hyperion]

Or unless you plan on voting for Sanders in the primary, again next time, if he's still alive.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Johnson will never get the succ.

[Groovus Maximus]

You the Meme-Machine.*

*Yes, I have it on good and reliable authority Heroic Mulatto actually wears these outifts.

[GILMORE?]

White Privilege

[Heroic Mulatto]

The cost was $37 per person.

That's...that's...that's actually quite reasonable!

[A frilly pink thing]

Drink?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Done.

[PBR Streetgang]

I'd call that a bargain

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

the best I ever had . . . .

[Playa Manhattan.]

Eh. If I had to bring my own table and chairs....

[waffles]

I thought having white parties was a black thing that white people appropriated after the original approrpriation.

[jesse.in.mb]

white parties

Huh, I assumed we were talking about something radically different before I clicked through to the link.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Please don't exain.

[jesse.in.mb]

Gross oversimplification: rave-like dance party/event with its roots in the disco era and gay subculture.

[Crusty Juggler]

I attended one white party where I was repeatedly violated. It was awesome.

[jesse.in.mb]

Go on...

[Crusty Juggler]

I felt cherished for possessing a tackle. I was also very confused (my presence was random) and very inebriated, so it was a strange experience.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I have also been to Palm Springs, Crusty.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Is this the same as a foam party?

[jesse.in.mb]

I think foam parties are generally just standard dance club nights where someone has dumped a bunch of foam into a room. They're also much more recent than circuit parties. I'm sure you could put foam in a circuit party, but it's not what they're none for.

[OneOut]

I would like to have attended wearing one of those white with red stiching ball caps that said MAKE MURICA GRATE AGIN .

I dont know if a concealed carry permit from Texas is honored in NY though so maybe knot.

[Crusty Juggler]

I dont know if a concealed carry permit from Texas is honored in NY though so maybe knot.

No. Don't even drive through New York with your guns locked in a safe in your trunk.

[John]

CNN was playing in the place where I had lunch today. I haven't been paying any attention to the news this week. I have been really busy. So I didn't realize the whole birther thing was going on. So as a disinterested low information viewer it appeared that the reporters were angry that Trump said Obama was born in America. My God were they pissed off and wow did they look ridiculous.

[Hyperion]

Hillary is running out of material. Apparently coughing fits and falling down isn't cutting it.

[Homple]

The stuff of trolling legend.

[Libertarian]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

Oh, sure, NOW he tells us! NOW Mr. Democratic-Socialist tells us.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Apparently the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump, because one horrid group of people deserves another.

[John]

A public employee union didn't endorse a Democrat. The democratic coalition is breaking apart.

[PurityDiluting]

stay on messag: it's deplorable, not horrid

[The Fusionist]

"Hey, I read your mom's article in the Washington Post - My Teen Boys are Blind to Rape Culture. It really makes you think."

"Shut up, Bob."

"I bet this is going to take years of therapy. I hope Obamacare covers it!"

"Shut UP, Bob!"

[DenverJ]

Even worse "Hi Susie, wanna go out?"
"Are you kidding? I read your mom's article!"

[GILMORE?]

MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVEN THE RUSSIANS = UK Hacker with Aspergers

This guy was apparently part of the same crew that got the CIA Director's email account, FBI, State Dept, etc...

I think its worth noting that for all the media piss & moaning about Russian hacking, the actual stuff they're claiming is being targeted is technically mostly pretty chickenshit, unimportant stuff.

Whereas, if a couple of kids can exploit the CIA in their free time, it sort of undermines the "New Red Scare" attitude by the left.

[The Fusionist]

"Uh, like, this is Deputy Van Halen of the Naval Intelligence Service, and I, uh, forgot the password to that secret CIA thing."

"You mean Operation Super Secret? The password is 'Banana.'"

"OK, thanks, dude."

[GILMORE?]

That's apparently pretty much what they did.

They 'hacked' Brennan by pretending to be Verizon employees, calling verizon's internal tech people, and getting them to hand over all his network login information.

the 'exploits' are simply 'dumb humans' working in call centers.

[Lee Genes]

That's been the history of hacking. Social engineering is a far more realizable strategy than your typical NCIS version of hacking.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Yup, all the security breaches I've seen have been that or a disgruntled employee either abusing their credentials or giving their credentials to someone else.

[Bubba Jones]

Scatter some "free' USB thumb drives in the parking lot and wait.

[The Fusionist]

I hope you caught my Bill and Ted reference.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Everything about that movie was so awesome to my 12 year old self. It still makes me laugh now, but that may be because I haven't matured since 1989.

[The Fusionist]

Excellent!

[Ted S.]

The neo-Soviets are busy hacking people who puss Putin off, like WADA.

[PBR Streetgang]

"puss Putin off"? Now THAT'S a euphemism if ever I've heard one.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Sheldon Adelson just donated $1 million to defeat medical marijuana in Florida. He was the money behind defeating it in 2014.

I really want that man to die an agonizingly slow and painful death.

[A frilly pink thing]

That could be made less agonizing by marijuana?

[Juvenile Bluster]

No, because he's a fucking hypocrite and would probably take it to save his own skin. No, I want it to be horribly excruciating and have no way of being relieved, even with pot.

Maybe he can be flashbanged in the face in a no-knock raid.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

"Maybe he can be flashbanged in the face in a no-knock raid"

Now that, my friends, is a euphemism!

Juvenile Bluster FTW!

[Stormy Dragon]

Seniors would stop playing slots at his casinos if getting stoned were an option.

[Brett L]

I hate that fucker for making support John Morgan.

[GILMORE?]

Make sure to stop by the gift-shop = "Sikh & Ye Shall Find"

[Injun, as in from India]

If the gift shop doesn't carry kirpans, I'm not going.

[The Fusionist]

""When people look at a gentleman with a beard and a turban they automatically think he's a terrorist"

No I don't, and you can take your condescension and...

Sorry, I'm sure he's encountered people who *did* think he was a terrorist, so he's probably a tad sensitive.

But he shouldn't be generalizing like that.

[SimonD]

Honestly, when I see a gentleman with a beard and a turban, I automatically assume he's a Sikh. Our town has what was once the largest Sikh temple in the U.S. (Greenwood, IN). It may still be; I'm not sure.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

Sikhs are the most stylish faith, I'll give them that.

Also they're required to be armed at all times in order to protect the weak if necessary. They're basically D&D paladins.

[ant1sthenes]

Maybe if they carried greatswords.

[Injun, as in from India]

Commission on Public Deception.

That's what those bozos should be called.

[GILMORE?]

Victim Chic = Now an Art Form

[John Titor]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

"You thought I was some kind of saviour but in reality I'm just as much a shallow hack as the rest of these idiots. Hope you Berniebros remember that the money you paid me went to Clinton."

*Drives off to dacha*

[Haha, charade you are]

Most are still praising the SOB and his movement. I've tried pointing this utter hypocrisy out to progs who supported him, and they won't hear it. Usually, they respond by changing the topic to how horrible Trump is, or they make excuses or flat out deny it. They have no sense of reason or independent thought left in them. They will blindly follow what ever their pols tell them.

[GILMORE?]

Another Day, Another Collective Freakout Elevated to National News

[The Fusionist]

It's OK, they said "n___a" with an "a," not "n____r" with an "r." It's totally different.

[Free Society]

Is nigger what you're trying to say?

[PapayaSF]

TRIGGERED

[See Double You]

Trigga, please!

[Haha, charade you are]

Reported to the secret police.

[Juvenile Bluster]

And another list of demands to go along with it!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

How did Robby not cover this with an 8000 worder?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Oh, obligatory: It's true that Snapchat has been used to send racist pictures.

[Hamster of Doom]

I want to say "white people problems". But these are black people problems.

[The Fusionist]

"Look, nobody is going to stone *anyone* until I blow this whistle, even, and I want to make this perfectly clear, even if they do say 'n___a.'"

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

+1 life of Brian

[PurityDiluting]

I sometimes wonder which of the H&R commentariat are really LoB women dressed up as libertarian-leaning men.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

All of them.

[GILMORE?]

What an awful mother.

Apparenly robby hasn't even grasped the enormity of it.

This same author of, "My teen boys are blind to rape culture"...?

according to a commenter, is also the author of....

"I have to learn to care for my suicidal teen"
"My kids need trigger warnings"
"My daughter is a gift, her autism is not"
"I took my kids to the Ferguson protest"
"My adopted sister tried to kill me (repeatedly)"
"I'm a single mom of 7 and couldn't be happier"
"My DNA is keeping me hostage"
"I'm a rape survivor with a rape apologist son"
"My teenager is drinking and using drugs"

All must reads from this wonderful mother of 7 healthy normal children.

I'm sure Robbo was entirely aware.

Also, is the fact that the author's twitter handle is "@SendVodka" perhaps suggestive that... maybe this person is less than 100% on the level?

[waffles]

Well Vodka does mean water, maybe she's just really dehydrated all the time.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

So does whiskey.

[The Fusionist]

"Her recent non-fiction work has been published on Offbeat Home and Free Range Kids."

Seriously.

[PapayaSF]

Lady, just because your kids are always trying to run away from you doesn't make them "free range."

[Heedless]

Catch and release?

[GILMORE?]

I see that someone above has already noted this.

i will now go do penance

[waffles]

You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes, by yourself, you know and you feel shame, you know. And then you get free.

[lap83]

They look like social-justice-flavored tabloid headlines. She's either crazy or a new brand of tabloid journalist.

[GILMORE?]

She's either crazy or a new brand of tabloid journalist

I see no reason for the "Or" there.

[John Titor]

Hey, look on the bright side, teenage sons of Washington Post writer, this means that twenty years down the road you can shove her in the nursing home and never visit her with significantly less guilt.

[Juvenile Bluster]

She'd just write an article from the nursing home about how that's a part of rape culture too.

[John Titor]

More likely she'll go full Hihn and just randomly spam crazy nonsense on some progressive news threads.

[Juvenile Bluster]

She'd just write an article from the nursing home about how that's a part of rape culture too.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Someone needs to shove the squirrels in a nursing home.

[waffles]

Hey, so are the Eagles good or are they just better than the Browns?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The revolutionary idea was that a computerlike program could produce sentences real people thought were grammatical.

Anyone who's ever used Google Translate knows this turned out to be... well, I'll stop short of 'wrong' but immensely difficult, or as we say in the scientific lingo-- non trivial.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party.

Know your place?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria.

Screw the debate. Gary's gonna have his own debate. With blackjack and hookers!

[John Titor]

It's time for someone to stand up and say...I'm against those things that everybody hates!

[flye]

The opportunity for a blackjack and hookers debate was lost when we failed to nominate McAfee.

[PurityDiluting]

merely deferred until 2020

[DenverJ]

Shut up, baby; I know it.

[OneOut]

Of Hillary loses it will ne someone else's fault.

Might as well get the excuses started now, be proactive.

It has nothing at all to do with 60+% of 'Mericans think she is untrustworthy.

Kudos to Trump for his free 30 minute infomercial today. I see lots of 30 second paid comercials for Hillary on TV.

I keep seeing

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

That picture looks like Kirk Douglas and Robin Williams had a baby.

[Ken Shultz]

"Noam Chomsky is apparently wrong again, but this time he's wrong about the Chomskyest of things."

My understanding is that Chomsky's universal grammar hasn't been given a lot of weight for a long time, but anybody who thinks that somehow diminishes Chomsky's importance to the study of linguistics is kidding themselves.

Freud was wrong about an awful lot, too. That doesn't diminish his influence on the study of psychology.

Suffice it to say, if science means that the things that are most likely to be true are the things that have survived the most scrutiny (and it does), then science has learned an awful lot by subjecting Chomsky's universal grammar and related ideas to robust scrutiny.

If any of us are ever more importantly or magnificently as wrong about something as Chomsky was, they'll be writing articles about us a hundred years from now.

Oh, and Chomsky inspired awesome shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8

[Haha, charade you are]

"Bernie Sanders has words for people thinking about voting third party".

I'd flat out refuse to vote before I even consider voting for Hillary (or Trump, for that matter). Screw you Bernie, and your vile statist mindset.

[Nativist, Racist & Xenophobe]

Too deliciously ironic to pass up...

[PapayaSF]

kek

[BigT]

Will Trump have long coattails?

Here in OH Strickland is already giving up.

[S1]

Ummm, isn't Bernie Sanders a member of a third party?

[S1]

Gary Johnson has been denied his rightful place in the presidential debates, according to the commission's arbitrary and censorious criteria.

Do you know what any of those adjectives mean? Fuck off, slaver. Nobody is required to invite anybody to a debate.

[Ecoli]

Is Hillary the original "birther". No, that would be Barack himself with his literary bio that claimed Kenyan birth that ran for 15 years or so before the prez election in 2008.

Hillary certainly was a birther before the Donald, though.

[Black Magic Specialist]

Black Magic Specialist Baba Solve Your Problem And Get All Solution.

[robc]

He eventually gave the birther speech, so not technically a troll.

There was just more lead in than the press was expecting.

Its like a time share presentation.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Yeah, I am no Trump supporter, but I do love the way he trolls the fuck out of the self-important media

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Covered earlier, but it was spectacular.

"You won't believe what Trump has to say about Obama's Birth Certificate" and then the press was faced with 15 pages of Trump endorsements."

And yes, they were stupid enough to click on it.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yeah? Then where's my free weekend???

[Injun, as in from India]

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I was talking about morons like Clara Jeffery (downthread) who perpetuate the idiocy and force it on us.

[Playa Manhattan.]

You don't work out.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

wow, that's not too creepy.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

the scenery.

MSNBC?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

He identifies as a little girl and hangs in the ladies locker?

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm sure he just likes big windows, overly bright, cool-white lighting and sparsely placed fake plants.

[waffles]

It's like the perfect amount of creepy.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, wow. Erik and Lyle Menendez were the first names that popped into my head.

The paragraph that ends with; His friend quickly replied that he had to "encourage" her to do it a lot before she finally agreed. is perfect fodder for Hitchcock-esque, bloody knife/"Nothing was ever good enough for you, Mommy!" fiction.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Cultural appropriation, brah.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

MSNBCenery

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Careful, it'll make you sikh.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yoga pants and camel toe.

[OneOut]

And mirrors.

Plenty of mirrors.

[The Fusionist]

So hockey is a metaphor for the Catholic Church. No wonder the French Canadians are so good at it.

[Broswater]

One of the movies that I've seen in my life that is actually way better in french-canadian version than in original english.

[OneOut]

Since you didn't buy anything you win the free speedboad consolation prize but you have to provide the air pump that makes it float.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

+1000 pardons Se?or Tundra

[waffles]

Tabernac!

[OneOut]

Suck up.

[PurityDiluting]

then obama tossed trump a bone by asking reporters why they were bothering to bring up the birther thing again as there are more important topics. obama to Hillary: find a different talking point

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Absolutely! Wouldn't want to be othered like Shrike or Hihn or T o n y or any of their ilk. Markets in everything, ya know?

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Absolutely! Wouldn't want to be othered like Shrike or Hihn or T o n y or any of their ilk. Markets in everything, ya know?

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Even squirrellzz

[Trigger Warning]

Win.