I hope I never get his ass handed to me! I think the slaves that built the pyramids probably lifted stone blocks that weighed less than that behemoth!
Judis seems to have lost his ability to reason outside of the beltway conventional wisdom, which is almost always the opposite of wisdom.
Iām glad it isnāt just me who finds his contributions so totally underwhelming.
One more timeāTrump doesnāt have tiny hands.
He has short fingersāhence the sobriquet āshort-fingered vulgarian.ā
The theory is that Trump can do those sort of attacks, because he is basically immune from to obvious counter attack that he is much, much worse, as everyone already knows it and its baked in.
Thatās more or less the argument that RCP put out today in regard to other topics.
Its a fallacy IMO. People have been floating attacks on the Clinton Foundation since the moment it opened, so that IS baked in. And while it is true that people pretty much consider Trump an asshole in his business dealingsā¦the actual facts that make up that belief are not known. And as they surface into the national conversation, Trump gets the worse of it.
Not just because of the facts themselves, which will indeed have a negative impact, but because attacking Trumpās business dealings is one of his biggest Achilles heals. He simply cannot sit quietly by while that happens, which gives each and every story a longer life and thus seeps deeper into the collective consciousness. And, it puts Trump on the defensiveā¦again.
My guess is, that at a high level, the way this campaign will play out is Trump will go negative, its the only thing he knows. Clinton will aggressively but calmly rebut those attacks and turn them around each and every time to point out the bigger more troubling problems with Trumpā¦while simultaneously making her caseā¦a positive caseā¦for what she wants to do as President. So Trumpās negatives will continue to inch upwards,while Hillaryās positives climb.
There is a widespread simple inability to believe that the Republican nominee is this much of an ignorant buffoon. So every bit of evidence to the contrary, as you suggest, we find the insistence that it must be some kind of act and heās about to change or (according to the Judis types) that itās all part of some subtle sophisticated strategy. It is interesting how difficult it is to see what is right in front of your eyes.
He really DID make a peepee joke! I thought that initially but I must say even I could not quite believe it and no one mentioned it. But he did.
Edit: Sorry swampcritter, this was supposed to be a reply to mattinpa.
Sorry, GOP. What your ābaseā wants is yelling & sloganeering & racist, mtsogynistic talk and punches thrown. "Presidential behavior & reasoned policies? Not so much.
Too be fair, Judis did say any āpivotā was probably too late. But he has a point that a lot of Trump supporters are latching on to his populist stuff and ignoring ā or rationalizing ā the bigotry, racism and misogyny. Maybe not enough to win, but far more than enough to mean Democrats cannot take his self-immolation for granted.
Rather like the short lived and not at all missed TPM feature, āThe Slice.ā
Yes he did. And it was one of the brief moments that night that he went OFF the script. And thats the realityā¦he simply cannot stay on script and when he goes off script he dives into deeper levels of vulgarity each time.
And that really needs to be put into context with what is happening right now. Trump is arguing he doesnāt need to raise $1 billion (because he canāt at this point; he is woefully behind the eight ball in the fund raising arena) because he gets so much free media.
Free media for Trump, however, is largely off script. His interviews, phone call ins, and twitter rants are all off script. And the more he tries or someone tries to make him use a teleprompter and read from a script,the more chaotic he reacts when he gets off that leash.
Look at Trumpās hand. He is flipping somebody off.
"Iāve done a lot of work on the other side of politics and Iāve always gotten what I want. $35,000 here, $25,000 there, lawsuits everywhere, I get what I want.ā
I was about to say, Dang he sure is reading a lot into my little snarky retort. 
Exactly
Look at the Republicans 54% Da base boss da base
http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/musj.jpg
On a slight tangent to thatā¦things are going south for Pam Bondi over that now.
this manās face is more orange than usual.
Paging Ralph von Holst: Isnāt Trump the perfect Mars stand-in during a live performance of The Planets?
Subtext is everything! I was also going to respond to your commentās implied critique of the Marxist view of capital but didnāt have the time.
A survey talked about this a.m. on Moaninā Ho showed that 815 of Democrats found trumpās comments to be racist.
But only 20% of Republicans believed his remarks were racist, and 65% of Republicans did not find his comments racist.
So itās now pretty clear that the GOP is the party of racists.
This fact cannot be shared too often.
Thanks for the link, and itās great that the Dems are wasting no time in going after her, although in typical Dem fashion they seem unable to muster the nerve to use the obvious word here: ābribe.ā
I also noticed a sidebar link to this nice little item: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-retired-florida-military-veterans-call-trump-a-fraud-20160531-story.html
This has given me an idea for a movie script. A group of wealthy refined society leaders take in a crude, vulgar, classless street dweller and try to tun him into a gentleman overnightā¦