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^^^ your first link about trump hiring bachman goes to a story about fake elvis ;)

true..they do. .a big reason is because of the fund raising issue. usually.. the nominee of the party raises money not just for the presidential race but for all the candidates up for re-election on the same ticket. so, the party is losing out on YUGE amounts of contributions because trump is not doing any real fund raising. he's saying he'll fund his campaign for the rest of the election which means this will continue. so, he's sort of saying "rally around me or drown".. either that or (get your tinfoil hat) this is just all part of the plan by the clinton machine and trump is a plant helping drain funds from the republicans to give the dems an advantage.

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If this is true, it's one more reason that barring him from ever getting into the White House is a moral obligation. Not that I'm defending HRC at all. i just want to hear him make a statement about it. "look.. i know what rape is better than anyone. .i'm the best at knowing about rape... "

trump accused of raping 13 year old girl in federal lawsuit https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/donald-trump-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-in-federal-lawsuit/ The suit alleges Trump and Epstein lured the then 13-year-old and several other young women to the parties with promises of modeling careers and cash. According to the allegations, Trump tied her to a bed and exposed himself and raped her, while ignoring her pleas to stop. The suits states Trump “responded … by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”

he's been in to that stuff for years. I assisted on some blink 182 sessions around 1999/2000 and he was reading books on Sumer and ancient civilizations and aliens and the "9th planet" or whatever it was.. hidden planet that's black and supposed to collide with earth at some point or something.. nice guy but he went deep on aliens. i guess he writes books now.. fiction stuff based on alien things or whatever.

^^^ cray indeed.

feeling very 1st world today. after long week of sleep deprivation working on music and taking care of our dog that had surgery last monday (spay and hernia fixing. she's fine)... i'm watching "Ancient Aliens: Decoding the Cosmic Egg" while i rest after having an episode of AFIB that required going to the ER to get electro cardio conversion. electricity through the chest while doped on propofol is a helluva thing. science!

i forgot to buy lip balm at the store this afternoon so i'll have to go back later middle aged white male american angst

trump is in plans for making his own network built around the audience that is supporting him for his presidential bid. all that vitriol on cable so people can go full racist idiot when Fox News isn't giving them what they need. ugh. wtf america. https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/16/trump-may-start-a-tv-network/

i immediately put it all in one big playlist. shrug.

Just read those tweets and couldn't imagine what it would've been like to be in his shoes. Sounds like Idiocracy and the Third Reich put together.Clinton and Trump are both bags of shit as far as I'm concerned. Deciding between "the lesser of two evils"...the crook or the blowhard...just doesn't seem like a viable excuse anymore. AFAIK there are still around two million ballots cast by Bernie voters that remain uncounted in Cali. If he gets surreptitiously squeezed out the race, I'm voting Jill Stein again in the general election. Out of curiosity: how does clintons shittyness compare to trumps? They're not even remotely comparable. Not trying to stop you from voting for Stein, or anything. I just don't think the "lesser of two evils" argument is a strong one. Like you, but for a different reason. As it implies those two can be compared, which is completely rubbish, imo. Clinton is a serious politician, which people can disagree with. Trump isn't. bernie sanders is the only progressive bringing the message to the party. to me he sounds completely reasonable and logical. the only one with a real vision. trump is a con-artist. all his businesses are pretty much scams. trump university was an outright scam.. fraud. we've elected frauds before though.. see florida governor for example. before being governor he ran a big healthcare company. it was policy from the top down to commit fraud on medicare/medicaid and other federal and state agencies by over billing and billing for things they didn't even do. they were investigated by the FBi and the justice dept made the company pay: In December 2000, the U.S. Justice Department announced that Columbia/HCA agreed to pay $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties. The government settled a second series of similar claims with Columbia/HCA in 2002 for an additional $881 million. The total for the two fines was $1.7 billion. well, whatever.. but he's still governor today even though he was running that fraudulent company at the time of all the fraud. trump is basically just persuading people by making them feel good and giving voice to the pent up rage of a mostly white, mostly uninformed demographic. he's pressing their buttons.. blaerg. clinton is qualified but a lot of people don't like her positions on some key things and she has the age old problem of being plastic appearing and say one thing do another on a lot of issues and kind of creepy on some other issues and sort of out of touch with a lot of young people. she's still, imo, a far more qualified and reasonable candidate than trump even though i think she'll just walk us right into expanded anti-terrorist drone warfare blah blah blah and she's hand in hand with many corporations and i don't personally connect with her. however, i don't think she's going to pour gasoline and napalm all over the world and light a match the way i think donald trump has potential to. and he's just a racist bullshit artist who doesn't know shit but has the appearance of "being good at business" so that means he has all the answers or something according to his followers. even thinking about this election makes my dinner want to come up.

this guy live tweeted a trump rally in greensboro. https://storify.com/case_face/a-trump-rally-in-greensboro-anger-in-here-is-palpa i really hope we don't turn the country over to these particular racist meat heads. here's a few of his tweets. the last two in particular illustrate the disconnect pretty clearly. derp. - Trump event like a security state. Just watched a girl get denied for being "too alternative." - Tailgating in parking lots. Vendors selling Hillary Sucks But Not Like Monica shirts. General awfulness. - Guy wearing Socialism Sucks shirt and lip syncing to Tiny Dancer. Nothing makes sense anymore. - Crowd chanting BUILD THAT WALL BUILD THAT WALL over operatic music. - Lots of people yelling bitch at Clinton's mention - Crowd member just shouted "gays had it coming" - Calls for Hillary to return money to countries that discriminate

Chapter 17: the twitter feuds and sick burns

scarlett johansen is in the ghost in the shell movie playing the major. i'm on a diet. no coffee or tea or booze of any kind for 10 days.

Neal Stephenson's SevenEves is bound for the screen. (fingers crossed) i wonder how they'll do some of the stuff w/o it looking like "The Expanse" tv show .. which is pretty good btw. http://deadline.com/2016/06/seveneves-movie-ron-howard-brian-grazer-bill-broyles-apollo-13-skydance-1201769130/

costs me $20 to ship one record to the UK. USPS international rates went ape shit a couple years ago. anyway.. stoked for new Aphex. :)

sure there is the potential for competing incentives but taking corporate money in itself does not conclusively demonstrate anything. it's also extraordinarily difficult to be a contender without it. bernie is a fluke in that regard. basically, they all take it. 99% of them. that doesn't mean it's okay to take corporate money just because "99% of them" take it. in fact, that's the problem that the corruption is now considered normal and acceptable. there used to be rules in place. even recently they attempted to roll back some of the allowances for corporate money to flow but once the election process started they got tossed. the fact that it takes a what.. 400 million? a billion? dollars to run for president is pretty disgusting. the election cycle is an industry in itself. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/ ugly reading material

that'd be fine so long as they did away w/all the loopholes and off shore tax havens etc.. US corporations get away with plenty of tax evasion legally.. i wonder what rate they actually pay once all the loopholes are considered? the democratic campaign committee is a joke. they undid a bunch of rules to let the big dollars come in from lobbyists and SuperPACs. but whatever.. it's no use arguing over. it's a fucking comedy.

I'd have to see these ads but I'm struggling to imagine them swaying anyone. I doubt most Trump supporters have seen Idiocracy and I'm guessing those who have either think it's condescending liberal bullshit, or think Camacho would make a badass president. I definitely find myself talking about Idiocracy more and more often, though, especially in the context of Trump. i'm guessing they'll probably just be for fun. trolling trump and trump supporters

mesh cinereaL - this track is alive. it's like a big centipede crawling over wounded transformers and hitting them with hammers as it slithers by defecating some kind mechanical sludge all over them.

yes. highschool kids are pretty much being run over by hormones 24/7. but you'd think maybe at some point one of them would've heard his mom's voice in the back of his head somewhere and remembered to "know better" or something.. exploitation.. pretty much.. on every level. thankful there's music, weed, beer, wine, coffee, bicycles, art, etc.