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While driving a little while ago, the mid-day DJ on a local radio station (a woman) played, in a short time, Roar and Sit Still, Look Pretty. My son said to me "I'm sensing a theme here. I like it."

Ditto. Hell, I'm Native American on one side. As such, I'd like to ask Coulter to get her nasty immigrant (I assume she was born in Hell) ass out of my country. My Mom's a moderately Conservative Catholic. She said "If they'd nominated Kasich, they would have had my vote. Not this." My theory is that he knew the Bridgegate investigation could not go well for him, and Fuckface von Clownstick promised he'd pardon him or something. Am I the only one who thinks that Melania has been subtly trying to subvert this whole mess all along? The plagiarized speech, the Pussy Bow shirt (twice), describing her husband's behavior on social media as what she'd fight as First Lady, essentially telling Anderson Cooper that her husband is a child who was easily manipulated by Billy Bush...

I'm convinced he has some "Trump correction factor" he's adding in to his number after he runs them. Like he's bumping Trump's odds up 5% in each model or something, just to cover all the bases. Decent healthcare and pantsuits?

My favorite part of the whole thing is that when he was pressed on that, Don Jr. tried to claim that he hasn't taken it down because he doesn't delete his tweets. It's a representation of his thoughts in that moment, live, as information was coming in. Because, you know, history books would suffer a great loss if we don't have an accurate record of Donald Trump Jr's every thought in the moment, no matter how wildly inaccurate.

I love how there has been this theme (mostly pushed by his camp) that quoting Trump is somehow a dirty play, or, when done by the media, makes the media biased. It's so absurd. What universe are we even living in now?

I adore the Twin Cities. But, yeah, even with my preference for cool weather, their winter is a bridge too far for me.

Kudos to Scott Clifton for that bored as fuck look on his face as they sat on the couch talking about their "love story." We're all that bored with this ridiculous "I've always loved you" history ignoring bullshit, Scott. I think my favorite line was his "this was always my fantasy." Um, yeah, and those Hope montages you had on the daily while married to Steffy were, what, exactly, Waffles?

The Dells.

I said to my husband the other day "so, Trump got Chachi, and Hillary got the Fonz." That pretty much sums it all up.

Illinois I'd have taken Blagojevich back over either Rauner or Quinn. (But, gun to my head, I voted Quinn. Rauner had the stink of Koch brothers all over him.) We were just up there over the weekend, and I saw way too many Trump/Pence signs for my comfort, along with non-stop Trump ads whenever I watched TV. Is it just the area I was in?

I was on a long weekend trip and didn't see Thursday or Friday. Please, for my sanity, tell me that this is exaggeration, and we really weren't intended to be treated to Waffles instructing every inanimate object in sight to welcome Puffy back to the fold. Please? I hope the sand was still wearing its "Team Hope" t-shirt.

It amazes me that any of them can shut off their soul enough to say "hey this guy we can't trust to run his own Twitter account? You should totally let him control our nuclear arsenal." How do they sleep at night? Even if they don't give two shits about the rest of us, do they not realize that, like the rest of us, they are, in fact, not impervious to nuclear weapons? Absolutely. Reading Gen. Flynn's Twitter account, you start to realize why Trump says he's smarter than the Generals. He's assuming they're all as stupid as General Flynn. I can so easily see Trump (or Don Jr or Kellyanne) RT'ing this proudly, as a sign in support of him. "Look, everyone loves Trump!" I love when they stupidly RT something that is actually a rip on him.

I think that, initially, she stayed with him through the various scandals because she knew a divorce would derail both of their careers (especially hers, politics would be very unkind to a divorced woman whose husband cheated on her). But, I think at some point along the way since then, with his health scare and now their grandchildren, they've settled into the kind of marriage I suspect a lot of grandparents have. It's not fiery and passionate, but it's loving in its way. And you can see how proud he is of what she's doing now. I suspect she appreciates how much he's able to set his ego aside in all of this (a lot of men would not be excited to become the first man to serve as "First Lady," but he embraces it and seems really into it. That may have been enough to undo whatever lingering issues remained for her. I think that's also why Trump's stunt with the women backfired - they're both past it. It's not an issue to them.

My impression, for what it's worth, is that there is mutual affection and respect there. I think that, at this point in life, Bill realizes that she's put up with a lot of shit, and that he may not really deserve the level of grace she's shown him, publicly or privately. I know he's a skilled speaker and all, but I bought his DNC speech. I think that while he clearly strayed over the years, she's the one woman he's always had the highest level of respect for, in terms of her intelligence and her drive.

It's amazing how the Trump/Pence campaign has managed to portray their own qualities as bad qualities that the opposition has. It's so bizarre. Trump's continuing to lump Hillary in as the "wealthy elite" while he, himself, claims to be a billionaire. Then we had Pence at the VP debate repeatedly using "career politicians" as a slur against Clinton/Kaine. Really, Mike? What is it you've been doing for around 30 years now? That nobody calls them out on this shit is one of the many mind-boggling aspects of this campaign.

Definitely. She's made some strategic mistakes, but I don't think there's any way she's dumb enough to claim to have favorite books/writers she's never read. If she had given this interview during this campaign cycle, Assange would be trying to hack her Kindle account as we speak. "Hey, hey, look here - she downloaded a couple Harlequin books last May!"

For their purposes, all they need to do is prevent the accusation from having any credibility until Tuesday night so they can get their lord and savior elected. They probably assume that, once he's in office, he'll have the ability to make that trial go away. (He probably assumes that, too.)

It's awfully convenient for the deplorables that their actions (threatening the victim) led to the press conference being canceled so they can now say "see, we told you it's fake!" You've got to love those self-fulfilling prophecies.

I agree with this. There will always be people who take things too far and have an agenda. But, without any political correctness, we have someone like Ann Coulter running around spouting offensive shit and nobody saying "Hey, that's not cool." I think a lot of people tend to use that "oh, that darn PC crap!" angle to be able to act like complete assholes and because they actually want to dictate what people say. Like Ann Coulter being pissed that people called her out for calling the President a "retard" (a word she seems to love using, since it's not the only time I've heard her use it). Or, the whole "war on Christmas" BS. The same people who stand loud and proud for their right to offend anyone get offended because you dare to say "happy holidays" instead of Merry Christmas. And don't even get me started on the hypocrisy of the anti-PC crowd, who like to mockingly say "oh, are you triggered? Do you need a safe space?" losing their collective shit over a man taking a knee during the National Anthem as a form of peaceful protest. But, you know, since they've claimed the "anti-PC" label, they're not called out for being their own extreme version of PC. Bringing this back around to Hillary - I don't think that the woman who called a segment of the voting public "deplorable" is going to somehow spearhead some over the top exaggerated PC movement. I've never seen her as someone who is overly concerned with the PC thing. Something tells me she'd love to be a little less PC than she has to be to be a POTUS candidate (well, to be a female Democrat POTUS candidate, a male GOP candidate can say whatever the fuck he wants). And, with the trans community, specifically, I think that it's a learning curve now. People are erring on the side of extreme caution because, for a lot of people, it's a relatively new topic and they don't know much, including what is and isn't offensive. It will even out at some point. (Well, unless Trump wins, then it will swing way back over to an anything goes mentality.)

Never fear - I'm sure we're getting a second phase of the story where Rebecca Budig saves the hospital with her fantastic financial know how. Why use the hospital story to prop one of their pets when they can use it to prop two of them?

I'm honestly curious, what exactly is the trend towards political correctness, and how is it going to get worse? I mean, specifically, what is going on these days that bothers you that you see under the umbrella of "political correctness"?

This. This. This. I've said to people who are undecided, who say that they just can't feel good about either candidate, to think of their vote as a vote on what kind of Supreme Court we will have. We already know one spot is up to be filled, and there are decent odds that at least one more will open up during the next President's term. Whoever we vote into the White House this year will, in effect, decide what happens with equal rights for the LGBT community. They'll decide if Planned Parenthood is forced to close, and if women will have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. They'll decide if we will be getting big money out of politics. (And here's a hint on that last one, since Trump keeps paying lip service to wanting to upend the "system": In order to get big money out of politics, we need to have Citizens United overturned. A conservative Court will not overturn it. Trump has promised to nominate the most conservative justices he can. So, despite his talking points to the contrary, he would, as President, enable the system to remain exactly as is for decades.) What really bugs me about the lack of coverage on this case and the collective shrug from his supporters over it is when you contrast it with the outrage over Hillary being assigned as the defense attorney for a man accused of raping a 12 year old. Apparently it's somehow worse to be the attorney representing a man accused of raping a child than to be the man accused of raping a child. What world do we live in??

I can only speak for myself, but I know that I haven't put up a sign in my yard or a bumper sticker on my car because I don't want to deal with what some of Trump's more overzealous supporters might decide to do in response. People who know me know how I'm voting, but I'm not really eager for some stranger with a hair trigger temper to decide to make an example of me or my property. So I don't think that people who aren't being super vocal about voting Hillary are ashamed as much as just wary of a group whose candidate has been revving them up to be violent for months.

I will admit that, if something bad is going to happen to Nicole, I kind of prefer it happening with a second pregnancy. Only because then it makes Rick and Maya look even shittier. The first baby you high pressure sales pitched her into having isn't even a year old, and you just had to go and push her to pop out a second ASAP? And now look what happened to her! Add in that Zende can attest that Nicole had every intention of turning them down, until Maya got her over there for a "sisterly bonding lunch" (AKA the high pressure sales pitch part 2), and they look even worse. I'm thinking the Adobe (now we see how many people are old enough to get that reference). OK, now I need to go inform my husband and our one child that we're not really a family.

What Trump apparently did was when the debt was forgiven, he issued the creditors new bonds "worth" $40 million. Then, instead of reporting income of $40 million, he reports outstanding debt of $40 million. Of course, he knew when he was issuing these bonds that they were worthless, but when has anything like honesty and ethics been an issue for him?