Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Andy Borowitz

One more before we get on the boat:

NATION UNSURE IT CAN TOLERATE THIRTEEN MORE DAYS OF RUDY GIULIANI

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—With thirteen days until his scheduled return to oblivion, many Americans are unsure if they can tolerate that much additional exposure to Rudy Giuliani, a leading psychologist said on Wednesday.

As millions of Americans actively count down the days until Giuliani disappears forever, thirteen more days of him "seems like a lifetime," Davis Logsdon, a psychologist who has been studying the Giuliani ordeal, said.

"Americans' traumatic experience of Rudy Giuliani in 2016 has gone through several phases," Logsdon said. "First, they struggled to remember who he was. Then, once they remembered, they recoiled in horror. Finally, they began actively wishing he would go away forever. That is the phase many people find themselves in today."

Even as they long for the day when Giuliani resumes his rightful place in obscurity, many Americans are experiencing feelings of anger and disbelief that he was permitted to crawl back into their consciousness to begin with, Logsdon said.

"Of the many inexcusable things that cable news has done this election, repeatedly subjecting Americans to Rudy Giuliani is at the top of the list," he said. "The human cost has been enormous."




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Monday, October 24, 2016

Re: Andy Borowitz

That is gooood, Juan!     Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com> wrote:

TRUMP SURGES AHEAD OF CLINTON IN POLL CONDUCTED BY HIS BRAIN

 

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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Donald Trump has surged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a new poll conducted by Trump's brain.

The poll, taken after Trump's brain perceived that he demolished Clinton in the third and final Presidential debate, shows him ahead of Clinton, sixty-four per cent to thirty-one per cent.

In a sign that his criticism of Clinton has been just fantastic, a majority of imaginary voters in Trump's head agree that she is a "nasty woman," with more than seventy per cent calling her "crooked," "sad," and a "disgrace."

In more incredibly amazing good news for the G.O.P. nominee, Trump's brain reports that his standing with women has markedly improved, with ninety per cent calling him "extremely handsome" and "sexy."



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Andy Borowitz

TRUMP SURGES AHEAD OF CLINTON IN POLL CONDUCTED BY HIS BRAIN

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Donald Trump has surged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a new poll conducted by Trump's brain.

The poll, taken after Trump's brain perceived that he demolished Clinton in the third and final Presidential debate, shows him ahead of Clinton, sixty-four per cent to thirty-one per cent.

In a sign that his criticism of Clinton has been just fantastic, a majority of imaginary voters in Trump's head agree that she is a "nasty woman," with more than seventy per cent calling her "crooked," "sad," and a "disgrace."

In more incredibly amazing good news for the G.O.P. nominee, Trump's brain reports that his standing with women has markedly improved, with ninety per cent calling him "extremely handsome" and "sexy."



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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Something to Know - 22 October


The one thing that Trump really cares about his his brand (Trump name all over stuff).   It is apparently not doing very well, and it is on its way into a money losing proposition.   Trump has a lot of debt, and he needs cash rolling in to to stay above water.  This news article from the LA Times talks about his problem.   We will see how it goes after 9 November.  Two days after the election, Trump's case on the fraud of Trump University goes to trial in San Diego (with the judge that is "biased" because of his parent's birth place.  Also, did you read about Chris Christie's problem with Bridgegate?  Witnesses are testifying that he knew about it, and that he lied to investigators (not nice).  Things are really going to go badly for these guys.  Even Rudy Giuliani might wind up selling pencils and 9/11 postcards and calendars on the street corner.   

We will be going on a couple of boat rides, and back on the 21st of November.  One of the rides is a 7-day trip to Cuba (and back).   Will not have much of any Internet access.   I'll probably be in some bar in some Caribbean port watching the election returns.  At this point, I am assuming that it will be with pleasure to return to the USA:




ELECTION 2016
Trump's brand takes a hit from video, sexual assault claims
BY DON LEE
   WASHINGTON — In the tradition of P.T. Barnum, an earlier showman-turned-politician who is credited with saying there's no such thing as bad publicity, Donald Trump may have thought he had nothing to lose in running for president.
   Even a defeat might serve to raise his visibility and burnish a name brand that has become his most valuable asset.
   But while Trump's unconventional campaign has brought him a lot of free publicity and newfound popularity bordering on reverence among his mostly white, conservative, working-class supporters, it also has turned off many Americans who now associate his name with racism, misogyny and bigotry.
   And there are increasing signs that the ugliest presidential race in modern history has tarnished the Trump name to such degree that it may jeopardize — or, at a minimum, alter — the future of his business enterprises.
   The New York real estate developer, known for his lavish lifestyle, messy divorces and abrasive quips on the TV reality show "The Apprentice," has long been a figure whom people "love to hate," according to the celebrity and brand-tracking firm Q Scores.
   That brash, in-your-face image was part of Trump's carefully crafted persona that went hand in hand with his brand, which also became synonymous with a kind of gaudy, over-the-top luxury. Over the last decade, he parlayed that reputation into a variety of businesses, including steaks, wine, clothing, mortgages and the now-defunct Trump University, currently the target of a fraud lawsuit.
   But recent revelations that Trump boasted about forcibly kissing and groping women by the genitals, followed by accusations from several women that he grabbed and kissed them against their will, have turned Trump's brand challenge from something like the one Martha Stewart largely overcame after her conviction in a stock-trading case into something resembling the scandal that involved Southern chef Paula Deen, who has struggled to recover after disclosures that she used racial epithets.
   "He's said a lot of outrageous things throughout the course of the campaign," said Karen Tiber Leland, founder of Sterling Marketing Group, a branding and marketing firm. "People shrugged it off as, 'That's Donald — he's not politically correct.' "
   But the vulgar exchange caught on a hot microphone with TV host Billy Bush in 2005, and subsequent sexual assault and harassment allegations by a number of women, are "so completely out of bound [that] most people aren't saying, 'Donald is just Donald.' " Leland said. "He pushed the envelope too far."
   It's hard to say with certainty whether Trump's businesses are hurting because his ventures are mostly private and do not release financial figures. His campaign and business managers declined to comment, as did the Trump Organization, the conglomerate based in New York.
   In a deposition earlier this year, Trump said his businesses were largely unaffected by his campaign; and in one instance, at Florida's Mar-a-Lago Club, he said bookings were up, possibly because of his campaign's frequent use of the property for events.
   But there is growing evidence from outside surveys, some more anecdotal than scientific, suggesting that his real estate holdings are suffering from the negative publicity surrounding his campaign and past behavior.
   A survey of more 1,500 people by Brand Keys — conducted shortly after the 2005 recording was made public this month but before the allegations against Trump from various women emerged — found that the perceived value of Trump's brand in several businesses had dropped significantly.
   In June, the added value associated with the Trump name in entertainment, for example, was 43%, the company found. As of Oct. 9, it had dropped by 13 percentage points. There were smaller but still noticeable drops in the value of Trump's real estate and golf and country clubs.
   Trump's businesses and corporate partnerships already had taken a hit as companies and sponsors, including Macy's, PGA Tour and Perfumania, sought to reduce or cut ties with the controversial political figure.
   Restaurateurs Jose Andres and Geoffrey Zakarian pulled out of Trump's new Washington hotel shortly after the candidate last year characterized Mexican immigrants as drug dealers and rapists.
   "When a business leader starts to take strong political stances, in general it hurts" the business, said David Reibstein, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
   Because Trump already was so well-recognized, "there's more of a downside than upside" to all the publicity he is generating, Reibstein said. He likened Trump's public glare to that of Leona Helmsley, the millionaire New York hotelier who was known for her arrogance, exacting standards and eventually tax evasion: "This did not help her business, even though her name was in the news everywhere."
   Foursquare, a location-tracking app that can measure the movement of more than 50 million users, said that foot traffic to Trump hotels, casinos and golf courses, relative to competitors, was down 19% in September compared with September 2014, and off 21% in blue states.
   That wouldn't be surprising to people like Gene Grabowski, a public relations veteran in Washington who recently stayed at Trump's hotel in Chicago to advise a trade group meeting there. Grabowski said the group decided not to go back partly because Trump is so "polarizing."
   Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who is of Mexican heritage, refused to stay with his team at that same Chicago hotel earlier this year, saying he wanted to live by his values.
   Karen Lewis, upon visiting Trump's new hotel in Washington, a few blocks from the White House, was effusive.
   "It's beautiful," said Lewis, as she walked on the spacious, Spanish-marble-laden floor of the lobby this month. But even if she could afford it, Lewis said she wouldn't feel comfortable sleeping there: "On principle, probably not. I wouldn't want to support his financial interests."
   The property was vandalized earlier this month when someone spray-painted "Black lives matter" at the entrance.
   Trump's residential properties also appear to have lost some of their luster. Although brands are not so important for home purchases — location is the primary factor — condos attached with the Trump name last year enjoyed a 9% price premium over other comparable units, according to real estate firm Redfin. That since has evaporated, said Nela Richardson, Redfin's chief economist.
   "All this negative press, the negative reactions from people — it's got to hurt his brand," said Kevin Keller, a marketing expert at Dartmouth College. He said some would-be customers will avoid patronizing Trump's business because of concerns about what other people may think.
   "They don't want to have to apologize for staying at a Trump hotel or buying a Trump brand," he said.
   "And when you get into luxury," he added, "image matters a lot."
   More worrisome for Trump is that after election day on Nov. 8, his name may be associated with something else: loser. "Part of his brand is this whole thing that he's a winner," Keller said, noting that was Trump's line in contrasting himself with former presidential rival Jeb Bush, who dropped out of the race after Trump's repeated taunts that he was low-energy and a loser.
   If Trump ends up losing, Keller said, there's no way he's going to be able to talk his way out of that. "No matter how he tries to spin it, that's got to hurt his brand because his whole persona is built around that."
   Henry Schafer, executive vice president at Q Scores, which tracked the familiarity and popularity of Trump before he entered the race, thinks the GOP presidential nominee could have limited the damage from bad publicity by apologizing quickly. But it's too late for that now, Schafer said. Trump expressed regret for the 2005 recording, but many regarded it as a halfhearted apology. And he has flatly denied the allegations of sexual misconduct, accusing the women of lying to seek publicity or help Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and in some cases making disparaging comments about their appearance.
   Still, experts say, American consumers tend to have short memories of such details. How Trump's brand does in the long run may depend much more on the consistency and quality of his goods and services, as people's buying decisions are based first on the perceived value of their purchase.
   Even if he loses, Trump still could capitalize on his run for the White House. For starters, he has a mailing list of millions of potential new customers. Granted, they aren't his target demographics for his existing businesses. One of the ironies of Trump's campaign is that his primary base of support comes from working-class whites and anti-establishment Republicans — largely different from the high-income customers who can afford his hotels, condos and golf clubs.
   As such, Trump's future business may well be geared more to middle-income consumers. "He's become so polarizing as a personal brand, I don't think he can go both ways," said Leland, the marketing specialist.
   Expect Trump to try to keep his name in the limelight. With his large, new following, he could end up hosting a talk show or even starting his own conservative TV network, Leland said. "I don't think he's going away." don.lee@latimes.com



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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Friday, October 21, 2016

Something to Know - 21 October

Stuart Carlson

Today's tid-bit is a video that The Donald made in 2008.   He is praising just how wonderful and great Bill and Hillary are.   I guess the elevation of Obama to President was just too much for him, and he went nuts:



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The definition that remains after the orange mushroom cloud has blown away........

A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

hilarity

PRONUNCIATION:
(hi-LAYR-i-tee) 

MEANING:
noun: Cheerfulness; merriment.

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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Thursday, October 20, 2016

Something to Know

What came first; the definition or the personification?  

A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

trumpery

PRONUNCIATION:
(TRUHM-puh-ree) 

MEANING:
noun:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.

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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Something to Know - 19 October


A billboard just appeared in Michigan with a message for Donald Trump in Arabic.

ARTICLE THUMBNAIL
Translated, it reads: "Donald Trump can't read this, but he's scared of it."



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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Monday, October 17, 2016

Andy Borowitz

NATION FEARS DRUG TEST WOULD REVEAL TRUMP NOT ON DRUGS



NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump's suggestion that both Presidential candidates submit to a drug test has sparked fears that such a test would reveal that he is not on drugs.

In interviews conducted across the country, voters said that they would be "alarmed" and "distressed" to learn that the billionaire's statements and actions were the product of a mind unaltered in any way by a controlled substance.

"It never occurred to me that Donald Trump might not be on drugs," Carol Foyler, an accountant from Toledo, Ohio, said. "That would be terrifying."

Harland Dorrinson, a mechanic from St. Petersburg, Florida, said that the chilling possibility of Trump not being on drugs was a strong argument against submitting the candidates to drug testing. "If it turns out that he isn't on anything, this is something that the American people shouldn't have to find out," he said. "We've suffered enough this election."

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Concerns that Trump might not be on drugs led the nominee's running mate, Governor Mike Pence, of Indiana, to allay voters' anxieties in an appearance on Fox News. "All Donald Trump said was that there should be drug tests," Pence said. "He never explicitly said that he was not on drugs. The media has really run away with this story."

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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Thursday, October 13, 2016

Something to Know - 13 October

An investigation, on reports of strange noises at the NY Trump Tower, has been concluded.  Tenants and business renters have discovered that every other floor of the giant and gaudy-with-gild building are nothing more than giant locker rooms.   The din of noise is so loud and lewd that occupiers are beginning to look elsewhere.

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"Going into a presidential election, the moral authority and character of a political party is reflected by its nominee" -  Maybelle Carter



Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Something to Know - 11 October

Tom Toles

After 17 long months, the presidential campaign has come to the last month, leaving behind a trail of sludge and shame that has embarrassed the USA.   But, it's not all over yet.  The formality of ballots and results are still to come.  So, in the remaining 29 days, the Orange fireball (larger than today's explosion at the site of the former Exxon refinery in Torrance, CA) is going to play havoc with the Republican Party, and probably destroy it in the process.   He will set the example for students of history and political science to point to.   He is the go-to-guy for a political system run amok: 



Trump, unbound
Deserted and detested, the GOP nominee feels free to tell people what he really thinks.


Democrats get a kick out of saying that Donald Trump is "unhinged," but the candidate views himself as finally being unchained.

It may seem odd that a 6-foot-2-inch id in a red power tie would feel like his biggest problem was some infringement on his freedom to express his innermost thoughts, but people close to the flailing GOP nominee say he's viewed the staggering setbacks over the past four days as license to loosen up, be himself, and wage a personal war against the unified forces of the liberal media and dying GOP establishment.

Venture onto the pro-Trump right-wing Breitbart website and a Trump-Pence ad pops up: "It's Us Against the World," it proclaims, but there's no Pence, just two Trumps — the glowering candidate and his image in a mirror.

"He hates all these guys, anyway, never liked kissing their butts, so he's inclined just to say good riddance," said a top Republican who has known Trump for years.

As his fortunes sour, anger is trumping cogent calculation, and his defiance appears to be increasing in proportion to his decline in the polls. As Republican support was eroding over the weekend, Trump's campaign worked together talking points for surrogates as part of a defiant effort to attack those lawmakers for bailing on him. After he tweeted Sunday that they're all pathetic, Newt Gingrich suggested after Sunday night's debate that they would regret jumping ship so quickly. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway accused some defecting Republican lawmakers of being sexual harassers themselves.

On Monday, Katrina Pierson — an unwavering Trump TV warrior who wears a necklace made of bullets and seldom deviates from talking points — tweeted that she couldn't keep up with texts from friends vowing to vote only for Trump but not disloyal down-ballot Republicans.

And by Monday night, Trump iterated his anti-media script, indulging the crowd's hate for reporters by letting supporters scream for two minutes at the press penned into the venue.

By Tuesday morning, Trump wanted to make sure everyone knew he was ready to come out of his shell. "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," he tweeted.

"It's got to be liberating to see some of the baggage fall off the train," said Michael Caputo, a New York Republican operative and former Trump campaign staffer who has known the candidate for years. "A lot of the support was thin or disingenuous. None of these Republicans were even helping. In fact, some were breathing his name in fear for what it would do for their own reputations. It shows the true nature of the Republican Party."

Inside Trump Tower, the candidate's team is girding itself for more and possibly even more damaging opposition dumps. And there is consensus within the candidate's roguish inner circle of Steve Bannon, the Breitbart CEO who's long had House Speaker Paul Ryan in his cross hairs, and David Bossie, who spent decades attacking the Clintons, to fight fire —be it from the media, Democrats or from Ryan and fellow Republicans — with a blowtorch.

"He's picking fights because he does not like it when anyone questions him, whether it be Rick Perry in the primary, Susana Martinez in the primary, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan—he doesn't like when anyone questions him," said Austin Barbour, a GOP strategist in Mississippi. "He handles that very poorly, and that's what he's doing right now."

Trump spent the weekend in seclusion, bearing the brunt of nationwide criticism and watching Republicans desert him en masse, some withdrawing their endorsements and others calling for him to step aside after his lewd comments caught on video capped a two-week slide in the polls. He emerged to deliver a more pugilistic, no-holds-barred performance on the debate stage Sunday, with women who have accused Bill Clinton (who is not running for president) of sexual abuse or harassment.

But even scoring what many characterized as a base-settling win on Sunday night, Republicans and Democrats alike view Trump's quest for the White House as essentially lost — Monday morning's NBC poll showed Clinton opening up an 11-point lead over Trump in a four-way race.

Knowing it, he is now behaving like a lame-duck candidate, intent on settling scores, going after the Clintons with a vengeance and scorching vacillating establishment types who are (in Trump's view) knifing him to save their own corrupt hides. His campaign is expected to bring Bill Clinton's accusers onto the trail and sources close to the GOP nominee indicate that more sordid allegations about the Clintons' personal lives may be only days away.

"This campaign is going to be so terrible," Caputo acknowledged, "we're all going to smell like it for the next seven to eight years."

For Republicans, it's already far more terrible than imagined. The first returns from public and private polling taken over the past week show a massive drop-off in GOP down-ballot support, leading many strategists to concede the likelihood of a Democratic Senate and the long unthinkable possibility of also losing the House — a frightening realization that precipitated Ryan's distancing and the dozens of senators and members of Congress who pulled their endorsements over the weekend.

"Look at Paul Ryan today: He is acknowledging what we all know, the race for the White House is over," said Sarah Isgur Flores, a GOP operative who guided Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign. "Now, it's just a question of collateral damage. A lot of our Senate candidates were running well ahead of Trump, but that doesn't mean they can withstand a 15-point fallout."

Republicans worry not about whether Trump can make up ground but what additional damage he will do — especially with signs that Trump, far from concerning himself with collateral down-ballot damage, would be content to gloat over a lost House GOP majority he could blame on Ryan and others who abandoned him.

"Now that the reins are off with Trump and they do seem to be coming off, there's going to be more statements, maybe more videos for the next 29 days," Flores said. "At this point, most senior Republicans are looking to Nov. 9 to assess damage and figure out if there's a way to move forward."

But the crackup of the fragile coalition also gives Trump an excuse, someone to blame for his likely loss — even though it's more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than causal factor.

"No one can be surprised that Trump is doing things that are destructive for the party and that he only has himself to blame for it, for the state of his campaign and Republican chances," said Kevin Madden, a GOP operative in Washington. "But he's not going to take any of that blame. He's going to blame it on everybody else. But it's not because of this tape or anything Paul Ryan or the establishment or the RNC did or didn't do. It's because of his own actions. Many people predicted this, that he represented a systemic threat to the party and that's exactly what's played out."

Indeed, the establishment set of the GOP has already cast the blame.

"If he loses a presidential election that was so gob-smackingly winnable — if he loses to Hillary Clinton — it doesn't matter if he blames establishment Republicans or a cavalry charge of unicorns," said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist who worked for former Speaker John Boehner. "He will have lost to Hillary Clinton."



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Monday, October 10, 2016

Andy Borowitz

The New Yorker

BOROWITZ REPORT
PUTIN CANCELS CAMPAIGN EVENT WITH TRUMP
 By Andy Borowitz , OCTOBER 10, 2016

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXEI DRUZHININ / TASS VIA GETTY
MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Calling the Republican nominee's behavior "completely indefensible," the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, cancelled a joint campaign appearance with Donald Trump on Monday.

Putin, who had been scheduled to campaign alongside Trump at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, said that he would make no joint appearances with the billionaire for the remainder of the campaign.

"As the father of two daughters, I cannot condone or defend Mr. Trump's behavior," the Russian leader said in a curt official statement.

In addition to cancelling his appearance with Trump, Putin, who had been expected to spend thirty-one million rubles, or roughly five million dollars, on Trump campaign ads, is pulling those funds and will instead "focus on down-ballot races," the statement said.

Appearing on CNN, Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, attempted to downplay the Putin defection by claiming that Trump still has the support of many other totalitarian dictators.
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Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association  aid and abet violence.

- An American Story

A half-dead Clinton is always better than the brain-dead Trump



Sunday, October 9, 2016

Andy Borowitz



BOROWITZ REPORT
OBAMA REASSURES FOREIGN TOURISTS: "NO OTHER AMERICAN MAN IS THIS HORRIBLE"
 By Andy Borowitz , OCTOBER 9, 2016

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Fearing that millions of foreign tourists might cancel their plans to travel to the United States, President Obama used his emergency powers to interrupt the broadcast of the second Presidential debate.

"Good evening, friends around the world," Obama began, in a reassuring tone. "For the past hour, many of you have been observing something that can only be described as nightmarish. I want to state in no uncertain terms: if you come to the United States, you will never, ever meet another man this horrible."

"I can understand that many of you might greet my words with skepticism," he said. "Well, you just have to believe me on this: I have met many, many, Americans and this is the worst guy I have ever encountered."

Admitting that he was returning foreign viewers to the debate broadcast "with some reluctance," Obama concluded his remarks by saying, "Please stop watching this."

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Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association  aid and abet violence.

- An American Story

A half-dead Clinton is always better than the brain-dead Trump