The counter of course is electing Trump means global depression. I don't think the Brexit vote helps Trump or hurts him, it's negligible to me.
Tinfoil time - Maybe that's the idea? The Great Depression worked out pretty well for fascists, and that kind of hyper-nationalism seems to be on the rise.
ABC Poll out today with Clinton up 51-39 over Trump. That's not a typo--it's a 12 point gap from the same pollster that had Trump up by 2 the last time it was in the field.
Not all evangelicals accept Trump. Seeing similar divides as you are everywhere else. Elite glad-hand each other, while the laity keeps their opinions to themselves. I don't know how long that will actually go on for.
The single biggest indicator of opposition to Donald Trump among Christians has been church attendance. The more a Christian goes to church, the more that Christian is likely to oppose Donald Trump. Today we might just get a sense of how often some of these evangelicals really go to church.
Did they meet their candidate with the diffidence and unconcern that Jesus shows before Pilate? In the earnestness of their supplications, were they moved to renounce the ways of evil and unrighteousness that Trump has himself tacitly and, nay, openly endorsed? There is a unity which we must seek, and a unity we cannot allow. The capitulation of the Religious Right is now complete. It is a tragically comic ending to a movement that has done far, far more harm than good.
Trump to @HallieJackson: Elizabeth Warren "racist," "fraud," reups "Pocahontas" nickname:
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I cringe when I hear him talk about coal and coal mines. I understand why he's doing it, it's votes and it's emotional. But that stuff kills people and it's horrible for the environment. We need to get away from using it as much as we can asap, but I knew he wouldn't go there.
For those unfamiliar with how Twitter works, what Trump is doing there is quoting a tweet from the account @Sara_Wejesa and replying. This tweet means that @Sara_Wejesa tweeted to Donald Trump the words "Great speach!!!!!" (sic), and Trump is replying "Thanks!"
But if you click on those blue letters and actually go and look at Wejesa's account, you see that it looks like this:
Weird, right? @Sara_Wejesa has only tweeted once, and it's not even a tweet -- it's just a retweet of Trump's tweet quoting her. Which means that the tweet Trump is quoting was either deleted for some reason or never existed. Also, that account has three followers -- a robot account that only tweets pirated photographs of women in their underwear and two accounts that tweet exclusively about Trump but aside from that seem like they're just ordinary people.
The account Trump is quoting, @1Lion, has literally never tweeted. Kinda weird that someone would make an account, tweet at Trump once, happen to have Trump notice and quote that tweet, and then delete their only tweet afterward. Even weirder that this would happen twice in the same month.
Since that account was created seven years ago, it's unlikely Trump made it for his campaign unless this is a longer con than any of us could have anticipated. It's far more likely that he just found a dormant account and quoted it.
Not only is @RealEricJAllen's profile picture just a Trump banner, but he joined Twitter early in Trump's campaign, tweets an average of over 500 times a month, and every single tweet is either a Trump retweet or explicitly pro-Trump. In fact, it has tweeted the exact phrase Trump is quoting up there several times.
Think I'm exaggerating? Look, if you search through Trump's twitter history, you'll find that it's not at all uncommon for Trump to quote accounts that are not only not real, but obviously not real.
EDIT: I should add that Trump appears to have a good chunk of real Twitter users sprinkled into his feed but it sure looks like there's a few obvious staffers, fake accounts, etc.
Donald Trump’s campaign aides are lining up a slate of iconic sports figures to appear at the national convention in Cleveland next month—including former undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight and NASCAR chief Brian France, people familiar with the planning told Bloomberg Politics.
Talks are in the works with a broad slate of other celebrities and top athletes, so the list of those appearing at the convention will grow, organizers said.
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Separately, third-party groups have booked musicians to perform at venues throughout Cleveland during the July 18-21 convention: the quintessential 1960s-era surfer band The Beach Boys; 1970s-era rock band Journey; Bret Michaels, the frontman of the 1980s-era metal band Poison; 80s hitmaker Rick Springfield: country singer Martina McBride, who rose to stardom in the 1990s; country band Rascal Flatts, who formed in Ohio in 1999; and The Band Perry, a siblings trio known for country pop songs.
Some pretty serious false equivalency here. Obama's views on same sex marriage, a social issue, evolved along with tens of millions of other Americans.
Trump's views on globalization, an economic issue, appear to have changed, conveniently enough just in time to appeal to his knuckle dragging supporters, to whom he lies daily. Also, Obama's support for same sex marriage changed while he was already in office. He didn't use it to get elected.
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