John Miller

That campaign is such a mess. a

He just cannot get himself to admit that there may be a problem with his conduct that will cost him the election.

And that's a good thing. For the country and for the world.

Even as he sags in the polls both nationally and in nearly a dozen battleground states, Donald Trump must remain Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee said Tuesday.

Trump acknowledged that he should probably adjust his tactics to shore up his diminishing standing in the polls against Hillary Clinton but argued that doing so would betray the millions of supporters who have backed his campaign.

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“Well, possibly I do, but, you know, I am who I am. It’s me,” Trump told Wisconsin news station WKBT-TV in a sit-down interview Tuesday. “I don’t wanna change. Everybody talks about, ‘Oh well, you’re gonna pivot, you’re gonna’ — I don’t wanna pivot. I mean, you have to be you. If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people.”

The clock and calendar appear to be working against him. The election is less than three months away, but early voting kicks off in less than six weeks in Minnesota and South Dakota, and, while 2016 has proven to be an atypical election, polling experts say no candidate in Trump’s position at this point following the nominating conventions has gone on to win the popular vote in November in modern times.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/is-trump-changing-his-strategy-227075#ixzz4HXAJMZG5

Brilliant. In the source doc of the OP, it says:

BREAKING: Prince Charles Makes Devastating Statement About Islam… Muslims Are Outraged

POLITICS

June 19, 2016

Note the date - June 2016. They broke one and a half year old news. What a moronic outfit. And yet, they have a following. What gives?

They ought toconsider renaming themselves from "ETF News" to "####### News"

Agreed. Whoever penned that mindless piece of garbage posted in the OP is far beyond any point where he or she could be helped. Far too late for that.

That baby has yuuuge hands.

If he's short just a few sammiches, val can fix that. Not sure she wants to but she could.

Did anyone watch this video? I would like to know your thoughts.

I can only comment on what he said. But that's usually not what he meant. Here, he's actually taken both sides of the issue - he likes babies and he doesn't. I'm unsure where I need to apply the reverse. Could go either way. I guess he's right after all. People just can't figure him out. He's too smart for us common people.

I can see why Trump would want the media to stop reporting the things he says. It's really damaging to his image.

https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/765516938919317504

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/16/83-brutal-seconds-of-donald-trump-totally-contradicting-himself-on-foreign-policy/

So military aide is code?

You didn't know?

Now now John as we have come to know here on VJ some posters require more of a gentle approach than others. Otherwise they might be reduced to a steaming pile of scatology.

While it is true that you were the first victim of an unprovoked attack, we do feel that you are more than capable of handling such a uncalled for verbal lashing. Others, are incapable of such skills and they need their special time.

He can't come in here farting and then complain that it stinks.

These are some bizarre posts...

Like I said.

Idiotic, substance-free, meaningless post.

Let us remember that the poor victim came out swinging first. Then he came back time and again to levy more vicious attacks. But he's the one being treated unfairly. LOL. Sounds like Trump.

The entire Trump campaign is as clueless as Trump himself. What a pathetic bunch.

Yeah, right. That's why Philadelphia had 59 precincts that voted 100% for Obama in 2012. I'm sure that was on the up-and-up. Not a single vote for Romney!

Raised, looked at, explained. Odd? Yes. Voter fraud? Not even a hint of any evidence to support it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/2012fraud.asp

In 59 voting districts in the Philadelphia region, Obama received 100% of the votes with not even a single vote recorded for Romney. (A mathematical and statistical impossibility).

The language used here is a giveaway right at the start that someone was making judgments about something he didn't fully understand: It's not a "mathematical impossibility" for a vote count to add up to zero, and there is no such thing as a "statistical impossibility." (Statistics may indicate that the odds of a particular event's occurring are very, very low, but statistics can't prove something to be "impossible.")

It is true that 59 voting divisions in Philadelphia recorded no votes for Mitt Romney, but given the voter composition of the Philadelphia area (and some Philadelphia wards in particular), and the number of voters in each division, that outcome was hardly a "mathematical and statistical impossibility."

Barack Obama won the overall vote in the Philadelphia area by an 85% to 14% margin over Mitt Romney; Obama also received greater than 90% of the vote in more than half of Philadelphia's 66 wards, and 99% or more of the vote in seven of those wards. That result was hardly surprising given that, as the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, those wards are "clustered in almost exclusively black sections of West and North Philadelphia" and "nationally, 93 percent of African Americans voted for Obama." The Philadelphia wards that trended very heavily for Barack Obama included many divisions of between 200 and500 voters in which Mitt Romney received a scant handful of votes (and sometimes no votes at all), a result mirroring that of the previous election, in which Republican candidate John McCain "got zero votes in 57 Philadelphia voting divisions."

When the Inquirer went looking for Republican voters in some of those divisions, they couldn't find any:

Many parts of Philadelphia and other big cities simply lack Republican voters, a fact of campaigning that has been true since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University, said.

Although voter registration lists, which often contain outdated information, show 12 Republicans live in the [28th] ward's third division,

The Inquirer

was unable to find any of them by calling or visiting their homes.

Four of the registered Republicans no longer lived there; four others didn't answer their doors. City Board of Elections registration data say a registered Republican used to live at 25th and York Streets, but none of the neighbors across the street knew him.

James Norris, 19, who lives down the street, is listed as a Republican in city data. But he said he's a Democrat and voted for Obama because he thinks the president will help the middle class.

A few blocks away, Eric Sapp, a 42-year-old chef, looked skeptical when told that city data had him listed as a registered Republican. "I got to check on that," said Sapp, who voted for Obama.

Eighteen Republicans reportedly live in the nearby 15th Division, according to city registration records. The 15th has the distinction of pitching two straight Republican shutouts — zero votes for McCain in 2008, zero for Romney. Oh, and 13 other city divisions did the same thing in 2008 and 2012.

Three of the 15th's registered Republicans were listed as living in the same apartment, but the tenant there said he had never heard of them. The addresses of several others could not be found.

On West Albert Street, Duke Dunston says he knows he's a registered Republican, but he's never voted for one.

Thus the results in Philadelphia were reflective not of an "impossible" statistical anomaly but rather of a general historical trend widely seen throughout the city.

But he said she would give another speech....oh boy.

They probably haven't found a good speech on the issue illegal immigration to plagiarize yet.

When's Melania gonna give the speech Donald promised last week?

Not gonna happen. Trump married an illegal alien. His supporters don't care about that. Just as they don't care that he doesn't pay a dime in taxes.

Hmm?

http://usdailymail.com/2016/08/13/alabama-legislator-angry-that-state-of-georgia-allowed-in-olympics/

As they say, the more plausible it is, the better the satire. And this one is great!

Can't win on the merits so must resort to voter suppression and voter intimidation. Trump will try to rig the election. It's the only chance he has.

Donald Trump’s utterings about “Second Amendment people” taking matters into their own hands to block a President Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court picks were a new level of ugliness in an ugly campaign season.

In Israel, incitement such as this led to the murder of my father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 20 years ago. Because he dared pursue peaceful relations with our neighbors, my father was contemptuously called a traitor, and posters of him dressed as a Nazi war criminal were waved at right-wing rallies.

After his murder, politicians were quick to condemn the assassin as a lone wolf. They conveniently ignored their role in creating a poisoned environment that led someone to believe that taking a life was a justifiable political act.

More than one commentator in Israel and in the U.S. has pointed to the parallels between Israel in the 1990s and the U.S. today.

Trump has called Clinton “the devil”, claimed that the election might be “rigged”, denigrated entire religions, and questioned the impartiality of the justice system.

Intentional or not, the Republican presidential nominee is removing confidence in the democratic form of governance. If an election is seen as illegitimate, if those who supported a candidate are viewed as somehow lesser “Americans,” then it becomes acceptable — and even appropriate — to work outside the political system.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/14/trump-second-amendment-yitzhak-rabin-assassination-hillary-clinton-yuval-rabin/88723956/

Just as this guys name isn't Trump - too bad.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-arrest-oregon-man-threatened-president-find-pipe/story?id=38750460

Just what you'd expect from that über-liberal rag, isn't it?

Republican Donald Trump should fix his stumbling White House campaign by Labor Day or step down, The Wall Street Journal said on Monday in a sharply worded warning from a leading conservative voice.

"Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn't running a competent campaign," the newspaper said in an editorial.

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"If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races," it said.

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"As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be president - or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence," it said, referring to the Indiana governor, who is Trump's vice presidential running mate.

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Trailing in opinion polls in so-called battleground states, Trump has increasingly begun to portray himself as a victim of the media.

The Journal said Trump mistakenly believes his rowdy rallies will morph into votes and he can get away with relying on social media instead of spending money to compete in battleground states.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN10Q1A5

It's Lib's staff, he has many writers people are saying.

The best writers with the best words. Highly educated writers. A lot of people say that.

The Donald will stop the Zika, believe me!

I'm a believer. A lot of people are saying that only The Donald knows how Zika works so he's the onlty one who can stop it. A giant net. That's brilliant.