News 2016 U.S. Presidential election - the highs and lows

Indian Summer said:
Scary. I hope for your country's sake this woman is in no way representative of any significant segment of the electorate!
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Google "Michelle Obama man". That will also lead you to the sites (and the people who post comments on those sites) convinced that the Obamas had Joan Rivers murdered because she "confirmed" that Michelle Obama is a man.
 
Donald Trump told a group of military veterans on Monday that some members of the military develop mental health issues because they are not "strong" and "can't handle it."

"When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat, they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over. And you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it," the Republican presidential nominee told an audience of military veterans at an event in Northern Virginia on Monday morning. "And they see horror stories, they see events that you couldn’t see in a movie — nobody would believe it."
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Trump suggests military members with mental health issues aren’t ‘strong’ and ‘can’t handle it’

This from the man who used student and medical deferments (a bone spur on his heel) to avoid the draft and then said this:

“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,” Trump told Stern of avoiding STDs. “It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
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Donald Trump Calls Sleeping Around His ‘Personal Vietnam’
 
Ah, Rudy:

Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York mayor and an ally of Donald J. Trump’s, suggested on Sunday that “everybody” commits infidelity, setting off a backlash on Twitter.

The remark came during an exchange on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” after Chuck Todd, the show’s host, asked Mr. Giuliani whether he was “the right person” to bring up former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities in this heated campaign.

“You have your own infidelities, sir,” Mr. Todd said.

“Everybody does,” Mr. Giuliani responded. “You know, I’m a Roman Catholic and I confess those things to my priest.”

The reaction from Twitter users was swift and unforgiving.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/u...n=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
 
beancounter said:
The most shocking part of Donald Trump’s tax records isn’t the $916 million loss everyone’s talking about

Trump was smart on his taxes: Jonah Goldberg

"Do any of you willingly give more money to the IRS than you’re legally obliged to? If the answer is no, does that mean you’re a scrooge?"
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Oh, I don't fault him for not paying taxes that he wasn't legally obligated to pay.

I do fault him for his hypocrisy in spending years bashing other people for not paying taxes, or paying small amounts of taxes, while at the same time not paying taxes himself.

I do fault him for his proposed tax plans, which would minimize the taxes he and his family would be obligated to pay in the coming decades, all while claiming to be an "outsider" fighting for the little guy.

I do find it ridiculous that he holds himself out to be a business "genius" while taking a loss of almost a billion dollars in one year, repeatedly taking his businesses into bankruptcy, thereby stiffing his creditors, his subcontractors, and everyone else with whom he has done business, and otherwise also stiffing small businesses by simply refusing to pay them what he had contractually agreed to pay them.

I fault him for leaving destruction in his wake and calling it "good business."

He's morally and ethically bankrupt.
 
There were years where I made less than the amount required to file and I had money coming back to me, but never filed for it.
So technically, I have given the IRS more than I was required to. :D
 
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