Lenny Bruce was a “sick comic” from the 1950s and early 1960s who was arrested for drugs and obscenity and was appealing a four-month jail sentence when he died in 1965. He was a genius. One of his bits, about a comic who plays the London Palladium, perfectly sums up what has happened to Donald Trump in the fall election. (Click on the link to hear it.) It’s about Frank Dell, a third-rate comic who plays Las Vegas lounges, but who tells his agent he wants to play a “class room” like the London Palladium. The agent tries to discourage him, but Dell insists — “I’m going to murder these people” – and the agent gets him booked there.
Trump rages at the unfairness, why doesn’t some woman accuse President Obama of attacking her? Video after the jump …
Now that Trump has picked Carlos Slim as his Dr. Evil-like international villain, let’s remember that not long ago he had a deal with Trump to create a Trump Family reality show.
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It’s starting. Armed Trump supporters openly carrying firearms sat outside a Democratic campaign office in Virginia for 12 hours yesterday as a form of ‘protest’.
It’s October 14 and the PollTracker Average stands at Clinton 46.5 percent, Trump 38 percent, an 8.5 percentage-point spread
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard stands at Clinton 335, Trump 186. Arizona and Nevada are in the Toss Up category
Mike Pence tells young girl upset by Donald Trump’s comments about women’s bodies that he and Trump will project American power around the world.
I want to be very precise about what I say here. There’s a new conspiracy theory rapidly gaining traction among Trump supporters about the origin of the ‘Access Hollywood’ Trump tape which triggered days of new allegations about Donald Trump’s alleged history of sexual abuse. The conspiracy theory is rapidly taking on an explicitly anti-Semitic character. As far as I can see it has not been pushed by the Trump campaign itself, at least not publicly. But it’s catching fire with numerous supporters and surrogates – most notably Jerry Falwell Jr, a key Trump supporter among evangelicals and President of Liberty University, the school founded by his father.
The claim is also being pushed by Breitbart and David Duke in various neo-Nazi web forums. Notably, in recent months Breitbart, with which the Trump campaign has now effectively merged, has itself more openly embraced anti-Semitism.
Here’s our timeline of the rapidly expanding list of Donald Trump sexual abuse and assault allegations.
After not getting nearly as much sleep as I needed last night, the first thing I saw when I woke up was an alert on my cell phone that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize. I was surprised, enlivened, filled with happiness and a sense of the possible. This was in stark contrast to almost everything I see in front of us today with the on-going trauma of Trumpism.