Hillary tweets, priceless

[Motley13]

Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton 4h4 hours ago

Can a man who lost $1 billion in one year, stiffed small businesses, and may have paid no taxes really claim he's "good at business"?


Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton 13h13 hours ago

According to @NYTimes, Trump may contribute less to our military and college students than the undocumented immigrants he wants to deport.


Newspapers that have endorsed @realDonaldTrump:
1. ...
2. ...
3. (Uh, the National Enquirer?)

[Thinkingabout]

1. Enlightening

[Renew Deal]

2. The second one is going to sting

[liberal N proud]

3. Epic even

[niyad]

4. k and r

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. New York Post endorsed Trump. They also published the Melania soft pornography. . . . nt

[flor-de-jasmim]

6. He who lives by the tweet, dies by the tweet!

[anamandujano]

8. Good one!

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. "and may have paid no taxes really claim he's "good at business"?

Uh....that is one of the cornerstones of "good at business", at least for many of them. To make the most you can from your product and pay the least you can in labour and taxes. Otherwise the first two are right on.

[LynneSin]

9. Maybe it's me but I never recalled so many newspaper endorsements coming so early

Sure a few papers that have historically aligned to one party or another might come out early. But I swear the NYTimes, WaPo and other big name papers waited until the last week.

In fact thanks to google:

1996 Clinton endorsement was 10/28/1996
2000 Gore endorsement was 10/29/2000
2004 Kerry endorsement was 10/17/2004
2008 Obama endorsement was 10/23/2008
2012 Obama endorsement was 10/27/2012

[gratuitous]

10. There's also a graphic going around

The Washington Post did a graphic of newspaper endorsements (I'm not cool enough to embed it from another source) that shows the endorsement history of papers such as the Arizona Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Dallas Morning News. Solid or near solid Republican endorsements going to back to 1932, but in 2016 those red bars are suddenly interrupted by a blue spot (for Clinton) or some chickenshit third party endorsement.

While folks might be getting used to stories about the New Hampshire Union-Leader or the San Diego Union-Tribune breaking decades-long streaks of endorsing Republicans, there are no papers that have historically endorsed Democrats suddenly deciding that this Donald Trump fella really knows his onions, vote for him.

A moment's reflection would lead some of the millionaires who control our public political discourse to a very unsavory, partisan conclusion. So none of them are willing to spend even a moment thinking about what this means.