When the FBI released the Hillary Clinton interview documents on the Friday before labor day even the insufferable leftist media flinched.  The timing of the release was entirely too obvious, too visible, too representational of the system being rigged.
The data within the release was additionally damaging toward the entire construct of “trust in government”.  Further erosion of public confidence is the consequence.

Which leads an intelligent person to wonder if James Comey isn’t intentionally trying to burn down the system.  After all, he’s not a stupid man.
When a system, any system, or even “the system“, is so horribly corrupt there’s always a rebound effect possible in direct proportion to the severity of the corruption.  No systems of governance (or of any sort) can stay tilted toward systemic corruption forever (see Venezuela). The best the indulgent power agents can do is postpone the inevitable correction as long as possible.
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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Moderator Matt Lauer should have disclosed his involvement with, and donations to, the Hillary Clinton Foundation at the outset of this program/forum.   Not doing so was a terrible exhibition of poor journalistic ethics.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and Republican nominee Donald Trump, took the stage in New York at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to field questions on national security, military affairs and veterans issues.
Two segments below.  The first with Hillary Clinton; the second with Donald Trump:

The second thirty minute segment was Donald Trump:
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If you missed the earlier discussion thread about Obama’s ISIS strategy/non-strategy  (SEE HERE), you might miss the essence of the brutal stupidity exhibited here by Jake Tapper.  Liberals always play the game of pretending not to know…
Senator Jeff Sessions does a great job delivering the Triple Penguin Award:

It was the anticipation of this predictable MSM approach exhibited by Tapper that was precisely the reason for the earlier discussion thread. (more…)

No, we are not going to reverse course and start deconstructing the insufferable media polling. We are committed to continuing to ignore the nonsense, the ‘shiny thing’ chatter.
However, every once in a while an example surfaces where we can explain that decision using a current case in point.  Cue today’s PPP Florida poll:

(Via PPP) […] PPP’s newest Florida poll finds a very tight race for President in the state. In the full field Donald Trump gets 44% to 43% for Hillary Clinton, with Gary Johnson at 5%, and Jill Stein and Evan McMullin each at 1%. But in a head to head between Clinton and Trump, the nominal lead flips to Clinton at 47/46. That’s because voters who support one of the minor candidates or are undecided in the full field pick Clinton by 12 points over Trump if they had to choose just between the two major candidates. (link)

OMG… “tight race“.  Oooooo,…. Ahhhhh,….. etc.
However, look at this first:

Wait, huh… wha?…. 16% of Registered Democrats are supporting Donald Trump?  By itself that’s called burying the lede; but wait…, Independents are split even (not likely)… and yet somehow Trump is losing overall?
The only way that’s even remotely possible is if PPP necessarily over sampled the Democrats in Florida.  It would take a considerable “over sampling” to pull off a Clinton poll lead. Let’s look: (more…)

Today candidate Donald Trump is in Philadephia, PA to deliver prepared remarks to The Union League of Philadelphia.  The event is not open to the public, but the speech will be broadcast live.   Event coverage begins at or before 11:00am EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Here is the transcript from today’s Donald Trump campaign event in Greensville, North Carolina. In Donald Trump’s speech tonight he hit upon the key element:

This speech is intensely critical.  Take your time to comprehend it slowly.  I’ve highlighted a key paragraph that just astounded me when I heard it….
[ TRANSCRIPT ] Thank you. It’s great to be back in North Carolina.
In 62 days, we are going to win this state – and we are going to win the White House.
This is our chance to end years of injustice, corruption and betrayal.
This is our chance to solve all of the problems that have gone unsolved for so many years.
For how long have people been saying Washington is broken and controlled by special interests?
This is the year we can finally fix it.
That’s because change has to come from outside of our broken and corrupt system.
We will never fix our rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it in the first place.
We will never solve our problems by relying on the politicians who created our problems.
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