TRUMP: CLINTON WIN WOULD MEAN ‘ALMOST TOTAL DESTRUCTION’ OF U.S.

“It’s unnatural for mice to die exactly every 10 days,” writes a group of online whistle blowers about a high-level Japanese research project.

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Either Japanese mice are rather like Mr Bunbury in The Importance of Being Earnest —

My dear Aunt Augusta … The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live … so Bunbury died.

He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

— or, um, “the data [was] tampered [with] to suit the theory envisioned by the researchers.”

But that’s just the Japanese way.

Big-time Republican donors are beginning to write to Donald Trump demanding their money back.

UD wishes them luck. I mean, get in line behind the IRS…

But meanwhile SOS (UD‘s evil grammarian twin) looks at two such letters and makes some suggestions.

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“… I am mortified to hear the latest issues with Donald Trump. [The latest issues is vague: Be precise: I was mortified to read that Donald Trump grabs pussy.] How am I suppose [Should be supposed.] to respect and support Mr Trump with his attitude toward women? It isn’t just one woman either. [Logic? You’ve already used the plural. And would it be better if he’s faithful to just one grabbed pussy?] I can not [Cannot.] support a sexist man. I have three young children and will not support a crude sexist man. [Ineffective repetition. Find another phrase for sexist man.] I expect a refund of my donation. [Watch your tone.] Please process immediately and I thank you for your help. [Tone is all over the place: anger, indignation, and now prissy bureaucratic cliche. Drop this last sentence.]”

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Here’s another one, and it’s much better. But there’s always room for improvement.

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“I cannot express my disappointment enough regarding the recent events surrounding Mr. Trump. [Has the same vagueness problem: the latest issues; the recent events. Just spit it out: regarding Mr. Trump’s recorded comment about ‘grabbing pussy.’]

I fear that his campaign will assure a victory for Mrs. Clinton with disastrous consequences for our party and the country’s future.

As a father of two daughters preparing for marriage, [Slightly awkward, in that at first glance it reads as though the daughters are marrying each other.], I am repulsed [Repulsed is good.] by his comments regarding women. [Drop regarding women. The sentence is snappier without it, and in a very brief letter you’ve already used the word regarding.]

I regret coming to the Trump support event, and in particular allowing my son to be part of it. [This is good, especially the anxiety about introducing his son to the language-world known (in German) as küntgrablichkeit.]

I respectfully request that my money be refunded. [Better tone than the other letter, but in both cases you can kiss the cash goodbye.]“

Now if he’d said love raping women that’d be another matter. I’d condemn that. Guy only said like.

Adviser Rules Out Trump Meeting North Korea’s Kim In Near Future

Found it here.

If my man DeLillo makes it, me be very very happy.

He’s not even really doing it consciously, I don’t think: he lacks political training and, apparently, a conscience, and he is not, it seems, in sufficient control of himself to act otherwise. Trump tried to overpower Clinton onstage in the same manner that he dismisses every woman who’s not attractive and subservient to him — as simply the natural and best way of doing things, a matter of course…

And still, we are witnessing, parallel with Trump’s anti-woman assault — and likely exacerbating it — the ascendance of a woman to a height we’ve never seen in American politics before.

All women instinctively know – because they’ve likely experienced it – the kind of woman-hatred emerging out of a man’s resentment at female sexual power. If you don’t know what I’m talking about read Saul Bellow’s Herzog.

He saw twenty paces away the white soft face and independent look of a woman in a shining black straw hat which held her head in depth and eyes that even in the signal-dotted obscurity reached him with a force she could never be aware of. Those eyes might be blue, perhaps green, even gray – he would never know.

But they were bitch eyes, that was certain. They expressed a sort of female arrogance which had an immediate sexual power over him; he experienced it again that very moment – a round face, the clear gaze of pale bitch eyes, a pair of proud legs.

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And likely exacerbating it – yes. UD predicts that once Trump loses he’ll pioneer America’s first female genital mutilation movement.

…outside the RNC building in Washington.

A winning strategy.

… I love you…

“I thought he was like a big silverback gorilla prowling the studio,” [Nigel] Farage [said.] “He took control. He dominated Hillary Clinton.”

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday offered up some numbers to contradict Donald Trump’s debate-night claim that the two ultra-wealthy moguls took similar approaches towards tax payments.

… “I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944, when I was 13. (Though, being a slow starter, I owed only $7 in tax that year.) I have copies of all 72 of my returns and none uses a carryforward,” Buffet said.

… “I have been audited by the IRS multiple times and am currently being audited,” Buffett told CNBC. “I have no problem in releasing my tax information while under audit. Neither would Mr. Trump — at least he would have no legal problem.”

They go nuts at night.

Mr. Trump, James Joyce called — he wants his stream of consciousness back…

This is like a college professor trying to give a lecture while a dog paces the room urinating on things.

Donald Trump needs to call his vice-president. They haven’t talked about foreign policy.

Big moment, IMHO, in tonight’s debate.