I remarked during the debates about how easy it was for Hillary Clinton to have Donald Trump chase after the squirrels she released to deflect from her own problems. But it seems like Trump has learned the value of squirrels and is now using them whenever he needs to distract the media from focusing on anything embarrassing. And now it is the media that is chasing after the squirrels released by Trump, usually in the form of absurd tweets.
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Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin are just as sick of this election as I am.

Bill Maher says that we should be grateful to Donald Trump because his candidacy has sidelined the nauseating piety that seemed obligatory in past elections because the evangelicals have sold their souls to Donald Trump, someone who violates all the things they supposedly hold dear as ‘people of faith’.
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Seth Meyers says that whether Donald Trump wins or loses, the Republican party is headed for a major crackup.
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Anyone who has been a long time reader of this blog knows that I have not been a huge fan of Hillary Clinton. But the idea that she and Donald Trump are equally bad is preposterous. There is simply no comparison and Seth Meyers, in his update on the state of the election, does a wonderful job of comparing the negatives of both candidates, starting at the 6:10 mark. And he does not even mention Trump’s sociopathic levels of lying and his ignorance of major issues.
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