...Or Someone Like Him

Donald Trump is a balloon and everyone is a pin.

• Actual billionaire Warren Buffett talks about Trump and cites the Army-McCarthy hearings and uses the Joseph Welch quote "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"  (With video.  Partly transcribed by Karoli Kuns, Crooks and Liars.)
• Terrance of Republic of T summarizes Khizr Khan's speech, Trump's reaction, and other reactions; a reporter at the Washington Post also quoted Joseph Welch, because despite the last twenty or so years decency is still a respected value.
• The Trump solution to sexual harassment.  (AlterNet.)
• Comrade Misfit brings the sarcasm (with bonus Mother Jones graph!)
• Yastreblyansky laces into the apologist for the Racist/Stupid Party.

  The real issue isn't that phony anti-intellectualism anyway, it's the work of those Republican intellectuals, all in the same Straussian bad faith, constructing rationalizations and panderings in one direction and another as whatever this year's "true conservatism" turns out to be, as a mask for the basic aim of keeping their own taxes low and their businesses unregulated. Because in the end that's all they really care about. And the ones like Boot hate Trump mostly because he's going to lose so badly, either before the election or after it, depending how unlucky we are, and discredit them all for a generation.

• Ann Telnaes writes in the Columbia Journalism Review about editorial cartooning and social media.

  Pett’s experience, and mine, underscore how social media has changed the landscape for editorial cartooning—how it is being used as a tool of intimidation by interest groups and campaigns to try to silence criticism. Through social media they can quickly mobilize their supporters and distribute misinformation, allowing mob mentalities to spread as soon as a cartoon is posted online. The medium is lightning fast and provides the protection of anonymity. Add a news media that seems to value clickbait over presenting context about the editorial cartooning craft and often parrots the inaccurate characterizations the campaigns’ supporters spread, and you might as well paint a red bull’s eye on the cartoonist’s back.

• Guest post by Jon Green at The Rude Pundit on voting rights and the lengths gone to in order to disenfranchise people.  Language NSFW, so read at home.
• And since porn came up recently, here's an article about virtual reality porn.  As a palate cleanser.  Sort of.