okay, wait a second.....

[bohemianbanshee]

After reading a lot of articles and watching video clips, I was totally convinced that Melania Trump DID steal Michelle Obama's speech, blantantly and outrageously. However, after actually looking at the speeches side by side, I don't think she did. There seemed to be soooo many cases of identical word usage, but when you look at both speeches in

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[bronzino]

I think it (parts of it) was cribbed.. Not only reading passages side by side are incredibly similar but Canadian physicist and McGill University professor Robert Rutledge has analysed it and says that the odds are 1 in 87 billion.

http://gizmodo.com/scientific-proof-that-melania-trump-s-speech-was-defini-1783966093

Trump camp has done a mea culpa over it anyway.

[bohemianbanshee]

I love that "Chris Christie points out that Melania only plagiarized, like, seven percent of her speech". LOL. Yeah.

[bronzino]

Never forget Chris Christie's face when standing behind Trump that one time, like he's in utter disoriented shock, heh. He's really sold out.

And Nate Silver just tweeted this -

"‏@NateSilver538
Don't think people are really grasping how plausible it is that Trump could become president. It's a close election right now."

crap, i'm back to not being so optimistic..

[bohemianbanshee]

Oh, yeah, it is. I never thought it would happen, but I can see just from the people I know that Republicans would vote even for Trump over Hilary, because of all the anti-Hilary scare propaganda. They feel it will be the end of the nation or something if she's elected. Similarly, everyone else feels it will be the end of the nation if Trump's elected. That's how polarized US politics is these days, and only getting worse.

[bohemianbanshee]

At this point I'd say it's probably about 50/50, which is really scary.

[bronzino]

Really kind of fascinating..

[bohemianbanshee]

It'll be pretty fascinating (yet also potentially horrifying) to see what happens.