What I Would Tell Trump If I Was On His Team

He'd probably fire me immediately, but this is what I'd say:

"Donald, no offense, but you really need to stop writing Hillary's speeches for her -- a good chunk of what she said in her foreign policy speech yesterday was direct quotes from you. For Christ's Sake, you are a reality TV star!  How do you not understand when there is a camera in front of you and you say stupid shit, that you are actually being filmed and all the stupid shit you say is being recorded?"

I liked Nancy Letourneau's take on why Hillary can go where no GOP primary opponent could go before:

She is defining [Trump] for the public and the press in a way that his Republican rivals during the primary couldn’t. It’s not just that they were afraid of offending his supporters (although I’m sure that was a big part of it). But it’s also because challenging him meant taking on things that also made them vulnerable. When Trump became so extreme about Mexican immigrants and Muslims, it was all based on policies and rhetoric that Republicans had been relying on themselves. The case they were left with was to suggest that they would simply be either a little bit more or less extreme than Trump. None of them could successfully challenge the very basis of his extremism.

As Kevin Drum noted yesterday, some members of the media have apparently had enough of Donald Trump's bullshit -- he is now being instantly fact-checked.  Drum presented two examples of this, one from CNN and one from the New York Times:

All I can say is: It's about freaking time. More on this here.