Do not underestimate Trump. He won in 2016 with an amateur campaign, just on the force of his personality and ideas. He will be even more formidable with an organized and professional infrastructure behind him.

He will lose the popular vote, but that doesn’t really matter if he focuses on his path to victory. He can easily win a majority of the electoral votes if the Democratic candidate isn’t smart and disciplined enough to campaign in the battleground states and avoid wasting time in the states where the result is a foregone conclusion.

NOTE: An updated version of that map should include Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia and Pennsylvania as well. Those four, plus the purple ones in the map, are the only states that really matter in a presidential campaign. Just about everything else is predetermined.

(I guess you could include Maine if you want to be really picky.)

So, how did Trump do in that map of the “real” America. He kicked ass.

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Trump denied to a group of Republicans that he ever said “Tim Apple”

That is weird. That’s just a simple slip that anyone could have made. We’ve all done similar things. Why would he deny it?

And of course, his lie was ridiculous. Here’s the tape:

But wait – there’s more. In a tweet this morning, there was another plot twist. Now he admits he did say it, but did so intentionally, “as an easy way to save time & words.”

Yup, that’s the Donald Trump we know – always trying to cut back on his verbiage, always as terse and economical as possible in his speech.

The key point here is that Haley Clauson is pretty much naked.

Now THAT is good swimwear.

I enjoy that SI no longer tries to hide the fact that it’s basically Playboy in disguise. It’s a lot different mag than it was in my childhood, but I’m not complaining. Screw all those in-depth articles about Eddie Mathews. Nobody wanted to see his ass.

It’s difficult to imagine the show without her.

She was about 22 when she was cast, and she will turn 33 this year. It’s time to move on if she wants her career to include any other meaningful credits. She’s still young and beautiful, has established some acting chops, has a great sense of humor, has shown she is dependable and a good team player, can sing like an angel

She’ll be fine.

A four-time Olympic gold medalist, swimmer Inge de Bruijn – shaved, full-frontal nudity (direct link, alternate link)

Update from the comments:

“For those looking for the origin of this clip it is from a series made in the Netherlands called Adam Zkt. Eva – Adam looking for Eve, series 3 episode 2. Series 3 was a VIP series and also had Kasia Dolkowska (a Kim Kardashian look-alike!) and Chaira Borderstee. I notice that there is also a similar German series coming up.”