Anybody who is genuinely curious why Trump is doing so well in the polls, Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist, not a Trump supporter if you're worried about bias) has been blogging for months about his rhetorical strategies & why they are so effective:
http://blog.dilbert.com/tagged/Trump

some of the better ones imo
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/128401835811/nice-guy-part-of-my-trump-persuasion-series
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/128709386661/a-demonstration-of-persuasion-part-of-my-trump
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/129215160011/why-trump-insults-people-part-of-my-trump
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/127793580186/trump-and-godwins-law
or TL;DR in Adams' words: "Does the boring candidate ever win? No."

Love him or hate him, the reality is that Trump is manhandling the media in the way that has possibly never been seen before in ANY country's elections. He might seem bumbling but I would hazard that every aspect of his public image is completely intentional. The usual political pundits and whatnot don't get it simply because they've never seen it before. You have to keep in mind that this man has been in the media for many many years, he understands public perception on a very deep level. Also worth noting that until some point in the 80s, Trump's public persona was much more subdued. It wasn't until he started clowning around with pro wrestlers that he became the loudmouth Trump we see today. That was surely intentional too.

An example - I doubt many of you watched the most recent Republican primary debate (I did, it was way too long and boring) - but for those who did, 90% of people will only remember one part: Jeb Bush telling Trump "you can't become president by insulting everybody" and Trump responding "I'm at 42% and you're at 3%, so tell me if it's working" or something along those lines.

edit: sorry I'm getting boring here, but another thing - if Trump was an idiot he would never be able to pull this off

https://i.sli.mg/nIqQKK.jpg

poor Jeb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_Jdts5rL0

FWIW Billdozer was a good coach the time I did a newbiemix. Explains things well, and he obviously understands the game or he wouldn't have been playing in IM

but he asked me to make this post lmao

What's the console command to use ping numbers instead of images?

why is bwelp on an iron 6s team?

I've found a team, thanks for all the tryouts

Funboats, escape plan, crossbow and boston basher are far too engrained in the meta now

bump

What is the deadline for signups?

Sounds like the same problem I have, no matter what I try (changing cables, drivers, reconnecting everything, reseating video card...) my monitor always stutters on 144 Hz but works perfectly on 120 Hz. Just need to upgrade soon I guess.

looking for some tryouts this upcoming weekend

I played pugs with Katie's (or whoever's) previous couple of pug groups, she (he? still not sure on that, sounds like a 15yo girl) keeps making new groups with the same players and same mumble for some reason. Last time I was there several people accused s/he of wallhacking, I didn't pay enough attention to notice.

s/he also wanted me to play on her ugc silver team, but played absolutely terrible in the 2 scrims we had before splitting up - trying to play without hacks there, or what? performed much better in pugs. Repeated claims of being a gold or IM player aren't supported by gameplay, lacks a lot of basic knowledge about pushes and positioning.

I'm not sure what to make of all this but I know it's sketchy enough that I've removed him/her from my friends list

I used to play Pirates Vikings and Knights with several people who also played comp tf2 - cri.nge, roth, zinmaster, tranchemusic and thief, off the top of my head

bump

s21 Hurricane Watch - scout (10-6)
s22 Hurricane Watch - backup (11-5, 1-1)
s23 Yam Fam - backup (8-8)

main scout, prefer combo, ok at soldier too

Looking to BACKUP season 24, I can never play wednesday nights

http://steamcommunity.com/id/ghostlife/
https://play.esea.net/users/1153576