"I will keep you in suspense" - US Elections 2016: the Final Thread

Just browsing the_donald for schadenfreude guffaws and their top posts currently include such gems as "No evidence, or proof Russia hacked USA! Just another Hillary Lie!" - what do you think is the craziest thing Trump could say and still have them parroting it? Or have we reached the point where there is no answer to that?

"Hillary has a penis"

"Actual blood relative of Bills"

"There are secret electronic pulses built into the electronic voting booths so that when you vote for me, you get an electric shock until you relent and vote Hillary"

"dogs can't look up"

Princeton at 99% HRC which seems about right at this point, can we all tune out now

"I never could've assaulted these women because I'm a homosexual."

World's worst Hollywood Squares right here

https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/789199107915026432

More like Alfred E. Newman, right?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KXSyKS0QaFU/VpxnUGLfL5I/AAAAAAAAGR0/Vkmo6y4DDlE/s1600/FullSizeRender%252827%2529.jpg

It doesn't even matter but I want the oppo bomb to drop already and kick him while he's down because it will make me feel good and I need something to make me feel good.

Oh joy, Bloomberg will be there, too. Should spark wonderful conversations.

I don't even need oppo, I'd be happy if someone just kicked him.

btw, this is a bit niche-audience, but every time i think of trump's sinister, unappealing declaration "I will keep you in suspense," I just flash on Phoney Bone's torn campaign balloon declaring, seemingly, PHONCIBLE P. BONE WILL GET YOU

i'm not referring to you in particular, fred, nor am i necessarily rehashing a pro-bernie argument. i'm just pointing out what i saw as a contradiction. republicans, moderates, etc are going to have to be accommodated to get anything done in this congress -- this has been one of hillary's selling points, for better or worse!

― k3vin k

anybody who believes that "accomodation" is possible under a hillary clinton presidency is fooling themselves. the republican leadership has been beating the "compromise = surrender" drum for years and years and years, and i'm persuaded that they mean it.

i know bleeding hearts have a hard time seeing suffering and doing nothing, and a lot of trump voters are suffering- i don't mean financially, most of them make more money than me, but there yes is genuine suffering there.

the main thing is, you know, let's not be codependent here. you can't help people against their will. if they're going to die screaming that they don't need no help from the gub'mint, that's beyond our reach as a nation to fix.

It doesn't even matter but I want the oppo bomb to drop already and kick him while he's down because it will make me feel good and I need something to make me feel good.

― Evan, Thursday, October 20, 2016 5:29 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would recommend downers?

The point is more to see the melting anthropomorphic circus peanut hurt

k3vin i appreciate that you're under time constraints re: reading the thing, but basically the complaint you're raising is off-topic and basically if time is short i'd say put the time into reading it, rather than this response. but anyway the text isn't about cutting deals in congress or getting things done, it's about the idea posited by white liberals that the important hand-wringing project of the day is how to understand the virulent white nationalists and psychos who have staked their coup-ready fervor on trump's maniacal campaign. it's writing off those people and emphatically not writing off their non-maniac red-state republican brethren.

https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/789134196614631425

Here's the "Stakes is High" post from a few days ago:

https://medium.com/@cd_hooks/stakes-is-high-6b45374e0157#.sz7sf5ynw

my least favorite De La album

http://i.imgur.com/KTtsD4W.jpg

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-campaign-website-donation-ticker-2016-10

Via: https://twitter.com/jackdanger/status/788957216120254464/photo/1

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-campaign-website-donation-ticker-2016-10

― Evan, Thursday, October 20, 2016 4:55 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Via: https://twitter.com/jackdanger/status/788957216120254464/photo/1

― Evan, Thursday, October 20, 2016 4:56 PM (thirty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because of course it is. His entire damn campaign is a hustler in a top hat with a hole in it selling you circus tickets for your whole family at a discount while behind him the circus is packing up to blow town.

lol

can't we just wrap this up a little early

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/789197899024338944

xpost I was thinking the other night we seem to be in that zone where a not particularly loved or useful TV series is about to broadcast its final episode but that we had to get through the timekilling two episodes before it first.

Timekilling activities: https://twitter.com/untimelygamer/status/789139187819610113

*walks out of theater showing a two-year-long adaptation of dante's inferno into the cold, clear night*

xpost It's a shame about Ray.

I admit for me it's also because I've already voted -- mailed in my ballot Monday -- and as there was something like 16 state props and almost 26 city ones (no, really), I am interested in the results but...it's going to be a while. Honestly the city races here in SF are the only 'exciting' ones we're having this year.

I remember high school friends singing that at me and 14-15 year old me going "why are you singing that, where is that from?" for a while there

xpost

And once I'd actually bought the tape it was even more annoying

See also: kids at summer camp calling me "rain man" and me not getting it

anyway that has nothing to do with this thread, does it.

It's a shame about rain man

i shouldn't whine as the effect of a trump win on my life directly would probably be kind of sucky to minimally sucky but christ this has been unpleasant, a thing literally everyone has been saying for months.

@scottbix
President Obama: Marco Rubio is "willing to be anybody just to be somebody."

burn

It's a shame about rain man

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 20, 2016 5:15 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Touche.

about that poll on trump supporters, you are reading the question wrong.

Will Jordan ‏@williamjordann 3h3 hours ago
Among Trump voters:

If HILLARY CLINTON wins the election, how likely is it to be the result of voter fraud?

Likely 83%
Unlikely 10%

Makes a little more sense there!

Meantime, why this isn't a problem at all!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-national-political-director-steps-back-from-campaign-230120

Jim Murphy, Donald Trump’s national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move.

"I have not resigned but for personal reasons have had to take a step back from the campaign," Murphy said in a statement to POLITICO.

His staff really are like the drummers in Spinal Tap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM

haha yes exactly

As far as understanding Trump voters, i know three. One is a real estate agent whose reaction to the breaking of the Ray Rice news was "there ain't no way he hit that bitch", wrote an anti-Common Core song on acoustic guitar, and thinks Henry Rollins is a "pussy" cos he's Liberal.

I think I learned all I needed to about them.

You sure you're not living in a comedy sketch

wrote an anti-Common Core song on acoustic guitar,

there a youtube link for this or what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXFdikh-70

guy in the corner of the room at a party singing an anti-Common Core song on acoustic guitar

didn't get a sticker

Yeah they usually have cookies at mine too. Got nothing lol

Trump will change that!

are we gonna have an election day thread?

May I suggest: "I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win"

Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. - US Election Day 2016