The nation may survive, but the wound to hope and order will never fully heal - US elections 2016: the october surprises

Wow... Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win - I will teach them!

I'm torn. On the one hand, he's going to fire up some of the most hateful trash in America for years to come. On the other hand, having already lost the presidency, nothing would be sweeter than him getting his base to refuse to vote for downballot Republicans, handing Democrats the Presidency, the Senate, and the House for two years.

man. it's hard to believe we were worried about him winning a month ago.

My favorite kind of story: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440954/difficult-art-miraculous-comeback

what will the Post's article be titled the day after the election

man. it's hard to believe we were worried about him winning a month ago.

"we"

haha yes

fair enough

Donald Trump has circled the wagons and is firing inward

In 2012, 35 percent of Americans voted early, roughly 46 million Americans.

I have a hard time believing 35% of Americans even voted in the last election, much less voted early.

This was the part that stuck out for me in that HuffPo piece about the roast:

Graff made known that roasters should address Trump only as “Mr. Trump,” according to Larsen.

“I always thought that was weird,” Larsen said. “That was sort of the mandate, you call him ‘Mr. Trump,’ so when he shows up, in this day in age, it’s a strange thing to do. Even having been around a lot of different celebrities, I can’t remember a single other time I have had to call someone ‘mister.’”

xxpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvFjV77bTZE

there's a clip going around of betsy mccaughey (yes that one) reading lyrics to formation to don lemon something something pussy idk

three weeks everyone

xxpost - maybe why Hillary kept calling him "Donald" at the 1st debate? knew it would rankle him

Trump's getting destroyed in early voting.

Here's a version of the clip on Don Lemon'a show. The longer version is better:

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/785712612063358978

The estimates I've seen say that about 500,000 early ballots have already been cast. That seems like ... basically none? Turnout will be over 100m so we're talking 0.5% of all votes. Now in 2012, 35% of votes were cast early or absentee, so I think there will be a ton more early voting, but I think the next two weeks, not the previous two weeks, are where the real action is.

which is even worse for Trump as his poll numbers take and party in-fighting reaches a fever pitch

taketank

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/politics/early-voting-registration.html?ref=politics&_r=0

Donald Trump has circled the wagons and is firing inward

i am stealing this.

http://i.imgur.com/luhyNPj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/2rjCaiJ.jpg

xxpost - maybe why Hillary kept calling him "Donald" at the 1st debate? knew it would rankle him

This, and he always calls her "Hillary" so why should she say anything BUT "Donald"?

"Shithead" comes easily to mind

dude just retweets shit without any clue at all

Sh could always call him "That one"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julian-assange-turned-wikileaks-into-trump-s-best-friend

McCain's "that one" comment was the point where I was like "maybe he doesn't actually WANT to be President"

this is really something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTylz2WToXw

"Donald Trump Will Protect You
He's The Only One Who Can
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drum"

https://twitter.com/edroso/status/785879149072244736

sad lol

missed opportunity to flip it to "she hates Americans every day"

Gabriel Debenedetti ‏@gdebenedetti 14m14 minutes ago
Cheering its registration push, Clinton camp notes this afternoon that in NC, African American #s up by 6% over '12, Hispanic #s by 50%.

donald has tweeted out jim hoft product has he not

these wiki-leaks seem p weaksauce to me

In the one i just read, as reported in the intercept, the major crime seems to be that they 'compiled' (wrote down) the fact that Goldman Sachs don't like Elizabeth Warren, which according to the writer, constitutes "an awesome example of how money greases the wheels of Washington, D.C." ... I thought the influence of money on politics went further than "a campaign committee member took notes"...

also I know there's more money elsewhere but the sums listed are paltry

In the 2014 election cycle, the Goldman Sachs PAC gave the DCCC $30,000; in 2016, it gave $20,000.

and then later on they note that some other lobby group, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), who don't like language demonizing Wall Street, didn't donate any money to the Democrats, and gave money to Republicans instead--LOL!

Indeed, campaign disclosures show that SIFMA’s political action committee donated to the committee supporting House Republicans this year, but not the DCCC. In the 2014 election cycle, they gave $30,000 to the DCCC.

author of the piece later notes that they raise about 150 million per year, so those $20-30k donations are .02% of what the DCCC raises per election

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/11/warren-goldman-dccc/

there is nothing even close to a smoking gun. it's pretty much nothing imo

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/785885793340448769

fair point tbh

no wonder assange tried to downplay the release - he must've realized he had nothing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CugHHXzWIAAa8XQ.jpg

lol - https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/785864279643844608

Xp trump looking suspiciously youthful there

and lol at fox being added to the shitlist

One of the stories in there is that SIFMA raised concerns about the Fiduciary rule, which the guy from the DNCC dutifully scribbled down. Every Dem member of senate then voted for upholding the Fiduciary rule when the GOP tried to bring it down. So the story here is that the SIFMA doesn't influence the dems.

this is really something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTylz2WToXw

DONALD TRUMP WILL PROTECT YOU
HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN

wow how'd I do that

4chan is truth and democracy

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/new-documents-show-trump-misled-about-his-income

From that Bloomberg bit:

The drawn-out nonrevelation instantaneously reverberated across the Atlantic, where Jones interrupted his livestream and broke into verse, quoting the rapper Ludacris as he urged Assange to, “Move, bitch, get out the way / get out the way, bitch / get out the way.”

next steps: copyright term "de-trumpification" now

lol @ the Mother Jones link, which is not surprising

can the GOP confirm garland before the election? would be fun to see trump's reaction to that.