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

I guess it's hard to explain why one thing rises above the rest when they're all the same thing, but that People magazine story, jesus, that's so vivid and so horrible

https://twitter.com/sos_jr/status/785950864200441856

katrina pierson on cnn is next level special texas crazy rn

Unsurprising:

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/786413696713011200

That People Magazine link had 3 videos which all began to autoplay at once. Inadvertantly created a horrible atmosphere full of Trump blather and sexual assault accusations.

People Mag can afford to spar with Trump's legal team. This story is going to be staring at every grocery shopper, some on the edge of their Trump support, for a full week.

what the hell is karl rove good for if he couldn't find this stuff a year ago?

"https://twitter.com/sos_jr/status/785950864200441856";

almost, but not quite, like when McCain stopped a crazy person at a rally to say no, Obama is a decent person, knock it off. It's like every once in a while these white-haired tools have a moment of clarity.

More on the 'soon to come' front:

https://twitter.com/LizMair/status/786418574394920960

By the way, the two really, really bad stories I mentioned would soon be dropping still haven't actually dropped.

(I've seen elsewhere there were two in particular. They're obviously being worked on, people know about it, etc.)

Wilson further confirming:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/786422745764466688

That biz is creepy tbh who are these people and why are they being so coy about "stories coming"

Inevitable: Hitler Finds Out Trump is a Serial Sexual Assaulter

xpost -- I can guess any number of reasons.

Trump was behind Balloon Boy

Trump's staff seems to not be prepared for any of this, so if worse things are around the corner there's no reason to tip them off.

Funny thing is, if HRC's oppo staff came up with anything, they seem to be holding their cards and letting the free market of ideas do its thing.

Trump reacts! (World laughs.)

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/786422653988896768

why would journalists not covering the story break it before the journalists who actually have all the facts?

they just have friends in the industry telling them things - they don't actually have the videotape/transcripts/witnesses/etc

That sounds like a fake law firm.

Funny thing is, if HRC's oppo staff came up with anything, they seem to be holding their cards and letting the free market of ideas do its thing.

they probably figure that at this point, there would be more to lose (via depressed voter turnout) than gain by joining in the revelations offensive.

Or perhaps they are handing off material to the media

still wracking my brain to think what would be worse than the assaults. further details on the rape of his first wife? documented connections to organized crime with some violent outcome directly traceable back to him? more concrete evidence on the rape of the 13 year old (this is the only one I can see really being explosive)

some speculation that makes sense to me: maybe a sex tape? terrible racist comments? i was thinking some anti-semitic tirade would totally destroy him.

Saw this posted on FB, with the comment "This is A+ pandering to the Vegas population. And I'm pretty pumped about it."

http://m.reviewjournal.com/politics/election-2016/presidential-nominee-hillary-clinton-draws-contrast-trump-during-las-vegas

On her way to the rally, Clinton stopped at Tacos El Gordo at 1724 E. Charleston Blvd., surprising customers.

.@HillaryClinton stops at Tacos El Gordo in #Vegas.#RJnow pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

— Ben Botkin (@BenBotkin1) October 13, 2016

pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

Saw this posted on FB, with the comment "This is A+ pandering to the Vegas population. And I'm pretty pumped about it."

http://m.reviewjournal.com/politics/election-2016/presidential-nominee-hillary-clinton-draws-contrast-trump-during-las-vegas

On her way to the rally, Clinton stopped at Tacos El Gordo at 1724 E. Charleston Blvd., surprising customers.

.@HillaryClinton stops at Tacos El Gordo in #Vegas.#RJnow pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

— Ben Botkin (@BenBotkin1) October 13, 2016

http://pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

Dammit. Can somebody fix that?

Anonymous claiming to have a tape of clinton with a 13 year old girl from epstein.

https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewjxmalady/status/786423186850283520

in reply to @mckaycoppins
matthew j.x. malady
@matthewjxmalady

@mckaycoppins @fmanjoo check out the spaces are after those periods. looks like it may be three, four? wtf.

Oct 12, 2016, 9:27 PM

xp lol sure they do

oh my god please let there be a Trump sex tape, it's the ending we all deserve

stop with the threats

Lots of journalists on twitter implying the big dump is coming tomorrow.

Trump ain't winning. 0%, nochance NOHOW. Not if Hil shacks up tomorrow with Huma, or a family of yaks. I will speak in 'vocal fry' the rest of my days like a friggin' choreographer if he does.

that's some post dude

rick wilson's twitter responses to his detractors are pretty classic

somehow i'm still seeing new disgusting revelations
https://twitter.com/TheRealKamie/status/786353787615281152

like

"DNC members don't really represent constituents anyway"

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423#efmAshA2F

ok first of all this is a comment made by mark siegel and then passed along to hillary's campaign by luzzatto. second of all it is a self-evidently true observation. DNC members don't have constituents because they aren't elected.

i don't know why u make me explain these things

@mckaycoppins @fmanjoo check out the spaces are after those periods. looks like it may be three, four? wtf.

those aren't spaces, the text has been justified.

full-service law firm

those aren't spaces, the text has been justified.

Oh I don't think anybody could justify that text

amazing: http://www.mtv.com/news/2941818/the-story-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-debate/

― esempiu (crüt)

You are the same as the others.
You build monuments to yourself, monuments that fall.
You seek power over man and so you seek followers, though they also fall.
You pretend any man is separate from any other man, though this is foolish.
You thirst in desperation for money, though it follows no one to the grave.
You attack and you yell and you lash out with your tongue and you lie.
You tell so many lies.

SO GREAT

yeah, that mtv piece is amazing

So I guess whatever bombshell is allegedly imminent must be getting vetted or otherwise checked out legally, right? That's the only reason I can think of people knowing it's coming (if it is) but being so coy about it. Meanwhile, I presume the explosion of groping (or worse) accusations will continue. What's he up to on Twitter?

He hasn't tweeted for 13 hours. Some record surely>

Calm before the storm.

And indeed:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/786551712228208640

More telling:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/rnc-donald-trump-ad-spending-229711

Some very interesting meat at the end of that:

The RNC says that its joint get-out-the-vote program with the Trump campaign had more than 1,000 staffers in the field last month, as compared to fewer than 900 working for Romney in October 2012.

Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital director, said the campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort with the RNC is “outperforming 2012 numbers in nearly every battleground state.” And he praised the RNC for providing “vital ground game infrastructure, data research and modeling, financial partnership and have staff integrated throughout our teams.”

But a handful of veteran GOP field organizers have privately questioned the strength of the RNC’s field program in recent interviews. Republicans trail Democrats organizationally in numerous swing states, with far fewer field staffers and canvassers to turn out votes for Trump.

And some Republicans suspect the abdication of the air war may stem less from a strategic shift to ground operations and more from the RNC’s financial position. Through the end of August, the committee had raised $231 million over the course of the election cycle, far short of the $356 million it had raised at the same point in the 2012 campaign.