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

tbh the rapid statement from the Trump campaign seems kinda foolish at this point, they might have put out a real apology with his name on it if they had waited long enough to see how bad this was for him

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/590605572040486912

#grabbedbythepussy trending on twitter

https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/784548458267017217

Sopan Deb is tweeting about Jon Huntsman calling on Trump to drop out of the race and let Pence take over as republican's presidential candidate. is it possible for him to do that? (i.e. does Pence automatically become the candidate if Trump stands down? would it vary from state to state?) Is there any chance that Trump would actually do this? (if there really is even uglier stuff waiting to come out I suppose he might decide to cut his losses?)

i'm positive there's tape of him using racial slurs and much harsher language.

i think it gets insanely messy to the point of impossibility if trump drops out

Pence wouldn't particularly be a better option at this point. hasn't had any time to endear himself with voters, some of Trump's base would just stay home in protest, and well independent/non-partisan view of the party is going to be pretty low.

imo just let Hillary run unopposed

The fix is in! Chemtrails, vaccines made of the chemtrail drug, and media slander of Donald Trump.
--Jill Stein

i was expecting/had hoped the line would be drawn a year and a half ago and don't fully understand why it seems to be here, but let's hope this is indeed it ffs

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299942-ryan-cuts-trump-from-wisconsin-event

Predictwise jumped another point

“I am sickened by what I heard today. Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests. In the meantime, he is no longer attending tomorrow’s event in Wisconsin," Ryan said in a statement.

do go on

still endorses him for the office of president

"objectified" is rather understating it

I think the ballots are long past being finalized in all districts, so if Mike Pence were to become the GOP candidate he would have to win in a write-in campaign. Which is LOOOOOOOOOL

Anything in the wikileaks dump or is it just more nothing?

this vox article says that it's theoretically possible because voters are technically voting for their state's representative at the Electoral College rather than a particular candidate:

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/12/12887632/if-presidential-nominee-drops-out

I guess it's still unlikely Trump will drop out, but who knows what other stuff there is on film

"objectified" is rather understating it

― jmm, Friday, October 7, 2016 9:22 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously.

Funny hearing Gerald Ford's name get dragged into all of this.

Yeah, I wish I could look in on Hannity tonight.

have the allegations that Trump raped a 13 year old girl in the 90s had much coverage in the US media? I'd seen a few articles about it here in the UK, but looking at social media there seem to be quite a few people finding out about it for the first time in the aftermath of this video, and sharing details of the lawsuit?

it doesn't seem like much of anything thus far - chatter that there are some faked documents in there, i don't know whether or not this is accurate, but it really doesn't seem like much. now, if this were a lull in the news cycle when the press is waiting for something to put in a headline, maybe, but not right now

wikileaks seems to have a poor sense of what affects u.s. politics

i briefly looked at a certain reddit board which was busy ignoring the main subject on the news rn and trying to find something scandalous in the emails, and what they found was.. an email where clinton's campaign manager asks their lawyers if it's possible to get a pro-clinton pac to provide them a copy of a book. ?? so he's asking... the lawyers.. um.. to see if there's a legal way to do this. scandalous? i guess? idk

oops xpost - that was re wiki dump

@Yamiche
Source tells me RNC officials are meeting in DC to discuss what options the party has going forward in case Trump isn't nominee.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuNYwpJXgAA8G07.jpg

this vox article says that it's theoretically possible because voters are technically voting for their state's representative at the Electoral College

Surely they're bound by some kind of bylaw to vote for the name printed on the ballot because the amount of lawsuits filed would be astronomical.

Yeah, I wish I could look in on Hannity tonight.

I can't even hate watch Sean Hannity, but I'd guess it will be wall-to-wall Wikidump.

Well, that is news, right? That Trump is a pig, that's so oooooold. Move on, liberals. He said he was sorry.

Gunna be a fun weekend

That's so brave of Cruz to step forward. He can unendorse the endorsement that superseded his unendorsement at the convention.

checked out the washington times to see what take on this my dad would be seeing

'In the recordings released Friday, Mr. Trump pontificated about the fringe benefits that go along with the limelight.'

wtf this "wives and daughters" rhetoric? why does someone need to be a wife or a daughter to be treated with respect?

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6g6u8v-1--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ntdnt5vlxkxcvuremz6b.gif

Core Republican value: A woman's value is always and only in relation that of a man's.

seriously. paul ryan's claim to "revere" women is just the other side of the coin of trump's misogyny. it's all male chauvinism. neither one just sees women as ordinary people.

It wouldn't surprise me if Trump drops out of the debate Sunday.

i don't think so. he's too shameless for that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/07/theres-no-longer-any-way-for-republicans-to-boot-donald-trump-from-the-ballot/

What about the hurricane? The hurricane! Trump has to head to Florida to take care of his house and talk with victims!

paul ryan is doing a great deal of math tonight

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

this is a good ad. i love the eerie music.

(xposts) You might be right, but I just can't see him doing that--it would be officially conceding the election. Which looks to be beyond salvageable anyway, but where do you go after dropping out of a debate? Continue talking about how tough you're going to be with ISIS?

No way does Trump willingly quit the race, and pretty much no way they force him out. Remember all the shit talked 6 months ago about brokered conventions and the party not letting him take the nom?

Honestly, any of his supporters who are coming out against this can go get fucked. There's nothing about this that's the slightest bit surprising or out of character based on what we all know about this turd. He's a piece of trash, there was never any valid reason for anyone to support him or to help him worm his way into the position he's in now. Every one of you who enabled him deserves to be inexorably lashed to him as he sinks in his own shit and to never have anything resembling a respectable career again. May god have mercy on your souls.

(Trump/Pence 2016, make America great again.)

GOP is gonna use mob tactics instead

The key part of the WAPO link above is the remembrance of what the party did with Dole in 1996. Cut losses and focused on the congress.

God this is like watching a 72 hour extended cut of the last hour of Scarface

Old Lunch 100% otm

yep

it's amazing what a pathetic loser billy bush is