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

I think I would respect Paul Ryan more if he just said, "The guy is a moral monster but I don't care, he's a Republican, and my job is to elect Republicans. It's not like he's not gonna sexually assault people as President any more than he would in his current job. Probably less, in fact."

no xp

lol @ trying to get their heads around it, can't really say i've struggled with cognition when a boorish person acts boorish

I kinda love that a Bush is involved in this. Both because lol irony + I would fully expect someone w the name Billy Bush to be a toadying lickspittle.

xpost re twitter dude, i really don't think it's worth spending time/energy thinking for a second about what that guy believes or why he believes it tbh. seems like another case of the internet enabling people to make $$$ for being jerks

Kool Keith for Presidetn

self described alpha males terrified that respect for women will make their mustaches fall off and fedoras evaporate.

I think this angle has legs

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/784580118207422465?s=09

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SFgWaIgmL._SX425_.jpg

just listening to some tunes while i wait for more news

lol it's more convincing than the ryan/mccain "hate the sinner, not his presidential bid" approach xp

trump is apparently going to drop some video response tonight

I want to get off the internet but this is too riveting.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwac.450f.edgecastcdn.net%2F80450F%2Fthefw.com%2Ffiles%2F2012%2F08%2FMichael-Jackson-Popcorn.gif&f=1

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

First, it's the American Way. Second, it's pretty damned hard to be a woman of any description without being a daughter. Third, you are right, of course, and everyone deserves at least some measure of respect just on the basis of their humanity, even Donald Trump, but this respect is subject to various disclaimers.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:39 (thirty-seven minutes ago) Permalink

oh come the fuck on. patriarchy, people. it's for real and yes it needs smashing.

I'm at intermission at a performance of Rhinoceros as we speak; very apposite.

walter kirn is super weird. he thinks this brony transcript is real. cannot be bothered to notice that it doesn't exist on wikileaks or apparently anywhere else on the internet.

you all realize why prepping this video statement is taking all this time (and why it is a video statement)

advisors are having a really, really hard time convincing trump that he did something wrong plus another degree of challenge convincing him to express anything like regret for his behavior and they sure as hell can't get him to say this to the media in person

paul ryan is doing a great deal of math tonight

― mookieproof, Friday, October 7, 2016 9:59 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

such furious math, in so little time

they're recording it over and over until it sounds passably sincere imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6fQ52YZoM

well with Lewandowski saying "we're not electing a Sunday school teacher", let's just say he's probably getting conflicting advice.

Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii

Megyn Keelly: "No man should ever make these comments about a woman!"

Just curious Megs, what do YOU say when it's just you girls?

bingo

"i just yank on their dicks, they just let me do it"

like seriously if any dumbass male thinks there's a female counterpart to this behavior, geez. this isn't even normal behavior for dudes.

that's the total package, really

yeah, the whole idea that this is just the way guys talk is ludicrous

xp

I mean I wouldn't act like I ain't participated in dirty guy talk but like huge gulf between "would smash" and "hey man I just sexually assault women cos I own hotels so they let me"

you probably weren't 59 years old at the time

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/784588914195652608

Is it too much to hope that not only does this destroy his candidacy and his reputation forever, but that Melania begins divorce proceedings?

statement is out

holy shit attacking bill

lol this is too hilarious this statement he is reading poorly and insincerely off teleprompter

https://www.predictit.org/Ticker/TRUMP.DROPOUT.103116#data

lol

"let's be honest. we're living in the real world and this is nothing more than a distraction..."

"these words don't reflect who I am. I was having a normal convo with Billy Bush and I thought of what Bill Clinton said on the golf course and I just repeated it subconsciously"

Link?

they just played it on cnn

boy is his base gonna be mad that he apologized AGAIN

to even it out he has to insult twice as many people tomorrow

Well, that video was a disaster.

Transcript:

"Please forgive me
And forget it
I was wrong
And I admit it

Why can't we talk it over?
Why can't we forget about
Forget about the past

When love makes a sound babe
This heart needs a second chance
Don't say it's over
I just can't say goodbye"

my takeaway: it's a distraction and bill is worse. i'm sorry okay let's forget about it.

Yep, otm.

almost as bad as his son calling waterboarding "hazing"

Bemused that this, of all mornings, was the day the neighbor put up a Trump sign (the 2nd one in the neighborhood).

Counting the sniffles this time. At least ten.

So, it's the 8th... Feel like it will take a week to convince Trump to quit, then clusterfuck of trying to sort out the new ticket and running mate.... Feels there's not really enough time

can't help but think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqM1VX2qlc

i really don't think he's going to drop out