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

What lesson will the GOP learn from this? Family values religious constitutional conservatism seems like the opposite of trump, so maybe they go there? In which case maybe Hillary could win 2020 too.

I'm waiting for a Trump surrogate to seize on the line "I moved on her and I failed--I'll admit it" and try to make the case that the video shows a very human Trump, humbled, vulnerable, taking ownership of his actions, realistic about his limitations, not the imperious blowhard he's been caricatured as. More presidential.

"A lot of people have denigrated our campaign, but this response proves Trump acts very President when he's caught being rapey or doing illegal shit. And isn't that what you want in the White House - a guy who says "I'm sorry" meekly with his pants down?"

btw, how mortified is Nancy O'Dell right now? Or maybe she's popping the cork on some champagne.

"shoulda thought something was amiss when he took me to Seaman's Furniture"

The all-to-human inability to open the door to a motorcoach.

kinda surprised nobody has seized on the "don't most of you Democrats listen to rap? they say way worse" angle

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuQClJMW8AEuqls.jpg

R-Ala.

haha daaaaaaaaamn

he's losing the most immobile of the immobile

New pundit on msnbc "gets it" and compared Trump to Cosby. Good -- hopefully that association will stick.

Hillary winning is jusy the beginning, if this gets more out of hand -- outtakes from the apprentice etc -- we should sed a blowout up and down the ticket.

oh my god how many other poor republicans are stuck channeling Ro-Man like Roby is right now. "I must- but I cannot!"

like do they really think Trump stepping aside would suddenly lead to better results, or is it just that they'd rather lose with someone more respectable? what's gonna make the low-info voters suddenly want to go with the new guy that they barely know anything about?

Trump not being able to open the door was total Eoin Mclove (can't find a Youtube clip soz)

kinda surprised nobody has seized on the "don't most of you Democrats listen to rap? they say way worse" angle

― Neanderthal, Saturday, October 8, 2016 9:27 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've already seen it a few times on social media

I think its sort of weird this sexual harassment stuff is just getting attention now when it's been known for so long. Dont like conspiracy theories but it almost seems like some of the networks knew about this and sat on it bc the horror show of the trump campaign was good for ratings.

Neither Trump nor Pence is going to leave the ticket lol @ this suggestion

Or maybe networks and voters alike just realized that, in october, it wasnt funny anymore and so decided to take a hateful statement of his seriously for once

It's too late anyway, ballots have been printed. NBC prob sat on tape for October surprise

no but it's a measure of how done this is that someone in alabama is running away from him

the NRO ppl are talking about being #nevertrump in the past tense

Trump/Pence urgently blowing up Ozymandias's cell right now

Rs who have called on Trump to quit:

Rob Engstrom
Mike Coffman
Jon Huntsman
Chris Stewart
George Pataki
Barbara Comstock
Mike Lee
Ben Sasse

other UT politicians too

which is notable because in the past when there's been "dropout" noise, it's often been muted, one person tops. never so unified and swift.

the craziest thing is that none of what happened yesterday has been reflected in the polls yet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/784767399442653184

"Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!"

lol what a world eh donald!! if you can't laugh what can you do?!

lol ahh being flippant, why not when you've already lost I guess

I kept waiting for one of the poll aggregators to say "we're suspending further forecasts cos this shit is done" last night

Lol

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/784767399442653184?s=09

D'oh

Lol that tweet. What a shithead.

ppppolls is my guess for the first one to say this is done. they're the one that does polls like this

https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/784384963567316992

their twitter account got pretty strident for a pollster last night, e.g.

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/784565322397446144
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/784569893995806720
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/784567820688433152
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/784566406654353408

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxuYdzs4SS8

Trump a month ago, pleading with his advisors during his two weeks of relative discipline:

"Celebrity Donald, Apprentice Donald, Howard Stern Donald, bawdy Donald..."
"We love that Donald."
"Me too--and he's dying. If Politician Donald walks through that door, he will kill Independent Donald. A Donald divided against itself cannot stand."

Independent Donald has again taken charge.

he probably used a proxy to wager on himself losing a while back and is just driving up his earnings now.

Jon Huntsman is such a weirdo. The seemingly "reasonable, moderate" option in 2012 who gleefully blew up Romney's spot at every opportunity (partially on taxes but also for kowtowing to the extremist elements in the GOP IIRC), then turns around and vocally supports.. Trump all year. until now.

maybe they're taking the St Anger approach to make 2016's candidate so bad, that they can drag out someone as mediocre-to-bad in 2020 and bank on the relief of voters

St Anger is the best Metallica album

NUKE THIS THREAD

"red america" is slowly going to get smaller and more isolated and then suffocate to death. It sucks that so many of these people -- still! -- qualify their criticism of trump by saying they still think clinton would be a "disaster."

But like, thats the deal with them. They don't want to be part of this society, which is becoming more diverse and socially progressive

better the benedictine option than their previous political participation + influence

Stay classy wikileaks
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784564871883087872?s=09

oh well i guess she just lost the extremist saudi vote

"Private jewish speech." Cool guys.

Also that Clinton statement is true! Salafism is a Saudi export!

What is wikileaks implying?

Are you for real w that